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Premium Bandai Announces Replica Black Spark Lens - The Tokusatsu Network

The latest Ultra Series transformation device from Premium Bandai is the Ultra Replica Black Spark Lens from Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey.

Embrace your inner darkness with this Spark Lens from Bandai!

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inspired by this http://catsbeaversandducks.tumblr.com/post/147246479286/when-ultraman-isnt-fighting-bad-guys-hes-also

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ULTRAMAN GINGA Episode 6 Review

WARNING! This review contains in-depth spoilers for a new TV series! You have been warned!

The Battle for Our Dreams ULTRAMAN GINGA's first run of episodes concludes with "The Battle for Our Dreams", a micro series finale, and thankfully it goes out on a high. The sixth episode addresses (but doesn't answer) a lot of the questions raised in this first run of episodes, and sets up future episodes in an exciting and tantalising way. Combined with some surprisingly excellent character development and performances, some very funny humour, and a brilliant climatic four-way fight, "The Battle for Our Dreams" is a winner across almost all fronts.

The sixth episode picks up immediately where the fifth left off, with Hikaru, Ichijōji, and Taro being confronted with Dark Tiga, the evil incarnation of the legendary Ultra warrior. As Tiga fires at the group, Taro uses his Ultra Psychokinesis to transport them to safety, depleting his energy and exhausting him in the process. This leads to a really funny little sight gag in which Taro is recovering in a wee tiny bed that's just adorable. The diminutive Taro truly is one of the highlights of GINGA so far. He's always a pleasure and a joy to watch and has completely dashed all my reservations about the character and the show's premise itself. 

Hikaru, Misuzu, Kenta, and Chigusa regroup to try to get to the bottom of Ichijōji's piloting of Jeankiller. However, what they discover is (apparently) so much worse - Ichijōji is without a dream! Having been revealed as the sole inheritor of what appears to be a major corporation - the Ichijōji Group - the young man has always had anything he ever wanted, and has thus never had a dream. Taro personally takes it upon himself to make Ichijōji see the error of his ways, and attempts this by recollecting a story from his own childhood of a scolding from his own father. Taro's father though, of course, is no ordinary parent... That's right - Father of Ultra makes his GINGA début as does Mother of Ultra. Also appearing is the child version of Taro, unseen since the 1984 theatrical film ULTRAMAN STORY, which chronicled Taro's childhood. This sequence is undoubtedly a highlight of the episode, and continues something GINGA is doing exceptionally well - dropping tantalising hints of a larger Ultra-filled world, more of which is hopefully yet to come.

When the group fails to make him see the merit of having a dream (the word "dream" really is used far too much in this episode). The group enthusiastically rattle off the benefits of having a dream, but Chigusa appears suspiciously quiet, and only speaks when prompted, hinting at dark things ahead for this particular wannabe-Idol. Seeing that they are not reaching him, Hikaru challenges Ichijōji: make his dream the defeat of Ultraman Ginga. Ichijōji readily accepts this as his dream, and immediately resumes control of Jeankiller to achieve it. Rising to the challenge, Hikaru manages to "live" into Ginga without having to first transform into a host monster. It is hinted that this is through Ginga's own will, and this intriguing development is explored further later in the episode.

As Ginga and Jeankiller duke it out, Hikaru manages to literally reach inside the mech and remove Ichijōji's Dark Spark from the cockpit, putting Jeankiller out of action. Suddenly however, the mysterious Dark Tiga appears and attacks both without prejudice. Valkie also rears his ugly head again, in a pretty hilarious little scene in which he taunts the group dressed as a worker, yellow hazard hat and all. Taro unsuccessfully attempts to hold Valkie as a hostage in order to coax Dark Tiga out of action (a particularly un-Ultra tactic from Taro there), but instead the dark giant transforms Valkie into a giant himself. The two proceed to mercilessly beat Ginga, until a miracle happens: Ichijōji's feelings of disappointment and sadness in losing to Ginga manifest themselves into pure energy (not unlike "the Light" as seen in ULTRAMAN TIGA, and I don't think it's too much of a stretch to take it as that), and awakens Jeankiller's true and good nature... the heroic Jean Nine!

The revived Jean Nine and Ichijōji re-enter the fray, this time fighting alongside Hikaru and Ginga. Through the combined might of the two giant heroes, Valkie and Dark Tiga are easily vanquished. Ginga's coup-de-grace in particularly is a pure joy to watch, as it reintroduces another as-yet unseen aspect of Ultra lore - the iconic crossed-arms beam. I'm not ashamed to admit that when Ginga assumed this position, I have a little cheer of joy. It's little things like this that you don't realise you miss until you see them again. With the evildoers vanquished for now, Ginga himself (not Hikaru as Ginga) finally makes his consciousness known, giving Hikaru words of encouragement, but remaining silent on any of the pleading questions put forward to him by Taro, including just who he is, and why Taro is the only doll to have retained sentience. Ginga's silence on these matters only make them all the more tantalising, and one cannot wait to see them answered in the future. The battle over, Ichijōji still maintains that he intends to defeat Ginga himself and only acted on his side to save the final blow for himself. However, one cannot help but feel Ichijōji's time as an antagonist is over, and he'll be fighting the good fight from now on.

With peace restored, Hikaru and his friends enjoy a game of football, and look with hope to the future. However, in his lair, Darker Gale ponders over his collection of Spark Dolls, deciding which one to activate next...

In reading over past reviews, I appear to have been very critical of ULTRAMAN GINGA. In all honestly, it is a flawed series (the same miniature forestry set being used for every single one of the battles - can we have just one city battle, please? - and the extremely undeveloped supporting characters of Principal Shirai, the Ginga priest Raidō, and policeman Kaki) however, that doesn't really matter - the first run of episodes have been an absolute blast and a pure joy from start to finish. All my reservations and doubts about the premise have been completely dashed, and the slowly building storyline, with tantalising hints of things to come being sporadically dropped, is truly wonderful. "The Battle for Our Dreams" is all this and more, and is easily the best episode of GINGA to date.  One cannot wait to see where this wonderful and extremely fun little series will go next.

ULTRAMAN GINGA is being fan-subtitled by Over-Time. Head over, show your support, and enjoy! If you’d like to share YOUR views on the sixth episode, please do!

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The old dark gang.

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His past chases him... Or he needs a visit to laundry.