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| “ | Being a Night Raider was just very convenient for me so I could restore my true form. All of you were just tools. | „ |
| ~ Mitsuhiko Ishibori/Dark Zagi |
| “ | Once Zagi appears and revives, this planet will be destroyed too! | „ |
| ~ Young Kaimoto to Hajime Yamaoka |
| “ | If there is no heart. If there is no life then the pain and sorrow will disappear. A "eternal peace" is "nothingless!" What good is to make this universe no longer cause pain. | „ |
| ~ Dark Zagi |
Dark Zagi, originally known as Ultinoid Zagi, is a clone of Ultraman Noa and the main antagonist of Ultraman Nexus. At first, he was created by an alien race known as the Visitors as a biological weapon to protect them from the threat of Space Beasts. However, he went malevolent and rebelled against his creator because he realized that he was the clone of Ultraman Noa. After he arrived on Earth, he took the body of a scientist named Hajime Yamaoka by killing him inside, later going by the name of Mitsuhiko Ishibori to aid in his disguise.
He was voiced by Kosei Kato, who also portrayed his host Mitsuhiko Ishibori/Hajime Yamaoka in the same series and Mitsuhiko Hirukawa in Ultraman Mebius. His suit actor was Hideyoshi Iwata, who later notably portrayed Ultraman Blazar, and he is the very first in suit role over the Ultra series.
Personality[]
| “ | I did it. All for when the light comes to you. | „ |
| ~ Dark Zagi after murdering Nagi's mother. |
As Ishibori, he is very quiet and rarely interacts with others. He is also very competent in hacking and mastering nearly all scientific fields as he is smart enough to analyzed the quantum properties of Ultraman's Meta Field and tracks down TLT's security system when all Night Raiders save Ren from being experimented.
In the last arc of Nexus, as Zagi, his true personality is clearly highlighted as he loves to manipulates people like puppets for his own benefit and if they fail to carry out orders, Zagi will mercilessly kills and discarded them. He is the one who summoned and stopped Space Beasts at will, empowering them painfully when they battling Nexus in Dark Field-G, and feeding them to stronger. In the final episode, he shoots his own comrade, Shiori Hiraki in the chest as soon as she become useless for him and he gloats to how he easily manipulated them by mocking his comrades as "tools".
Zagi's sadistic nature is proven when he proudly laughed at Nagi Saijyo's face about murdering her parents and possessed Hajime Yamaoka in a gruesome manner by killing him slowly and painfully. Overall, in his actions, Zagi proves himself to be not only sadistic but a remorseless entity that hungers for destruction in an unreasonable blind rage.
Biography[]
Origins[]
Space Beasts were threat in the galaxy that stores the Nebula M80 in the Scorpio constellation. Zagi appears in the home world of the highly intelligent alien that TLT know as Visitors, a jellyfish-like race, as an answer to this problem. They have witnessed the extraordinary power of the light being known as Ultraman Noa, a god-like being who has visited other planets to protect them from monsters. Desiring their own armor, they go to work to make a duplicate of the gigantic, anti-Beast bio weapon that bears ancient form and protective powers. But the end result will be a gruesome, dark, twisted mockery of Noa's form known as Ultinoid Zagi.
In order to counter the Space Beasts' ability to evolve from predation, Zagi was installed with a self-evolving program. But the giant awakens with a distorted consciousness, deeply aware of its nature as a clone of Ultraman Noa and is forced to develop a Space Beast instead when he gets lost. In order to surpass the original, Zagi combined the qualities and characteristics of Space Beasts and was eventually referred to as Dark Zagi. He then took the role as the Space Beasts' leader.
Dark Zagi defeated by Ultraman Noa in Ultraman Noa: Battle of Dream.
Dark Zagi compels the Visitors to destroy their homeworld, by causing their star to become a supernova in an attempt to destroy it, their attempts to throw him into another universe where he fights the Inhabitants of the Land of Light. During the battle, he briefly held Zoffy hostage. It was the battle that made Ultraman Noa a legend in the Land of Light when he finally threw his doppelgängers back into tears. In his original universe, Noa sealed tears by sacrificing most of his energy forcing him into a lower form, while Zagi lost his physical form from the same technique. Knowing the supernova will carry the Space Monster particles to another galaxy, their creators fled to Earth, a world they predict will suffer because of their actions and Zagi takes off after they are followed by Noa.
Arrival on Earth[]
Zagi kills Hajime Yamaoka.
Arriving in Colorado, where TLT, is being formed with the help of newly arrived visitors, he possesses a biologist Hajime Yamaoka and proceeds to kill the scientific team, After Yamaoka was possessed by Dark Zagi, who appeared on Earth in the form of light particles. Zagi destroyed Yamaoka's original consciousness and used his body as a host. Yamaoka, once possessed, immediately began slaughtering the whole study team of scientists, sparing only a girl named Nagi Saijyo, whom Yamaoka had prepared for a larger purpose. He also obliterated all recollections of his appearance, including Nagi's.
To assure the success of his disguise, Yamaoka deleted his own existence from TLT records and assumed the identity of Mitsuhiko Ishibori, including the latter's job history at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's forensic laboratory in 2003. To further disguise his genuine identity, he created the fake "Ishibori" persona. Yamaoka used this strategy to successfully modify people's recollections of him, convincing them that he was Ishibori.
Zagi kills Nagi's mother in front of her as a begining of his plan to regain his body.
During the events of Ultraman: The Next, he created his favorite Space Beast to be the first to attack people on Earth, called Beast the One by the military, he has the Ultra-like ability to merge with other creatures and formed by the particles of the previous Space Beast that was rampage on the Visitor's planet where it is used to absorb organisms to enhance his previous basic form. killed by Ultraman the Next; Noa's weakest form with the first Deunamist Shunichi Maki.
When TLT established a specialist task force known as "NR" in 2005, Ishibori was chosen to join it. As the inaugural member of NR, he coordinated covert events to infiltrate TLT while Ultraman Noa's might became stronger, seizing the opportunity for his resurrection. Concurrently, he created Dark Faust and Dark Mephisto, as well as trapping NR's vice-captain, Shinya Mizorogi, in darkness. The command of the Space Beasts was assigned to the Giants of Darkness he created.
Ultraman Nexus[]
| “ | While TLT had its potential barrier in place they were developing an antibody to prevent Beasts from appearing. For that cause, they controlled how you fought the beasts. They were regulating it. It's very similar to what I did. I predicted that Nagi would receive Ultraman's light. Creating Faust and Mephisto and having you fight them was all done to strengthen the power of the light. I used Riko Saida and Shinya Mizorogi. Nagi to plant the darkness in your heart. | „ |
| ~ Dark Zagi explaining his ultimate plan to Nagi, Komon, Wakura, and Kirasawa. |
During his time as the member of NR as Ishibori, Zagi witnesses the young girl he orphaned, Nagi Saijyo, growing up while corrupting his lover and mentor Mizorogi to deepen the darkness and malice in her heart. With the appearance of Second Deunamist Jun Himeya, the host of Noa's semi-evolved form Nexus, Zagi embarks on a lengthy scheme to gradually amplify light using his pawns, Space Beasts, Dark Faust, Dark Mephisto, and Dark Mephisto (Zwei).
As a NR member, Ishibori is described to as the NR analysis specialist when Captain Eisuke Wakura first met Kazuki Komon, the newest member of the squad, and he was entrusted with looking into the strengths and weaknesses of Space Beasts and Ultraman. He was not just an expert in fields like biological weapons and microorganisms, but he was also the team's go-to guy for technology and weapon development. He usually mobilized with Shiori Hiraki during missions, piloting the Chrome Chester γ. He also displayed exceptional physical prowess, excellent marksmanship, and competence in handling and driving machinery as an NR member.
Ishibori usually accompanied the members of NR on missions to face Space Beasts throughout the series. He performed his duty on these trips in silence, seldom obstructing others and seldom speaking up in times of difficulty. On the other hand, he spoke with Shiori frequently in private. Even though he appeared to be friendly toward Komon, he was generally very reserved and preferred to work alone at his desk, doing research and writing reports on investigations.
During the appearances of Golgolem, he analyzing the Meta Field and he concluded that it is a discontinuous spacetime boundary created by phase folding. Additionally, he examined the Ultraman and Space Beast waveforms, finding an inverse correlation between their oscillations, which suggested a dualistic link between the two entities.
Dark Zagi seen as Unknown Hand for the first time.
With no Giants of Darkness to command the Space Beasts following Dark Mephisto's defeat by the second Dunamist Jun Himeya, Ishibori started to personally step in from the background under the pretense of a "Unknown Hand," persistently turning on the "Dark Field-G" for the Space Beasts starting with Grantella. On the outside, though, he carried on with his NR responsibilities, keeping his standing and the team's trust.
At some points during the time of Ren Senjyu as the third Desunamist, he informed Shiori that the Space Beast that had been reported, Banpira, might be imitating the Memory Police and trying to hide itself by erasing human memories after discovering that the fog existed and that it could reflect the vibrational waves of the Space Beasts. He thought the Space Beasts might be slowly changing as a result of protracted conflicts with NR. Upon examining Banpira's vibrational patterns, he surmised that these were probably human sounds that the Space Beasts had collected. He speculated that the Space Beasts might be transmitting combat information via vibrational waves.
Ishibori unexpectedly reported to Captain Wakura a number of details following TLT's Yu Kirasawa's confirmation of the Unknown Hand's existence. His conjectures revealed his worry about the mysteries that remain unsolved within the company and his perplexity about the prospect of the team being kept in the dark about the reality. He demonstrated his willingness to seek the truth by taking the initiative to bring up these issues with Wakura and the other members by posing these questions. When Shiori went through a breakup, he noted her efforts to hide her inner suffering and tried to console her, suggesting that such repression could be hazardous to her mental and emotional well-being.
Unknown Hand brainwashed Misawa into Dark Mephisto (Zwei).
After Ishibori's multiple efforts in assisting Space Beasts with his Dark Field-G from Grantella to Bugbuzun Golar, Ishibori located an imprisoned Mizorogi with his remote view ability and he told him that he was the one who turned him into Dark Mephisto and corrupted him. Some times later, he later appeared to have located Hiroyuki Misawa inside the TLT facilities after Mizorogi made his escape from the TLT-J base and transforming him into Dark Mephisto (Zwei). After the death of Mizorogi and Misawa, Ishibori is seen smiling when he erased and stalked the data of the Deunamist.
Ishibori later told the members about his discovery of Kirasawa's Prometheus Project when he carried out his clandestine probe into TLT's internal issues. He had a suspicion that TLT had manipulated their memories. The Unknown Hand used this opportunity to enter the base and try to break Section 0, but eventually unsuccessful.
Ishibori used hacking techniques to breach the servers of TLT's North American headquarters in search of pertinent information in order to investigate the connection between the former BCST head, Sara Mizuhara, the Prometheus Project, and the discontinued drug "Raphael" and the investigator who returned to Japan to investigate TLT-J regarding the Unknown Hand incident. In the end, he discovered compelling proof that the truth about the five-year-ago Shinjuku catastrophe had been hidden. In actuality, though, Ishibori gave this information on purpose, which made NR members start to mistrust TLT.
Unknown Hand erasing the data of Deunamist.
Later on, he accompanied the other members of NR in their attempt to save Ren Senjyu. Ishibori remained in the command center to compromise the computer systems of the base, carrying out the operation with precision to conceal the other team members' flight from the Freedom Fortress and the pursuit of several regular soldiers. Afterwards, when he himself made his way out and joined the others, he was spotted by the computer by himself, grinning fearlessly. Shiori found this behavior puzzling. Then, in the middle of the day, Izmael launched an attack on a city to incite terror and support his own demands for power.
After Ren defeated Izmael, the light of Nexus passed to Nagi and she become the fourt Deunamist. Ishibori felt that the time had finally arrived, having developed a treacherous scheme over the course of eighteen years. He assaulted Captain Wakura, who was defending Komon, after first shooting Shiori severely with a gun. He tried to shoot the defenseless Komon, but Nagi showed up, and she stopped Ishihori from shooting up the command room with the Evoltruster. After that, Ishihori made his way out of the Freedom Fortress and made his way to Section 0, the lowest floor, where Lethe was hiding. Ishihori's strength kept growing, so much so that even the visitor-built barricades couldn't stop him from getting closer to Lethe.
Dark Zagi recovered his original body.
In response to Kirasawa's question, Ishihori disclosed that "Dark Zagi" was his real identity. When Komon, Wakura, and Nagi arrived, Ishihori told them all he had planned. He said that for a long time, he had flawlessly hidden his true identity and had given Dark Faust and Dark Mephisto command over the Space Beasts. Ishihori also revealed that he was the one who killed Nagi's parents years prior during this revelation. He clarified that he killed Nagi's parents because he knew that Nagi would inherit Ultraman's light and that the hatred that Nagi harbored would become a vital force for his own resurrection. Enraged, Nagi decided to assault Ishihori by transforming into Ultraman and ignoring everyone's attempts to stop her. With her escalating anger, Zagi trapped and tortured her with Lethe by transforming her light instantly into negative energy. Ishihori's original body finally restored as he absorbed Nexus' energy and eventually he dissappeared from Section-0.
Dark Zagi struggles in fighting Ultraman Noa.
After Zagi returned to his original form, he attacked Shinjuku city and caused simultaneous Beast attacks all over the world. After saving Nagi from Lethe', Komon becomes the fifth Deunamist and transforms into Nexus when Zagi causing havoc in Shinjuku. Komon as Nexus fights Zagi with his predecessors (Jun Himeya and Ren Senjyu) Junis forms but he still struggles when fighting Zagi even with the two forms' finishers. Fortunately, since Lethe was destroyed, the memories of humans that had been erased by Lethe restored and they remember all the events of the Shinjuku incident where Ultraman The Next and Beast the One battled, Nexus transforms into Ultraman Noa. Zagi roars in anger as he sees his template successfully restored his true form. As much as Zagi tries, Noa easily defeats Zagi and after being punched into orbit by the Noa Inferno, Noa used Lightning Noa to destroy Zagi but Zagi uses his Lightning Zagi to encounter Noa's beam. Zagi is finally killed by Noa due to his Lightning Zagi outmatched by Lighting Noa, thus ending his life for good.
Ultraman Ginga Theater Special[]
Zagi (or at least another version of himself) returns at the end of the Special Theater, having been summoned by Dark Lugiel to challenge Ginga. Emerging from his signature Dark Field G, Zagi is greeted by Jean-Nine and mistreats the combat robot, nearly tearing his head off in a display of brutality before forcing him off-line. Only Ginga's appearance in time saved him.
Ginga saved his friend by knocking Zagi down with a pulse of energy to the face, but barely slouching, in just seconds Ginga turned around Zagi was back on his feet and knocked down the Ultra with his Gravity Zagi. The two then embark on a high-speed battle which involves them moving at high speed with aura (which usually only appears when Ultras fly through space) and teleporting across the planet. In the end the two of them clashed with their beams and crashed into the other involved in the clash of empty beams. It ended with a huge explosion that cleared the rain cloud in a large circle while the two of them floated down. After being in terra firma, the Zagi Energy Core cracked, the pain ached as dark energy burst out of his body before exploding. His Spark Doll was later found by Dark Lugiel and most likely held by him until he is defeated by Ultraman Ginga, after which all the Spark Dolls returned home.
Powers and Abilities[]
Dark Zagi has his own mental abilities just like the Visitor, he can erase memories in his spare time as well as use the darkness in people's hearts to control them, usually when they control one of his Dark Giants. He can also show images and illusions to people, like he did to Mizorogi when he returned his memories as he was arrested by TLT. Zagi is equipped with the ability to self-evolve, doing so to counter the Space Beast's ability to evolve. He is also able to possess his host and kill his true consciousness so he can take over. While in possession of the ball, he was able to emulate real human feats to reinforce the validity of his disguise and maintain his true appearance even after nearly two decades of possesing the host.
Techniques[]
Special[]
- Lightning Zagi: Zagi can emit a very strong beam of dark energy from his vertical left arm, with his right hand placed behind him. This beam is not as powerful as its template counterpart, Lightning Noa. This is his strongest attack.
- Zagi Shoot: Zagi can emit powerful blasts of dark energy from his knuckles. These have a large amount of power behind them and can be fired consecutively.
- Gravity Zagi: Zagi can launch a stream of super-lethal gravitational energy by stretching his two arms forward. There are versions that are pre-loaded and those that are not.
- Dark Field-G Creation: Zagi can create a special type of Dark Field known as Dark Field G to do its bidding. He can use it to create battlefields, transport Space Beasts, or in human form to reflect attacks. He can use it regardless of his condition. In an additional episode, he used this to enlarge a human-sized Bugbuzun Brood into a giant. It appears again in Ultraman Ginga as a dark vortex from which he appears.
- Space Beasts Summoning: These monsters, like dark giants, are Zagi's henchmen, they are mostly either subdued under his control or created through his power. When Zagi directly appeared at the end of the series, it caused Space Beasts around the world to become active and rampage.
- Zagi's Reflection: Zagi can emit a purple barrier that can reflect energy attacks. This is a dark version of Noa's Reflection.
Unused[]
- Zagi Inferno: A dark version of Noa Inferno. Zagi filled his fists with dark flames and punched the opponent.
- Zagi Spark: A dark version of the Noa Spark. Zagi creates a light sword from the tip of his arm.
- Zagi Blizzard: A dark version of Noa Blizzard. Zagi froze his opponent using the dark blizzard he summoned.
- Darkness Zagi: A dark version of the Shining Noa, creates a pulse of darkness and drags the target inside its body.
- Zagi Wave: A dark version of the Noa Wave that only heals Space Beasts. In Ultraman F, his partner used it to heal Dark Faust and Dark Mephisto.
- Zagi Galaxy: Zagi's version of Noa Galaxy, uses dark waves to summon meteorites from the asteroid belt. This was demonstrated by his counterpart in Ultraman F.
- Zagi Mirage: Creates an illusion for his opponent with darkness, based on Noa Mirage.
- Zagi Through Eye: A dark version of Noa Through Eye, Zagi emits rays of light through his eyes to see through the dark.
- Zagi Elbow: Based on the Noa Elbow, Zagi performs a very high speed elbow attack.
- Zagi The Final: A dark version of Noa The Final, which turns all nearby light into darkness, because he doesn't have the Noa Aegis, it is different from his light version and has different effects.
Victims[]
- The Visitors - Slaughtered them by forcing their planet to go to Supernova.
- Hajime Yamaoka - Possessing his body by killing his consciousness.
- All TLT Scientists - Killed all of the scientific team including Nagi's parents to carry out his first plan.
- Takafumi Udo - Indirect victim by having Beast the One fused with him.
- Innocent human civilians - Indirect victim by having Space Beasts preying on them.
- Riko Saida - Indirect victim by having Dark Faust take to control her body and finally she sacrificed her life to protect Komon.
- Shinya Mizorogi - Indirect victim for the same reason as Riko Saida by turning him into Dark Mephisto and he died by letting him stabbed by Dark Mephisto (Zwei).
- Hiroyuki Misawa - Indirect victim for the same reason as both Riko Saida and Mizorogi Shinya, he was killed by Ren Senjyu/Ultraman Nexus.
- Hayato Kaimoto - Shot down by him in Episode 36 but recovered in the final episode.
- Shiori Hiraki - Same reason as Hayato Kaimoto but later recovered in the epilogue.
Quotes[]
| “ | You are a puppet, just a puppet. | „ |
| ~ Unknown Hand mocking Shinya Mizorogi after he shoots Riko Saida in cold blood. |
| “ | The time of awakening is near. | „ |
| ~ Ishibori erasing all data of the candidates of Deunamist. |
| “ | Intake some more fears! | „ |
| ~ Dark Zagi while approaching Lethe. |
| “ | The time of my revival has come! | „ |
| ~ Dark Zagi after he absorbed Ultraman's light. |
Trivia[]
- Originally, Dark Zagi was intented to be the dark form of Nagi Saijyo when she corrupted by darkness due to her being dominated by her negative emotions and anger. In addition to this, Dark Lucifer was originally intented to be the true mastermind of Ultraman Nexus with Mitsuhiko Ishibori as his human host. However, because the show was shortened from 50 to 37 episodes, the plan of which Nagi transforming into Dark Zagi was scrapped and Dark Lucifer's original role as the mastermind was given to Dark Zagi.[1]
- Originally Zagi had yellow eyes in the stage shows, but in later appearances, toys and on the show were changed to red.[2]
- Zagi's battle with Ultraman Ginga ended in a similar way to his battle with Ultraman Noa, where their beams collided, their signature beams were fired from opposite vertical hands.
- In the Tsuburaya All Monster Photobook, Zagi has the second subtitle of Dark God of Destruction.[3]
References[]
External Link[]
- Dark Zagi on the Pure Evil Wiki
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