A New Light: Part 2 is the 2nd episode of Ultraman Dyna.
Synopsis
Asuka ponders his role as Ultraman Dyna and a member of Super GUTS, while the enemy Sphires prepare and launch a second attack on humanity.
Plot
On Mars, Ultraman Dyna continued his fight with Neo Darambia, while Super GUTS observed the fight from their jets. He successfully destroyed the enemy with his Solgent Ray. Dyna then disappeared in a display of light and unbeknowst to anyone, left Shin Asuka in his place. With their mission finished, Super GUTS captain Gousuke Hibiki ordered the group to return back to Earth. Asuka was troubled as to why he was chosen to be Dyna's vessel, while discovering the Reflasher on the ground in front of him. Meanwhile, another group of Sphires began to combine and head for Earth.
TPC held a meeting with captain Hibiki about their new enemy, which they dub Sphires, asking him if he had learned anything integral from his encounter with them. Hibiki was only able to say that he believed that the Sphires were intelligent and that they're unhappy with humanity's advancement. At the same time, the Sphires from before were revealed to have landed in a volcanic area, seeping into and merging with the nearby rock.
At the Super GUTS headquarters, the team named the new giant of light Ultraman Dyna. Hibiki returned to his team and scolded Asuka for almost getting deputy captain Toshiyuki Kohda killed, warning him to not to become a burden. Later that night, Asuka was discouraged, but given advice by Ryo that they need to work as a team, comparing it to baseball, a sport Asuka never won a game of when he was in school for the same reason.
More Sphires were then discovered near an observation satelitte, so Hibiki, Nakajima and Kariya head there in a ship, but find they are too late and the satellite had been destroyed. It turns out this was a distraction to draw attention away from the Sphires on Earth which had transformed into the monster Giralen, who was heading for a geothermal energy base. Hibiki allowed both Ryo Yumimura and Asuka to return to Earth to engage Giralen, while the remaining team would take care of the Sphires. As Ryo and Asuka departed, so did a small group of Sphires. Asuka offered to fight them so Ryo could make it to Earth, but his jet is damaged in the battle, immobilizing him. Asuka then asked Dyna to lend him his power, embracing the responsibility of having the power to protect everyone and transforming into Ultraman Dyna for the second time.
Ryo reached Earth, but was unable to harm Giralen, even when the trainees of Training Squad ZERO violated protocol and entered the battle in their test fighters to aid her. Ultraman Dyna then arrived to defeat the monster. Dyna struggled against Giralen's hot body and flame attacks, so he turned into his Miracle Type to counter them. With its enhanced speed and psychic abilities, he managed to suspend the beast into the air. By reflecting a fire breath attack from the airborne Giralen, he destroyed the monster, which also caused the remaining Sphires to retreat.
Super GUTS returned to TPC's base and Hibiki ordered Ryo to pick up Asuka, who had been stranded on a beach after his fallen spacecraft landed in the ocean. There, Asuka reminisced about his missing father's words, realising he had now seen the same light his father once saw.
Cast
- Shin Asuka : Takeshi Tsuruno
- Gousuke Hibiki : Ryo Kinomoto
- Toshiyuki Kouda : Toshikazu Fukawa
- Ryo Yumimura : Risa Saito
- Kouhei Kariya : Takao Kase
- Tsutomu Nakajima : Joe Onodera
- Mai Midorikawa : Mariya Yamada
- Kouki Fukami : Toshiaki Amada
Appearances
Ultras
- Ultraman Dyna
- Flash Type
- Miracle Type
Kaiju
- Sphire
- Neo Darambia
- Giralen
Home Media
- Ultraman Dyna Volume 1 Features Episodes 1-4.
Trivia
- Just like in Ultraman Tiga, after the titular Ultra makes his impacting appearance, the series' attack team thinks of what to call their Giant of Light.
- Though operator Mai Midorikawa comes up with the name "Dyna", members Tsutomu Nakajima and Kouhei Kariya came up with their own names to call the hero; Ultraman Gian, possibly meaning Giant and Ultraman Super Deluxe.