In episode #2 of "Ultraman Chronicle D", Marluru and Deban look at the different forms or types of Tiga, Trigger and Dyna:
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Episode #30 of "Ultraman" introduces the Snow Monster Woo, who protects an orphaned human girl from a village popullated by assholes:
In the last episode of "Mirrorman", the Invaders tricked the SGM into attacking Mirrorman, and it ended with the hero seemingly dead. Episode #35 continues the dramatic story:
The monster Daigarugu is a triple threat, in episode #19 of "Ultraman Mebius":
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This week's episode #3 of "Ultraman Chronicle D" is all about Dyna and Super-GUTS' mascot Hanejiro:
Meanwhile, I'm still plodding my way through Ultraman Leo. The version on ShoutFactory has something weird with the audio, so that the sound effects track and sometimes the music track have an echo in them, repeating after a split-second delay, which sometimes makes the music sound horrible. The subtitles are also badly done, so that when there are two captions on screen at once, they overlap illegibly. I'm surprised they went with such a bad edition.
But then, the stories aren't that great either. I'm used to seeing either animal-like kaiju that are rampaging for animal reasons, or alien invaders with some specific plan for world conquest/destruction. But here, there are a lot of aliens that are just running around killing people or destroying things for no apparent reason, just straw monsters for Leo to knock down.
This season is unusual in that there seems to be little in the way of regular team members beyond the two Ultras. There are a couple, but they get little development, and the rest are mostly redshirts, existing to get killed in action.
The focus is still largely on Gen training to master whatever new move or technique he needs to defeat the monster, sometimes with Dan and sometimes with his friends at the dojo. Yet somehow nobody ever wonders why it is that Ultraman Leo always ends up using the exact technique that Gen was training so hard to master.
But then, the stories aren't that great either. I'm used to seeing either animal-like kaiju that are rampaging for animal reasons, or alien invaders with some specific plan for world conquest/destruction. But here, there are a lot of aliens that are just running around killing people or destroying things for no apparent reason, just straw monsters for Leo to knock down.
This season is unusual in that there seems to be little in the way of regular team members beyond the two Ultras. There are a couple, but they get little development, and the rest are mostly redshirts, existing to get killed in action.
The focus is still largely on Gen training to master whatever new move or technique he needs to defeat the monster, sometimes with Dan and sometimes with his friends at the dojo. Yet somehow nobody ever wonders why it is that Ultraman Leo always ends up using the exact technique that Gen was training so hard to master.
In episode #31 of "Ultraman", the vampiric plant monster Keronia threatens Tokyo:
In episode #36 of "Mirrorman", a whole bunch of monsters - relatives of monsters that Mirrorman has beaten before - are sent by the Invaders to take revenge against our hero:
In episode #20 of "Ultraman Mebius", an experimental sound wave technology aimed at drive monsters away from populated areas goes awry:
Episode #4 of "Ultraman Chronicle D" showcases the mechas and alien sidekicks from Ultraman Trigger, Ultraman Z, Ultraman Geed and Ultraman Dyna:
Well, as I hit episode 20 of Leo, it finally seems to be moving beyond its formula of "Dan abusively trains Gen to learn a new technique to defeat the monster" and mixing things up a little, as well as softening Dan a bit, which is well overdue. Still, it occurs to me that Dan is a bad captain. Unlike most team captains in the franchise, he knows he has an Ultraman under his command, and yet he still sends his human pilots into battle to fight and die (because they do die this season, rather than always hitting the eject button just in time) rather than just sending in Gen/Leo to fight the monster. Okay, sometimes that's to slow down the monster until Gen masters the technique-of-the-week, but sometimes it just seems arbitrary.
Also in episode 20, Leo is virtually useless when the monster blinds him, even though they did a "Gen learns to fight blindfolded" story just five episodes earlier.
Also in episode 20, Leo is virtually useless when the monster blinds him, even though they did a "Gen learns to fight blindfolded" story just five episodes earlier.
In episode #32 of "Ultraman", Hayata shows Patty, a member of SSSP India, around during her vacation in Japan, which is interrupted when a sudden wildfire and earthquake demand their attention:
In episode #37, Mirrorman is trapped inside a rocket headed for the sun:
In episode #21 of "Ultraman Mebius", GUYS receive a distress signal from a mysterious zone in space which turns out to be the monster graveyard from the original "Ultraman" series:
I finally got fed up with the weird audio problem on ShoutFactory's Ultraman Leo, where some of the sound effects and music tracks sometimes echo, i.e. repeat after a brief lag, which can be virtually intolerable when it happens with vocal music. I've put up with it because I wasn't sure if it was always that way or just a problem with that particular release. But I decided to check out the YouTube playlist of the Kissasian sub, so I could finally get my answer, and to my relief, the music didn't repeat. So I guess I'll try watching it there from now on, although the image quality isn't as good.
But I wonder how the audio on the Shout version got so screwed up, and why nobody's fixed it. IIRC, that was one of the first Ultra series they had, so they should've had plenty of time to fix it. It was particularly weird with episode 26, because the music echo was particularly bad in the main episode, but wasn't present in the preview at the end. And it's weird that it only happens with some of the audio tracks (though it almost always happens with footsteps and the clack of Dan's cane).
But I wonder how the audio on the Shout version got so screwed up, and why nobody's fixed it. IIRC, that was one of the first Ultra series they had, so they should've had plenty of time to fix it. It was particularly weird with episode 26, because the music echo was particularly bad in the main episode, but wasn't present in the preview at the end. And it's weird that it only happens with some of the audio tracks (though it almost always happens with footsteps and the clack of Dan's cane).
This week's episode #5 of "Ultraman Chronicle D" showcases the evil Ultras:
Also, TokuSHOUTsu uploaded the first episode of the 70s anime series:
Also, TokuSHOUTsu uploaded the first episode of the 70s anime series:
The entire anime series is available on ShoutFactory's streaming site, I believe.
Episode #33 of "Ultraman" has ships flying in the sky, Hoshino hearing a strange voice, and a giant, mind-controlled Fuji:
Investigating reports of a monster killing hikers in the Death Valley of the Japanese Alps, Kyotaro discovers a secret base of the Invaders, in episode #38 of "Mirrorman":