[GoldenXtreme]

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Originally Posted by GrandComplete

There here to fill in the time slot since Ultraman can't do 50 episode shows anymore. But if they don't put something there they'll lose it and it would be a pain to find somewhere else to air Ultraman in Japan when they already carved their little own place.

They use to be related to what the next show was going to be IE Zero The Chronicle aired in between Orb & Geed & Zero himself was a major character in Geed. Or TDG clipshows before Trigger & Decker came out. But ever since Blazar it seems like the franchise is becomibg less legacy oriented that no longer the case and it just generic clipshows based off the most recent stuff of the New Gen Ultra's.

I feel really silly now, I knew that modern Ultra shows were shorter but I had somehow convinced myself that meant they aired two a year as opposed to having a multi-month gap between them... even though I've been around long enough to see the announcement cycles for numerous new Ultra shows. Having these shows as padding makes a lot more sense.