We are a month away from the premiere of the next chapter in the Ultraman Television Series, Ultraman Blazar! And recently, a new trailer premiered on the Official Ultraman YouTube Channel.
In the latest trailer, we got a first look at our new protagonist, Gento Hiruma (Tomoya Warabino), and the Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment (SKaRD), which was established by the Global Guardian Force (GGF) in a world where Kaiju disasters are a common practice. Listed below are the following cast members who will be joining our hero:
- Emi Aobe– Himena Tsukimiya
- Yasunobu Bando– Hayate Kajihara
- Anri Minami– Konomi Naito
- Teruaki Nagura– Yuki Ito
- Retsu Haruno– Masaya Kato
Kiyotaka Taguchi will be directing the new series, and Keigo Koyanagi will be the scriptwriter. Tsuburaya Productions has also announced several new directors and screenwriters for each episode, which are listed below:
- Screenwriters:
And finally, the opening and ending theme artists were announced. Musician Hiroshi Kitadani (One Piece) will perform the opening theme titled Bokura no Spectra, and the ending theme will be performed by MindaRyn titled BLACK STAR.
Ultraman Blazar is set to premiere on July 8th, 2023, on TV Tokyo Network on six stations in Japan. The series will also be simultaneously broadcast in major Asian regions and will be the first series to have an English Dub to be released simultaneously online with the Japanese version.
Established in 1966 by nations all around the world in response to the worldwide outbreak of kaiju disasters, the Global Guardian Force (GGF) deals with kaiju and extraterrestrial life forms’ attacks on Earth.
Today, Earth sees continued destruction of nature and a rapid rise in global warming. One night, a space crustacean kaiju Bazanga appears. The GGF’s cleanup operation is unsuccessful, and the special forces led by Gento Hiruma find themselves in a desperate situation. This is when a mysterious giant emerges from the light. It is the unidentified humanoid alien that has been rumored among astronauts for decades, code-named “Ultraman.”
Later, Gento is summoned to the command center, where he is officially appointed as the commander of SKaRD, short for Special Kaiju Reaction Detachment. A team that had been secretly formed, he would lead a special unit that pilots a giant kaiju-type robot artillery, Earth Garon, to respond to kaiju disasters. While Gento is ordered to investigate the Ultraman from the Battle of Bazanga to determine whether it is a threat that needs to be eliminated or not, he has a flashback of a faraway galaxy—a shred of memory of a Blazar.
Source: Press Release
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