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We're back to chronicling the adventures of Ultraman Zero, with the second part of the serialization of "Ultraman Saga":
Edit: Appears they forgot the English subs again.
Edit: Appears they forgot the English subs again.
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The video you posted doesn't actually say which series they are adding or when they're adding them. According to this story I found on Nerdist, on Sunday they will be adding Ultra Q, the original Ultraman, Seven, Orb, and Geed.
And today's upload, episode #31 of "Ultraman 80":
Two uploaded episodes from Tsuburaya today! For one, episode #9 of "Ultraman: Towards the Future":
And the other, outside the Ultra Series, the first episode of 1993's "Gridman the Hyper Agent", which back in the day got the MMPR treatment to be adapted as "Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad" in the US:
And the other, outside the Ultra Series, the first episode of 1993's "Gridman the Hyper Agent", which back in the day got the MMPR treatment to be adapted as "Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad" in the US:
I'm glad to hear that Shout! Factory will be getting Ultra Q. I've been curious about that one. I might like to watch the original Ultraman too, since it co-starred Akiji Kobayashi, whom I've gotten to know as Tobei Tachibana in the original run of Kamen Rider. Also because its sequel CGI anime series is on Netflix, and I guess it'd be preferable to watch the original before the sequel.
Ugh, I hated Syber Squad. The American footage was just a dumb high school sitcom, and since the action scenes took place entirely in cyberspace, they had little connection to anything else and felt generic and interchangeable. I guess it might be worth checking out the Gridman episode to see if it's any less dire, but I'm hesitant.
Ugh, I hated Syber Squad. The American footage was just a dumb high school sitcom, and since the action scenes took place entirely in cyberspace, they had little connection to anything else and felt generic and interchangeable. I guess it might be worth checking out the Gridman episode to see if it's any less dire, but I'm hesitant.
I guess the "SSSS" is invoking the initials of Syber Squad. Hard to see why -- is there any nostalgia for that awful show? (Although I think its lead actor went on to star in a fairly prominent sitcom.)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSS.Gridman
The "SSSS" in the title stands for "Special Signature to Save a Soul" as revealed in the final episode. It is also a reference to Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
Sounds more like a tip of the hat to the American version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSS.Gridman
The "SSSS" in the title stands for "Special Signature to Save a Soul" as revealed in the final episode. It is also a reference to Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad
Sounds more like a tip of the hat to the American version
Well, I went ahead and watched Gridman out of morbid curiosity. It's a lot closer to its American adaptation than I expected, with largely the same premise, except that the protagonists are running an elaborate homemade computer they built in their basement rather than being in a band. It did try to establish more of a connection between the action in the computer world and its dangerous consequences in the real world, but if anything, that made it even dumber. In this world, apparently computer viruses can cause indoor lightning storms and make metallic objects levitate around the room.
My problem with the action footage was that it doesn't really work as a giant monster battle when the "cityscape" they're fighting in is just a representation of a TRON-like cyberspace, albeit with no inhabitants besides the combatants. It has the usual beats of the monster wrecking "buildings" and whatnot, but there's no sense of scale or real-world context to make it seem gigantic. And since it was always the same virtual environment, it was visually repetitive from episode to episode -- unlike the marvelously diverse miniature environments used for the giant battles in the Ultraman shows I've seen.
I'm surprised that Gridman is basically an Ultra in all but name. He merges with a human host in the same way, he has the exact same enlarging sequence with the fist raised, and he even has the blinking light when his power gets dangerously low, albeit on his forehead rather than his chest. And the show is included on the Ultraman Wiki. So I guess it's part of the overall Ultra multiverse?
My problem with the action footage was that it doesn't really work as a giant monster battle when the "cityscape" they're fighting in is just a representation of a TRON-like cyberspace, albeit with no inhabitants besides the combatants. It has the usual beats of the monster wrecking "buildings" and whatnot, but there's no sense of scale or real-world context to make it seem gigantic. And since it was always the same virtual environment, it was visually repetitive from episode to episode -- unlike the marvelously diverse miniature environments used for the giant battles in the Ultraman shows I've seen.
I'm surprised that Gridman is basically an Ultra in all but name. He merges with a human host in the same way, he has the exact same enlarging sequence with the fist raised, and he even has the blinking light when his power gets dangerously low, albeit on his forehead rather than his chest. And the show is included on the Ultraman Wiki. So I guess it's part of the overall Ultra multiverse?
This week's episode #19 of "Ultraman Z" features the return of Ultraman Ace, and apparently the production team wanted to bring their A-game for this, as it may very well be the most spectacular-looking episode yet:
Coinciding with Ace's appearance in the latest "Ultraman Z" episode, here is episode #14 of "Ultraman Ace":
Episode #18 of "Ultraman Max" introduced the Alien Shamer, a new alien/kaiju in the trickster god villain genre similar to Q from Trek or Mr. Mxyzptlk from Superman:
Shin Ultraman revealed
The more slender look really amplifies the alieness of the character
The more slender look really amplifies the alieness of the character
The phrasing of the release is ambiguous. Was it the designer's original intention not to have the Color Timer?
I saw that Shout Factor TV had added their Ultraman series when I got on the watch Chojin Sentai Jetman, so after I finished that I watched the first episode of Orb.
I thought it was a lot of fun.
The SSP characters were pretty likeable, and did a good job of giving us a human perspective on crazy stuff going on. Something Search People is kind of an oddly phrased name, at first I thought it was just badly translated, but the name is in English on the show. It feels like something some who doesn't really speak English came up with, and since the show is Japenese I have feeling that was probably the case.
One of my biggest complaints with Jetman has been that the giant monster/mech fights have all been really short, so I was pretty happy that this one was a lot longer and more complex.
This set up some interesting mysteries with the guy in the dark suit and the human form of Orb. I'm curious if the fact that dark suit guy has the same ring device as Orb means he's an evil Ultraman, or just a human who's using it to summon the monsters.
Are the Ultramen only giant, or can they change form and stay human sized?
I thought it was a lot of fun.
The SSP characters were pretty likeable, and did a good job of giving us a human perspective on crazy stuff going on. Something Search People is kind of an oddly phrased name, at first I thought it was just badly translated, but the name is in English on the show. It feels like something some who doesn't really speak English came up with, and since the show is Japenese I have feeling that was probably the case.
One of my biggest complaints with Jetman has been that the giant monster/mech fights have all been really short, so I was pretty happy that this one was a lot longer and more complex.
This set up some interesting mysteries with the guy in the dark suit and the human form of Orb. I'm curious if the fact that dark suit guy has the same ring device as Orb means he's an evil Ultraman, or just a human who's using it to summon the monsters.
Are the Ultramen only giant, or can they change form and stay human sized?
Yes
https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Color_Timer
It's been shown recently in Ultraman Z and in past series that Ultraman can become human sized for short periods
Ultraman Z
OK, cool.
Oh, just a quick note in case anybody else watches Ultraman Orb on Shout Factor TV, the default setting is not subtitles, so you have to make sure you turn them on if you need them. Not sure if it's the same for the other Ultraman series, it wasn't for Jetman, that automatically had them.
Oh, just a quick note in case anybody else watches Ultraman Orb on Shout Factor TV, the default setting is not subtitles, so you have to make sure you turn them on if you need them. Not sure if it's the same for the other Ultraman series, it wasn't for Jetman, that automatically had them.
In the series I've seen (Tiga, Dyna, Neos, and early Cosmos), there's usually at least one episode where Ultraman fights at human size. There was even one where he was miniaturized.
Thanks for the heads-up. I started at the beginning with the first episode of Ultra Q. A mixed bag. They tried to cram a whole kaiju movie into half an hour, so there were some narrative shortcuts, like the know-it-all brat who's somehow an expert in prehistoric monsters and the reporters who just uncritically believe everything he tells them, which all turns out to be true. And it's amusing that the first monster is pretty obviously a redressed Godzilla suit. Still, there was some decent character interplay among the leads.