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Jon’s Totally Awesome Toku Pics: UltraMan Episode 38: A very nice Star Trek-ish episode of UltraMan. I am glad the Science Patrol got to go to another planet it just seems like something they'd do. This was good to see the team dealing with the monsters and environment of Planet Q and the crazy things they had to do to survive. Especially Toshio and Ide's oxygen tank jet pack to cross a valley to get back to the ship after they got the part they needed, this actually sounds more like a video game mission lol. I found it hilarious that Arashi got blinded this episode when he didn't the against the other monster earlier, it's like this is what you missed lol. Captain Toshio is just insane at times definitely with his crazy plans or weird rules lol. Hayata was good with coming up a plan when they were stuck and helping stay with Arashi. Though UltraMan continues to pull new things out of his arsenal when the Energy Disc and the Specium Ray both didn't work he pulls out his magical telekinesis to lift the monster with his mind and throw it away making it explode...I don't know where this came from but damn UltraMan has the most random move set ever lol. I'm just going to accept that Hayata just figured out this move here out of desperation instead of believing he could do it before, lol sometimes I just love random Toku ridiculousness. One episode left I'm not sure I'm ready for it but I can't wait.

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Jon’s Totally Awesome Toku Pics: UltraMan Episode 37:  This was another amazing episode! Literally saving all the best for last here. Poor Pigmon...*Cries* he went out helping the Science Patrol, I felt so bad for him because he didn't deserve to swatted like a fly. Anyways moving on to other parts I loved Ide and Hayata this episode because of Ide's depression that UltraMan has been saving the day and his weapons haven't done anything. It's realistic I mean even I sometimes have felt the same way watching it. Though this was great learning more about how Hayata operates as UltraMan because he doesn't take the Science Patrol for granted and he remembers all the times he was saved by them. Also that he doesn't transform unless things are going south for them makes me find him more likable and interesting. I also enjoyed him helping snap Ide out of his depression was great and Ide's new weapon was impressive. I also loved the combination between Ide and UltraMan taking one of the two monsters together. It was a great comrade episode just like the last one with Arashi and Hayata now with Ide and Hayata. We needed more episodes like this with character relationship building before but still better late than never.

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Jon’s Totally Awesome Toku Pics: UltraMan Episode 34: This absolutely has to be the most hilarious episode of UltraMan. This was just a kooky mess of plans that just didn't work because Skydon was too heavy. Though I can't not mention the beginning where Hayata gives the Captain his umbrella by dropping it from the sky from the VTOL lol that was hilarious, though the scene afterwards about the guy committing suicide was kind of really dark and out of nowhere there. Anyways yeah the Science Patrol had a lot of fun plans there and I am not even sure if they would scientifically work; though it was a lot of fun to see them try. The fight scene even was comedic when UltraMan ended up getting crushed because Skydon was too heavy to lift even for him. Though later I totally accept the two of them crashing into each other as Skydon is falling ends up destroying him. Also Hayata trying to transform with his spoon was just so funny, this episode took every chance they could to make a joke and it was hysterical. A very fun and kooky episode for the Science Patrol and UltraMan. Only 5 episodes left can't wait!

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Jon’s Totally Awesome Toku Pics: UltraMan Episode 23: They must really love Ide because he's been getting amazing focus one right after the other in these episodes. I felt really bad for Jamila being lost in space and then being turned into a monster of hate that wanted to destroy the people of Earth. UltraMan had a pretty good fight against Jamila and it was interesting to see the back story of what happened too. I can't wait for more and hope all the others get some focus.

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The Hunting of the Stark: The Chess Match

This is another bit of "The Hunting of the Stark", my massive unpublished Eureka fic...though at this rate it may all end up here! Ultraman fans will recognize one particular name...Ultraseven fans another...

Doctors Mitsuhiro Ide and Shigeru Furuhashi took their respective places at the chess table. The other residents of the retirement home took care to scoot away as best they could, having long since resigned themselves to this daily battle.

No one could remember if either man had ever beaten the other in a match. Most times the sessions ended with a great deal of yelling and arm-waving, invariably ending with one sweeping the pieces off the table and storming off while the other accused him of cowardice.

As noted, this had been going on for a very long time.

Ide considered his opponent. “Who’s white today?”

Furuhashi rubbed his chin. “I’m not sure. You go ahead. It won’t help you in the end, after all.” Ide snorted and set the pieces out, and moments later the match was in full swing.

“You’re putting your bishop in peril,” Furuhashi pointed out helpfully.

“As if you know the slightest thing about chess,” Ide retorted, but he slipped the piece back into a safer position. The first ten minutes were usually relatively quiet, punctuated on occasion by a snarky comment that was immediately countered. The accusations of cheating were due to start in about ten minutes.

Today, however, was going to be different. “Gentlemen,” Nathan Stark said as he flickered into existence. “How’s the match going today?”

“He’s trying to figure out how best to cheat,” Furuhashi muttered. He glanced up at the newcomer. “Aren’t you dead?”

Stark considered this. “I got better.”

“Pay attention to the board, not to him,” Ide snapped. “He’s just an afterimage of the moment he died. I’ve seen this happen before, you know.”

“Oh, the hell you have. Since when?”

Ide shrugged. “I think it was 1972. The Kobe kaiju attack. One of the defense team got hit in a chronal beam and kept popping up in the damnest places for three weeks. It finally stopped, which was good. All that screaming got on my nerves.”

“That is the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever heard,” Furuhashi shot back. “The Kobe kaiju attack was 1974, and there were no casualties. Besides, he replied to something I said. An afterimage can’t evaluate a statement and offer a response, by definition.”

“It was 1972, because I was there working for Fujitech. I had to write the evaluation. And for your information, the chronal afterimages maintain a sort of minimal consciousness, at least early on. Eventually they just become echoes. And it’s not like he said anything intelligent. He quoted Monty Python, for God’s sake.”

“There is no God. We’ve been over that. There is only the sum intelligence of the universal consciousness, of which this is a small part. It’s not a chronal afterimage at all. It’s more the manifestation of collective memory given momentary existence.”

“You know, I am standing here,” Stark commented to no one in particular.

“Pffft! You and your humanism. Your children should have dumped you into a Shinto shrine instead of here. You’d be of more use as a decoration or charm seller. Check.”

“What?” Furuhashi studied the board, incredulous. “How did you do that? You must have cheated!”

 “I did no such thing!” Ide shouted.

“How else could the likes of you put me into check?”

“He caught your knight while you were pontificating,” Stark pointed out.

The two men turned toward him as one. “SHUT UP.”

“Besides, I know I’m right,” Furuhashi said, moving to protect his king. “There is most certainly a collective manifestation of consciousness. It’s called the Artifact and it’s sitting up at Global Dynamics in Section Five.”

“What?” Nathan snapped. “How in the hell do you know…”

Furuhashi snorted. “As if you were ever the first to study it. You youngsters, never think of asking your elders for their wisdom. Typical Western attitude. Now back in Japan the young knew to respect those with age and wisdom.”

“Then why the hell did you come here?” Ide snickered. “Check.”

“It paid better.” Furuhashi studied the board with increasing worry. Ide was getting too close to victory for comfort.

“Wait,” Stark ordered. “Are you saying that the Artifact has something to do with this mess I’m in?”

“How would I know? I’m just an elderly scientist who got stuck up here because he couldn’t possibly keep up with the young know-it-alls at Global. Just ask them.” Furuhashi’s brow furrowed as he carefully moved his king out of check for the moment.

“Not that we’re bitter about it or anything,” Ide noted. “Check.”

Stark sighed. “Mate in five. And maybe then you could…” He instinctively winced as Furuhashi’s arm swept across the board like a tsunami, sending white and black pieces flying in its wake. “Oh, for crying out loud…”

“THIS WAS YOUR FAULT!” Furuhashi bellowed, shaking a finger at Stark. “YOU DISTRACTED ME WITH YOUR SHOWING UP AND TALKING CONSTANTLY! HE PUT YOU UP TO IT, DIDN’T HE?”

Ide considered the accusation. “Now I wish I’d thought of it. Would have been fairly simple to set up…”

“I’M DONE WITH YOU, YOU CHEATING BASTARD!” Furuhashi stormed away. Ide smiled as he watched the old man leave, then glanced over at the slowly fading Stark.

“I don’t suppose you could come back tomorrow, same time?”