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[Drunk Monk]

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Ultraman pub lets you get ultra-full and ultra-drunk while having ultra fun
Casey Baseel 12 hours ago



Among the many Japanese tales of heroes of justice battling giant monsters, Ultraman may just be the most popular. Since its television debut in 1966, hardly a year has gone by without a new Ultraman TV series or motion picture.

The franchise’s longevity means that many long-time fans who started watching when they were young kids are now full-grown adults. On the one hand, growing up means more responsibility, but it also means more freedom, including the freedom to knock back a few cold beers at a new dining and drinking establishment where Ultraman’s monstrous foes take center stage.

While Ultraman and his successors, including Ultraman Taro, Ultraman Leo, and Ultraman Ginga, are undeniably the hero of the franchise, many fans also have a favorite among the kaiju, or giant monsters, that the Ultramen battle at a workmanship like pace of roughly one per episode.

The just-opened Kaiju Sakaba, or Kaiju Pub, in the city of Kawasaki was created to give fans a place to honor Ultraman’s worthy adversaries, plus knock back a few cold ones. To maximize the efficiency in doing so, the beer mugs are even decorated with pictures of the kaiju.

▼ Oddly enough, despite the Jamila mug being a parody of the Asashi Super Dry logo, the Kaiju Sakaba’s house beer is Suntory’s Premium Malt’s.

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As individuals who refuse to let go of our childhoods, even as we embrace our adult right to imbibe alcoholic beverages, we paid a visit to the Kaiju Sakaba, where we were greeted by honorary manager/eternal Ultraman foe Baltan Alien.

▼ Seen here showing his newly acquired grasp of Japanese Earthling manners by bowing in greeting.

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▼ Like all talented service-industry professionals, Baltan knows that good customer service starts with a smile.

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Several kaiju are also represented by the restaurant’s interior decorations. Here we see Jamila parodying the famed Bocca del Verita, or Mouth of Truth.

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Special respect is paid to Zetton, one of the very few kaiju to ever get the better of Ultraman in a fight.

▼ We’re guessing that after several stiff drinks, the urge to jump kick the statue is almost uncontrollable.



▼ Speaking of methods of attacks, customers are explicitly asked to refrain from shooting monster-destroying beams of light from their hands.



▼ You know you’re on the bad guys’ turf when they start crucifying the heroes in effigy.



As Baltan showed us around his restaurant, our ears were greeted with recordings of the kaiju’s roars and sound effects from their battles with Ultraman. Seating is divided into a number of themed sections, starting with, of course, the Kaiju Area.

Each table is dedicated to one of the most exalted beasts from the franchise, with Zetton once again being represented.

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Even the buttons used to call the wait staff are a nod to the series, with a shape similar to the Color Timer on Ultraman’s chest that indicates the hero’s amount of remaining energy. In order to make kaiju feel as comfortable and relaxed as possible, when pressed it flashes red, indicating that Ultraman’s power level is at its lowest.

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There’s also a section for Ultraman’s aliens, which make up a separate faction from the kaiju.

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Here we see the table for King Joe, whose unassuming given name belies his status as a 55-meter (180-foot) giant robot from outer space.

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A special touch in the Alien Area is the lamps hanging from the ceiling, which are modeled after the starships used by the race of Baltan Aliens.

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The kaiju’s research into our planet’s customs must have revealed that many Japanese humans feel most comfortable sitting on the floor, as shown by the suitably equipped Kaiju Free for All Zone.

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Parties looking for more privacy can request to dine in one of the private Battle Planning Rooms, and for those who feel like villainy spoils the taste of good food, there’s also a section of the restaurant featuring paraphernalia from the heroic Ultramen and their puny human allies.

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The Kaiju Sakaba is a restaurant after all, not a museum, so eventually we asked Baltan the Manager if we could sample a few dishes.

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We started with an order of Baltan Alien Hospitality, which is a rice pilaf dish with an impressive amount of crab meat and kani miso, a mix of crab innards and miso paste you can often find at sushi restaurants in Japan. It tasted great, and the dish shaped like Baltan’s scissor hands gives it some extra style points.

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Next, we moved onto the Forbidden Words Salad, inspired by the treacherous alien Mefilas.

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Meflias is a bit of an odd character, as despite having a purported IQ of over 10,000, he has a strange obsession with trying to convince even one Earthling to agree to give him the planet. So great is his desire for the Earth that his salad is served on a dish making the same request. We’ll have to get back to him, but what we can say right now is that we enjoyed the creamy yogurt-infused dressing.

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The Fried Twin Tail is named after the natural prey of the prehistoric kaiju Gudon, who personally recommends the combination of two jumbo shrimp battered and cooked together.

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“Aim for the Color Timer!” isn’t just a sound battle strategy for the kaiju, it’s also the name of this spicy jambalaya dish with the rice and fixings served separately.

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Finally, “Destroy the Science Corps Japanese Base!” is a half-loaf of bread that diners tear apart to get at the white sauce and miso paste stew inside.

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At this point, we were no longer hungry or thirsty, but there was one more thing to do before we went home. No children’s TV series can run as long as Ultraman without generating a ton of merchandise, which visitors can pick up at the Kaiju Bar’s attached gift shop.

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Aside from even more kaiju-themed munchies, there’s a series of chopsticks featuring the villains, with a note sheepishly mentioning that Manager Baltan would really be happy if the ladies would use.

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There are also a ton of Ultraman figures on sale, for any patrons who are feeling sentimental after a few beers and want to pick up something for the kids, or for a personal trip down memory lane.

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We realize it’s not easy being a kaiju. The huge pantheon of Ultraman foes means regularly getting beaten up by the heroes, followed by a lengthy wait until you’re the next episode with a script that calls for you. These lovable monsters do it all for our entertainment, though, so it’s nice to see they at least have a place to kick back and have a few beers together between on-screen appearances.

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Restaurant Information
Kaiju Sakaba / 怪獣酒場
Address: Kanagawa-ken, Kawasaki-shi, Kawasaki-ku, Ekimae Honcho 3-1, NOF Kawasaki Higashi Guchi Building, Basement level 1
神奈川県川崎市川崎区駅前本町3-1 NOF川崎東口ビル B1階
Open 4:30 p.m.-12 midnight

[El Dingo]

Well, crap.

I guess I have to scratch out #2 (David Carradine's grave) to hit this place.

I was going to hit the lottery next month but I may have to step it up a week to schedule this in.

[Drunk Monk]

...and I already have a large tie collection that I never wear.

Become an ultra-cool Ultra(salary)man with these limited-edition neckties
Audrey Akcasu yesterday



In Japan, black suits are as ubiquitous with salarymen as uniforms are with high school students. Usually, though, the look is pretty unremarkable: black suit, white shirt, subdued tie, black shoes, black belts…and the same thing every day. Suit and menswear chain Aoyama, however, is looking to not only spice up the old suit look, but also help salarymen channel their inner space alien superhero (or villain).

For their 50th anniversary, Aoyama has collaborated with the Ultraman franchise to create a line of Ultraman neckties. In an announcement from Tsuburaya Productions, the company that produced the original Ultraman TV series in 1966, it was revealed that there will be eighteen unique Ultraman inspired designs available for a limited time.

The 18 different designs to choose from offer a huge range of possibilities. If you like standing out (and, of course, your company permits it) you can get a really noticeable tie, like the one with Ultraman’s Color Timer, his energy gauge, right in the middle of the tie making you look just like Ultraman himself. Who wouldn’t want to go to work like that? And just think: the blue light, depicting full-energy, will be a mental booster for you and show your co-workers you are not one to tire easily.



Images: Aoyama Blog (left), Bandai (right)

If your company has a little bit stricter dress code, you could sneak the galactic hero in on a navy tie with white polka dots, except some polka dots are actually little Ultraman masks! Tee-hee! I wonder how long it would take for your boss to notice! (Hopefully more than three-minutes.)


Image: Aoyama Blog

If you can’t even pull camouflaged Ultra-cool off at work, then go for the style that looks like a normal, bland tie on top, but hidden at the bottom, under your fastened jacket, awaits an Ultraman character, like Alien Baltan (below), ready to bust out when you take your jacket off and relax at the Ultraman pub.



Images: Aoyama Blog (left), Bandai (right)

Twitter has been blowing up since the release of this unusual office wear:

“The ties are ridiculously cool!”

“Wow! The Dada [an Ultra monster seen below] pattern is a work of art! Awesome!”

“I really want the Alien Baltan tie. But I’d probably be kicked out of my office within three minutes if I wore it there!”

“I went to Aoyama as soon as I could to look at the ties. They are so awesome in the flesh!”

▼Gugi Akiyama, the head designer for the project, tweeted that his favorite has to be the black-and-white striped tie, fashioned after this monster!

Image: Rakuten

Remember ties aren’t just dress code; they can be confidence boosters (Color Timer!), mood lifters, and even talking points. Wouldn’t you ask about one of these trendy, yet playful ties? They are fashion statements and business partners, as wearing one will most likely get you a promotion (or fired). Whether you’re buying one for yourself or giving one as a present, you better get to your nearest Aoyama store or hit the website soon because the ties are only offered in limited quantities!

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[cranefly]

I went in for an interview at Strategic Simulations wearing a stegosaurus tie. The manager said that I must like dinosaurs. I told him that I remembered reading a book in grade school called, The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek, and for some reason it made an impression on me. The manager remembered reading it too.

So I worked on a few D&D games. One was called Pools of Darkness. Central to the game, the player has to travel through different parts of Moandor's body. I wrote and coded a few of the modules, including Moandor's Heart, which is considered the hardest module. I even coded a lub and dub mechanism in so that if you're in a ventricle or in an artery when dub occurs, you get flushed out and have to start over. The trick is to slip into muscle tissue when dub occurs.

I just did a search and am completely blown away by the fact that people still seem to be playing that game. There's a youtube walkthrough dated 2009 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93Xd2bAbR8), and a message board discussion dated 2011 (https://bitomoander.runboard.com/t594) where someone posits the following:

Major League Stuck (Please Help)

I have been working on this one part on the game for over a year. It is in the Moander Realm - I have just defeated the golems and my weapons are magnetic - but I cannot seem to make it to the unguent at 7 on the map. Everytime I get close the heart beats and it sends me back to the beginning of the artery. If anyone out there could help me I would be forever appreciative!

Thank you for any help that you may be able to provide!

Who are these people still playing such ancient and stilted games?

[Drunk Monk]

Who are these people still playing such ancient and stilted games?

Clearly these people are stegasauruses.
















stegasauri?

[cranefly]

I am humbled.
Major touche.

[Drunk Monk]

...don't forget to tip your waitress.

[Drunk Monk]

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[thatguy]

http://hypebeast.com/2016/5/converse-x-u...nniversary

Converse x Ultraman for 50th Anniversary

Exclusively for Japan.



In light of the 1966 Japanese television series Ultraman‘s 50th anniversary, Converse offers commemoration by releasing the Converse x Ultraman, Alien Baltan and Elking collection. The All Star Ultraman R HI features the body parts of Ultraman across the entire upper, with a blue patch (right side) and an asymmetric red patch (left side) as a reminiscent of the color timer. The All Star Eleking R HI is a representation of the iconic space monster featuring mottled black and white patterns along the upper and sole. To represent the ominous characteristic of Eleking, the shoe glows in the dark. The All Star Vartan Say Jin R Slip OX replicates the face of the alien ninja Baltan, by utilizing the same color and texture of the villain. Prepare for the Japan exclusive Converse x Ultraman special edition All Star collection for ¥8,500-9,500 JPY (approximately $80-$90 USD) on July 2016.

--tg

[Greg]

Time to go to Japan to get some sneakers.

[Drunk Monk]

This Japanese Ultraman temple block will help you cast off all worldly desires!

• Michelle Hughes17 hours ago
  
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It’ll cost you about $10,000, but surely Nirvana is worth it.

2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Ultraman broadcast and a whole host of interesting goods have come out to help celebrate it. Perhaps the most unusual, though, is the Ultra Temple Block.
Temple blocks are used for a variety of reason by Buddhist monks, but they are most commonly employed to help them maintain the rhythm of a chant, and are often used during funeral rites. It is also said that the temple block can symbolize wakeful attention, wealth, or abundance — all of which you clearly will need in order to acquire the Ultra Temple Block.

One of the many thoughts that first came to mind upon finding out about this item was that perhaps it is intended to aid the vast numbers of monsters that experienced annihilation at the hands of Ultraman on their journey to the otherworld, but not so. Dear human, this was made for you. Though, to be frank, it’s kind of unclear why it was made to begin with!
▼The wooden Ultra Temple Block makes that quintessential poku poku sound.

Is the temple block simply meant to be some sort of rare item for a fan to score? With prices ranging from 91,800 yen (~US $898.96) for the small size to 1,080,000 yen (~US $10,576) for the large one, it seems likely that the only people who will buy these are ultra-fans of Ultraman.
Orders are being accepted between August 24, 2016 and September 30, 2016, but the item won’t arrive on your doorstep until around the end of March 2017.
The Ultraman Ultra Temple Block may not get you any closer to Nirvana, but if you are a die-hard fan, it might just be the thing to take your home decor to another level!
Reference and images: CJMart

[cranefly]

Hey, DM.

Aren't you supposed to be exploring tombs these days?

[Drunk Monk]

Nope. Raiding them.  Note to self - need a bigger pair of guns.

Aren't you going to be feeding bears soon?

[Drunk Monk]

[Drunk Monk]

A NEW ULTRAMAN CGI ANIME IS COMING TO NETFLIX
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POSTED BY BLAIR MARNELL ON JULY 5, 2018


For the past five decades, Ultraman has been one of Japan’s most iconic heroes. Now, the next generation of Ultraman is coming to Netflix with a brand new anime series.
Via Anime News Network, the latest volume of Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi’s Ultraman manga included an announcement that the new Ultraman anime adaptation will have a worldwide launch on Netflix in 2019. The series will be animated in CGI by Production I.G., the company known for Blood: The Last Vampire, The End of Evangelion, Patlabor, and xxHolic. Kenji Kamiyama of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and Shinji Aramaki of Appleseed Alpha are on board to direct the new Ultraman series.
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The latest Ultraman series will adapt the manga by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shiguchi, which is a sequel to the classic Ultraman live-action TV show. It features Shinjiro Hayata, the son of Shin Hayata (the original Ultraman) and takes place several decades after Shin defeated his enemies and saved the world from alien invaders. When a new alien threat emerges, Shinjiro will discover that he inherited his father’s powers and responsibilities as he takes up the Ultraman mantle in defense of the Earth.
Viz Media publishes the Ultraman manga in the United States, and the 12th volume was recently released in Japan. So there will be a lot of potential stories to tell in the new anime series when it debuts next year.
Are you excited about the new Ultraman anime? Which monster battles from the manga do you want to see on the show? Let us know in the comment section below!
Images: Shogakukan/Netflix