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Monthly Ultra Connection (April 2024 Edition)
Some general overall thoughts I watched a lot of good Ultraman episodes this week. Holy crap, there is a lot of good material and episodes. I think it…
Ultraman Blazar: Questioning The Boundaries
This is the latest Ultraman series and it’s crazy how different it is from the time breaking love story in Ultraman Decker. In fact, Blazar also broke a…
Ultraman Z – Development and Fanservice
Z is a series that starts out mostly like most Ultraman series do with some interesting twists. There is an elite group called storage that fights kaiju with…
Suehiro Maruo’s Rubber Hell: Showa Horror & Tokusatsu
Suehiro Maruo crafted a world of erotic nightmare, but lingering in the corner are Godzilla and Ultraman. Let’s look at how tokusatsu has influenced the work of this…
Ultraman Orb – Something Unique
Oh man, where to start. Well, Ultraman Orb is a series that takes a more modern approach to the Ultraman formula by turning the usual pseudo team of…
Ultraman Ginga – A New Beginning
Ultraman Ginga is a simple yet complicated show to write about. Mainly because of its place in the world of Ultraman series. This is the first series in…
Monthly Ultra Connection (March 2024 Edition)
Introduction You may notice the lack of Ginga and Geed watching here. Yeah, it was a busy month. I didn’t have all the time in the world to…
Ultraman Ace – For The Kids
Writing this post is a big reminder of how far I’ve gotten into the showa era Ultraman series. Not counting UltraQ, Ace is the fourth Ultraman series. Before…
Time for Tokusatsu
Following the epicness that is Mecha March, It’s time for Tokusatsu. This is what I am choosing as my transition from Mecha March to general content. It’s going…
Box Art Extravaganza: March 2024 (Updated, Mar. 18)
UPDATE, Mar. 18: Added packaging art for upcoming kits of interest released days ahead of this post. We are back with another round of new packaging art, and…
Box Art Extravaganza: March 2024 (Updated, Mar. 11)
UPDATE, Mar. 11: Added packaging art for Bandai Spirits kits of interest released during the week of March 16th. As mentioned in the original post, there’s only one…
Finally Pulled the Trigger on Earth Garon: S.H.Figuarts Earth Garon Mod. 2/3/4 Option Parts Set
When Ultraman Blazar was first revealed earlier in 2023, one of the things that caught my attention was Earth Garon or the Type 23 Special Tactical Armored Kaiju…
Monthly Ultra Connection (February 2024 Edition)
Introduction This month, I added Ultraman Taro to my watchlist after finishing Ace. Ace was a bit of a mess, which you will see in my review soon.…
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: February 5 – February 11, 2024
There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…
Farming Life in Another World, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, MF GHOST, UNDER NINJA
The Birth of Kamen Rider
A look into the history of the creation of Japan's most iconic superhero (not Ultraman). My original Zimmerit article on the subject: https://www.zimmerit.moe/kamen-rider-behind-the-mask/ Zimmerit Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ZimmeritEX Translations by @WindiiGitlord Sources: The…
Monthly Ultra Connection (January 2024 Edition)
Introduction This month’s Ultra Connection is a bit of a different one. Blazar just ended and I also finished Z and Orb. That means I added Ginga and…
Monthly Ultra Connection (December 2023 Edition)
Introduction With Ultraman Blazar going on break and me ending two shows this month, it really is a wild time to watch all of these Ultraman series. I’ve…
Monthly Ultra Connection (November 2023 Edition)
Introduction Another round of Ultraman episode batches are here and there is some good stuff going on. I have gotten a bit more sporadic with Orb and Z…
Monthly Ultra Connection (October 2023 Edition)
Introduction I don’t have as many episodes for some shows this time because I took a break for one day to watch all of them due to some…
This Week in Games - Trust The Fungus. Touch The Fungus.
Nostalgia wave hits us this week with Gigabash x Ultraman collab, Super Mario Bros. Movie 30th anniversary, and Touch Detective coming back to the US!
This Week in Games - Trust The Fungus. Touch The Fungus.
Nostalgia wave hits us this week with Gigabash x Ultraman collab, Super Mario Bros. Movie 30th anniversary, and Touch Detective coming back to the US!
Monthly Ultra Connection (September 2023 Edition)
Introduction I don’t know what to really say in these segments anymore other then I had to changed by featured image because Return of Ultraman is no longer…
All Japan Model & Hobby Show 2023: Bandai Spirits New Hobby (Non-Gunpla) Items
All Japan Model & Hobby 2023 is right around the corner and around this time, the Bandai Spirits Hobby Division usually does a Hobby Next Phase Autumn online…
Episode 820: Chillin’ in My 30’s after Getting Fired from the Ultraman’s Army
This week on Anime Pulse we stairs vs escalators, fat weeks, and Engrish. Up first Joseph talks about how he felt like he was over indulging this past…
These Really Need Better CG Renders: COOLPLAYFUN 1/12 Ultraman Suit Jack & Zoffy Figures
A couple of months ago, I got wind that designer toy company COOLPLAYFUN obtained the license to produce 1/12 scale fully articulated die-cast figures from the anime ULTRAMAN.…
A Heroic Endeavor: Shin Ultraman
If you ever talk to fans of episodic, monster-of-the-week shows, a common refrain is that inevitably not all episodes are winners, but that there is also a flipside:…
No More Heroes 3: A Violent Look Into No More Heroes Part 2 (SPOILER ALERT!!!)
Well it certainly has been over a whole year since I’ve been on this… my bad. I am always bad with juggling things and this year has given…
Monthly Ultra Connection (August 2023 Edition)
Introduction So, here are some discussions regarding more episodes of Ultraman. This month changed a little bit from the last time with Return of Ultraman and then the…
shin Ultraman + shin Kamen Rider
Space Jesus and Bug Cycle
Monthly Ultra Connection (July 2023 Edition)
Introduction I have been thinking about how to include Ultraman shows onto this blog for a long time. Especially since I watch a small amount of episodes of…
Ultraman – The Final Season: Trusting Yourself
Since Watching The First Season….. I have only mentioned it on some blog posts since I watched the first season, but I have dived into so much more…
Visual Kei&Anime – Miyavi Part: II
Hello, hello and welcome back to Visual Kei&Anime, this time we’re revisiting one of my earliest entries for a brief addition, with it being all about Miyavi! For…
The Hero Of Dreams - A Complete Retrospective On The Hyper Agent Gridman
When it comes to the world of Tokusatsu, there are the 3 obvious kings. Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Ultraman. But one franchise that I feel has never…
The Newtypes Episode 29: Shin Kamen Rider and Shin Ultraman
Welcome to Episode 29 of The Newtypes podcast, where 3 toku dweebs nerd out about 2 film modernizations of classic 60s/70s Japanese franchises just in time for Shin…
The 1/12 “ULTRAMAN” Line We’ve Been Waiting For? COOLPLAYFUN 1/12 Anime “ULTRAMAN” Die-Cast Figures
The Netflix-exclusive ULTRAMAN anime has concluded its run with the final season released a couple of months ago. Despite this, neither Bandai Hobby, nor Tamashii Nations, has a…
Ultraman Blazar: Wild First Impressions
I bet this is going to be too early to do something like this, but I just have to. Episode one of Ultraman Blazar came out recently and…
The Toku Fans Who Create Media
This is certainly something I have been digging at for a while and while at my last con, Zenkaikon 2023. I had an idea of wanting to do…
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Cyborg 009, Cyborg 009, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Viewtiful Joe
Going Back to its Roots: “ULTRAMAN Final” (Season 3) Review
The following may contain spoilers for ULTRAMAN Final. Director / Kenji Kamiyama, Shinji AramakiOriginal Work / Eiichi Shimizu, Tomohiro ShimoguchiProduction / Tsuburaya Production, Production I.G.…
This is a Definite Cluster–: S.J.H.U. Project Shin Universe Robo
To those unfamiliar, the Shin Japan Heroes Universe, or S.J.H.U. is a franchise of unrelated works, which includes the Rebuild of Evangelion films, also known as Shin Evangelion…
Figure-rise Standard When? S.H.Figuarts Ultraman Suit Jack -the Animation-
Once April started, I immediately jumped into Netflix looking for the third and final season of ULTRAMAN, similar to how the first two seasons were released in April.…
Magical Destroyers #03 — Revving Up
Pink sure got on board with the chaos quickly. Impressions: This show continues to just be balls to the wall chaos, and I'm all here for it.…
I’ll Probably Get an S.H.Figuarts of This Guy: Earth Garon from “Ultraman Blazar”
Tsuburaya Productions has been doing an excellent job in “globalizing” their Ultraman brand with simulcasts of the newest shows internationally. And they are continuing the same, now wi…
(MP3) EXIT TRANCE – Tokusatsu Trance 1-3 Collection
DDL 3-CD collection of electronic dance covers of various classic tokusatsu songs (+ some songs from other live action shows). Quality: LAME MP3@320kbps. CD1 | Archive 01. Double…
Maser Patrol podcast episode 57: A Decade(-ish?) of New Generation Ultraman
In this episode, Kevin is joined by Alex, Connor, and Jared as the gang look back on the decade since Ultraman Ginga debuted, recapping all of the mainline…
Shin Ultraman is Based and Humanity Pilled
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“ULTRAMAN” Final Season Trailer Drop & New FigZero Reveals
2023 is speeding right before our eyes and we’re now into February, which means we are inching our way closer to the final season of the Netflix ULTRAMAN…
Shin Ultraman – All For Humanity
Movie Theaters and Some Important People I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by no one showing up to this Shin Ultraman screening. Especially since I saw the dub…
Japan Academy Film Prize Announces Nominees for 46th Edition
Kei Ishikawa’s A Man sweeps the board with 13 nominations, while Shin Ultraman and Ryuichi Hiroki’s Phases of the Moon pick up multiple nominations.
Shin Ultraman
Shin Ultraman presents us with intrigue and heavy questions about humanity's place in the world, the many threats of the future, and the many frightening things that lurk…