"I gotta do it now!"
- ―Kanata's catchphrase
Kanata Asumi is the main protagonist of Ultraman Decker. He merged with the light of Ultraman Decker and joined the expert team GUTS-Select to fight against the Spheres that are threatening the Earth.[1][2]
Conception
Etymology
Kanata's entire name literally means the quote "I look towards tomorrow! Into the beyond!" .
Personality
Working at his grandfather’s rice cracker store, he is close to their neighbors and regular customers, and he leads a peaceful life.
He is cheerful and a little goofy, but he is a kind-hearted young man who cares for others. He never ignores someone in need, and sometimes goes overboard throwing heart and soul into whatever task is before him.
After the Sphere attack, his peaceful life is taken away and he is gifted Decker’s “light” when he stands before an enemy, ignoring all danger.
Although uncertain what it means to become an Ultraman, he takes to it optimistically and tries to use his new-found power for others. To this end, he joins the newly-reformed expert team GUTS-Select, and with his fellow young team members they stand up against the threat of the Sphere.[1][2]
History
Ultraman Decker
Kanata gets the Ultra D Flasher
Kanata and his family own a rice cracker shop, Asumi-ya . Some time ago, his parents won a raffle that set them on a trip to Mars, leaving Kanata to help his grandfather at the shop.
One day, Kanata was at work when he went to the spaceport in Sorafune City to make a delivery, while dropping off a customer there as well. He offered some of his rice cakes to Ichika Kirino before being interrupted by Soma Ryumon, just when the Spheres descended. Kanata, Ichika and Ryumon helped to rescue a person trapped under the rubble before Kanata rushed off to fight the Spheres using a machine gun, but he was consumed by one of them.
Within the Sphere, Kanata's strong will reached the light of Ultraman Decker, who saved him from death and gave him his power, granting Kanata the Ultra D Flasher and Ultra Dimension Card to transform and fight against Spheresaurus, defeating the monster in battle. Decker then went to space to fight the other Spheres, but was knocked back down to Earth. Kanata was relatively unharmed but the Ultra D Flasher disappeared. Taiji Murahoshi noticed Kanata's will to protect others and offered him to join the TPU as one of its members while they reorganized their recruits into an Anti-Sphere team. Kanata decided to join them after his grandfather advised him to do what he felt was right. Day of the Attack
After a year of training in the TPU, the organization was looking to reform GUTS-Select, and were looking for potential candidates from among the new recruits. Kanata was put with Ichika and Ryumon on their final patrol exercise, during which Kanata got his leg hurt, forcing Ryumon to call off the journey. This put him at odds with Kanata, who wanted to keep going, but Ichika broke them up before an argument could happen. When Deathdrago appeared, the TPU students were ordered to return, but the three of them stayed behind to help people instead. The Ultra D Flasher returned to Kanata, who transformed into Decker again and defeated Deathdrago with the help of Miclas. Kanata, Ichika and Ryumon went to help the people affected by Deathdrago's rampage, ignoring their orders to return until Murahoshi appeared and reprimanded them, while also confirming their placement in GUTS-Select. Kanata's Resolve
Kanata and Kengo
One day, a strange presence was detected underneath Furube City. GUTS-Select was dispatched to investigate before they were attacked by numerous tentacles, forcing Kanata to transform into Decker. He had a difficult time fending them off until Ultraman Trigger arrived from Mars, and the two of them managed to drive the tentacles away back into the underground. Kengo Manaka then introduced himself to Kanata and GUTS-Select, updating them on the situation on Mars.
Soon after, Sphere-Megalothor revealed itself, appearing in a tornado of darkness like it did the last time. Trigger and Decker fought against her, with the former brandishing the Ultra Dual Sword for the first time. However, after managing to wound Sphere-Megalothor, Kengo was able to see Carmeara inside it. Hesitating to strike them down, Megalothor took the opportunity to escape. The Light of Hope from the Red Planet In the aftermath of the battle, Kanata questioned Kengo on why he refused to attack, to which Kengo replied that he wanted to fight so that others, including Carmeara, could smile. This made Kanata realize that he did not really have a goal in mind for being Ultraman, and fought just because he had the power to do so.
Later on, Gijeran emerged and put many people under the influence of its hallucinogenic pollen, affecting Kanata as well. While hallucinating, he had a dream where his fellow GUTS-Select members went to his rice cracker shop to order large quantities of product, but woke himself up after realizing that something was wrong and this is not what he should be doing at the moment. Gijeran grew to giant size by the night, and was destroyed by GUTS-Select using a specialized herbicide provided to them by Yuna Shizuma from her father's research on Gijeran. GUTS-Select was about to get rid of the remains by blasting it away with the Neo Maxima Nurse Cannon, but Megalothor emerged again, which prompted Kengo and Kanata to transform.
"What lies beyond this war...What I'm supposed to do...To be honest, I still don't know anything. But right now, this is what I want to do! My real fight starts from here!"
- ―Kanata starts to find his reason for fighting.
Seeing Kengo's resolve to rescue Carmeara from within Megalothor, Kanata decided to help him and find his own reason for fighting as well. With additional help from Yuzare, the three of them manage to pull Carmeara out of Megalothor. The three giants then fought against Megalothor together and destroyed the monster. After the battle was over, Kengo decided to hand the Ultra Dual Sword and the Ultra Dimension Cards to Kanata, entrusting them to him to use them to defend the Earth as Yuzare wanted. He bid farewell to Kanata and then Yuna, before he left the Earth with Carmeara. Light and Darkness, Again
Agams, under the guise of Yuichiro Asakage, worked for the TPU in weapons development and had eventually created the Terraphaser, a powerful robot that successfully fended off monsters alongside Decker. When Agams learned of Kanata's identity as Decker, he decided to drop his disguise and go after him to eliminate the light of Decker, which was his true objective for building Terraphaser. Hijacking the robot from HANE2 during Spheresaurus' second attack, Agams showed his true colors and defeated Kanata. At the same time, Decker Asumi from the future had been sent to the present using a partially restored space-time distortion system, taking back the Ultra D Flasher once more to battle Agams, and the two of them blasted each other away. Birth of a Dark God
Kanata gains the power of Dynamic Type with the help of Decker
Kanata and Decker had a talk in the forest where the former revealed the circumstances of Ultraman Decker, Agams and the Spheres, before Agams appeared and interrupted them. Decker attempted to transform, but the instability in his time travel had left him weakened, leaving the two of them with no choice but to run and escape from Agams and his Terraphaser. Troubled by both Agams and Decker's willingness to throw down their lives for their respective causes, Kanata took back the Ultra D Flasher and transformed into Ultraman Decker once more with the resolve to protect the Earth. He was still no match for Terraphaser, but Kanata's determination to never give up, and the additional support from Decker created a new light that became Ultraman Decker Dynamic Type, and using the Decker Shield Calibur, Kanata was able to win against Agams. Before Decker went back to the future where his friends were, he told Kanata his full name and revealed to him that Decker was his descendant. Decker made once last request for Kanata to save Agams as he left back to the future. A Promise for Tomorrow
Kanata reunited with his parents through communication
The recent revelations had begun to distract Kanata, who had also reported his findings to GUTS-Select. Mulling over the recent events had made Kanata lose focus on his missions until his teammates reminded him that they were a team and could count on each other. Stay As You Are Kanata confronted Agams again when Yapool invaded with his Aribunta, being dragged into Agams' pocket dimension where Kanata expressed his desire to save Agams, only to get refuted. Kanata then attempted to protect Agams from Aribunta's explosion after fighting against it and Terraphaser, but found out that it was a trick by Yapool, who took on Agams' form and used that opportunity to send Ultraman Decker into space. Invitation from Another Dimension Kanata was about to get assimilated by the Spheres but was rescued by the arrival of Ultraman Trigger. Kengo and Kanata then went to an abandoned TPU base on the Moon that had been taken over by Spheres, where Kengo gave Kanata a video player containing a message from his parents on Mars, who told him to do what he felt was right whenever he felt lost, restoring Kanata's resolve. After defeating a Sphere-possessed Galactron MK2, Kengo gave Kanata the Sphere Mons Dimension Card so that he could return to the Earth. Warriors on the Moon
Kanata continued his battles against Agams and other threats to the Earth, receiving assistance from Ultraman Dyna who came from the future via one of Sphere-Geomos' space-time portals, during which he learned that humans were the ones who brought the Spheres to Planet Bazdo in the first place, and that Agams was not above using the Spheres themselves as a source of power, as their energy was detected within the Terraphaser he piloted. The Price of Prosperity When Agams' options were starting to run out, he became desperate enough to fuse the Spheres into Terraphaser so that he could finish off Decker once and for all. Kanata fought him in a fierce battle despite his determination to save him from himself, with his attempts to reason with Agams failing. They blew each other away and Agams was left without his memories after the battle, having been consumed by the Spheres. Falling to the ground, Kanata's identity as Ultraman Decker was discovered by Soma Ryumon who saw him revert to human form. The Fall of Bazdo
Agams was brought into custody by GUTS-Select but refused to speak to them when interrogated, until Kanata decided to talk to him which got Agams to open up about his situation. When the Spheres attacked again, Agams managed to escape in the chaos after regaining his memories from seeing the Spheres, and Kanata followed him out, still trying to convince him to stop his revenge, but it was another futile attempt as Agams instead got the Spheres to form Sphere Obelisks to hastedn the shrinking of the Sphere Barrier. After fighting Sphere-Gomora, Sphere-Red King and Sphere-Neomegas, recreated by the Spheres, Kanata was blasted away by Terraphaser, with Agams now having lost most of his memories, driven by a single-minded desire for revenge. The Sky of Despair
Severely hurt after fighting Agams, Kanata was brought back to the Nursedessei by Ryumon before discovering that he had been infected by the Spheres, but decided to keep it a secret. He and the other members of GUTS-Select, along with several TPU troops, were deployed to destroy the Sphere Obelisks, tasked with planting bombs at the base of one of the smaller ones to bring it down so that the Nursedessei can destroy the main receiver using the Nurse Cannon. The operation was a success despite Kanata's infection getting to him, but the Obelisk repaired itself and Agams was firing at them. With no choice but to fight, Kanata transformed into Ultraman Decker, and reminded Agams throughout the battle that this was not what Laelia would have wanted, snapping Agams back to reality when he started to remember her, dropping his desire for revenge and helping Decker destroy the Sphere Obelisk, dissipating the Sphere Barrier that was covering the Earth.
Immediately afterwards, the Mother Spheresaurus descended, having defeated Ultraman Trigger who crash landed on the Earth. The monster defeated both Ultras and severely damaged the Terraphaser, killing Agams inside it before proceeding to drain the energy of the Eternity Core from beyond space-time, managing to recreate the Sphere Barrier once again while causing Kanata's Sphere infection to worsen and hurt him while the Ultra D Flasher shattered into pieces. End of a Dream
After regrouping within the downed Nursedessei, GUTS-Select and Kengo had to come up with a plan - Operation T/D/G[3] - to defeat Mother Spheresaurus, finding out about its weak point, the core on its chest, from data left behind in the Phase Riser. Challenging Mother Spheresaurus again, Kengo transformed into Glitter Trigger Eternity to forcefully drain the Eternity Core energy that Mother Spheresaurus had absorbed, transferring that power to Kanata so that he could transform into Ultraman Decker, who then fought the Mother Spheresaurus with the remaining arsenal of GUTS-Select.
Mother Spheresaurus then unleashed a horde of Spheres to absorb everything within the vicinity, stating its intentions to become one with all life to remove all sadness and conflict, but Kanata and the others rejected its will, stating that they will take their own futures for themselves. Using all of his energy, Decker fired his Selgend Beam through Mother Spheresaurus' core, destroying the monster once and for all.
With the Mother Sphere defeated, the remaining Spheres and the Sphere Barrier finally disappeared as well, reconnecting communications between Earth and space as the people from Mars started to return. Kanata saw the spirits of both Agams and Laelia one last time, before they passed on to the afterlife. Now that Ultraman Decker had fulfilled his purpose, the Ultra D Flasher and Ultra Dimension Cards disappeared into light, leaving Kanata a normal human again. He had a conversation with Kengo about what he fights for, but still could not come up with a definitive answer but nevertheless, he will keep living as he is. They and the other members of GUTS-Select watch the ships from Mars return to Earth. The Light Far Beyond
Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
Six months after the Spheres were defeated, Kanata, Ryumon and Ichika became instructors at the TPU training facility. While Ryumon was made the new captain of GUTS-Select and Ichika was about to go on a journey through space to follow her dreams, Kanata was still lost about his own future. While going out to celebrate Ryumon's promotion, Dinas appeared form a portal and landed on Kanata, sensing something strange from him, not yet aware that he used to be Ultraman Decker.
GUTS-Select was deployed to investigate when Gibellus used his invasion device to render people in the city unconscious. When the team encountered a squad of alien villains, they struggled until Dinas came to help, using her Mons Dimension Cards to drive them off before Alien Pedan summoned King Joe, which forced Dinas to transform into Ultraman Dinas to fight it while GUTS-Select destroyed the device making people fall unconscious. They then regrouped on the Nursedessei where Dinas explained the situation to the team, telling them of Gibellus' motives. Kanata, Ichika and Ryumon were then sent out to investigate, during the course of which Dinas discovered Kanata's former ability to transform into Decker. Gibellus then unleashed another one of his invasion devices, this time a much larger one that affected the whole of Japan as he took the life essence of humans, intending to combine them with monsters to make his personal army.
Dinas gave each of the GUTS-Select members a copy of her Gagi card to protect them from the effects of Gibellus' device before they were sent out to deal with an Alien Icarus, who lured them into an area to trap them within a subspace field controlled by two of Gibellus' devices, and grew giant. Without the ability to transform, Kanata was set on the run from Icarus until the GUTS Gryphon could pick him up, allowing him to destroy one of the subspace control devices, thus setting them free from the dimensional anomaly. Meanwhile, Gibellus and his forces infiltrated and seized the TPU headquarters, leaving them without backup. Gibellus then transformed into Gigalogaiser and defeated Dinas, badly injuring her and forcing the group to take refuge in a cabin. Frustrated, Kanata pressured Ryumon into taking the lead as GUTS-Select's new captain, before realizing the error of his actions and apologizing.
The group then made an attempt to take back the TPU headquarters with Kanata, Ichika and Ryumon fending off the aliens while Dinas sneaked in. They were helped by Kaizaki, Murahoshi, Nigel and Grace, who then assisted them in turning the situation in their favour after Kanata and Dinas were captured. Kanata then used the Terraphaser in the battle against Gigalogaiser while Ichika and Ryumon piloted the GUTS Falcon and GUTS Hawk with Murahoshi and Kaizaki in the Nursedessei, but they were eventually overwhelmed when the monster combined with Gibellus' ship, Zorgaus, to form Zor-Gigalogaiser. Kanata took the brunt of a powerful beam meant for Dinas, and died inside the Terrapahser. However, Dinas and his fellow teammates' strong desire for him to live caused the Dinas Ultra Dimension Card to combine with the other Dimension Cards that the others had, reforming the Ultraman Decker Ultra Dimension card, whose light somehow brought Kanata to life. He then transformed into Ultraman Decker to fight Zor-Gigalogaiser, forcing Gibellus to retreat after the Zorgaus was successfully destroyed by the Nursedessei and GUTS Gryphon. Still baffled at Kanata's strength and determination, Gibellus tried to attack Decker once again but was overwhelmed by his Selgend Beam, destroying him and ending his treat forever.
Later on, Kanata became the captain of his own squad in charge of exploring space, going on a journey towards the ninth planet of the D97 nebula with Ichika, Dinas, HANE2. Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
Transformation
"Shine Bright! Flash! Decker!"
- ―Transformation phrase for Ultraman Decker Flash Type
"Burst Forth! Strong! Decker!"
- ―Transformation phrase for Ultraman Decker Strong Type
"Leap Out! Miracle! Decker!"
- ―Transformation phrase for Ultraman Decker Miracle Type
"Gush Beyond! Dynamic! Decker!"
- ―Transformation phrase for Ultraman Decker Dynamic Type
Kanata places an Ultra Dimension Card into the Ultra D Flasher's midsection slot and pulls on the trigger, flipping the centerpiece upwards as he holds the device in front of him.
Powers and Weapons
- Ultra D Flasher: Kanata's Transformation Item.
- Ultra Dimension Cards: Devices used in conjunction with the Ultra D Flasher to transform into Ultraman Decker.
- Mons Dimension Cards: Devices used in conjunction with the Ultra D Flasher to summon monsters.
- Ultra Dimension Card Holder : A storage for his Ultra Dimension Cards.[4]
Weaknesses
- Internal Conflict: If Kanata is conflicted about a battle, he can't transform into Decker.
- Sphere Infection: The Spheres infecting Kanata have been shown to cause him extreme pain, weakening him both as a human and as Decker.
Collectibles in Possession
Ultra Dimension Cards
- Ultraman Decker
- Flash Type
- Strong Type
- Miracle Type
- Dynamic Type
- Ultraman Trigger
- Multi Type
- Power Type
- Sky Type
- Ultraman Dyna
- Flash Type
- Ultraman Tiga
- Multi Type
Mons Dimension Cards
Merchandise
Figuarts Mini
- Kanata Asumi (2023)
- Release Date: January 31, 2023
- Price: 2,227 yen
- JAN/ISBN: 4573102641540
- Materials PVC, ABS
- Accessories: Alternate right arm , alternate left arm (with Ultra D Flasher)
- Figuarts Mini Kanata Asumi is a animified chibi figure, featuring minimal points of articulation on the neck, the shoulders and hips. He also comes with swappable shoulder parts to recreate his transformation into Decker.
- Ultraman Decker Deformed Pattern Acrylic Charm (2022)
- Release Date(s): October 2022 (Premium Bandai)
- Price: 550 yen for each piece
- Materials: Acrylic, metal (chain)
- Released as part of the Decker-themed Deformed Pattern Acrylic Charm series, Kanata (which is drawn in an Anime-fied style) is one the items to be produced as hanging acrylic keychain.
- Kanata (and the rest of the characters) is available as a made-for-order item (where the customers can choose one during purchase) for Premium Bandai in October 2022.
Gallery
Ultraman Decker
Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey to Beyond
Ultraman New Generation Stars
Miscellaneous
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Trivia
- Episode 4 reveals that Kanata is a fan of mecha genre, and is excited at the idea of GUTS Falcon combining into GUTS Gryphon. The non-canon stage show Decker into Space has him name a robot "Mountain Gulliver II-V" after a robot anime he watched as a kid.
- The stage show NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Decker STAGE 4 reveals that Kanata was one of the kids whose light aided Trigger in his fight against Megalothor. At the time, he was wearing a red checked shirt like in the first episode.
References