Tsuburaya Productions ( 円谷プロダクション , Tsuburaya Purodakushon ) also abbreviated as Tsupro ( ツプロ , Tsupuro ) is a Japanese special effects studio founded in 1963 by special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya and was run by his family, until October 2007, when the family sold the company to advertising agency TYO Inc. The studio is best known for producing the Ultra Series . Since 2007, the head office has been located in Hachimanyama, Setagaya , Tokyo .
8-569: Ultraman Ginga ( ウルトラマンギンガ , Urutoraman Ginga ) , is a Japanese television series produced by Tsuburaya Productions . It is the 25th entry to the Ultra Series , released to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary. It is the first entry in the New Generation series, ending a six year long hiatus of live action shows produced in Japan after Ultraman Mebius concluded in 2007. It aired as part of
16-716: The New Ultraman Retsuden programming block on TV Tokyo from July 10, 2013 to December 18, 2013. A second season titled Ultraman Ginga S aired in 2014. All of the Ultraman and monsters have been turned into figures known as Spark Dolls ( スパークドールズ , Supāku Dōruzu ) and become scattered throughout the universe. A young man named Hikaru Raido finds an item called the Ginga Spark ( ギンガスパーク , Ginga Supāku ) which not only allows him to become Ultraman Ginga but also allows him to go UltLive ( ウルトライブ , Urutoraibu ) with
24-542: The channel has reached over 2 million subscribers. Tsuburaya's more recent work includes the "Ultra N-Project" ( Ultraman the Next and Ultraman Nexus ) based loosely on an unused concept which was planned before the production of Ultra Q , but never actually filmed. In October 2007, due to rising production costs, the Tsuburaya family sold the company to Japanese advertising agency TYO Inc., which then held an 80% stake in
32-641: The company. Bandai , the main licensor of merchandise for the Ultra Series, acquired a 33.4% stake in 2007 with TYO transferring another 15.6% in 2009 giving Bandai a total of 49.9%. As a result, the old Kinuta office used by Tsuburaya as its head office was razed, and the company moved to newer facilities. Kazuo Tsuburaya, Eiji's grandson, stayed with the company on its board of directors. In 2010, pachinko maker Fields Corporation bought out TYO's 51% stake in Tsuburaya Productions, with Bandai retaining
40-649: The figures to revert them to their rightful size and become one with them. Hikaru fights with his friends to uncover the darkness behind the Spark Dolls. Alien Nackie drops a clue that the wielder of darkness resides in their very elementary school. In the final episode, the master of darkness, Dark Lugiel reveals himself. He destroys the elementary school before proceeding to defeat Ginga. When all hope seems lost, Ultraman Taro regains his true form and rises to fight Dark Lugiel. He manages to revive Ginga before being defeated himself, and Ginga and Lugiel have an intense battle on
48-486: The moon, ending with Lugiel's defeat. Ginga and Taro say their goodbyes to Hikaru and friends as they leave Earth for their homeland. Tsuburaya Productions First established by Japanese special effects ( tokusatsu ) pioneer Eiji Tsuburaya in 1963, it was responsible for the creation of such classic shows as Ultraman (and its many sequels ), Kaiju Booska and many other spectacular tokusatsu family/children's shows. The company, when first formed in 1963,
56-543: The movies he was doing for them. Although Eiji had strong political power at Toho, he and the company were at odds with each other until his death in 1970. The company's current logo was originally the arrow-like logo from their 1968 TV series, Mighty Jack , designed by that show's art director, Tohl Narita. Tohl Narita left the company the same year. Tsuburaya has officially made their Ultraman and non-Ultraman content widely available on their YouTube channel, even simulcasting several of their series with English subtitles,
64-408: Was called Tsuburaya Special Effects Productions ( 円谷特技プロダクション , Tsuburaya Tokugi Purodakushon ) . In 1968, Toho Company Ltd. forced the company to change its name to the simpler "Tsuburaya Productions", not only because its executives thought Eiji was acting as though only he could have done special effects, but also because they felt that his own TV shows were becoming a strong competition to
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