Garan

Garan
Data
Category	Terrible-Monster
Height	85 m
Weight	60,000 t
Home World	Yapool's Alternate Dimension
Affiliation	Yapool (Master) Mushitaro Kuri (Shared life) Belyudra (Combination)
First Appearance	Ultraman Ace episode 4 "A 300-Million-Year-Old Terrible-Monster Appears!"
Latest Appearance	None
Roar(s)

Garan is a Terrible-Monster that first appeared in episode 4 of Ultraman Ace. It was transformed from an ancient fish from Devonian period of the Paleozoic era by Yapool's Terrible-Monster Creating Machine.

Subtitle: Mysterious Fish Terrible-Monster

History

Ultraman Ace

Garan was once an individual of a species of fish which lived during the Devonian period.

Seiji Hokuto, Yuko Minami and Ichiro Yamanaka went to pick up the fish. Noriko Mikawa has a reunion with a high school friend of hers. The high school cartoonist Kuri, drew a comic showing the truck that carried Garan, fly off. This occured and Mikawa felt that Kuri was skechy and tried to leave but was soon ambushed, gassed, and was locked in the attic. At this point, Yapool had the artist release Garan, now a Terrible-Monster, who fought TAC and won. He was called back by the artist, though. 

Mikawa was trying to contact TAC, but the artist told her it was useless as the house lacked radio communication and about how he gave his soul to the devil (refering to Yapool). He tells her he would release her if she married him, but she was rescued by TAC. 

However, with this the artist soon summoned Garan with the command to attack TAC and find and capture Mikawa. She takes one of the planes to fight it, while the others attack from the ground at an oil refinery, but Hokuto's jet is soon hit, so he ejects and he and Minami transform into Ultraman Ace.

They two fought but it seemed to have the upper hand as the artist kept drawing fight scenes, but soon Ace found out their life forces are connected, and with it, he learned the secret to defeating Garan, and opted to use some of his strongest techniques. First, he blew off one of Garan's arms using his Timer Shot, causing the artist to lose control of his arm and writhe about in agony. Ace then set Garan on fire using the Punch Laser, which set Kuri on fire too. As the artist's work burnt up, Ace delivered the final blow with his Metalium Beam, blowing Garan to pieces and causing the house to simultaneously explode, killing both Kuri and Garan instantly.

Trivia

• In a unique case, Garan was not primarily designed by Kaiju designer of Ace, Akihiko Iguchi. Rather, Garan is the end result of an original drawing produced by a 21 year old dentist from Osaka Prefecture, who submitted his concept for Garan to Tsuburaya Productions. After receiving the original illustration, Iguchi decided to incorporate it into the series. During the design process, Iguchi made some minor modifications to it, thus creating the final design used in the episode.
• Garan's roars are modified Kemular's roars.

• Garan is one of the monsters that makes up Belyudra's body in Mega Monster Battle Ultra Galaxy: The Movie.
• Garan is one of the few Terrible-Monster not able to breathe fire.

Data

Stats

• Height: 85 m
• Weight: 60,000 t
• Origin: Yapool's Alternate Dimension → Tokyo
• Weakness: Garan's life force is connected to that of an artist, should either the artist or Garan receive any sort of pain, it will carry over to the other as well.

Powers and Weapons

• Interdimensional Travel: Being from another dimension, Garan is able to cross dimensions at will. When in Earth’s, he shatters the sky like glass when appearing.
• Explosive Flashes: Garan can emit flashes from the tip of his nasal horn that cause explosions, it can vary from small to large in size.
• Capture-Air Gas: Depending on his artist's command, Garan can spray a white mist from his mouth that can gassify his target and allow him to eat them. The attack, however, does not work on living things.

Interdimensional Travel

Explosive Flashes

Capture-Air Gas

Gallery

Ultraman Ace

Head detail

Garan vs Ace

Fish form

Miscellaneous

Concept art

Figure of Garan, created by Popy.

Garan eraser