Your regularly scheduled pilgrimage will be interrupted today by some breaking Ultraman news.

( Cut for folks who don't care about new Ultraman releases. Folks who do want to make with the clickie. )

*stares at icon* Y'know, that's not as clear as it could be, given that it's in Japanese. Meh. Most people will figure it out.

( About where Kanata comes from )

Huh. I hadn't realized that Hirata Misato is from Gunma. Not just from Gunma, but from a city that I can't, off the top of my head, tell you not only where it's located, but what the public transit routes to get to it are, nor the local road system. Fascinating.

Huh, also fascinating. Wiki credits her with a stage performance from her that is, I believe, after the date that she said she was "taking an extended vacation". Perhaps my hopes of a GW stage show next year are not in vain. (Actually, I still hold out hope that Nishina-san might be free then. Aihara-taichou can carry on the show himself, no problem.)

Huh. And I hadn't realized before that Nishina-san was in the Cosmos vs. Justice movie. Must remember that when I get around to seeing it.


Description of Premium Stage 1. For later reading.

Oh, shoot. I forgot. Kurobe Susumu's been doing the Premium Stages. That "I don't think I'll have an opportunity..." comment seems even more ominous now that I remember that.

And now I post this so I can get some sleep already.

(The icon should really be a clue... If you don't think it's sparkly too, you might as well stop reading here.)


I have a mission for tomorrow: Clear enough hard drive space to be able to rip one of the A.D. previews so I can screencap one shot. Just to taunt everyone. Because I'm that kind of evil, mean fangirl. (I am, unfortunately, also a fangirl with a headache, who should probably refrain from excessive fangirl squealing. Not that that stopped me. Good thing the windows were closed. And didn't shatter from the squeals.)

Taunting aside (or continued, depending on one's perspective), that one preview had two things that I felt were sadly lacking in the episode itself. I am a very happy (albeit headachy) fangirl.

Update for folks expecting DVDs from me: The DVDs came in two shipments, one of which I have (in case all the senseless gibbering didn't tip you off) and one of which I have to go pick up at the Post Awful tomorrow. Which means the earliest I could get them sent back out is Thursday morning.

( And now for some random observations from the second (and other) viewings. May have some spoilers. )

I learned more ways of how to say "sold out" when trying to find this thing. I'm a bit in awe, considering how many places I hit looking for it, and that I was looking only four days after it was released.

Theoretically I have three copies on order from Amazon.jp. We'll see how many/how soon I can get them. *tries not to think how much the shipping costs are going to be*

Last year's Ultraman Premium Stage 1 is on the schedule to be broadcast in April. (I haven't managed to pry the exact date out of that list yet.) Which means... just maybe I'll finally get to see it!!!

(Info from Kobayashi Yuuji's blog, via moegame)

More info as I poke stuffs. There was more in the article, I just don't have time to look up the kanji I don't know right now.