Ultraman Orb: The Origin Saga 1
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akinoameSo, Shaun managed to find me fansubs of Origin Saga.
If it ever does finally get that official sub, I would like to review it thoroughly, if only because I really love this series and its characters. And right off the bat, we get a better sense of Gai and Juggler.
We begin on Planet O-50, where they're stupidly climbing a mountain in a blizzard in order to reach the ring of light at the summit, where whoso pulleth out this holy sword Orbcalibur of this light is rightwise Ultraman Orb, giant of light. And while we don't get backstory on just why they thought this was a brilliant idea, we get enough development afterwards to feel Juggler's anger at being rejected.
Quite honestly, he's the better candidate.
Gai is an utter mess reaching the peak. While both are exhausted, he outright collapses and can't pull himself forward. Juggler manages to stand up straight and reach into the light, but he's rejected.
Juggler knows what to do. He's advising Gai the entire way. He tells him what the light wants him to do, explains that he must be summoned through the stargate to another universe's Orion Nebula. And then Gai proceeds to get distracted along the way when he hears a cry for help.
In space.
He hears a cry for help in the vacuum of space.
Even Juggler calls bullshit on it. Let's list this as the canonical #1 of Gai's ridiculous human-form powers.
Juggler has to continue to tell Gai what to do after his first battle as Orb--tells him to get into the traditional low stance that Ultras tend to use, just so he has stable footing when he fires his Origium Ray (yes, I had to look it up). He has to tell him not to go barrelling in headfirst, but rather, to attack the Beelzeb from below, which allows him to destroy it. In every possible way, Juggler proves he has the knowhow to be a perfect Ultra. Especially considering that not much changes in possibly 100 years, and Gai will CONTINUE to be the most destructive Ultra ever.
What does Gai have over him? Heart.
Even as a member of the Rescue Squad they'd served in before the series (haha like we're ever going to get THAT story), Gai couldn't run away from someone in need of help. He described a cry for help as less of a sound and more of a heart calling out to another...or instead of being poetic, he's being literal and he's ALSO psychic; I can't rule it out. He hears a child crying for help on the desolate planet of Rurin, and he immediately abandons his mission and goes to help. He sees the kid lying unconscious in a tent, where their attacker--their PARENTS--threw them, and when he doesn't feel a pulse, he immediately begins CPR while Juggler fights. When the kid wakes up and cries for their parents, he screams back to Juggler not to hurt them. But it's to no avail, since as soon as Juggler gets away, the Beelzeb crushes them, and neither of them can do anything to help. After the battle is over, Gai and Juggler set up a memorial for them, and Gai apologizes to the kid, wishing he could do more to help them, but right now, all he can do is hug them...and this even gets to Juggler. This is what has always won me over with Gai, the fact that he's got one of the biggest hearts in the universe, and he always wants to do the right thing. The fact that we get to the point where he's so broken in Orb proper is going to be a heartbreaking journey...and a good portion of that will be because of Juggler.
The best way I can describe what I'm preparing for is take a dash of Eiji from Kamen Rider OOO and liberally add the friendship plots of Kingdom Hearts, namely everything involving Riku and Terra. So I cannot wait to sit down for episode 2.
If it ever does finally get that official sub, I would like to review it thoroughly, if only because I really love this series and its characters. And right off the bat, we get a better sense of Gai and Juggler.
We begin on Planet O-50, where they're stupidly climbing a mountain in a blizzard in order to reach the ring of light at the summit, where whoso pulleth out this holy sword Orbcalibur of this light is rightwise Ultraman Orb, giant of light. And while we don't get backstory on just why they thought this was a brilliant idea, we get enough development afterwards to feel Juggler's anger at being rejected.
Quite honestly, he's the better candidate.
Gai is an utter mess reaching the peak. While both are exhausted, he outright collapses and can't pull himself forward. Juggler manages to stand up straight and reach into the light, but he's rejected.
Juggler knows what to do. He's advising Gai the entire way. He tells him what the light wants him to do, explains that he must be summoned through the stargate to another universe's Orion Nebula. And then Gai proceeds to get distracted along the way when he hears a cry for help.
In space.
He hears a cry for help in the vacuum of space.
Even Juggler calls bullshit on it. Let's list this as the canonical #1 of Gai's ridiculous human-form powers.
Juggler has to continue to tell Gai what to do after his first battle as Orb--tells him to get into the traditional low stance that Ultras tend to use, just so he has stable footing when he fires his Origium Ray (yes, I had to look it up). He has to tell him not to go barrelling in headfirst, but rather, to attack the Beelzeb from below, which allows him to destroy it. In every possible way, Juggler proves he has the knowhow to be a perfect Ultra. Especially considering that not much changes in possibly 100 years, and Gai will CONTINUE to be the most destructive Ultra ever.
What does Gai have over him? Heart.
Even as a member of the Rescue Squad they'd served in before the series (haha like we're ever going to get THAT story), Gai couldn't run away from someone in need of help. He described a cry for help as less of a sound and more of a heart calling out to another...or instead of being poetic, he's being literal and he's ALSO psychic; I can't rule it out. He hears a child crying for help on the desolate planet of Rurin, and he immediately abandons his mission and goes to help. He sees the kid lying unconscious in a tent, where their attacker--their PARENTS--threw them, and when he doesn't feel a pulse, he immediately begins CPR while Juggler fights. When the kid wakes up and cries for their parents, he screams back to Juggler not to hurt them. But it's to no avail, since as soon as Juggler gets away, the Beelzeb crushes them, and neither of them can do anything to help. After the battle is over, Gai and Juggler set up a memorial for them, and Gai apologizes to the kid, wishing he could do more to help them, but right now, all he can do is hug them...and this even gets to Juggler. This is what has always won me over with Gai, the fact that he's got one of the biggest hearts in the universe, and he always wants to do the right thing. The fact that we get to the point where he's so broken in Orb proper is going to be a heartbreaking journey...and a good portion of that will be because of Juggler.
The best way I can describe what I'm preparing for is take a dash of Eiji from Kamen Rider OOO and liberally add the friendship plots of Kingdom Hearts, namely everything involving Riku and Terra. So I cannot wait to sit down for episode 2.