rewatching some clips from shin ultraman this morning. i love how all the superhero stuff is framed. to us, it's all totally normal, and we get what it all means. to the onlookers, what they're seeing is totally strange and alien. it's like they're watching animals fighting or something. i have a soft spot for superhero stories told from alternate perspectives (legends of the dark knight from the new batman adventures, gotham central, zot, etc.), and i think japanese stories do that well (with the greek chorus of side characters always chiming in on a battle, to remind us how impressed we ought to be)