Ultraman

I'll preface by saying that I've never seen the original Ultraman TV series and only ever seen a single Ultraman movie at a film festival before watching this series.

Overall I enjoyed the show, the story kept be interested from the first episode and the animation style feels like a unique mix of different kinds of CG. The action sequences were better produced than the drama ones where the animation felt clumsy and unnatural. Although I did like this take on the suits, felt reminiscent of the Guyver animated series.

The audio dubbing in English was not very good, and I just got the feeling that the voice actors didn't make the roles their own, just felt amateurish. The subtitles in English were also inconsistent with the dubbing. After watching several scenes from the first episodes with both on, I felt the dialogue of the English dub was more idiomatic, so I decided to go with the dubbing instated of the subtitles for this series. In the end I wouldn't recommend this, the dialogue got overly simplistic with little nuance or depth.. but maybe that would have been the case either way.

I still have an episode to enjoy. Overall, I liked this series.

The animations are a huge success. They are apparently composed of images from several competing technologies: for instance, the explosions during the fights or the halo of flames enveloping sometimes Ultraman are radically different from the almost-static plans of civilians. This mixture is elegant.

On the other hand, the dialogues, the voices as well as certain plot twists, sometimes quite naive, indicate clearly that the targeted public is rather young, even very young. Not exclusively, but essentially.

Try it... and you might want to adopt it!

I really liked it - another boy realisation anime but i like those.

My review is based on jap audio

Some of the voice actors are brilliant! I could listen to that alien all day! (In Japanese)

Genuinely very exciting in places, it's a cool series, superhero based, progressive. Yep.

The animation is fantastic. The story and dialog could use some help. The intelligence and fighting ability of characters change too drastically for no real reason. I'm not talking about when main character's awakened moment, that I have no problem with.

Like all foreign anime or film, watching it dubbed ruins in. Trust.

Watch this show and everything else in orignal language with subtitels. Add a star to all the other ratings if they have watched english.