BCI has acquired the video rights to the 1966 Ultraman live action 'kaiju' series.

The original Ultraman TV series will be coming to DVD in the U.S. sometime later this year.

This week Bennett looks at this summer's Marvel and DC relaunches.

VIZ Media will release the new Ultraman manga series to North American audiences beginning in August.

Tsuburaya Productions, the creator of the Ultraman TV series and features, is being acquired by TYO, an advertising, film, and animation company.

Funimation Productions has released its schedule of DVD releases through February, and it includes the first volume from the new series Kiddy Grade as well as uncut episodes of Ultraman Tiga.

This Halloween will see the debut of the first-ever English language magazine devoted to the culture of Japanese live action science fiction and fantasy character toys-- Super 7.

This week, Steve Bennett offers some leftover thoughts from the Thanksgiving holiday including how the geek chararcter balloons in the parade turned out, and more on the MST3K cancellation.

This weekend’s home entertainment offerings include this summer’s stealth horror film hit, Alexander Aja’s Crawl, plus a dark comedy that claims to subvert toxic masculinity, but the best stuff for this week comes from TV in the form of the superb TV ghost story series, The Haunting of Hill House, and new Blu-ray releases of classic 1960s tokusatsu series from Eiiji Tsuburaya, Ultra Q and Ultraman.

Netflix has released trailers for two iconic Japanese properties it will be adding to its library in the spring.