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"Come on, don't look so down. Try smiling"

―Old Yuri Tezuka comforting young Yazumi

Yuri Tezuka (テヅカ・ユリ, Tezuka Yuri) is a guest character who appeared in Ultraman Tiga. She is a girl who accidentally traveled through time and space under the influence of Goldras.

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Yuri accidentally traveled to the modern era.

Recently, a mysterious ship appeared in the Sakuragaoka area. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the ship was the Southern Polis, which had disappeared over 70 years ago in the Bermuda Triangle. When GUTS went to investigate, a sudden space-time distortion caused Yuri to arrive in the modern world.

Subsequently, Yuri was brought to TPC for further investigation. However, due to her extreme fear, TPC decided to send a representative who could comfort her for questioning. Therefore, under Iruma's dispatch, Yazumi had his first contact with Yuri. However, when he met Yuri, Yazumi was astonished to find that Yuri looked exactly like the girl in the photo they both received from an old woman when they were children.

In the room, Yuri began to ask Yazumi and the others who they were and expressed her desire to return home. She was extremely fearful of her current surroundings and the experiences she had gone through. When answering Yazumi's questions, she mentioned that she was born in 1915, further convincing GUTS that she was a time traveler.

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After Yazumi assisted in searching for the address of Yuri's home, Yuri discovered that her home had disappeared.

Before long, GUTS confirmed the existence of Goldras and discovered that Goldras had gathered the magnetic fields of mysterious regions worldwide to form a temporal domain. This was the reason why certain entities had crossed through time and space. However, Horii was concerned that if Yuri remained trapped in the current time, she might suddenly age or become a skeleton once the problem was resolved. To continue observing Yuri, Yazumi remained by her side and used an old map to search for Yuri's home address. However, when the two of them arrived at their destination, they found that Yuri's home had been replaced by a wide road.

Due to the outdated map being ineffective in the modern era, in an effort to comfort Yuri, Yazumi took her out to have fun. They went to a fast-food restaurant to have hamburgers, played arcade games, and even took commemorative photos in a photo booth. To commemorate this moment, Yazumi placed Yuri's photo into a pendant he bought from a street vendor and gave it to Yuri. Meanwhile, GUTS devised a plan to use two laser cannons, Magnus 1 and Gravas 2, to irradiate space time field energy to prevent the expansion of the space-time domain. Although Yazumi also participated in this operation, he couldn't shake off Horii's warning in his mind and remained concerned about Yuri's safety.

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After Goldras was defeated, Yuri was able to return to her own time.

Upon arrival at the scene, Yazumi entrusted Yuri to the TPC members on-site and received orders to launch an attack on Goldras. However, he realized that if he destroyed Goldras, everything brought from the past to the present would cease to exist, including Yuri. But if Goldras escaped, the destruction within the space-time field would become even more severe. In the end, with no other choice, Yazumi launched an attack on Goldras, successfully assisting Ultraman Tiga in defeating Goldras. However, everything from the past, including Yuri, disappeared.

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The old Yuri gave the pendant to the young Yazumi.

Yazumi had thought that Yuri had passed away, but the truth was that she had returned to her normal time and, decades later, she met a boy, gave him the pendant, and offered encouragement.

Back at home, Yazumi searched through his old belongings and found the pendant from those years. He suddenly realized that the elderly woman from back then was, in fact, the elderly Yuri. With a grateful smile, he understood that she had returned to her own time and was leading a fulfilling life.

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Trivia[]

  • Yuri was one of the few woman which Yazumi had a relationship with. She was the first in the series.
  • Her date of birth is August 16, 1915, meaning that she had lived during the Empire of Japan era as a teenager.
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