Ultraman Nexus (2004) - Ultra Retrospective

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i find it funny people say nexus is dark and gritty considering every big bad guy was defeated by the power of love, people tend to ignore that very important part

I liked how otherworldly it felt. Which is part of why I like Nexus. Like other ultras he's heroic and a beacon of light and hope. But he's also mysterious. Incomprehensible in an almost eldritch fashion. He or perhaps I should say, it, rarely ever speaks. Fills Jun with cryptic dreams of ruins and monsters. And even when it explains the purpose of choosing Jun right at the end, it has no voice. Instead, communicating to Jun through his memories of Sara. As if talking and using words were alien to it. You can sorta get why the Raiders were initially so wary. Even Jun as the host was confused as hell, half the time.

The OST of Ultraman Nexus always made me feel a certain way, it felt Divine in a way and sometimes super bad ass.

To me, Nexus has it's flaws.. but overall it was great. What made Nexus work is that it DOESN'T go dark for the sake of it. No, it balances the dark and light tones pretty well. And it made the optimistic tone work. I personally wish Ishibori was more or less a secondary-deuteragonist so that his reveal as the final villain would be quite the twist. And we were robbed of Nagi's Junis form (I will never not be salty about it).

Ultraman video jumpscare. A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

plot twist: Willie Mingus is the human form of Dark Lucifer.

Ultraman Nexus to me is the epitome of making a tokusatsu show but for adults. The story is just very engaging and the show explores characters with a genuine drive enough that the show doesn't feel very distracted from exploring its more darker adult themes. Tbh it's a good show for teenagers such as myself before, made me appreciate linear story shows more if they are given the time to have developed stories.

Great video, I’m glad you liked Nexus! It’s my personal favourite. If the show’s biggest flaw is that you wished it had 12 more episodes, then it did a damn good job with whatever came before! I too wish Nexus ended on its own terms - it was such a unique and different take, yet kept true to the spirit of Ultraman. I’m hoping Blazar will be similar in the good ways!

I got PTSD flashbacks when THAT keychain charm from Nexus showed up in an early trailer for SSSS.Gridman. Also, there's an interview with Hasegawa (the show's writer) where he does sorta explain stuff that got cut. Like who the hand that rescues Komon was.

It really is such a shame that nexus skipped like an entire arc or two. I would have loved to see Nagi as a deunamist with her own Junis form and maybe Komon as Noa for a bit. I also maybe would have liked Noas travels through the multiverse prior to the series to be elaborated on, as the stuff we see today alludes to it but it's all really confusing.

Spoilers: Hm, while it's never outright explained, I thought the reason that TLT selected Komon was that since the Illustrator and Visitors were clairvoyant and basically running the operations of TLT that they would know that the resurrection of Dark Zagi was a serious threat and that Nexus' true form of Noa would be needed to defeat him, and that they picked Komon because someone of upstanding character who also faced past trauma like the other deunamists was needed to improve their lives and serve as the ultimate host for accomplishing this

I really enjoyed Nexus. It was really a good show despite the ending.

Nexus is my favorite Ultraman show, I think it's great, for basically all the same reasons you said in your review. It's such a nice change of pace from the rest of the franchise, especially after Cosmos. It definitely drops the ball for the conclusion but I think that the rest of the show is so well built up and well done that even though I'm dissapointed it couldn't end on it's own terms, I still think it does a sufficient job. You didn't bring them up but I think the end songs of Nexus are also really good.

Sing it with me now: 🎵Otoko nara, dareka no tame tsuyoku nare...🎵

Nexus was my first full Ultra show. I had watched a couple episodes of the 66 series and bounced off it a little, and then had watched The Next (not knowing its connection to Nexus) when trying to take the plunge into the franchise. But Nexus was what made me a fan for real, albiet with some need to adjust my tonal expectations afterwards. For what it's worth, I wasn't really bothered by the truncated pace of the finale arcs, I think I kinda liked how all the pieces just start rapidly tumbling into place after the slower pace of buildup. The production values, performances, music, and style more than made up for any writing deficiencies. Also, yes, Eiyuu is an absolute treasure of an opening, partially because it has less of a cheery superhero jingle vibe than most Ultra openings and just sounds like a regular anime-style J-rock opening. I watched the show on Crunchyroll, which did not subtitle the lyrics in the OP...and then when they replay Eiyuu over the finale episode's end credits, they DID subtitle them, and I got to see how well the lyrics reflected the story I'd been watching. Accidental poetry right there.

It's worth noting that this show in particular is probably why Shin Ultraman was so much more traditional to its source material and less deconstructive than Shin Godzilla. Anno's Evangelion is in its own way a deconstruction of Ultraman without the brand name (can't take credit for this analysis, but it's a giant of light landing on Earth and being vivisected and cloned, and the clones are manipulated by the show's shady attack team to fight monsters that are actually trying to rescue the light giant). But even besides that, The Next and Nexus had already done "Ultraman but where the human forces are shady and the protagonist doubts themselves". It made sense to try an approach that was still more adult and complex, but kept the fully optimistic tone.

Just woken up and now watching a ultra retrospective while eating fried noodles, life is good

Can I just say, thank you so much for continuing to order the ultra retrospective playlist in show release order!! A lot of YouTubers would be too lazy to do that, so it just shows how passionate you are about these videos!!!

Best Ultraman series, best overall series I've watched in my life... Suspense, romance, impeccable soundtrack, sequential chapters, twists... Impossible to watch only one chapter at a time It didn't have the success it deserved because it was dark, with a certain violence and it was transmitted wrongly to the wrong people, very adult Ultraman series are not successful (and consequently do not sell toys) I haven't found any series to match yet.