#Ultraman darkness heels

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (November 26-December 2, 2023)

I wasn't over the moon when Toho announced that Takashi Yamazaki's Blockbuster Monster Movie was in fact the next Godzilla film. I had seen a few of his works—none bad, but none spectacular either. Well, I've set my sights on watching the rest in the new year, because Godzilla Minus One is an unqualified masterpiece. A tagline from the original Godzilla, King of the Monsters! comes to mind (as it often does when you're me): "Mightiest melodrama of them all!" A lot of the post-Showa films suffer from an abundance of characters who just spout exposition and look at monitors; here, almost everyone in the small cast gets at least one close encounter with Godzilla, and the monster's backstory is conveyed with extreme efficiency. This tale of a war veteran trying to rebuild his life in the ruins of Tokyo, stumbling into a family, finding fulfillment in blowing up leftover mines, and haunted by what he perceives as his cowardice in combat, would have been plenty compelling without Godzilla.

Since it does have Godzilla, it's high on my list of the best movies of the year, and I only need one viewing to call it one of the best installments in the almost-70-year-old series. Yamazaki patiently waited some 15 years after Always: Sunset on Third Street 2 for his shot at a Godzilla feature. You certainly get the sense, watching one of the most brutal, pissed-off incarnations of the monster ever to grace the screen, that he spent every day of it in preparation. Watch it often while it's still in theaters, and watch it big.

Godzilla Minus One will gross about $10 million in its U.S. opening "weekend", a third-place finish that beat expectations. For context, Godzilla 2000, the last Toho Godzilla film to receive a wide release here, made about $10 million during its entire theatrical run here. Ticket prices were cheaper then, of course, and Minus One was helped along further by almost half of attendees going to premium-format screenings. Conversely, it had to overcome Americans' subtitle phobia, and the first weekend of December is usually a slow one. I was pessimistic at the outset, but now I expect larger theaters to carry the film into the new year, especially with near-universal raves from critics and audiences.

Yes, a third section for Godzilla Minus One; it's well-deserved, I promise. MyKaiju is risking life and limb by hosting an English translation of the film's novelization, written by Takashi Yamazaki himself. It appears to be at least partially machine-translated, but the Japanese text is included for comparison. Haven't read it yet, as I want to see the film a second time first, but quite a breakthrough given how mysterious this sort of thing usually is.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters could never hope to compare with the opening of a stellar new Godzilla film; unfortunately, I also thought this week's episode was the weakest so far. It's bookended by Frost-Vark action, but the rest just drags. All's forgiven if the teacher and the hacker smooch though.

Toho and Legendary used to let each other's live-action Godzilla movies breathe; now the U.S. opening weekend of one is coinciding with the opening marketing push of the other. IGN released a trio of pics from Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, showing Kong with his axe; Dr. Andrews, Jia, and Trapper (Dan Stevens's character) in uniform; and Godzilla "evolving into a powerful new form." The same article included an interview with director Adam Wingard. Naturally, he didn't give away much... besides the return of Doug.

Earlier in the week, Legendary put out a trio of posters featuring Godzilla, Kong, and the film's antagonist, now christened Skar King. The taglines ("Unite" for our heroes, "Bow to Your King" for SK) sound like kaiju campaign slogans. Makes me wonder if, like Godzilla vs. Megalon before it, the movie will improbably capitalize on the presidential election next year. To steal a joke from Titanollante: Godzilla/Kong unity ticket? They'd have my vote.

Godzilla's new form, meanwhile, has already been spoiled by a T-shirt on Legendary's own site and some dire-looking Playmates figures. It makes sense that Wingard would want to have his own spin on the character after keeping the design from Godzilla: King of the Monsters for Godzilla vs. Kong. Hard to cast judgment without seeing the real design in full, but there's one particular detail I really like.

The film also has a booth at CCXP in Brazil, with a panel later today, so I think a trailer is incoming (the main reason I hammered out this whole post so quickly).

I missed this one last week: Tsuburaya announced an anime project called Ultraman: DARKNESS HEELS. The DARKNESS HEELS branding has been around for a while, spotlighting prominent evil Ultras—and, of course, Jugglus Juggler. No details on the anime yet, but if the Juggleman's there, so am I.

The big toy reveal this weekend was Super7's ULTIMATES! MaiGoji figure. Previous Godzilla figures from this line haven't lived up to the official photos, but hope springs eternal. It's $85 (much less than the MonsterArts); preorders started Friday. Other highlights: a Super7 ReAction figure of the original Godzilla's skeleton, which comes with a little Oxygen Destroyer, and a plush Mothra from Surreal Entertainment that can flip to imago form to a neck pillow-shaped larva.

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DARKNESS HEELS ANIME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[animemakeblog]

“Ultraman: Darkness Heels” The Anime Project Announced

At its Tsuburaya Convention 2023 event, Tsuburaya Productions revealed a teaser image for the anime adaptation of the Ultraman franchise's Darkness Heels project (see above).

[mukkuruingly]

I saw people reblogging my old Ultra Signs post which is… completely outdated by now given that its last signature was Ultraman X's. So here's my updated 2022 version starting from Ultraman to Ultraman Decker, including the Darkness Heels gang and the rest of Tsupro's Heroes!

I'm still waiting for Regulos' and Blazar's, so whenever Tsupro reveals their signatures, I'll be sure to update it again.

[ultramantr1gger]

goodnight

[cultfaction]

Ultraman: Darkness Heels announced

The official Tsuburaya Productions Twitter account has announced that Darkness Heels will get an anime adaption. Darkness Heels is a project that unites the “dark heroes” that appeared in the Ultraman franchise. Members of this group are: Ultraman Belial, Dark Zagi, Evil Tiga, Camearra, and Jugglus Juggler. ◢◤ DARKNESS HEELS ◢◤ ウルトラマンシリーズに登場するダークヒーローたちを主役としたプロジェクト『DARKNESS…

[blairelythere]

Hiiiii, I’m curious about your Ultraman collection. Care to give me an info dump about all your cool stuff?

I'd love to! Here's a very brief overview of the collection thus far.

This is the henshin/transformation device shelf. Starting from the top left and working across, there's the Dark Z Riser (from Ultraman Z), Saki's Gyro (Ultraman R/B), D-Flasher (Ultraman Decker), the Sparklence (Ultraman Tiga), and the Reiflasher (Ultraman Dyna). Those last two are tv-prop quality.

The next shelf down is entirely Ultraman Trigger stuff, including the Ancient, Dark, and GUTS Spark Lenses, and a bunch of Hyper Keys.

Below that is the Orb Ring and the Orb Calibur (From Ultraman Orb), and then the Geed Rizer, Ultra Capsules, King Sword, and the Neo Zero Eye (from Ultraman Geed).

This is the old Ultra Monster Series shelf for figures 2012 and back. I have some vintage figures from the 70s mixed in there, all with the tags.

This is the new Ultra Monster Series shelf, holding all of the smaller, less detailed figures from the new UMS line starting in 2013.

Here is a big shot of the SH Figuarts shelves + the new and old Ultra Hero Series lines. The very top has New Gen DX-scale figures. The lower shelves have all the new Blazar stuff as well as some rarer boxed UHS figures.

This one is kinda messy, I have to work on reorganizing them soon!

Left to right: Techtor Gear Zero, Ultrawoman Grigio, Ultraman Orb Thunder Breaster, Ultraman Geed (Royal Mega Master. Galaxy Rising, and Magnificent), Ultraman Regulos, Ultraman Ribut, Zetton, Gomora, Twin Tail, Ultraman Dyna and Ultraman Decker (With Baltan hiding behind them).

The Ultraman Z Shelf!!!

Left to right, back then front: Sevenger, Windom, King Joe Storage Custom, then Ultraman Z Delta Rize Claw, Z Alpha Edge, Z Gamma Future, and Z Beta Smash.

Darkness Heels, a team of villains and anti-heroes.

Jugglas Juggler, Camearra, Evil Trigger, Belial Atrocious, and Absolute Tartarus in the back.

New Gen base form lineup!

Left to right:

Ginga, Victory, X, Orb, Geed, Zero, Taiga, Fuma, Z, and Trigger. (Missing Rosso, Blu, and Titas ;_; )

The Ultra Brothers shelf ✨️

Ultraman, Zoffy, Seven, Jack, Taro, and then Astra, Leo, and Mebius in the back. (WHY DID I MISS ACE'S RELEASE GODDAMNIT)

Bonus Hanejiro!!

That's just a lil slice of it all. Thanks for asking! 💛

[kn96artworks]

✨happy wedding✨

(+) setting stuffs:

- team storage attends as jugs family lol

- it is officiated by ultraman king

- noa(!!) came to give his blessing. no one knows how did that even happen

- darkness heels team are there too. fukuide kei is lamenting the fact that it 'could've been him and belial-sama'.

- "zero-san." "yea?" "can you hit my head really hard? "...why?" "i need to unhear something."

- decor and flower arrangement courtesy of trigger and grigio

- haruki and zett ugly crying in happiness for togetoge seijin and senior disciple orb in sync

- 1 year supply of shiipin 929 courtesy of gourman hakase as wedding gift. it was noted to give mebius a mild war flashback

[streamingfanatic1963]

ULTRAMAN NEW GENERATION STARS Episode 13 "Darkness Heels" -Official- Pre...

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Future Plans

Making this my pinned to update as I finish stuff. Since most of my followers got here through my don TL they may not know that I was actually just a manga translator prior to it, and that's what basically all my projects going forward are gonna be.

Also a reminder that if you don't wanna see reblogs about transgender sex you can jsut follow my wordpress blog instead!

Sorting in order of priority, so the stuff I'm focusing on immediately is at the top and future projects at the bottom:

Madan Senki Ryukendo:

This one is absolute #1 on my priority list, since it's a collaborative project with bereke, this one's gonna come out on their site exclusively, so I won't be posting about it on here.

Ultraman Nexus Manga:

Sorta tied as priority #1, and should be out pretty quickly once I finish up with ryukendo, unless ive completely forgotten how to do scantalation. chapter 1&2 are already out on mangadex! (follow the group link on the chapters to see the other stuff I've tled on there too)

Ultraman Geed: Another Gene:

Someone kindly sent me the raws for this back in december! So once nexus is wrapped up I'll be moving on to this Geed side story. It's only 1 chapter so it'll be a very one and done sort of thing once I get to it.

Darkness Heels -Lili-:

Lili is sorta in publication limbo at this point, I've actually subbed everything that's out atm except for the bonus chapter in volume 2, which I'm holding off on for 2 reasons- 1: I don't want to release volume exclusive content and risk potentially harming the sales of said volume when the author has confirmed that the series future depends on it. If you've read lili and enjoyed it please buy the physical releases! 2: I don't actually even have a scanner so there's no way for me to even get the chapter short of taking photos with my phone, which would obv be super low quality. If there's eventually a confirmation of cancellation or further publication I'll probably just bite the bullet and use the phone pics, but if anyone happens to have scans and wants to send them my way I'd appreciate it!

Kamen Rider Kaixa Manga:

Surprise! I actually stared working on this last year in like, june. I'd planned originally to have ch1 out for 913 day but don kinda just took all my time. That said with what I have left to do before this it might still manage to release on 913 day. Also there's only the first 3 chapters available scanned online, so this is just gonna be them unless I can find further raws available somewhere.

That's It!

I don't have anything planned beyond these projects, so if I get to the end of this and haven't found something else to work on I'll probably end up just picking up ohger again (assuming it doesn't turn out to be awful anyway).

Or idk, maybe ill just go back to translating doujins at the end of it all.

[gonagaiworld]

Il progetto Darkness Heels del franchise Ultraman avrà un anime Il progetto è incentrato sugli eroi oscuri del franchise come Ultraman Belial, Dark Zagi e Evil Tiga. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/il-progetto-darkness-heels-del-franchise-ultraman-avra-un-anime/?feed_id=412857&_unique_id=6561f482de7a7 #DarknessHeels #TsuburayaConvention2023 #Ultraman #ツブコン2023

[thekaijudude]

Any idea if the recent tsupro announcement about the November expo is gonna introduce a new Seven show or movie?

It states that they're considering "other projects" (in reference to Seven) once Seven's 55th anniversary thingy concludes at said expo

Ah yes I see youve read the news as well

I talked about this before like a few months ago I believe but in light of Tsubucon approaching as well as new information released, I might as well go through it again.

So if yall recall the leaked TsuPro documents, specifically the one that shows the timeline of the international expansion plans, there should be 2 more Shinverse Installments, one in 2024/25, the other in 2027/28

This is also consistent with one of the ShinU docs that showed Anno had proposed 2 more sequels for ShinU. But iirc the first was actually a Return of Ultraman adaptation, bascially ShinU 2, and only the third was Shin Ultraseven.

(I believe u can still find this document online)

So in all, I believe other than what was announced in the program lineup, there wont be anymore Seven-related projects until probably the next Tsubucon in 2025 based on what we know specifically regarding Seven

The most that can be expected for this is TsuPro randomly deciding against previous expectations to bring Shin Ultraseven forward and push ShinU 2 backward (dosent actually make sense continuity wise tho)

They might as well keep the previous arrangement and release Shin Ultraseven in 2027, for Seven's 60th Anniversary

So with regards to the "other projects", its either Shin Ultraseven or simply just some unimportant Tsuburaya Imaginations jazz that people outside of Japan won't be too interested in nor can we access it either anyways (does anyone even remember the Another Gene comic?)

To answer your implicit question and others that would most definitely ask next, as for what other possible projects could be announced, it should be ShinU 2, Blazar movie, UGF4, Netflix Movie, Gaia spin-off and Kaiju Decode would be the expected ones

Otherwise, the "expected-unexpected" ones imo would be another Gridman Installment, AU netflix series of the Ultraman Novel and/or a Darkness Heels anime adaptation

The most unexpected ones I can think of is a JJ spin-off (which was hinted at on twitter from his VA) and another Regulus spin-off (which may pushback UGF4 so I hope this dosent happen)

Thanks for the question!

[thouser-intellion]

Darkness Heels

[ultramantr1gger]

my wish is to post darkness heels manga screenshots and somebody doesnt recognize its from ultraman

[himitsusentaiblog]

An ad for the new Darkness Heels Halloween event featuring Ultra Villains!

[ask-cloverfield]

Ah the most traditional of team ups

The Wandering Samurai and LITERAL CLONE OF GOD