Nexus Ultraman is independent of the Showa series and is different from the Heisei series. His appearance was originally intended to expand his audience and hope to save the Round Valley Company, which was in financial difficulties at the time, but due to various reasons in the later stages, the TV series was underfunded during filming, and had to cut the series and delete some of the plot. Despite this, the TV series still maintained the integrity of the plot and character image, and eventually became a classic in the Ultraman film series.
Nexus Ultraman appears in the future human world. In the future, the earth, the alien beast appeared, in order to secretly solve this problem and avoid causing panic among humans, the world defense organization was established, and the Japanese subordinate troops were night raid teams.
The Xenomorph has intelligence and can accelerate its evolution with many creatures through the absorption of energy and the learning of the knowledge of the earth. Therefore, when the night raid team fighting it was difficult to resist, the giant appeared. The giant is "Nexus". The Fittest is the name for the person who "can become Nexus Ultraman", the appearance of Ultraman requires the physical energy of the Able-fit as a support, when the human body energy is exhausted, Ultraman can not fight.
The difference between this setting and the previous Ultraman is that Ultraman is closer to the existence of a living body, he will also have human emotions, human thoughts, human will, human strength, each transformation will consume the physical energy of the "adaptable", which means that "people will die because of becoming 'Ultraman'", therefore, the play also conveys a message, or a thought, although this thinking is very simple, that is: the hero's shaping also needs a price, becoming a hero, paying more than responsibility, It's your life. That is, when you choose to be a hero, you have to have the "determination to die."
I believe that when you choose to watch this TV series and watch it with a kind of thinking, you will understand "What is a hero?" ”
The Nexus Ultraman theme song is called "Hero", and it conveys to us the "hero's" way of life.
Many people seem to have a biased understanding of "Ultraman", thinking that it is a TV series for children, just to tell children some fantasy stories, describing the plot of "how good triumphs over evil", and conveying the correct values to children through Ultraman. It can't be denied that this is the most successful point of the Ultraman series in these decades, and it is precisely because it has always occupied a large part of the children's world.
If we think about it a little, we will find that many of the details reflect many social problems: for example, some monsters appear because of human environmental pollution (biological mutation caused by chemicals), some monsters disappear because of human self-remorse, such as Ultraman also conveys thoughts about war, the destruction of traditional villages (Diga Ultraman) and so on.
And the understanding of "good and evil", "unity", "hope" and so on conveyed by Ultraman seems to reflect to a large extent that we are now thinking about these issues. We will think that these problems are very simple and naïve, and we will even think that talking about "ideals" and talking about "future" in modern society, and relying on Ultraman to talk about these problems is a very low thing, but ideals, persistence, not giving up, bravery, love and pity, these are the most basic things we as a "person", really need us to think.
In the new century, culture has gradually tilted towards the direction of marketization, people's values and cultural concepts have undergone great changes, or that a variety of cultural products have brought us a complex and diverse world outlook and values, and how to maintain a relatively correct idea among many values has become a problem.
We may refute it with the theory that "human thought is complex", saying that a person should not only have a certain value, but should have multiple ideas, multiple ideas, and in the collision of many ideas, we can have more profound thinking about a certain problem. However, what Ultraman gives us is a relatively simple, less logical way of thinking, we only answer the questions that the plot tells us, and we are only told over and over again: to persevere, to hope, to be brave, not to give up... We will get bored, we will feel bored, we will feel that this is useless, but think about it, isn't this exactly what we do every day, and isn't this also the spiritual support that we can take step by step into the future?
When our brains are occupied by many complex human natures and diverse values, why not choose to clean up and return to the simplest kind of "truth"? When we try to enter the world inside Ultraman, to experience the mood of people when facing monsters, to experience the confusion and confusion of taking responsibility after becoming a "hero", to try to see how each of them inside finds the insistence of "what is justice", to see ultraman's pain after he falls, can we think of, is not our own life?
From a personal point of view, I recommend watching this Ultraman-Nexus. Perhaps many people have heard or even seen Diga, Diga is also a very good work, so far the most well-known in China, it conveys the theme - the future fate of mankind depends on its own control - represents the understanding of "light" in people's hearts.
The theme conveyed by Nexus is: bondage - the inheritance of light.
Its main tone is dark, the story narrative is also quite realistic, can have a deep sense of substitution, I will be confused by the dark color of the first episode when I first watched it, because unlike the traditional Ultraman series, it expresses a more real situation in the nature of Ultraman itself and people's views on Ultraman: for example, people have not seen Ultraman before, they will subconsciously see such a huge giant as an unknown existence and have a vigilant and fearful mentality.
Second, Ultraman is no longer defeating a monster in one episode, but puts the plot of each episode in a big "conspiracy", and there is only one enemy in the whole work, that is, the big boss of the last episode, and the plot of each previous episode has a considerable degree of foreshadowing.
Third, the image depiction of the character is more plump and complete. As "capable people", human beings are no longer immediately transformed when they see monsters appear, but will think about themselves for "why do they have this power" and "why do they have this power and not others"; at the same time, there will be a lot of introduction to the personal life experience of the main supporting characters that appear in the TV series, which makes them have a more reasonable response to monsters, "protecting humans", "protecting the earth" and so on.
And I like the saying in it: "Light is a bond, and someone will inherit it and shine again." ”
(The picture in the article is from related works)