Honestly I feel you, I tried to binge Ultraman to very little success.

Got done with a good 10 episode binge before pausing a good while. While I managed to do a good two episode a day or ever other day for after I came back. I didn't quite get success until I was in the 20's or so. When I decided "Showa Ultraman makes a nice late night Watch" and the atmosphere of it being like 9 or 10 at night and watching the 66' series really helped me power through the rest of it.

Whenever I get to Ultraseven I'll probably do that again.

It is the issue I often have watching Showa stuff. Can be very rewarding, but difficult to sit through a lot of it.

I just love seeing more people discovering the original Showa stuff because that's what I grew up on thanks to early-morning airings of Ultraseven on TNT, as well as already being a fan of Tsuburaya thanks to the Godzilla series.

Akio Jissoji is an absolute legend in the Ultra franchise. His episodes are widely celebrated as some of the best episodes of tokusatsu ever filmed period. He directed some incredible episodes of Ultraseven as well, and he was so celebrated that they edited a compilation movie in the late '70s that only featured clips of his episodes of Ultraman. He has also directed the 1990 Ultra Q movie, and a handful of episodes of Tiga, Dyna, Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy, and Max before he passed away in 2006. His style is recognizable almost immediately, but he has been copied and paid tribute to multiple times in the franchise since.

And that's really what I love about Ultraman, and that can be seen as far back as the original series. It feels like an auteur-driven franchise, especially when compared to Toei's works. I mean, we've got Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno, Japanese Academy Award winners, directing an Ultraman film this year.

The what?!

https://ultra.fandom.com/wiki/Ultra_...d_of_the_Stars

It's something else.

Guess who’s back?!?!?!

https://www.nihonhero.com/post/shunj...HNFLMwXgN5kAGw

Oh, awesome!

Hey question for all you ultra-savy people, why are spark dolls and cyber cards so flipping expensive?

The ones with the Cyber Cards are from the Ultraman X line of figures, which I only own Gomess from that line, and he cost me $15, not including the Legend Rider History Wizard I got him with. I was only lucky to find him for that price when I did, though I should have waited for the Ultra Monster Series release, but what's done is done.

Anyway, to summarize: The figures from the Ultra Hero Series Orb or earlier, usually go for higher prices, since they were older releases and because they included cards for the transformation gimmick. I have a few that said on amazon they from the Spark Dolls line, but they're actually from the Ultra Hero Series main line, as they don't include the Ultra-live sticker for the Ginga Spark to read.

Aaah, that makes sense, but also that's rough for me who wants to get the orb cards, and X Devizer sounds. What can you do though.