Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

You heard it here, folks!

http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2017 ... s-lawsuit/

The infamous agreement Chaiyo/UGM used to claim ownership of certain Ultra properties has been deemed "not authentic" in Los Angeles Federal Court!

Wow, I didn't even know there was a US case on going. I hope this case bodes well for Tsuburaya elsewhere too.

Hopefully this is the end of it. Sands isn't getting any younger and I'd hate to see this perpetuated for another generation.

I was trying to find it on the boards (either it wasnt on here or my search-fu is weak), but a couple of years ago when Sompote Sands was shopping the Hollywood deal, he also had a nice book that was up for preorder. Apparently the publisher pulled the plug after finding some of the photos had been digitally manipulated (eg bad photoshop to the point where the same source image of a younger Sands was in multiple photos) - There are two or three prints out there.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phenomenal news!

Does this mean we'll get good quality versions of the first few series?

Nope. Market is already saturated with low price Chaiyo products for the first three series, and Tsuburaya insists that Ultraman is for kids and needs a dub, which would be a lot more effort than Taro and Ace can probably justify. (My $0.02)

great, thanks for answering. I'd love to see Ultraman Jack and Ace.

If they got put on Crunchyroll that'd be really great. I'd like to re-watch the original episodes too in high quality if I could.

I don't care who releases it, just give me Ultra Seven on BD already with good, accurate, properly timed subs!

Now I can finally watch the masterpieces which make up this series. :^)

an American Ultraman movie would be great.

So any of the "connected" sources have any new information on Tsuburaya's plans for the American market now that this mess over the rights is finally over?

I'd have to think Shout Factory would be in the running to secure rights for an American blu-ray release of Ultraman(basically using the Japanese blu rays with the added original English language dub and updated English subtitles)

As I understand it, Ultraman was NOT featured in the upcoming "Ready Player One" movie because the rights were in dispute so the "Iron Giant" was the replacement Can anyone confirm this or was Spielberg able to someone get Ultraman into the movie(he and the Science Patrol are referenced HEAVILY in the book).

Basically-where are we at? Will 2018 be the proper "return" of Ultraman to the United States? Or are we going to have to settle for streaming episodes off websites locked behind paywalls?

While Shout! is a viable option, they'll most likely have Funimation release the series through Crunchyroll since Funimation is handling their properties.

Can't imagine why I forgot that... :/

I just really hope something actually comes out of that implication. I'd love to own HD, Tsuburaya-approved releases of some Ultraman series (with bonus features???), but I wonder if we're actually going to see anything at this point.