GUTS Sparklence

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The is a dual-purpose item used by GUTS-Select members. While other members on the team use it in its as a ranged weapon, Kengo Manaka can change it to its when he needs to transform into Ultraman Trigger.https://en.tsuburaya-prod.co.jp/news/2583https://m-78.jp/news/post-5839 When not in use, it is stored in the GUTS Buckle.https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/ultraman/item/detail/11943/ A dark counterpart Ignis used is the to transform into Trigger Dark.
==History==
===Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga===
After an Ancient Sparklence was discovered in Ultra-Ancient ruins, Mitsukuni Shizuma entrusted Akito Hijiri with reverse-engineering the artifact in preparation for the coming of the one to inherit the light. Akito did so in hopes that the chosen one would be him. They are handed out to GUTS-Select members as a standard-issue firearm.
Eventually, Kengo Manaka was entrusted with the first transformable variant in Mars. When he encountered the stone statue of Ultraman Trigger in the upside-down pyramid ruins there, Trigger's light entered a blank Hyper Key and Kengo became one with the ancient giant, using this device to transform. In addition to Kengo himself, other characters would find themselves using a similar variation to these devices. Akito created and gave another transformable GUTS Sparklence for Haruki to use when his Z Riser was damaged and initially losing his set of Ultra Medals, with Ribut crafts his own by modifying Yuna GUTS Sparklence into functioning like Kengo's. 
During one of Akito's previous attempts at creating the device, pieces of a few sets of failed prototypes had been discarded there in his labratory where Ignis stole the parts and made a set of Kaiju Keys via Akito's equipment while he infiltrated the Nursedessei. Later Ignis would give Akito the intel regarding the Absolutians as an unknowing 'exchange', with the pieces crafted into the to transform into Trigger Dark.テレビマガジン 2021年12月・2022年1月合併号 page 39 However his initial usages in against Hudram and Metsu-Orga proved to be detrimental as he can't properly control the dark Ultra, resulting with his arrest and confiscation of those devices. Akito would later tweaked the Hyper Key, giving Ignis proper control as he becomes an ally to Trigger and GUTS-Select in their final battle against Carmeara.
===Ultraman Trigger: Episode Z===
Off-camera, Haruki had already gotten his Z Riser fixed at some point two years after the Barossa IV incident. Meanwhile, his GUTS Sparklence (as well as Z's set of Hyper Keys) was left in the STORAGE Joint Base. 
===Ultraman Decker===
By the time the previous GUTS-Select disbanded and replaced with a new set of members, Kengo and Yuna retain their GUTS Sparklence, the former as part of the necessity to transform into Trigger and the latter when she joins the new GUTS-Select while dressing in her old uniform.
==Users==
*GUTS-Select - Standard sidearm of all members. By the time of their first disbandment, only Kengo and Yuna use them.
**Kengo Manaka - Also used as Ultraman Trigger's transformation item.
**Yuna Shizuma
**Akito Hijiri
**Tesshin Sakuma
**Himari Nanase
**Seiya Tatsumi
*Mitsukuni Shizuma
*Haruki Natsukawa - Used as an alternative to the damaged Z Riser. He no longer used it after the latter device is fixed and return to service.
*Ribut - Borrowed from Yuna Shizuma to transform back to his Ultra form. 
*Ignis - Black Sparklence
==Transformation==
==Powers (Hyper Gun Mode)==
==Gallery==
Failed prototype of GUTS Sparklence.png|Failed prototype of GUTS Sparklence
==Trivia==
*As acknowledged by Bandai's commercial, the GUTS Sparklence's Hyper Gun Mode is also based on the GUTS Hyper Gun utilized by GUTS members in Ultraman Tiga. Whereas the GUTS Hyper Gun has the cartridge compartment at the back of the barrel, GUTS Sparklence has the Hyper Keys loaded into the grip akin to a magazine.
*Whereas the GUTS Sparklence are stored at the holster of GUTS Buckle, the Black Sparklence used by Ignis is kept at the right side of his own holster. In real life, this holster is made by Jon & Maggy Factory after being contacted by Tsuburaya Productions.https://twitter.com/jon_maggy/status/1456786770712940546
*According to Bandai's official blog, the GUTS Sparklence's DX merchandise is designed with the idea that it's a P-Bandai product that can be sold on retail prices, hence avoiding the need of releasing the device as a P-Bandai memorial version if the latter product never came to exist.https://toy.bandai.co.jp/series/ultraman/topics/detail/2436/
*While Akito is under the effect of Kyriel's Morpheus R, he is shown with a transformable variant of the GUTS Sparklence. This may be a contingency that he kept in secret, either for Kengo's use or under the hope that he will be able to become an Ultra one day.
==References==
Category:Ultraman Trigger
Category:Transformation Items
Category:Items
Category:Ultra Items