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The Legend of Ultraman

By Bobby /Sep 06, 2006
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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the creation of Ultraman, Japan’s ultimate defender from a horde of kaiju—super-sized world-gobbling space monsters. 

Ultraman fans need only take a visit to the Taro Okamoto Museum in Kawasaki for a nostalgic retrospective of the art and science behind the silver masked one. 

Read up on the exhibit at Metropolis.  The exhibit runs until Sept. 24, 2006.  It will travel and next be seen at the Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum in Hiroshima from Oct. 18 - Nov. 19.

Part of the Ultraman exhibit at the Taro Okamoto Museum

By the way, over the summer, there was an Ultraman Festival at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo commermorating the 40th anniversary.  Here’s some photos of the exhibit from a Japanese blog.

And now, here’s some cool Ultraman goods we found on the web:

40th anniversary commemorative watch - 63000 yen

Nike Free 5.0 Ultraman series shoe - 16800 yen

Booska character motif bag - 3990 yen
Booska is not part of the Ultraman series, but he was created by the creators of Ultraman.

Namitatsu brand Ultraman surfer t-shirt - 4935 yen

Baltan necklace - 12,600 yen
Baltan is an evil rival of Ultraman.