The Courageous Battle

is the thirty-eighth episode of Ultraseven.
==Synopsis==
30 cars disappeared in the Mountains of Hakone. Its cause was a robot controlled by Alien Banda, whose mother planet's resources have depleted and came to Earth in search of metal resources. The Ultra Guard used an automobile equipped with a bomb to annihilate the invaders, while Dan rushes to the hospital for Anne's friends's brother, Osamu's surgery.
==Plot==
30 vehicles were reported to have disappeared at Mt. Hakone after a strange fog. Meanwhile, Dan visited Osamu, the little brother of Anne’s friend to encourage him for his upcoming surgery. The heart surgeon that was assigned to Osamu was Dr.Yugren from Switzerland. As he is a very busy person, Yugren would leave as soon as Osamu’s surgery was done and eventually departed for Singapore. Dan encouraged Osamu by explaining to the boy how science had helped Ultra Guard many times in their fight. Osamu made Dan promised to visit the former during his surgery the next day.
At the site where the cars were previously disappeared, UG discovered a giant footprint and hypothesized that a giant robot is the perpetrator of the case. Anne accompanied Professor Yugren in an escort to Osamu’s hospital, but in the middle of their traffic jam, a thick fog appeared. Ultra Hawk 1 cleared the fog to reveal a giant robot behind the car disappearances. The Beta section of Ultra Hawk 1 was taken down after splitting from the main jet. Dan transformed into Ultraseven and rescued Anne’s car to get Yugren to the hospital while the robot escaped by docking to a fleeing space station.
Dan recognized the ship as Alien Banda’s spaceship and connected the dots that they used the robot to steal cars on Earth after depleting their metal resources on Planet Banda. Using radio broadcast of traffic news, they were able to identify any traffic jam for their automobile heist. This gave the UG an idea to create false traffic news and using vacant cars as decoys. The robot took the bait as predicted and once it deliver the cars to the Banda saucer, Dan triggered the bombs, destroying the saucer but left the robot as a rampaging machine. Dan was heavily injured from the fight, but refused to visit Osamu in an injured state. He transformed into Seven to stop the robot from advancing to Osamu’s hospital and used himself as a human bullet in Furuhashi’s gun to kill the robot in a single blow.
Dan arrived on time to greet Osamu after his successful surgery, finally seeing the boy smiling again before he treated his injuries at the same hospital.
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==Appearances==
===Ultras===
*Ultraseven
===Kaiju===
*Alien Banda
*Crazygon
==Home Media==
*Ultraseven Volume 10 features episodes 38-41.
51AHBVEKVEL.jpg|1999 release
Item1_(10).jpg|2009 release
==Trivia==
*In this episode, a newspaper with the date displayed as May 16, 1968, appeared.
*The Ultraman Orb episode, "The Giga Lord Monster Strikes Back" is a tribute to this episode.
*In 2023, in commemoration of the 55th anniversary of the Ultraseven series and to attract a broader audience to appreciate the charm of this classic series, TSUBURAYA IMAGINATION selected this episode and created a trailer named the "55th Anniversary Edition." The narration for this trailer was provided by Hiroki Tochi.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ypal88KdGU
==References==
Category:Ultraseven Episodes
Category:Episodes
Category:Ultraseven