Mill Creek Entertainment has tabbed Aug. 17 for the release of the six-disc Blu-ray collection of the Tsuburaya Productions series titled, Gridman: The Hyper Agent.
Back in 2019, Mill Creek Entertainment acquired the distribution rights to the entire Tsuburaya Productions Co., Ltd Ultraman library. This represents something like 50-years worth of programming and over 1,100 series episodes and 20 feature films.
Part of this acquisition included Gridman: The Hyper Agent, a 1993/94 series that moved into the world of tokusatsu, or giant heroes, where we meet computer whiz kid Naoto Sho (Masaya Obi) and his friends Yuka Inoue (Jun Hattori) and Ippei Baba (Takeshi Sudô), who have fashioned their own video game.
While their accomplishment is pretty impressive, they are just getting started as they’ve apparently opened the door to an inter-dimensional universe and the struggle between Gridman (Hiroyuki Okano), a non-Ultraman super hero, and his pursuit of the evil Kahn Digifer (Masaharu Satô), who summons monsters to thwart Gridman’s efforts.
And, just when it looks like Kahn Digifer might prevail, Naoto and his friends are able to “upgrade” Gridman and give him the size and strength to fight Kahn Digifer’s ever more dangerous super monsters. But will these upgrades be enough for the ultimate battle against Kahn Digifer himself?
All 39 episodes are included here. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
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