Ragstone was a Kaiju that appeared in Ultraman Cosmos episodes 35 and 53. When remodeled by Alien Nowar, it became Ragstone Mechalator .
Subtitle: Hypnotism Magical-beast
Conception
Design
Ragstone was designed after an American football player, with its fight against Cosmos was emphasized to resemble such sports.
History
Ultraman Cosmos
Ragstone
A bizarre rock-like monster from space, Ragstone took the form of a strange, temple-like building called Ragstone Core and began to build a cult-like following from noteworthy individuals from across Japan. The monster would increase their physical and mental abilities using its hypnotic powers while also causing them to become addicted to its influence and their emotions to degrade. Once EYES discovered this strange cult, Shinobu went to investigate, only for Ragstone Core to turn her as well.
After EYES quarantined Ragstone Core from its followers, Ragstone grew to its true form, which also revealed a spaceship. This spaceship then fired an energy beam into Ragston, amplifying its powers and absorbing emotions from it. Musashi transformed into Ultraman Cosmos, then to Corona Mode, and began to battle Ragstone. The fight between Cosmos and Ragstone seemed to be even, with the alien creature even shrugging off the Naybuster Beam without even a scratch. Realizing Ragstone's power came from human's emotion "rage," Cosmos went back into Luna Mode to use the Full Moon Rect as a counterforce of "love," restoring everyone's emotions. Defeated, Ragstone began to crumble to pieces, which were drawn up into the mysterious spaceship before it fled into space. The Magic Stone
Alien Nowar later revealed that they had sent both Inculas and Ragstone to learn about humans as they were hoping to obtain monsters living on Earth. Puppet Monster
Trivia
- Suit actor: Tomohiro Nagata
- Ragstone's roar is reused from the Ultraman Tiga Kaiju, Golza.
- Director Hideyuki Kawakami stated that the episode depicts the real-life issues of drug abuse in a more accessible way for children. Instead of Ragstone's victims becoming aggressive, as with drug withdrawal symptoms, it was written that they merely collapsed.
Ragstone Mechalator
After failing to capture the baby Arados, the Alien Nowar launched Ragstone Mechalator to battle Team EYES. Ultraman Cosmos appeared and battled the cyborg creature but got quickly overpowered by Ragstone Mechalator and its master's spaceship. Arados used the last of its power to banish Ragstone Mechalator into another space and time before seeming to die from exhaustion. Infuriated, Cosmos destroyed the Alien Nowar spaceship. Future Monster
Trivia
- Suit actor: Tomohiro Nagata
Data
Ragstone Core
- Stats
- Height: Unknown
- Weight: Unknown
- Origin: Planet Earth
- Weaknesses: The effectiveness of Ragstone Core's hypnosis varies from person to person, making some people immune. Ragstone Core can sense this and will reject such individuals.
- Powers and Weapons
- Hypnotic Ray: From the eye at the central part of its being, Ragstone Core can project an orange ray that can hypnotise a person. This results in the individual gaining increased physical and mental abilities. The process also has the side-effect of making the victim become "addicted" to Ragstone Core's power and will keep returning to it.
- Emotion Absorption: As Ragstone Core hypnotizes its target, it absorbs their emotions. With each visit, the victim's emotional capacity degrades further, and further, they become like a robot.
- Transformation: Ragstone Core can transform into its true form at any time.
- Spaceship Housing: Ragstone Core conceals Alien Nowar's spaceship beneath itself.
Ragstone
- Stats
- Height: 56 m
- Weight: 71,000 t
- Origin: Unknown
- Weaknesses: While negative emotions empower Ragstone, positive ones weaken it and cause its body to break apart. Its hypnosis' effectiveness still varies on an individual level.
- Powers and Weapons
- Hypnotic Ray: Ragstone retains its ability to hypnotize and enhance its victims in its true form. Alien Nowar can enhance its power further, allowing Ragstone to affect multiple people.
- Emotion Absorption: Ragstone can still feed on the emotions of victims, and with Alien Nowar's assistance, it can do this in mass.
- Negative Emotion Empowerment: The negative emotions Ragstone absorbs, such as rage and greed, increase its strength. After absorbing emotions from multiple humans, Ragstone can send the like of Ultraman Cosmos flying hundreds of yards.
- Armor: Ragstone has thick armored skin that allows him to withstand attacks like Ultraman Cosmos' Naybuster Beam without visible damage.
Ragstone Mechalator
- Stats
- Height: 56 m
- Weight: 75,000 t
- Origin: Planet Earth
- Powers and Weapons
- Enhanced Abilities: Having been cybernetically enhanced by Alien Nowar, Ragston Mechalator is even more powerful than before and capable of fighting Ultraman Cosmos in Eclipse Mode. Unlike the earth monster Mechalators, Ragstone Mechalator displays no negative side effects post-modification.
- Flying Tackle: Ragstone Mechalator launches at its target and slams its armor-plated head into them. This attack is strong enough to knock Eclipse Mode Cosmos off his feet and send him skidding away.
- Energy Blasts: Ragstone Machalator can fire barrages of red energy blasts from its shoulders.
- Burrowing: Ragstone Mechalator can burrow underground at a moderate speed.
Merchandise
Gallery
Ultraman Cosmos
- Ragstone
- Ragstone Mechalator
