Why you should watch Ultraman Blazar!

I personally disagree with the whole toys thing, don't get me wrong, I'm a big New Gen-apologist, but I'm glad that all Blazar has is a base form, an armor-like upgrade and new moves, nothing more and nothing less. I don't mind the new kaiju either, in fact it's welcome as it's refreshing to have new faces nowadays.

Ultraman Blazar’s main theme is that it’s better to understand others, rather than annihilate them out of fear. Varallon only exists because Yu Dobashi & the aliens chose destruction out of fear. Meanwhile, Gento & Blazar represent understanding each other. They only merge because their goals are unified, they only gain the tilsonite sword when they understand each other, & by the end of the show, despite being an alien, Blazar has become Gento’s comrade.

I’m gonna be real… After Trigger and Decker, I was feeling burnt out on the reliance of older material and lukewarm safeness that doesn’t push for their potential. So in my opinion, Blazar is what the ultra series needed. To prove to me that Ultraman can still succeed with a complacent setting and general episodic formula while still reaching towards the future in order to firmly establish an identity of its very own. I don’t think I have ever been this excited for an Ultraman show in a long time. From the natural chemistry within the main cast, to the ominous mystery of the main story, to seeing brand new Kaiju unique to the series, to Blazar himself and how molds elements from previous new gen ultras and even previous legend ultras into such an interesting character, I was hooked on throughout the entire show and constantly wanted more. Of course, I’m not saying Blazar is perfect. It did feel as though the show was kind of fighting between giving focus to the V99 plotline and an entertaining slice of life story, which in turn made the build up to the climax of the show a little bit weak in my opinion. Plus, while I personally don’t mind the gimmick nature of the modern shows, the moments that it does fixate on the gimmick come across as rather jarring in which you can definitely tell where Bandai and the higher ups had interjected. But those are just a bunch of nitpicks because past that, Blazar was one of the best shows I’ve seen in years from this franchise. It may be too early to say it, and I’m fully aware of recency bias, but I think this may have trumped Geed as the best entry in the New Generation Series. It’s something I’m so glad we got and I’m even more glad that this is what we got and not a New Generation Gaia.

Blazar was awesome. I love how ACTUALLY ALIEN he feels in comparison to the Next Gen Ultramen before him. His struggle with Gento for control was one of my more favorite low-key parts of the story.

5:45 Watching new kaiju is always one of the main attractions of Ultra shows. Ultraman kaiju are beloved to the point where they have their own games. Unlike Showa & Heisei, NewGen Ultra shows didn't have many new kaiju due to budgetary reasons. It's cheaper to make Ultraman forms (that can be used repeatedly) than making a new kaiju suit that only appear in 1-2 episodes. Also, new hero forms & new handheld weapons are more Sentai & Rider thing. Ultraman merch is more about action figures, morphers & the vehicular toys.

Honestly just keeping blazar in his just base form is big step up for me in my opinion bc lately we've been getting a lot of ultraman series that has too many form don't get me wrong i love ultraman forms but it's just your same old standard ultraman with a bunch of forms that would get bored quickly for me again my opinion but when this series just keep blazar just in a base form and getting weapons rather than forms it's refreshing to me to like the early showa ultraman no power up forms only new weapons and new skill and that's pretty cool

I really wish we got more from the family aspect of the show, and the V99 aliens, but overall, this was a very unique and amazing Ultraman season. I've seen every ultraman season and this one takes the no.9 spot for my top 10. And yes, i do like this kind of video

When i found out that the last episode had alot of cut content it made sense why the ending was rushed and bad passing. Its only 25 episodes, theres no need for a recap episode

It's definetly a breath of fresh air from an ultra series perspective, personally i really enjoyed it. Some episodes are just meh but the good REALLY outweights the meh. Its a 9/10 series for me!

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I can see your reasoning for more toys for the Ultra, it does make more sense for a company to give more toys to the hero rather than the monsters that get destroyed in one episode in their first appearance. I can totally get the more toys to hero than monsters. For older fans however, it's more of a breath of fresh air because if you try to watch the whole new gen series, they keep bringing back monsters or redesgining them from the showa and hesei era to be used as filler for the episodes. I think having different monsters mostly every episode makes them more unique. Not saying that the old monster suits are bad, but I feel like minimizing the use of them is better so when they ARE used it feels more special seeing an old kaiju.

I feel like what this whole series is, is basically Taguchi proving Tsuburaya wrong that the old simple way is not dead yet, that they don't have to go too big on the gimmicks just to appeal to the newer fans. I always like it when an episode from any Ultra series just showcases heavily on character driven stories, while sprinkling a little bit of lore leading up to the finale, and Ultraman Blazar had many of those with the members of SkARD team and V99. Instead of, you know, doing unnecessary guest Ultraman appearances that almost always stealing the spotlight. I hope Tsuburaya keep this is trend up for the rest of Reiwa series.

thanks thomas! Watching your short reviews on every episode alongside watching the actual show definitely made blazar as a whole more enjoyable

I really enjoyed this season

I personally disagree with the whole "giving Blazar/main titular Ultraman more forms" and "spending the budget more on Ultraman than the monsters" because: 1. Blazar was suppose to be a return to form of the franchise, meaning less focus on toys more focus on original monsters. 2. Them making original monsters did help Tsuburaya with the toy sales. On the Ultraman Reddit, you can see Tsuburaya earning more money during 2023 despite the fact Blazar doesn't focus much on the toys/gave Blazar a form which proves that you don't need to make toys/forms for the titular character to use to make money, you just need to make a good series with loveable characters. Anyway, still a really good video and I agree with most of your opinions ❤.

Ultraman Blazar finale was honestly one of the best finale in Ultraman I’ve ever seen in a long time but I do have one problem. The episodes feels really rushed and we really don’t really don’t get to see much from V99. It was only after the episode ended that I found out that this episode was supposed to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long but it was cut down to 30 minutes because of their time slot which explains a lot. #ReleasetheTaguchicut Edit: I do have one other small issue. It was said that Blazar is a legend among astronauts but they don’t really expand on that and how he became a legend.

is it implied that those ships were people from the land of light(a rebooted version of them) and V99 that crash in 1999 was actually ultraman blazar ship? i kind of wish the toys were released in American to push the american audience

To me, ultraman blazar really set back to the early days of ultraman, where the toys aren't too overwhelming with ultraman forms and give kids more monsters to play with. is quite refreshing. also we get to see ultaman blazar being an actual creature from humans pov by not having him talking giving this realistic look on ultraman being the nature as the monsters. we have a nice mature protagonist that is finally not a twink but also have some wholesome moments sprinkled here and there. Overall fights where we have blazar that is just basically an ultraman caveman is so charming and a lot of fun just how he screams and his gestures is so cute. ultraman blazar is honestly a really good show. I'm sad to see it go but this also gives me hope as to tsuburaya maybe starting to get even better with the future ultramen.

I really wish we would go back to the Ultramen hosts, and the Ultraman themselves talking to each other in the green screen room, just without the over abundance of forms.

About that toy thing, it's actually kinda weird that after all the new gen and reiwa toys there are out there, Blazar's brace is the only one i actually thought about buying and i don't know why. I guess when pretty lights me go yes.