"Unleash! The Power of Imagination!"
- ―Japanese tagline
"Unleash your imagination!"
- ―English tagline
Ultraman Arc Ultraman Series, created by Tsuburaya Productions.[1][2] It was first announced through a teaser trailer uploaded on April 5, 2024.
is the 34th entry of theThe series will be broadcasted and/or streamed simultaneously with English, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Taiwanese Mandarin, Thai, Indonesian, and Vietnamese dubs, and with subtitles in those languages and Korean, Malay, Filipino, Latin, Portuguese, and Hindi.[1]
Synopsis
In a town called Hoshimoto City…
A giant object towers in Mt. Shishio. Named “Monohorn”, it is actually a kaiju’s horn stuck in the ground since an incident 16 years ago.
The incident when kaiju appeared simultaneously around the world was later named “K-Day.” Since then, the Global Defense Force (GDF) has been dealing with kaiju with force, while SKIP (Scientific Kaiju Investigation and Prevention center) works closely with the community in scientific investigations and evacuation guidance to prevent the occurrence and aggravation of kaiju disasters. SKIP has also been investigating the Monohorn, the horn of the galactic beast Monogelos, which appeared on K-Day.
Yuma, then only 7 years old, was camping with his parents in Mt. Shishio when Monogelos attacked, but somehow miraculously survived unhurt. This experience led him to pursue the path of kaiju biology research, and despite his traumatic past, he has not lost his “imagination” to dream. As a rookie investigator, Yuma joined SKIP and was assigned to the Hoshimoto City Branch.
Not long after, another large-scale kaiju disaster occurs. As Yuma sees the desperate people in front of him, a strong will springs into his mind — “I want to protect them!” It was at that moment when Yuma hears the voice of Rution, the being of light that he once saw as a child:
“You and I are one and the same… Unleash your imagination!”
When the mystic light emerging from Yuma’s hand embodies his entire body, his power of imagination fuses him with the light and he transforms into Ultraman Arc, the Giant of Light who protects the future! Alongside his precious friends, Yuma, as well as Ultraman Arc, gallops towards his everlasting dream![1][2]
Characters
Protagonist
SKIP
GDF
Antagonist
Others
- Akari Inui
- Tetsuya Hize
- Takako Hize
- Masumi Hize
- Hitoshi Ohtawara
- Hayato Ohtawara
- Shinya Makino
- Ayaka
- Anju
- Kanao Dogane
- Kazuo Kizaki
- Yumi
- Dai
Ultras
Kaiju
- Digelos
- Gomora
- Red King
- Oo-ze
- Shagong
- Leodo
- Monogelos
- Nezutron
- Livyjira
- Alien Croco
- Homger
- Internet Kanegon
- Neronga
- Pagos
- Noiseler
- Fio
- Oka-Gubila
- Givas
- Zadime
- Mogusion
- Zangill
- Gedos
- Taganular
- Earth Garon
- Bazanga
- Hellnarak
- Gomess
- King of Mons
Cast
Character | Japanese | English Dub |
---|---|---|
Yuma Hize | Yuki Totsuka [1][2] | Paul Castro Jr.[16] |
Shu Ishido | Sho Kaneta [9][10] | Micah Solusod[17] |
Rin Natsume | Kaho Mizutani [5][6] | Dani Chambers[18] |
Hiroshi Ban | Koichiro Nishi [3][4] | Tony Oliver[19] |
Guest Cast
- Akari Inui Hinako Tanaka :
- Hitoshi Ohtawara Taketo Kubota :
- Hayato Ohtawara : Fuma Kusunoki
- Tetsuya Hize Masato Hagiwara :
- Takako Hize Keiko Maki :
- Masumi Hize Toshie Negishi :
- Shinya Makino Koichi Miura :
- Numata Akira 100% :
- Ayaka : Kyoko Yanagihara
- Ichiro Nakamura : Yujiro Imamura
- Anju Coco Masui :
- Kanao Dogane Ryo Ogawa :
- Satoru Yamagami Tsutomu Ikeda :
- Kazuo Kizaki Yu Sakuma :
- Yumi : Haro Asada
- Dai : Aren Yoshida
- Sweed Eriko Sato :
- Nibuya Kohei Shiotsuka :
Voice Actors
Character | Japanese | English Dub |
---|---|---|
Ultraman Arc | Masato Hagiwara | Christopher Wehkamp[20] |
YouPi | Yuya Hirose [7][8] | Brandon McInnis[21] |
ChapPi | Taku Matsuo | N/A |
Internet Kanegon | Fumiko Orikasa | Brittany Lauda |
Fio | Ayane Sakura | Natalie Van Sistine |
MaikoPi | Saki Fujimoto | N/A |
Zangill | Mitsuru Karahashi | J. Michael Tatum |
Suit Actors
- Ultraman Arc: Hideyoshi Iwata [22]
- YouPi, ChapPi: Daiki Yazaki
- Monogelos/Digelos: Yoshiki Kuwabara
- Shagong, Leodo, Nezutron, Internet Kanegon, Neronga, Noiseler, Oka-Gubila, Mogusion: Hiroyuki Arai
- Red King II, Livyjira, Homger, Pagos, Zadime: Shun Takahashi
- Alien Croco, Givas, Zangill: Satoru Okabe
- Takkong: Koki Ikuta
- Eleking: Issei Hirata
Staff
- Directors: Takanori Tsujimoto (main director),[1][2] Masayoshi Takesue, Tomonobu Koshi, Hiroaki Yuasa, Takafumi Suzuki, Yusuke Akitake,[23][24] Toshiki Hata
- Series compositor: Jun Tsugita[1][2]
- Screenwriters: Jun Tsugita (head writer),[1][2] Junichiro Ashiki, Toshizo Nemoto, Kyoko Katsuya, Ryo Yoshigami, Masaya Honda, Takao Nakano, Uiko Miura[23][24]
- Special effects director: Naoyuki Uchida (ep. 9-10)
- Supervisor: Takayuki Tsukagoshi
- Production supervisor: Masayuki Nagatake
- Executive producer: Masahiro Kakuda
- Planning: Kei Kurosawa, Haruhisa Oya, Kai Tanaka, Arata Sasaki, Manabu Kuroda
- Chief producer: Tsugumi Kitaura
- Music composer: Yuki Hayashi[25][26]
- Music producer: Yuki Tezuka
- Cinematographers: Satoshi Murakawa
- Editor: Yosuke Yafune
- Action coordinator: Daisuke Terai
- Character and kaiju designers: Masayuki Gotoh, Daisuke Inomoto, Shoma Muto, Toshimi Sakamoto, Tomo Hyakutake, Takanori Tsujimoto, Takahiko Waki, Naoto Tsushima
- Setting supervision: Hiroyasu Shibuya
- Geography supervision: Akihiko Shibahara[27]
- Production: Tsuburaya Productions, TV Tokyo, Dentsu
Music
- Opening Theme
- arc jump'n to the sky[25][26]
- Lyrics: Hiroyuki Takami
- Composition and Arrangement: Daisuke Asakura
- Artist: access
- Ending Theme
- Mera Mera [25][26]
- Lyrics, Composition and Arrangement: Saeki youthK
- Artist: ARCANA PROJECT
- Michikake
- Lyrics, Composition and Arrangement: Saeki youthK
- Artist: ARCANA PROJECT
Home Media
Ultraman Arc will be released on a single Blu-ray box set on March 26, 2025. The set includes bonus content such as behind-the-scenes footage and trailers.[28]
Spin-offs
- Yuma's Ultraman Arc Navi : A weekly miniseries where Yuma gives a quick rundown of the highlights of the week's episode and introduces the featured Kaiju of the coming week.
- SKIP Exercise : A segment featuring Yuma and YouPi dancing to the rhythm of Arc jump'n to the sky that plays at the end of every episode. Videos of the other members performing the SKIP Exercise have also been posted to promote the Summertime Ultraman Arc "Do the SKIP Exercise" Campaign , a contest where participants filmed themselves doing the exercise routine, with 100 winners receiving prizes.[29]
- Shu Ishido's Diary : A series of weekly posts to the @ultraman_series official X (formerly Twitter) page, styled as diary logs that captures accounts of the week's happenings from Shu Ishido's perspective.
- Ask TsuPi! : A series of weekly informational posts hosted by TsuPi, SKIP Osaka City's own autonomous robot, which highlight events that have happened in the world of Ultraman Arc.
- Professor Shibahara's "Ultraman Arc" Science Laboratory : A series of articles written by paleontologist Akihiko Shibahara, who serves on the team of scientific advisors for the show, that provides an in-depth multidisciplinary analysis of the technologies that appear in Ultraman Arc, grounded in real-world science.
- Ultraman Arc Database : Following from Ultraman Blazar Database <CORE>, a collection of posts which serve to deepen the viewer's understanding of the world of Ultraman Arc by providing key information of the show's various elements.
Gallery
Images
Videos
Trivia
- Unlike the previous two series, Ultraman Arc was not announced in a post-credits teaser for Ultraman Blazar The Movie: Tokyo Kaiju Showdown. Instead, like most series that came before, it was first announced through a teaser trailer uploaded to YouTube on April 5, 2024.
- Alongside the teaser trailer, an extended trailer and special interview with Yuki Totsuka and Takanori Tsujimoto were made available on TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION.
- The show appears to take some visual cues from Return of Ultraman, notably the logo font and rotary background lights, influenced from director Takanori Tsujimoto's love for Return of Ultraman.
- When director Tsujimoto appeared on Miki Mizuno's YouTube channel to discuss the series, he clearly stated that Return of Ultraman inspired the title sequence. To maintain the same shooting style as the Showa Ultraman series, they chose live-action filming instead of CGI compositing, creating it by placing beads on a rotating table, illuminating them with lights, and filming the rotating beads while adjusting the camera focus to create the blur effect. However, this process placed some pressure on the on-set staff, as they felt that spending more time on this aspect of the production was somewhat burdensome.[30]
- Previews of the series were shown at the end of Ultraman New Generation Stars season 2 episodes from episode 11.
- For the summer break, a compilation of episodes 1 to 4 (up until the debut of Solis Armor) was uploaded to the ULTRAMAN OFFICIAL YouTube channel and was made available to Japanese audiences from July 30 to August 9, 2024.[31]
External Links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7176
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7050
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7296
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7077
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7270
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7074
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7234
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7064
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7250
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7073
- ↑ https://animageplus.jp/articles/detail/60317
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7763
- ↑ https://www.cinematoday.jp/news/N0145623
- ↑ https://animageplus.jp/articles/detail/60692
- ↑ https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2350935/full/
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7406
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7416
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7435
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7437
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7499
- ↑ https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7414
- ↑ Hobby Japan July 2024 issue, pg 282
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7465
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7108
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 https://tsuburaya-prod.com/news/7346
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 26.2 https://m-78.jp/news/post-7095
- ↑ https://x.com/AShibahara/status/1820735589605577136
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-7187
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-7158
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_i551tNmQ&t=1001s
- ↑ https://m-78.jp/news/post-7172