The Monster Master's Legacy is the thirty-second episode of Ultraman Mebius.
Synopsis[]
The Alien Mates that have appeared on Earth have come with the intention of forging friendship with Earthlings. Bringing the monsters was a precautionary measure against potential attacks from Mebius.
And then, he began to talk about the incident where innocent Alien Mates who visited Earth 30 years ago were killed by humans solely because they were aliens.
Plot[]
At the beginning of the episode, we see a grown boy digging a large hole by the riverbed who is encontered by a girl who which the boy says he is trying to find the spaceship of and Alien Mates (the original killed during Jacks time on Earth). Years later in Mebius' time, a saucer is seen landing in the Takuma Mountains and Mirai and Ryu are deployed there.
Separated from Ryu, Mirai finds a young Alien Mates named Bio who is trying to set negotiations with earth and wants to establish peace. It is shot in the arm by Ryu who thought that the alien was attacking Mirai. Enraged, the alien summons the saucer to attack the near by city. Meanwhile, GUYS learns of the story behind the original Alien Mates, who was shot in cold blood for being and alien.
Meanwhile, the alien hides inside a building and takes a human form and is seen by a kindergarten class (Konami's) and is surprised by the kindness of both students and teacher alike trying to heal his wounds. Later he is found by Mirai and Ryu again and both ask to have the saucer stop attacking but, full of rage he ingnores and Mirai is forced to transform into Ultraman Mebius despite agreeing he would not get involve due to this being between Earth and Planet Mates.
Angered, the alien summons Zoa Muruchi and attacks. Still trying to convince the alien, he tells them he would not for that his hate comes from the fact that the old man who was killed by humans was his father and the fight between two giants insues anbd worse the new monster due to his new modifications is beating Mebius in the fight.
A light of hope comes in as the teacher of the group discovers who the alien was and tells of a "boy" who would want to have humans and mates shake hands together in friendship. Giving in he pleds to the silver giant in a downfall of rain to extinguish his hate and destroys Zoa Muruchi with the Mebium Shoot. Later that day the clouds clear and a rainbow appears in the sky as the alien with new light on humans goes back to his planet with hopes of having the two civilizations become firends in the far future. Going back 33 years ago at the end the teacher tells that the "boy" either died of a illness or left for someplace else but, she knows of where the boy truly left to.
Cast[]
- Mirai Hibino : Shunji Igarashi
- Ryu Aihara : Masaki Nishina
- Marina Kazama : Ai Saikawa
- George Ikaruga : Daisuke Watanabe
- Konomi Amagai : Misato Hirata
- Teppei Kuze : Kenta Uchino
- Shingo Sakomizu : Minoru Tanaka
- Aide Toriyama : Kenichi Ishii
- Secretary Aide Maru : Yutaka Maido
- Yuki Misaki : Saaya Ishikawa
Guest Actors[]
- Alien Mates Bio , Bio's Father : Tomonori Yoshida
- Akiko : Tomoko Saito
- Child Akiko: Akira Tanaka
- Akiko's Mother : Yuko Miwa
- Nursery School Teachers :
- Mari Iwasa
- Michiko Kawanishi
- Miko : Miyu Shimizu
- Kindergarteners :
- Hayato Nogami
- Yuki Fujita
- Ryo Sakuma :
- Teenager: Taiju Nakane
- Child: Tatsuya Kamachi
Appearances[]
Ultras[]
Kaijus[]
Home Media[]
- Ultraman Mebius Volume 8 features episodes 29-32.
Trivia[]
- This episode is a sequel to Return of Ultraman episode 33 "The Monster User and the Boy".
- The writer for this episode, Minato Shukawa, is a Japanese novelist who notably won the 133th Naoki Prize in 2005 for one of his novels. He later wrote Ultraman Mebius: Anderes Horizont.
- According to the episode's director Takeshi Yagi, this episode was filmed at Sagamiko Resort Pleasure Forest.[1]
- This episode uses a background song with a similar melody to the melancholic song played throughout the original episode, which was originally used as the Nonmalt's theme in Ultraseven. Said song has the same title as this episode and was released on the second volume of the official Mebius soundtrack.
- This episode was later featured in episode 20 of New Ultraman Retsuden, "Mebius and Alien Mates: The Monster Master's Legacy". Tsuburaya's blog mentions that the entire episode is a dedication to Mirai Hibino's actor, Shunji Igarashi, who retired in November 2013.[2]
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