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Taro (Kazuo Nakamura) is a school boy with a somewhat overboarding imagination, which leads him to often making up things - which in turn is why his teacher (Akira Oizumi) calls him a liar. And if there's one thing that Taro loves, it's his little turtle he believes will grow to be 99 centimetres big one day and fly him to the dragon palace - and it's the turtle that gets him into trouble, so the teacher sends him to the roof as punishment. From the roof, Taro sees a shoot-out between two bankrobbers (Masaya Nihei, Chotaro Togin) and the police, but when he tries to report this to his teacher, the teacher just thinks he's making things up again - which is too bad, because to evade the police, the bankrobbers have hid in the school, and when Taro comes looking for his turtle, he finds them, and somehow the turtle has gotten mixed up with their stuff, which is why when they make a getaway, he follows them - ultimately down to the sewers, where the turtle grows to 99 centimetres or more. And while the bankrobbers are scared witless and make a getaway, Taro mounts his turtle and has it fly him to dragon palace - which is not at all what he has expected, but he meets a fresh little princess (Aiko Tateishi) who teaches him some lessons about lying - lessons that also include flying on atom bombs and dragons ...

One of the more unusual episodes of Ultra Q, as this one not only puts the series' leads on the sidelines, making a mere cameo appearance, but it also ditches the so far prevalent giant monster thriller format for a modern fable or fairy tale, with flying turtles (with indicators and a control panel, actually), dragons and an atom bomb. Now on a pure story level, this one's cheesy as can be, but it does have some off-beat ideas that will very probably make you chuckle.

By the way, while the flying turtle in this one is almost certainly an allusion to Gamera from only a year before, the similarities end pretty much there, as storywise this episode couldn't be more different than the movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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