[Kiwami]

I'm down for this. I like that is an investigation team this time around, which means more relaxed structures and more breathing room for the characters, the last four seasons were all military groups which is fine but the constant use got a bit boring.

Seems business as usual otherwise, but what I find interesting is that Arc can only use armors once his Color Timer flashes red? Huh. I mean it doesn’t change the flow too much because usually Ultra only bring out form changes once they get beaten up, but actually tying it to the Color Timer is new.

[Frontier]

That's interesting that the armors are only usable when the Color Timer starts blinking. It even covers up the timer so we can't see how much more time he has left.

Also glad we're still getting new Kaiju after Blazar but it looks like they sacrificed Telesdon and Black King in the process.

[Sunred]

Love seeing Kouichirou Nishi playing a commander character within the genre considering he's had his chipper red ranger role with Ryoga and then a villain in Kamen Rider W and the Sharivan movie where Riki Miura who played Geki Violet in Gekiranger was the new Sharivan. He finally hit the Tokusatsu Haul having appeared in Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes, and now Ultraman.

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Love seeing Kouichirou Nishi playing a commander character within the genre considering he's had his chipper red ranger role with Ryoga and then a villain in Kamen Rider W and the Sharivan movie where Riki Miura who played Geki Violet in Gekiranger was the new Sharivan. He finally hit the Tokusatsu Haul having appeared in Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Metal Heroes, and now Ultraman.

It also looks like he's playing another married captain considering the ring on his finger.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Frontier

It also looks like he's playing another married captain considering the ring on his finger.

Oh, I guess we could expect a potential dad or husband to the rescue episode at one point.

[SHINOBI03]

Ultraman Rising is streaming now
https://www.netflix.com/title/81007144

[Matrixbeast]

Just as Netflix finally cracked down on the password my friend shared with me
I'm sure it'll be uploaded elsewhere soon to watch, but I actually wanted to support it

[Kiwami]

Just finished watching Ultraman: Rising, I really liked it. Very well done movie. Super fun time, strong message carried from start to finish with great characters and beautiful animation.

More like this please.

[Daikaijuman54]

Ultraman: Rising...

It's not bad. I thought it was good. I have some nitpicks and a few criticisms, but I liked it overall.

A nice Birthday Present as well!

[GoldenXtreme]

I guess because I didn't like rewatching Kamen Rider Geats much I completely blitzed through Ultraman The Next and Ultraman Nexus.

The Next is interesting, it is definitely an Ultraman film, but is a little more serious than normal and takes some notes from Kamen Rider and full-blooded Kaiju movies. Lots of great spectacle, but it feels so radically different from its followup that I can barely accept them being in the same universe.

Nexus was a wild, wild ride. Once again it becomes immediately obvious that this show really wanted to copy the success of some of the darker, early 2000s Kamen Rider shows, but it did plenty to make itself stand out as it went along. It was really interesting how they kept the viewpoint character Komon and the characters who were Nexus separate up until almost the end. Previously I have often slightly disliked Hasegawa as a writer, but I thought he did quite well here. The first 2/3rd of the show with the Himeya arc was some truly special stuff, with the way it blurs the line between truth and fiction for both the characters and the viewer themself as they wonder what and whom can even be trusted. The way it gets your guard down by acting like it is going to play out a more simple story arc before sucker punching you with something much more insidious, such as how they give Komon's girlfriend Riko a bunch of death flags to distract you from her actual nature or give the Night Raiders shiny new powerups only for something terrible to unfold after they use it. It created a truly oppressive, fearful atmosphere, yet ultimately let hope bloom. Awesome stuff, I was completely addicted to watching one episode after another during this part. Unfortunately I didn't like the Ren stretch of the show nearly as much. It seems like Ai Ota was the writer who took charge of most of that stretch of the show and typically I like her, but I was just kind of meh on the Ren arc with it's predictable plot beats and lighter tone. The Himeya arc of the show tended to have very grounded character drama for the most part, but between the more soap-operay concepts (a kid who is dying from cellular breakdown! Mizorogi has amnesia!) and adding a bunch of extra characters instead of fleshing out the existing ones it just didn't really grab me. I don't think anything really happened during this part of the show that surprised me, except for the sheer frenzy of a final episode (and that didn't surprise me in a good way). Of course, the show was supposed to be longer initially too, which means many story elements had to be compressed into the Ren arc or flat out dropped, which just generally made it feel sloppier too. Would have loved to have seen a fully fleshed out Nagi storyline like was originally planned! Some issues plague both parts of the show. The budget for the series is blatantly rock bottom, which results in a low amount of effect sequences and fights. There was also a truly comical amount of flashback sequences in this show, likely to pad for time due to the aforementioned budget. So... I liked it, but it definitely had a lot of problems. I think if I suggested the show to someone I would actually just suggest watching the Himeya arc, because I felt more satisfied after that was over than when I finished the whole thing!