The Ultraman

This article is about the 1979 Japanese anime television series. For the 1966 original series, see Ultraman. For other uses, see Ultraman (disambiguation).
The Ultraman
Official logo
ザ☆ウルトラマン
(Za Urutoraman)
GenreSuperhero, Kyodai Hero, Kaiju, science fiction
Anime television series
Directed byHisayuki Toriumi
Takeyuki Kanda
Written byKeiichi Abe
Sōji Yoshikawa
Hiroyuki Hoshiyama
Bunzo Wakatsuki
Yoshihisa Araki
Keisuke Fujikawa
Yasushi Hirano
Kiyoshi Miyata
StudioNippon Sunrise
Licensed by
Original networkJNN (TBS)
English network
Original run April 4, 1979 – March 26, 1980
Episodes50

The Ultraman (ザ☆ウルトラマン, Za Urutoraman) is a Japanese animated television series co-produced by Tsuburaya Production and Tokyo Broadcasting System and animated by Nippon Sunrise. The series aired on TBS Television affiliates on the Wednesday 7:00 PM time slot from April 4, 1979 to March 26, 1980, lasting a total of 50 episodes. It was the eighth installment in the Ultra Series and began airing four years after the end of Ultraman Leo.[1][2]

The show was the first animated incarnation of Tsuburaya's iconic superhero Ultraman, as well as one of the earliest works of anime studio Nippon Sunrise (now known as Bandai Namco Filmworks), who also worked on their now-iconic mecha series Mobile Suit Gundam during the same year.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "ザ★ウルトラマン 1" (in Japanese). Bandai Visual. Retrieved 2019-04-25.
  2. ^ a b "EMOTION the Best ザ★ウルトラマン DVD-BOX" (in Japanese). Retrieved 25 April 2019.