This thread will not devolve into another subtitle debate, so we're clear, but I owe you guys a clarification. It has been a long time since I've seen either version of Ultraman Nexus, but I'm sure the U-N.com version doesn't lay into the honorifics. I also know that Mr. Ballard was definitely a critic of the TV-Nihon way of things, such as choosing to subtitle animated karaoke over the actual credits in the opening or reliance on flashiness.

Lastly and probably most importantly due to the literal darkness of many scenes in Nexus, his video was sourced from the R2 DVDs and not the episodes as they aired. No giant timecode in the upper left and higher-quality video are sweet indeed.

We'll be calling it at midnight! Just a few hours left!

These all sound great!

Did you say you'd get them onto KRDL?

The suspense is killing me! If Nexus wins, I am totally going to rewatch The Next... And probably buy the Ultra-Act...

Out of interest, where is the best place to jump into the Ultraman franchise?

I was about to say "Should we really have another TV-Nihon vs. the World debate?" :lol

Anyway, I'd like to download the series off the DVD release.
Does anyone who has Nexus downloaded in full be willing to torrent or upload an entire batch of them?

Tiga is a good spot for the Hesai ones. I have heard that for Meibius as well. For Showa,the original or Ultraseven are good choices.

The movie Ultraman The Next is a nifty stand alone film (sorta... It's tough to explain) which updates the classic Ultra premise.

And Ultraseven X is a very modern show, very dark and moody, with a big dash of 1984 thrown in.

I'll look into those four and start a journey into Ultraman then!

You can see all of the original Ultraman for free on Hulu.com... Its subbed but the subs are not that bad.

Reading up on YouTube Tiga is the only one completely disconnected from everything else, so I thought I'd start there. According to Wikipedia it is meant to be great as well.