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Daigo is forced to pick up another Dark Spark Lens lớn stop three evils at once.
Show MoreGenre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi
Original Language: Japanese
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Hello, readers, and welcome to a brand-new feature from Ultraman Connection! It’s an exciting time to lớn be an Ultraman fan, we are psyched for the premiere of Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey lớn Beyond, the upcoming epilogue movie which follows the events of Ultraman Decker. It will be available to lớn watch through streaming right here on Ultraman Connection starting Thursday, February 23, and released the same day as its premiere in theaters!
As you may know, we’ve been recapping và eagerly discussing the show itself since its premiere last July, so we’re very excited lớn see how the story of Ultraman Decker continues, and what all the characters have been up khổng lồ in the meantime.
At the same time, it’s also a good opportunity to lớn talk some more about the TDG series of the Ultraman franchise, and note some of the connections between Tiga, Dyna and Gaia, & how they relate khổng lồ the “New Generation” series. There’s a lot of obvious references và homages between Ultraman Tiga and Ultraman Dyna, & the shows which inherit và follow that legacy, Ultraman Trigger và Decker.
Rather than talk about the shows as a whole, we felt the best way khổng lồ celebrate their legacy và lead into the premiere of Ultraman Decker Finale: Journey khổng lồ Beyond on February 23rd, would be khổng lồ discuss the movies from each of the series. So, we’ll be covering Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey, Ultraman Tiga and Dyna: Warriors of the Stars of Light, and Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna và Ultraman Gaia: The Decisive Battle in Hyperspace.
This will be a three-part series which dives a little more in-depth into matters since we’re talking about feature-length films rather than thirty-minute episodes! But I hope you’ll join us to lớn discover the history of this era of Ultraman, and what makes it so beloved & influential, even now, almost thirty years later! Of course, we can’t talk about the legacy of Ultraman movies without naming one of the biggest & most influential of the bunch, so we’ll start today with Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey.
Epilogues are always tricky things to lớn handle when writing a story. “What happens next?” ideally should grow naturally from the events of the series itself, with the same familiar characters in a recognizable context. A writer or director certainly wouldn’t want this subsequent story to feel lượt thích it contradicts everything that came before, or somehow renders it futile with a new threat or completely new setting.
At the same time, if you’re sitting down lớn watch a full, feature-length movie, an audience would expect that story to be on a larger, more elaborate scale than just a 30-minute televised episode. That balancing act between the two – being continuous enough with the show lớn be recognizable, while also providing a new, exciting experience beyond the limitations of the show – might seem lượt thích an insurmountable paradox.
If there’s one thing Ultraman stories vị very, very well, however, it’s combining both the small-scale & large-scale together. That perspective, a field of view with an infinitely long focus, helps to enhance & emphasize all the points of a story in a unique way.
Ultraman Tiga The Final Odyssey has become a classic within the Ultraman franchise because of how well it accomplishes this feat, not just in its storytelling but also with its cinematography, themes, và characters. It’s become such a crucial part of the overall lore of Tiga và the “Neo Frontier” universe where it takes place, that even modern takes on that lore (most prominently in Ultraman Trigger, of course) pay significant homage to it.
With that in mind, let’s look at how Final Odyssey cemented itself as one of the most influential Ultraman stories of this time, and of the franchise in general.
The shift in focus is immediately obvious from the first few minutes of the movie. It starts right where the series itself left off, after Ultraman Tiga and the GUTS team defeated the darkness brought by Gatanozoa. The final episode ended with a group photo of the team, but after the freeze frame of everyone’s smiling faces at the start of this movie, the frame of the camera itself shifts from the 4:3 televised ratio khổng lồ a wide-screen resolution intended for a movie theater. It’s a small detail but sets up the expectation that whatever is going lớn happen next will be even bigger.
But where vì chưng you go after saving the world and all of humanity from certain destruction at the hands (tentacles?) of terrifying primordial darkness?
Well, the Ultraman Tiga series itself was focused on the idea of learning from the mistakes of the past, to lớn not repeat them, và to make a better future through that understanding. Following that idea, we see an expedition sent by the TPC khổng lồ investigate the island which rose from the ocean during that previous final battle, looking for more answers. Already they’re preparing for the possibility of what might come next in their future.
Meanwhile, Daigo Madoka – our protagonist – is also looking khổng lồ the future following the events of the Tiga series. He’s been on vacation, traveling with his now-fiancee Rena, và simply enjoying his life on Earth, as an ordinary human being, appreciating the beautiful light of a sunset together.
The certainty of their future is about to lớn be cast into doubt, however; both groups of characters stumble upon new dark threats which upend their expectations. Iruma, the captain of the GUTS team, finds that the mission she was sent on has more sinister goals in mind than just providing knowledge of the ancient past. Instead, this “Project F"" has found more “giants"’ preserved in stone, the same way that Tiga had been discovered at the start of the show and wants khổng lồ use their power for humanity’s own advancement.
Similarly, Daigo’s dream, imagining his future wedding to Rena, is interrupted by a nightmare involving an unknown woman. Well, not completely unknown, he does seem khổng lồ know her name at least – Camearra.
And so, the audience is introduced lớn the most openly-spoiled twist of Ultraman Tiga, the origin of the Dark Giants. It’s important to cảnh báo that none of this was established in the show itself. At the time it aired, there were other “Giants” who appeared as statues in addition to lớn Tiga: two which were in the same pyramid found in the first episode, và then another one whose power was used by Masaki Keigo khổng lồ become Evil Tiga.
But the ancient Giants were thought to be mostly benevolent figures, even if they failed to lớn stop the darkness which destroyed civilization 30 million years ago in the setting’s history. This is the first time the characters have entertained the idea of that power itself being something dreadful và terrifying.
Of course, the “Project F” expedition is immediately thrown into disarray when their hubris allows the three figures to re-awaken completely. The Dark Giants immediately go khổng lồ work smashing that hubris apart, & appear to unleash even further darkness, và waves of monsters onto the world now that they have resurrected. It’s only thanks to lớn Iruma’s own mystical connection lớn the power nguồn of light from the ancient civilization that the darkness is stopped – for now. But now, it has been unsealed, & it starts leaking out to the rest of the world, causing disasters in its wake.
We could honestly go through và recap the rest of the movie lượt thích this, it’s such a gripping experience watching this mystery unfold and how our characters respond to the mysteries và the disasters which follow. Just a straight recap doesn"t really capture the effect of watching it, however, và it certainly doesn’t explain why this dramatic shift is so gripping in the first place.
Part of that effect comes from the sheer production value of this movie. It’s cinematic in a way that couldn’t be afforded on a weekly basis & the huge scope of the story is told through its larger mix pieces, bigger cast of characters and extras, and the detail of the miniatures và effects – even CGI, which was still a relatively new method for the year this was made, in 2000. Most importantly, this is a feature-length movie, so its story can be continuously developed & presented, paced out over roughly 90 minutes instead of 25-minute chunks.
For audiences who watched this roughly five years or so after the Tiga series ended, it’s also gripping because of the way it reframes and almost subverts a lot of the lore from the show. The arrival of the Dark Giants isn’t just scary because of how powerful or cruel they appear lớn be. Humanity & the Earth itself faced powerful và cruel threats already.
During those challenges, the “darkness” they fought against tended to lớn be personified as a sort of despair, hopelessness in the face of that overwhelming power. Instead, the darkness represented by the Dark Giants here (let’s see how many more times I can use the word “darkness” in this review) is different because it is corrupting.
Several of the GUTS team members, investigating the abandoned ship from the doomed Project F expedition, encounter monsters who appear khổng lồ be human, và gleefully attack them saying that they will also “become lượt thích them”. Meanwhile, Daigo’s attempts to try và enjoy his vacation continue to lớn be interrupted by Camearra, who tries lớn cajole him into giving up his happy idleness & to join her instead.
This comes to lớn a head when Daigo has one of the most profoundly disturbing experiences we’ve seen in an Ultraman story. It’s not gory or anything so crass, but when he tries khổng lồ become Ultraman Tiga once again, khổng lồ fight off the swarms of monsters unleashed by Camearra and the Dark Giants, his nguồn instead turns into something abjectly horrifying.
We should note for those of you who haven’t seen the Ultraman Tiga show, that Daigo no longer can turn into Tiga after the final episode. His Spark Lens disappeared, và while this was treated as a good thing at the time – since the light, the power nguồn of Tiga is something shared by humanity now – Daigo finds himself in need of power to fight once again.
But now when he reaches out lớn grasp power, a nguồn that Camearra calls his “true self”, it’s also dark. Literally, it’s a darker shade of silver & black, instead of the normal gold, red & purple. It looks cool though, right? Why would a different coat of paint change who he is?
The difference is clear though, when he sees the destruction left behind by the attack on the city. He sees a young girl crying over her mother’s dead body toàn thân in the wreckage và reaches out to her. Daigo, using the nguồn of Tiga before, reached out lớn other lives in much the same way throughout the show. However, this time, instead of an mở cửa hand, he makes a fist & drives it into the ground lớn crush her.
I’ll tell you guys; I about had a literal heart attack watching that for the first time. Thankfully, the vision is immediately revealed khổng lồ be just that – a vision – but the message is clear. Daigo, & the nguồn of Tiga which he made his own through the events of the show, has some sort of connection to lớn this darkness, and it represents a nguồn which is fundamentally, terrifyingly destructive.
The rest of the movie continues along these lines. The TPC & the GUTS team itself tries to lớn find a way to survive against the attacks the Dark Giants send out from their island, while Daigo tries to make sense of his own connection to the nguồn of Tiga và its history in ancient times.
Again, this is very similar lớn how the story progressed through the Ultraman Tiga series before. The past brought challenges and old threats back lớn life when uncovered, but it also brought light and hope, a way that the characters could overcome those challenges by understanding them. Things seem even darker and more challenging now, however, because what was previously understood lớn be a source of light và strength for humanity – the nguồn of Tiga itself – can no longer be trusted.
So, is that it then, will Daigo và the rest of humanity be overwhelmed by this darkness, unable lớn fight back against it, or subsumed into its corrupting influence? Camearra seems to lớn think so, she spends most of the movie trying khổng lồ convince Daigo to rejoin them, the way that Tiga apparently had done in the past already. She sees the new life he leads, with his own hopes and dreams living as a human, as something illusory & transient, a giả persona put on khổng lồ hide his “true” self. Humanity itself is disposable, weak, và worthless compared lớn the power that he wielded as a “Dark” Giant in the ancient past.
Too bad for the Dark Giants, humanity keeps proving that idea wrong through every single part of the Ultraman Tiga series. Not only that, in every part of the Ultraman franchise. This is what I mean when I say these stories are very good about combining & paralleling both large & small-scale stories. The large-scale victories over cosmically powerful threats are only possible because of those smaller stories & are given meaning và importance because of how they are reflected on such a huge scale.
In the finale of the movie, Daigo – while still using the “Dark” power nguồn of Tiga – tries to fight the three Dark Giants khổng lồ stop their efforts to destroy humanity. However, Tiga’s own power, and Daigo’s will driving it, would both have failed if it weren’t for the comparatively small efforts contributed by everyone around him. The efforts of the TPC, other characters who return to lớn fight their hardest, inspired by both Daigo’s example and other relationships, proves khổng lồ be crucial khổng lồ even get him khổng lồ the final battle against Camearra in the first place. In the end, his connection lớn Rena và their love for each other (as well as the remaining power nguồn of the other Giants of Light who were also sealed in the island) provides the strength lớn overcome even that battle and win the day.
At the same time, those small, personal connections are also revealed khổng lồ be the cause of Camearra’s downfall. Throughout the movie, it’s shown that she really does love Tiga – and Daigo, who also still bears that power – but the darkness that she holds onto as a source of strength also prevents her from truly seeing that love through. After all, the darkness in this movie is corrupting, only seeking its own ends and consuming other lives in pursuit of that power.
In some way, she wanted lớn join Tiga in the light as well but was unable khổng lồ understand what the light truly represented. Instead of that relationship giving her the strength khổng lồ overcome the darkness, it was twisted into something that made her monstrous in her final battle against Tiga.
Speaking of “final” matters, whew, that was a long journey to get lớn the end of this article! to make a long story short (too late), The Final Odyssey works so well as an epilogue movie because its scope & emphasis so perfectly match the themes of the show itself. It presents a huge, cosmic-scale battle even beyond the scope of what was seen in the finale of Ultraman Tiga, without losing sight of the characters và why audiences cared about their battles in the first place.
The Final Odyssey had such a significant impact on the legacy of Ultraman Tiga that even almost thirty years later, most of Ultraman Trigger draws its plot from this movie directly, instead of just from the show itself. The Dark Giants in Trigger show up from the very first episode this time & Trigger himself was also revealed khổng lồ have his origins as a Dark Giant, before overcoming it lớn reclaim his own quality light. Rather than saving that plot for an epilogue movie five years later, it forms the central plot line of the series, and the focus of the audiences’ expectations during its run.
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Thankfully the show wasn’t just a straight re-creation of the movie. That would’ve been pretty ironic, considering the major theme of this movie is how khổng lồ learn from the past without being bound to lớn repeat it. Ultraman Trigger similarly departs from its predecessor in one specific way I was pleased lớn see. In the crossover episodes with Ultraman Decker, Camearra’s “New Generation” counterpart Carmearra actually gets a shot at redemption this time. Trigger and Decker, working together, both helped khổng lồ revive her & give her another chance at life, removed from the darkness that consumed her in the finale of the Trigger series.
It was a genuinely touching moment to see that the “light” not only allows our heroes khổng lồ overcome darkness, but it can also rescue those who themselves are still trapped by it. It’s just a shame that Camearra herself was left behind without that redemption in Final Odyssey.
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey may be one of the most memorable movies of the TDG era, but it’s not the only one we’ll be looking at in the weeks to lớn come. It wasn’t even the first one of the era! Next time, we’ll look at the 1998 film which really kicked off the “Neo Frontier” universe as a shared legacy between the two shows – Ultraman Tiga and Ultraman Dyna: Warriors of the Star of Light.