Ultraman TV and Movie Licensed to Mill Creek for North Ameri

[kiryugoji04]

Uhhhhhh, I can't pick. I guess Nexus, Max, Seven, Ace!, and, OH MAN, THE NEXT. The Next is SO GOOD.

But also stoked for the original series and Seven so I can have HD versions of Akio Jissoji's INCREDIBLE contributions to the genre, with properly-synced subtitles for episode 20 of Ultraman. Same deal for Ultraman Max, even though that won't be in HD but I'll be able to own a legitimate physical release of The Butterfly's Dream and The Untargeted Town and that is GREAT.

[Dr Kain]

[Benjamin Haines]

I'm most excited for Ultra Q. I've never seen it before and I really dig the prospect of Tsuburaya circa 1966 doing a Japanese take on the Twilight Zone and Outer Limits sci-fi anthology format. I'd also really like to check out the more modern reboots, Ultra Q: Dark Fantasy and Neo Ultra Q.

I'm also excited and anxious for Mill Creek to announce that they're releasing Ultraman Nexus. I watched that back when I was 16 or 17 when it was still recent and TokyoMonsters.com provided English subtitles for the episodes. It would be great to have that on BRD. I still have my subtitled region-2 DVD of Ultraman: The Next!

As for the rest of the shows, I really hope that Mill Creek brings them to a streaming service like Hulu, Netflix or Prime so I can dive deep into them before I commit to buying them. I don't have Crunchyroll and I'm not going to subscribe to another streaming service solely to check out Ultra shows. I feel like I could get hooked on the more standard Ultraman format like so many other kaiju fans, it just hasn't gripped me yet. Sometimes you just have to get to the right point in your life before something clicks with you. I didn't like MST3K very much as a teenager, not even the Godzilla episodes, until I got Shout!Factory's MST3K vs. Gamera set when I was 23. I still didn't quite get it after watching Gamera but by the time I finished Gamera vs. Zigra, I totally got it and that led me to watch more episodes. Maybe I can Stockholm myself into liking Ultraman in a similar fashion.

[lhb412]

^ you can watch Crunchyroll for free with ad breaks in case you want to sample the series on that service.

[Dai]

[Benjamin Haines]

[lhb412]

I believe Tsuburaya are just upconverting the shot-on-video series for their Blu-rays. I saw a little commercial for the Dyna set on YouTube which demonstrated via split screen the increase in quality even though the show wasn't made in HD.

I wonder if the animated TV movie, Great, and Powered are a part of this deal, or if they are held up by the overseas co-producers?

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I'm interested in finally being able to finish off Ultra Q in HD as well as the Showa stuff, maybe Towards the Future if that's part of the deal.

[kiryugoji04]

[klen7]

I've always heard people talk positively about Next, it's been many years since I have seen it, and parts of it I am thinking of, I am pretty sure were actually scenes from Taguchi's "G" so it's probably overdue for a revisit

[tbeasley]

With all the Jissoji love here it's good to know are getting the Blu-ray treatment.

[RichCo]

[RichCo]

[lhb412]

Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.


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Ultraseven, Orb, and Geed in November. 8 more sets planned through spring and summer of next year. We're going to get practically everything in like a year and a half?

Oh, and movies will be bundled with their respective series!

[Dr Kain]

Whoa whoa whoa, what the hell? Three series getting released in Nov? Holy "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!". I don't have time to watch and review them all in such a quick time span.

Hold up, does this mean Orb and Geed are not getting the Steelbook treatment? Because that will change my decision right now on the Steelbooks.

[lhb412]

^I wonder if maybe the steelbooks are only for the Showa era stuff, because of their vintage nature earning the classy treatment?

Either way, I was erring towards the standard editions anyway.

I wonder if The Next will be bundled with Nexus? What about the movies not explicitly tethered to a series? Well, they've already got a Ultra Fight release on the docket, so I guess they're not averse to putting spin-off material as single release onto itself.

[Dr Kain]

[lhb412]

^The "Ultra Fight" shows are like miniseries made of 5 minute (or so) episodes. I imagine it'll be a single disc release.

[XvGojira]

How my wallet is feeling.

[RobD]

Any word yet on if the Ultraman release will include the original English voice dub? I'm really hoping it does.

While I'm excited beyond belief for these releases, it'll leave a "empty spot" knowing an awesome English voice/dubbing track was left off for
whatever reason.

[XvGojira]

[kiryugoji04]

*incoherent shrieking*

[klen7]

I'm so stoked. This is excellent news

[O.Supreme]

Awesome. Just by way of comparison, it seems like when Bandai of America folded and gave its Gundam License directly to Sunrise, that home media releases started coming out like gangbusters, they had all the series (new and old) out in less than 3 years. Since Most (if not all), the Ultraman series will not be dubbed, only subbed, I can see a very similar scenario here. Also, if they are a *reasonable* $30 per set, (anticipating a higher price for longer series) I can do that once a month, staggering them out.

It's nice that any tie-in films will come with their respective series. The *fight* stuff I dont need, since that's mostly stock footage material. I might like to see the very first fight series (between Seven and RoU) only if for how odd it was.....even by Ultraman standards

[O.Supreme]