Betwixt Morn and Dusk

Betwixt Morn and Dusk
Ultraman Blazar, episode 15
Information
Airdate	October 21, 2023
Directed by	Kiyotaka Taguchi
Written by	Takao Nakano
Continuity
Previous	Moonlit Memories
Next	Terror from the Underground

Betwixt Morn and Dusk is the fifteenth episode of Ultraman Blazar.

Synopsis

Reported by Choryu News

Gento's son, Jun is classmates with an unusual character, Arata. One day, Arata half-forcefully brings Jun to his secret base filled with his drawings of kaiju. Jun is moved by Arata's passion behind the drawings and his free-spirited soul. Jun draws a kaiju of his own and named it Gavadon.

When night falls, a mysterious ray of light transcends down to the secret base and the drawing of Gavadon begins to beat like a heart.

Cast

• Gento Hiruma : Tomoya Warabino
• Emi Aobe : Himena Tsukimiya
• Yasunobu Bando : Hayate Kajihara
• Anri Minami : Konomi Naito
• Teruaki Nagura : Yuki Ito

Guest Actors

• Satoko Hiruma : Maya Okano
• Jun Hiruma : Haru Iwakawa
• Hige : Taro Suwa
• Arata : Ruka Damasceno Takei
• Tsumugi : Nozomi Iwagami
• Ren : Haruto Sato
• Haruto : Hiroto Okuide
• Neighbor's Child : Taisho Yamada
• TKB Announcer : Haruka Saito
• Hige's Friends :
  • Takahiro Inoue
  • Jun Yoshida
  • Keisuke Arai
• Neighborhood Children :
  • Kazuhiko Yamane
  • Rena Tanaka
  • Fumito Nagai
  • Sosuke Nakanami
• Passing Ladies :
  • Mariko Aoyama
  • Anri Nakano
• Takashi Uchino : Sojiro Uchino

English Dub

• Gento Hiruma: Johnny Yong Bosch
• Emi Aobe: Madeline Dorroh
• Yasunobu Bando: Ricco Fajardo
• Anri Minami: Madeleine Morris
• Teruaki Nagura: Nicholas Andrew Louie
• Satoko Hiruma: Katelynn Barr
• Jun Hiruma: TBA
• Hige: Kyle Phillips

Suit Actors

• Ultraman Blazar : Hideyoshi Iwata
• Gavadon : Hiroyuki Arai

Appearances

Ultras

• Ultraman Blazar

Kaiju

• Gavadon

Trivia

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• This episode is a tribute to "Terrifying Cosmic Rays", the fifteenth episode of the original Ultraman, in which Gavadon first debuted.
  • Both episodes share the same episode number (15).
  • Sojiro Uchino, who as a child actor played Takashi-kun, one of the children who created Gavadon in the original episode, makes a cameo appearance in this episode as Takashi Uchino, a man interviewed by the TKB news reporter on the tsuchinoko incident.
  • One of the drawings in Arata's secret base is that of Ludwig van Beethoven. This is a reference to the classroom art exhibition scene in the beginning of the original episode where Beethoven's portrait is mistakenly put up with all the other kaiju drawings.
• Scriptwriter Takao Nakano commented that the final scene with Arata and Tsumugi bidding farewell to Jun and "disappearing" into the twilight was purposefully written such that not only Gavadon, but also the very existence of the siblings themselves, could almost be seen as a fantasy.
• Director Kiyotaka Taguchi originally wanted the story to focus on a boy whose best friend met an untimely demise in a traffic accident and had left behind a drawing of Gavadon as a keepsake. The boy would then struggle with erasing the drawing to stop the kaiju but at the expense of losing the only remaining memento of his best friend, but Taguchi thought that this was too dark.
• In the English dub, one of the children is played by voice actress Kara Edwards's son.