Ultraman Agul

is the second Ultra Hero of Ultraman Gaia. Agul is the manifestation of the sea, much like how Gaia is the manifestation of the Earth. Agul bonded with Hiroya Fujimiya to protect the Earth, but not humanity, leading to several disagreements and battles against Gaia. Eventually, Fujimiya regained his faith in humanity and fought alongside Gaia against the minions of the Radical Destruction Bringer.
==Conception==
===Etymology===
Agul's name was only revealed in episode 16. Prior to that, he was simply called Blue Giant or Blue Ultraman. The name first came out from the romaji "AGUL" displayed on the console screen of Fujimiya's personal computer. The word itself is a coined word, coming from the words "aggressive," "agreement," and "evil."
==History==
===Ultraman Gaia===
====Battle Alongside Fujimiya====
Agul's human host, Hiroya Fujimiya, a boy-genius formerly with Alchemy Stars. Fujimiya created the giant computer known as "Crisis," to predict future catastrophes. Its first prediction, however, showed the total destruction of the Earth. When queried further, the computer had one response: AGUL. At that moment, Fujimiya yelled in pain. In a vision, he saw a destroyed world, with a blue-and-silver giant towering over it. When questioning Crisis again, Fujimiya discovered the cause of Earth's destruction: mankind.
Fujimiya breaks away from Alchemy Stars, obsessed with discovering more about this being that continues to contact him, although each contact brings great pain. He builds a giant water tank, the basis of an experiment to contact "the will of the Earth" to find out what to do. At one point, as Fujimiya stands on a catwalk above the tank, Agul contacts him again. This time, Fujimiya sees the surroundings: complete destruction, the remains of a civilization similar to Earth's. In shock, Fujimiya tries to shut down the experiment, but is convinced by his friend Kyoko Inamori to keep going. Returning to the tank, Fujimiya witnesses a great light forming at the bottom of the underwater tunnel. The light erupts from the tank, and flows into Fujimiya.
After this, Fujimiya shuns all human contact, although he still has feelings for Kyoko, and develops feelings for a female reporter; however, when she doubts Agul's benefit, Fujimiya shows resentment. Fujimiya becomes a mysterious figure that appears and disappears seemingly at will, first appearing to XIG and Ultraman Gaia saving them from the alien Apatee, while Agul is perceived at first as another force for good, then as a potential menace. Agul at times would help Gaia, but on several occasions, they have come into conflict; the first major time, Fujimiya tried to destroy the XIG Aerial Base but was stopped by Gamu. 
====Tiga, Dyna, and Ultraman Gaia Novel: The Adventure in Hyperspace====
Ultraman Agul briefly appeared in the 2018 novel, where he is seen attacking the Aerial Base when Tsutomu Shinsei was trying to establish contact with Gamu. Agul is also indirectly mentioned by Charija to explain Psycho Mezard II's point of origin, who also noted the blue giant's rivalry with Gaia as part of that world's conflict. 
====Battle Alongside Fujimiya cont.====
At one point Fujimiya was gravely wounded, he returned to the facility where he first joined with Agul and reentered the tank. Apparently this not only revived Fujimiya, but it also increased Agul's power for a later fight with Alguros, who takes on the form of a fake Agul, which the Ultra managed to overpowered. 
Several incidents change Fujimiya. He finds himself saving a young girl from being crushed by falling debris when a monster destroys a nearby skyscraper. This puzzles Fujimiya, that he would care so much about a human. Despite this, his bitterness increases when his beloved Kyoko is killed by a monster even though she tries to control the monster herself in an attempt to stop XIG, possibly believing in Fujimiya's visions, and wishes to destroy mankind to save the Earth. In a fit of rage, Fujimiya, as Agul, begins to drive his force-filled right fist into the Earth. Apparently it was a summons to various beasts that he had fought before, and to others he knows still exist. Unbeknownst to him, it also summons a giant serpent-like beast known as Zoruim. By this time, though, Fujimiya is nearly drained, thanks to the nightly infusion of energy, as his exhausting battle with Gaia. He and Gamu help evacuate a hospital, where Fujimiya sees a young boy's crayon drawing of Gaia and Agul joining hands to save the world.
Zoruim begins to enter their world through a giant vortex in the sky, created by the combination of Agul's and Gaia's energies during their battle. Gamu prepares to change to Gaia to battle the monster. Fujimiya tries to talk him out of it, but Gamu realizes that he cannot; he also makes Fujimiya realize that it was through his actions that the Earth, not just the humans, but the entire planet, is threatened with destruction by his own actions. This makes Fujimiya realize that he no longer deserves to be an Ultraman, and surrenders the blue Agul-force within his Agulater to Gamu, who takes it inside the Esplender along with the red Gaia-force. Fujimiya walks away, apparently consumed by a fireball shot to Earth by Zoruim, and was presumed dead. 
====Return and Battle Alongside Gaia====
In episode 41, Fujimiya reappears very much alive. He still tries to fight what he perceives as "the good fight" against humanity and the Radical Destruction Bringer. He no longer has the power of Ultraman, though, to help him, and realizing he was powerless to stop the Radical Destruction Bringer, he sank into depression; finally, he stumbled into the ocean, only to be rescued by the nearby Gamu. Later, after he regained his health, Fujimiya witnessed a giant robot Σ-Zuigul capturing Gamu as he tried to transform into Gaia. Fujimiya still believed humanity would be responsible for the great calamity predicted by Crisis, but he also knew Gamu/Gaia was the Earth's last hope. Fujimiya called out to the Earth ... and it responded, freezing time, as it did when Gamu called out to Gaia. A great wave crashed over Fujimiya, and as the waters began to glow with blue light, the ocean parted to reveal a revived Ultraman Agul V2. With his power restored, Agul used his Agul Saber energy sword to free Gamu from the robot's clutches, and destroyed the robot with his new Photon Screw attack.
Later, Fujimiya discovers that the prediction that humanity was the cause of the Root Destruction was actually placed into the computer by the great Entity of Root Destruction itself, as two more monsters arrive on Earth through a wormhole created by GUARD. Their plan was that GUARD would send a pre-emptive strike missile through the wormhole to the planet on the other end, in the hopes of destroying the Entity. The plan failed, but the wormhole allowed the Entity to send two monsters to Earth. Agul and Gaia finally team up and, together, defeat the monsters. The rivalry has ended, and the Ultra-team had begun.
====Final Battle Against the Radical Destruction Bringer====
The Radical Destruction Bringer sets into motion its ultimate plan, sending the Dobishi to Earth to blot out the Sun worldwide, leading the planet to a slow death while they cut off communications and destroyed GUARD's forces. The Earth started to weaken, and correspondingly, Gaia and Agul's light as well. Still, Gamu and Fujimiya transformed to fight off the Dobishis until they were overwhelmed. Suddenly, they were saved by Zog, a giant, white angel. She kills the Kaiser Dobishis that the Ultramen are fighting, and replenishes Gaia and Agul's power, only to completely overpower the two and make their Life Gauges expire. The two Ultramen turn back into Gamu and Fujimiya, which is telecast by the two KCB cameramen, despite Reiko's protests to turn off the camera. The battle is broadcasted across the entire world. They survive, but can no longer transform into Gaia and Agul.
At this point, all of Earth's monsters start emerging again all around the world to protect Earth from the Dobishis and Kaiser Dobishis. 
Everyone is brought back and united to participate together in the final battle against Zog. Gaia, Agul, XIG, the Earth monsters, the Alchemy Stars, the KCB TV crew, and even Gamu's parents show up to encourage him. Gamu hatches a final scheme, in which the Alchemy Stars network is used to assist the last of the XIG fighters, including a few planes modified by Alchemy Stars, to channel energy from the Earth monsters to give Gamu and Fujimiya the ability to transform back into Gaia and Agul.
Boosted with this huge supply of energy, Gaia and Agul wipe the Earth clean of the hordes of Dobishi. However, as Gaia finishes off the Dobishi, Zog reappears. She strikes down Gaia and Agul, but they fiercely counterattack. After being briefly staggered by the counterattack, Zog morphs from her angel form into a colossal demon-like monster.
Gaia and Agul then worked together and destroy Zog with their strongest attack, formed by combining their energy beams. 
===Ultraman Gaia: Gaia Again===
The entire world now knows that Gamu and Fujimiya are Ultraman Gaia and Ultraman Agul respectively. Gamu has resumed his studies at university, while Fujimiya wanders the Earth looking for ways to protect Earth's monsters.
Gamu is reunited with his friends who try to set him up with a girl who is actually an Ultra 'groupie'. Fujimiya is framed by a television report as being the cause of a nuclear disaster when in truth he was using his cybernetic monster control system to lure a monster away from an advancing tank platoon. One of the tanks gets a lucky shot and causes the monster to detonate, resulting in a nuclear blast. Fujimiya somehow survived but had sustained serious injuries. In agony, he loses the Agulater into the waters again. He met a mysterious girl who seemingly is afraid of an impending disaster, learning that she had seen Fujimiya's visions of darkened skies cloaked with swarms of buzzing, flying creatures similar yet different from those that appeared in the last battle. These visions would eventually come true, casting the Earth into danger once more. Cornered by government agents by the sea, Fujimiya witnesses his Agulater rise from the depths of the ocean and his newfound friend transform into a nimbus of glittering light that restores Agul's power.
The girl belongs to a pacifist race of undersea creatures made of light unknown to mankind yet have coexisted in secrecy for millions of years. Empowered once more, the agents leave the Agulater with Fujimiya, and as fighter jets engage the onslaught of monsters, Fujimiya then transforms and becomes the first Ultraman to be resurrected to save the Earth from the new danger. He would engage the new monster and later reuniting with Gaia, whose investigation in the sea with XIG's team Seagull also brings him into encounters with the undersea race help resurrecting Ultraman Gaia's Power. 
===Ultraman Ginga===
Prior to Ultraman Ginga, Ultraman Agul participated in the Dark Spark War but this time he fought not only alongside with Ultraman Gaia, but with the other Ultras that came from other universes and their allies against evil. While in the midst of the battle, Dark Lugiel the mastermind behind this war turn every Ultras alongside their allies, monsters and aliens into Spark Dolls just as the war was about to end, an unknown warrior appeared and faced Dark Lugiel. But, like the others he was also turned into a Spark Doll but he was kept within his Spark Device and fell alongside the other Spark Dolls. It is unknown whether Agul fell to Earth or was kept by Dark Lugiel in his collection.
After Ginga defeated Dark Lugiel, Agul returns to his original form along with Gaia and the rest of the Spark Dolls as they return to their own universe. 
===Ultraman Orb THE ORIGIN SAGA===
Agul returns to help Ultraman Orb fight against the Bezelbs and their mother, Queen Bezelb who, along with Dr. Psychi, plan to remove all intelligence and free will from the universe.
==Profile==
===Statshttps://twitter.com/TsuburayaGlobal/status/1365466687726837761===
*Height: Micro ~ 52 m
*Weight: 0 ~ 46,000 t
*Age: 22 years old
*Home World: Planet Earth
*Time Limit: Agul's Life Gauge starts flashing when he has sustained heavy damage.
===Body Features===
*: The gem on Agul's forehead, exist for the simple purpose of gathering Light Energy or Mana from the Sea, is also used for the Photon Crusher.
*: The blue Ultra's eyes can detect the presence of hidden enemies, those that are invisible or those hiding behind objects. They can also see vast distances.
*: The correct term for Agul's Color Timer, he has no limit to how long he can be active.
*: The gold and black markings next to Agul's Life Gauge, they are the sturdiest parts of the Ultra's anatomy and can withstand almost anything.
*: Agul's body can withstand low temperatures and survive in space or underwater, it is also resistant to fire, beams, and electricity.
===Transformation===
To transform, Fujimiya uses the transformation item Agulater, a device which he built himself in order to harbor the Blue Light's energy.
Agul transformation 1.jpg|Fujimiya activates the Agulater, the two blades split and blue light is radiated off from the device.
Agul transform 2.jpg|Fujimiya raises his arm, preparing to transform
Agul transform 3.jpg|The Agulater revolves and the light then covers Fujimiya, transforming him into Agul
Agul V1 rises.png|Agul V1 rises
Ultrmn Agl Vr 2 rs.JPG|Agul V2 rises
Agul V2 new rise.jpg|Agul V2's new rise
AgulV1Rise.gif|Agul's rise (V1)
AgulV2Rise.gif|Agul's rise (V2)
Agul Henshin.gif
===Forms===
==Other Media==
===New Century Ultraman Legend===
TBA 
===Ultraman Retsuden===
Ultraman Agul returns alongside Ultraman Gaia after Fumijiya and Gamu transform at the end of this Ultraman Retsuden episode.
Ultraman Agul V2 return in Ultraman Retsuden.jpg|Ultraman Agul V2 with Ultraman Gaia V2 in Ultraman Retsuden
===Ultraman Gaia ~ Birth of V3===
TBA 
==Trivia==
*Agul is the second blue Ultra to be made, with the first being Ultraman Kiyotaka; however, Agul is the first canonical blue Ultra.
*As shown when he is stabbed by Zebubu, Agul's "blood" gives off the appearance of what seems to be glowing water. Whether or not the same logic applies to Gaia is unknown but it is likely.
*In the movie New Century Ultraman Legend, Gaia's and Agul's grunts were reused from Ultraman Zearth's grunts.
*Agul's Liquidator's sound effect was reused from Ultraman Tiga's Deracium Beam Torrent.
*Unlike traditional "+" or "L" style Ultra Beams, Agul's is fired in an "I" position with a single hand.
*In the original planning, Agul was meant to disappear but his and Fujimiya's eventual return was decided after finding the character's increasing popularity.
*Ever since episode 24, Agul is the first Ultraman to be attacked by humans.
*Agul Supreme Version's GUTS Hyper Keys product includes the noises for Agul Stream, Photon Screw and Burst Stream. Whether the form had those abilities to begin with or simply exists as archived noises in the Hyper Key product remains unknown.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/234301812339900416/946588377967362128/16457546516448925937054547138056.jpg
*Agul is one of 2 mainline Ultras that have not had a single appearance in Ultra Galaxy Fight yet, the other being Ultraman Saga.
==References==
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