(日本語版は、クリックすると別窓で見れます。)

(For the curious, nian gao is a type of sticky rice cake. It can be turned into either sweet or savoury dishes.)

Happy Chinese New Year from Ultrandom! Expect to see more mythological material in the coming year. Work has been busy, but I'm not giving up on this little blog just yet. Thank you as always for reading, and have a great Year of the Tiger ahead!

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（ニエンガオはお餅に似ているもので、色んな料理にできます。）

寅年、明けましておめでとう！
今年はまたいっぱい神話的コンテンツを載せたいと思います。
仕事の方は相変わらず忙しくなっているけど、ココでは白旗を上げるつもりは未だありません。
いつもの愛読ありがとうございます、そしていい寅年を！

Happy U Year あけマンしておめでとう

A Legend is Born: Daikaiju Battle Ultra Ginga Densetsu infodump

(ETA 17/10/2009 - Cast and voices are out!
Cast: Minami Shouta (Rei), Kurobe Susumu (Hayata/'Man), Moritsugu Kouji (Dan/Seven), Konishi Hiroyuki(Hyuuga), Kamiryou Saki (Haruna), Shundou Mitsutoshi (Kumano), Hachinohe Tooru (Oki), Tsuruno Takeshi (Asuka/Dyna), and Igarashi Shunji (Mirai/Mebius)

Voices: Miyasako Hiroyuki (Belial), Miyano Mamoru (Zero) Dan Jirou (Jack), Takamine Keiji (Ace), Manatsu Ryuu (Leo), Chouno Masahiro (Rayblood), Nishioka Tokuma, Koizumi 'Yes THAT Koizumi' Junichirou (King)

One more spot has gone up, narrated by Hyuuga/Boss and his scary beard.)

(ETA 3/10/2009 - Two TV spots have gone up on the Yahoo Channel of Warner Bros. Japan: one for Asuka, one for Rei. [spoiler?]Ultra Mother, you took one for the team ;_;[/spoiler?])

 (The following caps/scans were repurposed from the cowspot tokusatsu boards and the two Ginga Densetsu trailers available on Youtube.)

By now I'm sure my readers are familiar with the fact that there's a new Ultra movie coming out in Japan on the 12th of December. At least, I hope y'all are familiar—clicking through to Tsuburaya's latest extended trailer reveals a host of commenters reacting with glee, surprise and confusion, in that order. The information has been public for some time, but people are still asking 'When's this movie coming out?' 'Who's the big dark dude with the claws?' and of course 'Who's that red-and-blue one?' Tsuburaya, you kinda dropped the ball on this one. :/*

Allow late-to-the-party-Ming to give you a quick synopsis.

Daikaijuu Battle: Ginga Densetsu (Giant Monster Battle: Galactic Legend) is set in the Ultra Galaxy continuum, and Very Bad Things start happening to the Land of Light. An Ultra who fell to the darkness, Belial, is released from his space prison and obtains a Giga Battlenizer, one containing 100 monsters at his command. Off he goes with his forces and attacks his former home! (Belly-kunBelial has a homepage, by the way: The Strongest Room of Ultraman Belial/Ultraman Belial no Saikyou Room. It used to be much more amateurish, believe me.) Belial will be voiced by Miyasako Hiroyuki of Ameagari Kesshitai. Yanno, Belly, with that site of yours and your seiyuu being an owarai...I'm finding it a little hard to take you seriously.

Speaking of his former home. It's very green. And shiny. And somewhat Matrix-like. Yes, folks, we're going to see the Land of Light, and one that's not composed of circuit boards, sheer curtains and coloured water. This looks so polished and alien, I think it just might work. :O

And the Ultras! Dear lord, the Ultras. You Ultras-only fans are going to get a TREAT. 50 are slated to appear, including:

• Ultraman
• Zoffy
• Seven

• Jack
• Ace

• Father of Ultra
• Mother of Ultra

• Taro

• Leo

• Astra
• King

• Neos
• Seven 21
• Xenon(?!)
• Max (link goes to Hibi No Mirai Journal)

• Dyna

• Mebius

• Hikari
• 80
  
• Yullian
• Boy
• 32(-2?) other unnamed Ultras - watch the extended trailer for some new faces!

The movie will also introduce a new Ultraman: Zero, said to be the son of Ultraseven 'although he himself doesn't know of [his father]'. (SEVEEEEEEEEEEEN. YOU'VE GOT SOME SPLAININ' TO DO.) Half-red, half-blue, fearsome of mien and armed with TWO Zero Sluggers...well, you know, I'm just going to see how he works out.

Last but not least, we have a special guest (but you may have worked that out just looking at the Ultra roster up top).

I am going to send in an enquiry to the big guys as to this movie's international release. Pray hard, folks; I'm hoping just as much as you are for a positive answer. Watch this space, and point your cursors to the official site as well!

* The reason I say this is...well, has anyone gone to the English site? There's not a peep in the main body text about this, only info about overseas broadcasts of Ultraman and some marketing on the side. Don't forget about the rest of us, yeah, TPC? The world wants more Ultraman!

Happy Moo Year from Ultrandom! 明けもーしておめでとうございます！

Starring Taro the Water Ox (1973) and Dyna the Fire Ox (1997). Click for a larger version.
主演：水丑のタロウ（１９７３）と火丑のダイナ（１９９７）。クリックすると大きいバージョンが出ます。

Oh my gods, she's alive. Hello folks, and a Happy New Year to you! (It's not belated if you follow the lunar calendar! It's not the full moon yet, lalalalalalala...ow, who threw that brick?!)

The long silence was caused by a few troubles at work, but things have settled down a bit. I intend to resume some sort of regular update schedule (ergh, wish me luck) and go through the ideas I already have prepared. The continuity post has been updated to include N Project in the chart and the 8 Bros. canon in both the post and chart.

As a bit of an aside, this Earth Ox Year is slated to be a conservative and down to earth one. Water Oxes like Taro are said to be realistic, practical and ambitious, but also work well with others; Fire Oxes like Dyna are forceful, proud and outspoken, and suited for the military. Sounds like our two, all right. Here's to a great year ahead for everyone, and thank you for your continued readership!

P.S. - If anyone sees Dyna, tell him I want my Superglue back.

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どーもです。明です。生きています。
遅ればせながら　明けましておめでとうございます！
（…でも陰暦に従えば　未だ遅くはありません！まだ睦月の満月ではないのですｵﾎﾎﾎ…痛い！誰がこのレンガを投げた？！）

仕事場で色んな事情があって長い間更新に手を付けませんでしたけど、ようやく落ち着きましたのでちゃんとした更新スケジュールに戻りたいと思います。
アイディアも幾つ準備していますので、よろしくお願いします。
今日は世界関係記事が更新されて、Ｎプロを図に加え８兄弟の事情を書き留めて、図に加えました。

丑年ですね！
今年の土丑は保守的で地味な年になりそうです。
タロウの様に水丑に生まれた人は現実性の野心家と実際家と言われて、他人と力を合わせるのも得意でしょう。
ダイナみたいの火丑は力強くて気高くて無遠慮な性格を持ち、軍部に向いている。
…あたる部分はかなりありそうですね。
皆さんの２００９がいい年であるように、そしていつも読んでくれてありがとうございました！
改めて、今年もよろしくお願いいたします。

P.S. - もしダイナを見かけたら、私の瞬間接着剤を返すようにと伝えてください。

Fully booked! フーリーブックド！

Hello everyone, this is your friendly neighbourhood Ming speaking. I apologise for the sudden dearth of material, but things heated up very suddenly at work and my schedule went berserk. The good news is I do have a few ideas in reserve (and would like your help choosing one for the next article. See the sidebar.).

The better news, particularly if you're a fan in South East Asia, is that now the Chaiyo rights fiasco is over books have naturally flowed back into those countries (After years, may I add! This could be oldish news, though). I went to KL's Kinokuniya with my friend Panda-senpai and scared her with the amount of literature I lugged back. Thank you for keeping me company, P, and for lugging half the books around while I scouted for more...^^;

I've added the appropriate new acquisitions to the FAQ, under the references section. There's also something else there you might want to check out there, about fanfiction. Particularly if you write it. ;)

(ETA: The world continuity post has been updated slightly with a new map, and Galtan Stareater's post now features more art depicting him, including an old scroll unearthed in the city of Lyrcade. All posts up to May have been cleaned up slightly, particlarly to expand references and remove some horrible spelling errors in Japanese. Somehow Space Garrison became In-The-Rain Garrison. Don't ask.　Webclap is in the midst of preparations, so please wait a little longer for that!)

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皆さん、どうも！フレンドリーネイバーフッド明です。
急に更新停止になって、すみませんでした。
仕事場で突然あれこれが湧いてきて、スケジュールも乱れてしまった。
幸い（?）に、記事アイディアをいくつ思いつきましたので、次のポストについて皆さんに協力してもらいたいと思います。（詳しくは左のサイドバーで）

もっといいニュースは、チャ〇ヨ販売権争いが済んで、（何年ぶりに）東南アジアにウルトラマン本が戻ってきましたー!
（古いニュースかもしれませんけど…）
数日前はパンダ先輩とクアラ・ルンプルの紀伊〇屋に行って、買った本の量で驚かせました。
付き合ってくれて、そして本の半分まで持ってくれてありがとうございましたね、P先輩（汗）

資料になりそう本を「よくある質問」にあるリストに足しました。
小説についてちょっとお知らせがありますので、小説を書く皆さんも、かならず一度　目に通してくださいね！

後書：
世界繋がりの記事が訂正され、新しいマップ映像をつけました。
星食いガルタンの記事にも、リールケイドの町で発掘された絵巻物と他者のガルタンの絵が見れる様になりました！
5月までの記事が参照をもっと詳しく書きとめて、日本語の綴り間違いを訂正する為にちょっと更新しました。
どうやって「宇宙警備隊」が「雨中警備隊」になったのも謎です…。
あとは、ウェブ拍手ももうすぐ始まります！
今は準備を整っているので、もう少しお待ちくださいませ。

Tragedy and Truth on Arb アーブの悲劇と真実

(This article contains spoilers for Hikari Saga 1, and some of Mebius 9.)

Today, dear readers, I would like to tell you a story about a little blue planet in a corner of the universe, one that some call a 'star of miracles'.

Once upon a time, tucked away in a corner of the universe was a little planet with no name. By providence, it grew stable, orbiting a single star. The planet's surface heaved and rolled, producing gorges and mountains both. Volcanoes erupted, covering the whole planet with rich soil. Its atmosphere filled with oxygen and nitrogen and other gases life would find pleasant. Water ran under the soil and over it, carving its own paths. Mists filled the air, shielding it from the harshest radiation of the sun.

By even more providence, life did come to be on that planet. One species found its niche very fast, driving out all other competitors. It was not the physically strongest species, or the swiftest, but the most adaptable: the albes, arthropods with crystalline shells. Albes were omnivorous by nature, consuming anything from plants to predators to carrion. Their shells were fortified both by their food and also minerals extracted from the soil. They lived in colonies somewhat like ants with three clear roles: there were the male soldiers, who ingested poisonous plants to store their compounds within centipede-like fangs, attacking most fiercely as they died; female scouts and workers who collected food and watched for threats; and the queens who ruled and expanded the colonies. And through every colony rang the hive-mind, the deep unity that turned a bunch of albes into a cohesive whole. So numerous were they that the planet shone the very blue of their crystal bodies.

With time came intelligence, language and civilisation; and the albe queens became known as Tenke, the warriors Nalaha and the scouts Yaase. The hive-mind or Taraku became their sole tenet and for the most part, albe society retreated underground, only making the occasional sortie to get food for the colony. The struggles of life went on high above them, and as all other living things went extinct, they turned their diet to carrion and moss and water, and through evolution they lost their legs and much of their flying power. With no predators to disturb them, they grew more sedentary, and turned their faculties to the pursuit of knowledge and mental prowess. They developed telepathy and telekinesis that grew stronger with every generation. Whole castes and sometimes colonies fused over time into single entities, each little mind becoming a part of something greater.

Millennia passed, and the albes' evolution continued as their hunger for knowledge grew stronger. No longer were the groups physically different from one another; the singular intelligence of the Taraku had united them physically and mentally, and they functioned as virtually a single entity. They just knew who did what, without question. The yaases, well-camouflaged in their pointed crystalline shells, would stand guard over the pleasant green earth, waiting and watching for anyone who approached the megacolony. Roving alien visitors were not uncommon by that time. Peaceful visitors, of calm heart and mind, were questioned about the worlds beyond, for the albe could sense their guests' state of mind also. Those who came with the intention to hunt or harm or capture were summarily executed by the nalahas, and their thoughts dragged out of their dying minds. Through all these the albes learned of love and hate, war and peace, villains and heroes, honesty and deceit.

One year, a refugee came to the albes' world. Wounded beyond any help, he died on the beautiful ground and the albes gathered in his memories like stray fish. Shadows tipped them all; shadows with horns and slanted eyes, screeching in eternal hunger. He was the first, but gradually more and more appeared, and the albes came to know them all. Even the occasional predator now had memories of this shadow, and the albe knew fear on a personal level for the first time. In the earth and in their communal mind now lay memories of suffering and vengeance and despair and anger.

The albes were too static now on their world to even think that they could stand against these hungry shadows, but still they hoped and waited. Along with the memory of villains, there were memories of heroes, and many a creature had made known to them a race of silver-skinned giants who had come together to defend the peace of the universe, heading a sort of space garrison. The good respected them. The vicious feared them. It was in this strange race that the albes put their trust, swore allegiance and protection, and prophesised their fate. A race of insects still thinks as insects; if the hero did not appear, then their hope lay in their poison and strong mind and sheer numbers, sleeping and working and multiplying below the soil as they had done for so long. Thus, the prophecy ended:

...But even there will be hope.

From the tenke will come the yaase;
And clad in the armour of light
The nalaha, part of the earth of the albe.

The albe waited for their saviours for millennia more, and gradually the prophecy of Taraku became known as the prophecy of Tsurugi instead. The words changed, and what they believed, too, changed: that from the heavens would come a warrior, and clothing himself in armour of light, he would become one with the earth of Arb.

And that is the end of it, for on Arb, other types of stories begin even now. [+/-] Once upon a time, there was a little planet with no name...

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（この記事に、ヒカリサーガ１　ウルトラマンメビウス第９話のネタバレが少し含まれています。）

今日は、宇宙の隅っこにある　「奇跡の星」とも言われる小さな青い惑星について語りたいと思います。

昔、宇宙のある隅っこに名もなく小さな惑星がありました。
摂理によって、その惑星が安定し一つの星を周回することになった。
惑星の地盤の沈下と隆起によって山や谷が作られ、火山の噴火で豊かな土壌に包まれてきたり、
大気は酸素や窒素みたいな生命に優しいガスで満ちてきたり、
水は地面や地面の下に流れ自らの道を刻み始めた。
霧がその惑星を覆い太陽の強い放射線を和らげてくれた。

重ねた摂理で、その惑星に命が誕生した。ある一種が適所を早く見つかり、他の競争生物をすべて追い出してしまった。
それは最強でも最速の生物ではなく、最も順応性を持っていた生物　水晶のような甲で体を守る節足動物のアルベでした。
雑食性で、植物も生きた獲物も腐肉を餌にした。強い甲は、獲物や土から取れたミネラルで補強された。
アリのような巣で暮らし、アリのように三階級のアルベがいた。
雄の兵隊アルベは有毒植物を食べその毒をムカデのように牙に溜め、死ぬ際に最も強い攻撃をしてくる癖が付いた。
雌の働きアルベは餌を集め、敵の見張りをし、女王アルベは巣の中心でアルベの数を保ち続けた。
そして、毎巣に数々のアルベを結束したコロニーに変わる強い集団意識があった。
その数が大き過ぎて、惑星はその水晶の体の青に輝いた。

時は流れやがてアルベに知性、言語や文明に覚めた。
女王、兵隊、働きは、テンケ、ナラハ、ヤーセと呼ばれました。
集団意識の「タラク」が唯一の法になり、アルベの社会は地底に潜って食をとる為だけに地上に現れた。
命の争いはその頭の上で続け、他の生物が絶滅になったら自分の食べ物を死肉、ゴケ、水に変わり、進化で足も飛行力を失った。
捕食者の恐れがなくなったアルベたちは知的能力に全力を注ぎ始めた。
テレパシー、テレキネシスを使う様になって、時代が過ぎるほどその能力が強くなった。
巣の一階級、または丸一つの巣が一つの生命体に融合させられて、一つ一つのの小さな意識がもっと大きい存在の一部の力となった。

何万年も過ぎた後に、アルベの進化がもっと進んで、知識を求め続けた。
その頃にはもうアルベたちの中で肉体の区別が出来ない、とも言うより必要がなかった。
タラクの下に統一され、アルベたちはまるで一つの存在として生きてきた。
周りの役目を紛れもなく知っていた。
水晶のような甲羅を擬装にし、ヤーセたちは澄み切った緑の大地に見張りをし、メガ巣に近づくものを待ち続けた。
その時には、異星からの来訪者も少なくはなかった。
他者の心までも感じれるアーブは平和的な者に向こうの世界の事を訊き、
悪事をする為に来たものを早速ナラハ体で捕らえ、死んでゆく頭からその記憶や知識を引きずり出した。
そうしてアルベは愛と憎しみ、戦争と平和、悪人と英雄、真実と詐欺―その全てを学べました。

ある日に、一人の逃亡者がアルベの惑星に着いた。
致命的傷を負い、美しい大地の上でその命が絶えてしまいアルベは彼の記憶を小魚のように集めました。
その記憶が、影に染められた―切れ長の眼で角を持つ、無限の空腹で叫ぶ影に。
彼が最初だったが、やがてその影を知るものがだんだん現れて、アルベはその皆を知ることになってしまった。
捕獲者にもその影を恐れる記憶があり、アルベは初めて肝までに降りる恐怖を味わう事になった。
あの日から、土とその偉大なる意識に、苦しみ　復讐　絶望や憤怒の記憶が存在した。

あの時のアルベは不動過ぎて逃げる道がなく、その飢え続けている影に歯向かえる訳がなかったと悟った。
それでも、彼らは希望を灯し待ち続けた。
敵の記憶とともに、味方の記憶を持っていた。
沢山の生命体から、銀色の巨人の事を知っていました。
その巨人が警備隊みたいな物を設立し、宇宙の平和を守り続けた。
善に尊敬され、悪に恐れていた。
その巨人にアルベたちは信頼を託し、彼らに忠心と防御を誓い　運命を予言した。
所詮アルベは昆虫から進化した生物。もしも救いがなかったら、持っていた毒や強い念力を使い果たすしかなかった。
それに、まだ土の下で眠り生活し繁殖している無数の同胞たちに、生き抜く希望があった。それでタラクの予言の最後の一

説は、こう言った：

「だが希望はまだある
テンケより生まれしヤーセ
光の鎧を纏い
アルベの大地の一つのナラハ」

アルベはそれから何万年も救世主を待ち続け、「タラクの予言」も「ツルギの予言」に変わってしまった。内容は変わり、信

じたものも変わってしまった。
『天空より舞い降りし勇者、光の鎧を纏い　アーブの大地と一つにならん』と言う事に。

それがそれで終わった。なぜなれアーブの大地では、今でも別々の話が始まろうとしている。 [+/-] 昔　名もなき小さな惑星があった…

The Lost Race 「失われた一族」

(Disclaimer: This article was written before the premiere of Daikessen! Chou Ultra 8 Kyoudai.)

Most if not all primers on 'modern' Ultran history start with this picture:

It is a very puzzling prospect to have buildings like those found in ancient Greece existing side-by-side with technology advanced enough to create an artificial sun—or a network of them. Some say that this is simply a great example of ancient culture being preserved alongside modern development. Others will tell you that sciences advanced far more rapidly than architecture due to the influence of the Radian, the 'missing race' of Ulterra.

It is said that long before the supernova and the age of the Ultra Elder, 'men beyond men' lived amongst the common folk. Their kind was called the Radians, and they were said to hail from 'the Shining Grounds'. Some called them spirits taking human form and visiting the physical plane; others said they were messengers of the gods themselves. 'They are very like men and women', wrote the historian Tucel, 'and they speak man's speech. But there is a light in their eyes not like ours, and a wisdom and strength not like ours. Appear they enrobed in three colours, for they are like the cool light of the moon, the strength of the earth and the speed of the wind. They do not seem to age, merely passing year by year like stones and trees. Blessed are those who encounter them, for the gods smile upon their people.' The technological advances they helped develop pushed Ulterra to new heights, turning it into the flourishing, peaceful utopia it was for many, many millennia.

But one day, very suddenly, the Radians vanished completely.

The last official mention of the race is located within the Quatrefoil Treaty, forged between the major races of Ulterra to jointly develop the piece of land that is today's planetary capital, Ultra Metro. It was thought that after the treaty, the Radians simply became integrated with the rest of society; however, the Radian stronghold was said to be the landmass of Radiane, and while the area is rich in minerals and certain rare types of mosses, there is very little evidence to say it was ever inhabited. If they existed, they must have packed up and left without a trace. Their existence still remains much of a mystery, as two hundred years after the treaty, Ulterra's sun went supernova. In 259-sen-590, a stone tablet was discovered in Radiane portraying a man that looked...rather like a modern Ultran.

Some time later, a recruit from the Space Garrison claimed to have seen a Radian for himself, providing a detailed physical description to go with it. On patrol, Man Daiji had chased the monster Yanakahgi through a wormhole. Sealing it in a quantity of dihydrogen monoxide, he left a means of summons with an inhabitant of that planet, in case it should return. When that summons arrived, he found himself face to face with a Radian man, and they fought the beast together. There was scarce contact shortly after, and Man was only able to learn the other's name: Tiga.

The wormhole's position was noted down and agents from the Space Intelligence Bureau continue to investigate the existence of the Radians on this alternate Earth, learning more about the circumstances of these mysterious comrades. Soon, perhaps, both will meet upon the battlefield, fighting as equals. [+/-] '...There is...wisdom and strength not like ours'

Next time on Ultrandom - a brief introduction to the rest of the current 'races'.

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(放棄: この論文は、映画「大決戦！超ウルトラ８兄弟」の初公開前に書かれたものです。)

ウルテラの近代史（？）の文章ならば、全てではなければ大分は、下の映像を使わなくなるまい：

古代ギリシアにでもありそうな建物が、人工太陽はおろか人工太陽のネットワークでも作り上げるほど優れた技術と共に存在する事はなんて困惑をさせるものでしょう。
これは、古代文明がみごとに守られ現在の発達と共に存在できる事の好例と言う人もいます。
他のものによると、建築より科学が遥かに発達したのが、ウルテラの「失われた一族」のレーディアンの影響であります。

太陽の爆発と同時のウルトラ長老の時代の前に、「人を超えた人」が市民と共に暮らしていたと言われます。
その人びとがレーディアンと呼ばれ、出身地は「輝く里」と言われた。
ある者に彼らは人の姿を借りてこの世を歩く霊と見られ、ある者に彼らは神の使いと見なされた。
「彼等は男と女にあんまり変わらぬ」と、歴史者トゥセルは書き残した。「そして彼等は人の言葉を話す。しかし彼等の目には、我々のようなものではない光がおり、われわれの様でもない賢明と力がおります。その体は三色にまとわれる。月の涼しい光、土の頑丈さ、風の速さの様な者だから。歳もとらなさそうに、樹と岩のように年を過ごす。彼等に巡り会える物は幸でおる。彼等に、神々が微笑んでいるから。」
レーディアンが手を加えた技術の発達で、ウルテラは新たな局面に押し上げれて、繁盛し続けたユートピアになりました。

ですが　ある日突然、レーディアンは完全に消えた。

正式なものでレーディアンの最後の表彰は、現在の首都ウルトラ・メトロを一緒に発達するように　ウルテラの原種の中で結ばれた四葉盟約にある。
盟約の後は、レーディアンは社会に溶け込んだと思われましたが、
陸塊レーディアンヌが以前の拠点と言われたのに、そこに鉱物も希な宇宙ゴケが豊富けど住み着かれた証拠があんまりない。
ウルテラから旅立ったら、完全に姿を消したと言えます。
今でも、彼等の存在は謎に包まれています。ちなみに、盟約から数百年後に、光の国の太陽が爆発してしまった。
ウルトラ暦２５万２５９０年に、レーディアンヌで石版が発掘されて、その石の上に描かれたのが…現在のウルトラ族に近い姿をしていた男でした。

それから少しの時間がたったら、宇宙警備隊員一人がレーディアンの人を自分の目で見たと言い、身体的特徴まで話せました。
その男　マン・ダイジは、パトロール中で怪獣ヤナカーギを追い始めて、ワームホールを潜り抜けた。
一酸化二水素の大量に怪獣を封じて、万が一な事に備えてその星の住人に償還道具を託した。償還されたら、目の前にレーディアンの男の一人がいて、彼と共に怪獣を懲らしめた。
その後は接触が少なく、相手の名前だけを知りました：ティガ。

そのワームホールの位置は後で書き留められ、宇宙情報局員はこの別な地球で謎が多い仲間のレーディアンの存在と事情をを調査し続けています。
近いうちに、ウルトラ族とレーディアン族はもう一度戦場で戦士同士として会うかもしれません。[+/-] 「我々のようなものではない…賢明と力がおります」

次のポストで、現在の「原種」をご紹介します。

Fanfiction: Bringer of Light

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one concerned about this. I probably am ^^; The Japanese Wiki entry for Mebius does mention this matter, though. (and, as always, click to enlarge the picture.)

What follows is not canon, was executed in about two days (and edited for 6-7) and is strictly the ramblings of a meticulous fan to reconcile things internally. But I do hope you enjoy it nevertheless.

Title: Bringer of Light
Date: 21/5/2008
Fandom: Ultraman (Mebius)
Genre: General
Rating/Warnings: PG. Ultraman and all related characters (c) Tsuburaya Productions 1966, 2008.The name 'Lucien Candela' should not be taken as canon.
Summary: Set post-series. Mebius finds out, a little awkwardly, what Hikari's actual name is. But in the end, perhaps a name is what you answer to.

Someone was calling him. Ultraman Hikari turned, and raised one hand lightly in response to the familiar voice. "It's been a while, Mebius. What brings you here?"

"I just thought I'd stop by and say hello. Captain Zoffy told me you'd been assigned to the weaponry research department. So this is what you do here..." he replied, voice trailing off as he surveyed the area and its controlled chaos.

"Between missions, yes." Hikari followed Mebius' line of sight and chuckled. It must have been completely new to the young fighter, this battleground fought with nothing but information. "I could show you around, if you'd like. I bet the younger members would be happy to see someone from headquarters."

"If it's not too much trouble, I'd like that very much," Mebius said with a smile. Just then, someone else approached the two, a disk of microfilm in hand, and Hikari turned to the sound of his voice.

"Professor Lucien? Lucien Candela? These are the files you wanted." He looked at Hikari, as if expecting a response. Mebius was about to open his mouth, to tell him that surely the researcher was mistaken. Perhaps his friend had a brother, or he was being mistaken for another scientist. But then the Blue Ultran nodded, as if it was the most ordinary thing in the world, and took the disc from him.

"Thank you. I'll get this back to you by day's end. Anything else?"

"Yes. Chief Eien wants to see you." Noticing Mebius' presence, the researcher bowed, and the fighter followed suit, slightly dazed.

"Understood. I'll be right over. He must be new," Hikari added once he was out of earshot. "Sorry, Mebius, I need to look over this right away. We'll have a chance to talk later."

"Sure, not a problem," Mebius said by way of acknowledgement. "But...he called you 'Lucien'?"

The man fiddled with the disk gently, his expression somewhat unreadable. "What they used to call me, before I went to Arb. Now if you will excuse me..." He turned on his heel and headed back to a terminal, leaving behind his very confused comrade.

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The day was almost at its end before the two were able to resume their conversation. Up on the Garrison's roof deck, Mebius was deep enough in thought that he almost missed the approaching footsteps.

"It's a bit dangerous to be so occupied," Hikari—no, Lucien said dryly. Mebius had done his research in the past hours. He'd gone through the list of Star Mark recipients, scientific journals on planetary studies, experiments in portable weaponry like a few of the Ultra Brothers possessed; every one of them mentioned a 'Professor Lucien Candela'. One had a picture staring calmly back at him from the screen. The most recent document he could find that contained the name was a proposal to study the Planet Arb, once a flourishing utopia and now stripped bare and cold. Through his friend, he knew this all too well.

"I...I must apologise," Mebius said. "We've fought together all this time, and I never knew or asked your real name. I just called you what Ryuu-san called you. But I remember when I was younger, still in school, they mentioned the scientist Candela Lamben, and how he worked beside the First Six and the Emperan resistance forces. That scientist was your father?"

"It's nothing to be sorry about. And yes, I am that Candela's son." He leaned against the railing beside Mebius, folding his arms before his chest. "I suppose my father hoped that his son would bring pride to the race when he named me. Lu-shi-en, blue-shadow-advance. For a long time I was able to take pride in that name, and continue the work he started during the Emperan occupation. And then, I requested to go and investigate Arb..." He fell silent for a while before Mebius' questioning gaze encouraged him to continue.

"You must understand one thing." There was a cold steel edge at the back of his words. "Lucien was pure and naive, believing with one heart in the goodness of life. When Arb died—when that beautiful, innocent place died, he died with it, consumed by Tsurugi and its desire for vengeance. Hikari...Hikari is the one who fights for all the Arbs yet to be, before history repeats itself and more life is sacrificed." He broke off with a short laugh. "Please excuse me. I'm rambling."

"It makes sense anyway," Mebius replied slowly, thoughtfully. "That part of yourself may not have died so easily. It comes back to Earth again."

"It does? You would think the Sage himself guided us there..."

"I checked it out. Lucien, in French—another Terran language—it means 'bringer of light'. And so you have brought light to many people. It is a good name to simply throw away and let die. Should I use it, from now on?" he asked, curious and intent on receiving a definitive answer.

"Well, that's something." He tilted his head, a faint smile playing on his lips as he thought it over. "No, Mebius. Lucien is dead, Sage rest him. Call me what you always have. After all, you and Ryuu and the rest of them had a part in that naming. So, would you still like that tour tomorrow?"

Mebius smiled once more. "Yes, Hikari, actually I would." [+/-] "...he called you 'Lucien'?"

P.S. - This is what happens when you put Ming and old books together:

The Dying of the Light 死滅してゆく光

Today's title is brought to you by Dylan Thomas! Yay! *ahem*

If Ultraman's Colour Timer stops blinking, he will never rise again.

All right. So most fans are familiar with this line here: if UM uses up all his energy, then he will die. Or so it seems. UM himself was revived with an 'extra life' by Zoffy in the final episodes. He's still kicking around. If you read the (slightly obscure but very good) manga Ultraman: Super Fighter Legend (Choutoushi Gekiden), our hero actually dies and comes to life a few times. And then there's Taro, who first gets beheaded by some hellish monster, somehow survives that, and then gets pecked full of holes by a giant poisonous venomous chicken. But he's still alive too, as Mebius will vehemently attest. (How dare you insult his coach! 'o' )

Ultraman, thank goodness, is NOTORIOUSLY HARD TO KILL. So what, really, is death to them?

According to Korotan Bunko number 30 (Ultra Kaijuu All Hyakka), 'When an Ultran dies s/he turns to light and disappears'. Granted, in most if not all the death scenarios so far, this has not happened. We have seen Taro bleed red blood (very red blood...) and Tiga bleeds light. Mebius has covered a little bit on death, and since he's part of the Showa continuity, we make these observations:

1. Yes, Ultrans do die, i.e. there is a natural lifespan and there is 'only one life'.
   
2. If Ultrans turn to light and disappear upon death, Ultrans themselves are made of light.
   
3. Light is a type of energy. (All right, that one's fairly well-established)

Based on these observations, a theory can be put forth, such as this one: Ultras themselves are composed of pure light energy, bound together in a certain form and forming various structures which perform various functions - much like a fleshly body. In Tiga's time the structure was not as 'rigid' as that of the Showa Ultras, who came somewhat 'later'—hence, they formed their own physical bodies out of rocks and earth, imbuing these vessels with their own powers.

The energy that composes an Ultran holds itself together in a sort of matrix, pretty much like how the human skeleton, muscles and skin keeps everything else from falling onto the floor. Striking at the energy matrix damages it, but it generally manages to knit back together (Those sparks you see when a monster strikes at an Ultra? That's the matrix being unraveled.). This explains how so much damage is reversible under the hands of comrades or a good Silver Cross worker. A physical body that looks dead is really a dormant but intact energy matrix; spent energy can yet be replaced, if the person is attended to in time.

It takes a lot of heavy, repeated damage to really break the matrix beyond all repair—this entails a knock-down drag-out battle beyond all limits, some form of degenerative disease (sad, yet true) or the actual, natural winding down of the life force. It is said they can live for millions of Earth years (a fact which needs textual confirmation somewhere. I looked! Honest!) This winding down signals the coming of the 'Final Death', or 'ril-ur'—literally 'end-light' or 'the end of light'. The first definite sign that this is happening is the appearance of spots of localised necrosis on the face or limbs, colloquially known as the 'marks of T'i-Her' after a goddess of death related to the Trinity. After their initial appearance, an Ultran's lifespan can be lengthened no more than six months with energy transfusions before the matrix deteriorates completely. Most of the time, one gets about three months to put one's affairs in order—write wills, say goodbye to people, do some travelling, things like that. Many choose a particular spot where they wish to pass on.

As the time draws to its end, the marks of T'i-Her spread and form dermal adhesions as the body itself begins to slowly fail. The senses become less and less sensitive. Eventually the body surrenders and the matrix sunders, casting its initial components back into the ether. And then—ideally after a long and productive life—s/he turns to light and disappears. Those who have the choice sometimes choose to spend their dying moments beside the nearest Spark fusion device, not in an effort to conserve energy, but to give their final energy to the network of suns that keep the planet alive.

There are no physical graves on the Land of Light. A family may choose to honor the deceased's memory in numerous ways, such as handing down tools of trade, for example, or a holograph on the table, or a small marker placed where the deceased chose to die, but beneath every sorrow is hope, for the one lost has reentered a great cycle, and will someday return to the world.

Death is not beautiful, but to face both life and death with courage and dignity is beauty itself.
- Daiyou Daijin

[+/-]'The End of Light'

Interestingly enough, Ril-ur is also the name of T'e-Areu's broadsword...which I think I'll cover in the next post.

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今日のタイトルは、ディラン・トーマスの提供でお送りします！イエーイ！
ｺﾞﾎﾝ

「ウルトラマンのカラータイマーがとまったら、二度と起き上がらん」
その感じの台詞は、ウルトラマンファンのみんながよく存じますね。
「ウルトラマンのエネルギーが全部尽きてしまったら、死ぬ」な感じで言われます。
でもウルトラマンはゾフィーによってもう一つの命で復活されて、今も正義のために戦います。
（ちょっと探しづらいけどとても良い）漫画「ウルトラマン超闘士激伝」を読んだら、その作品にも闘士マンは幾度死に生き返りました。
ちなみにタロウもシリーズ内に怪獣に頭が切り離され、何とかそれを生き抜いて、そのあと巨大猛毒鶏に殺された。
なのに今でもピンピンしている。メビウスは、そう証言しますと思う（彼の教官の悪口をするとは…！）

幸運な事に、ウルトラマンはヒジョーに殺しづらい。（苦笑）
なら、ウルトラ族にとって「死」とは何のものでしょうか？

コロタン文庫３０（ウルトラ怪獣全百科）によると、「ウルトラ族は死ぬと、光になって消えてしまう」。
これまでのシナリオでは、そういう事が起こらなかった。
タロウが怪我された時に赤い血を流す事があって、ティガの怪我から光る何かが流れる。光そのものかもしれません。
メビウスの中にも死の問題が語られて、彼も一応昭和世界の一員なんですから、下の観測などが提出できます：

1. ウルトラ族は死ぬ（つまり寿命がありまして、命も「一つ」に限っている）
   
2. ウルトラ族は死ぬと光になって消えれば、ウルトラ族は光で作られる体を持っています
   
3. 光はエネルギーの形の一つ（まあ、これはよくご存じますね）

観測を基にして、こんな理論が考えられます: ウルトラ族の体は、純粋の光のエネルギーで出来ていて、そのエネルギーが色んな細胞、臓器になっていて、地球人みたく色んな身体機能が行われます。
ティガ等の場合では、体の構造がそう固定していなかったものの為、守る星の岩や土で体を作り　その器に自分の能力を注ぎ込みました。

ウルトラ族の体のエネルギーは、マトリクスだと言える物で体の成分を団結します。
人間の肌、筋肉、骨格が内臓を纏め包むように、ね。
マトリクスが打撲を受けたらダメージを食らいますが、普通は自らで回復できます。
（ウルトラマンが攻撃を受けるときに見える火花は、そのマトリクスの綻びから出ています。）
これで、仲間か銀十字軍の隊員の手で瀕死状態の戦士を復活できる事も可能でしょう。
死んでいる…と見える肉体は、不動でいながらまだ元形を保っているエネルギーマトリクス。
間に合えば失くしたエネルギーは、また戻せる。その人は、救える。

マトリクスが回復できないほど壊せるのは、重なる大きいなダメージしかない。全ての限界を超える激戦か、変性疾患か（珍しいですけどそのケースもありえる）自然なる生命力の弱化が原因になれます。
ウルトラ族は、何百万年も生きて行けると聞きました事もありますけど、確実の証拠が未だに見つけ出せません＜適当に探してみた！ほんと！ｗ
生命力の弱化で、「絶なる死」　リル・ウルの時が近づいてるという事です。
文字通りで訳せば、リル・ウルは「絶・光」―つまり、「光の終わり」。
最初に出ます兆候は、四肢か顔面に現る限局性の壊死の斑。
口語では、この斑を三位と関係がある死の女神にちなんで、「ティ・ヘルの刻印」と言われます。
その時にマトリクスがもう朽ちり始めたから、最初の出現からエネルギーの注入でその人の寿命を、６ヶ月しか延ばせません。
たいていは、三ヶ月内で身辺整理を済ませる必要があります。
遺言状を書くとか、人にさよならを言うとか、旅に出るとか…
ある人は、息を尽きる場所まで選びます。

残る時間が少なくなるとティ・ヘルの刻印が広がり皮膚に癒着を形成し、体に傷害が起こり始め、五感まで段々鈍化します。
いずれは体の持久力が絶えマトリクスが崩壊してしまいその成分を無に返す。そして―理想的に、長き生産的な人生的を送った後に―そのウルトラ人は光になって消えてしまいます。
死に場所を選び、スパーク融合装置の傍らに命を尽きる者もおります。
それはエネルギーを保つ為ではなく、星を生かす太陽のネットワークに最後の力を捧げる為にする事と言う。

光の国ウルテラでは、物理的な墓がありません。
故人の家族は、商売道具か武器を引き継いだり、ホログラム写を机の上で置いたり、故人が死んだ場所で墓標をたてたり追悼が出来ます。
でも、全ての悲しみの裏に、いつも希望があります。
故人がまた大きな循環に戻って、いつかはこの世界に戻りますから。

死は美しくざる―けれど、生と死を勇気と尊厳で直面できることこそが、美そのものであろう。
―ダイヨウ・ダイジン

[+/-] 「光の終わり」

ちなみに、「リル・ウル」は、テ・アレウの刀につけた名前なのです。
その刀の話は、次のポストで公開しよう。

Heart Sounds and Crossed Tongues 心の音と交雑言語

This post now has pictures! (Sweet.) Click on the thumbnails for a slightly different experience.

There are two major schools of thought regarding sound in space: one that says space is a vacuum, and there should be no sound, and one that says space is spread out so thinly that sound travels at a fraction of its usual speed, or the sound is too low for human ears to pick up on. In the first case, realistically there is then no way of verbal communication. In the second, sound travels slowly enough for it to lose the point.

Telepathy, however, travels at the speed of thought—which brings us to the mental language of Heartsound.

Heartsound focuses not on a purely lexical structure, but the inherent, more universal meanings behind the words. This meaning, in its purest form, is transmitted telepathically to the second party, and fluent Heartsounders are equally able to pick up on the vibes radiated by the person/people facing them—which means that communication with beings lacking a wide vocal range (monsters, for instance) is much easier. It is a language that is easy to 'hear', hard to 'speak' and difficult to build a wide 'vocabulary' and become fluent. Red Ultras, with their propensity towards telepathic and telekinetic skills, have a slight edge over their other brethren when it comes to learning the language. Space Garrison recruits are all strongly encouraged to pick up at least Heartsound's rudiments as it helps to gauge an enemy's movements as well. Same goes for diplomats.

Speaking of diplomats, Heartsound is a bit of a sledgehammer to the mind, and in more delicate settings other vocal languages can be used. But there are quite a few lifeforms bouncing around the Galactic Federations, and one people may not use one tongue (look at Earth and the tower of Babel). So what to do? Members of the Federation got together to propose a universal language called Crosstongue, and efforts to propagate it began in the Ultran year 25-man-6777 (1250 BCE).

Crosstongue borrows its syntax, grammar and vocabulary from various major languages already spoken by Federation members, and has become a fairly well-established lingua franca due to its strong roots to the base languages that spread throughout the universe much earlier. Not an overly pretty language, but useful nonetheless. [+/-] Universal languages...

There will be no post next week (I'm going for my college convocation), so I'm extending the voting period for the poll. Drop me a line, folks, and have a great week ahead!

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今回のコンテンツに、ちょっとした漫画を付きました！サムネールをクリックしてくださいね。

宇宙での音の存在は、二つの理想に大きく分けます：「宇宙は真空で音が通じません」と「物質の粒子があんまりにも稀なもので音は極一部の速さで通じれるか、人間の耳に聞こえない音しかありません」。
第一の場合では即物的に口頭通報があんまり役に立てません。第二の場合では、音の速さが下げられて意味も…あんまりないでしょうね。（汗）

それだけど、以心伝心ではメッセージは「思考の速さ」で通じれるなので、そこから言語というより念語のハートサウンドが築きました。

ハートサウンドは単語の構造だけじゃなく、言葉に含んでいる普遍的の意味に集中します。その純粋な意味を、相手に伝わります。
ちなみにハートサウンドが上手お方は、相手がハートサウンドに優れなくても態度、発声、雰囲気の波動から相手の意思が読めます。これで、怪獣みたいに声域が浅い生物と会話ができます。
ハートサウンドは、「聞き取り」がやすいけれど、「話す」事はちょっと難しく　語彙を増やして上手になるにもたくさんの努力が必要なんです。
念力が強いレッド族のウルトラ人は、他の同胞より語の基本が早くつかめます。宇宙警備隊員は皆、相手の気配が読みやすくなるから、少なくてもハートサウンドの基本を学ぶ事が強く勧められています。外交官も、同じ。

…外交官といえば。
ハートサウンドはちょっと強硬なところがあって荒いと見られ、もっと公式な環境では他の言語が使えます。
とは言え、銀河連邦にはたくさんの惑星が参加していますし、一つの世界が一つの言語を使っている事に限りません。（例：地球）
そんなわけで、銀河連邦の全員が知恵をあわせて　惑星共通言語　クロスタングを提案し、ウルトラ暦２５万６７７７年につき伝播の活動が始まりました。

クロスタングは　構文　文法　語彙　を、すでに大分の惑星で使っていた言語を取り合わせできたものです。古代で使っていた言語らと強い交際があって、いまでもかなり定評のある交通語です。「綺麗」な言語だといえませんが、とても便利です。 [+/-] 宇宙言語…

来週は、義理人の卒業式があって、ウルランもちょっと休ませます。
投票時間も延ばせますので、ぜひ次のポストについて意見を聞かせてくださいませ！
よい一週間を！ｗ

Across the Universe(s) 世界（等）を越えて

When this post was first being written, the Super Ultra 8 Kyoudai movie (like...Ultra Ninja Manual Ultra?) was said to take place in a world where 'Ultraman and monsters do not exist—at least, they shouldn't.'

*deflaaaate*

Now before y'all call me on being an ungrateful little fan, I WAS looking forward to this film. And it's a pretty decent film, so go watch it if you can. But when the news first hit the Internet, I was grinning hugely, because I thought there would finally be concrete connections between the Showa universe and the Heisei universes. Now everything's just a TV show for everyone, the hosts we all know and love...uh, aren't, and it all comes together in Yet Another Alternate Earth?

I'm starting to lose count of them all, so it's time for another post...

We know that there are at least this number of universes:

• Showa canon 1, including Man, Zoffy, Seven, Jack, Ace, Father, Mother, Taro, Leo, Astra, King, Joe (The*Ultraman), Yullian, Chuck, Scott, Beth, Great, Powered, Chuck, Scott, Beth, Great, Powered, Zearth, Mebius and Hikari. Ultraman shows up, and his brethren keep on coming. Most are from the Land of Light in M78; Leo and Astra are from L77, Zearth is from Z95, Joe's from U40 and the Ultra Force appear to come from another different planet in M78 (Ultraman Ultra Secrets 100, Kodansha).
• Showa canon 2, or Neos' and 21's world. These two are a bit of a special case. Yes, Zoffy appears, yet 'HEART doesn't seem to recognize Neos or the Ultraman concept, and the captain orders them to attack "the giant" (Wikipedia, Absolute Ultraman). Ultraman still hails from Nebula M78.
• Heisei canon 1, which includes Tiga and Dyna. Ultraman is a TV show here, although he is said to appear in real life once or twice. Until Tiga's revival, such beings had been long forgotten. Tiga and Dyna come from, uh, far far away no matter how you look at it and are both strongly connected to light. Or The Light. Their kind once settled on Earth as superancient humanity's protectors (and they even had time for civil war, hey—see Ultraman Tiga: The Final Oddysey), but left after Gidzera and its psychotropic pollen interfered.
• Heisei canon 2, including Gaia and Agul. Complete turnabout here; nobody knows what the heck Ultraman is. Both entities are spawned by the Earth as a defense mechanism. All this is a TV show, uh, somewhere. Maybe here? (Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna & Ultraman Gaia: Choujikuu no Daikessen)
• Cosmos-Justice-Legend canon. UM is still just a television show. Monsters appear out of nowhere. First glimpse of something bigger than the Garrison—namely, Delacion and its, um, mercenaries. (Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet et. al.) (I do not LIKE Delacion. You wouldn't, if you saw that stageshow with me.) Cosmos...probably comes from M78, which is what one would like to conclude just looking at his ears and headfin in Luna Mode. Under that logic, Justice probably does too.
• Nice canon. Tiga is a TV show, but Nice is real enough and does indeed fight monsters! Our hero is from the planet TOY 1.
• N Project canon, including Noa, Nexus and Next, as well as Faust, Mephisto and Zagi. Markedly bleaker and more gritty/realistic than any of the preceding, but it brings out the hope just as strongly. Ultraman does not exist anywhere on Earth before Next appears. Nobody quite seems to know where UM comes from (and initially, whether he's worth trusting.)
• Showa canon 3, somewhat parallel to Showa canon 1. This is Max and Xenon's turf. Very similar monsters appear, and Max and Zenon both hail from M78. Perhaps not Ulterra, but the same galaxy...
• Seven X canon, shown to be connected to the Showa canon [SPOILER]by the Aqua Project. Seven's world, too, is in danger of the Big Brother Aliens, and so he reaches out to help destroy them.[/SPOILER]. One can well presume this is THE Seven from M-78 and all, but it doesn't explain why he's so uber-powerful in this world. The less said about his 80s shoulders, the better.
• Ultra 8 Brothers canon, mentioned briefly above. The Showa Ultras were simply characters on the television screen, and the Heiseis were not even known to exist. Somehow, however, beings from all three worlds came together in this reality, and perhaps it might happen again. Things look good for this world, whether it has its Ultras in permanent residence or not.
• Ultra Galaxy canon, which is a bit of a mixed salad. In this universe, Man is happily flying great distances across the universe, the 'Ultraman' of the Showa 1 canon has not been seen for many years, and kaijuu have long become extinct—until they show up, at which time monsters from Gomora and Gun-Q to Golza and Garberos are shown happily rubbing shoulders. It's possible that Ultra Galaxy: Daikaijuu Battle is simply set in a very futuristic Showa 1, with the kaijuu from other canons either entering through wormholes of some sort or simply undiscovered during Mebius' time.

[+/-] Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah...

And if you want to count the manga(s), the number goes up too. Look at the lovely Story 0. The Emperans are nowhere in sight, and timeframes are all kinds of messed up.

The best part? Truly, any one canon might...just might...be this sad little universe we live in. Personally, I'm rooting for the Seven X canon. The, um, *cough* side effects of Aqua Project have promise.

What do you do, reader? Do you just lump them all together, or separate them into discrete realities?

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この記事が初めて書かれていたとき、情報によると２００８年１０月に台公開された映画「超ウルトラ８兄弟」（何だかウルトラ忍法帖超みたいｖ）は、 「ウルトラマンも怪獣も実在しない（世界に繰り広がれる）―はずだった。」

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期待にしていなかった訳じゃないからね、８兄弟。ただ、それを聞いてちょっとテンションがなくなった。
（ちなみにかなりいい映画なので、お見逃しなく！）
初めてそのニュースがネットで見たときは、ニヤニヤしたばっかり。
なぜなら、やっと昭和世界と平成世界が、確実的に繋がれると思いました。
でも今回のは何もかもが空想で、私たちの大好きな主人公がその特徴を失い、全てはまた一つの地球…？

数え切れなくてちょっとまとめて見ましょう…

私たちが知っている限り、少なくても下に書いてある世界が存在している：

• 第一番昭和世界はマン、ゾフィー、セブン、ジャック、エース、父、母、タロウ、レオ、アストラ、キング、ジョー（ザ☆ウルトラマン）、ユリアン、チャック、スコット、べす、グレート、パワード、ゼアス、メビウスとヒカリを含み、現実にウルトラマンが現れ、その仲間は今も世界の平和を守っている。
  大分はＭ７８の光の国出身ですけど、レオとアストラはＬ７７で生まれ、ゼアスの故郷はＺ９５星雲のピカリの国で、ＵＳＡの「ウルトラフォース」チャック　スコット　ベスは、Ｍ７８にある別の惑星の者らしい。(ウルトラマン超秘密１００より)
• 第二番昭和世界、またはネオスと21の世界。
  ネオスと２１は、ちょっと特別なケースと見られます。
  ゾフィーは登場するけど、ＨＥＡＲＴはネオスをウルトラマンとして見分けない上に、隊長がネオスを攻撃する命令まで下したらしいね。（ウィキペディア、絶対ウルトラマン）
  ウルトラマンも、まだＭ７８星雲出身のままでいます。
• 第一番平成世界、つまりティガとダイナの世界。ウルトラマンがただのテレビ番組ですけど、初代ウルトラマンが一度二度現実の世界に姿を現した。ティガの再生まで、ウルトラの存在が遠く前に忘れられていた。
  どう見てもティガやダイナが遠い世界から来て、光と強い関係／絆を持っている。彼らみたいな光の巨人が昔、地球の超古代人類の守り神と活躍し（ちなみに内乱までがあったそう）向精神剤（？）のギジェラ花粉によって姿を消されずを得なかった。
• 第二番平成世界、ガイアとアグルの世界。ここでは「ウルトラマン」と言う言葉は全く意味を持っていません。二人も地球の防御機構で生まれてきた。
  そしてこの全てが、どこかでテレビ番組として放送している。多分、ココ？ｗ（ＴＤＧの映画より）
• コスモスの世界、そしてジャスティス、レジェンドの世界。ウルトラマンはまだ　ただの子供向けテレビ番組である。怪獣は知らないところから現れる。
  この世界で「宇宙警備隊」よりも大きな存在　デラシオンとその使い達がいます。
  （ちなみに私は、デラシオンを心底から嫌う。一緒にあのライブステージを見ていたなら、皆さんもそう思うと信じます。うん。）
  
  コスモスは…多分、Ｍ７８出身。
  基本のルナ・モードの頭のヒレ、耳、目のところを見てその結論を出したい。
  その理屈に従えば、ジャスティスもそうかも知れません。
• ナイスの世界。ティガはテレビ番組のみだけですけど、ナイスは十分リアルなもので、怪獣と戦います。
  そして我らがヒーローはＴＯＹ１番星から来ました。
• Ｎプロジェクトの世界はノア、ネクサス、ネクスト　そしてファウスト、メフィスト、ザギを含みます。前の作品より世界観が暗くて絶望を感じれる。でもその代わりに希望も強く感じれる。ウルトラマンというものは、ネクストの登場まで地球で存在しなかった。彼の出身地も、誰にも明らかにされていなさそう。（初めにも、信頼できる存在かどうかのもちょっとうやむやでした。）
• 第三番昭和世界は、第一番の昭和世界のパラレルで存在していると見られます。ココは、マックスとゼノンの庭張りｖ
  類似な怪獣が登場して、マックスもゼノンもＭ７８星雲出生らしい。正式「光の国」ではなくても、同じ銀河なので…。
• セブンＸの世界は確実に第一番昭和世界と繋がっている。ktkr
  [ネタバレ]アクア・プロジェクトで出来た時空の扉で、ね。
  セブンの世界にも侵略者の危機が迫っていたので、それを食い止めるために別世界の者に力を貸した。[/ネタバレ]
  迷いなく本物のセブンと言い張りますけど、この世界に見れる圧倒的な力が、説明しづらい。
  あの肩とデザインも…（汗）
• ウルトラ８兄弟の世界では昭和のウルトラ戦士はただテレビのキャラクターで、平成ウルトラマンたちの存在はまったく知られていないでした。ともかくもその三つの世界の者がこの現実に集まり、そしてその事の再現もまたあるかもしれません。ここにウルトラズは恒久的にいますかいませんかに関わらず、ここの未来は明るいなんでしょう。
• ウルトラギャラクシーの世界は、すこしチャンプルーになっているみたい。（汗）
  この世界では人間はすでに宇宙を長旅し始めて、「ウルトラマン」も「怪獣」も昔の話に過ぎていない。　しかし怪獣が現れたら、ゴモラとガンＱからゴルザとガルベロスまでの怪獣が肩並べして暴れまわっている。おそらくウルトラギャラクシー　大怪獣バトルは昭和１の遠い未来にあるもので、他の怪獣はワームホールやらから忍び込んだのか、まだメビウスの時代に未発見でいた可能性も高い。

[+/-] Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah…

漫画も含めたら、数はまた増えると思います。
たとえば、神作の「STORY 0」では、恐るべきエンペラー星人の存在が全くなく（私が知っている限り）
時間枠もかなり乱れているみたい。

なんらかんら言っても、この中の一つの世界は、ちょっと色褪せた私たちが生きる世界かもしれません。
可能性がある。
自分は、セブンＸの未来に賭けているですが…アクアプロジェクトの「副作用」はまさに使える。

読んでいる皆様は、何をするでしょうか？
ウルトラの世界等を一つにまとめるか、それに別々な次元に区別しますか？