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[toku] I have now sampled three ultramans
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and, you know what I really was not expecting was going to be one of my favorite things about this franchise, for some reason?
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the ARTISTRY of the fucking MINIATURE SETS
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but it's three for three so far
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two episodes of orb, four of mebius, and All That Has Currently Aired of omega
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and every single one of them has given me at least one moment of "oh my GOD these minis are BEAUTIFUL"
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https://images.plurk.com/7po6DM3stcCPPERaR03htY.png here's one from mebius
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https://images.plurk.com/59stgIQVoNli5iU8spY27Y.png and one from orb
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https://images.plurk.com/1KDw8MdxjBQcTjKIny9y7N.png it's really hard to get a good screenshot from tubi but look how EVERY TINY OBJECT got tossed around
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https://images.plurk.com/7jfN53dwLsOAO1BO3bvL8g.png I lost my mind slightly about this one from omega because look at all that tiny JUNK
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the tiny PLASTIC MILK CRATES
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https://images.plurk.com/1LatrAZagsa6p12UvPkB39.png https://images.plurk.com/65vXa7eo9SrNpd8yCustJ1.png https://images.plurk.com/2ndi7uzmc1XV1uRvL0nUAQ.png https://images.plurk.com/2LnYJv8qKxrM7yyETF7i5F.png the fight in omega episode 8 was just so beautifully full of stuff
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it's just. god. the CRAFT the ARTISTRY
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this is why practical effects are the shit they NEVER GET OLD
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you can demolish a tiny house and show every tiny shingle flying off the tiny roof
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I think the camera might be slightly kinder to the sets in the older shows because the lesser image quality disguises how Definitely Miniature they are? but the thing about good miniatures is that knowing it's a miniature does not at all damage its visual appeal
𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖘.
yeah
𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖘.
ultraman's got a pretty consistent reputation as the best-shot of the big tv toku franchises and. yeah. it earns it
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yeah
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a lot of the time when I'm not marveling over the minis I'm marveling over the cinematography
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it's just so fucking good to look at
𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖘.
even in the 60s some of the directors were doing just insane shit
𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖘.
a huge chunk of evangelion's compositional dna is like. one. episode of ultraman 66 https://images.plurk.com/3SX0O89gq2YhIrkHb61xUf.png https://images.plurk.com/51XVC8ViPJJHovygQKSGF9.png https://images.plurk.com/3wJX0Wp8oK3PbJtF9qvduE.png https://images.plurk.com/34WmdIhywfIYdh1rPlESs7.png
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I have yet to dip my toe into anything from showa but like. god. art.
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this week's episode of omega was among other things a love letter to tokusatsu itself and like. I feel it bro. you're so right side character of the week tokusatsu IS the shit
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oh yeah no the miniatures work in ultraman is the best in the world
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𝕯𝖔𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖎𝖘. : AKIO JISSOJI THE GOAT
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also wait lol are those my screencaps too
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I knew next to nothing about ultraman before going in so you can imagine my delight, as a tiny crafts enjoyer, to realize I was essentially walking into a fucking tiny crafts museum
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god I keep looking back at that mebius screenshot and being so tickled, like
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it looks even better in a still shot than it did in motion
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in motion it's a lot more obvious those are tiny boats and tiny buoys because you simply cannot disguise Small-Scale Up-Close Water as Large-Scale Distant Water
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obviously it still looks good either way but the still shot is much harder to immediately clock
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https://images.plurk.com/4HKfF3cFxQhQt8htlGoAMy.png https://images.plurk.com/21Q3tcTjGpG9M219ugJpYg.png it's definitely more obvious when the water is disturbed to any degree lmao
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https://images.plurk.com/33RX0tb5PCMqOEMeoFm6rX.png BUT EVEN SO
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https://images.plurk.com/3D0s1vwmDcyCEA5gYcuRt1.png IT'S JUST SO NICE TO LOOK AT
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(yes those two shots are barely different at all it's VERY DIFFICULT TO TAKE SCREENS OFF TUBI OKAY)
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yeah you like. have to build At A Certain Scale to get water to look Right in miniatures work and that requires a certain amount of room to construct the thing
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yeah
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god. the more I look at this the more I hunger to build a miniature scene of my own
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orb is good and I hope you like it
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so far I do!
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gai is such a moe ultraman
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he is very cute and delightfully weird
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I loved how he was introduced
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just hitch a ride inside a freezer truck, no big,
#1 inferno fan
oh good. you're watching more of the show with the juggler mans in it
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I sure am
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if r/b were slightly less ... ultraman r/b i'd highly recommend you watch that one for my favorite antagonist, the doomed evil lesbian with a brother complex who used to hang out with oscar wilde and by extension bram stoker a hundred years or so ago and turns into an angry dinosaur sometimes
#1 inferno fan
unfortunately,
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(also. asterisk. favorite modern ultra antagonist.)
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I have seen a few screenshots of r/b and I am really curious about it, what's the unfortunately,
#1 inferno fan
unfortunately it's just kind of lackluster as ultramans go
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also i didn't ... personally care for the transformation gimmicks in that one so much, either
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ah, too bad
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