Gridman

Gridman (グリッドマン) is a Hyper Agent from the Hyper World, a parallel world to the "Computer World" a world within all computers. Originally a bodiless life form that chased Khan Digifier to the Computer World.


 * Subtitle: Lightning Superman (電光超人)
 * Thunder Subtitle: Combined Super God (合体超神)
 * King Subtitle: Combined Dragon Emperor (合体竜帝)

Denkou Choujin Gridman
While tracking down Khan Digifier he encountered Naoto and, seeing that Naoto had a good heart, chose him to merge with whenever battle must be done within the Computer world. To fight the larger and more powerful monsters, Gridman receives the upgrade program P-L6806OX to grow gigantic and battle against his foes. However, this massive power-up last only for a few minutes as it could overload Junk's system. When the power up begins to fade, a blue light on Gridman's head begins to blink as a warning. Naoto, Yuuka, and Ippei chat with Gridman over their computer by typing messages to him.

Stats

 * Height: Micro ~ 70 m
 * Thunder: 88 m
 * King: 93 m
 * Weight: 0 ~ 60,000 t
 * Thunder: 160,000 t
 * King: 200,400 t
 * Home World: Hyper World
 * Time Limit: 10 minutes
 * Flight: Gridman's top flight speed in the Computer World is faster than the Speed of Light.

Body Features

 * Energy Lamp (エネルギーランプ): The light on Gridman's forehead, when his giant size begins to put too much strain on Junk (the PC that powers his giant form) it begins to flash. It is similar to a Beam Lamp.
 * Radar Ear (レーダーイヤー): Gridman's ears.
 * Tri-Juster (トライジャスター): The three blue parts on Gridman's chest. They are the organ that emits the fixer beam.
 * Techtarion Armor (Tekutarion Āmā): The armor that Gridman wears.
 * Crystal Converter (クリスタルコンバーター): The yellow light on Gridman's chest, this is where his energy is stored.
 * Gravity Metal (グラビティメタル): Gridman is able to fly because his feet control gravity for him.

Assist Weapons
Assist Weapons (アシストウェポン) are created and devised by Ippei to assist Gridman in battle. When in Computer World, Gridman uses the Materialization Beam to complete the process.

Initially, Yuka was responsible for handling the programs until Ippei created the Assist Weapon Selector (アシストウェポンセレクター) to contain and deploy them easily. With the exception of Gridman Sword, later Assist Weapons (being mechas themselves) are remotely controlled by both Ippei and Yuka through game controllers. They are also modified to become powered suits for Gridman, thus raising his ability perimeters. In the final episode, Khan Digifier invaded Junk's server and destroy all the Assist Weapons in their data forms, leaving Gridman almost defeated before Takeshi created the Grid Hyper Beam program.


 * Lightning Blitz Blade Gridman Sword (電光雷撃剣グリッドマンソード): A combination of the Barrier Shield and Plasma Blade, created by Compoid and Anoshiras as gratitude for saving the latter. Its alternate configuration is Thunder Axe (サンダーアックス).
 * Barrier Shield (バリアーシールド): A shield made to repel any monster with an ultrahigh electromagnet. Created by Ippei with the inspiration from Special Dog (a type of hot dog).
 * Plasma Blade (プラズマブレード): A sword pulled out of the side of the Barrier Shield.
 * Combination Electric God God Zenon (合体電神ゴッドゼノン): A giant robot that combined form the three military vehicle-based Assist Weapons. Created based on the inspiration from a robot toy.
 * Thunder Jet (サンダージェット): A fighter jet inspired from real-life military fighter jet.
 * Twin Driller (ツインドリラー): A driller tank with a pair of drills, designed after military tanks.
 * God Tank (ゴッドタンク): A caterpillar track-based armored tank that is based on military tanks, especially a missile vehicle.
 * Dragon Fortress (ドラゴンフォートレス): A coalesced aircraft, formed by Dyna Fighter and King Jet. Transforms into Super Dragon Combination Dyna Dragon (超竜合体ダイナドラゴン), a tyrannosaurus mecha based on the fossil of tyrannosaurus.
 * Dyna Fighter (ダイナファイター): An aircraft that is initially Dragonic Cannon (ドラゴニックキャノン), inspired from a dragon-themed goods that was buried with a Chinese mummy.
 * King Jet (キングジェット): A large aircraft that was meant to be Dyna Fighter's support.

Trivia

 * The way in which Gridman's enemies are destroyed by his finishers may have inspired the effects of Ultraman the Next/Ultraman Nexus's finishers on his enemies.
 * Gridman's facial appearance might have inspired the faces of Jean-Bot and Jean-Nine.
 * Gridman's last suit appearance between his original series and his cameo in a DVD extra was in the 1995 Tsuburaya commercial where he joined the Ultramen and many monsters and aliens during a fireworks show, seen dancing near Pigmon.

Also see

 * Servo