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Mirrorman Ultraman Series, 'Ultraman is bright like the sun, but Mirrorman is the moon, shining on the dark of night'.
is a tokusatsu television series airing on Fuji TV from December 5, 1971 to November 26, 1972. It was Tsuburaya Production's first non-Ultraman superhero series, originally intended to be a tense, character-driven drama. In comparison to most of theInitially tonally similar to Ultraseven, the network eventually forced Mirrorman's brooding, tense, and understated tone to shift to be more special-effects and combat focused. Mirrorman is made to face more dramatic and flashy fights, but the series becomes less focused on mysterious or spy-TV-esque Invader plots. SGM, previously a practically unarmed scientific investigation squad, is revamped to be more in line with a traditional Ultraman defense team, and the whole series takes on a tone more similar to other Kyodai Hero shows.
Synopsis[]
An group of aliens attacks Earth in the 1980s, as predicted by Dr. Mitarai, who terms them "Invaders." He organizes SGM (Science Guard Members) to investigate and counter the threat. However, he also raises Kyotaro Kagami after the death of his father, who was an alien from the second dimension.
As a half-alien, Kyotaro is able to transform into Mirrorman. Mitarai reveals this to him, as well as the fact that his father was killed by the Invaders while his mother had to flee for safety. Targeted by the enemy, Kyotaro must defend earth from the Invaders while coming to terms with the impact his father and mother, whom he never knew, had on his life.
Characters[]
Protagonist[]
SGM[]
- Kenichi Mitarai
- Hiroshi Murakami
- Takeshi Fujimoto
- Hidehiko Yasuda
- Yuki Nomura
Others[]
- Asako Mitarai
- Ichiro Okawa
Kaiju[]
- Invaders
- Iron
- Kitty Fire
- Darkron
- Multi
- Noppera-bō
- Inbera
- Kitty Fire II
- Gold Satan
- Iron II
- Multi II
- Gravity Machine
- Zailas
- Gold Satan II
- Noah
- King Zaiger
- Iron III
- Kitty Fire III
- Zailas II
- Jabala
- Kinder
- Chamelegon
- Aroza
- Big Eye
- Sphenodon
- Darkron II
- Taigan
- King Wonder
- Androsaurus
- Coldon
- Haebun
- Gokibura
- Mothgojira
- Dustpan
- Snake King
- Harigojira
- Killergon
- Gorgosaurus
- Mayasaurus
- Arigeida
- Sea Killersaurus
- Pair-Mons King
- Smoke Ness
- Mogura King
- Pair-Mons King β
- Gorgosaurus β
- Mayasaurus β
- Halley Jack
- Androsaurus II
- Androsaurus Jr.
- Magmagon
- Zangani
- Shadow Mons
- Teroringa
- Invesaurus
- Ghost
- Boasaurus
- Black Gon
- Lisa Okano
- Red Mons
- Giranda
- Boasaurus II
- Iezu
- Electricsaurus
- Dead King
Cast[]
- Kyotaro Kagami Nobuyuki Ishida :
- Asako Mitarai Takako Sawai :
- Hiroshi Murakami : Shunya Wazaki
- Takeshi Fujimoto Kentaro Kudo :
- Hidehiko Yasuda Hajime Sugiyama :
- Yuki Nomura Yoko Ichiji :
- Kenichi Mitarai Junya Usami :
- Ichiro Okawa : Tadayoshi Kura
- Desk : Fujio Murakami
- Reporter Asai : Kenji Nagisa
- Yuko Kagami : Sachiko Kozuki
Voice Actors[]
- Mirrorman's Father : Nobuo Tanaka
- Narrator Hikaru Urano :
Suit Actors[]
- Mirrorman: Mitsuru Saijo , Kinichi Kusumi
- Kaiju: Shinichi Umeda , Michiharu Sakamoto
Staff[]
- Supervision: Hajime Tsuburaya
- Directors: Ishiro Honda, Toshitsugu Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, Kazuho Mitsuta, Shohei Tojo, Hiroshi Shimura, Jun Oki
- Screenplay: Bunzo Wakatsuki, Keisuke Fujikawa, Hiroyasu Yamaura, Shigemitsu Taguchi, Toyohiro Ando, Showa Ota
- Producers: Kazuho Mitsuta, Toyoaki Tan, Masahiro Tsukahara, Higashi Kasuga, Koji Bessho, Tsutomu Yaoita
- Music: Toru Fuyuki
- Photography: Takeshi Goto, Toshiyuki Machida, Senkichi Nagai
- Art: Akira Kikuchi
- Character design: Yoshiaki Yonetani, Noriyoshi Ikeya, Tetsuzo Osawa, Akihiko Iguchi, Kengo Mokume, and others
- Character modeling: Kaimei Productions, Irie Productions, Ryosaku Takayama
- Synthesis technology: Minoru Nakano, Sadao Iizuka
- Production: Tsuburaya Productions
Music[]
- Mirrorman no Uta (opening / ending of episodes 1-29)
- Artists: Hiroshi Ueki, Honey Knights
- Tatakae! Mirrorman (ending of episodes 30-51)
- Artists: Nobuyuki Ishida, Hajime Sugiyama, Yoko Ichiji, Takako Sawai, Tokyo Arakawa Boys and Girls Choir
Home Media[]
Japan Columbia released Mirrorman on 17 VHS volumes from 1993 to 1994, with each containing 3 episodes, as well as on a LaserDisc set in 1996. VAP released the series as two DVD box sets on November 23, 2005 and January 25, 2006.
From December 2011 to April 2012, Toei Video rereleased the series on 10 DVDs, each with 5 episodes and 7 episodes of Mirror Fight, apart from volume 9, which has 5 episodes, 9 Mirror Fight episodes and the pilot episode, and volume 10, which has 6 episodes and a new 6-episode miniseries titled Mirror Fight 2012.[1][2][3] Toei Video later released a 10-disc box set on March 9, 2016 alongside box sets of Fireman and Jumborg Ace.[4][5]
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