The Birth of Ultraman

 

How did I miss this being released?  It's got the Ultra Special that aired before Ultraman started.  I've seen it plenty of times, in grainy unsubtitled form, but this time it's subtitled!  It's still not in pristine shape, but it doesn't matter.  There's so much good stuff here,  Especially at the end, when we see a vibrant "Old Man" Eiji Tsuburaya make an appearance.  That's worth the price of the disc alone!  But wait, there's MORE!   A bunch of the "best" episodes of Ultraman are also included, and these have the original United Artists dub!  Where the hell were these for the series Blu Ray release?  If it comes out with an available English dub I would probably double dip, since the set was like $22, but it would have been nice to have had them on the first set.

Be that as it may, it's a great time to be an Ultra fan.  I would never have believed all this would be possible.  Or even likely.  This was $20, so go get it.