I know the past few Saturday Night Showcase installments have been on Ultraman, but I still have that annoying YouTube backlog I’m dealing with so I’m going with the easy entries. They’re posting first episodes to the TokuSHOUTsu YouTube channel and they’re short enough to check. I’m still not past the first episode of Ultraman Blazar and I was kind of iffy on the first episode. Still, even with a few more shows to Showcase I want to find a different topic, so let’s end on this one.
Ultraman Kids: 3 Million Light Years In Search Of Mother is the third installment of the Ultraman franchise. The Ultraman fan wiki says the show is non-canon but with the other universes out there I’m not sure they should bother. I still don’t expect to see them in the Ultra Galaxy Fight series, though Boy would have someone to play with. This full series comes after two short films, The Pleasant Friends Of Nebula M7.8 and Proverb Stories, which is not currently available to me. The show follows kid versions of classic Ultras having an adventure to find the parents of Maa, patterned after the classic Ultraman.
Tonight we see how Maa and his friends Piko (the only girl and not directly based on one of the Ultras), Sev (based on Ultraseven, and the one the Ultraman wiki doesn’t seem to know exists), and Taa (based on Ultraman Taro) end up in space after the last day of school, as well as the rest of the cast who will follow them later. Enjoy.
An interesting addition to the small number of animated Ultraman shows. You can see all 26 episodes on Shout Factory’s on demand site or as usual on home video from Mill Creek Entertainment.
Next week I’ll try to do something else but there’s still a few more Ultra shows to go in the future and my attempts at a work schedule keep hitting walls.
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