Every SingleUltramanSeries Is Making Its Way to the U.S.

How much Ultraman do you need ? All of it ? Well , good news .

Scifi Japanreports that Mill Creek Entertainment has licensed a new deal with Tsuburaya Productions — the steward of thelegendary Ultra Tokusatsu seriessince it first began in 1966 — to commence distribute every single Ultra show and film , both physically and digitally , in the US .

Every . individual . Show . And . Film .

Time for some celebratory Specium Rays!

Time for some celebratory Specium Rays!Image: Tsuburaya Productions

That is , for the record , over 1,100 episode a across a phenomenal 30 series , and 20 films , from the show that started it all , Ultra Q , all the way up to the recent Ultraman R / barn — and perhaps even beyond it , to this year ’s approaching Ultraman Taiga . Whatever the extent of the deal , it ’s a huge one , and means that at least for some of these shows and plastic film , it ’ll be the first time they ’re formally usable at all outdoors of Japan , or in a mellow - definition data format .

As well as being available digitally , Mill Creek will begin turn the Ultra serial publication on Blu - beam of light and DVD start this October with the two appearance that kick it all off : Ultra Q , the original monster / paranormal investigation series that breed the franchise , and Ultraman , its heir serial that introduced the iconic , size - commute sub and exchange the Tokusatsu genre forever . Two versions — one in standard packaging and one in special edition steelbooks — of each series will be usable , cost $ 40 from each one ( $ 50 for the steelbooks ) . As well as every sequence of their serial publication , with HD remastered footage and DTS - HD Master Audio of the original Japanese soundtrack as well as English caption , each release will also come with a repurchase computer code for a digital version of the shows to be used through Mill Creek ’s cyclosis platform , MovieSpree .

It ’s a immense moment for Ultraman ’s mien in the West — off of the back of theNetflix animated serial publication , which just recently got support for a 2nd time of year , as well as Tusburaya ’s own recent plans toessentially reboot Ultramanfor a Western audience , getting gentle admission to new , high definition versions of the entire back catalogue of Ultra display is great . Between this and cry out Factory’songoing attemptto bring every Super Sentai series to the U.S. ( and not just the one thatgot turned intoPower Rangers show ) , this is fantabulous news for fans of Japanese people in Spandex screaming crazy attack names at each other .

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