Musings of an Inkd Geek

I was able to score me this old Ultra Act Red King figure off a seller from one of my Facebook kaiju groups. I got tired of waiting to see if Figuarts would ever release him, and the seller was asking a decent price, so I snatched him up. Red King is one of Ultraman's classic kaiju, appearing twice in the original show, and multiple times throughout the series' history. He's one of the OG's, with his Michelin Tire Man body and small conehead. In his first appearance, he ripped off the wing of Chandora and killed Pigmon by smashing the poor thing, and then got dismembered by Ultraman's Ultra Slash in his second appearance after swallowing a bomb. During the early production, the series was going to be called "Redman", and Red King was intended to be the king of the monsters until the show's name got changed to Ultraman. I'm not sure why they kept his name, since he's clearly not red. But anyway... The figure comes with a pair of relaxed hands, a...

Ultraman Trigger, the new Tsuburaya Ultraman series, premiered several weeks ago on YouTube's Official Ultraman channel. So far we've seen 5 episodes. This show was not as instantly likeable as last year's Ultraman Z, at least for me. However, it has gotten better with each new episode. In the first entry we meet Kengo Manaka, a young botanist who will be the main character. After his initial introduction where he's raising an odd looking plant, the camera pans away to reveal that he's actually on the planet Mars, which has now been colonized. This was a very cool and unexpected reveal. Kengo was then shown to be a very goofy, milquetoast character who I found instantly annoying. The problem with him is that his main goal is to make everyone smile, but he repeats it so damn much that it becomes tedious and cringy. Not to mention that he repeats that phrase in the middle of being attacked halfway through the first episode. That line completely took me out of the scen...