Has anyone else started watching tokusatsu series because of an Ultra Series?

[Darkster]

I see a lot of Rider fans who started with Black, I see people who probably started with Sentai, I see people who started with Power Rangers, and I see people who started with Kamen Rider Dragon Knight, but where are all the people who started with an Ultra Series?

I started because of Ultraman Tiga. I had seen and heard about Ultraman, but Tiga is what got me interested in tokusatsu series.

I was very excited when I heard that Tiga was coming back on TV and I decided that I needed to watch it. I saw most of it in RAW format, and I watched the series again in its second run afterward with subtitles complete. It still holds up there to this day for me.

I like Kamen Rider, but I'll go back to watching some good and familiar Ultra Series soon. :thumbs:

So who started with an Ultra Series here?

 

[ClydeHowlyn]

Ultra Series were pretty much my childhood :thumbs:

Ultraman Taro was my first toku series ever. Leo and 80 as well
never actually watched any Sentai until MMPR was up, then I started watching Jetman

 

[Darkster]

Cool.

 

[Phanto5692]

Though Power Rangers was my first venture into tokusatsudom, Ultraman Tiga will always hold a special place in my heart. The themes of death and rebirth, community over isolationism, and the strength of a child appealed to me even through all the bad stuff. I only wish all toku series could take away something from Ultraman Tiga.

 

[Aoi Kurenai]

I'm not exactly sure if I started because of an Ultra series, but my very first tokusatsu series was Ultra Seven. I saw it (and Ultraman) when I was quite young and liked the action enough. Had never really seen anything like it at the time and this was a year or so before Power Rangers, so it made a rather deep impression on me that started my liking for the style of action in the franchise.

 

[Darkster]

Nooo. Don't take away something from it. :shakefist Tiga needs it too. :laugh:

Yeah, the end was great. Daigo mentioned that anyone can become a light with his own power. The children gave Tiga strength. They were Tiga.

Daigo was a great guy. He fought to help everyone and he fought in secret for a year. He defeated some of the toughest villains and he did some incredible things to help the misguided and corrupted kaijin.

 

[okunohoshimichi]

Ultra Series were pretty much my childhood :thumbs:

Ultraman Taro was my first toku series ever. Leo and 80 as well
never actually watched any Sentai until MMPR was up, then I started watching Jetman

Same, literally.

 

[Shoichi]

Seven was my first series way back in the early 90s when i was just a little toddler. then i saw Ultraman vs Kamen Rider and found out about kamen riders, and a combination of dubbed Flashman/Maskman and MMPR later on thus finding out about sentai/PR

 

[Darkster]

Ah, cool, Shoichi. I actually learned about kaiju movies back in the early 90s when I was very young. Tiga just really brought me into it all and I got into it more because of Kamen Rider.

 

[jfreedan]

The first Ultraman I ever saw was the badly dubbed / edited Adventures of Ultraman. Back then I had no idea it was based on a live action show.

So, maybe that was my first intro but I didn't know it.

I came into liking tokusatsu stuff from the Gamera marathons Sci-Fi Channel used to do in the 90's.