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Dyna's OV special episode is called The Return of Hanojiro, also known as The Return of Hajiro, and Gaia's OV special episode is called Gaia Reappears.

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The combined reputation of these two OVs is not as high as The Ancient Resurrection of Titans. And the Three Heroes OV combined is not as high as any of the Three Heroes movie version.

Very few people know.

If ranked in order of popularity, Gaia's Reappearance and Ancient Resurrection Titan are both higher than the returned Hanojiro, or even much higher.

This is a shame.

In Meng Lang's opinion, the OVs of the Three Great Heroes of Heisei were pretty good, no worse than those of the Showa era.

However, the popularity has never been rising, and many Austrian fans don't even know that there is a special OV episode for the Three Heroes.

Why is this?

Meng Lang analyzed that there are two general reasons.

First, the TV shines so brightly that it overshadows the OV special episode. Even the theatrical version performed well, and OV completely lost its chance to shine.

The second is the decline of the video market...

Early Ultraman, especially the Showa period. The video market is booming, and many old films and OV specials can use this style to rejuvenate themselves.

But not during the Heisei period.

During this period, the video market was shrinking, and few people were buying video cassettes or DVDs to take home and enjoy slowly.

Without this support, OV will completely decline.

If you don’t believe it, you can read the follow-up!

In the past, almost every new TV work of Ultraman was accompanied by a series of OV special episodes.

But after the Three Great Heroes of Heisei, there were fewer OV specials. After entering the new generation, it became even more only big movies but no OV specials.

This shows what?

Why would the new generation prefer to make more big movies rather than release OV specials?

If you want to understand this, you can understand why each of the OV trilogy of Heisei's three heroes failed each other.

certainly!

Everything has pros and cons!

The continued slump in the video market, coupled with the rise of theaters in various places, has certainly led to the decline of OV Special, but it has also given Ultraman The Movie a new lease of life.

Dyna is one of the Heisei Sanjiri, the first Ultraman to launch a theatrical movie, two years before Tiga!

Star Warrior saved Tsuburaya's film business!

There is nothing false in this evaluation.

If Star Warrior hadn't proved that after entering the new century, Ultraman movies can also be revitalized, Tsuburaya might never touch a movie again.

The IP of Ultraman has always been embarrassing.

You name it, it is indeed very popular!

But in the neon market, it has been suppressed by Kamen Rider and Super Sentai. In other words, it has developed well overseas and has a large number of fans.

TV dramas can’t beat it, and neither can movies.

Several film works in the Showa era almost caused everyone in Tsuburaya Company to vomit blood, and the degree of autism was no less severe than the blow Armor Warrior: Emperor's Man had to Ao Fei.

This won’t work, that won’t work either…

Uncle Yuan, who felt completely suppressed by Aunt Dong, was depressed all day long. He wanted to hold a knife to the audience's neck and ask them, what kind of Ultra movies do they like?

The audience spread their hands, guess what?

I guess you Male Gobi!

Tsuburaya was so angry that he swung the knife and walked away on the spot. From then on, he stayed away from the film market and concentrated on tinkering with his own TV series.

Until, the Heisei era comes!

Tiga's great success made Tsuburaya extremely excited. When they started the production of the sequel Ultraman Dyna, the producers held a meeting with the top management.

There is one person who is very important!

Hasegawa Keiichi, Tsuburaya's royal script writer. When he wrote the script for Dyna, he created the extremely classic episode Asuka comes to find Hui as an intermediary, trying to find out the reason why Tiga is so powerful.

Because of this, he suddenly had an idea. Let Old Man Tiga join forces with the existing crew members of Dyna to make a big movie!

Then there is Starlight Warrior!

The senior management of Tsuburaya was very reluctant. They had already suffered too many losses in the film market. Wouldn't they be fools if they went in and suffered losses again?

But Keiichi Hasegawa insisted on it, and he also persuaded the person in power at the time, Kazuo Tsuburaya, the founder of the Three Great Masters of Heisei.

Keiichi Hasegawa initiated the initiative, Kazuo Tsuburaya made the decision, and the matter was decided.

Tsuburaya returns to the film industry!

The project of Starlight Warrior was immediately launched, and many old Tiga and Dana actors were invited to star.

It's a pity that Hiroshi Nagano didn't come.

As for why Hiroshi Nagano is not included in Star Warrior, everyone thinks it is the fault of the agency. In fact, this really can’t be blamed on the office.

It makes no sense that Da Gu can even make a cameo in Dyna TV. The agency would stop Da Gu from such an important role in the theatrical version.

Besides, Kazuo Tsuburaya was in charge at this time.

Who is Kazuo Tsuburaya?

He was able to create the Three Great Heroes of Pingcheng, and in the end, he abolished the Little Dream scene and forced the Super Ultra 8 Brothers to become Tiga's home field. With such courage, how could he not be able to handle the firm behind Hiroshi Nagano?

The reason why there is no Dagu.

When Keiichi Hasegawa wrote the script, he never considered letting Dagu return.

After all, Starlight Warrior is Dyna's home field, and the story timeline of Starlight Warrior takes place in the middle of Dyna TV. If Dagu comes back, what will happen to the flowers and plants on Mars?

Inappropriate! Inappropriate!

Let's leave the fighting and killing matters to the younger generations. Dagu is a retired old man, and it would be great to plant flowers on Mars!

The original Star Warrior was born under tremendous pressure.

It can be said that once this movie fails, Tsuburaya's movie dream will be completely shattered. There will be no Super Galaxy Legend in the future. Sai Shao and Lao Bei may become TV debuts.

Fortunately, Keiichi Hasegawa is awesome!

He said it could happen, and it happened. Star Warrior swept away the decline of the Showa era and became one of the most popular Ultra movies in history.

Then, what did Tsuburaya do?

He quickly dug out the plans and scraps from the Tiga period, worked hard to come up with a script, and established the project of The Final Holy War.

Take a look!

Yuangu's eating appearance is even uglier than Meng Lang's.

PD has not experienced as many troubles as Tsuburaya, and has not encountered any major setbacks since entering the film market.

Therefore, the filming of the Tiga theatrical version was initiated early. Starlight Warrior was born a little later than Final Holy War.

This is the normal order!

Dyna has already filmed it, so of course there will be no shortage of Starlight Warrior. Unable to find a suitable director, Meng Lang went into action himself.

Anyway, in this movie, almost all the characters are old acquaintances, and the scenes are the same and almost never need to be changed.

The more difficult thing is the props.

In this theatrical version, a new battleship Prometheus will appear. Moreover, the monsters that appear in this game, the Mechanical Demon God and Queen Monera, all have relatively refined leather cases, which are difficult to make.

Especially Queen Monaira!

This monster is more than 250 meters tall in the setting, which is taller than Gatanjie and the original Ultraman. It is a typical Big Mac monster.

Leather cases are hard to get!

Dyna is set at 55 meters, and the actor in the leather suit is 1.85 meters tall. If you want to show a perfect effect, Queen Monaira's leather sheath must be more than 10 meters high!

10-meter-tall leather case...

My scalp goes numb just thinking about it!