Next Ultraman Blu-ray Waves From Mill Creek Entertainment On Nov. 19 And Dec. 10

Back in mid-July, Mill Creek Entertainment announced that it had acquired exclusive domestic distribution rights to the Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman library.    Five-decades worth of programming!!

The first wave, Ultra Q: Complete Series 01 and Ultraman: Complete Series 02 were announced and are ready to rock on Oct. 15 … and with that date now growing near, it was time for Mill Creek to prep not only a second round of “Ultra” action, but a third one as well.

Fans are you ready?    On Nov. 19 you will have access to two of the newer series from the library.   Ultraman Orb: Series + Movie (2016) and the follow-up, Ultraman Geed: Series + Movie (2017) — both are six-disc Blu-ray collections, complete with Digital Copy.

In Ultraman Orb, we learn that monsters (Kaiju) locked up long ago are to be set loose by Jugglus Juggler (Takaya Aoyagi) and only Naomi (Miyabi Matsuura) and Gai Kuerni — as the Ultraman Orb (played by Hideo Ishiguro) — stands in the way of this mega-disaster being unleashed upon the Earth.

In the follow-up series, Ultraman Geed: Series + Movie, the character of Ultraman Geed (played by Tatsuomi Hamada) was teased in the final installment of the Ultraman Orb: Series.   After escaping from the Skull Gomora, Riku/Ultraman Geed and Pega (Megumi Han) discover a mysterious base located underground.   But we, and Pega, soon learn a terrible secret about Riku’s past that could spell trouble!!

Next we shift to Dec. 10 and the release of the six-disc Blu-ray collection of the third installment in the original Ultraman television series, Ultraseven: The Complete Series.

The series began airing in Japan in October of 1967 and ran for a solid year generating a 49-episode slate of non-stop action.   The “Age of Interplanetary Wars” has arrived and the Ultra Guard is the elite defense force of the TDF (Terrestrial Defense Force).   Among them, however, is an alien in human form (played by Kôji Moritsugu) who transforms into Ultraseven when needed!!!

Mill Creek Entertainment, good to their mid-July promise, will have no less than five key series available on Blu-ray from the “Ultra Universe” by early December of this year.