{"id":4241,"date":"2009-09-18T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T21:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=4241"},"modified":"2009-09-18T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T05:55:39","slug":"new-ultra-galaxy-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/new-ultra-galaxy-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Ultra Galaxy Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two interrelated TV series <strong>&#8212; <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/06\/say-that-again-ultraman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle<\/em><\/a> [aka Urutora Gyarakushii Daikaiju Batoru] (2007) and <em>Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle \u2013 Neverending Odyssey<\/em> [aka Urutora Garakushii Daikaiju Batoru Nebaa Endingu Odessei] (2008) &#8212; Tsuburaya Productions is in post-production of the latest feature-length incarnation of the ultra long-running giant monster-intergalactic <em>tokusatsu<\/em> series that began 43 years ago with <em>Ultra Q<\/em> [aka Urutora Q] (1965) and initiated the <em>Ultraman<\/em> series of TV shows and movies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4243\" title=\"ultra-galaxy-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy-poster.jpg\" alt=\"ultra-galaxy-poster\" width=\"386\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy-poster.jpg 386w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy-poster-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy Legend The Movie<\/strong><\/em> [Daikaij\u016b Batoru Urutora Ginga Densetsu Za M\u016bb\u012b] (Japan-2009; dir. Koichi Sakamoto) will feature characters from <em>Ultraman<\/em>, <em>Ultra Seven<\/em>, and <em>Ultraman Mebius<\/em> (as well as the 2007-2008 series), and will introduced an evil Ultraman in the person of Ultraman Belial, once imprisoned in the depths of time and space by the Ultra King and now vowing super-villain revenge on the Ultra beings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4244 aligncenter\" title=\"ultra-galaxy01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy01.jpg\" alt=\"ultra-galaxy01\" width=\"351\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy01.jpg 442w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/ultra-galaxy01-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultraman Belial apparently gets hold of one of those mysterious devices that seem to crop up from time to time, the Giga Battle Nizer, to control\u00a0one hundred Ultra Monsters, which he uses to attack the Land of Light in Nebula M78, the home of all Ultramen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier Teaser Trailer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KlcCJEEJClY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KlcCJEEJClY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Now, <em>this<\/em> is what I want from my <em>daikaiju eiga<\/em> &#8212; at least those at the very weird end of the scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Official Trailer<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeXeysn_mjw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eeXeysn_mjw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The film premieres in Japan on <span class=\"mw-formatted-date\" title=\"2009-12-12\"><span class=\"mw-formatted-date\" title=\"12-12\">12 December 2009<\/span><a title=\"2009\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2009\"><\/a><\/span>, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment Japan.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sources<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/index.html?curid=23273566\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/wwws.warnerbros.co.jp\/ultra-legend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a>. Via Enshohma. Thanks once again to Avery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/obsesses\/giant_against_giants.htm\" target=\"_blank\">See article<\/a> &#8220;A Giant Against Giants: Ultraman for the New Millennium&#8221; by Robert Hood, first published in <em>G-Fan<\/em>. It examines the franchise as at the date of writing, which was 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Various <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/daikaiju-antho\/unnatural_history\/ultraman\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Undead Backbrain reviews<\/a> of Ultraman movies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two interrelated TV series &#8212; Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle [aka Urutora Gyarakushii Daikaiju Batoru] (2007) and Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle \u2013 Neverending Odyssey [aka Urutora Garakushii Daikaiju Batoru Nebaa Endingu Odessei] (2008) &#8212; Tsuburaya Productions is in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/18\/new-ultra-galaxy-legend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,44,50,76,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4241"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4241\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}