Re: Upcoming BCI Ultraman DVD is pretty suspicious . . .
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Originally Posted by Radioman970
Hey John! Thanks for commenting on my little review. I can tell you know a lot about the show.
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I do. I am an info trivia freak (thanks to great experts such as August Ragone and Bob Johnson). Remember, I'm a big fan of Japanese monster movies & superhero shows.
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| I think the Japanese credits are better constructed as well. It's a little offputting that they run the title song twice. It's a shame the second time isn't an instrumental version. Still, I think it's a better credit sequence as well. However, it's not what I watched when I was a kid so I don't like it as much. Although the show holds up well it's a lot of nostalgia for me personally. The original opening credits is easy to get used to. |
Remember that the full "Song of Ultraman" theme song was three verses long. Two verses were used for the credits, because ALL of the credits are at the beginning, rather than at the end.
If you watched the English version, then it sounds like they repeated the English version of the song (which only had ONE verse!). The theme sounds better when you watch the Japanese credits. It has a better flow.
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| I'll probably only ever watch it dubbed since this is a kids show I grew up with. I kind of like the extra scenes placed back in with the subs, but otherwise I'm going with dubbed all the way. |
Well, watch it in Japanese/subs at least once. You'd be surprised. Besides, it's a lot of fun, especially to hear the actors in their original voices.
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| I felt when Ultraman lets out a yell it's a little loud. My dog stops whatever she's doing and watches the show for a bit. She's a TV watching dog anyway, but she's definitely interested in Ultraman's yells. I kind of like it too, gets your attention. |
Ultraman always yelled! (It didn't make sense for the US dubbing crew, it seems.) "Shuwatch!" was a trademark cry he always had. (With Ultra Seven, it's "Dua!") Otherwise, some of the other classic Ultramen shared the same voice in later shows.
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I'll have no problem upgrading if the rightful company gives the english release another go. Maybe they will do some branching so you can have the original credits play with no extra scenes inserted, or other combinations. I'll take it exactly as shown when I was little.
Oh, did the show have closing credits? I don't remember if my old boots had it. I'll check next time I think about it. |
The show did not have any closing credits whatsoever. All of the credits, as I said, are at the beginning. It was the same exact deal with all of the shows up to
Ultraman Leo. The US version, however, had brief closing credit cards, crediting the series to "TBS Productions" (TBS, Tokyo Broadcasting System, was the
network the show broadcast on in Japan, rather than the production company, Tsuburaya Productions, which wasn't credited in the US) and United Artists Television.
Ultra Q, the first Ultra Series (and in B&W), followed a similar pattern, only after the "Ultra Q" title at the beginning (which used the same "swirling paint" effect as that of
Ultraman), there was a prologue (which each episode had), followed by the opening credits (there were different opening credits in each episode), and all episodes ended with "The End." (At least one episode had all the credits at the end rather than at the beginning!) August Ragone aptly calls
Ultra Q a half-hour Toho Monster movie!
They are just above bootleg in quality and that ain't right. I'd order this mid-oct if I was sure it was something worth owning.
