#dr onda

[fulltimecatwitch]

YOU HEARD THE MAN !!!! KEEP WATCHING AND SHOWING THE MOVIE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW !!!!

[i-ran-into-a-lampost]

Guys I couldn't have been the only one to see it right???

[thegrimcroissant]

Ultraman Rising characters if they had Twitter accounts.

+ bonus Zoffy >:)

[macmanx]

Ultraman, Ultradad, Emi, and Gigantron vs. Dr. Onda

[nightklok]

I have so many things to say about Ultraman Rising it’s insane

I’m choosing to talk about how the movie uses grief and it’s such an interesting way of handling it!

Almost every character in the film has grieved or is grieving in some aspect. And grieving doesn’t even need to mean death but just losing something.

For Kenji he’s grieving over his mother’s disappearance, his childhood lost without his father, and the fact at a young age he realized how cruel other kids were and began to put on a front that lasted well into adulthood.

Hayao’s essentially lost out on not only 20 years of being in his son’s life but also being apart from his wife. The family he was happy to create and love but it was ripped apart with the sacrifice of having to fulfill his duties as Ultraman. He was alone for 20 years.

The way the two handle grief is in different ways.

Hayao’s handling of it seems to be a lot more calmer, meditated and carefully thought of. Even if he couldn’t be in Kenji’s life physically, he collected every trophy and home video Emiko sent of his games. He was an absent father but he was a father nonetheless and why he kept his distance is still in the air but it’s so clear that he did try to be updated in his life as much as possible even if he was far away. And because of the fact he loved Kenji and wanted to protect him, it’d extend well past to adulthood where he didn’t even ask him for help in finding Emiko. Why should he ask his son to help when he’s moved away from a career he spent years building to take on the family hero role? Maybe if he finds her it’ll get Kenji to talk to him again. Maybe he should start himself but he has to find her first. But not once did he yell at Kenji.

Kenji’s is harsher and more self destructive. Purposely making himself aloof, putting on a front of being loud and arrogant, making sure he’s so untouchable no one would want to be friends with him or be close to him, all things as a response to the grief he’s felt. While Ami’s breakdown of him did imply he was always known for being this way, I can imagine it got much worse with Emiko’s disappearance. Mina said he did his best. He assumed he was the only one looking for her and he failed. So why bother being nice? Shove a photocard in a player’s hands that they might’ve sold on eBay anyway, yell at your dad for 20 years worth of pent up rage and feel like shit about it but don’t bother to try and fix it. And don’t bother to talk or ask for help from your teammates even at your lowest…it’s not gonna bring her back but being in control of something might bring in some semblance of normalcy.

however I think the one with the most destructive handling of grief is Dr. Onda. And while I agree with some criticism regarding him, I think he’s a perfect villain suited for this. And in some ways, he can be terrifying.

He lost his wife and daughter. He has no one. Unlike Kenji and Hayao where they at least had each other, he has no one.

Ultraman failed his family.

Ultraman failed him.

Ultraman still has his family.

He morphed the KDF’s structure as a result of that. Even throughout the movie he states how this isn’t what he would’ve wanted to do but he had to help families. To make sure no one goes through what he went through.

But he’s also manipulative about it.

He knows grief about losing his family to Kaijus better than anyone.

He knows that he’s not the only one. And Ultraman can’t save everyone even if they tried.

With grief you end up wanting to blame anything.

So Dr Onda chooses grieving people to work alongside him. Consistently throughout the movie he makes sure to bring up how they lost loved ones/family to Kaijus or how they have to think of their families. While we can gather he wasn’t intentionally being manipulative, at the end of the day he’s a widow who lost his family, there’s no doubt about it he’s at least aware of the impact of bringing it up.

Even when there was some doubt over how the KDF began handling Kaijus, especially when it’s shown how sentient they are with their own culture, affection and love, Dr. Onda makes sure to bring up their own families. Forget how this Kaiju is clearly protected her daughter, your own families are more important.

He’s a perfect mix of how Kenji and Hayao handle grief and shows how destructive it can be.

Using the opposite of Hayao’s handling of grief and mixing it with Kenji’s creates such a manipulative monster of grief. We can argue that he has good intentions, that he just wants Japan to be safe and for families to not lose a loved one, but the movie now presents an interesting debate of why one species is so much more important than the other. Dr. Onda, in his own grief, chooses to brush aside that for the sake of trying to do something he couldn’t do earlier for his family. Even if it means trying to kill ultraman and his son.

At the end of the day nothing he does will bring them back. But he has to hope that despite trying to tear two families apart, he’ll save everyone for the greater good. And if he dies, no one will really grieve for him because he doesn’t have anyone. So he might as well die trying.

[preciouslittletoonette]

Watched Ultraman: Rising today and I got something to say something about the main antagonist, Dr. Onda.

I like him a lot. I didn't think I'd like him as much as I did until the scene where he's watching the video of his daughter's last moment and his talk with the Captain.

The talk with the Captain specifically is what got me glued to this guy.

Usually, when a villain is talking to a subordinate who is having doubts about the mission, they'd coldly kill the doubter but not Onda. Onda cared about those working under him. He cared about the safety of his crew and their families. His whole reason for killing Kaiju is to protect Japan, so that no families would ever have to suffer more tremendous losses like he did.

And even the end, rather than go crazy and endanger the entire crew with his madness, he let's them go, have them evacuate the ship before he enacts his last ditch plan to kill Ultraman.

It's such a selfless(? Not sure if thats the correct word im looking for) Thing to do.

And I could see that momentary horror in his eyes when he realised the blast from the mech selfdestructing would endanger those in the city. And how relieved he looked when he saw Ultraman put a shield around them both to contain the blast so that no one else got hurt.

Like just- it made so excited/invested. I don't normally sympathise with villains' plans a lot even if their backstory is tragic and the reasons for their plans are sound because often there's like hiccups in their behaviour that get me like 🤨.

But Onda didn't have those same hiccups. His behaviour was very in line with his motives and his backstory. So I felt very sympathetic towards him but at the same time, I disagreed heavily with what he was doing. Which makes my little creative brain purr. It's solid writing imo. Well done, Ultraman: Rising.

[floof-ghostie]

Okay so I'm rewatching Ultraman Rising and I noticed in this one scene where Dr. Onda is walking through the corridor towards the robot Gigantron, he walks past this display wall

And you can make out the words "DECEASED" with a holographic picture of a Kaiju (this is the best photo I could find). There are multiple Kaiju that have DECEASED written on them.

This begs the question, was the robot Gigantron the only robot Kaiju that Dr. Onda and the KDF successfully carried out? Was Gigantron the only Kaiju that could handle being experimented on like that? Maybe the reason why the KDF started making robot Kaiju was so that they could find Kaiju island instead of having a baby Kaiju (Emi) look for it, but over time it must have failed repeatedly, so they had to switch gears.

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— ULTRAMAN: RISING.

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Part Two, 452 Screencaps.

Part Three, 452 Screencaps.

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