Face-burning snails, cursed idols, murderous spirits, and Ippei’s soul being ripped from his body by Prof. Ichinotani’s quest for knowledge – it’s all happening in the next two episodes of Ultra Q, The Idol of Goga & The Devil Child.
John and Eugene discuss.
The Idol of Goga Synopsis
At a shadowy underground meeting, an international art collector of dubious ethics anticipates the arrival of his newest acquisition, the Idol of Goga. The idol is arriving in Japan in the hands of the Ambassador’s daughter, although neither she nor her parents know she’s being used as an unwitting mule. After their arrival in Japan, an accomplice on the plane takes the idol and, when the daughter tries to get her doll back, she is kidnapped.
A man is following them and is almost killed as the getaway car is used as a booby-trapped decoy.
Aleen, the woman who toke the statue is taken to Mr. Iwakura, the collector, and turns over the statue to him. The idol, of course, is cursed, and promises a curse of 6,000 years upon the “arrogant ones.”
Jun, Ippei, and Yuriko are investigating the theft and kidnapping.
The idol passes the authenticity tests, but Aleen notices that something is growing inside it, but Iwakura takes no heed.
Aleen is actually a fake and in cahoots with the man that was following them at the airport.
The statue’s eyes glow, then it shoots the face off of one of Iwakura’s men, then breaks, revealing a disturbingly large snail inside.
Aleen’s accomplice is circling Iwakura’s house and is identified by Iwakura’s men. He’s also killed them. While driving his car. Which continues to drive.
Luckily, it passes Jun, Ippei, and Yuriko, and they chase the car down, and in a bit of heroics, Jun leaps over and stops the car. Jun hears radio communications from Aleen telling her cohort where the statue is. She doesn’t know he is dead.
The gang walks right into Iwakura’s house and asks the front desk if they’re holding a kidnapped child. Turns out, that’s a good way to get escorted to an underground strongroom and sentenced to death. Aleen has been rumbled, she’s been identified as Liang Ming, antiquities expert. She’s trying to escape with the girl.
Meanwhile, Goga continues to get bigger, burning more faces and generally wrecking the facility. In the chaos, Iwakura and all his men, save one, are killed. That man, prior to his boss’ death and destruction of his entire building by a giant snail, was tasked with killing Liang Ming, and he will carry out his orders to the letter.
At military HQ, Liang Ming suggests blasting the snail’s eyes with caustic potash and explosives to blind it, giving them the opportunity to burn it. Ippei gets to shine as Bazooka Shoulder Man and, in the confusion, Iwakura’s killer is squashed by the snail.
Potash and fire do the trick and the snail is destroyed.
The Devil Child Synopsis
A series of mysterious roadway accidents in the early hours of the morning are mysterious.
Jun, the gang, and even Professor Ichinotani are enjoying a night out at a magic act. They witness a child, Lily, being hypnotized and then seemingly projecting a ghostly image of herself. Ichinotani seems troubled.
He thinks Lily may have an unusual bioelectrical field that allows her to be easily hypnotized. Experimenting on Ippei, Ichinotani splits his soul from his physical body to demonstrate to Jun and Yuriko. “Demonstrate what?” you may ask. Beats me. That Ippei is a perfect lab rat, perhaps?
Ichinotani is, as always, exactly right. Each night, the girl’s father hypnotizes her to sleep and in that state, her soul leaves her body and kills people just to gather little trinkets.
When Jun confronts Lily about her growing collection of trinkets, she says she doesn’t know where they come from. She just wakes up and they’re there. Also, sometimes when she wakes up she has blood on her face and hands – as you do.
This has got Ichinotani really worried. He thinks the child’s soul wants to kill the child’s physical body, and, indeed, the two are walking, hand-in-spectral-hand down railway tracks at night, waiting for a train.
Ichinotani has a soul integrator device and Ippei uses it to re-integrate the soul into the child, just in time for Jun to leap out and snatch the child away from the oncoming train.
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