Ultraseven: The Complete Episode Review Guide

~ Ryan Harvey

With my review series for Ultraseven completed, here’s a full episode guide with links to each of the individual reviews.

Episode Reviews

  • E1. The Invisible Challenger – The Terran Defense Force and its action team, the Ultra Guard, gain a new ally in their ongoing defense of Earth against waves of alien invaders.
  • E2. The Green Terror – A boulder of extraterrestrial metal parked in a TDF member’s driveway may be connected to a rash of incidents in which people are turning into hideous plant monsters.
  • E3. Secret of the Lake – Aliens disguised as teenage girls attempt to sabotage TDF headquarters while their pet giant monster, Eleking, distracts the Ultra Guard and Ultraseven.
  • E4. Max, Respond! – To trick Earth’s defenses into concentrating in a single spot, Alien Godola levitates a TDF battleship into the sky, trapping several members of the Ultra Guard aboard.
  • E5. Vanished Time – An alien uses a time-freeze laser to implant an extraterrestrial intelligence into the brain of the scientist in charge of TDF’s critical radar capabilities.
  • E6. Dark Zone – A traveling alien space city is on a collision course with Earth, forcing the aliens and Earthlings to each contemplate destroying the other to save themselves.
  • E7. Space Prisoner 303 – The Ultra Guard must capture an extraterrestrial murderer who escaped from prison on its home planet and is using Earth as a stop along its getaway route.
  • E8. The Marked Town – Alien Metron tests an invasion scheme on a small town, filling the local vending machines with poisoned cigarettes that turn people mindlessly violent.
  • E9. Operation Android Zero – A toymaker who is distributing badges and toy guns to children turns out to be an alien weaving a bloody plot to turn the kids into his brainwashed army.
  • E10. The Suspicious Neighbor – A boy in a wheelchair thinks his neighbor is up to no good, and when Dan and Anne investigate, Dan becomes trapped inside an alien pocket dimension.
  • E11. Fly to Devil Mountain – Dan is apparently killed by an alien weapon while looking into the weird deaths of several tourists around Mount Iwami.
  • E12. From a Planet With Love – Inexplicable attacks of anemia among women lead the Ultra Guard to uncover a scheme by extraterrestrials to resuscitate their dying race.
  • E13. The Man Who Came From V3 – After Cap. Kiriyama’s close friend survives an alien assault, he presses the captain to attack the aliens’ ship while two Ultra Guard members are still aboard as prisoners.
  • E14/15. The Ultra Guard Goes West – An alien race considers an Earth probe of their planet an act of aggression and announces their intention to seek revenge during an emergency meeting of Earth scientists.
  • E16. The Eye That Shines in the Darkness – A boy finds a rock containing a disembodied alien who promises the bullied child power if he will help the alien unleash its rage against Earth.
  • E17. Underground Go! Go! Go! – The Ultra Guard must rescue a trapped miner who also happens to be the man whose likeness Ultraseven adopted for his Earthling identity.
  • E18. Escape Dimension X – During a skydiving training exercise, Soga and Amagi land in a mysterious pocket dimension in the sky that’s filled with exotic dangers.
  • E19. Project Blue – Alien conquerors kidnap an Earth scientist to learn the secrets of the defense barrier he’s built to protect the planet from invaders.
  • E20. Destroy Earthquake Epicenter X – The Ultra Guard investigates a suspicious cluster of earthquakes centered in the area around Mt. Aso.
  • E21. Pursue the Undersea Base! – An animated conglomeration of parts from sunken battleships begins a reign of terror on the seas and shores.
  • E22. The Human Farm – Aliens kidnap women to use their bodies as cultures to grow the spores they must eat to survive.
  • E23. Search for Tomorrow – A psychic predicts an attack on a TDF center, leading to a split between Cap. Kiriyama and his team over the credibility of the information.
  • E24. Return to the North! – Interference from aliens in the Arctic puts Furuhashi’s Ultra Hawk jet on a mid-air collision course with a commercial airliner.
  • E25. Showdown at 140 Degrees Below Zero – Aliens attempting to create a new Ice Age plunge the TDF base into a deep freeze that saps Ultraseven’s solar-based energy.
  • E26. Super Weapon R1 – The TDF tests a new super missile on a supposedly uninhabited planet, bringing to Earth the wrath of the creature that actually lived there.
  • E27. Operation Cyborg – Aliens implant a control plate into the head of a TDF communications officer to execute a plan to destroy the defense force’s base.
  • E28. The 700 Kilometer Run – To transport a powerful nitroglycerine past extraterrestrial saboteurs, Dan and Amagi enter a long-distance car race.
  • E29. The Earthling All Alone – TDF intelligence discovers that the university professor behind a recently launched research satellite is an alien — but what is he planning?
  • E30. Glory for Whom? – A TDF member assigned to the Ultra Guard for a training exercise puts everyone’s life in jeopardy because of his selfish desire for personal glory.
  • E31. Flower Where the Devil Dwells – A space bacteria infects a girl, and the only way to destroy it is for Ultraseven to shrink to microscopic size and enter the girl’s lungs.
  • E32. The Strolling Planet – Dan, Furuhashi, and Amagi crash onto a mysterious asteroid, which they discover is a ticking bomb heading for TDF headquarters.
  • E33. The Invading Dead – The dead bodies left from a string of strange accidents begin to exhibit spectral activity that threatens the worldwide security of the TDF.
  • E34. The Vanishing City – Aliens seeking a temporary place to live steal several blocks of an Earth city, along with Dan and Soga.
  • E35. Terror on the Moon – Cap. Kiriyama and his old friend Kurata lead an investigation into the mysterious explosion of a TDF lunar base.
  • E36. A Lethal 0.1 Seconds – Soga discovers that his target-shooting rival in the TDF is a brainwashed agent of an alien seeking to sabotage an artificial sun project.
  • E37. The Stolen Ultra Eye – After an alien agent steals Dan’s Ultra Eye, she discovers that her own race has abandoned her to die when their missile destroys Earth.
  • E38. The Courageous Battle – Dan promises to be with a boy when he has heart surgery, but an attack by a giant car-eating robot may force him to break his word.
  • E39/40. The Seven Assassination Plan – The devious and powerful Alien Guts capture Ultraseven and threaten to execute him at dawn.
  • E41. Challenge From Underwater – The Ultra Guard and a team of civilians investigate reported sightings of water creatures at a lake.
  • E42. Ambassador of the Nonmalt – A mysterious boy warns the Ultra Guard against interfering with an undersea civilization that claims to be Earth’s original inhabitants.
  • E43. Nightmare of Planet No. 4 – While testing a new interplanetary rocket, Dan and Soga arrive on a world ruled by robots that resembles a despotic Japan.
  • E44. The Terrifying Super Ape-Man – The murders of two police officers by a strange ape-like man lead Dan and Anne to investigate a primate sanctuary.
  • E45. The Saucers Have Come – An amateur stargazer sees a fleet of approaching alien saucers, but he cannot get the Ultra Guard to believe an invasion is imminent.
  • E46. Showdown of Dan vs Seven – Aliens plot to discredit Ultraseven by kidnapping Dan and then unleashing a destructive imitation of Seven.
  • E47. Who Are You? – A salaryman returns to his home late one night, only to discover that no one recognizes or remembers him.
  • E48/49. The Biggest Invasion in History – A massive alien attack threatens all life on Earth right as Dan’s time on the planet approaches its limit.