Ultraseven series coming to U.S. DVD! Dec 11, 2012
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Father Xmas,
Posted on: 2012-09-22 09:44 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
I hope this isn't the silly dub of the series that was on TNT nearly 20 years ago. They tried for a USA's Night Flight Dynaman flavor for the dub but it was only partially successful in my opinion.
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It's supposed to be subtitled only, just like when Ultraman TIGA hit DVD here after it was briefly on TV on Saturdays with one of the worst dubbing jobs ever. |
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
I hope this isn't the silly dub of the series that was on TNT nearly 20 years ago. They tried for a USA's Night Flight Dynaman flavor for the dub but it was only partially successful in my opinion.
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Hopefully this means that other Ultra Series will start coming over here, I'd like to get some nice shiny copies of Return of Ultraman and Ultraman Leo.
Ultraseven would also be the first Ultra to start the "guest starring" in other Ultra series starting with Episode 18 of the Return of Ultraman, and in Ep38 of that same series Ultraseven and the original Ultraman (and their human hosts, yes this means Hayata) would appear to help rescue and revive New Ultraman/Ultraman Jack.
Ultraseven would also appear in the Ace and Taro series and his human form would be the defense force leader in Ultraman Leo. In ep 1 of Ultraman Leo, Seven was triple teamed by some tough monsters and was badly beaten when Leo arrived to drive off the monsters. Seven's right leg was twisted around several times and one can hear the sounds of bones breaking. The result was that after he shifted to human form and later tried to transform he couldn't link up with his device and his device would overload and burn out thus trapping him in human form. In ep 40 of Leo's series, Seven was presumed killed along with the defense force but we see in the last Leo ep that he is alive.
Actually thinking back I'm not sure if they intentionally tried for a comical dub or just the voice actors couldn't take the script seriously. USA's Dynaman was just over the top script wise.
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Ultraman TIGA definitely was given a comical/dumbed down dubbing, Ultraseven's dubbing was decent at best but still better then Tiga's. |
Originally Posted by Father Xmas
Actually thinking back I'm not sure if they intentionally tried for a comical dub or just the voice actors couldn't take the script seriously. USA's Dynaman was just over the top script wise.
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Also I saw some of the banned Ep 12 (dubbed version), and I can see why Tsubayara has stricken that episode from Ultra history.
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The second series of the long running Ultraman franchise finally comes to North America with an official subtitled release. One minor note, there will be one episode not included in this series as it is banned in Japan for evoking bad memories of Hiroshima.
The original Ultraman does not appear in this series.
Ultraseven, while on an exploration and mapping mission in the galaxy comes to Earth. Once there he begins to see why the original Ultraman defended it and begins to like Earth and the humans. He then sees two people about to have a fatal accident and that one is going to sacrifice himself to save the other. Ultraseven saves them both before they are injured or killed, and then scans the one that was going to sacrifice himself and then uses his Ultra-powers to use the human as a template to create a human form for him to transform into. Thus is born Dan Morobishi, human form of Ultraseven!
The major downside to shapeshifting into a human form instead of merging with another human is that catastrophic injuries or power loss in Ultraseven form WILL translate into serious injuries when he turns human again.
Ultraseven is still among the most popular of all the Ultra's and has been reused many times for spinoff movies, OVA's and guest starring in other Ultra series.
Now if they can release Return of Ultraman that would be great.
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