From Another Planet with Love is the banned twelfth episode of Ultraseven. Although it aired in 1967 without issue, the episode has not been rereleased since 1970, with the exception of its inclusion in the CINAR English dub in 1994, where it was called Crystalized Corpuscles.
In 1970, a trading card that came bundled with a magazine referred to Alien Spell as Alien Hibaku . Although the name was unused in the show, the magazine's editor Shoji Otomo came up with the name as Alien Spell's design, complete with keloid scars, resembles hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombings. Given that hibakusha were subject to terrible discrimination in Japan, a member of an atomic bomb victim organization who saw the card wrote a letter of protest to the publishers. This was noticed by newspaper Asahi Shimbun, and their report on the issue raised a public outcry. Tsuburaya Productions' president at the time, Hajime Tsuburaya, released an apology, promising not to release anything related to Alien Spell again.[1]
Plot[]
A number of young ladies have fallen ill and all seem to be wearing peculiar looking metallic watches. An all male group of space vampires from the planet Spehlia (like Spee-lia) are on Earth seeking the blood of young girls. They use these watches as a means of draining the blood from their victims in a bid to save their race after some unspecified space war.
After a small boy puts on his sisters watch, the blood encapsulated within turns out to be of even better interest to the aliens. Turning their attention towards children, the otherworldly bloodsuckers devise methods to entice kids into their grasp.
Cast[]
- Dan Moroboshi/Ultraseven : Kohji Moritsugu
- Anne Yuri : Yuriko Hishimi
- Kaoru Kiriyama : Shoji Nakayama
- Shigeru Furuhashi : Sandayu Dokumamushi
- Soga : Shinsuke Achiha
- Amagi : Bin Furuya
Guest Actors[]
- Saburo Satake : Hiroshi Iwashita
- Sanae Yamabe : Hiroko Sakurai
- Shinichi Yamabe : Seietsu Kusakabe
- Alien Spell :
- Ikuro Takahashi
- Takeshi Miura
- Kouen Okumura
- Boy : Kazushi Ishihara
- Newspaper Delivery Boy : Tomoyuki Sakagami
- Doctor : Shigeo Nakahara
- Dr. Fukuda : Yoshiyuki Fukuda
Voice Actors[]
- Alien Spell : Isao Yatsu
- Narrator : Hikaru Urano
Suit Actors[]
- Ultraseven : Koji Uenishi
- Alien Spell : Haruyoshi Nakamura
Appearances[]
Ultras[]
Kaiju[]
Trivia[]
Title screen for "Demon from Outer Space: Alien Spell"
- In the mini-program Ultra Fight produced in 1970, a segment from this episode was re-edited into a 5-minute version titled "Demon from Outer Space: Alien Spell" and aired on October 8th. Due to the same reason, the episode is now unavailable and is treated as a "missing episode."
- Shoji Otomo had already used the name "Alien Hibaku" in a 1968 book, but this went unnoticed at the time.[1]
- Despite Tsuburaya's words, several magazines have mentioned this episode and Alien Spell.[2]
- Anne's actor, Yuriko Hishimi, believes that the episode should be unbanned.[1]
- In 2017, Huffington Post writer Kenji Ando asked Tsuburaya if the episode would ever be rereleased, and they responded saying that they had not changed their stance since 1970.[1]
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