Figured it would be better to make it a thread instead, weekly edit of remaking ultraman blazar's eps title into FF style
Ultraman Blazar Episode 1 : First Wave (Bazanga)
Director : Kiyotaka Taguchi
Writer : Keigo Koyanagi
Kaiju designer : Kengo Kusunoki (
@erohoshi
)
For y all who dont know; instead of making the santa some evil bad guy or smth like that
Santa instead become john wick in this movie- to save a family
Yeah plot is basically santa was delivering present to a particular family, the family home was raided by elite merc & assassins
The child wished to be saved- santa goes john wick + doraemon
A reminder the only thing chinese government failed to ban was ultraman
They banned playing games, breathing, human rights & etc everyone dgaf, then they ban ultraman and the communist party is nearly toppled
Ultraman Tiga was banned in China streaming services for a while due to "violent plots" before being unbanned later on thanks to public backlash (2021)
Random series idea;
Kamen rider anniv series where instead of meeting/travelling to worlds of the riders we currently get
The world they visited are all the scrapped rider storyline / series & the riders designs are using the early concept designs
After performing ultra expo yesterday, Hayate Kajihara (Yasunobu actor in ultraman blazar)- goes to participate in ninja warrior mini & broke the record
Just heard some little kids arguing if orb is stronger than blazar at a mini market.
Kids in here are talking about ultraman again, and its warms my heart.
Since ultraman rising hype is on full swing; several reminder
1. You can like more than one thing, liking rising doesnt mean you need to ditch your other favs / pick a fight with other fandoms
After performing ultra expo yesterday, Hayate Kajihara (Yasunobu actor in ultraman blazar)- goes to participate in ninja warrior mini & broke the record
so yeah- ultraman beating disney in China actually gave tsupro the final push & confidence to go all out with their production & distribution
with this, tsupro planned to aggressively expands to other Asian countries , Europe & America
The best part of ultraman blazar having the capt / veteran as the MC is seeing the MC not easily swayed by the classic [human bad] speech
They could actually retorts back from years of their experience
Before anyone started the usual sub vs dub war
Reminder TSUPRO PROVIDES OPTION
You want subtitles ? You to the ultraman global channel, there they provide you with 11 language sub
You prefer dub ? Go to the ultraman official english channel
Its a win-win for everyone
The next time someone says that dubs are pointless or shouldn’t exist…be sure to throw this at them. Dubs increase the accessibility of foreign shows just like subtitles for different audience members. and the recent Ultraman dubs have been wonderful!
DESTINY IS A TV-ASAHI PRODUCTION?! ALL I AM GETTING FROM THIS IS THAT TV ASAHI CAN DO SIMULCASTS SINCE THIS SHOW IS ON NETFLIX! COME ON, TV-ASAHI! LET TOEI SIMULCAST KAMEN RIDER OUTSIDE OF JAPAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!
Yeah dont believe if you see / hear that the dude attacked ultraman because patriotic stuff
The live recording from the event has shown its just some drunk dude who challenged the ultras to fight cause his son said the ultraman are strong lol
@ZeltraxMilleniu
Not currently. I have ideas, but it’s all up to folks getting the word out and watching, so we can get Netflix to support another sequel
There should be a Sentai one day where the naming scheme is chaotic as hell
Like one is named after their color, another by their animal, another by a number, by vehicle, etc.
Like they might as well not be in the same team
FYI, there is a youtuber (チョコチップ宇宙人404) that is creating some of the most unhinged ultraman content around
U/whatdoilemonade on reddit is translating some of em
Hideaki Anno commented he got back to watching ultraman (Taguchi's series at least) thanks to ultraman Z
He said both him & Sakamoto did a really good job on ultraman Z
And he is hyped to binge watch ultraman blazar when its over on tsuburaya imagination
Ultraman Blazar has officialy gained more than 2 million views is less than 48 hour
For comparissom it took 2 days for ultraman Z to even reach 1 million
Some really specific & obscure trivia;
The spiderman that appear on the the rise of ultraman's cover is tsuburaya's spiderman
Yes- Tsuburaya had their own version of spiderman too, made as part of a collab with Marvel in the 1990s
Though its only appear on stageshows & events
Interesting how toei is kinda afraid that various elements that makes kamen rider/super sentai.... kamen rider/super sentai would not be accepted outside Japan
While Tsupro specifically told their staff to not change anything in ultraman because those are the selling points
Toei believe they need to do smth to overcame the cultural barrier
While Tsupro simply believe everyone knows ultraman comes from Japan & their the values of the series is already universal- so they dont need to do anything special (in terms of series production)
Tsujimoto said the reason we can have this smooth transition is because Tomo Hyakutake (Digelos designer)
CREATED A 3D MODEL OF DIGELOS, and the statue were directly printed from that 3d model
So yeah it is genuinely a smooth transition from CG to the statue
@DoubleZZeta_
An origin story is pretty vital in this case. We don't even know what Hayao is talking about when he talks about balance balance with what? Giant violent monsters and humans that want to defend themselves from said violent monsters.
Just exterminate the kaiju and save the day.
Thread about ultraman blazar's pre-production
SURPRISE; so Taguchi said from the moment he was appointed, the higher up actually "gave up" and said he could do whatever he wanted, they would not interfere
He took that as an order & did it without hesitation lol
BANDAI's president talked about how these days, people (& kids) are moving away from watching TV
He actually blamed super sentai declining sales & popularity to that fact
And that toei needs to find new ways to promote super sentai to younger generation
-TOY JOURNAL (jan 2024)
In the figure-oh 305 interview regarding the ultraman blazar brace, Taguchi is leading in designing it
He emphasized
1. DONT MAKE IT LOOK LIKE A TOY
2. SMALL AND THIN
3. NO NARRATOR OR LONG CATCHPHRASE
4. Made it looks alien
5. Made it different from ultraman toys we got so far
Taguchi said in ultraman geed (he directed the geed magnificent 2 parter), for the scene where Terada would play TEKKEN against Hamada
They planned to give the control to someone offscreen, but Terada chooses to train & genuinely played the game against him for that scene
There is no "too late" for joining the franchise
In fact THESE ARE THE PERFECT TIMES, recent ultraman series are all standalones & you genuinely dont need a single piece if knowledge of the series before
Plus since last year, we are also getting eng dubs too
I kept seeing people saying that they are joining late for Ultraman, no you're not I joined since 2020, I saw Ultraman expand their borders and I was there when Rising was first revealed, lemme tell ya there is more to come
This Ultra Party isn't stopping and you're all invited
Chinese netizens are saying this is the og tiga (pre-daigo) because he doesnt care about the whole commotion lol
They quote "Tiga will not interfere with human choices"
Ideas thats impossible to happen;
A toku series where the MC starts with a "broken" henshin device, and all the upgrades happens because the device is gradually being fixed / completed throught the series
And yeah the upgrades are going to be their new base forms
Somewhat inversion of this
Some news has reported the really racist boomers in China complains that ultraman popularity in China has slowly caused the younger generation to be less xenophobic toward Japan lol
PisfoolStuffs 빵떡나무 // CITY ANIME OH MY GOOOODDDDDD
I know a funny story about this; Fukuda used to be extremely anti-Chinese on his twitter account until he recently learned about the massive fandom he had in China and dropped most of his xenophobic behaviors
Ngl, i really love how instead of creating an origin movie & making the movie action focused
The people at ILM, Tsupro & Netflux just decided to create "this kind" of movie instead
Like ultraman : rising could have just resorted to the usual but no
He lost his family,
his friend (Ken's mom) and leader of KDF literally dissappear,
his other friend (prof Sato) also dissapear,
then he was forced to lead KDF in ultraman's absence & protect the ones that (accidentally) killed his family
No wonder Onda become like this
As confirmed by the AMA, when it was founded by Ken's mom, KDF is initially smth like EYES from ultraman cosmos
But after "that" happens, Onda took over & turns it to your traditional defense team- that is led by an overzealous man
Today's ultraman blazar episode confirms 2 major stuff
1. Everyone at Tsupro isnt exactly hot on doing recap episodes
2. Tsuburaya is still butthurt about ultraman nexus - seed destiny stuff, even if 19 years has passed lmao
Dark Blazar from ULTRA EXPO 2024
His color timer is replaced by a heart & all those red-blue tribal tattoo becomes real blood veins
His crystal scar position is inverted
And I guess this thing doesnt have eye & mouth, its just hollow there
Thinking about it, this is arguebly the goal of all ultraman series-
Every ultraman wishes that humans could one day stand on their own & beside the ultras themself
Tsujimoto said he disliked stereotypical character
Thats why he made Yuma a genuinely ordinary guy, unlike most other toku MC where they had a strong personality
& he also dont give any direction toward the cast member, he just let them all act naturally
As confirmed by the AMA, when it was founded by Ken's mom, KDF is initially smth like EYES from ultraman cosmos
But after "that" happens, Onda took over & turns it to your traditional defense team- that is led by an overzealous man
Anime ULTRAMAN Final Season starts May 11!
A world-renown artist, MIYAVI (
@MIYAVI_OFFICIAL
) will be performing the opening theme song!
To find out more and read comments from the opening and ending theme song artists, visit !
#ULTRAMAN
#MIYAVI