Viewers didn’t really feel too incentivized to go out, subscribe to TXN, and pay for the show in the long run. Even the idea of having a show set in the Ultra universe without any Ultras was rather niche. On par with the budget of the average direct to video show produced by Tsuburaya before its buyout.
The Mega Monster Battle shows also worked under rather small budgets. This did not go exactly as planned though, the number of subscribers did not really increase and word of the show did not travel far because of the exclusiveness and lack of interest in paying for the show.
TYO thought this exclusive Ultra series content would be able to bolster the number of subscribers to the channel.
This show was, however, not aired on normal TV, but rather the Japanese digital broadcasting channel TXN for pay-per-view. The next installment of the Ultra Series, technically, would be Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle.
While they let Ultraseven X run its initial course on TV and finish its run, this would be the only show under their control that would air on TV. With this huge amount of control TYO could essentially do whatever they wished with Tsupro, and its associated IPs. Eventually, Bandai in later 2008 gained a 33.4% stake in Tsupro, but this paled in comparison to TYO’s amount of ownership. Thus gaining majority control of the company. The first buyout was done in October of 2007 by the Japanese media company, TYO. This first buyout was merely the first of what was going to be a series of buyouts and corporate restructuring that would define Tsupro in the late 2000s. The anniversary year that coasided with the first buyout of Tsuburaya Productions. It was simply a tribute to Ultraseven for its anniversary year. While Ultraseven X had begun to air, it was a late-night show not really intended to be a big hit success. Changes had to be made or else the company would’ve most likely crumbled. The idea of Tsuburaya Productions continuing as it was, was intensely impossible. Even after the success of Mebius the idea of further producing high budget products was a faraway dream. Their poor business endeavors and corporate management resulted in the company taking major hit after hit. When we last left off Tsuburaya Productions in 2007 the company had entered a state of recession. Though before we can talk about Ultraman Ginga, we have to talk about how Tsupro became the company that would make this show. Under this completely new structure, a new show would be produced that ushered in a new era in Ultra. They had practically become a new company. The Tsuburaya Productions of the past was gone by 2013. By the time that the Ultra series returned to TV in 2013, the very corporate makeup of the company had immensely changed. However, in the case of Mebius things were much different than ever before. Whenever the Ultra series leaves TV, that is when the most behind the scenes chaos begins.