Ultraman Tiga

Height: 53 meters
Weight: 44,000 tons

Human Form: Daigo
Transformation Item: Spark Lens (some say Spark Lance)
Team: GUTS (Global Unlimited Task Squad) -- Captain Megumi Iruma, Daigo, Deputy Captain Munakata, Shinjoh, Horii, Rena, and Yazumi; GUTS is a branch of TPC (Terrestrial Peacable Concert)

Episodes: 52 (Episode Guide)
Air Dates: September 7, 1996 - August 30, 1997

Multi Type

Flight Speed: mach 5
Running Speed: TBD kph
Weapons

* Zepellion Ray: L-style.
* Tiga Slicer: Beam cutters he can fire from his chest.
* Timer Flash: A flash he emits to erase fake versions of his enemy.

Power Type

Flight Speed: mach 3
Running Speed: TBD
Weapons

* Delacium Light Stream



Sky Type

Flight Speed: mach 7
Running Speed: TBD
Weapons

* Ranbalt Light Bomb



Glitter Tiga

In the last episode, after Tiga is defeated and turned back into a stone statue by Gatanozoh'a, he is resurrected by the will of the people of Earth, who shine the light that is within everyone. See the movie for more types of Tiga.

Ultraman Tiga is the dawn of a new era of Ultraman. He is the first of what is known as the 'Heisei Ultramen' (Heisei is the name of the current dynastic calendar under Japan's Emperor Akihito... the previous Ultramen were produced under the Showa calendar of Emperor Hirohito). As the first of a new breed of Ultraman, Tiga is set in an entirely different universe from previous series.

The most striking difference is Tiga himself... blue is new to the Ultra color palette. Tiga is also the first of the multi-type Ultramen. His ordinary Multi Type can switch to Power and Sky types so that his fighting ability can better match that of his opponents.

An emphasis is placed on the fact that his is a warrior of light. Tiga originally came from space to to defend early human civilization on Earth from Super-Ancient Monsters, about 30,000,000 years ago.

A pod is found and contains a holographic message from a Japanese woman wearing a white wig named Yuzare, who says that the Super-Ancient Monsters would be resurrected. There is a giant pyramid in Japan that will be humanity's salvation when this happens, Tiga must be resurrected by... but then the message is cut off, which bums everyone out. I kept thinking in my head, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi... you're my only hope..." Anyway, GUTS goes to the pyramid of Tiga, where Daigo and friends find statues of three Ultramen, one of which is Tiga. Alas, monsters Golza and Melba start attacking the pyramid, and succeed in destroying two of the statues (neither of which was Tiga, of course). Tiga eventually merges with Daigo.

A new innovation for the support team, in this case GUTS, is the female captain. However, keep in mind that Iruma doesn't actually do much. She is a figurehead who hardly ever leaves the command room. Most of the orders are given by either her field captain, Munakata, or the higher-ups at TPC. The GUTS members have refreshingly distinct personalities. Munakata is a no-nonsense, chisel-faced commander. Daigo is the passionately naive, wide-eyed, eager type, with the right kind of DNA that makes him Tiga-worthy. Rena, his love interest, is an action hero in her own right, being the best fighter pilot and no stranger to using heavy machines and artillery, who happens to have more compassion for some of the monsters. Horii is the pug-faced, unattractive, brainy, Kansai-dialect-speaking comic-relief technologist. There is also Shinjoh, the bland but popular guy who has a TPC nurse for a sister. Rounding off the crew is young Yazumi, the communications dude who goes out into the field even less than Captain Iruma.

Several other Super-Ancient Monsters resurface throughout the series. Gijela is a plant monster and harbinger of doom that played an integral role in the destruction of the Super-Ancient civilization... it emits a gas that puts people in dreamland before they are to be killed. It is because the ancient civilization lost its will to live and fight that the Ultramen decided to leave Earth originally. In Tiga's era, the people of Earth once again fall victim to the dreamland gas, but Daigo choses to go against the will of civilization and fight for humanity anyway, and wins.

Other interesting characters that are important to the finale... a psychic freak, who resents Tiga because Tiga can use his special powers to be a hero for people, whereas the freak has been reviled since childhood. There is also a man who shares DNA similar to Daigo and thus has the ability to transform into an Ultraman himself... he manages to imprison Daigo and steal his Spark Lens, and transform into Evil Tiga.

The final battle is with Gatanozoh'a, a giant upside-down snail monster who engulfs the earth in darkness. Tiga's timer runs out and is turned back into a stone statue. However, the light of children around the world (including an African-American boy in the ruins of New York City, as well as an European-American who is living in a tee-pee for some reason), as well as Rena, revive Tiga. He becomes Glitter Tiga, and his weapons are far more powerful. Unfortunately, the cheesy scenes that pander to children involve the kids trying to do Tiga poses in unison which little success.

A new Tiga movie was released in March, 2000, set between the end of Tiga and the beginning of Ultraman Dyna.

Tiga is followed by 'Ultraman Dyna,' set seven years later. Dyna is very much a sequel series, and there are many crossovers of characters and mecha. Episode 19 of 'Dyna' is an homage to 'Tiga' Episode 15. Shinjoh's sister returns, as well as the phantom of her dead biker boyfriend. Many of the shots filmed for these two episodes are identical.

Trivia

The actress who plays GUTS team member Rena is played by the daughter of Susumu Kurobe (Hayata, who transformed into the original Ultraman).

Cameos

Episode 49: The original Ultraman helps to defeat monster Yanakahgi.

Crossovers

The 'Ultraman Tiga & Ultraman Dyna' movie
The 'Ultraman Tiga, Ultraman Dyna, & Ultraman Gaia' movie
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey movie

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Forms

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Sword Form



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Rod Form



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Axe Form



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Gun Form



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