Feature Report! 24 Hours Inside Xio

Feature Report! 24 Hours Inside Xio
Ultraman X, episode 16
Information
Airdate	November 10, 2015
Directed by	Kiyotaka Taguchi
Written by	Takao Nakano
Continuity
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Feature Report! 24 Hours Inside Xio is the sixteenth episode of Ultraman X.

Synopsis

A TV special with an up-close spotlight on Xio members' daily activities is going to air. See Daichi and his teammates on alert for suspicious alien activity in town as the TV crew shadows them! While the cameras are rolling, the team discovers a group of criminals planning to turn Earthlings into collection samples and gets ready to bust the operation!

Plot

In this episode, a television show takes a documentary of 24-Hour recording in Xio's daily routine. The team first interview regular members before moving on to the Lab Team and for Daichi to guide the filming crew to the Spark Doll's storages, which turned out to be miniatures of their favorite scenery. But in the middle of interviewing Sayuri, Xio received an alien report in area T9-6.

Xio teams dispatch and the filming crews as well get into the scene. According to a female student, she saw a black alien on her way to the classroom. Meanwhile Wataru and Hayato comes across a seemingly drunk bystander whose on a way to a bathhouse but was then revealed to be an alien. The Xio officers and filming crews chase it with Daichi (using X's guidance) stops the fugitive alien. Checking on Kemur's confiscated belongings, Lab Team member Dr. Guruman deduces that Kemur wanted to kidnap humans in hopes of creating a new human specimen. With almost every attempts to interrogate Kemur failed, Kamiki takes over the interrogation which ends up in success after six hours.

According to Kemur, the abandoned facility in Ikagawa has been used as a based of operation in a human trafficking syndicate. Xio members observe the building for two hours and finally, a woman in red runs out from the building as Asuna and Daichi spy her drinking tree sap with her stinger before retreating into the facility. Disguising as a client searching for a job, she manages to create an opening for other officers to bust into the facility, revealing the woman to be a Cicada Woman and tried to chase her. Arriving at the basement, a Dada tries to defend himself and the Cicada Woman and Daichi discovers the human specimens trapped in diminutive forms. After apprehending the outlaws, they safely bring the captives outside.

During interrogation, Dada reveals that the Earth will be doomed due to various signs of Dark Thunder Energy. Wanting female humans, he decides to capture them and create multiple clones before humanity in Earth would extinct from Dark Thunder Energy. Outside, while the Lab Teams faces the camera, a Dark Thunder Energy strikes, summoning a fish monster from the ground, Gubila. Xio members take action and the filming crews capture every moment of the scene. Daichi transforms into X and use Exceed X's power to purify Gubila before defeating it. X tries to respond to an interview but Daichi disallows it and forced to fly away from the scene. The show finally comes to an end.

The next day, Xio members comment on each others' performance in the show. Sayuri later gets a call from her daughters as they commended their mother for being in a television show.

Daichi's Monster Lab

• Daichi: Daichi's Monster Lab! This time, we're looking at this monster!
• X Devizer: Now analyzing Kemur.
• Daichi: The Kidnapping Beast, Kemur. One of Dada's criminal accomplices. He's quick on his feet, and hard to chase him down.
• X: And this time, we're showing you Ultraman Victory Knight's card. Shou, who transforms into Victory, taught Daichi how to fight with a sword. Thanks to him, we were able to master the Xlugger.
• Daichi: That training was really hard, though. Well...
• 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

• Director : Kenta Imanishi
• Female College Student : Rina Serizawa
• Cicada Woman : Una
• Kemur (Human Form) : Makoto Takahashi
• Human Specimen Victims :
  • Kaori Suzuhara
  • Sona Yokota
  • Kurumi Sakai
• Xio Alien Crime Response Division 4 Member : Kazunori Fujimaru
• Kaoru Tachibana : Sorami Watanabe
• Michiru Tachibana : Sora Taboku

Voice Actors

• Ultraman X : Yuichi Nakamura
• Alien Fanton Guruman : Yasunori Matsumoto
• Narrator: Holly Kaneko
• Xio equipments, X Devizer: Hibiku Yamamura
• Kemur : Koichi Toshima
• Dada : Daisuke Nagumo

Suit Actors

• Ultraman X : Hideyoshi Iwata
• Alien Fanton Guruman : Hiroyuki Fukushima
• Gubila : Hiroyuki Arai
• Yoshiki Kuwabara
• Action : Hitomi Yamaguchi

Appearances

Ultras

• Ultraman X
  • Normal
  • Ultraman Exceed X

Kaiju

• Gubila
• Dada
• Kemur
• Cicada Woman
• Cyber Neronga (Design Only)
• Cyber Zarab (Design Only)

Trivia

• Director Kiyotaka Taguchi had long wanted to create a tokusatsu-style, real-time documentary. He explored the idea in MM9 and pitched similar concepts for Ultra Zone and Operation: Mystery - Mystery File, although they were not realized. So when he saw the proposal for the idea, he seized the opportunity.
• Scriptwriter Takao Nakano revealed that another pitch for this episode: "Attack of the Giant High School Girl" by Hisako Kurosawa, was originally considered. Kurosawa later reworked it into episode 11 of Ultraman Orb.
• This episode reveals the existence of other Cyber Kaiju, Neronga and Zarab, though only as caricatures for target practice.
• Voice actor Holly Kaneko is credited as the narrator at the start of the documentary, possibly suggesting he exists within the story (and by extension, a character in X's world).
• Taguchi is the voice of the photographer taking photos of Dada.
• This episode was made available on the official Ultraman YouTube channel from August 16, 2020 until the end of the following month as part of an Ultraman Foundation campaign for children at home.
• As one of many selected to celebrate the Ultraman Series' 60th anniversary, this episode was made available on the Ultraman YouTube channel from October 24, 2025 for two weeks, following October's theme of "The Story of Promise."