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Gomora (Ultra Monster)
is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', that first appeared in episode 26 of Tsuburaya Productions' 1966 series ''Ultraman''. Overview Gomora is an ancient dinosaur about tall and weighing 20,000 metric tons from the Shōwa period. Name Gomora's name likely comes from a combination of Godzilla and Mothra's Japanese names. Shōwa period Gomora debuts in episode 26 of the original Ultraman series, in which it is a descendant of the Gomorasaurus species and escapes Scientists that attempt to display him at the Osaka Expo. It was one of the few creatures to defeat Ultraman. It would lose to Ultraman in a second fight. Development Gomora was designed by Tohl Narita, who based the monster's head on the helmet of the Kuroda Nagamasa. Appearances Film * ''Ultraman'' (1967) stock footage cameo *'' The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army'' (1974) * '' Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy'' (2009) * '' Ultra Galaxy Legend Side Story: Ultraman Zero vs. Darklops Zero'' (2010) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman
''Ultraman'', also known as the , is the collective name for all media produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad monsters. Debuting with ''Ultra Q'' and then ''Ultraman'' in 1966, the series is one of the most prominent ''tokusatsu'' superhero genre productions from Japan, along with the Toei-produced series '' Kamen Rider'', ''Super Sentai'' and the ''Metal Heroes''. The series is also one of the most well-known examples of the '' kaiju'' genre, along with Toho's ''Godzilla'' series and Daiei Film's ''Gamera'' series. However, the series also falls into the ''Kyodai'' Hero subgenre of ''tokusatsu'', a subgenre it also helped popularise. In Japan, the Ultraman brand generated in merchandising revenue from 1966 to 1987, equivalent to more than adjusted for inflation. Ultraman was the world's third top-selling licensed character in the 1980s, largely due to his popularity in Asia. References to Ultraman are abundant in Japanese po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Zero Vs
''Ultraman'', also known as the , is the collective name for all media produced by Tsuburaya Productions featuring Ultraman, his many brethren, and the myriad monsters. Debuting with '' Ultra Q'' and then '' Ultraman'' in 1966, the series is one of the most prominent '' tokusatsu'' superhero genre productions from Japan, along with the Toei-produced series ''Kamen Rider'', '' Super Sentai'' and the '' Metal Heroes''. The series is also one of the most well-known examples of the ''kaiju'' genre, along with Toho's '' Godzilla'' series and Daiei Film's '' Gamera'' series. However, the series also falls into the ''Kyodai'' Hero subgenre of ''tokusatsu'', a subgenre it also helped popularise. In Japan, the Ultraman brand generated in merchandising revenue from 1966 to 1987, equivalent to more than adjusted for inflation. Ultraman was the world's third top-selling licensed character in the 1980s, largely due to his popularity in Asia. References to Ultraman are abundant in Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman X
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. The 27th entry to the ''Ultra Series'', it is currently the last series to air as part of the ''Ultraman Retsuden, New Ultraman Retsuden'' programming block on TV Tokyo. On July 13 Crunchyroll announced it would be simulcast in North America on their site and app, making it the first tokusatsu show in the world to be simulcast while airing in Japan. Story A solar flare called the has awakened mysterious Out-of-place artifact, OOPArts known as Spark Dolls from the depths of the earth and the ocean, materializing them into rampaging monsters that terrorize the Earth. Due to this, UNVER was formed to gather, collect and secure unstable Spark Dolls and a new attack team was formed, Xio to combat monster threats. Fifteen years later, Daichi Ozora, a member of Xio's Lab Team who was orphaned when his parents got lost in the Ultra Flare, bonds and transforms into Ultraman X to battle threats from both aliens and monst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Ginga S
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and a sequel to ''Ultraman Ginga'', as well as part of the '' New Ultraman Retsuden'' programming block on TV Tokyo. It is the 26th entry in the ''Ultra Series''. Story After two years Ultraman Ginga left Earth, and Hikaru returns to Japan once again after gaining a strange vision during his adventure in Mexico. Once he's arrived, he discovered a new threat in the form of Alien Chibull Exceller, an alien who steals , Android One-Zero, his android enforcer and his alien minions. Alarmed by the theft of the Victorium, the , a group of ancient civilians that live underground sent Sho to retrieve it and bestow him an ancient relic, the that transforms him into their protector, . Hikaru was dragged into the battle again after being recruited into UPG (Ultra Party Guardians), an attack team formed by the International Defense Forces after various paranormal incidents. He reunites with Ultraman Ginga and joins forces w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Ginga
, is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions. It is the 25th entry to the ''Ultra Series'', released to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. It is the first entry in the New Generation series, ending a six year long hiatus of live action shows produced in Japan after ''Ultraman Mebius'' concluded in 2007. It aired as part of the '' New Ultraman Retsuden'' programming block on TV Tokyo from July 10, 2013 to December 18, 2013. A second season titled ''Ultraman Ginga S'' aired in 2014. Story All of the Ultramen and monsters have been turned into figures known as and become scattered throughout the universe. A young man named Hikaru Raidō finds an item called the which not only allows him to become Ultraman Ginga but also allows him to go with the figures to revert them to their rightful size and become one with them. Hikaru fights with his friends to uncover the darkness behind the Spark Dolls. Alien Nackie drops a clue that the wielder of darkness re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle
is the first season of its series that is the 21st entry in the Tsuburaya Productions' long-running Ultra Series. It is an adaption of the video game ''Mega Monster Battle: ULTRA MONSTERS''. The show first aired on December 1, 2007 and concluded on February 23, 2008. On December 20, 2008, the second season titled premiered. ''Ultra Galaxy'' was the first Ultra Series to be shown as a pay-per-view service. On July 25, 2017, Toku announced that the series (along with its second season) would air in the United States on its channel with English subtitles beginning August 31, 2017. 50 years after the extinction of monsters, humanity had finally advanced to outer space. The crews of Space Pendragon were tasked to investigate Planet Boris after communications on that planet were mysteriously halted. Arriving on the planet, the crew was astonished to find it inhabited by monsters, with every nearby city destroyed. While forced to wait for reinforcements, the crew must solve the myste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Mebius
is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting. It is the 20th TV series and 40th anniversary production in the Ultra Series, which first began in 1966. It premiered on the Tokyo Broadcasting System on April 8, 2006. Unlike the two prior entries, ''Ultraman Nexus'' (2004) and ''Ultraman Max'' (2005), ''Mebius'' was moved from Saturday mornings to Saturday evenings at 05:30 and the show went on to air in Korea in April 2012. On October 22, 2014, Crunchyroll announced that the entire series would be available that day on their streaming service for the US, Canada, Latin America, Mainland Europe (except France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Austria, Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Monaco, Liechtenstein and Former Communist and Non-communist states in Eastern Europe (eg, Central, Post-Soviet states in Europe and Southeastern Europe), and Finland, Iceland and Norway, Denmark and Sweden), UK and Ireland, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman Max
is a Japanese Tokusatsu series produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. Released as the 19th ''Ultra Series'', it aired from July 2, 2005, until April 1, 2006. The show aimed to return to the fast-paced formula of encountering a new monster each week, similar to the previous series, with the exception of ''Ultraman Nexus''. On October 10, 2014, Crunchyroll announced that the series would be broadcast on their streaming service starting on October 17, 2014, in the US, Canada, Latin America, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. On January 27, 2017, the US television channel TOKU announced that the series would be broadcast in the United States on its channel with an English dub beginning February 27, 2017, making it the fifth Ultra Series to air in the United States after ''Ultraman'', ''Ultra Seven'', '' Ultraman: Towards the Future'' (originally in English without a Japanese dub) and ''Ultraman Tiga''. Synopsis In the 21st century, multiple phenome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ultimate Hero
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultraman 80
is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show produced by Tsuburaya Productions which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System channel from April 2, 1980, to March 25, 1981, lasting a total of 50 episodes. After going off the air in 1981, the network still aired weekly reruns of the show. It was the ninth TV show in the Ultra Series and began a week after the conclusion of the anime series ''The Ultraman'', bringing the franchise back to its live-action roots. It would be the last Ultraman TV series for Japanese audiences during the following 16 years until the production of ''Ultraman Tiga''. Plot Following the end of the 1979-80 anime ''The Ultraman'', ''Ultraman 80'' returns to the setting of the main Showa continuity, taking place after 5 years of peace since the end of ''Ultraman Leo''. A new middle school teacher Takeshi Yamato is actually the disguised Ultra from the Land of Light, Ultraman 80, whose mission is to fight a new wave of monsters resulted from Minus Energy while stabilizing h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redman (TV Series)
is a Japanese ''tokusatsu'' television series. A Kyodai Hero programme, featuring the titular hero growing to immense size and fighting similarly sized monsters. Originally broadcast as 138 five-minute segments as part of the children's variety show '' Ohayo! Kodomo Show'' on Nippon TV, it was produced by Tsuburaya Productions. ''Redman'' was initially aired between April 3, 1972, to September 8 of that same year. In 2016, Tsuburaya Productions uploaded the series to its official YouTube channel. It is similar in many ways to Tsuburaya Productions' other Kyodai Hero programmes, particularly the Ultra Series, with all of Redman's foes being reused Ultra Series monsters. The titular hero, described as a peace-loving alien from Planet Red in the Red Nebula, has a reputation among fans for the level of aggression he displays in fights, earning the fan nickname of . Redman's original premise, similar to that of various other Tsuburaya Kyodai Heroes, is that he is an incorporeal alien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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