A New Light: Part 1

A New Light: Part 1 (新たなる光（前編） Aratanaru Hikari (Zenpen)) is the 1st episode of Ultraman Dyna.

Summary

In the 21st century, humanity's technology had advanced considerably, entering an time known as the Neo Frontier era. Expert trainee pilot Shin Asuka joined the elite team Super GUTS to defend humanity from invaders and deal with supernatural threats all while seeing visions of a mysterious light.

Plot

The two top trainee pilots of Training Squad ZERO, Shin Asuka and Takeru Fudou, competed in hand-to-hand combat. To win, Asuka cheated by pretending that the instructor had just arrived, allowing him to sneak beneath Takeru and jab him in the crotch using his fingers.

Later, the Super GUTS members Ryo and Kohda ran a recruitment test to join their elite team, an outer space combat simulation where Shin Asuka demonstrates considerable skill at flying and shooting. After a brief and furious battle in which Asuka successfully tagged Ryo and Kohda, alien objects called Sphires appeared and began to assault the pilots, destroying a space station in the process. The trainees switched from practice to battle mode to fight them, but Ryo's ship's computer malfunctioned, leaving her defenseless. Before her ship was captured by the Sphires, Asuka rescued her, but was soon gunned down himself. Asuka ejects, and as he drifted through space, he encountered a strange light and fell unconscious.

Asuka woke up at the base of Super GUTS, where he met with another member of the team, Mai, who revealed that he is now a member of Super GUTS. Overnight, Asuka dreamed of a Sphire reaching Mars and transforming into a monster, then dreamed of the same strange light enveloping him.

Asuka then met up with the rest of the team before they are dispatched on a mission to the TPC Mars Base, which was under attack from the monster in Asuka's dream, Darambia. Asuka was reckless in the mission and his spacecraft crashed, badly injuring his co-pilot Kouda. He attempted to defend Kouda from outside the ship, while another fleet of Sphires arrived to attack the base directly. Asuka refused to give up, until the strange light enveloped him and transformed him into Ultraman Dyna. As soon as Dyna appeared, Darambia was blasted apart from the sheer amount of light created during the transformation. Dyna destroyed the remaining Sphires, much to the amazement of the base's onlookers. It wasn't over yet however, as Darambia's pieces drifted together into a new beast, Neo Darambia.

Cast

• Shin Asuka (アスカ・シン Asuka Shin): Takeshi Tsuruno (つるの 剛士 Tsuruno Takeshi)
• Gousuke Hibiki (ヒビキ・ゴウスケ Hibiki Gōsuke): Ryo Kinomoto (木之元 亮 Kinomoto Ryō)
• Toshiyuki Kouda (コウダ・トシユキ Kōda Toshiyuki): Toshikazu Fukawa (布川 敏和 Fukawa Toshikazu)
• Ryo Yumimura (ユミムラ・リョウ Yumimura Ryō): Risa Saito (斉藤 りさ Saitō Risa)
• Kouhei Kariya (カリヤ・コウヘイ Kariya Kōhei): Takao Kase (加瀬 尊朗 Kase Takao)
• Tsutomu Nakajima (ナカジマ・ツトム Nakajima Tsutomu): Joe Onodera (小野寺 丈 Onodera Jō)
• Mai Midorikawa (ミドリカワ・マイ Midorikawa Mai): Mariya Yamada (山田 まりや Yamada Mariya)
• Kouki Fukami (フカミ・コウキ Fukami Kōki): Toshiaki Amada (天田 俊明 Amada Toshiaki)
• Seiji Miyata (ミヤタ・セイジ Miyata Seiji): Hiroshi Tsuburaya (円谷 浩 Tsuburaya Hiroshi)
• Kihachi Gondou (ゴンドウ・キハチ Gondō Kihachi): Shinobu Kameyama (亀山 忍 Kameyama Shinobu)
• Saeko Shiina (シイナ・サエコ Shina Saeko): Yasumi Maezawa (前沢 保美 Maezawa Yasumi)
• Kazuma Asuka (アスカ・カズマ Asuka Kazuma): Daisuke Ryu (隆 大介 Ryū Daisuke)
• Narrator (ナレーター Narētā): Yūji Machi (真地 勇志 Machi Yūji)

Appearances

Ultras

• Ultraman Dyna
  • Flash Type

Kaiju

• Sphire
• Darambia
  • Neo Darambia

DVD Release

• Ultraman Dyna Volume 1 Features Episodes 1-4.

Trivia

• The plot used in this episode would later be recycled for the first episode of Ultraman Gaia in 1998