A man who wishes to returns to the stars has a run-in with an alien hitman.
Plot[]
The Man Who Wants to Return to the Stars searching the shining stars. Suddenly, an UFO-like flying alien saucer appeared before Alien Gapiya Abel lands on Earth. The man hugged Abel, thinking that he would be able to bring him back to the "world of stars", and nearly suffocates him. After Kana left, Homare tells Pirika that Tri-Squad appear every time too. "Ultraman Taiga is super cool!" she shouted, Hiroyuki had built up quite a network too. The man and Abel sit down and talk, but he wants to kill the man instead, but is saved by Kana who manages to shock Abel with a taser. After they leave, his numb legs can't walk but tripped.
After interacting with Kana, he began to change his feelings about returning to the stars and eventually, Hiroyuki gives a red towel to Kana, later the man. The next day, Abel meets up with Kirisaki and introduces himself. He suspects that Kirisaki has a true form and is surprised to see that he is actually Tregear. After shaking hands, Abel sets off to kill the people who saw him.
In the flashback, a Cicada Girl saved by the man before they leave. Kana wakes up from her dream, she saw a man, leaving last time, but Hiroyuki wakes up while she'll look around and he'll contact Pirika. At the riverside, she tells the women that she doesn't think the man's such a bad person before Kana left. She sits on the grass beside the man, then, Abel runs into the man and Kana once more and tries to assault them, but Homare and Hiroyuki searches her before they run.
As Abel shoots lasers to the man and Kana, she holds him off until Homare arrives and deals with him. Abel transforms into a giant, and in response Hiroyuki transforms into Taiga. They shoot at each other until Taiga was hit by a building thrown at him by Abel, who then successfully shot him. Taiga then used the Segmeger Ring, performing Seger Flame, before switching with Titas.
Abel, who attempted to use his Harpoon Railgun to shoot Titas, was surprised to find that the railgun's shots simply bounced off Titas' muscular body harmlessly. Annoyed, Abel calls him a "macho monkey" and insults his star motif, which angers Titas who punches him away in a fist clash. Preparing to shoot Kana and the man, Titas switched with Fuma, who got called a "skinny monkey" and faked Abel out with an afterimage and sliced him using his own sword. He then finished off Abel using Victory-let with Trenchant-Star Light Wave Shuriken, slicing the alien in half. In his final moments, Abel realizes that he died the same way as his brother did. After Abel was defeated, the man told Alien Perolynga who arrived to rescue him that he will "try to live a little more on this planet" before watching the saucer fly off. He had promised to have Soba with Kana, which presumably happened off screen. The next day again, the man sees a train before riding a bicycle off.
Director Kiyotaka Taguchi revealed that the concept had been in development for two years. He imagined a character named Fukushin waiting absentmindedly by the Tama River for a flying saucer. Initially, Taguchi thought this idea could only work as a bonus feature, but during discussions for episode 6, he proposed it and the episode was made.[5]
The team originally wanted to bring back Kimihiro Reizei, who played Saburo Fukushin in the original. Sadly, Reizei passed away that year due to health issues. The story was rewritten around "Alien Perolynga waiting for a saucer," with Hiroyuki Takano, who portrayed Alien Perolynga originally, cast in the role. Takano agreed as a tribute to Reizei. In this episode, Alien Perolynga wears Fukushin’s outfit and copies his mannerisms.
The bicycle used by Alien Perolynga came from the prop warehouse and dates back to the Showa era. The team even guessed it might be the same bike from the original filming.
Taguchi said they aimed to shoot in the same locations as "The Saucers Have Come" whenever possible. However, the Tama River had changed significantly over 50 years. According to Takano, some shots were filmed from across the river with a telephoto lens, when the river was narrower. That area may now be part of the riverbed. They used the position of the Odakyū Odawara Line as a landmark and filmed as close to the original spot as possible. Though the angles weren’t exact, they followed the spirit of the original setting.
For the scene where Alien Perolynga talks to Kana and in the final shots, they waited for a train to pass. Taguchi explained this was a tribute, as "The Saucers Have Come" also featured trains passing in the background. Missing the train timing meant waiting for the next, and Taguchi felt abandoning the scene halfway would be pointless.
Initially, they planned to shoot more dialogue cuts between Alien Perolynga and Kana by the river. But when they noticed the sparkling reflection on the water, they spontaneously focused on capturing that glowing background, quickly adjusting cameras and equipment, calling, "Hurry, hurry!" during filming.
Regarding the enemy alien, Alien Gapiya Abel, Taguchi explained that Alien Gapiya evolved from the original design concept of Aquatic Human Piniya, the prototype for Alien Perolynga. So they decided to include both in this episode.
For the shot of Abel flying across the river and landing, Taguchi mentioned that while watching SSSS.GRIDMAN, he saw a building destroyed in a way that reminded him of the New Generation Series. In a later talk with Akira Amemiya, they discussed how animation budgets make showing buildings breaking apart piece-by-piece difficult, so that destruction style is often used. Taguchi felt they shared this approach and wanted to challenge himself by adding a "flying-and-landing-like-Gridman" shot here.
Based on Pirika Asahikawa’s daily business report, she met a friend called "Grandma Saori" in the park and installed communication tools linking her grandson with Pirika’s security system on her tablet.
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