Necessity may be the mother of invention, but in the best cases, ingenuity can be born too. It was a kids’ sci-fi serial, sure, so each episode moved with a predictable logic, but with all its constraints - the episodic form, target audience, time, money, materials - there was a (literally) hands-on dedication that came out of turning the old into the new.
As far as I know, kids in Japan are still into it every year there’s yet another Avengers-style Ultraman movie.īut the first Ultraman didn’t fly with that sort of sprawling financial safety net.
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The budgetary and time constraints for the first Ultraman series seem laughable now in the face of what it grew into: a global media franchise including games, movies, manga, and merchandise that hauls in billions annually for Tsuburaya Productions (Marvel even released a five-issue Ultraman comic book series last year). At other times, the production team would modify costumes from previous episodes, paint them over to give the monsters a fresh name and backstory. They hailed not only from far-off planets, but also, occasionally, from the costume departments of bigger tokusatsu productions which were booming from the ’50s onwards one episode features a clearly reused Godzilla costume with a frill added around the neck.
In what looks like the inside of a crystal ball, a giant alien from Nebula M78 looks down on Shin through the fog and offers his life in order to revive him, effectively merging them into one being - Shin returns with a “beta capsule” which allows him to transform into Ultraman upon command to face whatever space monster arrives on Earth.Īnd arrive those monsters did, through the 39 episodes of the 1966 Ultraman series.
A red comet falls from the sky and crashes into a Science Patrol jet, killing the pilot, Shin Hayata.
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