:( but it's an amazing, generous offer, haruki

{Haruki and Z are about to use Beliarok, when the sword suddenly flies off on them.]

Beliarok: Ohh! I smell something nice!~

Haruki: Hey! Beliarok, come back! Where’d he go?

Z, looking around: There on that building!

[Sure enough they see the talking blade hovering on a rooftop, talking to a startled woman.]

Beliarok, sniffing R/n: I knew I smelled something good!~

R/n, who got yeeted to Z’s Earth: y-You look like Belial but you’re not, are you?

Beliarok, huskily: For you, I could be.~ 

Haruki: what the?

Z: I-...Is, Is Beliarok hitting on that woman?

[Long story short, Beliarok refused to leave R/n’s side threatening to bite or slice anyone who so much as looked at her funny. That was until her Belial found a way to retrieve her from Z’s world. Beliarok tried to follow them but R/n’s Belial sneered and was like “Sorry, but I don’t share.” and threw the sword back to Haruki and Z.]

Haruki: Aw... That sucks Rok.

Beliarok:...

Z: Don’t worry. Perhaps you’ll find your own R/n someday...

Beliarok, whose totally not crying *he is*: I don’t need your pity..... Just find me something to slice dammit!

🤣🤣🤣 I still love the running joke about how Beliarok got very fond of Haruki and would ditch Z any chance he could www

マイ☆ドリーム VS オンバット

goodnight

Do you think all of the other Ultra's are weirded out by Beliarok? Cause like, that's Belial, who did almost kill all of them, and was once part of their ranks, but it's a sword. And it's not Belial, it's just based on him, but he talks like Belial and is an asshole like him, but he's friends(?) with Z and generally just does whatever.

" Well? All you have to do is try me out... "

Koishi seemed hesitant at first but the fact this weapon is even willing to let her try him out the hard way seems a bit off but she is not gonna hold back. The dragon king now grabs him gripping tightly around the arm guard under his head. She examines him closely and sees how incredibly sharp he is as he reminded her of her knife.

" Soo, what now beliarok? "

" Go outside and fight some bad guys. I wanna see the REAL dragon in you... "

With beliarok now at her disposal she now walks towards the door only to pass by her wife who's now reading a book.

" Gods I'm gonna regret this... "

" Koishi? Honey? You're up a bit late where are you going? "

" I'm going out for a bit do you want anything? "

" Bring me some ingredients for your favorite raspberry tea I would like to spend our time together... "

" That'll be lovely...! I'll bring what you need. Love you.. "

Right before she walks out Yukari opened the gap next to her where she pops out of it and plants a kiss on her cheek. Blushing out of her mind she chuckles and walked out of her home where now her smile fades as she felt awful for lying towards her but maybe after satisfying Beliarok she'll buy some tea over by neoxus city. The weapon in her hand is chuckling.

" You really love her do you? You never stop mentioning her... "

" Listen here, leave my wife out of your mouth the reason why we're only outside cause you told me to just to kill enemies of gensokyo my home. "

Figure-Rise Standard Ultraman Z Original announced

For their next entry into the recent Figure-Rise Standard line of Ultraman model kits, Bandai have announced that they are to continue releasing New Generation Ultras with the popular Ultraman Z in his base Original form.

The first New Gen Ultraman kit to not be of a currently-airing series, the self-proclaimed student of Zero continues the characteristics of the line by reproducing his colours and details purely through parts separation; with no stickers required to recreate his body patterns. A new reflection cut process is used for the light behind Z's eyes and colour timer, and the movement in the neck and shoulders is expanded through sinking parts.

For accessories, Z Original comes with not just a Zestium Beam effect but also his signature Beliarok sword, which can be held either way up and recreates the DX toy's opening mouth gimmick with hinged parts. An alternate red colour timer is included, and rounding out the accessories are a large selection of expressive alternate hands such as pointing and gesturing to recreate Z's expressiveness in both the show and the voice dramas.

Figure-Rise Standard Ultraman Z Original releases at general retail in August 2023 for 3,520 Yen.

Forced Allyship

New Generation Stars: Yuka is struggling with reimbursement paperwork, feeling overwhelmed with Hebikura and Haruki gone, and Ediom offers to show her things about Juggler she doesn't know already, while clarifying dismissing him as a past villain is oversimplifying. He shows her what he was doing during the second Barossa Seijin attack, Yuka despite his actions cannot think badly of Hebikura. Yuka decides to ask about Beliarok, having seen Belial in the records Ediom showed, and realises the connection to Geed, Ediom showing Geed's first battle with his father, then shows another example of an evil ultra, with Tregear's murder of King Guesra, and an evil that is a match for the Ultras, showing Dark Zagi (SD) battle Jean-nine and Ginga. When Ediom mentions Dark Zagi was the result of an attempt to replicate Ultras, Yuka is given pause, before turning her attention to continuing with the Sevengar. As Ginga's data is added to the STORAGE Key, Ediom was to remind her she's meant to doing paperwork.

Gotchard: Clotho rages, desperate for greater strength, but is dismissed by Atropos, who tells her she can't use Type:Three and that she's now as useless as their brothers. In the World of Legend, Butler tries to inform Kaguya of finishing work on the Legend Kamen Riser, but gets no response, and an Aurora Curtain appears, out of which steps a squad of Hundred's Kasshin lead by Alpha, seeking to claim the Riser, but of its own accord it travels through the Aurora Curtain, the Kasshin pursuing. Gotchard defeats a Chemie and recovers AkumaNocaris, while Renge and Sabimaru restrain the host when he tries to keep attacking. Spanner brings Lachesis to the Academy at Rinne's request, while Clotho ambushes Hotaro on the way back, when he asks why she's still fighting with Greyon gone she can't answer, but things are interrupted by the appearance of the Kasshin squad. Hotaro only vaguely recalls the Kasshin from the previous events, even as Alpha identifies him as Gotchard, and is forced to fight them, Clotho also is beset and attempts to transform again unsuccessfully, before something watching makes Hotaro, Clotho and the Kasshin vanish, Hotaro awakens in an empty space with a mysterious door. Rinne asks Lachesis about Atropos, feeling unable to leave her be, Lachesis thinks she's being foolish, they're dolls, inhuman, Atropos moreso, but Kyouka suggests they could become properly human, and for that purpose aggressively requests to study Lachesis. Lost in a bizarre maze, Ichinose stumbles on Clotho, who is injured from the failed henshin despite trying to put on a strong front, and he instinctively tries to help her when a group of Kasshin find them and attack, after both try fighting, when the next door appears he makes sure to drag her with him. Lachesis cannot recall her creation, but knows she is the youngest sister, Minato and Kyouka conclude they are Homunculi. When safe, Ichinose tries to help Clotho, who is annoyed at his concern for her and the fact this isn't even the first time he saved her, once saving her from Dread overloading her, but he can't look the other way, and tries to ask what her goal is, while her thoughts turn to her sisters she denies having one. The Kasshin catch up, complaining of being trapped there, and seek to eliminate Gotchard as one of "his" allies, Alpha leading them to attack. Gotchard GoldMechanic fights them, then switches to Super Gotchard UFO-X, and convinces Clotho that, the rest can wait, but they need to work together now. Spanner and Rinne arrive where Sabimaru and Renge saw Hotaro vanish, Minato can sense the labyrinth entrance nearby. Kasshin keep coming for the pair, and Gotchard reverts to normal shielding Clotho. When Alpha mocks her as holding him back, she decides she's had enough of people looking down on her, and will fight how she wants, discarding "duty" and becomes Dread Type:Two, trashing the Kasshin. Alpha tries to flee, but Platinum Gotchard traps him using AkumaNocaris and then uses KaryuDos and KaiserBee to finish him alongside Dread, breaking the labyrinth. Alpha's body collapses, leaving a device behind. Hotaro again asks Clotho to stop the fighting, but she claims she was just using him to escape, but before she can leave both are subject to intense gravity, and Atropos presents the Abyssal King, who grants Clotho her desire for escaping his labyrinth, transforming her into a monstrous form before they all leave, the others only find Hotaro when they catch up. 3 Hundred executives arrive, signalled by the device Alpha left, and aim to acquire the Weapon, and eliminate Gotchard.

Boonboomger: Another chase sees the 3 junior members getting competitive, Chassiro tests the Boonboom Offroad Ghost to get past them, prompting Taiya to test Boonboom Racing's thruster, winning the speed test but crashing after. Mad Rex is overheating with frustration at the disruption of their plans, and partly fearing Wild Spinder's wrath, orders the others to bring him BunRed. Boonboom Racing put a huge strain on Taiya, and there's discussion of Genba's procurement skills. Saibu comes by, and questions Genba deciding to join the team. While she wanted to gift Bundario a Gabora CD, he is absent, and also wants to discuss weapon improvement, confusing Genba, as he knows the Boomboomgers were created for the BBG. Realising Taiya never told Mira and Jou, let alone Saibu, his actual dream, Chassiro and Genba are forced to explain Taiya was creating everything for the sake of creating the Big Bang Grand Prix, an interplanetary race, it's just happened to be useful for the Hashiliens. With Jou, Mira and Saibu now all questioning Taiya's motives, before he can explain they're alerted to the Hashiliens. Foregoing the Kurumaju, Dekotread and Itashar are having the Nejiraiders cause chaos on their own, Yarucar gulping the Gyasoline without going wild. With Taiya slowed down thanks to his injury, the others are lured by Dekotread and Itashar to a warehouse, Chassiro realises the trap too late to stop Mira springing it, and they get tapped in a cage, as do Jou and Genba, but as Taiya points out, Itashar and Dekotread have gotten themselves trapped as well. Trying to Boonboom Change just gets everyone on a cage zapped. Taiya can't free anyone yet, as Mad Rex is there for him. As Mad Rex and BunRed fight, Mad Rex declares them kindred spirits, both seeking someone who can get there engine running, and tries to recruit him, Taiya essentially agrees if Mad Rex can defeat him, to Mira and Jou's horror. After an intense battle Taiya wins, and Mad Rex, annoyed, forces all the Gyasoline out of Yarucar so he can grow giant, in the process destroying the warehouse and the cages. Despite their current reservations, Jou points out to Mira they need to fight right now, so the two pilot the left arm vehicle, with Chassiro and Genba in the right, as Boonboomger Robo Police forms. Unfortunately, Mad Rex outspeeds it easily, and Boonboomger Robo Builder fairs no better. They try to switch to Boonboomger Robo, but Mad Rex trashes Boonboom Wagon before it attaches, leaving Mira and Jou on the ground and Genba tries to substitute with Boomboom Classic, but as soon as it equips Mad Rex forces it off and destroys the Driver from Boonboom Offroad. Mira and Jou try and get them to retreat, and even Chassiro and Genba try to dissuade him, but he uses Boonboom Offroad Ghost to successfully form Boonboomger Robo Puncher, but the untested Boonboom Car causes feedback that forces Genba and Chassiro out. The cross counter ends with Taiya badly injured, and Mad Rex forced to retreat. Mira tries to question Taiya both on pushing himself and risking their lives, before he can offer any explanation he collapses.

{Akari, Zero, Taiga and Z are fighting a bunch of robots and during the fight Akari and Zero pull off a badass move where they switched weapons mid-battle. Zero took hold of his sister's ax and Akari got her brother's double sluggers and they wielded both like it was an everyday thing. they even strike a cool pose where Zero flipped ax around before resting it lazily on his shoulder while Akari held his sluggers in front of her in an X form as the robot explode behind them.

Taiga and Z watched wide eyed as they both dodge an onslaught of attacks.]

Z and Taiga: Whoa! Badass...

Taiga, roundhouse kicks a bot away: Say, should we try that?

Z, looks at Beliarok blankly: Ah....

Beliarok: Z, If you even think of trading me over to that twerp, I'll bite you on your big stupid head!

Z: I don't think that's a good idea...

hullo have you watched Z yet and what do you think of my best boi

Yes! Z was actually kind of part of my experience getting into Ultraman -- it wasn't my first, but it was the show that was coming up at the time and we were slowly getting information about it; and as someone who started with Orb that made the whole question over Aoyagi's casting VERY entertaining. I watched the first like 5 New Gen shows and the Zero movies before it aired but it was always there, hovering in my mind.

And then when it hit it HIT, boy! One of my top 3 Ultraman shows which also puts it in my top 10 Tokusatsu shows, really really liked it. Fantastic synthetisation of everything good about Ultraman while also challenging it in a seriously meaningful way, all strung along by really entertaining shit between Juggler and Beliarok and everything to do with STORAGE. Absolutely amazing memories as well due to it being the first simultaneous broadcast; so I was right there screaming with SO many friends alongside me which isn't an experience I get to have often with Toku!

tl;dr -- kind-of one of my first Ultra series that's stayed with me as an incredible experience and an all-around amazing show

Guess what's ready for digital order! It's @ultra-zine!!!

Okay look I know that my very first post said that I wasn't a figure person. That has obviously changed and I have officially fallen into the SH Figuarts rabbit hole. I preordered Blazar plus I want to get Zero and all of Z's forms. Send help, lmao

Full disclosure: I did contribute something to this zine, which is one reason why I haven't done many liveblogs lately. (I'm still a little emotional about seeing something I've written in print.) I wrote Chill Out, It's Snow Problem, though that was before I saw the dub for Z. Watching that notably changed how I write Z's verbal tics.

I had a hard time with this story because my first draft was like 4500 words. I had to cut out a lot and that was a painful experience! Granted, for me editing is always a painful process, but I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't hurt in one way or another, I'm not editing enough. I'll probably toss up the longer version on AO3 eventually though. It actually really, really hurt to cut as much as I did and I want those parts to see the light of day in one way or another.

There were some scenes that I wanted to write but didn't even make it into the first draft. There was originally going to be a scene with Z taking control of Haruki's body with his permission and skating at an ice rink because my headcanon is that Z would be really good at it. Yes, that scene from episode 7 has been living rent-free in my head for way too long. I also thought Z skating in Haruki's body would be a fun scene for the artist (in this case the amazing @chacerider, though I didn't know that at the time) to use for the illustration if they wanted. Beliarok was going to appear too, but I couldn't think of a way to get him in there in a way that I was happy with.

Originally the story started in Haruki's apartment before going to STORAGE, which actually did make it into the first draft. I had to choose between scrapping that whole intro or paring down the emotional beats that came later. The choice was obvious. Oh yeah and I had Haruki nearly get hit by a truck in the first draft. Fun! Still had to cut it, though.

Haruki and Z being able to tell how the other is feeling or emotions bleeding from one to the other isn't exactly something that happens in canon, I know. It's pretty much me taking the idea of Haruki's emotional state having a big effect on Z in episode 12 and then dialing it up to 11. I like the idea of there being side effects (for lack of a better word) to merging, and I wanted to explore how the friendship between Z and Haruki might develop if there was a lot more unintentional emotional openness. I'll also fully admit that I stole some things from Geed. Leito and Zero's conversations when they're out and around regular people was the big one, and while Z does take control of Haruki's body in episode 7 for a second, I was really more thinking of Geed's early episodes and how Zero would take control of Leito's body basically whenever he felt he needed to.

If you made it to the end, thanks! The link to read my story on AO3 is below. If you didn't manage to grab a physical edition of the zine, you can get a digital version of it and the previous volumes here!

so geed was made from belial’s genes and riku considers belial his father, following that logic does that make geed beliarok’s father?

Riku, do you have a kid and is he a sword??

So, you know how the Beliarok is basically a weapon themed after Belial and all? Well, what kind of weapon that was the same as the Beliarok be if it were Ultraman Tregear instead? Like what kind of weapon would it be and what could it do? Also how do you think it would behave and all?

I think this boils back down to the very convenient weaknesses that Greeza has that I talked about extensively back when Z was airing that it all has to do with Reiblood's Reionyx genes (and by extension, the Belial Virus) having some very, very unique properties to merge with a spacetime anomaly's failsafe device to form the Beliarok

I cant comment beyond this since we just simply dk enough about Reiblood at this point

For Toregia, your implicit assumption is that Grimude's power would even interact with the key in the same way the reionyx genes would

Again, no idea as all we know is that Grimude predates the M78 Universe, and the reason for his seal is curiously enough the same reason why Greeza manifested back in Z when Bullton was defeated, to "maintain balance in the universe". Note the similar choice of words used here. In the broader context, we can interpret that both Greeza and Grimude probably live in the space in between universes, which we know exists in the Revenge of Belial Movie

So there would probably be some reaction between Grimude's power and Greeza's key

Tho i highly doubt itll result in something like the Belialrok

But tbh, even the Belialrok's existence is highly ambiguous at this point, since it has free will and we've seen that it is attracted to its progenitors like Geed and Belial, but its inevitably a Reionyx. Why am I saying this is because we know from the leaks that the Regulus special episode (essentially the prelude for UGF4), Reiblood has returned and theoretically, even as a small soul fragment, he should be able to assert enough influence on it same with Geed actually (which is why I said that Geed is actually a ticking time bomb since Reiblood is such a legendary existence)

So I suppose the same logic would apply with this hypothetical Toregiarok. However, Ill have to bring up another point about Grimude thatll differ from Reiblood's circumstance, is that based on the Toregia novel (that is canon), its said that after absorbing some of Grimude's power, Toregia literally gained the ability to be unkillable,

Since every time he dies, another version of him in the multiverse would take his place in whatever universe hes in. So I suspect that this is the same as Grimude. However, for his ability to be this ridiculously overpowered, I suspect that the Grimude we saw itself in the Taiga movie was also but a fragment of something even more grander, similar to the Reiblood soul fragment logic

Tbh, whatever this being is would have to be stronger than Reiblood since we know just how powerful a soul fragment of Reiblood is based on the feats and durability of the one we saw back in NEO and obviously we can see that fragment Grimude is far stronger than fragment Reiblood (assuming each soul fragment is equally powerful of course)

Another point ill have to bring up is that Reiblood is stated dead (as ambiguous and suspicious as that canon statement is since no one knows how he died), but the whereabouts of the being that Grimude is a fragment of is unknown.

So how does all this really translate to your question?

It inevitably comes down to whether it can really have its own free will or nah.

Since for the Beliarok's case, Reiblood is dead, and it was made from Geed's Reionyx genes (Without any of Reiblood's soul fragments) so Reiblood's influence is so diluted by the time it gets to the formation of the Belialrok

For the hypothetical Toregiarok's case, Grimude is obviously far more powerful than Reiblood's soul fragment (im NOT saying Reiblood himself btw) and the true progenitor of Grimude is unknown at this point, but since a fragment is alr so ridiculously powerful, I suspect its still somewhere cruising in the gaps between universes.

By extension, Im scaling this "True Grimude" above Reiblood, especially since the latter was scaled as a Universal Threat whilst Grimude himself predated the universe, so it wont be far fetched to say that Grimude himself was a universal threat, especially since his sealing was neccessary to "maintain the balance of the universe", by extrapolation, True Grimude would probably be a multi-universal threat at least if we go off the scaling of Reiblood's soul fragment to Reiblood's stated feats

Thus, imo itll be far more powerful than the Belialrok, with far more influence over spacetime such as what we saw with Grimude and Toregia, but on a lesser scale. But as said, assuming the progenitor is still alive, no idea to what extent itll have a will of its own, or simply another Grimude

Ye this answer got off the rails real quick since all this is very much deep-cut, bottom-of-the-iceberg stuff, especially since we're talking about something even older than universes, potentially even older than the DoL which I scaled approximately 10^9000x stronger than an average New Gen so inevitably we're talking about existences that are far, far beyond the Legendary Ultras

Thanks for the question!