Ultraseven Is Pretty Fantastic 

In case anyone is wondering, that 'proto-pokemon' remark isn't a joke. Pokemon's creator literally said Ultraseven's capsule monsters were an inspiration for the series.

"Man, Hideaki Anno's really deep with his Judeo-Christian symbolsism. We mere mortals can hardly fathom what's going on inside his genius brain." Anno's brain: "uLTrasEveN, yURiKo HisHImi" I'd be the same if I'd grown up with this.

The final two episodes of Ultraseven still make for one of the most memorable, exciting finales in the Ultra series, possibly tokusatsu as a whole. By then it's more than apparent why Ultraseven was as influential as it was. Good video.

If Shin Ultraman is being in production, i think that will marvelous to see Shin Ultraseven.

My favorite moment with Ultraseven is in Ultraman Orb's Movie when Ultraseven arrives and it was just... Monster: Seven? X: Seven? Ginga: Seven? Victory: Seven? Crystal Villain, frusterated: SEVEN! SEVEN!! SEVEN!!!

It makes me so happy to see that people actually remember Ultraseven (or Ultraman in general) in 2021. It really played a large part of my childhood. I still have a few of those Bandai vinyl Ultraman figures which serve as a reminder of the good ol’ days

Honestly, Ultraseven is when the Ultra Series BECAME the Ultra Series; for me, at least. Ultra Q and Ultraman both touched upon that sense of tone and the way it’s expressed through experimental filmmaking, but Seven made it its creative backbone. Over time, through gradual integration, it became (again, for me) the core ingredient behind what makes the best Ultraman shows just pop.

The size of the whole Ultraman series scared me at first but I admit that Ultraseven is one of the best series I have ever watched,you did a good review on this one.

I personally consider Ultraseven to be the peak of Showa Ultra series, at least in terms of writing; the fact that the content is accessible to small children without losing its maturity is a testament to how good it is. It's not perfect (“The Terrifying Super-Simian” was honestly a weak episode) but it's still pretty consistent in quality. “The Superweapon R1” is definitely a very influential episode on later series, with its message repeated in Taro (Mururoa's episode), 80 (Gauss), Gaia (the whole deal with the underground missile and the warp bomb) and even Z's final arc. Goes to show that even if we've left the Cold War behind, we should never forget Dan's words about the endless marathon we run whilst coughing up blood. Side note: I wonder if you're going to review Heisei Ultraseven and Ultraseven X? The former follows up a bit on some plotlines left hanging in the original and the latter significantly dials up the grittiness, both of which might be interesting to talk about

I really like UltraSeven's ambition and everything about him. He's a part time scientist and fighter, that's some impressive stuff for an alien like him

Seven is an incredible show, especially with its sequel. Love how the themes and emotions are presented in its surrealism and cinematography. Thought it was cool as a kid, loved it even more as an adult. Thanks very much for this review!

The Targeted Town is like the single best episode of television ever, don't @ me

Ultraseven is one of my favorite Ultras. He has been in a lot of other Ultra shows besides his own. Ultra Galaxy Fight, Leo, and was inspiration for Ultraman Seven in the Netflix Ultraman series. He is also the father of Ultraman Zero. Seven is equally as popular the original Ultraman.

海外にも正しくウルトラマン・ウルトラセブンを 理解してくれている人がいてうれしい。 いつか一緒に酒飲もうぜ。

Ultraseven is one of my favorite ultras since i love his design, abilities, strength, and the first ep of Ultraseven came out at the same day as my birthday, i watch some fights when i was young, but now i want to watch the whole series

Ultraseven is my most favorite. Unique among the Ultras, he possesses no color timer. 7 is my favorite number. And the fact of being overpowered, he still fights back.

I loved Ultraman, I remember first watching it when my dad was stationed in Okinawa in 1968. Fond memory's. There was another one that no one seems to remember but I liked too. Spectreman, aired from 1971-72. Had 63 episodes.

Coming to this series as a new viewer, I was impressed by how similar to The Outer Limits it was in both theme and experimentation. But with arguably better camera work overall. It certainly leaned into being a Science Fiction show more than say Ultraman did.

Would you consider Ultraseven has a great introduction to older Toku?

I was introduced into Ultraseven before I even saw Ultraman when I was a kid in the mid 80s and I loved it so much. The thing about it being more mature was in fact strong because I was introduced to gore like decapitations in this series and death of loving non human characters in a tragic manner. It was my favorite as a kid.

Ultraseven, a show so gangster that the theme is used to make an anime world champion bear-punching boxer MORE heroic.

you should also review the sequel to the original ultraseven series which is the ultraseven heisei trilogy series. I swear to god its the best series ive watched of the Heisei era of tokusatsu. They even revisited the non malt conflict in the original Ultraseven and explored it even further.

While I don't know much about the Ultraseries, I am very awestruck by the shots used in this video. The lighting and camera work is simply immaculate.

Now this is an intro to Ultra7's amazingness.

This season is so great I haven't even finished it but it's still great. It characterized Dan as Ultraseven more and the UG feel a lot more badass. Plus the plots improved a lot. Anne is also lovely.

Amazing! I've been a fan of the franchise since the 70's. That's very strange even though I was a kid then, I could grasp almost every detail that sounds philosophical to this day.

Still Love Ultraseven. There is something about the design of Ultraseven that is really nice. So happy to be able to watch more Ultraman series on RU-vid.

out of the ultra brothers, Ace was the one that attracted me the most. Then I saw how serious ultraseven show was...oof...thats good stuff there. I do hope to see a review for Ace cuz i feel he's rather underrated

I feel if Tsuburaya really wants to do the "Shin" approach, Ultraseven would be the best entry to do that. Even though I'm okay with Shin Ultraman, but I will pay more money to see Shin Ultraseven. 😃

One of your best videos yet. Very grateful for the way you thoughtfully comb through your subject matter - no small task with these tokusatsu series. Excellent

I have been waiting for this video for a while, and you did not disappoint. In fact, despite being an Ultraseven fan for so long you've opened my eyes to more about this series than I initially realized. Thanks.

I recall very fond memories growing up watching Ultraseven and Mazinger Z. Thank you for your wonderful video.

Episode 12 of Ultraseven was deleted from the series in Japan. That episode was discussing nuclear radiation, but the design of the alien in that episode hurts the feeling of the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing. Later they decided to remove that episode from the Ultraseven series.

The scene where Dan reveals his true identity to Anne is one seriously underrated work of art Also I'm definitely not the only one who simps on Anne 😂

7:55, we could all do with Ultra Seven to help out with Covid 19 right now.

Hey have you every considered talking about ultraman tiga? It was the first ultraman I have every seen, and I had fond memeories of it. The effects in it is incredible with hyper-detailed monster suits (some of them genuinely terrifying), a good blend between practical effects and cgi, and very convincing looking optical shots. Many of them still holds up, and even looks better than some of the later installments in the series. The choreograpy is also much better though I can't say much about it because I don't know much about stunt performances. Its production value was off the roof, and they also sometimes try out new ideas in both narrative and filming. Have you seen it before? If you have, what are your thoughts on it?

Never thought i'd find a channel that focuses on Toku video essays! Keep it up! love it.

This is the kind of comment I was waiting for UltraSeven for a very long time, and you did it. Awesome work ! Well done !

Ultraseven would also father the coolest Ultraman ever, Ultraman Zero!

Great video...though I disagree on one point: series like these ARE fine art!

Thank you for making such great videos.

That they made this 50+ yrs ago, and 50 episodes in one year is incredible.

I remember ultraseven. Especially how dark it was.

Yes

THIS IS A MONUMENTAL ENDING! A masterpiece episode. a work of art. a work of a visualist ! An Ode to Perfection !! Tsuburaya outdid himself this time. the perfect sync between Piano Concerto in A Minor, 1st Movement: Allegro Affettuoso (Robert Schumann) and the battle between U7 and Pandon cant be recreated not even by Hollywood. What a masterpiece . I remember watching this episode almost 30 years ago and made me cry in a way i had never cried before. not because it is sad but because it is emotionally beautiful. You can feel it ! You can almost feel like you are part of the experience. The pain..the sacrifice..the struggle.....the idea that nomatter what you got to go till the end to save those you love....this is an universal theme. In Rolling Stones maganize I think from 1978m Steven Spielberg once said he was shocked after having watched some episodes of UltraSeven ..this one to be more specific. he also said that one of U7 episodes served him as an inspiration to visually create one of the scenes found in Close encouters of third kind. The scene where the boy opens de door and all that sparkling rainbow of colors shows up was taken from Perolinga episode. Thank you so much Tsuburaya for giving us this masterpiece !! You gave us a path to take in our lives!

Ultraseven is personally my favourite in the ultra franchise I like how the characters get a lot of development even Ultraseven himself is a more fleshed out character, i absolutely love the creative designs of the aliens and monsters (my personal favourites being eleking, windom, king joe and pandon) and while they may look abit cheesy and outdated nowadays I like the effects in the series it’s kinda like a mixture between thunderbirds and the original lost in space series overrall I adore Ultraseven honestly I would say it’s better than the original ultraman series

Awesome and thoughtful review! Just finished this show and loved it!

Nice, new video time~ keep up the good work dude, I always enjoy your content

Dark Zone, The Targeted Town, Super Weapon R-1, Ambassador of the Nonmalt, and the episode 12 are great enough to deserve a single deep analysis video.

「こちらが強力な兵器を作れば、敵はもっと強力な兵器を作りますよ。」 「敵がそれより強力な兵器を作れば、それよりももっと強力な兵器を作ればいいじゃないか。」 「それでは血を吐きながら走り続ける悲しいマラソンですよ。」 これ５０年も前の日本の子供番組「ウルトラセブン」の中のでのセリフですよ。今でも通用するセリフですよね。

A very wonderful insight and review of the series !! Thank you very much! I wish to hear your opinion on Izenborg!! There's a comic of it coming this year !!

The best Ultra series of all time

Can't wait for the next video!

Cinematography is insanely rad

Watching this back in the day really brings nostalgia to me.

日本から。現在、世田谷の祖師ヶ谷大蔵、ウルトラマン商店街に住んでいる54歳の日本人です。今は砧からも八幡山からも円谷プロダクションはなくなってしまいましたが、毎日、ウルトラマンの街灯に囲まれて暮らしています。こうした環境を街が作り出したのも、過去に、この“ウルトラセブン”のような傑作が作られ、未だに多くの人々から愛されているからだと思います。情熱的なレポートで紹介してくれたことを感謝します。“シン・ウルトラセブン”の製作にも期待したいですね。

Today Is Ultraseven's 55th Anniversary

Great series and review man! I have the dvd box set and watched it years ago. I was kinda bummed out that one of the episodes was so controversial that it was banned from release to the set though.

"This is a story of a far distant future. Why is that, you ask? Because humans don't trust each other enough for aliens to prey on them." When I heard that line, I felt that if aliens were to invade us, they wouldn't even have to use our trust against us. They will just wait for us to destroy ourselves.

6:20 I legit raised my eyebrows once I saw them get blown up and then you saying “eyebrow raising” I was like how tf

My entire childhood is in this show

My first ultra show when i was a kid...since the first time i saw the show..i just blown away..

Thank you for this

Thanks for the video

46 episodes later, thank you for this video and recommedation

Wow, never thought I would see anyone make a video about this Thank you man :)

As i'm a adult now, seven is still my fav ultraman.

You need to do the return of ultraman next

Love this review! As of today,new subscriber!!

Ultraseven to me is the first Ultraman. Nothing against Ultraman Hayata, it just didn't grab me the way this series did.

Anne is one of the best Ultra wai-fus! But Dino-Tank is great! He better not being saying Dino-Tank is something that doesn't always work!

Thank you for your fantastic review. Ultraseven is my most favourite ultraman series since childhood. The second one will be Ultraman Max (2005) who might be partly a more lighthearted tribute to Ultraman. Anyway, both ultramen shared many similarities e.g. outlook, weapon like eye slugger, plots, etc. I really recommend Ultraman Max to those who like Ultraseven.

Very well done on this review of Ultraseven. It gives useful insight into the series' dark tone as well as social and political commentary of the late 1960s (Cold War era.) ☺😺 '

"Some of his style is... Young boys, short shorts..." That cracks me up, made my day 🤣🤣🤣

6:25 Episode 8,: "The Marked Town". also know as "The Red Seeds"., is what partially inspired videogame director Swery65 to create the plot for his game Deadly Premonition for PS3/Xbox 360, along with being inspired by the TV series Twin Peaks, as the original name for the game was "Rainy Woods" but then that got changed to "Red Seeds Profile" for its Japanese release, while its localized title was "Deadly Premonition" as the plot for "Red Seeds Profile" was that the small town the protagonist visits as an FBI agent tring to solve a murder mystery, unfolds to said 'red seeds' that have infiltrated the townsfolk, causing them to act irradically much like ep 8 of Ultraseven.

you should make a review or at least talk about the Netflix Ultraman series, I thought it was well done. I just really wish they hadn't used CGI for an Ultraman anime, but I'll take what I can get.

He is my forever fave! Seven 4 ever!!!😍😍😍

Thank you for the review, Ultraseven is my favourite.

I'm only 19 episodes in but I love it, the strong STRONG Sci-fi elements more so then even the few other Ultra shows I've seen make it stand out more. The moments of the characters talking to Aliens like in episode 7 or 9 is something I hope more of these shows do, it's really wholesome just seeing a human character break bread with a shadow cloud Also I agree, Anne is adorable best girl :p

Good videos, good channel, auto subs. Thanks to RU-vid recommendation 😎👍

Look at these genius camera works...

I think ultraman nexus or the next would be a good idea considering it's underrated concept at that time. Would like to see your take on it!

Do you have any plan to review the newer Ultraman series? Would love to hear your thought on it.

I'm loving these videos! Are there any other tokusatsu series you would be interested in covering? would love to hear more!

ulta7 last two episodes was the best i've seen, the composition and ending was awesome.

日本語で失礼します｡ 日本の特撮に興味を持っていただき嬉しいです｡

this is pretty cool , you should do one for kamen rider kabuto , i always think that kabuto is the kamen rider equivalent of ultra seven. pretty dark theme compare to the other titles in their franchise.

Not only that, I love it too!

there's one episode eliminated from Ultraseven. Episode 12: From a planet with love(Crystalized Corpuscles), That's the episode in which Ultraseven fights off an alien invasion of space vampires. This Spell Seijin where collecting human blood to replace their radioactive poisoned blood.

subbed. great video, great channel

i never watched ultraseven but now i'm interested :)

9:17 stop, stop he's already dead ! 😭 (Rest in pieces Eleking)

50年前にこれを生み出した日本人のクリエイティブな才能

You should do one of these videos for other showa ultraman series, it would be really cool

Hesei Ultraseven also deserve its own video

I often watch it.

*Reads title* Uh durr! Yeah Ultraseven is my favorite and I do like the following Showa series non quite nailed the ensemble feel of Seven's cast.

Seven is my favorite Ultra

4:55 something similar happens in Great Mazinger 5 years later. But that time it was just because the Great Marshall of Hell had a dream in which is crucified Great Mazinger

Can you do the same video addressing Ultraman Tiga? Ultraman Tiga is a great Ultraman series that influenced by Lovecraftian Lore...