TV sequel the ‘Final’ ending? [Trailer]

Netflix’s Ultraman Season 3 launch date is confirmed for Spring 2023. The discharge schedule might even be likened to Voltron, however will Ultraman 3 even be the ending of the story?

It’s unsure whether or not the TV collection will proceed adapting the story of the continuing manga collection by the identical title for the reason that third season is formally listed as Ultraman Remaining Season. The preliminary announcement even particularly states that the “finale [is] coming in 2023” and highlights Ultraman in dire circumstances.

“Cracked go well with. The sound of the colour timer blinking,” the Netflix announcement stated on April 18, 2022. “The primary Ultraman aired in 1966. The route is paying homage to the ultimate episode.”

The Ultraman anime TV collection is being produced by Japanese animation Studios Manufacturing I.G. and Sola Digital Arts. Manufacturing I.G. is finest identified for making TV reveals equivalent to Psycho-Cross, Ghost In The Shell, and the volleyball anime Haikyuu!! (see our article on Haikyuu!! Season 5), however in current occasions they’ve additionally launched Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 Season 2, Moriarty the Patriot, and Fena: Pirate Princess.

Sola Digital Arts offered the 3D animation for Appleseed Alpha, Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars, Blade Runner: Black Lotus, and the Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 anime.

Ultraman Director Kenji Kamiyama is understood for guiding Ghost within the Shell: Stand Alone Advanced, Eden of the East, and different widespread anime. Second director Shinji Aramaki has directed Appleseed and Blade Runner however he’s additionally identified for his mechanical designs in quite a lot of anime together with Batman Ninja and Halo Legends.

The Ultraman Season 3 OP (opening) and ED (ending) theme music music hasn’t been introduced but.

For the second season, the Ultraman Season 2 OP “3” was carried out by NOILION, whereas the ED “Transcending Time” was carried out by Void_Chords (Ryo Takahashi).

The primary season of the Ultraman anime collection had 13 episodes and it was launched on April 1, 2019. Ultraman 2 had solely 6 episodes when it was launched on April 14, 2022.

• Up to date October 6, 2022: Ultraman Season 3 launch date confirmed for Spring 2023. Added new Ultraman Remaining poster/key visible.
• Up to date April 18, 2022: Ultraman Season 3 trailer confirms the ultimate season!

This text gives every little thing that’s identified about Netflix’s Ultraman Season 3 (Ultraman Remaining Season) and all associated information. As such, this text shall be up to date over time with information, rumors, and evaluation. In the meantime, let’s delve down into what is understood for sure.

Ultraman Remaining Season an anime authentic ending?

The preliminary announcement of the Ultraman Remaining anime was considerably stunning because it instantly said that Ultraman Season 3 would be the finale of the story. The difficulty is that the Ultraman manga’s ending is nowhere in sight for the reason that story remains to be ongoing by introducing new characters and plot problems.

Does this imply Ultraman Remaining will pull an Assault On Titan: The Remaining Season and solely actually finish by lastly having a last finale Remaining Version? (We jest, however that’s actually how the 2023 Assault On Titan Season 4 Half 3 launch date was introduced on Twitter.)

In any case, ending the Ultraman anime so rapidly doesn’t make an excessive amount of sense for the reason that Ultraman Marie go well with was solely lately launched within the Ultraman manga. Ultraman Quantity 18 simply got here out in 2022. The pages of Ultraman Quantity 16: Chapter 102 even flat out states, “That is the start of a brand new age,” not the start of the tip.

On the identical time, ending with Ultraman Remaining was most likely the plan for the anime ever for the reason that second season started manufacturing. The reason being that the Ultraman 2 anime diverged nearly fully from the manga’s story by introducing Ultraman Taro Swimsuit early and altering a lot of the principle plot (see the manga comparability part under for the main points).

As such, it will not be fully stunning if Ultraman Season 3 is ending the Netflix anime TV present with an anime authentic ending.

Why the Ultraman 3 launch date is a fast turnaround

As of the final replace, Netflix, Manufacturing I.G., or any firm associated to the manufacturing of the anime has not formally confirmed the Ultraman Season 3 launch date. Nevertheless, it’s been confirmed that the Ultraman 3 sequel is popping out in Spring 2023 (April to June 2023).

As soon as the information is formally confirmed this text shall be up to date with the related data.

Within the meantime, it’s doable to take a position about when the Ultraman 3 launch date will happen sooner or later.

Netflix has a historical past of its anime exclusives being renewed even once they’re not topping the worldwide charts. For instance, Netflix’s Document of Ragnarok Season 2, ARCANE Season 2, JoJo’s Weird Journey Stone Ocean Half 2, EDENS ZERO Season 2, BEASTARS Season 3, Baki Hanma Season 2, Komi Can’t Talk Season 2, and Kengan Ashura Season 2 (Kengan Ashura Half 3) have been all confirmed in manufacturing (comparatively) quickly after their respective earlier seasons have been launched.

However it’s not like being a Netflix anime unique signifies an automated renewal. Netflix’s Yasuke Season 2, Netflix’s Excessive-Rise Invasion Season 2, Netflix’s Drifting Dragons Season 2, Netflix’s The Idhun Chronicles Season 3, and Netflix’s 7 SEEDS Season 3 have been by no means introduced though a number of of those TV reveals have been primarily based on completed tales from books or Japanese manga collection.

Again in 2019 when Ultraman 2 was initially introduced the elephant within the room was the dearth of supply materials from the manga. Sadly, manga artist Tomohiro Shimoguchi has been affected by well being issues in recent times. The month-to-month manga even went on hiatus earlier in 2019 for a time, which induced current manga volumes to be considerably delayed.

Assuming that the creator’s well being didn’t delay the manga an excessive amount of, Anime Geek had predicted again in 2019 that by the tip of 2020 there would barely be sufficient new chapters created for the anime TV present to be continued. Quick-forward to April 2022 and that prediction turned out to be proper on the mark since manga Chapter 100 was launched in Quantity 16 in December 2020.

Fortunately, there was no purpose why Netflix can’t have Ultraman Season 3 renewed rapidly in 2022. Sure, the dearth of manga supply materials remains to be a reoccurring downside, however for the reason that second season was solely 6 episodes Anime Geek predicted that the plan was to interrupt up the at present accessible manga story arcs into shorter seasons. (As beforehand famous, it’s additionally doable that Ultraman Remaining might diverge fully from the following main story arc.)

If something, that plan can be much like the discharge schedule for the Voltron animated collection, which purposefully launched shorter seasons with the intention to scale back the wait time between story arcs since Netflix releases all the episodes directly for binge-watching. As such, Ultraman 3 is also likened to a split-cour for the second season.

What’s a “cour,” you may ask? For these unfamiliar with the lingo, a “cour” is a three-month block of Japanese TV broadcasting primarily based on the bodily seasons that’s normally composed of 10 to 13 episodes.

A “split-cour” is the place a single anime season takes a multi-month break earlier than resuming TV broadcasting.

Due to this fact, it’s predicted that the Ultraman Season 3 launch date shall be in April 2023 on the earliest. Based mostly on the story pacing of the manga, it’s more likely to be round 8 episodes in complete, though that will depend on how intently the anime adaptation follows the supply materials or if Ultraman Remaining ignores the manga fully.

Ultraman manga in comparison with the anime’s second season

Making a story for Ultraman Season 3 will not be an issue in any respect. The story for the 2019 Ultraman anime was primarily based on the Ultraman manga collection by author Eiichi Shimizu and illustrator Tomohiro Shimoguchi.

That crew is understood for the mecha manga Linebarrels of Iron, which additionally acquired a very good anime adaptation.

Serialized in Shogakukan’s Month-to-month Hero journal since October 2011, the collection switched to Comiplex journal in November 2020. The month-to-month manga is as much as Ultraman Quantity 18 as of April 5, 2022. The story remains to be ongoing and the Ultraman manga’s ending is nowhere in sight.

The official English translation of the Ultraman manga is being launched in North America by VIZ Media. Launched in February 2015, the English model was as much as Quantity 16 as of January 2022, and the Ultraman Quantity 17 launch date is scheduled for August 16, 2022.

There are fan-made scanlation initiatives that provide an unofficial English translation. Nevertheless, most of those initiatives have been voluntarily taken down a number of years in the past resulting from copyright considerations.

The Ultraman manga subverts the basic tokusatsu story that began with the 1966 Ultraman collection. Arrange as a direct sequel to the story from the 1966 Ultraman authentic, the manga (and thus the Netflix anime) pays homage to the basic live-action incarnations with sure references but additionally throws away the essential idea of a spandex/armor-wearing protagonist that grows to combat big monsters referred to as Kaiju that are besieging Tokyo.

(For extra particulars on why the manga creators determined to alter the tokusatsu idea so drastically, please see our older Ultraman Season 2 anime article. )

When the primary season ended, Extremely “brothers” Shinjiro Hayata, Dan Moroboshi, and Seiji Hokuto have been lastly combating collectively after defeating Ace Killer, however Bemular’s finish sport had but to be absolutely revealed, by no means thoughts the plans of the Star Cluster Council and Agent Adad. The ending of Ultraman Episode 13 corresponded to manga Chapter 50, which is roughly the midway level of Quantity 8.

First, let’s get one factor out of the way in which. The Ultraman anime TV present will not be trustworthy to the supply materials. Even little issues have been modified from the beginning, together with how the Ultramen wanted to placed on their fits slightly than immediately teleport them (the anime’s teleportation skill was added to the manga in Chapter 97). So manga readers who need to learn forward of the anime ought to begin with Chapter 15 to learn all of the skipped content material.

Secondly, the anime’s first season tailored the manga with some vital adjustments, whereas the second season just about rewrote the story with an anime authentic model that solely resembled the broad strokes of the manga’s story.

Within the first season, most combat scenes have been tremendously expanded upon, however the core character developments of the story have been additionally tremendously modified. Arguably, primarily based on the constraints of the episodic TV format of 13 episodes it’s typically essential to closely condense manga plot factors and dialogue with the intention to attain a very good stopping level within the general story.

However the adjustments the anime model made altered characters’ motivations for his or her actions and even killed off a reoccurring character!

The most important change was to how the anime depicted Shinjiro fighting the truth of needing to kill the murderous aliens. The manga’s story was way more nuanced and Shinjiro’s battle over killing fed into his different fears.

His doubts weren’t nearly killing. Shinjiro feared having energy itself, particularly the facility to take lives. Shinjiro is only a child who was abruptly thrust into rising up quickly and he’s terrified on the considered by no means with the ability to return to being regular once more.

The anime’s first season skipped numerous the manga’s buildup regarding Jack and Purple. Apart from declaring the Ultraman-like bracelet, the manga famous how Jack frolicked in an establishment and it’s possible Jack will not be his actual title. The anime additionally skipped a bunch of scenes that developed Jack additional.

Jack’s boxing buddy Purple suffered a worse destiny by the hands of the anime. You may bear in mind Purple because the alien that Jack beat at boxing when Jack was first launched. Apart from eradicating all of Purple’s talking strains by altering his look to a mute monster, the anime model of Purple was additionally handled as a disposable character to be mercilessly used and discarded as a mere foil for an oddly-implemented morality lesson.

However that’s not how Purple was within the manga. In Chapter 22, Edo pays each Jack and Purple to trigger a faux combat. Jack injects Purple with a serum which causes him to turn out to be gigantic and develop a tail. Edo’s purpose is to pressure Shinjiro to develop up rapidly and embrace turning into Ultraman.

“If he can’t discover it in himself to alter after we’ve pushed him to the brink then I suppose we’ll have to surrender on Ultraman,” Edo muses aloud.

All Shinjiro was advised is that they’re each targets for elimination and Jack outright tells Shinjiro he was paid some huge cash by an alien to kill Ultraman. However even Jack turns into involved when Shinjiro begins dropping the combat and Jack yells at Purple for going too far.

However Edo’s experiment works. When Shinjiro reaches inside himself, he develops the latent skill to fly. Seeing this, Jack rapidly stops the combat, after which each Jack and Purple meet up on the SSSP headquarters to debate the homicide investigation.

The anime depicted these occasions in another way in Episode 7, with Shinjiro ending up decapitating the rampaging Purple. All of the sudden, the entire lesson about Shinjiro discovering the facility to defend folks and the willpower to not again out was twisted by the anime into Shinjiro discovering a purpose to kill, which is pretty disturbing compared to the manga’s story.

Removed from being killed off like within the anime, Purple continued to be a reoccurring character within the manga. Purple finally features a translator machine that enables him to talk and an imaging machine for making a human disguise. Within the manga, Jack and Purple even got here to the rescue throughout the battle with the murderer mercenary group the Ace Killer Squad.

Ultraman Season 2 didn’t retcon this anime-only change. As an alternative of introducing an identical character to Purple another way, the scriptwriters merely opted for preserving Purple useless.

This was fairly the massive change since, within the manga, Purple and Agent Adad rescued Kitaro from his rampage, not Jack. Purple even joined Jack and the others within the combat in opposition to the Star of Darkness. After the enormous robotic Golden Fortress (which first seems in manga Chapter 64) was defeated, Purple was within the thick of it defending Shinjiro from an upset mob concentrating on Ultraman’s son (which additionally didn’t occur in Ultraman Season 2).

Purple would have additionally performed a task within the story arcs that shall be tailored by Ultraman Season 3. Contemplating all the key adjustments to the second season, it’s possible that the following story arc can even be simplified by the anime adaptation.

The most important concern is that the manga story arc was darkish and gritty, whereas the screenplay for Ultraman 2 depicted solely the broader strokes of Ultraman Taro and Jack becoming a member of the combat in relation to the risk posed by Alien Pedant. However the brand new script diminished the characters to caricatures of themselves compared to the intense drama of the manga.

This standout change to your entire story began with the murders earlier within the anime’s first season. The homicide victims all had bar codes on their necks and that a part of the serial killer investigation was ignored by the anime. These lacking particulars led to skipped scenes which have been obligatory for establishing the plot of Ultraman Season 2 as soon as Edo confronted the Star Cluster Council and instantly requested them in the event that they acknowledged the bar code.

The investigation of the human physique elements trafficking community led to Bemular making extra frequent contact with Ren’s father. The anime’s first season even skipped the revelation by the mysterious lizard alien that the clandestine invasion of Earth was already underway and but humanity didn’t even understand they have been underneath assault. (That scene was primarily pushed again to the ending of Ultraman Season 2 Episode 6.)

Whereas the primary season didn’t construct up this overarching story, the second season might have rapidly put the anime again on monitor by summarizing the pertinent particulars by having Rena’s father uncover the human physique elements trafficking operation. The SSSP discovering physique elements within the hidden basement at Ace Killer’s home would have naturally led to the SSSP assembly the place they might have mentioned their suspicions in regards to the Star Cluster Council.

As an obvious alternative for the grisly human physique elements trafficking, anime audiences as a substitute bought the disappearing folks conspiracy by alien Princess Maya and her goofy compadres within the maid cafe! Severely, what have been they pondering?!

Princess Maya being an anime authentic character readily explains why she was killed off so rapidly. The character was additionally apparently a reference to a minor character from the live-action Ultraman Orb.

Equally, Kitaro’s “girlfriend” Izumi was inserted into the plot solely to die. Izumi was primarily a plot machine for giving a brand new purpose for Kitaro’s transformation into Ultraman Taro. Initially, the flame-powered superhero had been combating crime with the assistance of his American pal Dave, who made his first go well with.

Kitaro attracted the eye of the Star of Darkness terrorist group and Kitaro was overwhelmed by drug-powered people. When an alien executed Dave in chilly blood, the enraged Kitaro went on a rampage, which was much like how the Ultraman Season 2 model of Kitaro reacted to Izumi’s disappearance when he first gained his flame powers.

(And, no, Kitaro was not working round in a nifty Ultraman Taro go well with within the manga. Even throughout the last battle, he was nonetheless in his flame type.)

The manga’s plot additionally largely came about in New York Metropolis whereas the anime briefly talked about the disappearances in NYC solely to rapidly shift every little thing again to Japan. This meant the anime skipped how Purple tracked down Jack to america and discovered that Jack had been working with Yapool on the behest of the President of america to make his very personal Ultraman go well with.

(In Ultraman 2, Jack simply vaguely said that different nations have been engaged on Ultraman tech. That meant the anime didn’t introduce the SSSP’s DARPA-based U.S. department.)

The plotting by the Star of Darkness terrorists was fully completely different within the manga. Their precise plan concerned releasing a drug throughout Manhattan island and it was doable even Shinjiro might turn out to be contaminated by the alien drug’s insanity.

Within the manga, the video announcement by the terrorists was additionally a shock to Dan Moroboshi since he acknowledged one of many human-looking those that intently resembled Moroboshi himself. For months, Moroboshi has been affected by nightmares from his childhood the place he remembers a black-haired youngster being carted off by an alien.

It turned out that Moroboshi is the son of interstellar diplomats that have been killed in a terrorist assault. Moroboshi believed this mysterious determine standing close to Alien Pendant was his lacking twin brother Rei.

The darkish revelation about Moroboshi’s brother Rei was fairly the surprising plot twist within the manga. When Moroboshi and Rei finally meet and combat within the manga, Dan calls out his brother’s title and it stopped the opposite man chilly… however not as a result of he was really the brother.

In actuality, the brother had been useless for years as a part of the human physique trafficking operation and this different man was really an alien who was carrying Rei’s physique. The alien had misplaced over half his physique in a job and he had been “given” Rei’s physique as a brand new one. When Moroboshi discovered the reality in manga Chapter 66 and 67, he coldly executed this alien abomination by first slicing off its arm after which its head.

The ending combat was modified in some ways. Alien Pendant’s henchmen proved a more durable problem. One of many aliens was a quad sword wielder who took on Shinjiro’s father, the unique Ultraman, solely to be surprise-attacked by the son and blown away by a Specium Ray. The mushroom-like alien that appeared within the anime managed gravity to crush the prosthetic arm of Ultraman Ace (Seiji Hokuto) slightly than capturing spikes. The purple big confronted Ultraman Jack and Purple just for Moroboshi to sneak up and slice the alien in half in a bathe of blood.

Regardless of the better challenges, Bemular joined the Ultramen a lot earlier on, which evened the percentages. Moroboshi did in actual fact obtain the experimental new weapon like within the anime, nevertheless it was so highly effective that he actually defeated the Golden Fortress all by himself. There was no sophisticated scheme involving sneaking into the hangar and Shinjiro or his father by no means have been sidelined by needing rescuing.

The ultimate confrontation with Alien Pendant began with the stereotypical villain monologuing. He revealed that the battle had already been determined and that invading Earth was not the final word purpose.

“Oh we’ll find yourself ruling this planet, however that in itself will not be our goal. Our chief’s goal is way extra noble!” Alien Pendant exclaimed to the surprised Ultramen.

Pendant reveals that his objective was solely as an agitator. The mind-altering organic weapon was a lie supposed to reveal human nature to the Star Cluster Council. Pendant was to persuade different alien immigrants to Earth that people are silly and he all the time supposed on this battle ending with Ultraman killing him.

Following that revelation, Pendant dumped handfuls of deadly medicine into his mouth and remodeled into an enormous beast that considerably resembled Doomsday from Superman, besides larger.

“Effectively then, be sure that my dying is wonderful!” Pendant exclaimed earlier than continuing to pressure Ultraman to kill him with a Specium Ray. This mutated type of Pendant shoots highly effective beams from its mouth that destroyed NYC skyscrapers.

As you possibly can simply surmise by now, Ultraman Season 2 2 didn’t maintain a candle to the manga’s story. The campy anime rendition might have given Ultraman Taro the limelight, nevertheless it did so at the price of sidelining the principle character and making every little thing else appear corny by comparability.

On the constructive aspect, the anime’s first season did a greater job than the manga of build up Shinjiro’s girlfriend, Rena. The issue is that the second season restricted their relationship all the way down to a goofy dance the place Rena is aware of his secret however is content material to tease him till he lastly admits the reality.

The primary season added additional scenes with private interplay between Shinjiro and pop star Rena earlier than she instantly determined to indicate up on the Large of Gentle museum. Rena’s additional backstory involving the dying of her mom and thus her purpose for being upset with Ultraman throughout the live performance added additional depth to the character past simply being a possible future diva girlfriend.

Extra importantly, the anime heightened the motion by including the scene the place the live performance ceiling is destroyed and Shinjiro should select between saving the viewers or saving Rena. This additional rigidity tremendously elevated the influence of the live performance episode whereas appearing as an alternative choice to the explanation why Rena was keen on assembly Ultraman in individual.

One large plot change occurred when Shinjiro was with Rena and wanted to rescue the boys falling from a constructing upkeep carry. The anime particularly highlighted how Shinjiro forgot his telephone when going to name Ultraman, which led to her realizing he was Ultraman.

Shinjiro by no means forgot his telephone within the manga, though manga Rena does have her suspicions. Understanding that Shinjiro is certainly Ultraman within the anime does change their total relationship. As such, Ultraman Season 3 appears unlikely to comply with the Rena story components too intently.

All in all, as predicted the ending of the second season’s finale, Ultraman Season 2 Episode 6, corresponded to the ending of Quantity 11: Chapter 70.

Though the variation pacing was roughly 3.33 chapters tailored per episode, and a lot of the later chapters have been motion sequences, the anime’s second season didn’t even try to comply with the supply materials extra intently.

With solely 6 episodes to work with, Chapter 70 is the right stopping level for the reason that Golden Fortress combat and the final word showdown with the forces of the Star of Darkness in New York Metropolis makes for an ideal climax. The large second when all 6 heroes lastly come collectively, which occurred in Chapter 65, was the spotlight of the Ultraman 2 trailer.

One factor the anime positively bought proper was that the supposed boss Pendant reveals he’s only a distraction from the true chief’s goal and that he was supposed to be killed by Ultraman… with the assistance of Bemular! And now anime audiences have acquired hints that Bemular was as soon as the Ultraman that Shinjiro’s father was attuned to prior to now.

The excellent news is that there’s loads of supply materials for making Ultraman Season 3, however provided that it’s but once more a brief season. Assuming that the third season will not be an anime authentic ending it’ll adapt one other 30 chapters and end with Quantity 16. Thus, Ultraman Remaining will want round 6 to eight episodes to keep up a very good adaptation pacing assuming the anime loosely follows the manga once more.

The dangerous information is that the third season will possible nearly meet up with the manga. Which means the look forward to Ultraman Season 4 may very well be a number of years… and provided that Ultraman Remaining actually isn’t last.

Ultraman Season 3 anime TV spoilers (plot abstract/synopsis)

Be aware: These spoilers assume that Ultraman 3 will choose up the story within the last pages of Chapter 70. Nevertheless, Ultraman Remaining may be an anime authentic ending that doesn’t adapt the manga collection any additional.

The battle in opposition to the Star of Darkness in New York Metropolis ends in a blinding flash of Spacium rays. Whereas issues return to regular for the SSSP, within the aftermath, Adad betrays the Star Cluster Council and flees to Hong Kong.

Now, two assassins generally known as the Leo Brothers have been despatched by the Star Cluster Council to hunt him down. The Star Cluster Council now appears to view the Extremely race and their huge powers as a possible risk to the universe, which ends in Shinjiro and Purple becoming a member of Moroboshi and Adad to face off on this battle of unleashed beasts.

After a number of revelations come to gentle, Shinjiro should now battle with a singular query: is Ultraman really good or evil?

Sadly, anime followers should wait till the Ultraman Season 3 launch date to look at what occurs subsequent. Keep tuned!