The☆Ultraman ( Ultraman Joeneus 1979 Series )

Description

Anime : The☆Ultraman (Ultraman Joeneus)
Genre : Superhero, science fiction, Anime television series
Directed by : Hisayuki Toriumi, Takeyuki Kanda
Written by : Keiichi Abe, Sōji Yoshikawa, Hiroyuki Hoshiyama, Bunzo Wakatsuki, Yoshihisa, Araki, Keisuke Fujikawa, Yasushi Hirano, Kiyoshi Miyata
Studio : Nippon Sunrise, Network TBS
Original run : April 4, 1979 – March 26, 1980
Episodes : 50 (The☆Ultraman)

The Ultraman is a Japanese animated television series co-produced by Tsuburaya Production and Tokyo Broadcasting System. The series aired on TBS Television affiliates on the Wednesday 7:00 PM time slot from April 4, 1979 to March 26, 1980, lasting a total of 50 episodes. It was the eighth installment in the Ultra Series and aired four years after the end of Ultraman Leo. The show was the first animated incarnation of Tsuburaya's iconic superhero Ultraman, as well as one of the earliest works of anime studio Nippon Sunrise (now known simply as Sunrise), who also worked on their now-iconic mecha series Mobile Suit Gundam during the same year.

Characters

Ultraman Joeneus

Main List : Ultraman Joeneus Character, Statistics, Power and weapons

The Ultraman featured in this series is named Ultraman Joeneus, alternately spelled Ultraman Jonias), who is also called Ultraman Joe for short, and he hails from the Planet U40 (as opposed to the Land of Light in Nebula M78, where Ultra-beings usually came from).

Scientific Defense Guard

The Scientific Defense Guard is a branch of the Earth Defence Force.

Tetsuo Akiyama : The first captain of the Far East Zone. He is transferred to the America Zone in Episode 26.
Daisuke Gondo : The second captain of the Far East Zone, who takes over Akiyama's duties from Episode 27 and onward.
Kei Marume : A chubby strongman and an expert marksman.
Hiroaki Tobe : A smart alik weapons developer.
Mutsumi Hoshikawa : The female member.
Choichiro Hikari / Ultraman Joeneus : He encounters Joeneus on his way from the space station EGG 3 to the earth, and merges with Joeneus.
Pig and Monkey : The Pigmon-like robot operator and mascot of the team, respectively.

English versions

In the United States, there have been two feature-length movie compilations:

The Adventures of Ultraman (1981), a featured-length movie produced by Tsuburaya Productions specifically for the English-language market. The movie is composed of edited footage from several episodes of the series. The storyline was rewritten for this adaptation with a new script by Jeff Segal and music composed by Mark McKinniss.

Ultraman II: The Further Adventures of Ultraman (1983), a dub of the first four episodes co-produced by Tsuburaya Productions and Associates Entertainment International. Despite the title, it has no continuity with the previous English dub of the series. Although the translation is closer to the original Japanese scripts than the first movie, the characters' names were still changed (although, the names given to the characters are not the same ones used in the previous dub). The order of the third and fourth episodes were also switched.

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