SSSP members were alarmed by Pigmon's sudden reappearance at a Ginza toy store. While bringing it to the SSSP headquarters, they decided to contact Professor Gonda to decipher Pigmon's chattering. Gonda managed to finish the translator, but the sleepless Ide was pressured by his work, especially taking the fact that no matter how much effort the SSSP did, it was Ultraman in the end who finished the job with defeating the monsters. Hayata managed to reassure that both the Ultraman and SSSP are codependent on each others; especially with the case of Antlar and Kemular. The sudden revival of Dorako and Telesdon at night only caused Pigmon to intensely panic in Gonda's lab.
Pigmon's chattering was translated in the next day:
"The monster that the SSSP and Ultraman have defeated are being resurrected by Geronimon's power and are planning an assault on the SSSP as revenge. In five hours, over 60 monsters from across the world will gather in Japan. You must defeat Geronimon while you still can. Geronimon is the Monster Chief. It possess psychic powers. Beware."
―Pigmon
Despite the frightening news, Geronimon failed to expect Pigmon as one of the revived monsters and the creature instead warned SSSP and lead them to the monsters' meeting spot. They arrived in Mt. Oiwayama as the monsters' rendezvous point and only spotted Re-Dorako and Re-Telesdon as its participants. SSSP were split into two teams while Pigmon was ordered to stay behind. Whereas Fuji, Arashi and Muramatsu managed to take down Telesdon with their unified shots, Hayata was able to injure Dorako's right shoulder with Ide hopefully waiting for Ultraman. Unfortunately as Dorako was about to kill the two SSSP officers, Pigmon stepped in and diverted Dorako's attention from the pair, only to be swatted by the towering monster out of annoyance. This earned a slap from Hayata that caused Ide to snap back into reality and uses the Spark 8 barrel on his Super Gun to kill Re-Dorako.
With all three revived monsters were killed, Geronimon was forced out of its hiding and Hayata transforms into Ultraman to rescue Arashi, Ide and Muramatsu from their fall. Struggling with the telekinetic-controlled feathers, Ultraman lured them to the sky and fired his Spacium Beam. He would later caught Geronimon by surprise to rip off all the feathers on its back and finally lifting it for Ide to open fire with Spark 8. This eventually brighten Ide's mood and finally taught him to rely on his own skill instead of others. The SSSP members pay their final respect to Pigmon's carcass and Muramatsu posthumously honored the creature as their special team member.
With a rating of 42.8%, this was the highest rated episode of Ultraman.
The title of this episode refers to Pigmon, as the SSSP members actually call it by this name in episode 8 "The Monster Anarchy Zone." At the same time, the title can also be read from Ultraman's perspective, highlighting the efforts of Ide and the other members in their fight against the monster.
Producer Ken Kumagai later recalled a conversation with Tetsuo Kinjo during the episode's development:
A child—possibly a relative or a visiting fan at Tsuburaya Productions—once told Kinjo, "As long as Ultraman is around, the SSSP isn't necessary." Shocked by this, Kinjo admitted, "We've made a grave mistake, and we must take responsibility." Kumagai agreed. Kinjo then consulted director Kazuho Mitsuta, and their discussion became the basis of the script. Kumagai later said that he wanted the story to be simple enough for children to understand.[4]
The idea for Ide's struggles grew out of this concern. While helping TBS producer Takashi Kakoi move into a new house, Kinjo, Mitsuta, and several colleagues noticed Kakoi's son, about ten years old, playing a monster game with friends. Playing as a human, the boy was quickly defeated by another child playing the monster. Kinjo asked, "Why did you get caught so easily?" The boy answered, "It doesn't matter—Ultraman will come and save us." This moment became the inspiration for Ide's storyline.[5]
Red King and Gomora were originally going to be the resurrected kaiju, but because the suits were used so often, they were replaced by Telesdon and Dorako. In the English Subtitled version of the episode, it still says that the resurrected kaiju are Red King and Gomora.
Re-Dorako has a few personality traits of Red King.
In the English Dub, Re-Dorako was called Red King and Re-Telesdon was called Gomora.
According to Kumagai, the team had originally wanted to bring back many more monsters, but the budget meant they could only say in dialogue that sixty had been revived. In practice, just two or three monsters needed to appear on screen, since the story focused on defeating their "leader." Kinjo had never intended to show all sixty in the first place.[4]
In this episode, Ultraman lifts Geronimon and allows Ide to shoot Geronimon. In the novel version by Kinjo, this action is explained as Ultraman's way of making Ide lose his reliance on him, encouraging him to take responsibility on his own rather than constantly depending on Ultraman's power.[6]
This episode was later featured in episode 45 of New Ultraman Retsuden, "Little Heroes! Geronimon's Back!!".[7]
In 2020, this episode was selected for screening as part of the Ultra Science Fantasy Hour on Ultraman YouTube channel, with its main slogan being Do what you can(自分にできることを, Jibun ni dekiru koto o).[8]
As one of many selected to celebrate the Ultraman Series' 60th anniversary, this episode was made available on the Ultraman YouTube channel from August 25, 2025 for two weeks, following August's theme of "The Story of Courage."[9][10][11]
