Kaoru Hasumi

is a guest character who appeared in Ultraman Dyna. He is a journalist for a news agency.
==Personality==
Hasumi possesses a reclusive and taciturn personality, yet he maintains a strong sense of justice. He openly translates his personal experiences into articles for reporting. However, unlike his senior, Onoda, who previously held a friendly attitude towards GUTS, Hasumi is critical and skeptical of the new defense teams, "Super GUTS". He believes that as TPC increasingly veers towards militarization, the increase in armaments undoubtedly contradicts the original purpose of establishing the "GUTS" special unit.
In his recollections, there are depictions of harmonious interactions with his wife and daughter. However, at present, he lives alone in his office, with no knowledge of the whereabouts of his wife and daughter.
==History==
===Pre-Ultraman Dyna===
In the past, Hasumi met his senior, Onoda Takehiko, at a previous news agency. Onoda's stern words of guidance became the principles that now guide Hasumi in his work. There is a commemorative photograph of the two of them sharing a drink in the bar he frequents. 
In the years following the establishment of Super GUTS, he frequently made the defense team's arms deployments and operations the subjects of his reporting, writing multiple articles that began with harsh criticism. Despite the arrival of the Neo Frontier era, in which humanity has already moved beyond the dark days of potential annihilation, Hasumi still harbors doubts and believes that the current age represents a regression in many respects.
===Ultraman Dyna===
As TPC's latest mecha unit, GUTS Eagle Alpha-Superior, was on the verge of being delivered to Super GUTS, a press conference was held with Asuka, Ryo, and Captain Hibiki. Hasumi attended the meeting, emphasizing that his sole purpose was to write an objective report. He raised a question, suggesting that compared to the past when GUTS was a non-militarized organization with scientists at its core, the current Super GUTS appears more inclined to become a combat team. He expressed his doubts and engaged in an argument with Captain Hibiki. In response to Hasumi's criticism, Captain Hibiki replied, "Our purpose is not for combat. However, as humanity endeavors to progress and challenges the unknown, some things are unavoidable." He expressed his belief in his work, which parallels Hasumi's commitment as a reporter.
The next day, Hasumi woke up to discover a cat and a girl had entered his office. The girl introduced herself as Sonoka and sought Hasumi's help as a journalist to investigate an incident. According to Sonoka, her group of delinquent friends had suddenly undergone a notable personality change, almost turning into model "good kids" on the same day. Sonoka claimed this was a conspiracy by aliens, but Hasumi had a different opinion, believing they might have simply grown tired of their previous immature behavior. However, since Sonoka had nowhere else to go, Hasumi decided to provide her with shelter.
Despite Hasumi's belief that Sonoka might be evading reality and creating a fantasy world involving an alien conspiracy due to loneliness, her sleeping posture reminded Hasumi of his own daughter. Therefore, he chose to assist her and initiated an investigation into Sonoka's boyfriend, Sho.
By this time, Sho had transformed from an unruly delinquent into a well-behaved young man. When Hasumi inquired about his thoughts, Sho expressed his hope that Sonoka would consider planning for her future and not continue as a rebellious teenager. They continued investigating Sho into the evening but witnessed him having dinner with his family at a restaurant. Seeing Sho's happy family, Hasumi reminisced about his own past, where he had enjoyed a harmonious life with his family. While Sonoka still found Sho's transformation peculiar, Hasumi believed, "Let's say you're right. But what's wrong about it? To stop being a disobedient child and to live in peace with your family....What's bad about that? You just don't want to accept the truth! That's why you're getting delusions about aliens..." 
He considered harmonious family life as the norm and advised Sonoka not to evade reality and to return home if there was a place for her. Subsequently, he drove her out of his office. Before leaving, Sonoka expressed her anger, saying, "Adults are mean! They're all like Dad! They only see what's convenient for them!"
The next day, Hasumi received a message from Sonoka in which she firmly expressed her determination to uncover the truth. She mentioned her intention to visit the D7 warehouse area where Sho had been before transforming into a "normal person." Concerned, Hasumi went to the D7 warehouse area. However, upon his arrival, Sonoka admitted that she had actually drawn Hasumi into a "detective game" just to challenge her disliked father. Subsequently, Captain Hibiki appeared, and it was only then that Hasumi learned Sonoka was, in fact, Captain Hibiki's daughter.
Seeing Sonoka sincerely apologize to her father, Hasumi was initially puzzled but soon understood the situation. He tried to return the abandoned kitten to Sonoka. However, Sonoka declined the kitten, and Hasumi sensed that something was amiss with her. At that moment, Asuka, who was on her final test flight mission with Alpha-Superior, observed mysterious signals and arrived to investigate. Suddenly, everyone present was subjected to intense interference and fell unconscious.
Upon awakening, Hasumi and the others found themselves bound by mechanical restraints, with a Alien Naltis standing before them. The alien claimed that their species had successfully eliminated negative energies like the will to resist and the desire for conflict, creating a peaceful planet. However, in the process, they had also lost their combat abilities. To ensure their self-defense, they planned to remove the human spirit of resistance. To achieve this goal, they collected the negative energies from young people and created Menorfa.
As Hasumi and the others were almost absorbed by Menorfa, other members of Super GUTS arrived just in time to rescue them. Hasumi used a nearby iron pipe to strike Menorfa. However, at this moment, the Alien Naltis merged with Menorfa and grew gigantic. To protect the unconscious Sonoka, Hibiki, amidst the warehouse's collapse, suffered an arm injury from falling steel bars and entrusted Sonoka's care to Hasumi. He engaged in a battle against Menorfa alongside Super GUTS. Asuka transformed into Ultraman Dyna and initiated the fight. Seeing this, Hasumi picked up his camera and started recording the collaboration between Dyna and Super GUTS as they attacked Menorfa. However, due to Menorfa's elastic body, it withstood their attacks.
During Dyna's moment of adversity, Hasumi found the iron pipe he had thrown at Menorfa earlier through filming and reported it to Hibiki, even though it might potentially violate the broadcast law. In the end, after choosing to accept the answer of "accepting all the true love, hatred, and contradictions," Captain Hibiki piloted Alpha-Superior to attack Menorfa. Dyna successfully destroyed Menorfa, and the anger and hatred absorbed by the Alien Naltis were released back to the people. These individuals once again returned to their original natures.
After the events had concluded, Hasumi returned to his peaceful life and had a different perspective on Captain Hibiki. When he met Sonoka again by the riverbank, he warmly greeted her. The two shared a brief encounter and then went their separate ways. Hasumi captured a cheerful moment of Sonoka in a photograph.
==Gallery==
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Kaoru Hasumi 013.png|Hasumi's family
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Kaoru Hasumi TPC.png|Hasumi placed files on the office bulletin board related to TPC, GUTS, and Ultraman Tiga.
==Trivia==
*Inside Hasumi's office hang photos of GUTS missions and scenes of Ultraman Tiga battling monsters. Additionally, the office displays news reports from Souichiro Sawai's visit to the Mars base in 2019, a group photo of Hibiki and Tetsuji Yoshioka during their tenure at UNDF, and Asuka's TPC employment profile.
*In the novel Ultraman Dyna Novel: Star of Peace・The・Other, due to constraints such as content length and budget when the script was initially written by the screenwriter Keiichi Hasegawa for the television series, it was difficult to maintain the original settings. Therefore, the novel underwent significant modifications to Hasumi's background and perspective in multiple instances. Unlike the TV series, in the novel version, Hasumi directly follows the incidents of the young boys and girls with supernatural transformations to narrate the story, rather than conducting investigations through Sonoka's involvement.
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