Ultra Super Pictures, a joint holding company with Sanzigen, Ordet and Trigger, (plus Good Smile Company, Max Factory, Bushiroad, Nitroplus and Pixiv) launched a 30-minute anime shorts block, titled Ultra Super Anime Time in summer 2015. After seasons years of Supica (CV Kaori Ishihara) and Sumaco (CV Yui Ogura) presenting lineups like this season's Space Patrol Luluco, Kagewani season 2 and Puchimas! Petit Idolmaster (a rebroadact), it'll be relinquishing its slot on Tokyo MX and BS11 TV to Gen Urobuchi and Good Smile Company's puppet show Thunderbolt Fantasy.





Shows had included

Summer 2015[edit]

Miss Monochrome season 2

Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth: Phantasmagoric Arc

Wakaba Girl

Fall 2015

Miss Monochrome season 3

Hacka Doll the Animation

Kagewani

Winter 2016

Please Tell Me! Galko-chan

Sekkō Boys

Tabimachi Late Show (January only)

This Boy Is a Professional Wizard (February only)

She And Her Cat: Everything Flows (March only)

Spring 2016

Space Patrol Luluco

Puchimas! Petit Idolmaster (re-broadcast)

Kagewani season 2

Ultra Super Anime Time (the TV block for anime shorts where Luluco airs atm) is... dead? Urobuchi's puppet show takes its slot in summer. — kViN (@Yuyucow) June 10, 2016

Michio Mihara's upcoming directional debut is a TV show with ~8 mins per ep, conveniently USAT shows' length, so it might come back in fall. — kViN (@Yuyucow) June 10, 2016

Speaking of USAT, there was some dirt on its Space Patrol Luluco and the related Trigger-verse revealed at this past weekend's AnimeNEXT 2016 convention in Atlantic City, NJ, which hosted Akira Amemiya, Shigeto Koyama, and Hiromi Wakabayashi, along with freelance animator Megumi Kuono.





A new episode of Inferno Cop just for the Anime Next panel! — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

The idea for Inferno Cop came from working with Stan Lee on Heroman. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

The pitch for Inferno Cop was one page and a few lines about how he didn't know math and liked justice. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

Mr Judge graduated from Massachusetts Animation College. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

They wanted to do a project before called "Super Person" which couldn't get made. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

The issue with Super Person is that "it was god damn boring." So they dumped it. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

Overjustice has a much greater sense of justice than Inferno Cop. No comparison. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

New Jersey had an episode of Inferno Cop all about them. Officially New Jersey > New York. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

Also, holy shit, this week's Luluco only makes sense if you saw this panel only episode of Inferno Cop. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 11, 2016

Space Patrol Luluco was made entirely by a staff of over 30 year old guys trying to put themselves in the shoes of schoolgirl. — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 12, 2016

ISDN = Inferno Services Digital Network pic.twitter.com/aiwaRRJq4i — Gerald (@Gerald_AWO) June 12, 2016

Inferno Cop's highest education level is middle school, and his name is Johnson and Johnson — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

They had one hour a week to make Inferno Cop — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Apparently the TRIGGER folks planned Inferno Cop then outsourced the animation — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

The TRIGGER staff are surprisingly kawaii — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Before Inferno Cop they wanted to do a show called Superson about a kid with no powers at a super school, but it was "goddamn boring" — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

So they scrapped it. Nobody even kept the data. — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Chief Over Justice has a stronger sense of justice than Inferno Cop — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Amemiya would like to do something with Godzilla if he could. Wakabayashi wants to do Panty and Stocking 2 with a semen (seamen?) episode — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Koyama wants to do the semen episode, sorry — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 11, 2016

Midori in Luluco used to be called Sabokko for "sabotage alien" — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 12, 2016

The alien that looks like Guts is from Philadelphia and wants to become a boxer — Worst Girl (@ClarissaG) June 12, 2016

The vital secrets revealed: Lalaco Godspeed is named after Stanley Goodspeed, Nicolas Cage's character from the Michael Bay movie, The Rock. — Daryl Surat (@DarylSurat) June 12, 2016

Although I am not asking questions at Luluco's Q&A the people who do are getting autographs. One guy got this sketch pic.twitter.com/UQscnx1oti — Daryl Surat (@DarylSurat) June 12, 2016

RT @ClarissaG: The alien that looks like Guts is from Philadelphia and wants to become a boxer // here is the sketch pic.twitter.com/0bZVVRrVgK — Daryl Surat (@DarylSurat) June 12, 2016

Original sketch design for Luluco done by Akira Amemiya pic.twitter.com/qzS09s08RU — Hazu @ BIRTHDAY (@Hazukari) June 12, 2016

More early Luluco designs done by Amemiya pic.twitter.com/B8dYUP0yoA — Hazu @ BIRTHDAY (@Hazukari) June 12, 2016

The most important part of Chief Over Justice's design pic.twitter.com/pkVXR8Lvx8 — Hazu @ BIRTHDAY (@Hazukari) June 12, 2016

via Yuyucow





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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.