Yuka Inoue is the main deutragonist of Gridman the Hyper Agent.
Personality[]
Yuka has a friendly, kind, and optimistic personality. She is very intelligent and able to calmly analyze situations, making her the strategist in the team responsible for devising strategies against the monsters. Additionally, she seems to have a crush on Naoto but often hides her feelings.
In terms of academics, Yuka excels and ranks highly in the national mock exams. She also has a deep understanding of networking and programming, and occasionally tutors Naoto and Ippei. Furthermore, she frequently points out Ippei's mistakes and mispronunciations, helping them to improve their learning.
History[]
Gridman the Hyper Agent[]
Yuka starts Gridman for the first time.
Yuka is a second-year student at Sakuragaoka Junior High School. Her family runs a large hospital, and includes her father Hideyo, mother Yoshie, and older brother Yoshinobu. Yuka has a close relationship with her friends Naoto and Ippei, and together they have built a secret base in Ippei's basement. They are dedicated to collecting used parts to assemble a computer named "Junk," and spend a lot of time researching and developing it.
One morning, Naoto's younger brother Daichi was sent to the hospital run by Yuka's family due to appendicitis. At the same time, at school, Yuka unintentionally failed to communicate with Takeshi, which made him mistakenly believe that she rejected his confession, causing him to feel embarrassed and attempt to retaliate using his computer. When Kahn Digifer teamed up with Takeshi to try to destroy and conquer the real world, Yuka and her friends also became embroiled in the abnormal phenomenon.
When the CG model created by Ippei merged with the super agent tracking Kahn Digifer and became Gridman, Yuka learned about the existence of the Computer World and decided to assist Gridman in protecting the world.The Birth of a New Hero
In the series, Yuka mainly acts as the commander during battles between Gridman and monsters. Besides being responsible for granting Naoto the access code to enter the Computer World, she also assists in selecting auxiliary weapons. Additionally, since she is a secret admirer of Takeshi, she has been followed and even secretly photographed by him.
During one of the events, while Yuka was playing a virtual shooting game at a game center, she was manipulated by Shinobilar who invaded the game system. She used a laser gun to attack people and even engaged in a gunfight with the police. However, with Gridman's intervention, she eventually returned to normal.The Distorted Target
Not long after, a 5000-year-old ancient Mummy excavated from the permafrost in China was sent to a Japanese archaeological research institute for study. Yuka and her group, who learned about this, were able to visit the institute thanks to the connections of Naoto's father, Souichirou. As a punishment for skipping class, Yipin and Naoto were unable to go, so Yuka took Daichi and Kana to visit the research institute.
During the visit, Yuka told Daichi and Ayako a legend about ancient China: there was a young man known as the "dragon controller" who could control dragons. He fought with his power to protect the country and fell in love with the princess at that time. However, because the king was afraid of his power, he sent someone to poison the dragon controller during a banquet. The princess was not aware of the conspiracy and thought he had died, so she put a dragon statue in his coffin as a burial object and then committed suicide. The mummy at the archaeological research institute is the dragon controller mentioned in the legend. When looking at the actual mummy, Yuka said to him, "I still believe that you can see the princess you love."
Yuka tells the Mummy the truth of the legend.
However, due to Takeshi's modification of Bagira into Mecha Bagira and his destruction of the computer world system at the archaeological research institute, the mummy was resurrected again. Yuka and her group were chased by the mummy, who was still obsessively pursuing Yuka. Yuka stopped him and informed him that the princess had already died following him and handed him the dragon's burial item.
When Ippei created the new weapon, "Dragonic Cannon," and used it with Gridman to destroy Mecha Bagira, the mummy's soul returned to its original body. Yuka was alone in her thoughts, recalling the dragon controller's persistence in pursuing his love even after his death, and feeling sad about it.The Legend of Dragon
In the Venora gas attack, Gridman was defeated due to the influence of her mental state. Later, she secretly encouraged the suffering Naoto with a kiss.The Decisive Battle! The End of the Hero (Part 2)
Yuka bids farewell to Gridman with her friends.
During the final battle, she learned the truth that Takeshi was the mastermind behind the series of events. She used a fan to slap him and passionately convinced him to return to the right path. After Gridman defeated Kahn Digifer, he expressed his gratitude for Yuka's gentleness and calm judgment. Finally, Yuka and her friends bid farewell to Gridman in the sunset.Goodbye Gridman
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Yuka appears in Gauma's memory in a vague form.
Yuka's voice briefly appeared in Gauma's memories. Due to his vague recollection during his short-lived revival in the past, Gauma didn't remember Yuka's existence, but only recalled someone telling him that "the princess followed him to her death."What Wish Can't Come True?
Powers and Weapons[]
- Academic Achievements: Yuka is stated to be the ace in her classroom and the series would demonstrate a few of her qualified feats, including:
- Superhuman Agility: She demonstrate the ability top perform parkour and evasion from armed policemen when under control of Re-Shinobilar.
- Computing: Within Junk, she is known for managing programs, such as enlargement for Gridman, breaking into security barriers (Bamora), managing Assist Weapons and so on. For the Assist Weapons, Ippei managed to simplify her work by creating the Assist Weapon Selecter for easy development.
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Yuka was born on June 13, 1978.
- Compared to her circle of friends, Yuka is the only one who has an elder brother, as opposed to a younger sibling.
- In the initial planning draft, Yuka's name was "Kaori Inoue ," which was later changed to Yuka Aikawa in the final version. Her name was eventually changed to its current name.