User blog comment:Stephan222/I'm mad at the Ultraman Max writers../@comment-1733689-20131230052348/@comment-5527544-20131230170805

The episode is a homage to a famous Japanese poem about existentialism, basically about a writer dreaming to be a butterfly or vice versa and the speaker can no longer be sure which dream is the reality. It's not the first time Ultraman did a homage to Japanese Culture. In Tiga, the episode with the cherry blossom watching was weird but it was a tribute to Cherry Blossom watching and Kabuki theater, to stable of Japanese Culture since the Tokugawa era. It's only 'weird' because you have an outsider's point of view. Also, Max had some goofy episode, but you are forgetting some of the episodes ended on somewhat dark notes like Alien Neril Keef. So this episode is not really that out of place...