Monster Zero x SciFi Japan - Archive Only

In spanish, but this guy have everything you want to know about Ultraseven, along with some neat pictures:


EDIT: BTW i have the original series R2 DVDs, if you want some screen captures just let me know

Okay, just going by the title I guess this is where I'd post my thoughts on Ultraseven as I go through the show. So....RESURRECTION!

I've finished 1-10. Quality-wise Ultraseven blows Ultraman out of the water. I also love Dan's transformation device, the fact he IS an Ultra instead of a host, and I like these costumes.

My only complaint with the show is the great number of aliens. I'm more of a monster fan myself, so I like the mix the original Ultraman had going on. So...yeah..

Ultra Seven is very neat, I do like it more than Ultraman though Ultra Q reminds my favorite Ultra series. I did a compilation of the various openings of the show including the Hawaiian dub. Apparently, rumors stated that the Hawaiian dub is lost, which is not true. Tsuburaya Productions as well as private collectors own the original prints for that version of the show. I managed to get the Hawaiian dub opening from a collector which was sourced from a VHS:

Only two episodes of the Hawaiian dub still exist and can be purchased from some online retailers. Every other episode is lost.

So I just finished the second disc and the episodes have all been pretty enjoyable thus far. In fact, I'm not sure I have actually seen most of the ones on this disc. I could have sworn I owned the R2 DVD with the first half of these episodes on it, but maybe I am wrong and I only owned the first two volumes. Anyway, the King Joe two parter was down right exceptional and I loved the one in the fourth dimension. Oh, and the monster that was able to take on Seven's attacks was pretty badass.

On the other hand, oh my ****ing god these subtitles are atrocious! They translated Ultra Garrison into Utra Guard and the episode titles are different on the subtitles than how they are in the booklet the set came with. Plus, as I said, the translations are screwed up. There was one moment where Dan is talking to the commander and he says "Hai," meaning, "Yes," but the subtitles said, "As you command, captain." WHAT THE HELL??!! Are these dubtitled? Did Shout! even translate these episodes themselves or did the licensor just give them a subtitle track and told them to use it without question?

^ Shout has a history of wonky subs. Have they improved with the Sentai releases?

I watched episodes 18-23 of Ultra Seven today and those were some really damn good episodes.

The one that took place on an interdimensional island and one that felt like a horror movie plot were incredible episodes. The battleship episode was pretty badass too and Iron Rock was an interesting concept for a monster. I also liked the one with this cranky professor despite the monster of the episode clearly being made on their budget. My least favorite is probably this one about a human farm because they never actually finished the conflict on screen. It kind of just stopped and they never said what happened. The last episode I watched, which featured a fortune teller was quite enjoyable. Ultra Seven loves decapitation.

The subtitles are still bad, perhaps even worse with lines being repeated in the subs (clearly by mistake), lines that are just flat out mistranslated and have the wrong names in them, and now Ultra Guard is being called The Ultra Squad. I just don't get how or why they would change their name halfway through. This is work I'd expect from a Hong Kong bootleg, NOT an official company! No wonder people were worried about Shout! when they first announced Zyuranger. I hope they release this show on BD soon and fix their subtitles.

UltraSeven 24 and 25 - These episodes weren't bad, but frustrating. In 24 we have a scene where Furuhashi is stuck on a plane on a crash course with a passenger plane. He sets the plane's self detontation for 3600 seconds, which is supposed to detonate before it would crash with the other plane. However, he just barely misses the other plane at the end of the episode because Seven destroyed the controlling device and has 30 seconds left. WTF? If Seven didn't destroy that device he would have crashed into the other plane BEFORE his blew up. Not to mention they told Furuhashi would crash into the plane in 20 minutes and it sure as hell took Seven a lot longer than 20 minutes to defeat the badguys. The next episode made a little more sense, but not too much when these aliens are trying to bring about a third ice age to Earth. I loved watching the scenes in the snow, but I swear that the Ultra Garrison commander cranked up the stupid. "Abandoning this base is the same as abandoning the Earth. Therefore, we will not leave this base even if we die in the process." THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!?

I watched the first five episodes on Disc 5 and dear lord is the audio horrendous on four of them. They have an echo effect and then the first half of Episode 38's audio keeps dropping out. It's beginning to sound redundant I know, but did Shout! not even bother to quality check these discs?

The episodes themselves have all ranged from good to down right fantastic, so this series deserves better than the bare minimum effort.