Ultraman Series 50th Year Anniversary Broadcast

"Ultraman Series" 50th Year Anniversary Broadcast (「ウルトラマンシリーズ」放送開始50年記念), shortened as Ultra 50 is a project launched by Tsuburaya Productions in celebration to the 50th anniversary of the Ultra Series' broadcast. The project starts in 2016.

January

 * January 22nd
 * Tsuburaya Productions announced the Ultra 50th project and launched a dedicated website alongside its promotional video on YouTube, which unfortunately was region locked.
 * In Twitter, the hashtag Ultra 50th was made to pinpoint tweets regarding the series' anniversary by Twitter users.
 * January 27th
 * The Ultraman exhibition would be held in the Broadcast Library from February 19th to April 3rd.

February

 * February 17th
 * Milky, a famous milk ball candy under Fujiya Co. celebrates its 65th anniversary. Said company collaborates with Tsuburaya Production's Ultra Series in lieu to their coincidental milestone celebration. Milky (by extent Fujiya Co.)'s iconic character, Peko-chan can be seen cosplaying as Ultraman, performing the famous Specium Ray stance alongside the original character. Aside from Ultraman, other characters also joined the collaboration such as Mother of Ultra, Alien Baltan and Gomora. It is noteworthy that this is not the first time Tsuburaya collaborates with Fujiya Co.. Back in the 1990's, Fujiya Co. release a chocolate confection based on Ultraman, packed with said titular character with ten Ultra Kaiju cards.


 * February 26th
 * Go Beyond the Ultra. (ウルトラを超えろ.) is a special message sent by Shinichi Oka, Tsuburaya Productions' current president. Said message as well had been given a dedicated website with Zetton's roar on the background. This message as well in tribute to Tetsuo Kinjo (born July 5th, 1938), one of the writers of Ultraman whom died in February 26th at the age of 37 years old.


 * February 28th
 * Bandai Premium and Bandai Fashion Net launches the Ultra Kaiju Silver Ring product. The first wave features the head of Alien Baltan, made from Silver 925 and sold at the price of 48,000 Japanese Yen.

March

 * March 1st
 * New Ultraman Retsuden change its time slot airing from Tuesday 6:00 pm to Saturday 9:00 am.


 * March 2nd
 * Ultraman is getting a most impressive CD box set for its 50th anniversary Nippon Columbia. The five-disc set has over six hours of music with a total of 99 themes from the tokusatsu TV show and films. Ultraman X, Ultraman Ginga, Ultraman Retsuden, Ultraman Nexus, Ultraman Cosmos and more are included. The set costs 6,480 yen (US$57.50) and is currently available.


 * March 3rd
 * Tsuburaya Prod. collaborated with clothing brand GU to release several shirts with the caricatures of the Ultra Series characters drawn by artists.