Netflix Ultraman Anime first Trailer Released!
 

Yaaaaaaaaaassssssss

This looks good so far. I'm not a huge CG fan, but I don't hate it as most people do.

I've seen a lot of animes recently do this, and it's not a trend that I like but no denying that it looks good when done right and I think this manages to do it right.

I'm not a fan of the aesthetic. It loses a lot of what helped Ultraman stand out, kind of melding into the same generic techy stuff that plagues lots of anime.

That said, I'd be willing to give it a watch. I'm not a big Ultraman fan, but it's always piqued my interest.

Studios should stop trying to make CG anime if they can't at least achieve a halfway decent framerate. This looks so freaking laggy I couldn't even make it through the entire trailer.

Huh, this actually has decent looking 3D. That’s a friggin miracle, so alright, I’m game.

This looks like it's going to be fun. Can't wait to see it!

Looks good, but the framerate needs improvement.

If this is successful Tsuburaya might start a deal with Netflix or something and maybe future Ultraman live action shows will be on Netflix.

So did they get the original actor who played ultraman back to voice his character

I thought so too at first but the official site says Hideyuki Tanaka, aka the man behind the voice of Zoffy since Mebius. And Megumi Han, aka Kyuemon from Ninninger, aka Pega from Geed, will play Seiji/Ultraman Ace.

Looks more like a Metal Hero but still looks fun. The show comes out in April so they five months to fix any issues, I didn't notice the frame rate issue but I can bet its better than The Dragon Prince.

That shame as original actor is in way age of his character so it fits and this might be first time he want be playing his character

No kidding, it looks terrible. And the animation on the human characters just looks cheap and bad, especially mouth movements.

I don't understand where or why this trend of garbage CGI started. :/

While on the topic of CG anime, just realized a number of anime on NETFLIX are in this style. Just off the top of my head, not all but most of the recent Cyborg 009 anime, Appleseed, the GODZILLA trilogy by the writer of Kamen Rider Gaim, BLAME, and the Ajin anime comes to mind.

Positive things first: The animation essentially creates the feel of humans in suits. It might be accidental, but seeing Bemular especially made me think that it is a human actor inside a real suit which is great. I also like the sound design, reusing classic Ultraman sounds works surprisingly well. I have actually never imagined what these suits would sound like, this fits nicely.

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That’s about it sadly. The animation is overall garbage, as it is becoming a trend with anime recently. Gridman saved itself because the world and characters were drawn traditionally (and beautifully I might add) and sometimes even Gridman was 2D, the shift happened mostly in action scenes.

Here – everything looks like a rather dated videogame cutscene and it sucks. The suits work, but the rest is just not good. The characters and their facial expressions look awful, the world is boring and dull, and nothing is really pleasant to look at that. They did a terrible job adapting the great artwork from the manga. It’s not on the Berserk-level of awfulness but it’s not all too far above it either.

Also, the part that might essentially break this show for me: They are altering the story. It had to be expected, they will probably make this a self-contained story within 12-15 episodes, but I only now realized how much I dislike that. Why do I think they’re changing things? Shinjiro has a “Henshin”-sequence now, the Ultraman suit doesn’t work like that in the source material.

Granted, they later introduce the Ace-suit which can be summoned at will, but Ultraman (the protagonist) can’t. I really don’t like that they force a stock-footage Henshin-sequence in here just to make the suit easier. It also completely breaks the limitations of the suit not always being there. And if they are willing to change that, they will change more, and that’s what makes me feel uneasy about it.

So all in all: It looks crappy and the short video already made changes to the source material I don’t like. What a shame. One can only hope that Trigger gets the chance to make an actual Ultraman anime on their own because they did a fantastic job with Gridman so far.

This looks good, but the CG looks bad. America and Japan suck when it comes to making CG animated shows. The new shows of Garfield and Inspector Gadget that are CG are hardly better looking than the CG that Japan puts out. Transformers Prime and Clone Wars were lucky to be decent looking CG shows.

Looks cool. I like where they are taking this. Hopefully it’s better than that dreadfully boring Godzilla anime

To the cg haters there are good cg anime like Ajin and yes I will fight you if you try to disagree.

Yeah, not all of them are bad. Personally I don't mind the Cyborg 009 CG animes that came out these past few years in terms of execution.

Gundam, Blame, Ajin, and Knights of Sidonia are all done by Polygon Pictures, who have a deal with Netflix.

And who is doing Ultraman?