The main cast of "Gridman Universe" movie version all appear in the show! Gridman Universe Show" Report! Archived until 4/14!

On April 7, 2024, the "Gridman Universe Show," an event for the movie version of "Gridman Universe," was held at Sagami Women's University Green Hall in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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The official report of the "Gridman Universe Show," an event of the theatrical version of "Gridman Universe" held at Sagami Women's University Green Hall in Kanagawa Prefecture on April 7, 2024, has arrived.

The main cast members of "Gridman Universe" gathered at this show and performed an original reading play and talk show. The performers were as follows

Hikaru Midorikawa (Gridman)
Yuya Hirose (played by Yuta Hibiki)
Yume Miyamoto (played by Rokka Hota)
Junya Enoki (played by Yomogi Asanaka)
Shion Wakayama (Playing the role of Yume Minami)
Yuichiro Umehara (Playing the role of Yamanaka Reki)
Chika Anzai (Playing the role of Chise Asukagawa)
Daiki Hamano (Playing the role of Rex)
Mayumi Shintani (Playing the role of Rokka Mama)
Suzuko Mimori (Playing the role of Namiko)
Akari Kito (Playing the role of Hassu)
Kenichi Suzumura (Playing the role of Knight)
Hanabayashi Takahashi (Playing the role of 2nd)
Toru Inada (Playing the role of Alexis Keliv)
Rena Ueda (Playing the role of Akane Shinjo)
Marei Uchida (Playing the role of Hime)
Oishi Masayoshi

Souma Saito (Playing the role of Shogun Utsumi) *Voice only
Nobutoshi Kamina (Playing the role of Mad Origin) *Voice only

Honorifics omitted.

Official Report

The performance opened with a digest video of famous scenes from "Gridman Universe. First, the performers gathered on stage. The artist Oishi Masayoshi especially excited the audience, appearing in a cosplay of Juga of "SSSS.DYNAZENON" who is famous for his resemblance to Oishi, which drew laughter from the audience. Then, after everyone greeted the audience, Daiki Hamano shouted to the audience, "Gridman Universe Show! he exclaimed to the audience. The audience responded with "Battle Go! and the event started.

The first performance was a reading play "Even if it's been 5,000 years" with a hero show. It is a sequel to "Gridman Universe," in which Rex, Knight, and the second generation slip back in time to a world 5,000 years ago in pursuit of a reaction believed to be Alexis Keliv, where they encounter Hime, Rex's longtime love. Then Alexis, who calls himself Alexiyaki Kebab, prince of the Darkened Sky Kingdom, appears and makes a pass at Hime, leading to a battle with Grid Knight and Dinazenon.

Although the film opens with the serious development of the resurrection of Alexis, the content is a series of unintentionally funny scenes, such as Knight saying "It's a good time" when he hears that there was no consumption tax in the world 5000 years ago, Hime saying "Won't someone come to save us from the boredom? Hime even mentioned the AI that has recently become a problem in the voice-over industry, and the audience laughed throughout the exchange.

After Alexis revealed himself, Grid Knight and Dinazenon appeared on stage. The action was as lively as a hero show, which has become a familiar sight at Gridman events. After the battle, Gauma and Hime, aka Rex, were left alone with Hime, and the exchange between them was a very memorable scene for fans of the series, and made me want to see it in the anime.

While the afterglow of the reading performance was still lingering, a live performance by Marei Uchida began. She performed "Strobe Memory," the ED theme song of "SSSS.DYNAZENON. During the live, Uchida called out to the audience to stand up. As the sense of unity in the venue grew, Uchida sang "youthful beautiful," the ED theme song of "SSSS. GRIDMAN". In the latter half of the song, Uchida went up on the top of the stage and stirred up the fans, which greatly enlivened the audience.

Next, the cast members were divided into three groups and each gave a talk show. The theme of the talk was "Memory Diary," in which the cast members looked back on memorable events in the series with their own drawings they had made in advance.

First, Daiki Hamano, Suzuko Mimori, Kenichi Suzumura, Hanabayashi Takahashi, Toru Inada, and Marei Uchida began their talk, interspersing their impressions of the previous reading play. They talked about the "Grid Night Fight Night" event in which Takahashi, Inada, and Suzumura appeared and their memories of the launch of "Gridman Universe" after its completion.

Inada talked about the scene in "Gridman Universe" where a certain Ultraman, whom he had voiced, appeared. Uchida chose as a memorable scene the words Hime wrote on the back of a receipt for Gauma. Hamano, who had watched "Electric Light Superhero Gridman" as a child, chose "junk," a choice that made fans cry, and spoke of his passion for the "Gridman" series, to which the audience gave a big round of applause.

The next team consisted of Hikaru Midorikawa, Yuya Hirose, Yume Miyamoto, Mayumi Shintani, Akari Kito, and Rena Ueda. Shintani, for some reason, watched a pro-wrestling match, Midorikawa talked about his "companion-shot" with Hirose at the event, and Kito drew a picture diary of the postrecording scene and read it, which excited the audience.

Among these developments, Ueda's drawings caught the audience's attention. He selected a memorable scene of Shinjo Akane's hand in a memorable scene, and even the fingers of the hand were drawn in perfect detail, which impressed the cast members greatly.

The final group was Junya Enoki, Shion Wakayama, Yuichiro Umehara, Chika Asai, and Sayoshi Oishi. The audience laughed out loud at Oishi's outbursts, such as when he revealed that Chise, played by Anzai, was his favorite and got a little creeped out, and when he heard Umehara say that they all went out to eat yakiniku together, he scoffed that he had not been invited to the event.

He also shared an episode from a private visit to a support screening of "Gridman Universe. When Juga was shown for a moment, the audience called out, "Go home, go home! but the audience sang the theme song "uni-verse" at the end of the movie, which brought tears to his eyes.

The next corner was "Both Sides, Now," the second part of the reading play. The story begins when Utsumi goes missing at a haunted place where he went to test his courage. To search for Utsumi, the Gridman Alliance, Rokka Mama, Hasu, the Gauma Squad, Shinjo Akane, and Gridman, friends from different worlds, gather to search for Utsumi. Akane proposes to search for Utsumi with an AI-equipped artificial human that she has created. However, when Yomogi tries to control the artificial human through instance domination, the AI unexpectedly takes over in the opposite direction. Yuta becomes Gridman and fights to stop the AI's ambition to end the human world.

Once again, the audience laughed out loud as the cast members exchanged hearty dialogue. Particularly amusing was the exchange between Yomogi and Yumei. Yomogi was taken over by AI because "he has little human heart and doesn't think", to which Yumeba lamented, "I was in charge, so Yomogi can't think for himself anymore".

Incidentally, the AI Android that appeared in the show had an appearance related to "Electric Light Superhero Gridman," and some of the audience members who might have noticed this were surprised to see it. The inclusion of such maniacal parodies is an interesting aspect of the Gridman stage, and is sure to be a hit with deep special effects fans.

The hero show scene was also a big hit, with the appearance of Mad Origin, who fought in the "Gridman Universe," eliciting a gasp of excitement. Especially exciting was the appearance of Gridman (Primal Fighter), Gridman (Universe Fighter), and Gridman (Electric Light Superhero). The fans did not expect to see these three forms fighting together, and the crowd erupted in thunderous cheers and applause. The climax of the performance featured the addition of Grid Knight and Dinazenon, and the audience was excited from start to finish by the overwhelming performance.

The highlight of the reading was the final exchange between Gridman and Akane Shinjo. The audience quietly watched Midorikawa and Ueda's quiet performance.

The last act on stage was a live performance by Oishi Masayoshi. First, he sang "In Perfect," the OP theme song of "SSSS.DYNAZENON," to a standing ovation of the fans. Next, for "UNION," the OP theme song of "SSSS.GRIDMAN," a guitarist was chosen from the audience to replace Tom-H@ck. The selected audience member performed the guitar solo part with a groovy air guitar performance, further increasing the tension in the venue.

The theme song "uni-verse" from "Gridman Universe" brought all the performers to the stage. As the audience's voltage reached a climax, Oishi sang the song in an impressive high tone and closed the live in a frenzy.

Finally, Yuya Hirose greeted the audience on behalf of the performers. The show closed with the customary call and response, "Access Flash! The stage closed with the customary call-and-response "Access Flash! The live streaming of this performance will be available until the end of April 14. It is a 2-hour and 30-minute long performance with substantial content, so if you were not able to see it in real time or learned about the event for the first time, please be sure to watch it.

Writer: Mutsumi Hitoshi

Original text is in Japanese only.

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[WORK INFO
■" Gridman Universe ".
＜Staff>
Original Story : Gridman
Director : Tetsu Amemiya
Screenplay : Keiichi Hasegawa / Tetsu Amemiya
Character Design： Masaru Sakamoto
Sub Character Design : Mayumi Nakamura
Gridman Design: Masayuki Goto (Tsuburaya Productions)
Dinozenon Design: Tsuyoshi Nonaka
Monster Design: Hiroshi Maruyama, Shinji Nishikawa
Heroic Animation Chief: Hiroki Mutaguchi
Mechanical Sequence Director: Hajime Asano
Assistant Director: Yuichi Shimohira
3DCG Production: Graphinica
3DCG Chief Director: Shinichi Miyakaze
3DCG Director: Koji Ichikawa
Art Director: Taketo Gombei (Goofy)
Color Designer: Hitoki Takeda
Director of Photography: Katsunori Shirado (Graphinica)
Editing: Masato Yoshitake
Music: Shiro Sagisu
Music Production: Pony Canyon
Sound Director: Hiroki Gofumi
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Animation Producer: Shunsuke Shida
Animation Production: TRIGGER
Distributor: Toho Film Division

＜Theme Song
OISIMA Sayoshi "uni-verse

<Cast
Gridman: Hikaru Midorikawa
Yuta Hibiki: Yuya Hirose
Utsumi Masaru: Souma Saito
Houta Rokka: Yume Miyamoto
Yomogi Asanaka: Junya Enoki
Yumei Minami: Shion Wakayama
Yamanaka Koyomi: Yuichiro Umehara
Asukagawa Chise: Anzai Chika
Gauma / Rex: Daiki Hamano
Caliber: Ryosuke Takahashi
Max: Katsuyuki Konishi
Borer: Yuuki Aoi
Vitt: Masaya Matsukaze
Rokka Mama: Mayumi Shintani
Namiko: Suzuko Mimori
Hassu: Akari Kito
Anti / Knight: Kenichi Suzumura
Monster Girl / 2nd: Hanabayashi Takahashi
Hime: Maye Uchida
Alexis Keliv: Toru Inada
Shinjo Akane: Rena Ueda

<Introduction
Tsuburaya Productions of "Shin Ultraman" presents a new century of entertainment together with TRIGGER of "Promea"!

Tsuburaya Productions has been making great strides beyond the boundaries of tokusatsu in recent years, including the blockbuster success of "Shin Ultraman". GRIDMAN" and "SSSS. DYNAZENON". The director of these two works, Tetsu Amemiya, portrayed young people living in the "now" between the everyday and the extraordinary with a fresh sensibility, and at the same time, his dynamism in portraying the action of heroes and robots gained tremendous support from a wide range of viewers.
In 2023, "Gridman Universe," a completely original film that miraculously crossovers the characters and worldviews of these two works, will finally be released in theaters.

When the two daily lives intersect, a new extraordinary world is born...

<Story
Tsutsujidai High School.
In the classroom after school, Yuta Hibiki repeatedly draws and erases Gridman, who is supposed to be in his memory, in his notebook. This world was once created and destroyed by a girl. The girl's heart was saved by a hyper-agent Gridman from another dimension, a monster with a heart she created, and Yuta and his friends.

Yuta is promoted to the second grade and placed in a different class from Rokka, and decides to confess his feelings to her. Their daily life in such a peaceful world begins to crumble with a roar.

In the midst of the crisis that Yuta is facing, Gridman suddenly appears and speaks to him.
The balance of this world is about to collapse.

Soon after, the crimson dragon Dinarex, Gridman's collaborators, the New Century Junior High School students, and the inhabitants of another world, Yuta's friends Yomogi Asanaka, appear one after another.

Yuta's extraordinary life has begun, with his feelings for Rokka still hidden.

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