| Genre: | Tokusatsu Superhero Science fiction Cyberpunk Horror Fiction |
| Creator: | Tsuburaya Productions |
| Starring: | Eriku Yoza Saki Kagami Tomohito Wakizaki Anri Ban |
| Director: | Takeshi Yagi |
| Developer: | Yūji Kobayashi |
| Executive Producer: | Kazuo Tsuburaya |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
| Music: | TBA |
| Network: | Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting (Japan) TOKU (U.S.) |
| Num Episodes: | 12 |
is the 20th entry in the Tsuburaya Productions' long-running Ultra Series. It is a darker and edgier revival of the 1967 series Ultraseven, and is the second in Tsuburaya Productions' Ultra hero series to be exclusively for an adult audience after Ultraman Nexus and the first to be in a wide screen high-definition format. The show first aired on October 5, 2007 at 2:15am on CBC and 2:25am on TBS.[1] [2]
On May 11, 2017, Toku announced that the series would air in the United States on its channel with English subtitles beginning June 5 until June 12, 2017.[3] On Friday, September 29 the entire series was made available for viewing on Verizon's go90.
The series took place in a world where all forms of war and terrorism had long ended, bringing forth a dystopian future. An amnesiac man named Jin awakened and was entrusted with missions given by DEUS to fight against aliens that had slipped into the human society, joining forces with agents K and S. During that moment, he was given a pair of glasses by Elea Saeki to transform into the red giant. While fighting to preserve the safety of the city, Jin becomes closer to discovering his memories.
Near the end of the series, Jin, K, and S discover that their world is silently ruled by an alien race through subjugating mankind into a state of utopia. While on the run from DEUS agents, Jin discovered that he was bonded to Ultraseven, the red giant from another world to stop the aliens from invading his home dimension. When Seven reawakened, he quickly destroyed the entire alien race and saved Jin's comrades from a suicide bombing attack. Jin was separated from Seven as the latter returned to his world as Dan Moroboshi, reuniting with his lover Anne.
is the special investigative team organized in order to defend the Earth against alien invaders. Although they live as normal people, members of DEUS can be called into action at any given time. Agents call each other by code name rather than their actual names. Led by the, he informs agents of their missions through the VC. It is revealed to be an A.I. that controls all of the world's information on behalf of the shadow rulers. The known agents of DEUS are:
A multipurpose wristwatch-like communicator which can also function as a GPS, deploying an electromagnetic barrier and anti-gravity to survive a fall from a skyscraper.
A small laser gun customized for anti-aliens carried by agents. It shares its name with the standard weaponry of Ultra Guard from Ultraseven, but different in terms of model, which illustrated to portray a near-futuristic design.
The Aqua Project is a top secret project conducted by the government. It is supposed to convert energy in water into atomic energy. When it was found to open a portal into a parallel universe, the project was halted. However, it was restarted by the shadow rulers in an attempt to invade the parallel universe. Members of the project then found out about the shadow rulers, and were all killed, except for one:
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A novel series of Ultraseven X was released and published in Hobby Japan.
In July 2020, Shout! Factory announced to have struck a multi-year deal with Alliance Entertainment and Mill Creek, with the blessings of Tsuburaya and Indigo, that granted them the exclusive SVOD and AVOD digital rights to the Ultra series and films (1,100 TV episodes and 20 films) acquired by Mill Creek the previous year. Ultraseven X, amongst other titles, will stream in the United States and Canada through Shout! Factory TV and Tokushoutsu.[4]