New 2008 Ultraman Movie

[sennetari]

Wow! I'm psyched! It appears that Tiga will be back for a team-up movie with other seven Ultras in 2008!!! (Anyone who can read Japanese, please feel free to correct me if I've written anything wrong here.)

Apart from Tiga, it is not yet confirmed who the other Ultras would be, but here are a few of my choices, in no particular order:

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[sandpanther]

Uh, quick and dirty (I'll do a better translation later): Daigo/Tiga will be the main focus of the story, though Hayata/Original will appear as a sempai. They are planning on having 8 Ultra brothers, though which is yet to be determined.

Kirishima Yuusuke's mentioned as being the oldest main character Ultraman.

Oh, it'll be out next fall. Probably just in time for me to miss it in the theaters again. :P

[sennetari]

8 Ultra brothers? Now I'm not quite sure if that number includes Tiga.

I appreciate the translation. Thank you. :)

[verusmayaii]

Agreed wholeheartedly. On the upside, if Captain Ryuu will be showing up I'll watch it anyway.

[sandpanther]

*stares at list* My reality hurts now... Two or three of them, actually. I'll be intrigued on how they get all these alt-verses to work together.

Ordered Tiga on DVD today, since I've never seen it in Japanese. My only memory of it in English was that it was horrific, and hoshikage and I were wondering what it was like in Japanese, since it seemed like there might have once been a decent story there -- before it got folded, spindled and Americanized.

[sennetari]

You know, I keep hearing about this horrific English dubbed version of Tiga and can't help being curious about it. Still, I should probably count myself lucky that I've never watched anything other than the subbed version and the original Japanese version. Ha ha.

Seriously, to me Tiga has more than decent storytelling. If not for this series, I probably would not have given other Ultraman series a (re)try and then I wouldn't be on LJ talking about Mebius.

And the list that I posted? I finally managed to track down the original (or so I believe) blog post it came from. Maybe the post might shed some light on the movie or make the matter more confusing? Although from what little I can understand, this doesn't seem to be any kind of official information.

[sandpanther]

Well, I have the horrible English dub on order (it includes the Japanese track), so I can post some of the fine lines from that show once I get it.

Hrm... Blog post seems to be largely speculation. Though it does confirm that I need to dig around and see if I can't get any event reports from when Nishina was down at UltramanLand. I think he was down there for a week. O.O But the speculation that Ryuu will be in the new movie comes from a comment that Nishina made during one of his appearances there.

[sennetari]

I'm looking toward to seeing those fine(?) lines from the horrible dub. ^_^

That's interesting. I wonder what Nishina said to make people think he might be in the movie. In any case, I hope you can find those event reports.