Mill Creek Entertainment has revealed the next entries in their ongoing project of Western Ultra Blu-Ray releases!
*First up is the 1972 classic Ultraman Ace! This is a fan-favorite entry and features several cameos from previous Ultra heroes.
*Next comes the 2007 series Ultraman X a modern Ultra take with a few surprises. Ultraman X’s feature film, titled Here He Comes! Our Ultraman! will be receiving a separate release.
These new Ultra entries are coming to Blu-Ray in April 2020!
Our friends at MillCreekEnt just announced more Ultraman series Blu-Rays will be coming stateside following the release of Ultra Q, Ultraman, and Ultra Seven in the coming months.
Joining alongside the aforementioned Ultra series we have Blu-Ray sets for Ultraman Geed and Ultraman Orb! Both will be released sometime November 2019 and will contain movies for both series.
In addition, more upcoming releases for 2020 were announced. That roadmap is as follows:
Spring 2020:
Summer 2020:
No further release info was given at the time of this writing, and it is unclear which of the aforementioned series will be receiving Steelbooks if any but we’ll be sure to update you as soon as more info becomes available.
Way back at the Tamashii Shanghai event, we got our first look at a possible release for Ultraman X’s Bemstar Armor. Though things have been quiet since, Tamashii just stealthily announced last night that a full Mons Armor set with 3 armors is on the way for X!
The S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X Mons Armor Option Parts Set will include the Bemstar, Eleking, and Zetton Armors! You’ll of course need the base Ultraman X S.H. Figuart to make use of these Armors. The set also includes X’s unique Xanadium Ray effect part, a color time to use with it, and a special display base to hold the effect. This huge set of upgrades retails for just 7150 yen, and will be released as a Tamashii Web Exclusive in January 2020.
As part of the merchandise push for the new Ultra Galaxy Fight New Generation Heroes series, Tamashii Nations has partnered with Tsuburaya Productions to release two new Ultraman S.H. Figuarts!
Joining the long tradition of the black repaint, two more evil ultra doppelgangers will debut in Ultra Galaxy Fight. Ultraman X Darkness & Ultraman Geed Darkness! These gorgeous red black and purple repaints of the heroic ultras were revealed in tandem with this new Youtube series this morning, though no official release details have been announced at this point. Tamashii has confirmed they will be commercialized so it’s only a matter of time before we find out the release pattern for these two. We’ll update this story when that information is released.
This morning Tsuburaya Productions has announced a brand new short form Youtube series for the Ultraman franchise. Ultra Galaxy Fight New Generation Heroes pits the New Gen Ultras from Ginga all the way through Geed against the League of Darkness! Their ranks comprised of more brand new additions to the iconic dark repaint category, the League also appears to be lead by a character originally created for the Pachinko game Ultraman Taro: Revenge of the Dark. None other than Ultra Dark Killer! Though he’s appeared off and on in stage shows, this marks the villains first TV series appearance. Menacing our heroes will also be two slick new evil repaints, Ultraman X Darkness and Ultraman Geed Darkness!
In a surprise move Tsuburaya has not only posted a standard Japanese trailer for the series to their Youtube, but an English trailer as well! In addition, an english statement from series director, the incredible Koichi Sakamoto, has been posted detailing the series. The series will release worldwide in both Japanese & English simultaneously each week. The series will begin September 29th an run for 13 episodes, each 5 minutes long. Check out the English trailer below!
Following up from two other reveals at the week long Tamashii Shanghai event, Ultraman Ginga & Ultraman Geed Magnificent, we now have a third! S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X Bemstar Armor!
The Bemstar Armor was officially revealed via the Tamashii Figuarts blog, giving us a selection of official photos to drool over. However shortly after, it was physically put on display at the Shanghai event giving us a fantastic look at this possibly (?) upcoming figure. As of now there are no release details for the Bemstar Armor, and in fact we aren’t sure if it’s going to be released as just a set of armor or if we’re looking at a re-release of Ultraman X with this armor included.
As more details emerge we’ll continue our reporting on this figure.
While Super Sentai fans celebrate VRV’s addition of Zyuranger to its services, we have some unfortunate news for fans of Ultraman; Crunchyroll has announced that several Ultraman shows will be leaving its library citing licensing issues as the main problem.
The four shows are as follows: Ultraman Leo, Ultraman 80, Ultraman Max, and Ultraman Mebius. Ultraman X will remain while nothing has been said about Orb or Geed getting taken down as of this writing.
Fans of these shows will have until October 14th, 2019 at 8 AM PST to finish watching before they get removed from Crunchyroll’s streaming service.
“X, united!”
Seen only yesterday for the first time, Tamashii Nations has today released a full set of official images for S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X!
X has been a long demanded figure by fans, and it looks like Tamashii is pulling out all the stops to please them. A strikingly good likeness to the show suit, Ultraman X goes the extra mile by including actual usable Cyber Gomora Armor! This marks to return of full form changing gimmicks to the S.H. FIguarts line after a long hiatus and is indeed welcome to see.
S.H. Figuarts Ultraman X will be a retail release in October 2018 and retails for 7560 yen.
Bandai teased that an S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X was finally coming our way. Not long after that teaser, we finally have our first look at this figure in the recent batch of magazine scans that are making the rounds online.
S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X is set to be released in October 2018 with a price tag of 7,560 yen. For those of you whom may be unfamiliar with the character: Ultraman X has the power to create weapons and armor based on monsters or past Ultramen, and it looks as though this gimmick will be well represented in the figure itself! S.H.Figuarts Ultraman X will include parts that will allow you to swap off into his Cyber Gomora armor form.
There doesn’t seem to be a P-Bandai banner on this page, so at the moment it appears that he will be a mass retail release. Only time will tell if Bandai plans on releasing the other armor forms in the future and in what capacity.
Some exciting news for Ultraman fans!
Two new Ultra films have been picked up by US distributor William Winckler Productions, Inc for a limited double-billed English-dubbed theatrical release!
*First up is Ultraman X: The Movie!
When realty TV host Carlos Kurozaki breaks into a mysterious underground pyramid for a television event, he removes a special gem. . . and unwittingly releases a diabolical monster called Zaigorg! The evil creature wants Kurozaki’s gem, so it spawns an army of giant kaijus to get it! It’s up to the famous superheroes Ultraman X, Ultraman Tiga, and the one and only original Ultraman to stop the worldwide monster war!
*And next in the lineup is Ultraman Ginga S: The Movie!
A sinister space warrior, Etelgar, forces a beautiful young alien princess, Alena, to use her magical mirror to trap every Ultraman hero in the Galaxy! In order to stop Etelgar and save the princess and their fellow Ultramen, two brave young men, Hikaru and Shou, must each transform into new Ultra-heroes, Ultraman Ginga and Ultraman Victory, and combine their super-powers! Thus begins an epic battle of the greatest Ultraman heroes teaming up to defeat Etelgar and his army of villainous space warriors!
The Ultraman double-feature hits screens on January 8, 2017! A full list of theaters carrying this special release (along with dubbed trailers) can be found at SciFi Japan!