It can be difficult to recognize what is and isn't popular in other countries. A franchise, genre, or performer can look niche in the United States even as it becomes the most important thing in the ...

I love kaiju films! But, I especially love Godzilla. But, you see, I knew very little about Ultraman when I wrote that article. Sure, I’d seen plenty of clips of him fighting a variety of kaiju, but ...

Shinji Higuchi’s fantastic new film “Shin Ultraman” elicits a sensation that other blockbusters, huge and popular blockbusters, have often neglected: In these worlds where larger-than-life, godlike ...

Like the Ultraman stories told in Japanese films, television, and manga for decades, Shin Ultraman gives us a world that is suddenly besieged by kaiju and aliens with only a giant, shiny hero to fight ...

One of the more delightful things—aside from the movies themselves—to come out of Shinji Higuchi and Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” tokusatsu movies is the Shin Japan Heroes project, a merch collab that mashes ...

Four of the greatest, most popular icons of Japanese pop culture—Evangelion, Godzilla, Ultraman, andKamen Rider—have bonded forces to… give you some mild amusement if you happen to be located in ...

Abel Gongora, a veteran animation director, joined Season 1 to direct the iconic opening credits, which appear over Creepy Nuts’ “Otonoke” OP. In Season 2, Gongora joins Fuga Yamashiro as co-directors ...

Do you like monster movies? Massive, gargantuan creatures wreak havoc on metropolitan areas while the world’s greatest scientific, militaristic, and political minds come together to work out a ...

People took up all sorts of new hobbies and passions during the pandemic. We had to do something to quiet the existential dread on all sides. For me, I started inhaling Japan’s long-running Ultraman ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. But, you see, I knew very little about Ultraman when I wrote that article. Sure, I’d seen plenty ...