Harmonigan

Harmonigan
Data
Category	Kaiju
Height	48 m
Weight	10,000 t
Home World	Planet Earth (Fireman universe)
Affiliation	None
First Appearance	Fireman episode 24 "The Harmonica Crying in the Night"
Latest Appearance	None

Harmonigan is a Kaiju that appeared in episode 24 of Fireman.

Subtitle: Sound Spirit Monster

History

Fireman

The vengeful spirit of a harmonica thrown away at a dump site has transformed an ordinary musical instrument into this towering monster. At first, Misaki thought that it was just another 'building-like kaiju' that suddenly appeared. He transformed into a Fireman to stop its rampage. The strange enemy showed surprising abilities to absorb Fireman's attacks, including the powerful Fire Dash, and used his power against him, allowing Harmonigan to defeat Fireman easily.

After the first fight, Misaki learnt that Harmonigan was, in fact, the broken harmonica that had been thrown away, which had turned into a kaiju due to negative emotion. SAF speculated that it might appear at night because it is weak against strong light. The following night, Harmonigan appeared again. SAF used a flare that emits light as strong as sunlight to weaken it. However, this proved useless against such a supernatural being as Harmonigan.

Misaki then transformed into Fireman again to fight off the monster. This time, however, Harmonigan seems to become more powerful. So powerful that it can manifest the entire band of giant instruments and use their deafening noise to suppress Fireman completely. On the brink of defeat, Fireman remembered the word from a young boy who owned that harmonica that, if it were played, the saddened harmonica would feel better. Fireman then rises again and, instead of trying to attack the monster, carefully plays each instrument. Calming its anger and sadness one by one until the giant harmonica is the only one left. Fireman then lifted Harmonigan and played it as it should be. Slowly, the giant harmonica shrank down and turned back into a normal harmonica once again.

Trivia

• The idea of everyday objects having spirit and feelings of their own seems to come from Japanese beliefs in tsukumogami, which are objects that possess a spirit of their own due to a strong emotional attachment from a person towards such objects.
• When Harmonigan unleashed its full power, the effects in the background were the same optical effects seen in Ultraman Ace's opening credits.

Data

Stats

• Height: 48 m
• Weight: 10,000 t
• Origin: Yumenoshima

Powers and Weapons

• Energy Absorption: Harmonigan can capture an opponent’s projectile energy attacks and send them back at them, shooting the energy from its mouthpiece.
• Wind: Harmonigan can emit powerful gusts of wind from its body.
• Flames: Harmonigan can blow powerful jets of fire from its mouthpiece after absorbing power from Fireman.
• Musical Overload: With a flash of light and a sequence of musical notes, Harmonigan can summon giant-sized versions of modern instruments - including harps, violins, cymbals, guitars, saxophones, percussion instruments and three other harmonicas - to bombard its opponents with extremely loud noises. The instruments will disappear in sequence if any of them are played, as Fireman was able to make them vanish by playing the harp Harmonigan summoned along with the other instruments.

Energy Absorption

Flames

Musical Overload

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