Ultraman’s "Ultra Seven" to Release on DVD from Shout! Factory

For you old school Ultraman fans, does Shout! Factory have a treat for you.

Just announced by Shout! Factory, the 1967 Ultraman complete series titled Ultra Seven will release on DVD on December 11th, 2012. The series will be the Japanese dub with English subtitles and contain 48 episodes (not including the banned 12th episode). Included is a 24 page booklet on the making of Ultra Seven.

Are you excited? Could you care less? Tell us your thoughts!

totally buying to go with my ultraman dvd set that i've yet to watch

one day i'll get around to watching ultraman

edit:and its is pre-ordered on amazon

Why is the 12 episode banned? I know nothing about Ultraman. Cool that it's getting a US release though.

Awesome since I just sold off my Region 2 DVDs.

I'll get this sooner or later (well, probably later since by then, I will have 4 months of backlog to buy).

reading up on it apparantly it was banned because of the aliens being offensive to folks who lived through the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

AWESOME. Cannot wait to get my hands on this. GREAT series and easily the most popular and well loved of the Ultra Heroes.

Ooh this is very welcome news since I planned to watch this one day. Will have to pick it up at some point.

Hm...why not? I'll pick it up since I've always wanted to try an Ultraman series. It being put out by Shout Factory who are the bros of TV on DVD is icing on the cake.

I'm praying to a ridiculous sum of deities that this opens the gateway to more toku shows subbed officially(Kaku and Aba, pretty please?).