New Netflix anime movie debuts to 100% Rotten Tomatoes score
Jun. 11, 2024Ultraman: Rising hits Netflix on June 14
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Netflix and anime go hand-in-hand at the moment. Case in point: Ultraman: Rising, the latest in a long line of excitingnew anime movies and showsthis year, has debuted to a perfect Rotten Tomatoes score just days before release.
As of writing, Ultraman: Rising is sitting pretty on a100% Rotten Tomatoes score. Mind you, this is still early days: only eight reviews have been used as weighting for this aggregate – but it’s an extremely promising start.
Centering on baseball star Ken Sato as he takes on the mantle of Ultraman (an ultra-popular superhero in Japan), the hero must juggle saving the day with babysitting a 35-foot baby kaiju, Emi.
“She’s got a touch of Looney Tunes, a smidge of ’70s Japanese kids shows, and a lot of my daughter when she was a toddler,” director Shannon Tindletold SFXof the inspirations behind Emi. “One of the greatest rewards from early screenings has been watching how people connect with Emi on a personal level. That’s an incredible feeling.”
Netflix has plenty more anime and animated adventures still to come this year. Arcane season 2 hits our screens in November, and we’venow got an intriguing posterto help while away the months-long wait.
A Tomb Raider animated series is also in the works andthe new trailershows off the Hayley Atwell-voiced adventurer in fine style.
Elsewhere, the first season of one of thebest animeof the year – Delicious in Dungeon – is coming to an end this week after cooking up a storm on the streamer.
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