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06-04-2017, 01:09 AM | #861 |
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From my understanding - and keep in mind, I've never seen Ultraman Returns - Jack is never actually called by name on his show. They joked around with that in the 8 Ultra Brothers movie, where Mebius just addresses him as "Returned" and "Man who came back." His official name is Ultraman Jack, though.
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EDIT: Yeah he's listed as Ultraman Returns, how did I not notice that? Last edited by scikaiju; 06-04-2017 at 01:32 AM.. |
06-04-2017, 10:09 AM | #862 |
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Nexus movie? I thought the only movie from the Nexus universe was The Next, which came out months after Nexus hit the airwaves?
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06-04-2017, 10:18 AM | #863 |
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06-04-2017, 10:47 AM | #864 |
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It takes place before the series, but if I remember correctly it came out around the show's 2/3rds mark, about the same time they swapped heroes from Himeya to Punch Hopper.
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06-04-2017, 01:57 PM | #865 |
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Has there been any English subs for Ultraman Ginga: Theater Special Ultra Monster ☆ Hero Battle Royal! (the second Ginga movie)? I've found some for the first Ginga movie and the Ginga S movie but none for that one.
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06-04-2017, 02:18 PM | #866 |
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Try TV Nihon. They did the first Ginga series and most of its extra content so they're probably your best bet.
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06-04-2017, 08:56 PM | #867 |
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Well I watched episodes 41-48 thus far and I am finding myself bored (I couldn't even watch them all in one sitting). None of the new characters are all that interesting and every episode is pretty much the same. Black Star Commander orders a new monster, monster arrives, something happens, monster is defeated by Leo, BS Commander orders new monster, episode ends. Over and over and over again. Is he going to get any development? I mean, you would think the guy who wiped out the entire cast of the show would be given at least some sort of character development.
Another thing that bothers me is that Gen never mentions he was part of MAC at all. Like there was one episode with two brothers and an episode with this selfish father who he tried to help, but neither party listened to him. Why didn't he tell them he used to be part of MAC? They would have listened to him then. It's like all traces of MAC have just disappeared. Or has MAC become a disgracful name? If so, we probably should know this. Then we have Astra, who once again showed up for plot convenience and then left because reasons. Is he unable to stay on Earth for more than a few minutes? Does he not have the ability to change into a human form? How did he even survive the fire Gen thought he died in? Don't get me wrong, there has been some cool stuff in these. I liked the episode with the tentacle saucer monster thing that was sucking the blood out of people and the one that featured Izumi was also well done, but these episodes are so repetitive that I just don't care. I want to be done with this show. EDIT: Well I decided to just go ahead and finish the last three episodes of Leo since I had nothing better to do tonight. Okay, where do I start? Well first, I did think episode 49 was great. The Teru Teru Bouzo was a pretty cool episode and the fight at the end is by far one of the best from the entire show, if not THE best. I loved the red tined over the screen and the rainy look. Then episode 50 happened and I have no idea what was going on here. The alien dude brings Gen to Commander Black, but Black has no idea who he is. HUH?! He only confronted him three times before when he wasn't transformed into Leo, so how the hell does he not know who he is? That doesn't make any sense. Also, I found it to be utterly pointless for them to slice Leo up when Ultraman King was easily able to put him back together without there being any repercussions for it. However, I can get over that, what I can't get over is how lame of a villain Commander Black turned out to be. The dude got killed by freaking children. CHILDREN!!!! How does that even happen? Even Sentai has never gone into the realms of making a villain this pitiful and I just watched a show where the main villain was a planet eating asteroid. Commander Black went from becoming one of my top favorite Ultraman villains to one of the lamest. He didn't even get a lick of development. Another issue I had with the final episode was Astra never even showed up. WTF? What was his entire purpose in this show? Why did he even exist in the first place? Oh, and is Seven dead dead? Because if so, how does he have Zero? Also how come the arm band Leo received from King is sometimes there and sometimes not? Good god, this show as a whole was a complete let down. It started off rocky, but it got better in the teens, which featured a ton of exceptional episodes. Then the forties hit and this show quickly crashed and burned to the ground. For being a 51 episode series, there was little to no development, MAC is hands down the most useless defense force I have ever seen, and the tone of this show is all over the place. It feels like Tsuburaya had no idea who their target audience was. It's too mature for kids to watch, but it has way too many childish episodes that adults would find annoying. It's monsters are over the top dumb and cheap looking half of the time, which means even Kaiju fans would be turned off. It rarely has enough science fiction in it to please the sci-fi fans and it seemed like the show stopped doing horror-esque episodes in its first half, so it wouldn't even attract the horror fans for that long. The romance barely occurs and it is completely irrelevant in the end, so it couldn't be for women. Who the hell were they targeting this thing towards? Fish? Now that isn't to say there weren't things I enjoyed in this show because I said earlier, there was a lot to love. However, it gets bogged down in its formulaic nature and doesn't try to do anything new that the original and Seven didn't already do better. My favorite episode is hands down the one with the ghost flower woman who turns people to stone (??). I also did love the one with Akumiya (called Demoniya on the subs) and the one with Ultraman Returns. On the other hand, my least favorite episode is a toss up between one that featured a monster that decides to use a smoke stack to inflate itself and the one about a kid with a monster in a jar. Those were both just miserable episodes to sit through. If I were to score Leo, it would be a 2/5 and it is right now my second least favorite Ultra show. As such, my current rankings go (for only series I have completed): 1. Ultra Seven 2. Orb 3. Ultraman 4. Tiga 5. X 6. Leo 7. Seven X Last edited by Dr Kain; 06-05-2017 at 12:14 AM.. |
06-11-2017, 04:22 AM | #868 |
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Will they ever make Ultraman have his own offspring? It's kinda weird seeing how Seven and Belial has their sons yet the OG Ultraman still doesn't
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06-11-2017, 06:37 AM | #869 |
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Fun fact: The actress who played Rena in Ultraman Tiga is actually the daughter of Susumu Kurobe who played Hayata in Ultraman.
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06-11-2017, 11:36 AM | #870 |
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Probably not. Despite being the original, Ultraman himself rarely comes off as being one of the more important heroes. In-universe, Zoffy is more powerful and has a higher rank, while in the real world Seven is more often viewed as the big iconic hero among old school toku fans.
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