While interest was certainly gathered by the broadcast of Ultraman: Towards The Future and Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero, Tsupro wasn’t sure how stable of a foothold they had. Before we get into the specifics about the show, we have to talk about Tsupro’s new marketing approach to this Ultra. This new idea was another back to basics Ultra show, Ultraman Neos. What happened here was surprising, Great and Powered were rather well received and watched during their airing.
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To bring in more funds Tsupro also convinced TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) to air Ultraman: Towards The Future and Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero in 1995, making them the first new Ultra Series in over 14 years to be broadcasted on Japanese television. Due to having to pay off the debt caused by Powered multiple projects were brought to a halt, including a planned Hong Kong Ultraman series and mostly likely Gridman Sigma. In the first half of 1994, all that was bringing in cash for Tsupro was the latter half of Gridman alone, making it hard to make back these losses quickly. To make things even worse the American co-producers ditched Tsupro with the cost of the show and in addition to this all of the workers’ union fees, effectively putting Tsupro in the red once again. Thus no new foreign revenue was brought in by the show. Powered didn’t air in America, nor were there any other international releases, whether it be from home releases or other broadcasts. A lot of cash was lost in the production of the show. To keep a long story short, Ultraman Powered was a failure in many regards. You may be wondering what happened that prevented Sigma from being made and any other productions. That show never came to be, in fact, no shows were made by Tsupro during 1994 post-Gridman and 1995. However, way back in 1994, a direct sequel was planned for Gridman revolving around the former villain of the show Takeshi Todo and a Gridman called Sigma. Eventually, it would even gain a sequel (kind of from what I am told it’s hard to explain) in the year 2018, called SSSS Gridman. The show was well received, achieved good ratings, and the toy sales were rather hot too boot. It was the first in-country production by Tsuburaya in over 12 years and brought in a fair sum of cash for Tsupro. For those unaware, Gridman was a big success for Tsupro. In the year 1994 things got a bit rough for Tsupro. More on that to come, but as usual, we need to look at the ever important context. The Ultra Show originally from 1995, but later released in 2000 during the gap year between Ultraman Gaia and Cosmos. So there only last thing related to Ultra I can talk about from the dark period (until the Powered post remake) is Ultraman Neos.
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Well, seeing how I can’t talk about Andros Melos due to a lack of knowledge and due to Zearth being a single movie success there isn’t a lot of things to talk about there.