Ultra Seven

Ultra Seven

infobox television


show_name = Ultra Seven
format = Science fiction, action, adventure
runtime = 24 minutes (per episode)
country = Japan
network = TBS
num_episodes = 49 [Episode 12 was later banned from broadcast in Japan due to concerns that the episode's featured aliens, portrayed as disfigured creatures afflicted with radiation sickness and burns, would be offensive to survivors of the atomic bomb drops in Japan during World War II. Officially, Tsuburaya Productions refuses to acknowledge this episode's existence. However, the episode has been aired and/or dubbed in overseas adaptations of the series.]
creator = Tsuburaya Productions
starring = Kohji Moritsugu, Shoji Nakayama, Yuriko Hishimi
first_aired = October 1, 1967
last_aired = September 8, 1968
preceded_by = "Ultraman"
followed_by = "Ultraman Jack"|

nihongo|"Ultra Seven"|ウルトラセブン|Urutora Sebun is a fictional superhero featured in a tokusatsu TV show of the same name. He first appeared in "Ultra Seven" (the third Ultra Series and the second to feature an Ultra Being), the famous tokusatsu SF TV series that aired on Japanese TV in 1967. Created by Eiji Tsuburaya, this follow up to "Ultraman" went on to become one of Japan's greatest fantasy TV series. Such is his popularity that Ultra Seven (or simply 'Seven') has appeared or at least made cameos in nearly every Ultra Series following his own and has had far more exposure than even the original Ultraman (though the original Ultraman is without a doubt the face of the Ultras).

Ultra Seven is sometimes incorrectly called "Ultraman Seven" by many sources outside Japan. Both the series and its hero can also be called "Ultraseven" (without a space), which is generally the form used when romanised.

The 1967 TV Series

"Ultra Seven", produced by Tsuburaya Productions, aired on Tokyo Broadcasting System from October 1, 1967 to September 8, 1968, with a total of 49 episodes (however, Tsuburaya officially excludes the banned Episode 12 from the list, thereby giving the series a count of 48 episodes; see below).

The plot

At a time when Earth is about to be threatened by sinister aliens and monsters, Agent 340 from Nebula M-78 (the same planet Ultraman came from), who was originally sent to make a map of the Milky Way, decides to stay on Earth, and seeks to protect it.

Disguised as a mysterious human named Dan Moroboshi, he is invited by the Terrestrial Defense Force to join its elite branch, the Ultra Garrison, as its sixth member to combat the threats from space. Little do the other 5 members of the Garrison know that whenever the situation becomes hopeless, Dan secretly puts on the Ultra Eye glasses, and becomes his true form of Agent 340, christened by the Garrison as its honorary 7th member, Ultra Seven!

Seven would later return in Ultraman Leo where after having his leg broken while trying to stop Magma Seijin and Giras, being saved in the nick of time by Leo, he becomes the captain of MAC. Even though he's reliant on a cane and unable to transform to Ultraseven, his Ultra Eye having melted after the Magma attack, he's able to help Leo out from time to time. Namely with his Ultra Willpower abilities that are able to temporarily incapacitate a monster and by using an updated Capsule Monster, Sevengar.

Characters — The Ultra Garrison (ウルトラ警備隊)

Six elite members of the Terrestrial Defense Force (TDF), chosen to fight evil aliens and monsters using high-tech vehicles and weaponry.
*Commander Kaoru Kiriyama
The captain of the Ultra Garrison. A no-nonsense but kind leader. He is from Tokyo.
**Age
38 years old
**Actor
Shoji Nakayama
*Shigeru Furuhashi
A rotund, strong, trigger-happy member of the Garrison. Many years later, he would find himself a high-ranking TDF commander and one of Ultra Seven's few allies. He is from Hokkaido.
**Age
29 years old
**Actor
Sandaiyu Dokumamushi
*Anne Yuri
The token female member of the Garrison, and also the youngest. She is the team's communications operator and nurse, but is still effective in action. Has feelings for fellow member Dan Moroboshi. She is also from Tokyo.
**Age
20 years old
**Actor
Yuriko Hishimi
*Soga
The Garrison's expert marksman. He is easy-going, but fierce in battle. He is friends with Dan Moroboshi. He is from Southern Kyushu.
**Age
25 years old
**Actor
Shinsuke Achiha
*Amagi
The Garrison's twitchy stragegist. He is from Nagoya.
**Age
24 years old
**Actor
Bin Furuya
*Dan Moroboshi/Ultra Seven (Agent 340)

The title character, a soldier from the Land of Light in the Nebula M-78 (the same planet Ultraman came from). Originally sent to map the Milky Way, he visits a planet that captivates him, our very own Earth, and on his first visit, saves the life of a young mountain climber named Jiro Satsuma, who nearly fell to his death to save a fellow climber from sharing his fate. Instead of combining with him, like Ultraman did to Science Patrol member Hayata, 340 makes himself into an exact likeness of the unconscious Jiro (with more casual civvies), but renames himself "Dan Moroboshi" to avoid confusion. A mysterious but friendly and helpful young man, Dan joins the Ultra Garrison as its sixth member, but unbeknownst to them (and anyone else for that matter), he saves the day from alien invasions in his true guise as Agent 340, christened by the Garrison as its "honorary 7th member," Ultra Seven.
**Age
24 years old
**Actor
Kohji Moritsugu; Ultra Seven is played by Koji Uenishi

Powers

Unlike most other Ultramen, Ultra Seven does not demonstrate any of the time constraints that plague most of the other heroes of the
Ultra Series. On occasion however, the green Beam Lamp on his forehead would begin blinking in a similar fashion to the
Color Timer that the other Ultras had.

However, this tended to occur when Ultra Seven was in mortal danger, suggesting it warned him how badly weakened he was rather than how much time he had left to fight.
This is similar to some of the more recent Ultras, whose timers acted as an indicator of battle damage rather than time limit.

*Eye Slugger
The crest on Ultra Seven's head can be detached and used as a throwing weapon.
This is Ultra Seven's most well-known weapon, and possibly the most famous of all Ultra attacks.
It has been incorrectly referred to as an "Ice Lugger" by various sources.
This name was coined during the early pre-production on the series, which was going to be called "Ultra Eye" (Urutora Ai), hence "Eye Slugger." When the title of the series was changed to "Ultra Seven," the name of the weapon remained "Eye Slugger" -- according to official Tsuburaya Productions production notes, published in Kodansha Official File Magazine Ultraman Vol. 4 & 5: "Ultra Seven" (2005).

* Emerium Beam
Various concentrations of energy rays could be fired from the hands as one of Ultra Seven's finishers.
It is one of his trademark moves.
He would either fire it standing, his left hand drawn to his chest while his right arm was outstretched, or more commonly from a kneeling position, two fingers from both hands nearly touching the gem.

* Wide Shot
Ultra Seven's most powerful attack.
By gathering energy in the armor plates on his shoulders and chest,
Ultra Seven could unleash a powerful stream of energy by crossing his arms in an L-shape (his left arm upright, his right arm bent).
He could further increase the potency of the beam, but this special attack drains his own energy.
The Wide Shot was later turned into an ordinary weapon where Ultra Seven can just pose his arms into a L-style and does not drain his energy. Of course, this style will not be as powerful as the one needs to drain his own energy.

* Capsule Monsters
When unable to fight (usually because his Ultra Eye has been stolen),
Dan will often produce a small capsule that releases a giant-sized monster to fight in his place.
Although he is shown to have four or five capsules, only three capsule monsters are shown in the series, Windam, Mikuras, and Agira. In the 1998 Direct To Video series,
Ultra Seven once used one of the capsules to incapacitate a member of the new Ultra Garrison in order to take his place.
The Capsule Monsters would later return in the form of the Maquette Monsters from Ultraman Mebius.

Differences from the original Ultraman

Ultra Seven was not only visually different from the first Ultraman (being mostly red with a removable crest/weapon and more 'boxy'-looking eyes), but often faced numerous moral and ethical dilemmas. On one occasion, he was forced to break a promise Dan had made to a young boy who was undergoing an operation in order to protect the hospital from a monster. On another occasion, he was forced to battle the sole survivor of a small planet that was destroyed by a careless weapons test, making him wonder if he was fighting for a worthy cause. On yet another occasion, as Dan, he desperately tried to contact the inhabitants of a space faring city before it was destroyed by the Ultra Garrison, to keep it from crashing into Earth.

Still later, Ultra Seven battled a sea monster guarding an underwater city that allegedly contained the original inhabitants of Earth, who were driven undersea by the ancestors of humanity. While he was able to defeat the creature, he hesitated to intervene with an attack by the Ultra Garrison, uncertain of whether or not the city's people had a legitimate grievance. This moment of indecision resulted in the utter destruction of the undersea city and all its inhabitants at the hands of humans.

Many years later, this failure to prevent the extinction of a pacifist people would come back to haunt Ultra Seven, resulting in his imprisonment as a war criminal. The charge: genocide. While he would later escape and had sympathy from his fellows among the Ultras (notably his close comrades Ultraman, Ultraman Jack, Ultraman Ace, Ultraman Taro and Zoffy), he quickly found he could expect no help as in the eyes of virtually all space-faring civilizations, he was a murderer and protector of a cruel, war-like species.

Since then, Ultra Seven seems to have been pardoned, since he joined with the other Ultra Brothers in aiding rookie Ultra Warrior Ultraman Mebius.

Monsters

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In popular Culture

*There was a parody of "Ultra Seven" called "UchimuraSeven" starring Kohji Moritsugu.
*Ultra Seven was commonly referenced in the short-lived Cartoon Network series "Cartoon Planet".
*Music video game Pop'n Music 7 features the show's opening song as one of its new songs. Was last seen in Pop'n Music 11.
* Dr Slump frequently referenced Ultraseven
*A popular remix of Dr. Wily's Stage theme from Mega Man 2 entitled "おっくせんまん" (Okkusenman) references Ultra Seven repeatedly. In fact, the singer calls him "Urutoraman Sebun" (Ultraman Seven).

From Planet with Love: The banned episode 12

This episode portrayed an alien race, the Spehl Aliens, who had their world destroyed by nuclear tests and as a result their own race poisoned by radiation. To survive they invade Earth in search for fresh human blood to restore their own bodies. A special interest group of survivors from the World War II atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki protested claiming that this episode portrayed nuclear bomb victims in a negative light. As a result this episode has been banned in Japan but was shown as in the Brazilian Portuguese dubbed version as in the Hawaiian English dubbed version in 1975, and was also featured in Turner's English version (featured on TNT) under the title "Crystallized Corpuscles" [http://www.tv.com/ultra-7/from-another-planet-with-love-crystallized-corpuscles/episode/102225/summary.html] . The episode was also shown in the Spanish dubbed version in Latin America countries.

Appearances in Other Ultra Series

Besides the Heisei Ultra Seven series, Ultraseven made either guest or regular appearances in the following Ultra Series after the end of the origonal 1967 TV series.

TV Series
*"Return Of Ultraman"
*"Ultraman Ace"
*"Ultraman Taro"
*"Ultraman Leo"
*"Ultraman 80"
*"Ultraman Max"
*"Ultraman Mebius"
*"Ultraseven X"

References


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