Now that I’ve completed reviewing all 28 episodes of Ultra Q, it’s time to collect all my posts for your easy perusing pleasure. Enjoy.
Episode Reviews
- E1. Defeat Gomess! – A construction crew digging a tunnel arouses a giant monster from ancient myth, and the only way to stop it may involve pitting it against its traditional foe.
- E2. Goro and Goro – A mute custodian at a forest research station forms a bond with a monkey that has grown to enormous size after eating a potion made from strength-enhancing walnuts.
- E3. The Gift From Space – An exploration probe returns from Mars carrying two golden orbs that might be a message of peace from intelligent Martians — or a warning.
- E4. Mammoth Flower – Environmental shifts on Earth cause a humungous plant with blood-sucking vines to start growing up through a building in downtown Tokyo.
- E5. Peguila Is Here! – Jun travels to an Antarctic base to search for a scientist who disappeared there years ago and discovers a giant monster with ice powers.
- E6. Grow Up! Little Turtle – In this fairy tale modernization, a boy and his pet turtle encounter bank robbers and then voyage to an undersea kingdom to meet the Dragon Princess.
- E7. S.O.S. Mount Fuji – When Yuriko investigates evidence of a possible imminent eruption of Mount Fuji, she uncovers a wild man living in the nearby forest.
- E8. Terror of the Sweet Honey – Sabotage at a woodland experimental lab conducting research into methods to enlarge plants and animals results in an aggressive giant mole.
- E9. Baron Spider – Jun, Ippei, Yuriko, and several friends are forced to spend the night in a mansion haunted by the spirits of its former owners who have taken on the form of monster spiders.
- E10. The Underground Super Express Goes West – An experimental artificial lifeform accidentally gets aboard the inaugural run of a new bullet train and puts everyone in jeopardy.
- E11. Balloonga – Tokyo, and possibly the entire world, is threatened by an amorphous floating alien blob that’s draining energy from the city to fuel its limitless growth.
- E12. I Saw a Bird – A lonely boy befriends a small bird that mysteriously appeared along with a tenth-century Viking ship in the bay of a fishing village.
- E13. Garadama – A meteorite made of alien material lands in a lake, unleashing a giant construct, Garamon, that sets off on a rampage.
- E14. Tokyo Ice Age – While a boy searches for his missing father in Tokyo, Antarctic monster Peguila comes north to turn the city into a frozen wasteland with its powers.
- E15. Kanegon’s Cocoon – A child with an obsessive love of coin-collecting is transformed into a coin-purse monster that must consume money to survive.
- E16. Garamon Strikes Back – The Garamons return to start a massive assault on Earth, and stopping them depends on tracking down the alien who possesses their control device.
- E17. The ⅛ Project – After Yuriko has a panic attack in a crowded Tokyo train station, she’s lured into an experiment that shrinks citizens to one-eighth their size to offer them a new life.
- E18. The Rainbow’s Egg – A giant monster drawn to uranium threatens a planned industrial town while several children search for magical items to help restore an old woman’s ability to walk.
- E19. Challenge From the Year 2020 – A science-fiction novel by an eccentric scientist appears to predict a series of bizarre events surrounding alien goo causing people to vanish.
- E20. The Primordial Amphibian Ragon – Fishermen on an island in imminent danger of sinking from tectonic activity find the egg of an undersea race.
- E21. Space Directive M774 – Mysterious vocal communications from a member of an alien species warn that an aquatic extraterrestrial monster is about to attack Earth.
- E22. Metamorphosis – A woman believes that yeti tracks found in the mountains were made by her fiancé, an entomologist who was changed into a brutish giant by rare butterfly pollen.
- E23. Fury of the South Sea – A young fisherman whose vessel was destroyed by a giant octopus washes up onto an island where the natives worship the octopus as a fearsome god.
- E24. The Statue of Goga – Art smugglers steal a priceless stone idol that carries a curse rumored to have annihilated an ancient civilization six thousand years ago.
- E25. The Devil Child – A stage magician uses hypnosis on his young daughter to cause her “soul” to manifest as a ghostly figure.
- E26. Blazing Glory – A championship boxer chooses to disappear before the biggest match of his career because he believes his pet lizard predicted he would lose the fight.
- E27. The Disappearance of Flight 206 – A supersonic jet flies into a mysterious whirlpool in the sky and becomes trapped in another dimensional space.
- E28. Open Up! – A ghostly commuter train moving through another dimension offers people the opportunity to escape from their mundane, disappointing lives.
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