Ultraman Zero

Ultraman Zero
Ultra Series character
Ultraman Zero in Ultraman Retsuden
First appearance	Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy
Created by	Masayuki Gotou Junya Okabe
Portrayed by	Hideyoshi Iwata Daisuke Terai Masaki Onishi Atsushi Okabe

Ultraman Zero (ウルトラマンゼロ, Urutoraman Zero) is a fictional character from the Ultra Series. He first appeared in Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy before starring in his own film Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial. Lacking a series of his own, he became the main navigator of Ultraman Retsuden/Shin Ultraman Retsuden and made guest appearances in subsequent Ultra Series.

Introduced as an energetic, boastful and stubborn warrior, Zero was sent into banishment by Ultraseven after a failed attempt to steal the Plasma Spark but was soon redeemed from his past mistakes and learned of his origin as the son of Seven (セブンの息子, Sebun no Musuko). Although retaining his hotheaded traits, Zero slowly went through a character development that matured him as his roles in the Ultra Series progressed. After helping to defeat Belial's invasion attempt in another dimension, he founded the Ultimate Force Zero (ウルティメイトフォースゼロ, Urutimeito Fōsu Zero) and becomes the group's leader, dedicating to protect the galaxy from evil threats and wiping out remnants of Belial's former army.

Ultraman Zero is voiced by Mamoru Miyano (宮野 真守, Miyano Mamoru), whose known for his role as Setsuna F. Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. In tribute to his voice actor, Ultraman Zero utters his pre-battle catchphrase, "I am Zero, Ultraman Zero!" (俺がゼロ, ウルトラマンゼロ!, Ore ga Zero, Urutoraman Zero!), which is based on Setsuna's infamous line, "I am Gundam!".

Character Conception

Movie producer Junya Okabe stated that Zero's involvement in the movie is to invoke the elements of parent-child relationship. Ultraman Zero's title as "the son of Seven" laid a huge impact to the audience.

Ultraman Zero was designed by Masayuki Gotou under the initial draft name Ultraseven Ax (ウルトラセブンアックス, Urutorasebun Akkusu). The original design was based on Ultraseven with all-red color and lacks a Color Timer. Zero Twin Sword, the combined form of his Zero Sluggers were meant to be a bow and arrow configuration, although the design was later incorporated into Ultimate Zero. Because of how common the red color is among Ultra Warriors, blue was added as well to make him more attractive. His youthful and hot-blooded outlook is based on Joe Yabuki from Ashita no Joe. His fighting skills revolves around the combination of Ultraseven and Leo.

Naming

Yuji Kobayashi revealed that the reason he named the Ultraman as Zero is to "restart the Ultraman story from scratch".

History

Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy

Long ago, Zero was similarly a young and powerful warrior like Belial, whom also almost attempted to steal the Plasma Spark. However, he was caught red handed by Ultraseven and the Ultra Brothers and sent to be trained under the Leo Brothers. His training also took place during the theft of Plasma Spark by Belial, with Hayata (Ultraman) and Mirai (Ultraman Mebius) suggested to recruit him but Dan (Ultraseven) refused, since he was on training. During his time trained under Ultraman Leo, Zero was forced to wear the Techtor Gear armor that limited his movements and strength and befriended a Pigmon.

After saving Pigmon's life, his actions gave Leo and Ultraman King the approval for his redemption and revealed his true origin as the son of Ultraseven. Seven's actions of stopping him from touching the Plasma Spark in fact had saved him from following Belial's footsteps. Redeemed and now freed from his armor, Ultraman Zero takes off to the Monster Graveyard to confront Ultraman Belial, after receiving his father's Eye Slugger. Upon his arrival, Zero was too late as his father died from the battle's exhaustion and injuries, prompting him to kill the remaining monsters out of infuriation before facing Belial and defeated him. When Belial re-emerged as Beryudora, Rei's abilities as a Reionyx caused the fusion to be unstable, giving the resistance another chance of attack. Zero taps into the Plasma Spark's power, creating the Zero Twin Sword and decimated Belial with it. In aftermath of the battle, the Plasma Spark returned to its position and while grieving over the loss of his father, Zero was rejoiced when Seven returned.

Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial

During the events of The Revenge of Belial, an attack from Darklops prompted Zero to volunteer himself in an inter-dimensional exploration to track the source. He was given the Ultra Zero Bracelet by Ultraseven, which allowed him to transform three times in an alternate dimension and received help from residents of the Land of Light during the travel. Once arrived, he fought against Legionoid armies in the Planet Anu and bonded with a local miner named Run in order to save his life. However, Zero discovered that the man's consciousness is in comatose state, leaving the former in control of Run's body and took care of Nao, his younger brother. The two stowed away in the Jean-bird but was spared by Princess Emerana when they decided to help her search for the Shield of Baradhi. Along the way, they met and allied with several factions that guide them towards the Shield of Baradhi and helped out holding off Belial Galactic Empire's army.

Once arrived at Ultraman Noa's statue, Nao tried to install a shard piece he had to the shield but crumbled, with Belial's army approached and captured Run, leaving him under Belial's watch and had his Ultra Zero Eye separated. The resistances arrived and Mirror Knight saved Run from Belial, allowing him to regain his Ultra Zero Eye and transformed into Zero. Both sworn enemies fight once more but Belial used all of the emeralds he stole and transform into Arch Belial. Although with the resistant forces helping out as well, Zero died from the depletion of his energy while trying to shield Planet Esmeralda from Arch Belial until the hopes of the resistances of Belial Galactic Empire bring forth Ultraman Noa, allowing him to revive Zero and grant him the true form of the Shield of Baradhi: Ultimate Aegis. Zero assumed Ultimate Zero with it and destroyed him with Final Ultimate Zero. In aftermath of the battle, he healed Run from his injuries and left to form Ultimate Force Zero with the giant heroes he came across earlier.

Ultraman Saga

Zero still continued with his mission to wipe out against remnants of Belial's army and at that time, he was called into another Planet Earth by Musashi Haruno/Ultraman Cosmos, sensing a new threat in a form of Alien Bat. In that world, he discovered that the Earth's populations mysteriously lost and also fused with a dimensional-displaced Super GUTS member named Nozomu Taiga. Taiga himself has a hatred for Ultramen due to his past, which explained his reluctance to use Zero's power. Zero tends to act as the straight man to Taiga's antics and because of their lack of cooperation, Zero is incapable of summoning his full power, only appeared as a 5 m tall version of himself during their first transformation. Upon learning of Taiga's past and the latter decided to overcome it, the two eventually settled on their differences and finally being able to perform a successful transformation, joining forces with Cosmos in facing Gigant Hyper Zetton and rescuing Ultraman Dyna.

Although the three Ultra Warriors managed to destroy Zetton, Alien Bat made his final move by assimilating his ship into Zetton's corpse and form Imago Hyper Zetton. The monster was too much for the Ultra Warriors to handle and the monster quickly defeated them. While Dyna and Cosmos were rendered untransformed, Zero instead died once more but the three Ultra hosts managed to unite into Ultraman Saga and destroy the monster. In aftermath, Zero separated from Taiga and departed to space.

Ultra Zero Fight

Following his separation from Ultraman Saga, Zero gained the abilities of Ultraman Dyna and Zero, allowing him to transform into StrongCorona and LunaMiracle Zero but still wandered around for the purpose of obtaining such power. At that time, he faced against Alien Bat Glacier and his army of revived monsters. Zero used his new powers to eliminate the monsters before facing the alien himself, now having absorbed the defeated monsters' soul. In the ensuing battle, Glacier revealed that the Pigmon Zero befriended had its life force connected to each others and if Glacier died, Pigmon would do the same, forcing Zero to surrender until Pigmon's reassurance gave him the will to continue fighting, using StrongCorona Zero to defeat Glacier and with LunaMiracle Zero to purify the restless monsters' spirit and save Pigmon's life. In the end, Zero finally found the purpose of his powers before returning to his comrades.

In the second part, Zero faced himself against the Darkness Five led by a mysterious benefactor. The Ultimate Force Zero decided to take the matters on their own while Zero faced against Sly to rescue Pigmon. Later on, he faced the Armored Darkness, who was revealed to be his supposedly deceased enemy, Ultraman Belial. The two fought in a heated match but once Zero stabbed Belial with his sword, Belial quickly possessed Zero, using his powers to assassinate the rest of the Ultimate Force Zero. The real Ultraman Zero was left powerless, leaving Belial in his body to lead the Darkness Five in their conquest. Pigmon tried to stop them despite its size but before Belial could kill it, his attacked mysteriously stopped. It was revealed that Zero's life halted Belial from attacking and progress further, bringing forth his strongest form, Shining Zero. With Belial expelled, Shining Zero regained control over his body and reverse the time flow to undone the damages done by Belial and revive the Ultimate Force Zero. The event greatly exhaust him and was unable to recall earlier incidents but in the end joins his comrades in returning home as they tried to pick a new name for Pigmon.

Subsequent history

• Ultraman Retsuden/Shin Ultraman Retsuden (2011-2016): Ultraman Zero is the main navigator of the series, and usually guides the viewers into full details of each Ultra Warriors' past battles. Similar to his role in Ultraman Saga, he also tends to act in a similar manner of a straight man but should he went absent during the show, he would be replaced by other navigators such as Zoffy, Musashi Haruno, Shin Asuka and others. Zero continued this role in the succeeding series, Shin Ultraman Retsuden although there are also other navigators such as the characters of succeeding series (eg. Ultraman Ginga, Ultraman Taro and Ultraman X). In the season finale of said series (episode 155), he was featured as one of the three navigators, with the other two being Ultraman Ginga and Ultraman X, whose season was launched in the same block the Shin Ultraman Retsuden aired.
• Ultraman Ginga S: Showdown! Ultra 10 Warriors!! (2015): Having known Etelgar's mission is to imprison his comrades (Max and Mebius) and other Heisei Ultras (Tiga, Dyna, Gaia, Cosmos and Nexus), Zero hunted him in various time and space until he comes across Hikaru and Shou after Etelgar arrived first. With Etelgar proves to be stronger, even being able to withstand the Final Ultimate Zero, he trained the duo Ultra Hosts and gave them the Ultra Fusion Brace once their training had been acknowledged. While the other Heisei Ultras make way to Etelgar's tower, he was forced to left behind to fight against Ultraman Belial. Zero fought Belial with all of his forms and put an end via Shining Zero. He joined the other Ultra Warriors afterwards to destroy Etelgar's castle before regrouped and left. He was briefly mentioned in Ultra Zero Fight by Ultraman Leo when he first met Ultraman Ginga and Victory.
• Ultraman X (2015): Zero was tracking Bandero in various dimensions and arrived on Earth when he tried to steal the Spark Dolls. With Rui accidentally taken to Planet Guillermo, Zero went on a rescue operation and joined by X, the two managed to defeat both Bandero and Black King. He was mentioned in episode 13 of Ultraman X, as he told Sho/Ultraman Victory of his encounter with said Ultraman, though much to the latter's dismay, Ultraman X isn't what he used to expect, due to a part of his human host, Daichi until Sho trained the boy in swordsmanship.
• Ultraman X: Here It Comes! Our Ultraman (2016): Ultraman Zero's Cyber Card was created by Guruman sometime later alongside other Ultra Warriors that X and Xio members met before. The Ultramen cards resonated with people's hopes and brought them to fight against Tsurugi Demaaga in the worldwide. Zero fought against one in Shanghai, China and like the rest of the Ultra Warriors, he was given an additional power boost to destroy the monsters. The Ultra Warriors regroup and Zero commended on how both X and Daichi have become stronger than the last time they met. While leaving Earth, he made his last stop on Rui, much to her awestruck.
• Ultraman Orb (2016): Ultraman Zero was mentioned to be the sealer of Maga-Pandon before Jugglus released the King Demon Beast. Upon its defeat, Zero's Ultra Fusion Card was acquired by Gai, who used it alongside Ultraman Jack's card to transform into Ultraman Orb Hurricane Slash.

Profile

Ultraman Zero's statistics below were never mentioned in the original series, but were brought up in magazines and official websites:

• Height: 49 m (5 m in Ultraman Saga)
• Weight: 35,000 t
• Flight Speed: Mach 7
• Birthplace: Nebula M78, Land of Light
• Year Debut: 2009
• First Appearance: Mega Monster Battle: Ultra Galaxy (2009)

Description

As the official website of Tsuburaya Productions stated: "[Ultraman Zero] His father being Ultraseven, taught by the Ultraman Leo/Astra siblings, chase the evil Belial in another space, receiving the Ultimate Bracelet and finally thwarted the Belial Galactic Empire. Alongside Glen Fire, Mirror Knight, Jean-bot and Jean-nine, they form the Ultimate Force Zero."

Transformation

Zero's hosts transform through the use of Ultra Zero Eye (ウルトラゼロアイ, Urutora Zero Ai), which is themed after Ultraseven. Once they don it, the Zero Sluggers appeared and Zero's body materialized on the human host before the Zero Sluggers attached and appeared in the human world. When not in use, the Ultra Zero Eye is stored within the Ultra Zero Bracelet, now Ultimate Bracelet.

Features and weapons

• Beam Lamp (ビームランプ, Bīmu Ranpu): A small lamp located on his forehead, which mainly functions to launch the Emerium Slash. One of the features inherited from his father.
• Protector (プロテクター, Purotekutā): Silver armors on Zero's chest which functions as sunlight absorbers, allowing him to withstand for a longer period in combat.
• Zero Slugers (ゼロスラッガー, Zero Suraggā): Twin boomerang knives from his head, they are analogous to Ultraseven's Eye Sluggers, which can be combined into multiple configurations, such as Zero Twin Sword (ゼロツインソード, Zero Tsuin Sōdo), which he created by tapping into the Plasma Spark's power and Zero Seven Sword (ゼロセブンソード, Zero Sebun Sōdo) shuriken by combining with his father's Eye Slugger.
• Ultra Zero Bracelet (ウルトラゼロブレスレット, Urutora Zero Buresuretto): A bracelet that Seven give to Zero, which allowed him to transform three times in an alternate universe. True to being analogous to Ultraman Jack's Ultra Bracelet, the bracelet can also turn into weapons such as Ultra Zero Spark (ウルトラゼロスパーク, Urutora Zero Supāku) knife and Ultra Zero Lance (ウルトラゼロランス, Urutora Zero Ransu). After receiving the Ultimate Aegis from Ultraman Noa, the bracelet was upgraded into Ultimate Bracelet (ウルティメイトブレスレット, Urutimeito Buresuretto), now allowing him to endlessly operating in any alternate universes. Unlike the Ultra Zero Bracelet, the Ultimate Bracelet is able to summon its weapon forms instead of turning into one and can also use both weapons at once, as Zero used it to face Sly of the Dark Magic while shielding Pigmon with the Ultra Zero Defender (ウルトラゼロディフェンダー, Urutora Zero Difendā).

Forms, powers and abilities

Being trained by Ultraman Leo, Zero utilizes Judo and Space Kenpō (宇宙拳法, Uchū Kenpō) in combat. He is also capable of adapting his opponent's fighting skills to his own such as copying Glen Fire's piledriver attack (Glen Driver) into Zero Driver (ゼロドライバー, Zero Doraibā). His finisher attack is Wide Zero Shot (ワイドゼロショット, Waido Zero Shotto), which performed in his master's pre-fighting stance before shifting to an "L"-style beam attack made by Ultraseven. By connecting the Zero Sluggers to his Color Timer (カラータイマー, Karā Taimā), he can perform Zero Twin Shoot (ゼロツインシュート, Zero Tsuin Shūto).

In addition, he can also access these forms:

• Techtor Gear Zero (テクターギア・ゼロ, Tekutā Gia Zero): During Zero's banishment and training under Ultraman Leo, he was forced to wear the Techtor Gear (テクターギア, Tekutā Gia) armor that limits his strength and performance. Eventually after his redemption had been acknowledged by Ultraman King, he was freed from the armor itself. While facing Alien Bat Glacier, he was imprisoned in a rust-colored variant of Techtor Gear called Techtor Gear Hatred (テクターギア・ヘイトリッド, Tekutā Gia Heitoriddo). While Zero can easily adapt to this armor, but the favor turns to Glacier when he activated a hidden function which restraints Zero with electric shocks. Eventually, he was able to escape via StrongCorona Mode.
• Ultimate Zero (ウルティメイトゼロ, Urutimeito Zero): An armament which grants Zero the Ultimate Aegis (ウルティメイトイージス, Urutimeito Ījisu), it allows Zero to travel in-between dimensions. This armor also enables him to fight stronger opponents and reconstitutes into a bow and arrow, allowing him to initiate Final Ultimate Zero (ファイナルウルティメイトゼロ, Fainaru Urutimeito Zero) finisher attack or a stronger variant, Final Ultimate Zero Trinity (ファイナルウルティメイトゼロ・トリニティ, Fainaru Urutimeito Zero Toriniti) with the help of Ultramen Dyna and Cosmos. The Ultimate Aegis' true form is the Shield of Baradhi (バラージの盾, Barāji no Tate), which was sought by resistance of Belial's Galactic Empire to defeat him, and later bestowed to Zero by Ultraman Noa. Despite being the strongest, but once used as a dimensional transportation, the armor needed to be recharged before being utilized again. Certain opponents seems to have natural resistance towards the attack such as Etelgar, who was able to survive the attack despite having his scarf and mask burned in the process.
• Shining Zero (シャイニングゼロ, Shainingu Zero): Zero's "final form", which acquired after he expelled Belial from his body. Here, Zero's body were colored silver and is capable of utilizing Shining Emerium Slash (シャイニングエメリウムスラッシュ, Shainingu Emeriumu Surasshu). However, his strongest ability is Shining Star Drive (シャイニングスタードライヴ, Shainingu Sutā Doraivu), which rewinds time in a certain area but being the strongest attack, it exhausted Zero greatly before being reduced to his original form, giving him a short term memory loss.

These two forms below were achieved after his fusion as Ultraman Saga:

• Strong Corona Zero (ストロングコロナゼロ, Sutorongu Korona Zero): Zero's red alternate form, which served as an analogy to Dyna's Strong Type and Cosmos' Corona Mode. It allows Zero to utilize brute strength and initiates Ultra Hurricane (ウルトラハリケーン, Urutora Harikēn) before initiating Garnate Buster (ガルネイトバスター, Garuneito Basutā) as a finisher attack.
• Luna Miracle Zero (ルナミラクルゼロ, Runa Mirakuru Zero): Zero's blue alternate form, which served as an analogy to Dyna's Miracle Type and Cosmos' Luna Mode. It allows Zero to utilize speed and mental abilities and initiates Miracle Zero Slugger (ミラクルゼロスラッガー, Mirakuru Zero Suraggā) as his finisher. As this form bears some of the traits of Cosmos' Luna Mode, Zero is capable of using Full Moon Wave (フルムーンウェーブ, Furu Mūn Uēbu), a non-lethal finisher that pacifies monsters.

Human Hosts

Run

Run
Ultra Series character
Portrayed by	Yu Koyanagi

Run (ラン, Ran) is one of the main protagonists of Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial. Alongside his brother Nao, both were orphaned and lives with their grandmother, working as police in a mining site of their home planet, Planet Anu. One day, when Belial's Darklops attacked the mining site, Zero bonded with Run to save the young man's life, but learns that he is in control of Run's body, as the original one is rendered comatose. After the events of the movie, a fully healed Run was separated from Zero, and has no recollection of the moments when Zero possessed him, much to Nao's dismay.

Run was portrayed by Yu Koyanagi (小柳 友, Koyanagi Yū), while his childhood was portrayed by Kaito Nitta (新田 海統, Nitta Kaito).

Nozomu Taiga

Nozomu Taiga
Ultra Series character
Portrayed by	DAIGO

Nozomu Taiga (タイガ・ノゾム, Taiga Nozomu) is the main protagonist of Ultraman Saga and is the second host of Ultraman Zero. Originated from the same universe where Ultraman Tiga and Ultraman Dyna took place, Taiga is the rookie member of Super GUTS after Asuka's disappearances. Taiga bears a lot of similarities to young Asuka (even called by senior Super GUTS members as "the second coming of Shin Asuka") but however lacks respect in his predecessors, especially Ultramen after his parents were killed in an alien invasion while he shouted for Ultraman's help but to no avail. He appears to have hatred for carrots and in an aforementioned similarity, tends to act childish with Zero acting up as the straight man.

During the 15 year anniversary of Asuka's sacrifice, Taiga participated in an aerial combat against a troop of leftover Sphires whom tried to attack the Mars Colony. During the fight, he was brought to another world by accident and forcefully bonded with Zero after his near-death experiences in saving a boy. While butt heads with Zero due to his hatred for Ultraman, but after learning the truth of Team U (the alternate Earth's attack team)'s origin, he decided to adopt the mantle of Ultraman and puts aside his differences. After the event, he decided to stay on the alternate Earth than returning to his home world, wanting to observe the planet's future.

Nozomu Taiga was portrayed by DAIGO. As a child, Taiga was portrayed by Mitsumasa Sato (佐藤 光将, Satō Mitsumasa).

Shin Moroboshi

Shin Moroboshi (モロボシ・シン, Moroboshi Shin) is a stage-show exclusive character that appeared in Ultraman Premier 2011 (ウルトラマンプレミア2011, Urutoraman Puremia Nisenjūichi). He is the human disguise of Ultraman Zero and was portrayed by three different actors in each region:

• Daisuke Watanabe (渡辺大輔, Watanabe Daisuke): Nagoya
• Mamoru Miyano: Tokyo, also Zero's voice actor
• Naoki Kawano (川野直輝, Kawano Naoki): Osaka

In other media

Video games

• Ultraman Zero is featured as one of the characters in the Lost Heroes crossover game series, formed by Kamen Rider Series, Gundam and the Ultra Series. The game's main feature enables the players to perform team-up and crossover finisher attacks with any characters from different franchise. One peculiar combination is Ultimate Zero and GNT-0000 00 Qan［T］ (Setsuna F. Seiei) in the game's second install Lost Heroes 2 by performing GN Ultimate Zero Sword (GNウルティメイトゼロソード, Ji En Urutimeito Zero Sōdo), where both draw their swords and creates a huge GN Particle/Ultimate Aegis-powered energy sword before dropping it towards the enemy. After the battle, the two shouted their respective catchphrases. This team-up is rather interesting, as both Ultraman Zero and Setsuna share the same voice actor.

Anime

• Ultraman Zero and the rest of the Ultimate Force Zero appeared in the third season of Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life Phantasmagoric Arc as part of Tsuburaya Productions' collaboration with the Sanzigen anime studio. In the third season's first episode, Wooser was piloting the Mecha Wooser and win against a space armada. But in the aftermath of the battle, he and his mecha are left stranded in space, until he finds himself in a luminous light, where Ultraman Zero (accompanied by the Ultimate Force Zero), encourages him and thus helps Wooser to return to Earth. Zero makes his appearance again as a poster in Wooser's room and again as action figures alongside his teammates. In said anime, the main character Wooser is also voiced by Mamoru Miyano, who performs a dual role with Ultraman Zero. Ironically while Hiroshi Kamiya did present to voice Darth Wooser (another character of the anime), he did not reprise his role as Jean-bot.

Music Video

• Ultraman Zero and the members of the Ultimate Force Zero (barring Jean-nine) appeared in the Girl Next Door's music video Unmei no Shizuku ~Destiny's star~, with said song was used as the ending theme for Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial.
• Ultraman Zero is featured in Mamoru Miyano's 9th single, Ultra Fly as a background character. The song as well becomes the 6th opening of Ultraman Retsuden.

Internet

• Ultraman Zero himself has his own official Twitter account, which started in 2010 and ended in March 2012. In March 01, 2011, he tweeted the readers to be careful of "strangers" that offered them the chance to become a "magical girl". The post itself is a joke to a popular anime series, Puella Magi Madoka Magica which featured the main antagonist Kyubey manipulating girls (including the main characters of that series) into a magical girl and had become viral ever since, creating a strings of fandom that featured Zero facing Kyubey.

Apps

• In late 2013, LINE announces the second release of Ultraman stickers sold at the price of USD$ 1.99. Zero was among the carricatures featured in the sets alongside other Ultra Warriors and Ultra Monsters.
• As a tie-in to the Ginga S Movie, a smartphone game was released, called the Ultra 10 Braves (ウルトラ10勇士, Urutora Jū Yūshi). Zero was reimagined as the original ninja from Sanada Ten Braves, Sarutobi Sasuke (猿飛 佐助), also called as Zero (零呂). His main weapon is a dagger.

Reception

According to an interview with Famitsu, Mamoru stated that "I was honestly surprised! At last I have became an Ultraman (laughs)". He reminisces his days as a child watching the Ultra Series during summer breaks but unfortunately wasn't able to watch the entire series. His favorite Ultra Series is Ultra Seven and Ultraman Taro, as well as finding the chibi characters of Ultra Series (such as those from Ultraman Kids) quite interesting. He is also impressed by how Zero's design armed with two Eye Sluggers and that the Ultra Warrior's fighting skill involves speed and space martial arts movements. In a 2013 interview with Susumu Kurobe (Shin Hayata/Ultraman's actor), he nominated Ultraman Zero as his favorite Ultra Warrior.

Popularity

In the Ultra Series' 45th anniversary, Ultraman Zero scored the first place in an Ultra Hero popularity ranking, but in an another Ultra Hero poll in 2013, he scored the second place after losing to Ultraman Tiga.

Ultraman Zero and Ultraseven were the guest of honors in the 2016 Oyako Day, which was held on July 24. Two days prior, the two won the "Parent-Child Grand Prize" by Bruce Osborn.

References

Published materials

• 小学館『てれびくん』編集部, ed. (2009). 大怪獣バトル ウルトラ銀河伝説 THE MOVIE （劇場パンフレット）. Shogakukan and Shochiku.
• 大怪獣バトル ウルトラ銀河伝説 THE MOVIE 超全集. てれびくんデラックス愛蔵版. Shogakukan. 2009. ISBN 978-4-09-105129-5.

Sources

External Links

• Nozomu Taiga in Internet Movie Database
• Characters in Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
• Characters in Ultra Zero Fight