[Kurona]

By the way, this might escape a lot of people here in how significant it is because it's not terribly well known... but that advert is actually kind of huge. The guy in it holding and displaying SHF Tiga? That's Hiroshi Nagano -- aka the actor of Daigo Madoka, Tiga himself! And it's the first time he's been involved in anything to do with Tiga since its movie in 2000!

This isn't because he grew a dislike for it or had a grudge with Tsupro or anything - quite the opposite; he's spoken positively about his time on Tiga constantly in interviews since. But the acting agency he works with is notoriously strict about what its actors can and can't do and have had many infamous behaviour over the years; with only a very recent change in management toning that down a little. The tldr of what's relevant here is that Hiroshi Nagano is also a high-profile actor and musician, and that while he'd like to do so; him returning to Ultraman in any form is extremely unlikely and the sort of thing that would headline mainstream news. And sure enough, this advert for a niche collector's item has gotten an article in Oricon News. https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/218623...&ref_cd=tw_pic

Big deal is all I'm saying! Very, very big deal!