E331 - Ultraman Rising (2024)

Byrd, Matt, Kevin and Lux discuss the recent Netflix animated film, Ultraman Rising!  The first American Ultraman production in nearly 30 years follows a baseball player named Kenji who moonlights as everyone's favorite silver giant Ultraman to defend the planet from giant monsters.  One day he comes in possession of a baby monster and has to adjust his life to being the creature's parent, while the KDF science team try to hunt it down.  In addition to our review, we discuss the film's early development as a non-Ultraman story and how it fared in being updated to be Ultraman, the pro...