I hate to say it, but this figure just doesn't look good... Maybe it's the body that makes everything else look off. Which is weird, because the other Ultra Action Figures look fine.

So, what do we call this weird goober? Man? Shin?

I think it is just due to how Shin Ultraman's design is proportioned. Here's the sofubi

Really looks like they are going to push the alien angle. It does have that pseudo-lanky-humanoid stature that the EVAs had. Intended to make you ever so slightly uncomfortable.

Aren't the toys developed first, so he wouldn't really design the riders unless he's involved from the very, very get go?

I really like the extraterrestrial angle they are going with it.

Shin-Man. Done.:lolol

Shin Man-nii-san.

Would be crazy if Orb or Geed used the fused powers of this guy and The Next.

I think this one image, of all things, has instantly sold me on them using CG for the movie. Just looking at those proportions made me instantly agree that "Oh, okay. Yeah, a guy in a suit would look too much like a guy in a suit. I get it now!" Every inch of that body is subtly wrong in some way, and I might even love it because of that? It seems like the changes being made are very considered.

Seeing this I hope they make a figuarts of Anno Ultraman from Anno's Ultraman student film just for hype sake. And include it as a bonus feature when the DVDs and Blu-rays are ever released.

I love the way you put this. The way you phrase this and the video that SHINOBI03 kindly posted of Anno describing Ultraman's alien nature really excites me. I love the notion of exploring the otherness of the character, and the distance between us and him.

It sure does add to the otherworldly quality he is pushing for. Now I kinda wanna see Ultraseven and the other four Ultra brothers at the least in this style. I bet if Taro went dynamite in this universe he would combust and just splatter around a certain radius as magma-like biogoop, then after some time said biogoop would gather together instinctively like the blob at ground zero and form Taro again. That would be cool. Or maybe in the case of Seven, the eye slugger would be flung and never come back, having Seven go all the way to fetch it or after flinging it it will grow back if it is not placed back onto his head, etc.

I love Seven, he's my favourite character in the whole of the franchise, but after how they just turned him into a jerk in the comic/cartoon reboot, I want them to leave him alone, haha.

Having said that, I implicitly trust everything Anno, even if I'm not that convinced about Higuchi's work and didn't initially warm to Shin Godzilla, so I would be willing to entertain the introduction of other Ultras, but to be honest, I think it's kind of good that we don't get to see the "expanded universe" right away. Just having Ultraman alone restores some of the mystery to the setting, I feel.

I mean I can see they were going with that very "alien" look, since the first image dropped some time ago and yeah, I don't think that's a bad thing, I guess I'm still getting used to the design. Part of me would have been all for them making him an EVA, with the slim build and otherworldly appearance, since it looks a little weird how his body looks "normal" compared to his limbs. Because he looks fine in the trailer and some of the models for the design, I guess, to me at least, the design translated a little off for the figures, than again I was also referring to the articulation. But I should probably stop now, don't want to go on too long. I'm still looking forward to this movie.

Well remember, this is a budget toy of the design. The articulation is basic enough to make it playable.

If we were to see something like a Figuart (Will be shocked if we didn't) or other higher-end piece, the articulation would obviously look more streamlined and work with this version of Ultraman's more lanky, alien-ish proportions a lot better.

That's not necessarily it. Ultra Action Figure especially recently have gotten very good at nailing body proportions and details -- Ultraman Z's figures in particular looked fantastic. Just for a quick comparison (and the size may be sliiiightly off because it's hard to tell when resizing), here's Shin next to Dyna, who's releasing at the same time. At the very least it feels like the torso and forearms are longer than usual.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...96/unknown.png

I don't have a problem with how they're adapting the figures, since I'm probably one of the few people who don't have the budget to collect figuarts and just gets the vinyl figures, so long as the paint job is decent, though I'd love to. And that's not a bad thing, I was just stating how it looks to me, I don't hate the design or anything, or have anything against the figure makers, after all, the design is growing on me, much like how it did with Shin Godzilla, which at first, I wasn't sure how to feel about the design, and then it grew to the point of me loving it. I do plan to get figures from this, either figuarts, depending how it looks, or stick with the sofubi. Besides, I don't own any Ultra Action Figures to really compare and who knows, maybe the physical figure will actually look better than what we have of the one image.

I'm really excited for this, and I thought the CGI looked pretty good. Some of the comments here had me expecting tv series-level quality.

Aaand the SH Figuart just got announced

Do you think Neronga and Gabora will be the only enemies we will see in the film? I expect they'd throw in Bemular as the first kaiju, and for aliens it'd be Baltan as the final advisory.

Or in case there would be Shin Ultraman 2 they make the first one kaiju-exclusive and make 2 all about the aliens.

I feel like Neronga and Gabora will appear fairly early in the movie and serve as smaller adversaries, monsters that humans are powerless against but Ultraman can defeat with relative ease.

And for the final boss - Zetton is the obvious choice but I’d say it would be too "early” for it to show up if Ultraman makes his first appearance within the movies running time.

So I'd say Baltan as well. The plot could very well involve an alien invasion.

@Topic: The announcement of the SHF made me realize something about Shin Ultraman. Many people say they use CG instead of a suit actor to make him appear more "alien". And they were right, kind of.

Because seeing the SHF alongside the "classic" Ultraman SHF's (SHINOBI03 posted a comparison in the SHF thread) made me realize - Ultraman is more alien because he is more human. He's a believable living being on its own now, not a human within a suit. Kamen Rider and Sentai work because it’s humans wearing suits. But Ultraman is not a human inside a suit, he's a living being himself.

While Shin is skinny and a bit elongated, the overall frame is not all too different from a human skeleton.

https://i.imgur.com/Dcxnwk8.jpg

Thanks, Kiwami, this image you posted is going to turn up in my nightmares. :p

Oh by all means, have some more!

Fighting giant monsters and stuff is really heavy on the joints apparently.

https://i.imgur.com/B3oESum.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/AvYw4MN.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/DRsK7zp.jpg

Yeah. I too think they might throw in Baltan as the final boss, though I would love to see Jirass come back, or Gomora or Red King. Though Bemular being the first enemy in the original makes me think he might appear in this. Also, maybe this is just me remembering Evangelion or Shin Godzilla, but I'm bracing myself in case Ultraman gets some kind of horrifying makeover at some point in the film.

Science indicates that were humanoid lifeforms were to exist in outer space, they would indeed be tall and lanky due to the different (lesser) gravitational forces. \

Also the human skeletal structure and material of bones has a theoretical limit of a human being like 45 feet tall before it would collapse on itself.

*weeps bitterly into her hands* I will never be able to watch Ultraman again without thinking of that cross-section of his EXPOSED BRAIN.

Random thought but, knowing Tsuburaya, I wonder when Shin will crossover with "regular" Ultraman canon. He'll be a power-up / transformation trinket fairly soon I think, but I wonder if they will make a suit for him so he can appear in stuff like Ultra Galaxy Fight. Or leave him CG but still fight alongside regular Ultras.

https://i.imgur.com/jiggHDG.jpg

Baltan for sure needs to appear. Maybe Bemular for a flashback scene.

In my mind it would be strange for any other kaiju to be in the film when there's no merch for them.

I want to see OG Ultraman and Shin Ultraman do this
https://twitter.com/tokugifs/status/1312126960689016832

Gonna be really disappointed if we don't get any of this in the movie, tbh.

I watched the trailer a couple more times and honestly, the more I watch it, the more excited I am. Screw Godzilla vs Kong, THIS is what I'm looking forward to.

After seeing the trailer several more times, I've noticed some things that suggest that this will be much different from Shin Godzilla.

First off, it looks as though our main characters (In the black suits like the members of the government in Shin Godzilla) are going to be the Science Patrol (Though maybe you already guessed that) since they're all wearing the shooting star badge.
Next, it seems they're going to be more active than the government, which is to be expected since this is the Science Special Search Party, which seems to be them going the route of investigators or something like that. Another thing interesting is that one shot of the guy in a car pointing a gun, which means there might be aliens in disguise or some Ultra Q shenanigans (Have yet to see it, though I do own it.)
And finally, there's a guy running through the forest whipping out, what I assume to be the Beta Capsule. Heck, there was a teaser image for the object in question when the trailer dropped. So the man in question could be Hayata.
Honestly, if Godzilla vs Kong ends up being a letdown, this might be the one to make up for it, though I'm excited for both.

I think so too. The label "Shin" doesn’t necessarily have to mean its all the same dark catastrophe movie, it's just a signature style retelling of what defined the original.

Godzilla was dark to begin with; Ultraman on the other hand, while also featuring dark themes, is more of an exploration story of humans defending Earth with the aid of a giant protector.

There will be some series spin or dark twist in there somewhere, but I don’t expect them to literally make Shin Godzilla II.

Agreed, I think this is far more likely to be a deconstruction of the themes in the original series, rather than a "dark" retelling. Digression: I really dislike things being interpreted as "dark." I always thought it was such a silly approach because it came across not necessarily as mature in an adult sense, but rather as childhood media viewed through a very adolescent lens. Deconstruction, I'm all there for there, however.

An analogy for those who perhaps are uncertain what I am trying to say: it is the disparity between Watchmen as a comic book series in 1986, and Watchmen as a multi-million dollar summer blockbuster in 2009.

Movie delayed because of COVID.

https://twitter.com/shin_ultraman/st...81358344486913

The trailer has been re-uploaded with the "Summer 2021" release date removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t6qYNNkVlE

May 13, 2022!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puH63Z62OO8

Dat Ultra Beam!

I really like what they did with the beam. It's so easy and tempting to make it look "epic" and use overblown effects, completely disregarding the original style, but they not only made it cinematic and with a "true" feel to it, but still kept the overall appearance very close to the original.

At that moment the thought that it's a CGI character vanished from my head, it's Ultraman. I'm very impressed and I look forward to the movie more than ever now. I hope that I will be able to see it in a theater somehow.

https://i.imgur.com/kTIkxqe.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/WJhNCJC.png

Here we go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMKu9qrozBA