History Manga / Ultraman

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The anime is said to be set 18 years after Ultraman left Earth instead of 40 years after. However, considering that Hayata was 25 in the original series and 56 in the anime, this new timeframe simply doesn't work.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The anime is said to be set 18 years after Ultraman left Earth instead of 40 years. However, considering that Hayata was 25 in the original series and 56 in the anime, this new timeframe simply doesn't work.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The anime is said to be set "[[https://twitter.com/tsuburayaprod/status/1249276108958138368 more than a decade]]" after Ultraman left Earth (later revealed to be 18 years ago) instead of 40 years. However, considering that Hayata was 25 in the original series and 56 in the anime, this new timeframe simply doesn't work.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The anime is said to be set "[[https://twitter.com/tsuburayaprod/status/1249276108958138368 more than a decade]]" after Ultraman left Earth instead of 40 years. However, considering that Hayata was 25 in the original series and 56 in the anime, this new timeframe simply doesn't work.

** [[spoiler: Edo is revealed to be the BigBad in the anime adaptation's GeckoEnding.]]

An anime adaptation has been produced, co-directed by Kenji Kamiyama (''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'') & Shinji Aramaki (''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'') and released worldwide by Creator/{{Netflix}} as an ''Original'' on April 1, 2019. Watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXOG3pZfGOc here]]. [[https://twitter.com/NXOnNetflix/status/1138494971110019072?s=20 On June 11, 2019, Netflix announced that it had renewed the show for a second season]], which was released on April 14, 2022. A third and final season was announced which will be released on May 11, 2023.

** [[spoiler:In Chapter 105, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's Public Security Bureau launched an assassination campaign on individuals in the government, including the National Police Agency, on anyone's who in a pro-alien ostracisim movement in order to protect Rena.]]

** Rena was given a new backstory in the anime: her mother was seriously wounded in the final battle between Ultraman and Zetton and died when she gave birth to her. Ignoring the timeframe issue mentioned above, there was ''no'' collateral damage at all during the battle between Ultraman and Zetton, so this backstory made no sense.

* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: For the anime adaptation, Endo lost his wife to the destruction caused by one of the original Ultraman's battles, which gives him a great deal of resentment for anything Ultraman-related. This is in stark contrast to the manga, where he was saved by Ultraman as a kid and idolizes him, which is why he [[PretenderDiss dislikes]] the Science Patrol's 'Fake Ultraman' so much.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The [[Series/UltramanLeo Leo Brothers]] are the Star Cluster Council's elite assassins and both display contempt for illegal aliens of any kind. Downplayed once they're [[DefeatEqualsFriendship humbled]] and join the SSP.

* WaveMotionGun: The Specium Ray is capable of laying waste to large swarms of enemies. [[spoiler:Bemular's, in particular, was powerful enough to destroy a large nuke and TheBattlestar that launched it.]]

** In the manga, Yapool designed the Taro Suit to contain Kotarou's flame powers, which had a cooling system and numerous heat vents. In the anime, the Taro Suit was just an Ultraman Suit that Yapool happened to be working on, which he decided to contain Kotarou with when he lost control of his powers. This makes the fact that it still had the aforementioned heat vents and cooling system comes off as ContrivedCoincidence.

* IdiotBall: The SSSP and Bemular hang onto this for dear life during the anime final season. Bemular knew that [[spoiler:the Ultraman that wrecked the city was a fake]], but instead of simply telling the SSSP, he has Hokuto deliver some cryptic hints to Endo, a regular cop who can do almost nothing with that information and [[spoiler:nearly gets silenced by fake Ace]] when he does figure it out. Meanwhile, the SSSP headquarters is broken into with no effort by aliens and even humans, their surveillance capabilities prove to be ''inferior to regular cops'', and when [[spoiler:Shinjiro kills an Alien Zarab that snuck in to assassinate him]], Koutaro sees the aftermath and accuses Shinjiro of murder and forces him to run, despite the fact that [[spoiler: Zarab was obviously an intruder]].

* InternalDeconstruction: The idea of the Space Garrison is deconstructed: essentially, they are an army of superpowered interstellar vigilantes, who answer to no power other than themselves, operate based solely on their morality, and are both willing and powerful enough to wipe out entire species if they don't conform to their idea of "good". This is what ultimately led to their war with the Star Cluster Council.

** In the final season, Mephisto explicitly stated that his goal is to kill all ''four'' Ultramen, the implication being that he only considers those who possess the Ultraman Factor and Spacium energy to be Ultramen. However, not only does this distinction seem entirely random (Temperor considers all of the Ultras other than [[spoiler:Bemular]] to be imitations in the manga), but that ignores the fact that ALL of the Ultra Suits were powered by a Spacium core and most have some form of Spacium weaponry. Finally, Mephisto didn't even know who the fourth Ultraman was until [[spoiler:one of the Alien Zarabs attacked Rena and forced her to don the Marie suit.]] So how did he know there were four?

** In the manga, Yapool designed the Taro Suit to contain Kotarou's flame powers, and had a cooling system and numerous heat vents. In the anime, the Taro Suit was just a Ultraman Suit that Yapool happened to be working on, which he decided to contain Kotarou with when he lost control of his powers. This makes the fact that it still had the aforementioned heat vents and cooling system comes off as ContrivedCoincidence.

** In the final season, Mephisto explicitly stated that his goal is to kill all ''four'' Ultramen, the implication being that he only considers those who possess the Ultraman Factor and Spacium energy to be Ultramen. However, not only does this distinction seem entirely random (Temperor considers all of the Ultras other than [[spoiler:Bemular]] to be imitations in the manga), bue that ignores the fact that ALL of the Ultras use Spacium energy in some form since they were all powered by a Spacium core. Finally, Mephisto didn't even know who the fourth Ultraman was until [[spoiler:one of the Alien Zarabs attacked Rena and forced her to don the Marie suit.]] So how did he know there were four?

** In the final season, Mephisto explicitly stated that his goal is to kill all ''four'' Ultramen, the implication being that he only considers those who possess the Ultraman Factor and the Spacium beam to be Ultramen. However, not only does this distinction seem entirely random (Temperor considers all of the Ultras other than [[spoiler:Bemular]] to be imitations in the manga), but he didn't even know who the fourth Ultraman was until [[spoiler:one of the Alien Zarabs attacked Rena and forced her to don the Marie suit.]] So how did he know there were four?

** In the final season, Mephisto explicitly stated that his goal is to kill all ''four'' Ultramen, the implication being that he only considers those who possess the Ultraman Factor and Spacium energy to be Ultramen. However, not only does this distinction seem entirely random (Temperor considers all of the Ultras other than [[spoiler:Bemular]] to be imitations in the manga), but he didn't even know who the fourth Ultraman was until [[spoiler:one of the Alien Zarabs attacked Rena and forced her to don the Marie suit.]] So how did he know there were four?

* IdiotBall: The SSSP and Bemular hang onto this for dear life during the anime final season. Bemular knew that [[spoiler:the Ultraman that wrecked the city was a fake]], but instead of simply telling the SSSP, he has Hokuto deliver some cryptic hints to Endo, a regular cop who can do almost nothing with that information and [[spoiler:nearly gets silenced by fake Ace]] when he does figure it out. Meanwhile, the SSSP headquarters is broken into with no effort by aliens and even humans, and when [[spoiler:Shinjiro kills an Alien Zarab that snuck in to assassinate him]], Koutaro sees the aftermath and accuses Shinjiro of murder and forces him to run, despite the fact that [[spoiler: Zarab was obviously an intruder]].

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the manga, when Bemular fought Hayata, he never aimed for his weak points and almost exclusively targeted his protected torso instead of his unprotected head. In the anime, however, he not only hits Hayata in the head multiple times, but impales him through the stomach at one point. This makes the revelation that [[spoiler:he's actually the original Ultraman in disguise and never wanted to kill Hayata]] a lot more jarring.

* AdaptationalBadass: Mephisto in the anime. In the manga, he was a [[NonActionBigBad Non-Action]] BigBadWannabe, [[spoiler: his plan to frame Ultraman by having Alien Zarab mimic him came off as sheer desperation after Valky egged him on, and he was foiled embarassingly quickly by Edo.]] In the anime, [[spoiler: he came up with a much more sophisticated scheme that had everyone questioning Shinjiro's sanity, can fight limiter released Shinjiro on equal footing, and even when dying, accomplished what he was set out to do.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Mephisto in the anime. In the manga, he was a [[NonActionBigBad Non-Action]] BigBadWannabe, [[spoiler: his plan to frame Ultraman by having Alien Zarab mimic him came off as sheer desperation after Valky egged him on, and he was foiled embarassingly quickly by Edo.]] In the anime, [[spoiler: he came up with a much more sophisticated scheme that had everyone questioning Shinjiro's sanity, can fight limiter released Shinjiro on equal footing, and even with his death, accomplished what he was set out to do.]]