MM9 - Monster Magnitude 9

Man I forgot MM9 got a tv series.

Or that there's more than one book.

>Ultraman without Ultraman
Sooo... Ultra Q?

Nah, it's more like a down-to-earth SSSP: The series (Or any other science-y monster squad. You know, the colorful guys with fancy jets and mostly useless pew-pew lasers)

...Or at least it seems so, I don't know since I haven't managed to get the translated book yet. I just like the idea of Ultra Squad meets Patlabor/Dai-Guard without mechs.

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The books are so much better than the actual series. The series takes the Patlabor approach to compensate for its low budget, but it focuses so much on the team that we literally don't get any actual monsters until the final episode. Even then, said fight is between two shadows with puppet-tool animation, and it's a really weak adaptation of what is the best part of the first book.

Honestly if you want the MM9 series done better, watch Neo Ultra Q. If only because you actually get to see a modern world where kaiju are commonplace.

The first book is pretty much the best kaiju novel on the market (no matter what Jeremy Robinson might try to tell you), and it's chocked full of monster movie/history/world mythology Easter eggs.

I keep trying to pester Viz about releasing the second/third/side-story novels, but it's pretty unlikely at this point considering how much time has gone by since they put out the first one. They also screwed up that release with some seriously boring cover art; that may be a part of it not doing so well, on top of the fact that the kaiju fandom is tiny and fickle.

...also, it's not entirely without Ultraman, depending on how you interpret the final chapter.