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twisted-wonderland-shenanigans · 10 months

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Twisted Wonderland Kaiju!AU Worldbuilding

I've been thinking for a while, and I realized that I needed to consolidate/create an essential "worldbuilding sheet" that lists ideas for the AU that I didn't think I'd be able to properly fit into the story. I didn't think I'd be able to get MIRA to explain either since there are aspects of this AU that the researchers and Yuu wouldn't be able to find out about that easily.

Plus, this is also a good way for me to introduce some of the ideas I've discussed with some friends on a Discord server!

To make it easier to note which points are just my comments/thoughts, I've put them in bold and itallics. Other stuff that's meant to be read like a description/summary will be in normal text. I'll likely be updating this post as more ideas come to mind so I can keep track of everything, but I will be announcing whenever there's an update!

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Author Note: Put into perspective, the Kaiju living in the same world as humans is akin to the movie “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” or “Journey to the Center of the Earth”. In this AU, there is a whole second world deep beneath the ocean to the point that the cavern has created its own unique weather system and developed an ecosystem that seems almost prehistoric. This is supposed to tie into the game and how Yuu is in a whole new world of magical beings, except they’re giant Kaiju!

The initial discovery of the world beneath the sea was by pure chance when it became clear that ships and airplanes had begun vanishing. By pinpointing the last known locations of the ships, they were able to discover a massive cave opening big enough to fit a large ship. Inside is a cave system of tunnels and water slides that travel deep into the earth before spitting out the lucky few who managed to survive the trip to the new ocean. Depending on the location of the opening they emerge from, the vessel may either arrive in a safe location or near the territory of massive aquatic predators. Not far from these openings, however, is the very island the story takes place.

Despite how destructive Kaiju can be, there are some who have cleared up the debris from these ships and planes. In fact, those particular Kaiju are the reason that the beach Yuu awoke near the "ship graveyard" as the beach will be nicknamed.

There are two entrances into this mysterious underground ecosystem: the cave system, and a massive whirlpool. Given its dangerous nature, ships often steer clear of it when it does form and was merely noted by the researchers as being there in favor of studying the island. The ones who discovered this secret entrance was a ship carrying poachers seeking to take advantage of the newly discovered creatures and resources on the island, only to find themselves caught in the whirlpool before arriving on the other side. Not ideal, but highly effective for sneaking past the security around the cave.

If the researchers learned of the existence of the whirlpool entrance, it would be theorized that the whirlpool formed long ago to draw water into the cavernous void beneath the crust. This would explain why it became a virtual time capsule of an ecosystem of mega fauna. Another theory is that the whirlpools form from the unstable energy created by the island itself. (A/N: It’s actually created by blot crystals lying at the bottom of the sea growing from the bones of a deceased Phantom Kaiju that had tried to escape the island to wreak havoc on the surface world but never made it out of the opening it had created. It’s quite possible that—even though the Phantom Kaiju isn’t moving—it is very much still “alive”.)

The magnetic disruption caused by the blot crystals over the whirlpool and near the cave are what essentially pulled in various aerial and sea-based vessels, which is why Yuu/Reader/MC finds the planes on the beach. One plane happened to get impaled on one of the blot crystals before it emerged on the other side, though how exactly it got on the beach is a mystery…

Blot comes in two forms: crystalline, and ooze. The crystal form—though relatively “safe”—generates a miasma fog that deters most creatures from approaching it, though it can still cause one to fall ill when exposed to the mist. Even the smallest fragment emits the miasma, making handling it difficult and dangerous. In ooze form, however, it can be unassuming and easily mistaken for tar pits at first glance. While not as numerous as the crystal form, it is by far the most dangerous. Any creature that falls into or consumes the ooze will become infected, their body slowly creating blot crystals all over their body. Once the crystals have completely overgrown on the body, the blot “controls” its new host to seek out its goal—though what it is or what it wants is unknown.

Kaiju have some form of immunity to the blot itself as it comes from the same source as their natural magic, though this does not mean they’re entirely protected. Depending on the amount of blot buildup, a Kaiju may grow sick or—in extreme cases—will be consumed by the blot and become little more than mindless husks over time. Should the latter situation happen and the infected Kaiju isn’t freed from its Overblot state, the Primal Guardians (aka the staff) have to put it down before it can escape the island and head for the surface world. (A/N: If you’ve seen Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal” and the episode “Plague of Madness”, that’s the general vibe of chaos and terror I’d imagine Kaiju Overblots have—minus the whole “body falling apart” deal!)

On the island itself (known as the “Night Raven Continent” due to the massive raven like formation at the top of one the mountains), crystals grow everywhere and form in greater concentrations around pools of energy located in key areas in each territory. The crystals contain strong magical energies that the Kaiju can feast on like rock candy when they require a boost, but the effects of this can be the equivalent of a “sugar crash” in terms of energy exhaustion. The pools of energy are safe for consumption, though transport of samples for research has been unsuccessful by researchers as the potency fades to little more than pure mountain water.

A/N: I wanted to find a way to include the starshards and sunshards in the game mechanics as a way for Kaiju to recharge in this AU, since the shards give you more “energy” to do exams or fight in the crafter’s gauntlet. Having there be pools of purple-blue “stardust” energy or “sunlight” energy seemed like an interesting thing to include, and I like the idea of magic glowy water! c:

A/N: The Great Seven exist in this AU, though their depictions come in the form of ancient statues scattered across the island and the very few painted murals left behind by the humans who dwelled on the island. As Kaiju, they are MUCH bigger than the current generations to the point one could literally call them “world-shapers”. The current Kaiju believe that the “Primordial Seven” were responsible for creating the underground world and all the islands within. This massive cave system goes all around the world and each have their own Kaiju and creatures (aka the Sunset Savanna, Scalding Sands, Briar Valley, etc).

Over time, researchers have begun to notice a pattern of behavior that the Kaiju will display on the continent. Every five years, most of the Kaiju will migrate to other islands far away. Given the distance and how treacherous the waters are, it’s been difficult for exploration teams to travel far enough to see these other islands. However, this migration seems to cycle through different seasons as Kaiju from other islands will visit as well. It’s unknown if this is a stop for them to rest before continuing on their way to their destination. Researchers began to call this the “Great Kaiju Migration”. In some cases, Kaiju visiting the island may exhibit nesting behavior and will have their litter/clutch. They only move on before or after their babies are able to walk and will carry them on their back. Those who have strong magic potential will be left in the care of the Primal Guardians.

Kaiju who have the potential to be strong or have a unique energy will either migrate to the island or are brought over by their parent(s) to grow and learn under the guidance of the Primal Guardians. Trein/Elderclaw is the oldest known caretaker who watched over young Kaiju, though now the mantle has been passed on to Crowley/Nevermore and Crewel/Crewelfang.

A/N: While most of the Kaiju raised on the island would be the mob students from the game, some of the main cast were also raised on the island by the staff due to being abandoned by their parent(s), given up for a better opportunity to grow, or were orphaned after losing their family to an attacking Kaiju/Phantom Kaiju. Silver, Deuce, Epel, and Ruggie are current known examples of Kaiju who were orphaned for some reason or given up by their family so they can grow and develop in an environment that can train them right. There may be others, I just haven't figured out who aside from those currently listed!

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klenda-v · 1 year

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Thinking about the King’s Jubilee special of 2003,

which featured Every Ultra they had a suit for at the time, an absurd amount of rap music, an Ultraman hip-hop dance troup, and Zearth’s hip-hop son, B-Boy Zearth Junior. He looks like this.

Literally I have difficulty watching this because this might be the single piece of ultra content that delivers the most psychic damage to me. It’s just. It’s absurd, it’s a musical, it revels in its shamelessness—or at least I think it does?

Link and more specifics below:

Just gathering screenshots I feel my soul deteriorating. For the curious and foolhardy, here’s a link to the video. No, there are no subtitles; no, you won’t need them. CONTENT WARNING: flashing lights and images, absurdity.

I will go briefly through each song, to give you an idea:

Song 0, 2:27 - Meet the performers

A dance/rap(?) group made of kaiju, aliens, and maybe bedazzled ultras? Or maybe they’re just dressed up as Ultras, the eyes are dark and they’re slightly Off? Maybe the announcer actually says, I think the general consensus is that they’re not true Ultras, but some other kind of alien cosplaying as ultras to…honor them? Or at least play as them for the purposes of the “narrative” they’re about to play out.

It’s also an incredibly large cast of performers. We’re just starting, we’re barely three minutes in.

UPDATE: My friend Emcee was kind enough to share the names of all the performers, which I will now relate to you:

"Ultra" dancers, referred to as Ultra Funk Jam:

Dyna Rocksteady, Gaia Electric, Zearth Funkygroove, B-Boy Zearth Jr., Cosmos Air, 80 Super Cool, Agul Boogiedown, Tiga Spinning, Ace Galaxy Step, Seven Shuffle, Justice Pointer

"Kaiju" Dancers (IDK their group's name):

Baltan Big Twister, Pit Flash, Izaak Wildstyle, Magma Freeze X, Dada Sexy (YES REALLY), Lady Benzene Hypnotic, Godola Popping, Bomberhead Gan-Q, Deban Floorcrown, Chaos Headder Grandmaster, B-G-RL Lady Benzene Daughter, Z Capsule Kouju Miraclon

Song 1, 3:15 - four-man hip-hop dance

There are no words I can possibly use to match the actual experience of watching this. I think it’s the fact that I can’t tell if this is satire, or if they’re playing it completely straight. They never tell us. Or maybe they do, I don’t speak Ultra.

Imagine if you will, any late 90s rap. Then imagine the music video for it. But filmed as if it’s a live stage performance, but also everyone is a trained gymnast and we get synchronized flips with Zearth Funkeygroove, Justice Pointer, Gaia Electric, and Tiga Spinning.

Song 2, 4:14, Kaiju Team’s turn

Now that I’m watching this, I think it’s framed as a dance competition? Where the kaiju and “ultra” teams alternate songs, like a rap battle with performances?

Anyway this song starts with an audio sample from, of all things, the sound Ultraman’s timer makes when he’s in mortal peril. This audio blinks sporadically throughout the song, hitting that sweet spot right between “huh I guess it’s just playing at the beginning, huh” and “actually using it as a sample/carrying any meaning.” Maybe the weird timing of the audio has significance with the JP lyrics, but I doubt it. The timer blinking tempo doesn’t quite sync up with the tempo of the actual music.

While the NotUltra’s solo performance had heavy use of flips, the kaiju team impliments a lot of floor work. Lotta breakdancing, if the camera cuts slowed down enough for me to catch most of the moves. Honestly the dancing throughout is very solid overall, with, again, the big caveat being the bewildering editing choices.

Also I think the ultras in the audience are moshing? Maybe I don’t know what moshing is. Watching this, I don’t think I know what anything is anymore.

Song 3, 5:21 - Kaiju Team, or the “Sexy Dance Time, Check It Out” one.

I…wish I were making this up. This one stars Dada Sexy (his [their?] actual name), alongside a feminine-coded alien I only later learned was Lady Benzene Hypnotic. At this point I wonder whether this is better watched high, or if this is already making me high.

The groove to this one starts notably different, but like…if the Cha Cha Slide tried to be steamy. And no I didn’t grab a screenshot mid-frame-shift, this part is literally shot like this. It goes on for several seconds. They wanted it to look like this.

Oh and the Not-Ultras are here too. Seven Shuffle is one of them. Do with that what you will.

The dancing itself is definitively less hip-hop and more…interpretative dance? I absolutely believe that this is an alien party, because nothing about this presents as remotely normal or human.

Partway through, a green screen cape (Kings?) flies through the screen. I can’t bring myself to care. Every Ultra in the audience is Very into it.

Then about halfway through they switch it back to…hip-hop? I think? It still has multiple Interpretive Dance elements to it. The Not-Ultras bedazzled suits have neon lights on them, btw, I think you should know that.

And yes, by the end, they have the (male) narrator's voice chanting variations of “oh, sexy” in a way that makes me feel. vEry uncomfortable and I wish I could turn back time. I can only hope that the writers truly, legitimately didn’t know what that word actually meant in English, or what it implied if you sing it with the breathy energy they put into this number.

Benzene Hypnotic lets out an alien scream/trill at the end of the song, and we cut to the Ultra audience applauding at what a fun song that was. I want to go home.

7:43 - The Kids Come And Do a lil dance!

This next song is the intermission, a little ditty sung by and danced to by children. One of whom is B-Boy Zearth Jr. Zearth has a child. I barely notice; I’m still reeling from Sexy Dance.

This song, inexplicably, also has the “Dying Ultra’s color timer” sound. It actually appears more here than in the “villain” song. The song itself is…I think cute and charming? It’s hard to tell, my eyes are still glazed over. The kids do a pirouette or a cartwheel or something. The song ends, the announcer praises how super kawaii the performance was, I get a drink.

9:03 - Actual Dance Battle

This one has Justice Pointer, Agul Boogiedown, and I think Dyna Rocksteady (Might be Gaia Electric; his head is weird so I can’t tell), in a dance battle against three Kaiju Team members. This one’s probably my favorite, it sums up the weirdest parts of this while also having some legit solid dance moves. That and since it’s turn-based, we get lots of cool freeze-poses. Plus Agul Boogiedown throws up some gangsta peace signs, which is deeply funny after watching how edgy he is in his show.

The rap song itself appears to also be framed as a rap-battle? I think? My JP is limited but each team’s bar of music seems to be lightheartedly dissing the other/pumping themselves up. Everyone ends the battle by doing the splits on the floor, which is what my head’s gonna do in a minute.

10:42 - A Ballet Number

What’s that? You wanted this to make less sense? No? Well that’s okay, this is basically a ballet number (??????), with violin and slow swaying from the crowd. Zearth Funky Groove is dancing ballet with Lady Benzene Hypnotic. It’s actually…you know what, this is kinda nice. It’s a nice break from—NOPE ITS HIP-HOP AGAIN, LADS

But like a…flamenco (I think?) influenced hip-hop. This song is actually really interesting in terms of merging VERY different influences. Definitely a musical style inspired by the carribian or one of the Romance languages, but asking me to search my mind for factual information while watching this is like asking a boxer to do trigonometry mid-match.

The announcer tells the crowd to grab your sweetheart and dance with them. Tiga bows before Camearra and offers to dance (she graciously accepts). A Daadaa propositions Seven to dance, which seems to catch him off-guard in a bad way. Ultra Father offers his wife his hand, though they don’t properly dance, they just hold hands and sway to the music. Incidentally, Yullian and 80 are present and clearly went together, but they don’t couple up for this dance (that we see).

This doesn’t fit anywhere, but Zoffy is REALLY into the music. Like I’ve never seen him this enthusiastic for anything before. It's really sweet honestly. He’s dancing alone but is clearly more than happy that way.

12:22 - Final Dance

I have trouble articulating exactly what happens in this segment. Clearly it’s framed as a final battle, but those interpretive dance bits are still mixed with the hip-hop. As before, the dancing itself is quite good, if you like incredibly 90’s hip-hop dancing and breakdancing. It’s definitely the most floorwork-heavy of any of the songs.

The camera-work, while strange but functional before, takes a turn even further into the surreal. Some of the camera cuts are so rapid you’d think it was a stage-3 marvel movie; in places it gets to about 5 cuts per second. It will also cut not only between angles on the same person mid-action, but to random other shots, like the crowd of ultras, or a different dancer, or someone unrelated doing half a flip before cutting back again.

I think this must be the point in production where someone discovered you could rotate a camera, because suddenly multiple flips or dance moves are filmed with the camera spinning—presumably to follow the movement, but not quite synchronized and there’s no way we’re doing another take.

At the climax of the song, I can only assume Ultra Father saw some risk to the child-dancers; the music gets tense, and the kaiju-dancers close in around the kids, who cower back-to-back. Ultra Father exchanges an urgent glance with his wife, and together they SHOOT A PULSE OF ENERGY AT THE PERFORMERS ON STAGE.

Which puts everyone on an acid trip. Or I think it does? The colors turn negative/green/weird, and then all the adult-coded performers drop to their knees in a clearly rehearsed part of the dance.

I’m losing my mind. What was this? Was this choreographed or not? Was Ken supposed to do that? I can only think he must have, but then why did his body language radiate legitimate fear for the children’s safety? Why have the Ultra Parents do that part, isn’t this King’s party?? What am I going to do with the avocado I bought two days ago and is gonna go bad??

Not labeling this as a separate song, because the last one never truly ended. But this is clearly the epilogue of the “fight”; the ultras do elaborate secret handshakes with the aliens and monsters, indicating everything’s A-OK now. I will never be A-OK again. The announcer is chanting “happy," though I think he’s repeating the last syllable a bit too much. I don't think they thought through what yelling "HAPPY-PEE" would actually mean in English.

The experience ends with King’s greenscreen cape floating down and King materializes onstage between the two child performers. He then levatates back up, which is the most normal thing to happen this whole time. He says something in English that sounds like maybe “Happy Mercy?” Messy? Blessing?

After the third listen, I realized he’s saying Happy Birthday. It’s his birthday. He’s saying it to himself. The crowd wildly applauds his self-congratulation and repeats the English phrase, and King makes his bows. My splintered psyche notices that the foley-work on his cape movement is very nice.

The end closes out with what I at first think is a hip-hop version of Dyna’s opening theme. I am wrong. They start a weirdly paced hip-hop beat with Cosmos’s “Something You Can Do” vocals. They loop the opening line twice, then go back to rap.

The announcer delightedly cries in English “See you NEXT YEAR!”

I take this as a threat.

#the late ‘90s to early ‘00s were a WILD time for Ultraman #especially the promotional material and ads #they’re insane #look them up #ultraman #obscure ultra lore #Ultraman king #Ultraman king’s jubilee #2003 ultraman densetu #Zearth has a son #who appears here and nowhere else #psychic damage

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kamenstranger · 10 months

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So, over the next few days I plan on archiving some older reviews to have them available here. These are going to be selections of my favorite reviews and by extension, some of my favorite pieces of art and media. First up is my favorite Showa Ultra: Ultraseven. The review was originally written Dec. 27th 2019 and is presented as is, with some exceptions to the images used due to limitations and such. I'll also be cutting the presentation section that went over the case, discs, and episode guide because I don't really think it matters much.

Well now, this was a surprise even to me. I didn't expect to be reviewing Ultraseven this soon, but I received a Christmas present from my lovely friend, Rosy. This is one I've been looking forward to a lot- as Seven is a fantastic series with a notable reputation for being among the best. However there's never been a particularly good release of the show outside Japan, with the Shout Bluray A:Not being a proper transfer due to those shady as fuck dealings with Chiyao. and B: Having questionable subtitles.

But now, just like with Ultraman, we can finally have a proper release with approval from Tsuburaya. One interesting thing to note about the series before going in is that this did not start off as another Ultra show, that happened very late and lead to some interesting tidbits that you'll notice throughout the review. It's also worth noting that even after becoming an Ultra series it was not treated as a sequel to the original. There's no mention of Ultraman, the SSSP, past monster etc. The closest connection is that there are references to the M78 Nebula. Otherwise this was originally a stand alone series.

Our primary protagonist this go 'round is Dan Moroboshi. Right from the start Dan is very different than Hayata. Rather than already being a member of the primary defense force of the show, he presents himself as a wander and ends up joining after providing useful information and assisting with an alien threat. Dan also isn't a host to Seven the way Hayata was to Ultraman, he's just Ultraseven in disguise. This also means that any injuries Seven suffers also gets reflected upon Dan.

Unlike his predecessor, Dan has access to and makes liberal use of powers in his human guise. X-ray vision, the ability to see things that are invisible, keen hearing etc. He's also very observant of his surroundings, similar to an amateur detective in some respects- noticing when a things are out of place. We hear his inner monologues as he pieces things together in his head or struggles in various scenarios. His alien knowledge proving most useful.

Over the course of the show more is revealed about Seven and his past. About midway through the series it's shown that when he first came to earth he rescued a rock climber after he cut his own rope to save his partner. Admiring the act, Seven modeled his appearance upon him. We later learn Seven was part of a wider force in the M78 nebula, but he isn't a fighter. This is even reflected in his fighting style which is looser than Ultraman's Greco-Roman wrestling. Seven instead relies best on beam attacks and even telekinesis.

Even the Ultra Rise is very different.

I think the oddest difference is that sometimes there isn't even an Ultra Seven form appearing in some episodes, just Dan. That would almost never happen today- but it's oddly refreshing to see how it all plays out. Granted, that doesn't mean there aren't giant monsters or even monster battles in those episodes. Dan carries several capsules that summon kaiju to battle in his place:

Miclas, Windom and Agira. Usually this happens when the key device used for transforming: the Ultra Eye, is taken, or Dan is in some way incapacitated where he's incapable of transforming.

Even then, episodes that do have Seven don't always feature a giant Ultra Seven. Seven will just be regular sized to fight smaller threats, which is really surreal. Hell, at least two episodes have him shrinking down to a miniature size.

But the single most notable divergence is that Seven doesn't have a time limit like Ultraman did, more so he has an energy limit. The less he does the longer he can maintain his large form, but using various beam attacks will drain it much faster. The Beam lamp upon his head more or less functions the same way as the color timer did, although interestingly enough it's not explained until I believe episode 39 and a few episodes prior is when I first noticed it began blinking after long battles.

Left to Right: Amagi, Dan, Anne Yuri, Soga, Shigeru Furuhashi, Capt. Kiriyama.

Speaking of notable difference, the main organization that Dan joins, the Terrestrial Defense Force, is a stark contrast to the SSSP. While the SSSP was more scientifically focused- at least in concept, the TDF and by extension their elite sub section: The Ultra Guard, are far more militarized with much larger numbers. While the focus remains on the elite Ultra Guard unite comprised of six members, the show predominately features background characters making the show feel much broader in scope. Here we have various guards, men in uniform, scientists, medical staff, freaking PR people, etc. A number of them are even named. They even have a major space station with various staff members. It feels like an actual organization- or at least a well funded one.

The cast of characters for the Ultra Guard aren't that much more defined than the SSSP members were and once again I don't have much to say, but they do try by giving some of the characters more focus in certain episodes. Shigeru Furuhash (who is played by Arashi's actor Yoshi Ishii from the original series) serves as this shows comedic relief and gets his own dedicated episode involving a bit of family history with his mother that, at the very least, gives him some backstory. Funny enough the episode that focuses on him is also very dramatic, must be a thing with their comedic characters. The same can't be said for everyone though. What is there to say about someone like Amagi beyond he's played by Bin Furuya the original Ultraman suit actor? Not much.

What the show does do is a better job with the camaraderie. The characters interact more and in general just have more personality, allowing them to work off of Dan during missions, they're just fairly shallow elsewhere. However one sticks out above the others and that is the Medic on the team; Anne Yuri.

Played by the very lovely Yuriko Hishimi, Anne has a good chemistry with Dan- and I don't mean that in a romantic way. They just function really well in the episodes they're paired together, more so than any other of the cast. She has a magnetically charming personality that simply can't be ignored. I found myself wanting to see more of the character as she had a lot of potential shown off.

Another thing that helps the cast is that the TDF aren't quite as limited as the SSSP were in terms of operations. Ultraman's strongest point plot wise was variety in it's format, which you think would be come more of an issue for a series like Ultra Seven with a much more focused area on defensive measures. However I believe Seven to be even more varied. The show regularly has a number of different conflicts and ways of going about handling them. For a show that has an alien invasion scheme every other episode, it does a great job of never being tiring. Some episodes involve conspiracies like TDF members being assassinated or the UG having to go undercover and trail a suspected Alien like a 60s spy thriller, or there's aliens hypnotizing children to use as soldiers. Of course there's plenty of other none invasion type episodes as well, ranging from experiments gone wrong, strange alien diseases and almost twilight zone-esque otherworldly divergences.

Seven also deals with a lot more morale complexity than it's predecessor did. Whereas in the original Ultraman there would sometimes be episodes which presented a monster in some fashion as to make them sympathetic or that their demise was bittersweet, it never became a major sticking point of morality. Ultra Seven isn't like that, the show will often raise the question if the actions taken are justified, and Seven's own choices sometimes weigh upon him. This was done in an attempt to appeal to an adult audience.

A lot of the conflict comes from ignorance, arrogance, and plain misunderstandings rather than just a desire for conquest. Perhaps a simple satellite being mistaken as a weapon causing a panic, that sort of thing. One most notable of these is episode 6 when a massive space colony looses control of their gravitational force and begins a course towards earth, the alien Pegassa simply assume humans are capable of controlling Earth's own gravitational rotation like they and many other races are with their own planets. But when they learn humanity hasn't advanced that far, they begin thinking of them as simpletons lacking in technology. Faced with the colony colliding with earth, the UG sends a rescue for the Pegassans with an offer to stay until they're capable of building a new home. The Pegassans refuse to answer- perhaps believing humans lack the adequate weapons technology to obliterate their base. Faced with looming impact, the UG has no choice but to destroy the fleet with the inhabitants still on board. The Pegassan species becoming a victim of their own hubris. While aliens were sometimes used to illustrate humanity's own flaws reflected back, the Ultra Guard themselves were not above being shown as foolish. Tapping into late 60s cold war cynicism, episode 26 has the UG building a new super weapon that's the equivalent of 8,000 H-bombs meant for destroying small planets, with plans for a MK 2 and 3 to go further, which horrifies Dan and leads to a lot of inner conflict with his fellow UG members.

It's not the only time either, and while the UG are of course meant to be a force of good, they're not at all clean.

Intentional or not, it's interesting to note that as soon as a military organization entered the franchise is also when the stories first began having more complexity with the heroes' actions. Frankly, the TDF engages in much more questionable acts than the SSSP ever did. Sure, they had a few missions that would cause the viewer to raise an eyebrow, such as removing a kaiju from it's natural habitat. But the TDF have quite literally wiped out entire civilizations. Some unavoidable such is with ep. 6 being very grey- but others, not so much. ep. 42 in particular has quite possibly the most horrifying example of this when a race of pre-human ocean dwelling beings called Nonmalt begin retaliating to what they view as an invasion by humans. They're woefully ill-equipped, having only a single monster and one captured British sub as a means of attacking a nearby harbor, the UG having no trouble taking it out. Up to that point it seems like your standard issue group of creatures becoming overzealous and impulsive- they never try to even talk to anyone about coming to an agreement or the fact that they weren't even known about by the humans, they just start making threats immediately. Then things take a turn. After their sub and giant monster are taken out, their underwater city is discovered. The captain of the UG, Kaoru Kiriyama, fearing possible future attacks obliterates the entire city without a second thought. The show never outright calls it the genocide that it is, but it sure as hell doesn't frame it as good either. Dan and Anne are horrified at the aftermath of the episode, clearly conveying all that needs to be said with their behavior. In the end, the audience is left wondering if the results were necessary and how truly just the UG are when, as far an anyone could tell, it was a defenseless civilian population.

There's a lot one could get into with colonialism with this episode. The TDF&UG are better equipped and prepared than the SSSP were- and more happy to use their weapons. They're not outright villains and they're certainly shown to have admirable qualities. But they've engaged with reprehensible actions. At the same time I'm not sure if I can say it's a nuanced presentation so much as different writers having very different stories they want to tell and the results being accidental when looked at as a whole. But it is interesting none the less. Stuff like that makes Seven far more intriguing than the prior series and the show challenges its audience more by having them.

Once again the effects are a fantastic aspect of the show and far more advanced than even Ultraman's sets were in detail. The first episode alone flaunts it's higher production standards with some truly astonishing displays. Everything just looks a ton better. The Ultra Guard base and gear is drastically more intricate than the SSSP ever was.

The level of detail and scope of these dioramas is gorgeous for the time, and even now in some instances.

The Kaiju and Seijin are of course still fantastically designed and iconic. Eleking, King Joe, Alien Metron, Pegga, Alien Guts, Pandon. Every single one of the above has a great appearance that immediately make an impact.

Seven also experiments a bit by having some none suit creatures, smaller puppets handled by wire work. They… are interesting to mix things up but none stick out to me. I honestly couldn't even recall he first alien in the series. It's clear their bread and butter is still suitmation.

Speaking of the Kaiju, the fights are sometimes shockingly violent. Ultraman had a few that got a little messed up, like ripping Jirass' frill off and taunting him. The second Baltan also got split in half, but was little more graphic than splitting Play-doh. Seven on the other hand can get bloody.

People talk about Leo being violent, but Seven has it's moments. With all that said, there are however a few oddities with the effects. As lovely as a lot of those sets and creature designs are, there are a couple pieces that feel out of place. One is the backgrounds having noticeable seams. To some extent the original series had this as well but they were more often hard to make out and very few, usually a single vertical line. Seven on the other hand has much larger and extravagant sets and the caveat is noticing when the walls for the background connect since they're much larger.

I'm not entirely sure what it is, but Seven does feature a noticeable uptick in image quality- though it's not a massive leap over the prior series, it is sharper looking and a lot more sticks out because of it. How much they stick out is going to rely on how you view the series. On my computer they're not as bad in most instances, my 42" TV on the other hand was another matter- the backgrounds often appearing as a mass of blocks with thin lines except during wide-shots.

The final issue I believe to be rear projection and it's not just typical rear projecting like when someone is driving in a Bond movie, there's this excessively odd look to the whole thing. It's muddy, there's spots, and there's lines like they either didn't have a single large screen or it was wrinkled to hell. It looks like shit quite frankly and is probably the worst effect I've seen in the Ultra series.

Regardless of a few growing pains, by in large Ultra Seven excels in the visuals and often improves on the ones that don't, with an unfortunate exception to the rear projecting which never really looks any better. Their endeavor with super imposing on the other hand is shockingly impressive. I only saw one egregious example, but every other was stunning for the time.

I've seen movies made in the 70s and even 80s that didn't blend stuff this well.

Likewise, the aircraft are more grandiose and as such need more wire. I get the feeling that they had perfected a lot of things with Ultraman and wanted to branch outward to more challenging and by extension more impressive effects, and I appreciate that endeavor. Aircraft move far more fluidly, are more complex and they even have the flagship craft of the series: The Ultra Hawk 1, separate into multiple aircraft and then re-combine, it is marvelous to gander at.

But by far the pinnacle of the visuals is with returning Director Akio Jussoji on a select number of episodes. If there is one defining thing in Ultra Seven from a visual standpoint, I would say it's the gorgeous sun sets and Jissoji is largely responsible for that iconography with his first contribution in episode 8- which is an absolutely gorgeous entry. He was hardly the only one to use it, as other episodes would often incorporate the orange glow. But there is little doubt in mind that Episode 8 set the precedent. But that is only a tiny part of it, as that episode features so many fantastic scenes and Japanese pop culture owes so much to the cinematography of this Jissoji directed episode in particular.

It truly is a collaborative effort. The impressive work of the set builders and the masterful capturing of those sets on film.

Jissoji also wasn't the only one to create some truly fantastic shots. Other directors like Toshihiro Iijima, Toshitsugu Suzuki, and Kazuho Mitsuta also contributed greatly to the series.

There is one more thing, and it's something I wondered a lot about before the set came out and that was if episode 12 would be included. It sadly is not. There's a lot to get into when discussing that infamous episode that I'm not going to get into here. There are plans for the episode to be re-fansubbed so I'll be doing a spotlight on it and talk more about it there. (note from 2023: still waiting) What I will say is the included episode guide completely avoids talking about it and I find it really strange to not even acknowledge why there's an episode missing. It's even worse on the Moviespree site because it appears as an unavailable episode on the site.

Lastly, I want to end this review on something I wanted to do for Ultraman but never got around to it and decided it wasn't necessary at the time. That is to give recommendations on my favorite episodes with a short synopsis.

Ep. 6 Dark Zone. D: Kazuho Mitsuta W:Bunzo Wakatsuki. This is the one I talked about in the review. It does a good job captivating you with the aliens and their plights, they're fairly friendly but things slowly turn over the course of the episode and the aforementioned hubris kicks in. This is also a good episode with Dan and Anne, showing that they two are willing to bend rules, if a bit too trusting.

Ep. 8 The Marked Town. D:Akio Jissoji W:Tetsuo Kinjo The famous Akio Jissoji directed episode with Alien Metron. I've already shown plenty of screen shots for this one in the review and I think that speaks for itself. The story is also wild with Metron experimenting with how Space Poppies affect humans by lacing cigarettes with the drug. Yeah, it's a space drug trip episode.

Ep 14 & 15 The Ultra Guard Goes West. D:Kazuho Mitsuta W:Tetsuo Kinjo. The first two parter of the series and the first time Seven struggles against an enemy: the robotic King Joe, all while the UG work on a new weapon to combat King Joe as he's completely immune to most of their conventional armaments and even Seven.

Ep. 26 Super Weapon R1. D:Toshitsugu Suzuki W:Bunzo Wakatsuki. This is where that morality really comes into play. Again, another episode I've talked about in the review and it is one I highly recommend. One of the things I didn't mention was the monster, because the test for the new weapon on an uninhabited planet- wasn't. It pretty much causes a Godzilla scenario with a radioactive monster spewing it's toxic fumes all over the place. The horrifying prospect of this is contrasted with some beautiful scenery. I brag on Jissogi a lot, but Toshitsugu Suzuki does a good job in this.

Ep. 37 The Stolen Ultra Eye. D: Toshitsugu Suzuki W: Shin'ichi Ichikawa This is a very somber episode. Dan gets his Ultra Eye stolen (No shit) by an alien who then sends a signal for pick up which the UG intercept but allow to go through. A reply comes back from the girl's planet only to reveal they've abandoned her as they launch an interplanetary missile toward earth. This one has a bittersweet ending and examines Seven's more alien nature and his relation to living on earth. Really great shot at the end of the episode of late 60's Japan and all the lights.

Ep. 39 and 40 The Seven Assassination Plan. D:Toshihiro Iijima W: Keisuke Fujikawa Another two-parter. These episodes primarily focus on the TDF and UG, one of the few episodes that really show off their full force against an alien threat. Seven gets captured by one of the most memorable creatures, Alien Guts, and is set to be executed. It's up to the UG to figure out how to save Seven. These episodes almost feel like a finale and probably were written as such before the series got extended.

Ep.43 Nightmare of Planet No. 4 D: Akio Jissoji W:Takashi Kawasaki & Shozo Uehara This episode has Dan and Soga on a journey in a new test rocket, but after being put in the state of deep sleep, the rocket heads off course and is drawn to an earth like planet ruled by Robots. The robots treat the humans of the planet at best as slaves. Segregating them to their own community and disposing of them at a moments notice, even using them as extras in crime shows and using live ammunition, regularly executing them for minor offenses. The entirety of the episode is cold and disturbing. The interior shots are often surreal and plain while outside is nearly lifeless. At one point Dan and Soga escape the robots by hiding in the back a truck full of fresh human corpses that were shot dead just moments ago. And yet the end of the episode is also incredibly fun, mainly because Seven gets to go absolutely ape shit, outright growing inside the robots' main HQ and then wrecking everything around it.

This episode hits basically every high point there is for me and very well may be my absolute favorite.

Ep. 48 & 49 The Biggest Invasion in history. D: Kazuho Mitsuta W: Tetsuo Kinjo These are the last two episodes of Seven and they're a really great send off. I don't want to get into spoilers too much, but I will say they do a much better job than Ultraman's Finale which frankly felt very flat and rushed. This really shows Dan struggling and going through absolute hell. A nice touch is the Seven Suit is falling apart by this point which actually works really well with the plot. There's a bit of closure with his team as well, something Ultraman never exactly got with the SSSP due to circumstance. Also, shout outs to Kazuho Mitsuta who directed these two episodes, they contributed greatly to the iconography of this series with that fantastic shot of Dan and Anne.

My overall feelings toward Ultraseven is largely similar to Kamen Rider V3. It keeps what worked in the prior series, builds upon that which worked, trims a lot of the fat and adds some new. Seven keeps enough of the core concepts and ideals of Ultraman to still be viewed as part of the same franchise, yet it's unique status as not initially being developed as part of the franchise or at the very least not a direct continuation. I believe allowed it to have the many differences that assisted in making it feel fresh. Familiar, yet not overly so, different, but not completely alien. A lot of franchises struggle with that balance, either repeating what's already been done or it's so different you can't even recognize it. Seven pulls it off beautifully and in doing so created an incredible nuanced entry. I highly suggest picking this up because it is absolutely one of the very best series and my favorite Showa Ultra.

#tokusatsu #ultraman #ultraseven #review #kaiju #tsuburaya #tsupro

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So for the monster wrangler I had an idea that when they get there they lose some of there monsters and have to go searching for them before they can head back home. They had about 10 on hand, but when they get thrown into the Personaverse they only have 2. This makes them extremely worried for their friends safety in a very strange and dangerous world even though there safe within magical capsules ( magical capsules are just pokeball's and there an actual item that's used in the anime). This would of course bring in the theives who would want to help there new friend ( and I imagine they would be incredibly interested to know about the wranglers other monsters and what they can do)

What do you think?

A very plausible scenario especially if how DQ arrives is quite violent. There's also the potential chaos if some capsules ended up in the real world than just the Metaverse. Even moreso should one hold a Giant monster as those beasties are Kaiju sized.

The Phantom Thieves would definitely help their new companion find the rest of their team. DQ filled them on what to look for but also what to do should a capsule release a monster by chance. Best to avoid any potential friendly fire.

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iamthekaijuking · 10 months

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Here’s some of that ultraman fanfic stuff I mentioned

Ultrawoman Nova

Ultrawoman Nova is a 70 meter tall ultra who is a kaiju researcher who loves infodumping and works with a science team to manage an island kaiju nature reserve. She has an adopted pestar Scrungus and a shin Gabora capsule kaiju.

The ultra setting she lives in is one where almost all Ultraman series has happened to an extent, but in a cohesive timeline and mostly follows after the original continuity.

Almost all the kaiju both are and aren’t native to earth’s biosphere. They aren’t in that they descend from various aliens that ended up on earth, and are in that these aliens eventually naturally integrated into the biosphere.

Notable residents of the reserve:

A baby Gatanothor Nova also adopts. Initially Nova had a heart attack when she found it had crash landed on the island because Gatanothors are known world enslavers so she wondered if it’s evil by nature… until it fell on its side and started crying and pooping on itself. Whenever Scrungus goes and plays in the water with a baby takkong and gesura, the baby gatanothor gets upset because it can’t swim and play with them.

An Eleking that chills under a waterfall. He helps feed the Neronga and helps provide power to the island or cities that experience power outages.

A Neronga mother who has cubs (adults look like the shin incarnation while babies look like the showa version). One time it misbehaved and got in a fight with Nova. Kids on a field trip were at the reserve at the same time so Nova took the opportunity during the fight to pin the mom Neronga down facing the children and talk about its teeth while it flailed its arms around. Children may or may not have been traumatized.

A Gubira from the deep sea who keeps trying to move into the burrows of subterranean kaiju on the island despite not being a burrowing creature itself and gets into fights. Nova constantly has to patch up its tube feet.

An Empowered Bemular who sits in a lake and is learning to behave and not be evil. If the space faring abelisaur is good for a week then it’ll get a boat for a toy, but it hasn’t behaved that long yet.

An elderly Red King couple. These Rauisuchians have sexual dimorphism, with males being red (like the powered incarnation) and females having massive forearms (like red king EX). The male is a little weak for his age and is missing numerous scutes and has burn scars from entering burning mode too much. The female also has a few scutes missing, as well as a leg, some fingers, and her tail tip (which like alligators it grew back but it’s mostly connective tissue). Her mandibles were also completely obliterated at some point in her life so it healed kinda wonky.

A pod of Gesura live around the island, and there’s a lot of cocoa trees Nova planted for them. The whatcheeriids love fruit so they occasionally come onto land to eat the cocoa beans. Scrungus plays with the babies in the pod.

A Gimyra. Specifically THE Gimyra defeated by Ultraman 80. He lives in and is confined to a cave due to his evil behavior. He basically sits in a prison while being studied. He’s allowed to take harmless amounts of blood from kaiju on the reserve during night to sustain himself. Lavras and Daron also came with him, but they’re harmless and quite nice and often work with the local science team or babysit Scrungus.

Some kaiju biology:

Neronga are a formerly extraterrestrial kaiju species. Adults look like the shin incarnation while babies look like the showa incarnation. Mothers give live birth to a few Cubs that can already clumsily move around. The mom then charges some of her back plates full of electricity and detaches them. This will be the first meal for the babies. Whether or not the mom takes care of the babies depends on the conditions of the environment. The Neronga at the sanctuary is a mother who’s looking after her Cubs. The fat reserves of the babies can also serve as fuel for their budding electrical abilities when they feel threatened. Individuals have male and female parts and mating involves jabbing their incredibly long thumb claws into each other, which function like needles and deposits sperm. They fight over who gets impregnated much like marine flatworms. Using their electrical powers they can bend light around their body and become invisible. To make up for their lack of a tongue their gums also function as taste buds.

Red Kings are big Rauisuchians and are massive predators known for their size and strength as well as their impenetrable full body covering of scutes. They also have some big saber teeth as well. Males look like the male red king in powered and females have big arms like the EX incarnation. They have a dome head much like pachycephalosaurs, and they have been known to swing their heads around, which are backed up by their long overly muscled neck. Their saber teeth are long enough to go past their jaw line and are positioned near the back of the mouth. This makes them useless for biting but instead useful for cutting when they swing their heads around. Their bite is also very powerful. When under significant stress they can enter a burning mode that turns their skin black and makes the spaces in between their armor glow with thermoluminescence, but this is a last resort that not only completely exhausts an individual, but also injures them greatly. Sometimes even dying. Red king will mate for life and heterosexual couples will lay eyes every few years. The eggs are guarded fiercely, but once the young are born they’re on their own. Individuals can be identified from their scars not unlike great whites.

Dorako are aliens that aren’t one of the many species that has integrated into earth’s biosphere, making it a proper invasive species. Their wings are large and able to fold up like some more advanced insect wings. Their arms are more like the powered incarnation. Dorakos have both an endoskeleton and exoskeleton and are surprisingly powerful for their size. Their respiratory system is in their abdomen (tail) and there are many spiracles as well. Take off is assisted by a massive exhale from the spiracles. Over their life as they grow in size they do have to molt, but their exoskeleton comes off in pieces and doesn’t require them to do a full body shed. Once they’re adults they don’t molt again. Initially they were thought to come from comet Tsuifon, but after more information was brought to light thanks to the ultras it turns out that their original habitat is unknown and that they have evolved to become an interplanetary invasive species. The find a planet that has an atmosphere they can breathe and then assert themselves as an apex predator. They then reproduce asexually until they reach the threshold that the ecosystem they’re occupying can support, after they reach that threshold they engage in mating to diversify the gene pool and then most of them leave to find other planets and start the cycle again. Dissection of Dorakos that have come to earth has revealed that the spike on their forehead can be launched like a bullet, but doing so kills them since their brain is right behind. So it’s inferred that they only start using this after reaching a certain population size.

Gomora are large predatory ceratopsians and very distant relatives of psittacosaurus. Their stomach scutes are derived from feather quills and they are solitary in nature.

Zambolars are large omnivorous solitary squamates that are part of a unique squamate family (informally known as the slurpasaurs). They’re generally subterranean and reside in the hollow earth tunnels. Under normal circumstances their metabolism is fairly sluggish, but when aggravated (like say a territorial dispute) or during intense activity they can drastically spike their metabolism. Their large intricate series of crests helps them regulate their temperature during bouts of activity, and hot blood is pumped through these crests to cool off. (Taking a cue from powered zambolar’s design) these crests have multiple grooves and folds that increase surface area. Sometimes they get so hot that they can set fire to their environment and even use this as a thermal attack. Damage to their own body is mitigated thanks to heat resistant proteins.

Backacoon is a rather strange creature and not much is known about it since only one has ever been encountered. Multiple theories exist as to why the defensive form looks the way it does. Theories range from convergent evolution with vertebrates, horizontal gene transfer from vertebrates, magic, or some other odd phenomenon. It has a rudimentary internal skeleton made of chitin, and its teeth, claws, and horns are made of chitin too. Much like the unrelated cordyceps fungus, backacoon needs to parasitically infect arthropods to progress its life cycle, but is incapable of infecting anything else. Inhaling the spores can make you sick though.

Gudon is another former-alien-become-natural-species. Much like Dorako, Gudons have both an endo and exoskeleton, but their endoskeletons aren’t as extensive as you’d think. Only appearing in the limbs, limb girdles, head and neck, and back. Also their biomineralized exoskeleton isn’t able to be shed in pieces, so a full molt is required. They’re an aggressive predatory species and the main predators of twintails, which a population of the ancestral species of twintails came to earth with the ancestral gudons on their tail. Their jaws and teeth are pretty weak so in order to tear apart prey for consumption they impale them on their spikes and horns and tug at them with their arms until they get pieces that can be swallowed. Leftovers are also skewered on their spikes as well. They smell things with their one nostril and their sense of smell is pretty strong too. Their whips can taste and they’re covered in microscopic metallic barbs that make picking up scraps of meat easier. Reproduction is carried out by their whips. One of their whips starts to fill with gametes and detaches. It then seeks out another detached whip and the two fuse together. Then a bunch of baby Gudons hatch from each segment. Most don’t reach adulthood.

The evolutionary history of Telesdon can be traced back to planet Boris. The ancient ancestors of telesdon resembled worms with five tails, but over time four of those tails became limbs and even grew bones. Their head also evolved through the fusion of their first two body segments. With the first segment forming the cranium and the second segment forming the mandibles. Their body is covered in small studs that aid in their burrowing. While they can dig with their limbs, they normally dig using rhythmic muscle contractions and relaxations. The studs grip the earth and pull them forward during this movement. Despite being predators, telesdon fall prey to many other kaiju. If fighting isn’t an option they will attempt to dig away. If they’re getting pulled out, their spike will dig into the soil and hook them in place. Telesdons are hermaphrodites much like actual worms, and their reproductive organs are located in their torso segment.

Kemular are another former extraterrestrial species. They spend most of their time burrowed in the dirt with only their two back plates exposed for photosynthesis. They also absorb nutrients from the ground through folds in their skin. Occasionally they need to resurface and eat food though. This is accomplished by flooding an area with toxic gas and scooping up the dead wildlife with a long prehensile tongue. Their tails can also shoot arcs of electricity as well, but this is weak and it seems like the organ is becoming vestigial as its no longer necessary since the gas they produce has become increasingly toxic. Their brain is flat and located on their back. Because of the placement and the relatively long and flat anatomy of their brains, it gives the appearance of their brains being far larger than they actually are. Damage to the brain can actually cause severe neurological problems and can often cause death. Because their brains aren’t in their skull, their gas organs are located there instead. Reproduction is carried out by spores, which are fired from groves in the brain on the back. These spores settle down and eventually grow into new kemulars.

Pestars are former extraterrestrials and have become an incredibly successful abyssal species complex and predators. They are very similar to echinoderms anatomically, and there exists a great deal of individuality when it comes to appearance. Pestars initially start life gorging on petroleum and other sources of hydrocarbons before switching to meat and only occasionally consuming hydrocarbons to fuel their fire breath. They are important predators of takkongs and gubira, which they sneak up on in the abyss and physically pull apart with their powerful arms and clawed tube feet.

Gubira are a former extraterrestrial species. They’re bottom feeders who eat creatures they stir when sifting through the seabed. They use their drill zooid to break through tough material. It’s legs are giant tube feet that are fed water through a sieve plate on its forehead that can also shoot water in self defense.

Magular is another slurpasaur

I’d reinterpret Geronimon as a maniraptorian

Goldon is a titanosaur

#Ultraman #ultrawoman nova #kaiju #speculative zoology #speculative evolution #speculative biology #speculative ecology #speculative anatomy #pestar #red king #neronga

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kaijuthespacemaniraptorian · 5 months

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Daikaijuverse Fanfic

The Daikaijuverse is a fanfic of mine that il be working on someday in the future, The Daikaijuverse universe is where Godzilla, Gamera and Ultraman shares the same universe, Ultra Kaijus can interact with Godzilla and Gamera kaijus and there will be some chapters that will focus more on each of their respective franchise and stuff like my upcoming Gamera fanfic that will be my first one!

Heres some Characters of this fanfic alongiside my own Interpretation of the kaijus and my own Ultraman!

Dr David is a Kaiju scientist studying kaiju biology, ecology, behavior and history, he works in a base in Monster Island studying kaijus there but also works in other science base where kaijus have been reported there, his first ever studied kaiju was Gamera alongside Gyaos, Gudon, Neronga, Baragon and Megalon who are apparently the first kaijus to be discovered, one day he met two extraterrestrial beings who would later work with David.

Alien Metron named Maru was an alien that said to have lived on earth for a long time and has been observing some kaijus that are thought to be very weird forms of earth life are revealed to be descendants of extraterrestrial kaijus that have somehow stranded on earth and have intergrated to earth's biosphere and became part of the ecosystem such as Gudon, Telesdon, Pigmon, Pestar, Banilla, Megalon, Viras etc, he met Dr David and meant no harm to him and told everything about himself, Dr David interested in his research offers Maru to work with him to which he accepts and works studying the kaijus from the world!

Ultraman Galactic is an Ultra that went on earth to stop kaijus from doing any damage and taking them to safer spots, he rarely has to kill kaijus only doing so when necessary, he takes them to Monster Island or other Kaiju islands so they can have a new home and make them peaceful, during his battles sometimes some earth kaijus appear and helps Galactic to stop anything threatning the ecosystem, he met Dr David alongside Maru and helps them telling stuff about extraterrestrial kaijus that appeared on earth, he has the ability to change to human size to interact with David and Maru, he also has 3 Capsule Kaiju he uses the first being Tyrant, Hyper Gigan (a variant of Gigan) and Iris.

Some Kaijus will be protagonists in one of the chapters either alone or together so heres the first two protagonist kaijus!

Godzilla (AKA Empera Goji)

This godzilla also a hightly derived species related to Archosaurs as it belongs in its own group of reptiles that i like to call the Sorrasaurs as its descendant from a theropod crocodile like reptile named Sorrasaurus appearing at the beginning of the Triassic period and became quite successful, Empera Goji also has some relatives such as Gomess Jirass and Zilla who is extremely distantly related to them and branched off very early through out evolution, its ecology is unknown but it is quite an intelligent kaiju on par with dolphins octopuses and chimpanzees able to reconize kaijus people and knowing who is an ally or enemy, its also capable of coming up with different fighting styles to fight anything that threatnens earth's ecosystem!

Gamera

Gamera is a hightly evolved Neo-Tetsudines that lives on Monster Island alongside several kaijus with the ability of shooting fireballs, consuming petroleum, energy fist and shell disc laser by spinning soo fast that his shell expels radioactive plasma to make energy discs! Gamera is also an extremely intelligent kaiju like Godzilla.

Thats about it for now and i will plan on making kaijus in my own vision for this AU and i will expand more info on some of the characters so stay tune for upcoming stuff!

#daikaiju #kaiju #ultra kaiju #godzilla #gamera #ultraman #fanfic #Daikaijuverse

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Eiji Tsuburaya enjoys a good laugh when Miclas points out that the photographer's fly is unzipped.

#Eiji Tsuburaya #Miclas #Ultraseven #kaiju #capsule monster #tokusatsu #suitmation #Tsuburaya Productions

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greatwyrmgold · 7 months

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Watched Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero on a whim the other night. Things I liked:

Pan. She had so much fun whenever she was with Papa or Grandpa Piccolo! Not so much when they were both busy fighting the giant monster, but hey.

The movie focuses on Piccolo, Gohan, and Pan instead of Goku and Vegeta.

Magenta's rant about how Capsule Corp is clearly just a front for a coalition of alien invaders working to control the Earth. It's 90% recognizable conspiratorial nonsense (minus the antisemitism and unpleasant context) and 10% weird sh*t that's just canon.

Despite the Red Ribbon Army's advanced intelligence-gathering tech, they still consider Mr. Satan to be a threat on par with Goku or Vegeta.

Piccolo has a house now!

Super Sai-ants.

Gamma 1's occasional moments of genre savvy. The first thing he says is "You say you killed King Piccolo? Did you look for the body?"

The Gammas in general, really. Especially the background squabbling-siblings moments.

All the new characters have such delightful, quirky personalities. Dragon Ball is at its best when it's a comedy series spiced with action.

Piccolo doing that thing Frieza did in the Broly movie where he hurt Paragus to make Broly get a rage-induced power-up, just without actually hurting Pan.

I can't talk much about Max Cell without ruining the positive tone I'm aiming for here, but I like the way he serves as a fulcrum of conflict between Magenta and Dr. Hedo, and that his design makes Semi-Perfect Cell look intimidating. (And not just by virtue of being kaiju-sized.)

One storyboard artist really liked the idea of the Z-fighters jumping off of high things in skydiving poses before activating their flight, and the higher-ups were right to let them do it twice.

Namekian stretchy-arms and gigantification return! Piccolo even uses both at the same time! More Dragon Ball fight scenes should use weird little abilities like that; stretchy arms aren't gonna win a fight Piccolo would lose otherwise, but they make a fight scene more unique and interesting.

The animation is good, the haters just noticed that it's CG.

Pan. She's adorable.

Things I didn't like:

Enough "Ha ha, Dr. Hedo/Gotenks is fat" jokes to stand out as a Thing.

Act 3 is basically just one overstuffed fight scene.

Cell Max is fine as a plot point and setpiece, I guess, but also not interesting.

There is no way Goten and Trunks haven't been fusing for fun enough to remember how it works. If they messed up because they were rushing or because of a disruption from the active action scene or something, that would be one thing, but suggesting that they're just rusty is...kinda dumb.

Gohan's new transformation feels like that form Future Trunks got in the Goku Black arc, in that it's an unexplained power-up he randomly got that I assume is meant to justify him fighting god-tier foes, but they didn't want to give him Super Saiyan God or Blue because reasons. My feelings about Orange Piccolo are similar, but with more understanding about why they didn't give him an existing Super Saiyan form and less irritation about being an obvious retread of the Super Saiyan 2 transformation bit in the Cell arc.

Also, Gohan's new transformation's hair. On one hand, it's among the most obvious ways that said transformation is calling back to the SSJ2 transformation against Cell, which is irritating. On the other hand, it also looks absurd. It's just...scale up Gohan's preteen hairstyle by 250% and make it gray. Why gray? And why make it that big? If it had gone full SSJ3 I might have liked it, but it doesn't go far enough, and the hair stays too stiff, like it doesn't realize it's three feet long and should be pulled down by gravity.

Basically every scene on Beerus's planet, and not just because Goku and Vegeta were there. It's good to establish why they're not coming in to save the day, but they didn't need to spend so much time on it! And they definitely didn't have to use that time on a pointless fight scene and Beerus flirting with Cheelai!

Gohan getting more focus? Getting to be a character who's important to the plot? I like that! The interpretation of that idea as "Gohan needs to focus on training instead of studying all the time"? Not so much. At least it was mixed in with a dash of "You're so focused on the academic stuff that you're neglecting your family, too," which is a less frustrating point.

#dragon ball #dragon ball super super hero #(a title almost as bad as SSGSS)#random thoughts

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kei-zama · 1 year

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ULTRAMAN: MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #5 COVER

Finally the proper image of ULTRAMAN: MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #5's cover was uploaded to Previews page! I'm so happy I could work with Josh Burcham again! I really hope we can do more Marvel works together!

I was said I can choose favorite Kaiju from classic series, it wasn’t easy to decide but I chose the most favorite one, Gomora. I made some layout sketches of King Joe version, anyway I drew Ultraman & Ultraseven vs Gomora.

At first there were Osaka castle on line art, but it was deleted by a kind of reason. haha

The story of Gomora in Ultraman series is one of my favorite story. It was kinda… Strange? Weird? Funny?? Sentimental??? Anyway interesting story, Gomora was not bad guy but just troubled by human's ego. And SSSP doesn't work and Ultraman/Hayata had stupid mistake (is he keeping beta capsule while being Ultraman?? And why does it fall so easily lol,) the scene of Osaka Castle was destroyed completely, I could not help laughing, honestly. And that's why I wanted to add Osaka Castle, the second victim of this story.

Story aside, Gomora is the coolest look and powerful, my favorite Kaiju of Ultra series so far. Pleasure to draw Gomora for the official comic cover!

ULTRAMAN: MYSTERY OF ULTRASEVEN #5

Line art: Kei Zama

Colors: Josh Burcham

Client: Marvel Comics

Release date: March 1, 2023

#works #cover art #kei zama #josh burcham #ultraman #ultraseven #ultraman: the mystery of ultraseven #gomora #kaiju #tokusastu #toku

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westrentails · 11 months

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Ultraman Bob. Ultraman AU. In this AU Bob the builder is a very powerful and powerfully strong ultra and so very powerful that all dangerous kaijus and aliens feared him.

And i also drew his wrench beta capsule.💖

#bob the builder #ultraman

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thekaijudude · 1 year

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Shin Japan Heroes Universe Catalog Leaks for ShinU

List Part 2/2

So ye this is the leaked catalog list for upcoming ShinU merch for 2023

DX line:

DX Beta Capsule

Movie Monster Series line:

Shin Ultraman (Green/Low Energy)

Shin Ultraman (Silver/Unmerged)

Shin Ultraman (Specium Beam Version)

Shin Ultraman (Flying Pose)

Fake Shin Ultraman

Shin Mephilas

Shin Gomess

Shin Pegulia

Shin Pagos

Mega Light Heroes line (New line which are figures with light features):

Shin Ultraman

Shin Zoffy

Ultra Action Figure line:

Shin Ultraman (Silver)

Shin Ultraman (Green)

Fake Shin Ultraman

Shin Mephilas

Knew that they were eventually gonna release figures of all the other kaiju even tho they only had a couple seconds of screentime lol

So whats really left are figures of Shin Zetton, Goga and Larugeus

#ultraman #shin ultraman

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fandom-trash-xl · 2 years

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Dragon Ball Super Super Hero AAAAA

I got to see the new movie in the theater today so it's finally time for spoiler coverage! I was going to get a picture with my ticket, but the online purchase QR didn't get us any... Anyway, onto the movie.

I really enjoyed this movie! It was really nice to see the B-Team become the A-Team in this one- it's always the Goku and Vegeta Show so this was a nice breath of fresh air.

Really cute fluffiness abounds with Pan and Piccolo, who seems to be playing the job of second dad since Gohan can't seem to be able to pick up his own kid from school. He did have his redeeming dad points and this guy just wants to nerd out about his Super Saiyants.

Love that Piccolo pretty much got forcibly indoctrinated in to the penguin nya cat collection- "ONE WAS ENOUGH" can't stop Gohan and Videl from giving him more plushies. And his super hearing unfortunately comes in handy for hearing his meow meow ringtone a mile away. It's even his phone case for his phone that he holds like a boomer. Had to stop my bro from starting to hold his phone like that after the movie.

Also the cute little detail that Piccolo has to remind Videl that he sustains on water- and Pan keeps a spare bottle for him!

Gotta sprinkle some love on the Gammas, they're even more fun than I imagined, dig their vibe even as background elements. And the comic book sfx weren't just stylization they were actually VISIBLE in canon. Sad that we lost my favorite, Gamma 2- he was the real super hero (almost thought he was going to get 16 bootstomped)

The Red Ribbon propaganda saying that Capsule Corp is a front for space alien invasion, wow

The Goku and Vegeta sections were also pretty enjoyable- they figured out Jiren! Meanwhile, they're giving Broly lessons in temper control, so glad it wasn't giving him Blue. Plus, it's a way for him, Lemo and Cheelai to lay low away from Frieza. Seems Lemo's the cook of the operation (so good that Whis almost got fired- "I can't live on the streets!")

...Was not expecting the Cheelai x Beerus crack ship to surface.

And a little comedically placed ice cream container conveniently kept the main Saiyan train out of the A-plot. Eat your ice cream, Broly :)

Gohan when threatened with a gun: (casual swat) "I'm calling the cops."

Gohan goes absolutely feral when you mess with his daughter.

How they managed to get Pan to play along with the kidnapping to get Gohan to give his all (what the heck Piccolo, you crazy). Pan would be the type of kidnapping victim to ask the kidnapper to cut the crusts off her sandwich.

Dr Hedo just wants to have fun- and I did not expect the family relations there with Gero despite the vomit pun being right there. Plus, confirmation that 21 was Gero's wife and 16 was his son- plus some other hidden kid. Plus Magenta inheriting Red's lack of height gene.

Bulma: "I've gathered all the strongest warriors on Earth... and Krillin."

DUDE!

Speaking of Bulma, we can see she's still making frivolous cosmetic wishes on the dragon. Didn't expect Shenron to say "your buns are now perf". Glad they could find Hedo a new job fulfilling her plastic surgery needs with his bio skin tech (Krillin, the literal cop, didn't want him in jail).

We got Gotenks baited. They fail the fusion dance, but Fat Gotenks does get volleyballed around and is useful as an attack- then they do it correct and promptly pan away from it.

Now for the big spoilers I dodged by a hair-

CELL MAX- I was somewhat expecting Cell in some form, but wow. Red Semi perfect kaiju was definitely not on the prediction bingo, got a bit nervous that 18 had to come help.

ORANGE PICCOLO - Piccolo's turning all sorts of colors, green, olive yellow, FANTA. Glad he got his potential boost. He's not going with any fancy names, he's calling it what it is. Didn't expect the Pirina buff- and nice callback to OG Dragon Ball with the giant form. Glad Krillin came along to remember that.

GOHAN BLANCO - With that SHWINK realization effect ala Super Saiyan 2 awakening, Gohan got a new form! A white-haired form, Gohan Blanco is canon- wiki's telling me it's Gohan Beast but it's Gohan Blanco in my heart. Kinda pointy but I do like the growl effect on the voice- it's like Super Saiyan 4- that makes me see why it's called Beast.

Also, cute note, apparently Gohan is straight up Velma and can't see without his glasses. He loses a Senzu Bean down the crack, now we know why he missed the Potara. Gohan needs his specs, plus Super Saiyan fixes his eyesight it seems. He asks Pan to help him find his glasses- and if you look in the corner she does! Before promptly smiling, trying to put them on, and then THROWING THEM.

Overall, very cool movie that used its normally side characters very well in higher roles (even though Krillin's kinda the butt of the joke).

Oh, and we can't forget Frieza's "role" in the movie:

(He did a little spin)

Also, Vegeta finally defeated Goku in the post-credits scene :)

#dragon ball #dragon ball super #dragon ball super spoilers #dragon ball super super hero #dragon ball super super hero spoilers #spoiler coverage #commentary #great movie :)

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