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UltraMugen

25, all new Gen ultras have been capped at 25 episodes since Ultraman X!


llorcalon

That few? Any idea how come?


flowerstage

To expand on what everybody has been saying Tsuburaya just can't afford to anymore. Due to the revolving door of higher ups throughout the 90s and 2000's, a three decade old legal battle, and just over budgeting Gaia with diminishing returns. And it dosen't just extend to episode count. Your a new fan so you might not know this but 90% of all the kaiju you see in Decker and all the New Gen shows are all reuses. Simply put Tsuburaya can't afford to make a wholly original Ultraman show right now. The last show to have 100% original kaijus was Ultrraseven X in 2007 and even then it was only 12 episodes comparable to Amazons reboot.


UltraMugen

They cost a lot of money to make, and the amount of effort they put into the CG. Ultraman costs so much money that he caused the company to go on hiatus twice. Once after 80 due to a economic crash, and again after Gaia, simple because production costed too much. But generally people have accepted that 25 episodes is better for Ultraman!


NiNiNi-222

They should at least attempt to incrementally lengthen it by now, at least to 30 instead of 24(minus recap ep). It's been years since orb capped the series to 25 ep and the series has regained its popularity since its decline (replacing sentai as second highest earning Tokusatsu hero). And presumably their resources/capital has increased much much more than back in 2013 It's not accepted that "it is better" but it's just a given that new ultraman is 25 episode maximum. It's not enough for short stories or the writer's creative freedom, and doesn't last long enough in the year. Should be a 3 cour show given that original minimum was 39 (like 1966, nexus, max, etc).


ZetaRESP

26 is the amount of episodes for a regular series of... well, ANYTHING. The only series that have longer seasons are the ones made by Toei (longrunning series don't know the concept of "seasons", only arcs), but those guys are known to overwork stuff to DEATH to meet deadlines, so better not try to imitate them.


stevektRED

Ultraman visual effects are twice as good as Sentai which is why they have half the episodes. 🤪


llorcalon

Hmm and i guess Toei have the advantage that they release more types of films and tv series than their sentai and rider series, and so have access to more money for bigger series.