Ultraman Tiga (Season 1)

Ultraman Tiga (1996) is a Japanese tokusatsu sci-fi series you can watch online on iFILM. A future Earth comes under attack from ancient monsters and invaders, and the defense squad GUTS fights back alongside a reawakened giant of light called Tiga.

Pilot Daigo Madoka merges by accident with the stone statue of an ancient warrior, gaining the power to grow into a hundred-foot colossus. Tiga switches between three combat forms — a fast type, a power type and an all-round one — and he has to pick the right shape mid-battle to match each enemy. Off the battlefield runs a quieter thread: Daigo hides his secret from teammate Rena and the rest of the crew. Hiroshi Nagano stars as Daigo, with Takami Yoshimoto as Rena.

Made by Tsuburaya Productions, the show revived the legendary franchise after a sixteen-year gap and launched the Heisei era of Ultraman — 52 episodes, a redesigned hero and a darker tone than the genre's kid-show roots. For kaiju fans it's a key starting point. Watch every episode of Ultraman Tiga (1996) online on iFILM.