Ultraman: Super Fighter Legend(ウルトラマン 超闘士激伝, Urutoraman Choutoushi Gekiden) is a Gashapon toy franchise developed by Bandai. The popularity of the franchise gained it a manga adaptation by Riku Sanjo (under pen name Ryuu Sagawa) and Jin Kurihara, an OVA and a video game.
The manga series was first serialized in Comic BomBom from 1993 to 1997. After the first four arcs, the story continued under the name Ultraman: Super Fighter Armor Legend(ウルトラマン超闘士鎧伝, Urutoraman Choutoushi Gaiden). Only the first two arcs were released as 6 tankobon volumes by Comic BomBom, but eventually from 2009, the manga was rereleased by Fukkan.com as 4 volumes.
In 2014, the manga was revived and subtitled New Chapter(新章, Shinshō), starring Ultraman Mebius as the protagonist. It released as a webmanga on the Gashapon World website and concluded in 2020. From 2016, Shounen Champion Comics Extra released both the New Chapter as 5 tankobon volumes and the original series as 8 tankobon volumes, labelled as the Complete Edition (完全版, Kanzenban).
In 2021, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the OVA's release, all eight volumes of the manga were available on TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION from July 21 to August 31.[1]
A long time ago throughout the cosmos, there was once a legendary warrior called the "Super Fighter". His fists can shatter planets, his radiance shines the dark reaches of the universe. Decades after peace has returned to the universe, a martial arts events called the "Galactic Strongest Tournament" has started to commence, where every participant aims to be the new legendary fighter. Warriors stands, and a new legend rises.
