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| Fandom: | Uuultra C |
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| Additional Tags: | Fandom Primer |
| Publication Date: | 27/03/2022 |
UuultraC is a BL visual novel released in Japan in October 2020, and had it’s English release in March 2022, provided by MangaGamer. The story is set in Tokyo in 1970, and inspired by the tokusatsu genre that was gaining popularity in the 70s.
Kaiju have appeared throughout Japan, spreading as an infection that turns ordinary people into kaiju. The first generation Sun Mask Icarus used to fight the kaiju, but the title has passed to a new generation; a generation of multiple Icarus and local heroes who want to protect Japan.
But kaiju were people. The infected are shunned and have had enough, starting their battle for acceptance as still being human.
The novel includes references to classic series like Devilman, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Super Sentai and other Kaiju media.
Anyway, this is an 18+ BL visual novel so that’s the real reason-
There are three chapters to this story, each with a different protagonist.
Essential! There’s a lot of content in this visual novel that’s not suitable for everyone. As I was reading, I did my best to update the Does the Dog Die? page for it. If you’re at all squeamish, please check that out before buying this visual novel.
However, I’ve created this table, which will tell you the content warning, particular chapter it pertains to, and context. Spoilers will be blocked out like this so that if you want to read them you just highlight the black box.
| Content | Chapter | Context |
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| Abuse and Death of Animal-like Kaiju | All Chapters | Prevalent theming of the novel. |
| Amputation and Dismemberment | All Chapters | Chapter 1 Akira later gets cut in half during a fight. Isshiki removes Akira's arm and leg and also steals hearts (literally and figuratively). Chapter 2 Shirou finds a dismembered corpse in a hotel room. A kaiju has the power to remove people's body parts. This is initially used for cock and ball removal, but is stolen by other kaiju who use it for limb removal. Chapter 3 Juurou's limbs get ripped off after having sex with Yomi, though gradually heal. |
| Burning Alive | Chapter 1 and 2 | Shoutarou is caught in the explosion at the oil refinery, leading to his entire body being burnt. He heals completely. This is shown again in Chapter 2. |
| Camp Gay Stereotypes | Chapter 2 | Shirou does a photoshoot for a drag club, with an extremely camp owner. Said owner can also magically steal people's cocks and balls. It's stated he keeps them in jars, but this isn't shown. |
| Child Abuse | Chapters 2 and 3 | Chapter 2 Isshiki's mother was emotionally abusive and his guardian was sexually abusive. Chapter 3 It's shown that the orphanage is abusive to Sakura, keeping her locked in a room away from the other kids. Juurou's mother kept his ostracised from other children, stunting his emotional development and preventing him from having friends before meeting Yomi. |
| Child Death | Takes place in all chapters, but prevalent in Chapter 1 | A young girl kaiju is killed after attacking an oil refinery. Characters in chapters 1 and 2 both suffered the loss of a younger sibling when they were children. |
| Death by Falling | Chapter 1 | Shoutarou originally died when he slipped from the roof of his then workplace. In the main timeline, he's saved by Akira. |
| Eye Mutilation | ? | Kaiju get stabbed in the eye. |
| Gore | Chapters 2 and 3 | Chapter 2 Shirou goes into a hotel room and finds a dismembered corpse. The display is mosaiced. Chapter 3 Juurou goes on a kaiju killing spree, including ripping the human face off of one and wearing it over his own. |
| Holocaust Mention | Chapter 2 | Isshiki's mother was a holocaust survivor that fled to Japan with him. Chapter 2 is distastefully titled "Crystal Nights". |
| Homophobia and Transphobia | Chapter 2 | Shirou is a bigot, turning to slurs when he's drunk. He gradually unlearns this behaviour but it's strongly prevalent at the start of the chapter. The official translation chooses to use less offensive word choice. |
| Hypnotism | Chapter 2 | Shirou is hypnotised to kill a man. |
| Kidnapping | Chapter 1 | Akira is accused of kidnapping.
It is later revealed that Akira and his younger sister were kidnapped as children and tortured, resulting in his sister's death. |
| Male Pregnancy | Mentioned in Chapter 2 | Kaiju (while in their kaiju forms) can get pregnant regardless of sex. |
| Misgendering | Chapter 2 | Shirou misgenders someone at a matchmaking party; the character's gender isn't fully established.
Sapphire's mother misgenders him while talking to Shirou. |
| Parental Death | Mentioned in All Chapters | None of the cast have parents.
Shirou's parents were killed by a kaiju when he was a child. In the new world, it's suggested Isshiki's mother was murdered, however they're unable to confirm if it's true. Yomi killed Juurou's mother and possibly his father. |
| Mentions of Psych Ward | Chapter 2 | The man who had been declared Isshiki's guardian is admitted to the psych ward after standing on trial. Shirou is admitted for 2 months due to the trauma of the new world. Both are released, though are clearly not mentally stable. |
| Non-Consentual Kissing | Chapters 2 and 3 | Several characters to Shirou.
Juurou to Yomi. |
| Pseudo-Incest | Chapter 3 | Juurou's mother was actually a limb Yomi had cut off when he crashed into Earth. That limb then grew into a person, got married, and had a child without Yomi knowing. This child is Juurou. Following the death of Juurou's parents, Yomi and Juurou were raised together by Juurou's uncle. Yomi tells him he only sees him as family, despite having romantic feelings for him. |
| Rape | Chapter 2 | Isshiki rapes Shirou at the start of chapter 2 because, for plot reasons, this will save his life. Sapphire was raped when he was in middle school and his mother hires Shirou to kill the rapist. Isshiki was raped by his guardian after his mother's death. His rapist attempts to assault him again during the chapter. |
| Sad Ending | Chapter 3 | Yomi is sent back to space, leaving Juurou alone in the world. There is no explanation in the game about if they exist in the new world. The Japanese only epilogue for them, however, gives them a happy ending. |
| Self-Harm | Chapter 1 and 3 | Blood from an Icarus Ranger has to be dropped into a person's eye for them to become a ranger, meaning Juurou will cut himself to get the blood. |
| Stalking | Chapter 1 and 2 | Akira accuses Shoutarou's old friend of stalking him, however this isn't confirmed.
Isshiki follows Shirou through the mirror world to keep an eye on him, even when Shirou wants nothing to do with him. |
| Suicide | Mentioned in all chapters | Shoutarou's death was originally believed to be a suicide, but it is revealed he actually just slipped. He later mimics the action, and is once again saved by Akira.>/p> At the start of chapter 2, Shirou impales himself in a suicide attempt after being attacked by a kaiju. He's saved by Isshiki. Believing Isshiki to be dead and losing his purpose in life, Shirou contemplates jumping in front of a train among other forms of suicide. Juurou's father is implied to have committed suicide when he was a child. Juurou loses his will to live without Yomi in his life. |
| Torture | Chapter 1 | Akira and his sister were tortured by a kidnapper as children. Shoutarou gets captured by the government and tortured under suspicion of being a kaiju as they try to get information out of him. He mentions the room showing clear signs of being used for torture previously. Most torture appears to be electrocution based. |
| Underage Sex | Chapter 2 | Uran's boyfriend is in high school and they visit a love hotel.
Sapphire was raped when he was in middle school and his mother hires Shirou to kill the rapist. Isshiki was raped by his guardian after his mother's death. |
| Violent Sex (Consentual) | Chapter 3 | Yomi brutally fucks Juurou with a massive cock, spraying blood everywhere while Juurou's arms are chomped into by one of Yomi's kaiju. |
| Yandere | Chapter 3 | Juurou and Yomi for each other. |
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Shoutarou Kagome
Shoutarou is the protagonist of chapter 1. He lives with his boyfriend, Akira Kozuka, and is an ordinary citizen. He does a newspaper round in the morning and works at a switchboard in the evenings. He recently auditioned for a part as the new character on the kids' show version of Sun Mask Icarus but doesn't have any actual acting experience.
He then ends up soaked in kaiju blood and blacklisted as an infected person despite his infection results coming back negative. He ends up meeting an old friend that’s heavily involved in the kaiju rights movement, and face the true complexities of justice in a world of kaiju and heroes. |
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Shirou Choutsugai
Shirou is the protagonist of chapter 2. Paparazzo, magazine photographer, studio photographer, former child actor, law school graduate and unwilling amateur private investigator. Unfortunately, he's also a queerphobe and only gets worse with a drink in him.
When he was a child actor, he fell for his co-star, Belle, and gave them his mother’s wedding ring. However, they lost contact after his family were killed in a kaiju attack. Shirou never forgave Icarus for failing to save his family and wants to expose him as a sham that only gets involved in fixed fights. By chance, he’s reunited with his Belle in a bar, and now can’t be rid of him. |
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Juurou Sayashi Icarus himself, both in real life and on the screen. Juurou is a famous actor and a national treasure after taking over the TV role of Icarus from his father. Juurou is the protagonist of chapter 3 and the fearless leader of the newly formed Icarus Rangers (Icarangers?). However, he's a cold guy, seeming to take most lines from old scripts and shutting himself away to watch movies to process his feelings. |
| Akira Kozuka
Shoutarou's boyfriend and a budding manga artist. While he has many secrets and a tendency to disappear in the middle of the night, he loves Shoutarou with all his heart. He even got Shoutarou's pyjamas tattood on his arm. But he's got a scary face, so people tend to assume he's up to no good, or that he's a bad match for Shoutarou.
And he has a habit of speaking in mahjong terms. |  |
| Suzu "Belle" Isshiki
Shirou's beloved Belle. Isshiki is a non-binary man and a kaiju, formerly working as a drag queen and now working for Orange as an executive. He still has the ring Shirou gave him as a child and, though he hasn't been has prudishly faithful, still holds feelings for Shirou after all these years.
He’s also 6’6” in heels, his base height being 6’2”. Shirou’s only 5’10”. |  |
| Yomi Hibarino
Juurou's childhood friend that grew up with him and only recently moved out (though not far). Despite Juurou's busy acting career, superhero career, and girlfriend, Yomi sticks close by. He cooks his meals, runs the Icarus headquarters by Juurou's side, works on the sets of Icarus, takes care of the dog, and works endless part-time jobs.
Everyone who knows him finds him a polite and dependable young man, even if he's easy-going and tends to fry technology.
But he’s trying to make distance from Juurou for some reason… |  |
Chapter 1 One day, on his newspaper round, Shoutarou runs into the corpse of a kaiju, and a mysterious white version of Icarus. The Sun Mask Icarus everyone knows are red or black, and the suit is unfamiliar. But he’s gone before Shoutarou can even try to speak to him.
And then his boyfriend gets accused of kidnapping a child and he has to go clear things up, only for them both to be attacked by a kaiju. Shoutarou ends up coated in the sweet orange blood of the kaiju and is fired from his jobs the second his bosses find out.
In desperate need of a new job, he gets recruited by a photographer called Choutsugai and is reunited with an old friend. And then they’re once again attacked by a kaiju, this time to be saved by the beloved red Icarus. But Shoutarou spots that white Icarus again, standing just out of everyone’s view.
The world is filled with mysteries, and Shoutarou can’t help asking questions.
Chapter 2 Despite being a photo studio, Shirou’s never quite gotten the word “detective” properly off the window, and so keeps getting asked to investigate cases for people. Not one to say no to an envelope of cash, he’s happy to take a case and not really do anything about it.
The thing about that is sometimes you have to pay someone off to stop them from reporting you for it; leading to him taking a reporter to a bar, getting drunk, and running his bigoted mouth at the bartender. Only to realise, he knows that bartender as his childhood sweetheart.
Trying to move on from the one he spent his life waiting on, Shirou goes to a matchmaking event. Things go sour, however, when the event leads to him being attacked by a kaiju.
At the time of Shoutarou’s story, Shirou is a paparazzo trying to denounce Icarus as a hack partaking in rigged fights. His life is constantly tangled up in those of kaiju and his office is now filled with trans people that he can’t win against.
Chapter 3 The world is changing and it needs more heroes. Juurou has started to build up the Icarus Rangers so that they can cover more of Tokyo easier, protecting more people from kaiju attacks. While he puts everything into his work as Icarus, both in real life and on the screen, his heart is elsewhere. He’s spent his life pining for his childhood friend, Yomi, but Yomi’s started to make the distance between them. Juurou has a girlfriend, left to him by a previous Icarus and more a thing of convenience. He’s a national treasure. But all he wants is to keep Yomi with him forever.
Please contact me if you have any questions! I have brain worms and I did my best to keep this mostly spoiler-free so I’ll probably be writing more manifestos about the individual ships as those wriggle.