I got to see Shin Ultraman today, and it was great!

I do understand the "rushed" take, but honestly, I think it meshed out better than what I was expecting, and the Ultra Q and the title card were amazing to see.

Despite the concerns I had with how the CGI would look throughout the film, I think it turned out better than I thought, and I just adore how well this film captured the Showa Charm and filmmaking styles so well, and I continue to be amazed with Shiro Sagisu's score of faithfully rescoring the classic tracks to near perfection and the classic sound effects hit me with major nostalgia every time.

I really did enjoy this take on the original Ultraman, which I think was great! Definitely the best movie I've seen this year. And M87 is an absolutely beautiful song. I'm really glad I didn't get too spoiled with this one, and even more glad I didn't have to wait a whole year to see it. I'm definitely picking this one up when it's officially released.

Now to get around to that Dead Kaiju Movie.

It’s been many months but now I’m back to watching Ultraman Mebius and currently finishing up the Ultraman Hikari Saga side story on which I throughly enjoyed. I hope I would be able to finish my Mebius DVD series set before the end of this year and maybe finally watch my copy of the Superior 8 Ultra Brothers movie on Blu-Ray.

Any update on Shin Ultraman US releases? If not, I might just import the HK Blu-ray.

Are these just subtitle files? Meaning, I'll have to download the movie separately and pop this into the folder next to it?

No updates


Yeah just subs files if you want I can also link you to where you can find raws.

Dang. So I guess it's just a matter of deciding whether I want to wait for a potential theater release, watch a fansub now and go to a screening/buy the domestic blu when it finally happens, or just import a foreign Eng-subbed blu.

I think I can handle that myself, but I may get back to you later. Thanks!

Well... I used the site I use to watch Geats and DonBrothers, Dramacool, which had it, so I watched it.

Unfortunately, they don't have this week's releases of the two shows, unless it's on break and I'm just insane.

Same as Shin Ultraman, it's on my site, so I'll be watching it when I have time.

It's on break, yes. Some kind of sport event

Ah, gotcha. Thanks for clarifying!

Watching classic Ultraman, I find it kind of amusing how they just straight up abandon Hayata in the Alien Mefilas episode and it's really only by a miracle that he's able to transform into Ultraman.

Also the Skydon episode where we have the interplay with Hayata taking a VTOl out just to toss Muramatsu an umbrella (tax dollars at work) to Ide watching a guy commit suicide. And then Skydon shows up and it gets even crazier.