I made the mistake of going straight from watching Z to watching The Absolute Conspiracy.

...man, I'm already missing the visual distinctiveness of Rider Crossovers.

I did the same. I have squat knowledge when it comes to Ultra so when TAC rolls around and I went to watch it I was just...

"Ah, so that's Ribut. He's from... OH, that's Joneus from uh... Oh, it's Taiga, Titas, and Fuma, I think I know them. Grigio? She's from... Uh... Ah, finally someone recognizable! Zero!

I can recognize Zero, the R/B brothers and Victory.

The worst for me is trying to keep track of Ribut in battle. The only differences between him and one of his mentors is eye colors and chest markings, which blur in battle.

Ultra Galaxy Fight was always the strangest of choices to me to have dubbed, as they boil down to minimal story in favour of fanservice. Like it's basically a reward for people who are already big Ultraman fans, so I don't get why they'd make that an entry point of sorts through being the only thing aside from the anime to get a dub.

Well, nobody having a moving mouth might make it that much easier to dub? I'm not sure if I'm being serious about that suggestion or not?

There were also English dubs for... uh, let's see... Ultra Fight Victory for some reason, and then the Ginga S and X movies, I think? It seems like these things very much happen at random, when they happen at all. I'm curious about the reasons myself.

It seems this was around the time Tsuburaya started making the move to appeal to non-Japanese fans overseas come to think of it. X which succeeded Ultra Fight Victory was simulcasted on Crunchyroll, but trying to dub a fresh new show while it airs in your own country would probably be scheduling hell for sure unless you are Netflix where stuff is all prepped and ready prior to release. So they probably decided to go with what was recently done as a means of testing out the waters, in this case Ultra fight Victory.

Well, whaddya know. Turns out that Ultraman Z manga is a prequel not too far from episode 1 of Ultraman Z. Taguchi is writing the story and art is by someone named Tetsuya Kawaishi. And it will be serialized starting with the April issue of Terebi-kun.

https://m-78.jp/news/post-5795

correction: Dang typo made me say sequel, it's a prequel. :lolol

So we're getting the Sevenger Manga that we deserve? Good.

isn't it a prequel?

Why is Ultraman Cosoms 65 episodes long?