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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/05/13/ultraman-ginga-s-ep-5-friend-devil/

I wasn’t exactly rooting for a Gouki episode. There’s an unwritten rule in Ultra shows that one defense team member will slip through the cracks and become “That Guy/Girl We Learn Nothing About.” (An important exception is Ultraman Leo, where we learn nothing about any member of MAC.) Under regular defense team circumstances, Gouki would be “That Guy” for UPG. However, since UPG has a slim roster of only four people, including the captain, Gouki was going to end up with at least one featuring episode, so here you go.

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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/05/09/ultraman-tiga-ep-34-sleeping-beauty/

The previous episode left open questions about the alien entity responsible for the assault on the Terran Peace Consortium’s summit in the Cliomos Islands. This episode picks up soon afterward. The TPC East Asia Base is investigating an alien body in cryostasis that was transferred from the West Asia Base. The alien has been in stasis for more than two decades.

The story that follows provides answers to the mysteries left over from “To the Farthest South.” It also spits out a scattering of ideas and themes that don’t fully cohere. Primarily, though, the episode delivers an extremely cool mecha-kaiju and a major advance in Daigo and Rena’s relationship. 

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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/05/06/ultraseven-ep-42-ambassador-nonmalt/

This is one of the BIG ones… one of the reasons I decided to take on this whole massive project in the first place.

Along with what is arguably the best script from Tetsuo Kinjo, this is also the finest episode for Kazuho Mitsuta, one of the great Ultra Series directors. Mitsuta and Kinjo were a superb team who crafted some of the strongest episodes of Ultraman and Ultraseven. “Ambassador of the Nonmalt” stands as their greatest Ultra achievement.

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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/05/02/ultraman-ginga-s-ep-4-meaning-strength/

Although Sho is the co-lead of Ultraman Ginga S, this is the first episode to dig beneath his tough-guy loner exterior. Sho is a fundamentally different person from the gregarious Hikaru, and that difference risks turning him unlikable, even with two young sidekicks, Lepi and Sakuya, looking up to him. Sho needs a few dashes of doubt and maybe a major defeat to leaven his stubbornness.

That defeat arrives when Android One Zero summons the next kaiju to help steal Victorium Crystals for her boss: Sadolar, a classic monster first introduced in Return of Ultraman. Sho transforms into Ultraman Victory, but he discovers his power-ups — like Eleking’s tail and EX Red King’s arm — no longer work. Victory can’t stop Sadolar, and Ginga has to leap in for the save. Before the battle, Sho started to question whether it was right for him to use the abilities of the same monsters who are attacking his civilization. This doubt apparently caused his powers to fizzle. 

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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/04/29/ultraman-tiga-ep-33-to-farthest-south/

The politics and history of the Terran Peace Consortium have materialized in several Ultraman Tiga episodes so far: “The Devil’s Prophecy,” “The Day When the Monster Appeared,” and “The Battle of Zelda Point.” This is the first episode to make TPC politics its centerpiece. It foregrounds two figures who represent the opposing poles of the organization’s purpose: the dovish Commissioner Sawai (Tamio Kawachi) and the hawkish Director Yoshioka (Ken Okabe). 

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https://the-ultra-project.com/2026/04/25/ultraseven-ep-41-challenge-underwater/

As “Challenge From Underwater” begins, it feels like it could be an episode of Ultra Q shot in color. We meet a team of amateur paranormal investigators who have come to Lake Ishu to follow rumors of sightings of water creatures called kappa. It’s hard not to see this “Japan Kappa Club” as an analog to the Ultra Q cast. Their leader, Sumitani (Masami Taura), is a science-fiction author like Jun; the one woman in the group, Fujishima (Kazuko Miyakawa), is a photographer like Yuriko. The difference is that these people treat probing into the unknown as a lark, nothing to be taken seriously. Sumitani even says they’d like to date kappa — a damn weird thing to admit.

Read the full review at The Ultra Project.