Ultraman Leo (1974) - The Most Ambitious Yet | Ultra Retrospective

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Kinda crazy that Leo and Kamen Rider Amazon were running against each other, both being defined by their increased level of violence and weird tonal shifts.

What's funny about Sevenger is that he was added when a fanmail asked Tsuburaya why doesn't Seven use his capsule monsters to help Leo fight a monster.

The Saucer Beast arc has some of the best Ultraman episodes ever made, the fact that those eps are in the same show as the Oni-On ep will forever confound me.

Leo is more realistic and somewhat more life encouraging in my eyes. Often times life is just unfair, everything is stacked against you. But as long as you don't give up and believe in what is truly important and crucial, keep on fighting. You might not succeed and reach your ideal goal, but you would harvest the fruits of what you worked hard for.

My favorite superhero, period. His trials and tribulations are what make him so interesting, but most importantly; his will to get back up even when beaten to the brink of death. It’s very inspiring.

I mean, the limp thing could be explained by Seven's last episode, where he is already on the brink of death from old battle wounds and was ordered not to transform. It is likely that he is not fully healed from old wounds and the broken leg is just the last straw that rendered him, semi-permanently, unable to transform.

The first Leo theme is an absolute banger, and his overall design is unique in on its own.

I believe it was explained in an Ultraman Mebius Novel that Dan was rescued by Ultra Mother after Silverbloom destroyed the MAC base and subsequently, Dan's Ultra Eyes were repaired too but of course, all these details are from a book so no actual head cannon of what really happened to Dan. I agreed that when Leo is good and hardcore, it is really fun to watch. The Ultra Brothers two-parter was one of the dumbfound episodes with the Ultra Brothers wanting to straight-up murder Astra without thinking clearly. Leo is also dumb when he confronted Astra with the Ultra Key hiding behind him. Guys, the key is just behind him! Just get it!

Whoever removed Ultraseven's ears, you caused this whole show to happen

"Too a much lesser extent" he dropped boulders on them. Also regulos wasn't trained by leo, he was just trained in the same school of space martial arts. It's implied he died when magma did his diddly doo and he's a parallel isotope.

Apparently regulos is leo's and astra's childhood friend that occasionally spar with each other and it's said that both their planets are destroyed by alien magma. We may finally got the see just how the hell alien magma managed to destroy a planet full of ultra after almost 50 years

This series honestly feels like a live action shonen anime, what with its headstrong-to-the-point-of-being-reckless, hot-blooded protagonist who never gives up; constantly improving himself to confront impossible odds; Ultra Seven acting as a mentor figure; the colorful/wacky villains, are we sure Akira Toriyama didn't take some inspiration from this series? For God's sake, Leo is even the last of his freaking race, and is an expert martial artist!

Its honestly amazing they were able to make the series the usual 50 episodes because of the Japanese oil crisis that was going on in the world. The black Star beast are some of my fav monsters. Black End is best boss monster too.

The funny thing is that Dan's actor wasn't fond of how his character treated Gen, finding it unnecessarily cruel

Ultraman Leo is one of my favorite Ultra shows, even with its not so great middle portion.

Surprised you didn't bring up the episode that brought back Anne from Ultraseven, and gave her a psychotic devil child. Or the fact that the Magma pinwheel episode has Susume Kurobe and Hiroko Sakurai in it. What was up with those eps

When you mentioned you were going to cover this show, I really anticipated it. Leo really interested me as well and I was really curious to hear your thoughts on it. Having watched the video, I agree with basically everything you said. In a time when watching the Showa Ultras was starting to get very stale, Leo was a breath of life that reinvigorated me. To this day I think it’s such an utter shame an Ultra series with this good a premise had to be bogged down by real world issues and financial hell. It feels like the writers didn’t get to tell all of the stories they wanted to. As a final note, I’ll mention something Leo does that I really love, that I feel very few other Ultra series do, which is that the monster attacks have stakes. Often, when a monster attacks a city it’s just a set piece to move the plot forward and every single person miraculously survives, but not Leo. In Leo, monster/alien attacks have long-lasting consequences and the Gillas brothers, for example, feel like a force of destruction akin to a natural disaster, like Godzilla. It really gave the show some proper stakes and it didn’t feel like they were wearing a thick suit of plot armor. All in all, I hold Leo dearly, myself. When a lot of the later Showa Ultra series really underwhelmed me, Leo compelled me and creative decisions it did made me really feel things. I think Regulos has some promise, if it builds on the concepts Leo started. But enough rambling, this is another great video of your Ultra Retrospective. As somebody who’s been making his way through the Ultraman franchise for the first time basically since last May, it feels good to finish these shows and anticipate a retrospective on them, which give me newfound appreciation for them or consider certain flaws with them. Looking forward to the next one!

I loved Commander Blacks cameo in Orb, didnt expect that!

Leos original opening is my favorite showa opening and one of my favorite openings in general, Leos opening is a bop I've never seen Leo but if ever do watch it I'd probably do what you did and play the og opening over the later episodes just to pretend it's still in the show