The Revenge of the Death God is the forty-eighth episode of Ultraman Gaia.
Plot[]
Despite the loss of the Aerial Base, the surviving XIG officers gather what they can and set out to back Gaia in his battle against Zebubu.
Cast[]
- Gamu Takayama : Takeshi Yoshioka
- Hiroya Fujimiya : Hassei Takano
- Akio Ishimuro : Hiroyuki Watanabe
- Tatsumi Chiba : Sei Hiraizumi
- Seiichiro Tsutsumi : Takashi Ukaji
- Atsuko Sasaki : Ai Hashimoto
- Georgie Leland : Maria Theresa Gow
- Reiko Yoshii : Yukari Ishida
- Katsumi Kajio : Masami Nakagami
- Yasushi Kitada : Katsuhiko Hasegawa
- Satoshi Ogawara : Yusuke Sawaki
- Tatsuhiko Yoneda : Kuronosuke Kagawa
- Koichi Hayashi : Shogo Shiotani
- Toru Tsukamori : Shin Ishikawa
- Miho Inagi : Tomoko Kawashima
- Juri Mishima : Izumiko Matsuda
- Kei Tadano : Kei Ishibashi
Guest Actors[]
VoiceActors[]
- Narrator : Hiroshi Isobe
Suit Actors[]
- Ultraman Gaia : Koji Nakamura
- Ultraman Agul : Kazuhiko Shimizu
- Zebubu : Toshio Miyake
Appearances[]
Ultras[]
- Ultraman Gaia
- Version 2
- Supreme Version
- Ultraman Agul
- Version 2
Kaiju[]
- Deathbringer
- Zebubu
Mecha[]
- Government/Military
- Peace Carry (x1)
- XIG Fighters
- ST (x1)
- GT (x2)
Home Media[]
- Ultraman Gaia Volume 12 features episodes 45-48.
Trivia[]
- In this episode, Gamu's true identity is officially revealed to the XIG members. Prior to this, only Fujimiya, Reiko, Ishimuro, and Catherine were aware of his secret identity.
- According to screenwriter Hideyuki Kawakami, the basic concept of this episode was to revive the spirits of the XIG pilots. To make the development of the new XIG Fighter feel more realistic, the character of Kosuke Ranbashi was introduced. Initially, there was a suggestion to have Yoneda sacrifice himself to spark the final climax, but Kawakami didn’t want to present a scene that was too sorrowful, so this ending was chosen instead.[1]
- In the original script, there was a scene where Kei, far from the battlefield, learns that Yoneda has been rescued. She sighs in relief while holding the badge Kei had previously given her. However, in the final filmed version, it is the severely injured Yoneda who personally retrieves the badge from Kei.[2]
- The episode’s director, Tsugumi Kitaura, also agreed that the story should conclude with the "joy of being alive." However, he made changes to Kawakami’s original script so that Kei finds Yoneda alive on the battlefield. Kitaura felt it was essential for the two characters to meet in person. If Kei had only received news from a distance that Yoneda had survived, without them seeing each other, the emotional impact would have been diminished.
- Director Tsugumi Kitaura mentioned that portraying the XIG team members regaining their courage was a challenging aspect. This episode is entirely different from the previous one, as it focuses solely on action.
- In this episode, the scene set in the XIG temporary command center was filmed at the water control facility of the Misato Construction Bureau.
Agul bleeding
- This is the first episode in the series in which an Ultra bleeds, when Agul had his leg cut open by Zebubu.
- After the destruction of the Aerial Base, XIG was transferred to Geo Base Japan and used it as their temporary base of operations. The Geo Base remained as their base in the original video Gaia Again as the Aerial Base 2 was still under construction.
- Final appearance of Michael Simmons.
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