Ultraman

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Television series
Original title Ultraman
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
year 1966
length 25 minutes
Episodes 39 in 1 season
genre Science fiction
idea Eiji Tsuburaya
production Eiji Tsuburaya ,
Hajim Tsuburaya ,
Kazuo Tsuburaya
music Kunio Miyauchi
First broadcast July 17, 1966 (Japan) on TBS
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Ultraman ( Jap. ウルトラマン , Urutoraman ) is a Japanese science fiction - television series from 1966.

Directed by Hajime Tsuburaya and Akio Jissoji, 39 episodes of the series were shot. By Eiji Tsuburaya created history is an offshoot of the television series Ultra Q . The first episode of Ultraman appeared on Japanese television on July 17, 1966.

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The Ultraman played by Susumu Kurobe is a hybrid of M78 who is on the hunt for the Kaijū Bemular (ベ ム ラ ー, Bemurā). During his search for Bemular, Ultraman collides with a plane over Japan and merges with the machine's dying pilot, Shin Hayata. On the one hand, Hayata survives the crash and, on the other hand, Ultraman is enabled to continue his search for Bemular without humans recognizing him as an alien.

Remakes

The series was re-implemented several times as a television series or film. In 1979, The Ultraman was the first anime adaptation on Japanese television. Other anime adaptations of the series are the 1983 short film Ultraman Kids , 1987 the Japanese-American film Ultraman: The Adventure Begins , 1990 Ultraman Graffiti , 1996 Ultraman Company and 1999 Ultraman: Love and Peace . In the 1990s there were new editions of the real film series with Ultraman and Ultraman Gaia .

Adaptations

The first implementation as a video game was for the SNES (1991) and Mega Drive (1993) under the Ultraman: Towards the Future . Ultraman - Hikari no Kuni no Shisha was released for WonderSwan Color in 2001 , followed by Ultraman Fighting Evolution 3 for Playstation 2 in 2004 .

Since 2011, a sequel has been appearing in Japan as a manga under the title Ultraman .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 1-933330-10-4 , pp. 688 f. (English)

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