Boxing and Kaiju are not two words you’d think go together. Do they? You decide as we discuss Blazing Victory. Then Jun and Ippei get lost in another dimension with a dangerous criminal and giant walrus as we explore the Disappearance of Flight 206.
John and Eugene discuss.
Blazing Victory Episode Synopsis
Featherweight boxer Dynamite Joe is… well, “dynamite!”
Not only does he have an unbroken string of victories in the ring, he is able to unerringly predict exactly what round he’s going to defeat his next opponent. He can do this because of his good luck mascot, Peter, a small alligator-like creature he keeps in a tank of water.
This creature, when removed from the tank, grows to almost man-sized.
Dynamite Joe’s unbroken streak is so impressive, that his manager manages to arrange a championship bout against the current champion. With but a week to go before the fight, Dynamite Joe disappears without a trace.
Days later, Jun and the Gang are having dinner and a show at the Marine Phantom Showclub, watching the dancers and the hilarious clown. Despite the makeup, Jun, a big fan, recognizes that the clown is none other than Dynamite Joe! He tries to convince Yuriko that she’s got a major scoop. A bit like this episode, that doesn’t make much sense to Yuriko. Why would a famous boxer be hiding as a clown?
Joe isn’t just hiding as a clown, he’s hiding in a bottle, too. He and Peter are dropping out. The manager of the club knows who he is, but is content to let him continue his clownish duties. He is, after all, good at it.
While out greeting guests, his manager takes Peter out of the water and is quickly terrified by the full-sized Peter, who chases him. Joe returns to his room to discover Peter gone, and when Yuriko comes to talk to him, he accuses her of taking Peter. Peter is really just outside scaring away all the guests.
Later, Peter has been restored and Joe explains that he caught Peter fishing off the coast of the Philippines. No matter how many times they threw him back into the water, he got caught again. Deciding it was fate, he became Joe’s mascot. Then, he started telling Joe the predictive outcomes of his fights.
He was never wrong, and when he predicted that Dynamite Joe would lose the championship fight, Joe ran.
Meanwhile, the club manager has decided Peter will be the new star attraction for his club, but he loses him, perhaps in the pool, which is so cold, he may have shrunk to an even smaller size and cannot be found. This depresses Joe even further.
Jun tries to talk him into returning to the ring. He’s a hero to lots of kids who think they should be looking up to someone he brutally beats other human beings as their hero. It’s no good. Joe is a beaten man without stepping into the ring.
Then a lightning storm starts a fire. The fire heats up Peter who grows to enormous proportions. Joe helps guide the monster to the ocean, but he accidentally sets the harbor on fire. Seemingly nothing could survive that.
But Joe does survive and, the next day, Jun, Ippei, and Yuriko drop him off in the middle of the street and he leaves for an unknown future.
The Disappearance of Flight 206 Episode Synopsis
Jun and Ippei are returning to Tokyo from Hong Kong via supersonic jetliner, flight 206. When the plane is caught is a bizarre swirling vortex, it disappears off the radar to the heartbreak of Yuriko, who is waiting at the airport for them.
…and yet, in the control tower, the sounds of a phantom jet can be heard.
The passengers and crew of the plane awake to find themselves floating in a cloud-like world of white. If that weren’t enough, a dangerous prisoner being transported on the flight has escaped and holds a gun on everyone.
Outside the plane, the criminal holds the pilot, co-pilot, Jun, and Ippei hostage and they wander around, eventually discovering a graveyard of planes. It appears that the pilot of a Japanese Zero is moving, but when Ippei touches him, he crumbles to dust.
Ippei falls and discovers handfuls of marbles on the surface of the cloud. That would make walking on clouds very dangerous, but the criminal doesn’t see it that way. He thinks they’re diamonds and goes to collect them. Jun uses the opportunity to wrestle with the criminal.
It’s not the best possible job of disarming him, though. In a massive, empty white void, two wildly fired shots in the struggle manage to hit the pilot and co-pilot. Thanks, Jun!
The villain overcome, he suddenly falls through the cloud, never to be seen again.
I feel like there should be some form of transition sentence between that last paragraph and the next, but I cannot think of one. It’s not going to make any sense but roll with it.
A giant walrus appears and chases them all back to the plane.
On the plane, a very industrious American repaired the radio. They are able to contact Tokyo Tower (That’s Tokyo air traffic control tower at Narita, not the Tokyo Tower) and professor Ichinotani is able to not very helpfully explain to them that they are in a special dimension.
With the walrus bearing down on the plane, the pilot and co-pilot wounded, and the plane is out of fuel, Jun and Ippei must fly the plane through the Wall to Reality. Yuriko, who’s had a pretty emotional roller coaster of an episode, is elated.
As the plane flies near Mt. Fuji, everyone congratulates themselves that “they’ve made it,” without the slightest trace of self-awareness that they still have no fuel and they aren’t safe on the ground yet.
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