A Soldier's Back

A Soldier's Back
Ultraman X, episode 15
Information
Airdate	November 3, 2015
Directed by	Kiyotaka Taguchi
Written by	Hisako Kurosawa
Continuity
Previous	The Light of Victory Which Exceeds All Limits
Next	Feature Report! 24 Hours Inside Xio

A Soldier's Back is the fifteenth episode of Ultraman X. This features the first episode of the third and final arc of this series.

Synopsis

With the confirmation of the ancient kaiju Gomess's activity, Xio went into alert mode, and at the same time, Captain Kamiki received news that his only daughter, Hiromi, was getting married.

Having been estranged from her due to complicated circumstances, Captain Kamiki was conflicted, unable to decide whether to attend the wedding. Knowing the situation, Daichi and the others tried their best to get Kamiki to attend the wedding...

Plot

In the early morning, a monster appeared and terrorizes the countryside. Xio members are put to investigate the matters. Captain Kamiki receives a letter from his daughter, Hiromi whom invites him to her wedding. He feels hesitated, thinking that his relationship with his daughter deteriorates but Dept. Captain Sayuri assures him. Based on Daichi's research, the monster was named Gomess and the team gets to learn of Kamiki's past from Sayuri.

Meeting his daughter, he learns that preparations for her marriage were all done by her fiancé's parents. Kamiki flashes back into the past years where both him and Hiromi visited his bedridden wife at a hospital. While Hiromi prepared to draw a picture for her mother, the hospital's power source deactivates and a telephone call orders Kamiki to get into the action. His wife insisted him to go but Hiromi had a hard time leaving her father.

Gomess appears at area S2-6 and Xio takes action by evacuating the citizens and X fights the monster but before he can deliver the finishing blow, it quickly escapes by burrowing underground. Gomess stops burrowing and takes a rest at S2-9. The next day, Xio members plead him to go to Hiromi's wedding while they taking charge of the mission. But before Kamiki would leave the base, he senses something off with the atmosphere and orders Xio to investigate, and at that time, the Dark Thunder Energy strikes Gomess, turning into a rampant and granted it new powers. X appears and fight Gomess while Asuna tries to bring Cyber Gomora but injured from Gomess' attack.

Kamiki receives another flashbacks in the past where his wife and daughter were nowhere to be seen in the ward, with what's left was his daughter's drawing, Kamiki leaves for the battle and Hiromi's marriage takes place. Cyber Gomora appears, whose controller revealed to be Captain Kamiki and assist X in defeating Gomess. At last with the Dark Thunder Energy expelled, X and Cyber Gomora finishes the monster.

Kamiki arrives late at the wedding ceremony but his daughter appears, having waited for him and the two re-enact the marriage scene.

Daichi's Kaiju Lab

• Daichi: Daichi's Monster Lab! Today, we will get to learn about him.
• X Devizer: Analyzing Gomess...
• Daichi: Gomess is an ancient monster with incredible strength. It was empowered by the Dark Thunder Energy, and gained the ability to fire a high powered laser beam.
• X: And today's card is Cyber Gomess. After Gomess became an even greater threat, we had to work together with the Cyber Gomora, realized by Captain Kamiki to defeat it.
• Daichi and X: See you next time~

Cast

• Daichi Oozora : Kensuke Takahashi
• Asuna Yamase : Akane Sakanoue
• Wataru Kazama : Yoshihiko Hosoda
• Hayato Kijima : Ukyo Matsumoto
• Mamoru Mikazuki : Hayato Harada
• Rui Takada : Haruka Momokawa
• Takeru Yamagishi : TAKERU
• Chiaki Matsudo : Chiaki Seshimo
• Sayuri Tachibana : Sarara Tsukifune
• Shotaro Kamiki : Yuu Kamio

Guest Actors

• Hiromi Kamiki : Kaoru Hirata
  • Hiromi Kamiki (10 years old): Maharu Nemoto
• Yuki Kamiki : Aki Morita
• Xio Regular Member : Keisuke Hebisawa
• Daisuke Ogata : Tomonobu Koshi
• Wedding Guest :
  • Yukinobu Tsuruta
  • Kensuke Takahashi

Voice Actors

• Ultraman X : Yuichi Nakamura
• Navigation Voice/Announcer : Hibiku Yamamura

Suit Actors

• Ultraman X : Hideyoshi Iwata
• Cyber Gomora : Satoru Okabe
• Gomess (S) : Hiroyuki Arai

Appearances

Ultras

• Ultraman X
  • Normal
  • Bemstar Armor
  • Ultraman Exceed X

Kaiju

• Cyber Gomora
• Gomess (S)

Trivia

• This episode's scriptwriter, Hisako Kurosawa, says that the episode was originally going to be written by the director, Kiyotaka Taguchi, who had already planned out the main plot. Taguchi asked Kurosawa for specific ideas, and she shared her thoughts via email. After these talks, Kurosawa decided to write the full script herself. This slightly affected Taguchi's confidence, but he was very busy as the main director. Kurosawa then used Taguchi's original idea to write the script.
  • The decision to feature Gomess (S) was made by Taguchi. Kurosawa suggested not only that Gomess travel across Japan, but also that it continue moving across the Earth. However, as the creature could not go underwater, it was decided that its path would stretch from Toyama to Shizuoka and Kanagawa.
• According to Taguchi, the harsh words spoken by Kamiki to his daughter reflect Kurosawa’s writing style. These were parts that Taguchi felt he could not write himself, so they were left unchanged. Many of Kamiki’s lines were cut, making him seem like an awkward middle-aged man. The script was developed through detailed discussions.
  • Due to the episode's extended runtime, the special effects team prioritised quality over quantity. Taguchi included scenes that he personally wanted to create, resulting in more densely packed visuals, such as Gomess moving through black smoke.
  • Kensuke Takahashi, who plays Daichi, made a guest appearance in this episode as a wedding guest.
• Gomess' appearance in this series is a tribute to Godzilla, who celebrated its birthday on November 3.
• Yasunori Matsumoto is absent in this episode, both as Gourman and the narrator.
• An actor allusion appears in this episode where X uses his shield as a boomerang appendage. This is a homage to Captain America from Marvel, as Steve Rogers/Captain America is voiced by Yuichi Nakamura (Ultraman X's voice actor) in the Japanese dub.