NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Arc ～Beyond the Boundless Imagination～ is a stage show that was held at Ultra Heroes EXPO 2025 New Year Festival. Its last performance on January 6 was livestreamed on U-NEXT, and included a talk show by the Ultraman Arc cast and performances by ARCANA PROJECT.[5]
The show was added to TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION as a rental on March 28, 2025,[6][7] before being made free for standard and premium users on July 1, 2025.[8]
Synopsis[]
Yuma Hize's childhood friend, Ryoto Itoguri, is an artist and mecha designer. After reuniting with Yuma, he becomes downtrodden that his work is underlooked and underappreciated. It is then he is visited by a certain alien with a proposition.
The show concludes with a finale where numerous Ultras fight against kaiju.
Plot[]
TBA
Appearances[]
SKIP[]
- Older Sister With Pigu-chan (theater rules)
- Hiroshi Ban (Stage Screen)
- Rin Natsume (Stage Screen)
- YouPi
- Shu Ishido
- Yuma Hize
- SKIP Special Member (MC)
Supporting Characters[]
- Ryoto Itoguri
- Teruaki Nagura (Stage Screen)
Ultras[]
- Ultraman Arc
- Normal
- Solis Armor
- Luna Armor
- Saturn Armor
- Rution
- Galaxy Armor
- Ultraman Blazar
Kaiju[]
- Pigu-chan (theater rules)
- Shagong (Inflatable)
- Red King
- Gomora
- Giestron
- Telesdon
- Gandar
- Metroshiroid and Metrokuroid
- Alien Magma
- King Joe
- Cyber Mecha Baltan
- Beam Missile King
- Deathfacer
- Sydevakter
- Mecha Gomora
- Alien Mefilas
- Red Sphere
- Mefilas Robot Soldiers
- King Galactron (Ryoto's Robot)
- Earth Garon
- Sevenger
- Terraphaser
Supporting Characters[]
- SKIP Special Member (MC)
- Yuma Hize
- Shu Ishido
- Ryoto Itoguri
- YouPi
Ultras[]
- Ultraman Arc
- Normal
- Rution
- Ultraman Trigger
- Ultraman Decker
- Ultraman Geed
- Ultraman Taiga
- Ultraman Blazar
- Ultraman Orb
- Ultraman Zero
- Ultraman Z
- Alpha Edge
- Original (New Generation Ultraman Cape)
- Ultraman Gaia
- Super Supreme Version
Kaiju[]
- Gomora
- Red King
- Mefilas Robot Soldiers
- Ultroid Zero
- Five King (Inflatable)
- Givas
- Earth Garon
Cast[]
- Yuma Hize : Yuki Totsuka
- Shu Ishido : Sho Kaneta
- Ryoto Itoguri : Masafumi Shinohara
- SKIP Special Members (MCs) :
- Yumi Isseki
- Yuihi Shimizu
- Yui Yamagishi
- Older Sister With Pigu-chan :
- Anna Tanaka
- Kaho Ando
- Juria Mori
Stage Screen[]
Voice Actors[]
- Ultraman Arc : Yuki Totsuka
- Ultraman Zero : Mamoru Miyano
- Ultraman Z : Tasuku Hatanaka
- YouPi : Yuya Hirose
- Alien Mefilas : Koichi Toshima
- Narration : Masato Hagiwara
- Social Media Voice A : Karin Takatsuki [9][10]
Suit Actors[]
- Hironari Ohkubo
- Kota Kamiya
- Keita Rikimaru
- Toshiaki Sakaguchi
- Wataru Inaniwa
- Kazuma Murayama
- Takeru Uchiumi
- Gamba Koga
- Tatsuma Saito
- Keisuke Kumamoto
- Kouki Yoshida
- Hirotaka Yazaki
- Yuji Azahata
- Momoka Yasukawa
- Shota Yakura
- Mitsuki Honda
- Kazuki Nakamura
- Tomoki Ikezawa
- Kaito Watanabe
- Iki Nakamura
- Hironari Kuwata
- Daiki Suzuki
- Fumihiko Nemoto
Home Media[]
A set containing both a Blu-ray and DVD of the stage show, along with the talk show, was released on July 25, 2025, after being available early from April 18, 2025 at Tsuburaya Store ONLINE and the Saitama performances of NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Arc ～The Ultimate Hero～ on June 21, 2025.[2]
Gallery[]
Images[]
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Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This stage show takes place sometime after episode 21 "The Dream Bird", mentioning events from it. It was first performed after the airing of episode 23.
- This stage show features the debut of the Mefilas Robot Soldiers and a repainted King Galactron suit, in which the white parts from Galactron have been made gold to match King Joe's body color and the red parts that resembled Belial made silver. A unique name for the latter is not stated during the show or its credits.
- "Zero no Kakusei", the opening theme of Ultraman New Generation Stars season 3, is used during the finale, ahead of the series' airing.
- This show features the flatly-colored Rution suit and Arc's Saturn Armor, both of which debuted in NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Arc ～To All Living Things～.
- YouPi mentions MaikoPi and TsuPi.
- The anime that Ryoto was an enemy robot designer for is called Butoshi Gyugyunzer . The name is reused from Takekoutou Gyugyunzer, a spin-off novel of reading play Multiracial World, which were both written by this stage show's writer, Junichiro Ashiki.[12]
- The second MC introduces herself as a member of the SKIP Tokyo Dome City Branch.
- Teruaki Nagura returning in this show as Earth Garon's pilot is reminscent of Yoko Nakashima reappearing as Sevenger's pilot in the previous New Year Festival show, NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Blazar ～The Other Hero～.
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ https://ultra-expo.com/prism2025/stage/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7428
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 NEW GENERATION THE LIVE: Ultraman Arc ～Beyond the Boundless Imagination～ credits
- ↑ https://x.com/ashiki_u40/status/1876148380218659005
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-6977
- ↑ https://x.com/m78_imagination/status/1905183084921995453
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-7412
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-7461
- ↑ https://x.com/Taaak_k/bio
- ↑ Karin Takatsuki's X profile on March 10, 2025 which mentioned Ultra Heroes EXPO 2025 New Year Festival
- ↑ https://x.com/m78expo/status/1876205546216550504
- ↑ https://x.com/ashiki_u40/status/1788765836880335325
- ↑ https://x.com/ashiki_u40/status/1876213690208497884
- ↑ https://x.com/ashiki_u40/status/1876560645761695873
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