[Baltan II]

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Originally Posted by Klonoahedgehog

I'd like to see Ultraman adapted.

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Originally Posted by Sentai

It was once. ... It didn't end well.

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Though for what we got...

Eh? It wasn't good per se, but it was that terrible 70's dubbing that we laugh at now especially since the Speed Racer team was behind it.

So it's at least fun to mock for its obvious crappiness at least.

This whole conversation about Ultraman is weird because it seems to run with more than one assumption as to what series is being discussed. We've gotten Ultraman series several times in the US. Gosei is talking about the original, while I think Sentai is discussing Tiga.

The original Ultraman received an English dub in the sixties (as were several unreleased episodes of Ultra Q by the same group). Ultraseven has been dubbed into English twice, once for the Hawaiian market and later for the more well-known 90s TNT Ultra 7 series. Ultraman: Towards the Future wasn't really an adaptation as it was a series specifically made for the Western market, but it's worth noting, as was Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero despite never actually airing in the US. The last Ultraman adaptation was Tiga, which first aired as a terrible 4Kids dub and then received a fully-subbed release on DVD.

Tsuburaya has never wanted Ultraman to receive the Power Rangers style of adaptation. They were okay with it for Gridman and Syber Squad was actually more successful than the original, but they have always wanted Ultraman characters to receive greater care than that, thus the creation of Great/Powered and the filming methods introduced in Ultra Galaxy that were supposed to aid in supplementing new actors around the existing footage (sadly, no one bit). The garbage Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters series was actually supposed to be an adaptation of the Ultraman-tied series Andro Melos, but Tsuburaya pulled out when they found what they were in for, and the zero-budget looking series is the result.