Ultraman Season 2

A global mass disappearing event takes place among humanity. Rena and Shinjirou simultaneously vanish. In the wake of these events, freelance journalist Kotaro Higashi investigates this mysterious "disappearance incident."

The aliens behind it are the terrorist organization Dark Star. They transmit a message to those on Earth. "Give us half of the Earth, or sacrifice half of its people... make your choice." At the same time, the recently disappeared Rena and Shinjirou are teleported to the Dark Star ship orbiting the Earth.

Learning too much, Koutarou is caught in the crossfire between Dark Star and the SSSP, and is almost left for dead.... In the final battle, our heroes face off against the Golden Fortress. Facing this giant mecha destroying the city, ULTRAMAN, SEVEN and TARO are joined by ZOFFY, JACK, and ACE. At long last the 6 ULTRAMAN heroes have assembled!

(Source: Official Site)

Hayata, Shinjirou Main

Kimura, Ryouhei Japanese

Hayata, Shin Supporting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Japanese

Moroboshi, Dan Supporting

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Sayama, Rena Supporting

Morohoshi, Sumire Japanese

Hokuto, Seiji Supporting

Han, Megumi Japanese

Bemlar Supporting

Soze, Kaiji Japanese

Maaya Supporting

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Adad Supporting

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Jack Supporting

Takeuchi, Ryouta Japanese

Ide, Mitsuhiro Supporting

Uo, Ken Japanese

Kamiyama, Kenji Director

Aramaki, Shinji Director, Storyboard

Higaki, Ryou Script

Noilion Theme Song Performance

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May 27, 2022

lamaraptor

Recommended

A bit on the short side for your typical seasonal anime. Netflix seems to like drafting these 4-8 episode seasons, and I can get behind it if it means trimming some of the fat from what we're used to seeing in the standard 12-13 episodes. A problem you can run into is that with such a short series it seems like it's hard for them to come up with promotional material that doesn't just spoil everything that happens in the season. The OP and ED of the show just straight recycle a bunch of animation and show you pretty much everything that's going to happen. ... The ED less so, and I think it's still pretty stylish on it's own with the disco dancing and that groovy song. But that's a problem a have with a lot of shows generally, showing too much in the OP so that nothing in the actual show can surprise you.

The whole plot seemed like a thin excuse to introduce the new Fire Ultraman to the toy lineup and make some more of that sweet sweet merchandising revenue. They have like 6 Iron Man suits now and I think manage to get at least one shot where they're all together fighting the big bad who despite them trying their best to make intimidating still manages to just feel like generic villain of the week number 27. The blue skin girl has the best arc, and I'm not just saying that because she was hot.

Overall my feelings on this show can be described with TJ Miller's character from the emoji movie. 7/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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May 21, 2022

GalacticMagna

Recommended

Season 1 was a great season. Likable characters, amazing story, nice character development and a nice world building in Ultra-verse all around. So what was the problem? Well the animation was garbage. The CG makes the likes of Arifureta s1 look like a masterpiece in comparison. Yeah S1’s CG was pretty bad which badly impacted which of which was otherwise a pretty great series. So what does s2 have in store? Let’s find out


Pros:
-I liked the latest character, Kotaro Higashi… He is pretty much a journalist that discovered the disappearance of the people in America. He didn’t have much substance in the earlier episodes; ... it was thanks to him that the SSSP realized who was responsible for said disappearance. His character truly shined for me when he became a monster for revenge for his girlfriend, Izumi. Eventually he becomes similar to Shinjiro during the earlier episode, a greenhorn with ambitions to save the world. Usually, this type of behavior would be nothing more than platitudes. But in his case, it’s pretty decent. We see his naivety like his despair cause he couldn’t save his girlfriend to the point he decarded his name to his Ultra name (Taro)

-This arc focused more on the other characters. For one thing, Jack… he didn’t do much (if any) in s1, but in s2 we truly see what he can do. It was thanks to him that Kotaro was able to control his fire power via the Ultra suit. I was kinda glad that we got to see more of him. Dan, I didn’t like him at first. He was brooding aloof and a bit of a prick. But after awhile you know he becomes more open minded, when he was accepting towards the newest character very early. His fight towards one Alien Pendants general, Alien Bell… this was his best moment. As for Souji, he was okay. He didn't do much other than save Shinjiro. And his badass fight with Alien Llubihic.


-Might as well bring out the Alien in the closet. The CG improved by a very large margin. The animation looks so realistic. The motion doesn’t look as stiff compared to s1. And the lighting also improved as well. I mean what else is there to say.



Cons:

-The story, I’ll be honest about this arc. This arc is really underwhelming. It’s just an Alien wanting to rule the earth… or at least half the earth in his book. Speaking of him, Pendant is just so damn generic. Then again this is a Ultra series, most villains are gonna have cartoonish plans. Even his methods kinda seemed cliched, capturing Ultraman for ransom for his plans.

-I don’t like the Waardan alien crew. I mean they aren’t bad, but they are sadly underdeveloped. I mean their reason for capturing the humans was understandable, but at the same token there wasn’t any depth into it onto why they had to follow Pendant’s plan. Maaya was an okay character, but the problem is that when she does ONE good thing, she dies.



Overall, Ultraman s2 was a grand improvement in contrast to s1. However, I forgot to mention it came with a double edged sword. We get good animation/CG, the episode count gets cut. Unfortunately, the next season of Ultraman will be the final season. Most likely the final season will have an anime original ending. Do I recommend s2? Of course, I mean s1 might not be the best in animation but aside from that s1 was amazing.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Dec 17, 2023

Lancelots

Mixed Feelings

The long awaited Season 2 of the japanese Superman! *cough*

They should rename the series into Ultramen as our young hero has barely any more screentime than the other Ultramen.

The first obvious change. Instead of a 13 episode season we only get 6 episodes. Good choice? Yes. It felt more like a movie.

Story 6/10: This time the story follows a clear path. We have an enemy and even if it isnt entirely obvious whats going on, all of the enemies have a common goal. So our heroes carve through the chain villains until they arrive at the last boss. Its exciting at some points, we get ... tragedy, a lot of confusion and some more or less expected plottwists. It would give an okay story for a superhero movie.

Characters 6/10: Now here it is becoming interesting. Our highschool boy loses a lot of relevance. Its like you were watching Iron Man and then the Avengers. While he is there most of the time, everything seems like a team effort. I think there is only one new character in season 2? But he is cool, so its alright as the majority of the cast was already introduced in season 1.

Animation 7/10: Everything just looks like cheap CGI... is what I thought after I saw the faces for the first time. But I was wrong! While they didnt do a good job with the faces, the action sequences actually looked really good and they made the best out of the CGI technonogly. But how it is compared to season 1? Well, the overall quality of the series looks better. But... The outstanding last fight of season 1, in terms of animation, wasnt something season 2 could do as well. So overall animation is better but the peak is worst. I'll just rate it the same.

Sound 6/10: I dont really know. Nothing good, nothing bad. There was nothing outstanding that I noticed but also nothing annoying. I wont rate the dub because I didnt watch the show in japanese. So it gets a Fine.

Should you watch it? The answer is simple. If you like superheroes, yes. If you dont like superheroes, no. There is nothing special about the series. Its not bad but also not good. If you want some action in cool suits you will probably enjoy it. I did the same summary for season 1. I would say that in terms of story, the series improved slightly but the main reason why I give it a higher rating than season 1 is the choice of 6 episodes. Its like a movie you can watch in one sitting.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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