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>Head LED is now magnet activated
>Chest LED is still shake activated
What a weird design choice.

>>23644493
>New Redman
Holy...hide your kaijus.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMrEDXuyFM4
How was Omega's 20th episode?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKtahCitw9E
Episode 21 preview.

>>23644308
Are there any images of current view/stream counts? I do remember one from 2021/22 where Tiga had more than twice the amount of views of the second-viewed show which was probably Z or Trigger.

>>23644884
Ok at first and got better as it went on.

I only follow Ultraman on and off, so I was wondering; was it ever uncovered/revealed how they/who screwed the pooch so badly with Trigger? You'd think a Tiga anniversary reimagining/remake would be a piss easy golden goose to not screw up and milk for everything it's worth.

>>23644947
Tiga benefitted from the 50+ ep format. Trigger had 25 eps with 3 being dedicated to recaps.

>>23644947
Naoki Hayashi was the main writer.

I don't know what's up with him. Came out of nowhere, and unlike most writers who first get a bunch of secondary writer positions first before being considered a veteran and getting main series writer credits he had -one- show where he was a secondary writer and afterwards started getting main writer credits in a bunch of anime (none of them good) then got Trigger's main writer position and a few guest episodes in Decker. Then hasn't touched Ultraman or toku at all again since then.

A Barossa wife...

>>23644947
Well they were never really attempting to be like Tiga to begin with is the things. Trigger is based far more on the Tiga movie than it is the show which is why it failed to live up to the show. Not because the movie was bad, mind you, but because the show didn't stick to one plot, it presented you with dozens of unique sci-fi mysteries, each as compelling as the last, and it's extremely hard to match the quality of an episodic show that manages to make practically every single episode good. Trigger didn't even try.

And I guess that makes some sort of sense, because we already got a followup to Tiga that was like Tiga. I'm talking about Dyna. But it nonetheless made Trigger feel inauthentic, not helped by its bland protagonist and his annoying catchphrase. Even on its own merits, though, the entire cast of Trigger is forgettable, and the plot is a messy time travel story that wasn't good enough to be worth spending extra brainpower figuring out how it all fits together

I don't think it's the worst Ultra show, but my expectations for it were rock bottom going into it anyway

>>23644951
All post-Z shows occupy 28 episode slots, 25 normal episodes and 3 recap specials.

I'm still waiting for the day they can actually use 30-ish of the slots they occupy for the mainline shows rather than just the chronicles series.

I still don't really get how Ultras and their hosts work. When the hosts transform, are they in control of the Ultra's body, or are they essentially summoning the Ultra using their own body as a medium or something?

Are the future guys who were literally trying to harness the power of time traveling kaiju going to come up more?
The characters seemed oddly... not curious about this.
But I guess if it's more of a teaser for the viewer, and the show will get to it in good time, that's not that weird.

>>23645406
It's totally case by case.

>>23645406
in most cases there's no meaningful difference between the Ultra and the host. However pretty much every case in which they are separate entities does imply the host exerts some influence over the Ultra while merged. The only exception is the original 1966 show, which implies that Ultraman was doing a full body possession of Hayata for the entire show and so even the human form was still Ultraman in control. But this has been retconned by pretty much all subsequent appearances of Hayata

>>23645491
That surprised me when I first watched the 1966 show since I always assumed hayata revealed his secret identity right before the fight against zetton when they didn’t do that until the finale of Ultraseven. Another obscure retcon was that it was heavily implied to have taken place in the “far off year of 1993” or something following the decades after Ultra Q

>>23645520
Jamila's tombstone outright states he died in 1993. So, yeah. It's not just implied to be a future year, it's outright stated.

>>23645534
Oh yeah I remember now

>>23644896
I know it showed up in Shin. But is this the first time Gabora has returned in an Ultra show?

>>23644306
>Ultraman Omega currently airing on ULTRAMAN official Channel, Dub to be released November 15.
>Selected library available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video
>ULTRAMAN and Mirrorman 2D currently releasing new chapters periodically on Comiplex and simulpub on Viz Media
>Ultraman: Along Came A Spider-Man currently serializing in CoroCoro magazine
>S.H.Figuarts News: SS Tiga Star of Ultra version, SS Ultraman re-release, Rekiness, Omega Rekiness Armour, Birdon, SS Tiga Sky Type, Z Original (Special Color Ver.), Ultraman Saga, Nexus Anphans, Hyper Zetton Imago, Kaiser Belial, Zearth
>FigZero 1/6 Ultraman Suit Zoffy Stealth Version and Ultraman Suit Jack to be released 2025 Q2 and Q4 respectively, threezeroX Masayuki Gotoh Ultraman Regulos to be released 2026 Q1.
>Ultraman Max Complete Blu-Ray Box to be released December 24, 2025.
>Ultraman Omega Blu-Ray Box I to be released on January 7, 2026 and Box II be released on March 25, 2026.
>Ultraman Mebius Complete Blu-ray Box to be released March 27, 2026.
>Ultraman 4K Discovery 4K UHD to be released by Mill Creek on November 18, 2025
>Ultraman Zero Movie Trilogy to be redubbed for Zero15th.
>Ultraman Live Stage Show at American Dream on November 15-16 and 22-23
>Darkness Heels anime, Hollyhock "School Girl X Ultraman" drama and Kaiju Decode: Ring of Aidara anime all currently in production
>Ultraman celebrates its 60th anniversary
>A new Ultraman Zero movie for the 60th anniversary currently in production
>The first Ultraman Card Game world tournament to be held in Tokyo in May 2026
>ULTRAMAN Volume 21 to be released by Viz Media on February 17, 2026

You think the Grown Men in Spandex sub group are kicking themselves now, after one of their team members said 'Ultraman's for Babies, we're to busy subbing Super Sentai'?

>>23645520
>>23645534
Was retconned in Return that it was 1966, and then cemented in the Taro series as taking place in 1966.
Don't know why, but it was.

>>23646895
People who make those kind of declarative statements are not known to admit fault. They are more likely to double down

Hows blazar rank far as series go?

>>23647110
It's fine. After ten years, it's a nice treat away from the usual toy standard but the main plotline could be better.

>>23647110
The Chinese love it.

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>>23644306
Thought OP was posting my autistic robot from the thumbnail.

>>23646644
When is the rest of the Omega dub hitting? My daughter is six and can’t read fast enough for subtitles and we are itching for a new series to watch but they definitely didn’t drop it all on November 15th.

>>23644954
The answer is that he worked with Sakamoto on a previous project and Sakamoto invited him to work on Trigger

>>23644947
I think Trigger just had even more heavy handed involvement by higher ups due to wanting to capitalize on the Tiga anniversary. Interviews discussed a lot of different ideas of how Trigger would homage Tiga, most notably one where the show would star three protagonist who each turned into an Ultra. The final show however implies most of these suggestions were turned down to make the show more Tiga-like

>>23646895
GUIS has been dead for years, who cares

>>23647527
I don't think the 3 protagonists idea would've worked under the 25 episode format, just look at how Taiga fumbled the 3 Ultras in 1 host idea.

>>23647110
I wished they kept the cinematic look of the first few episodes