Yet, the most crucial factor was probably the fact that it was a highly safe move. These were important factors as to why Ginga decided to get continued. So there were a bunch of sparkdolls lying around, we didn’t have enough money or time to think of something completely new, and we had people from the last show really pushing for a chance to work on another one.
However, because of the short time frame the companies were working on as well as the limited amount of funds that could be dedicated to Ultra at the time, making a new toy line was kind of improbable. The sparkdolls didn’t fly off of the shelves as much as Bandai wanted and Ultra had yet to have recovered from its hiatus, thus wasn’t too big of a pop culture presence at the moment. While Ginga was successful it wasn’t too marketable. This general buzz about wanting to expand Ginga started to leave an impression in the minds of the folks of Tsupro. Many of them wanted Ginga to continue in some fashion, one of the people that pushed this the most was Hikaru Raido’s actor, Takuya Negishi, who greatly loved his time working on Ginga and would’ve jumped at the chance to ever play the character again. When Ginga was starting to wrap up production many members of the production staff and cast felt like they were leaving the work almost unfinished.
Now, this makes one wonder, why is Ginga S such a direct sequel? The answers, as usual, tie back into its production. Ginga S had the same characters appearing, basically the same final villain, same universe, and even tied back into past plotlines. Sure the previous characters appeared and old plotlines were brought back up, but it still wasn’t as close as what Ginga S would be. Though, even then the show was still about a new cast of characters with a huge time gap between Tiga and Dyna. The closest thing that the series ever got before Ginga S was Ultraman Dyna.
While there are multiple shows across the series that take place in the same universe, never do they really ever follow the same cast of characters and Ultras or acted as a direct continuation. Despite how long and storied the Ultra series is, it is very rare for it to have direct sequels.
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