Shinjiro Hayata

Shinjiro Hayata became the first person to wear the Ultraman costume.

## Personality

Shinjiro is a kind young man with an unerring sense of justice, a trait he inherited from both his father and the last Ultra's former partner. Initially unsure of his superhuman abilities, Shinjiro eventually accepted them after learning that it was due to his father's status as the former host and partner of the Giant of Light, as well as the title of Ultraman and its burden.

Like Ultraman, Shinjiro will continue his journey to protect innocent lives, even if it means fighting his enemies. Although he is willing to use aggressive force if he deems it necessary, he disdains the idea of killing his enemies and prefers to either reason with them or spare them when they no longer pose a threat. While his father Shin approved of this compassionate approach, Moroboshi greatly hated this attitude and considered him naive for it. Conversely, Shinjiro did not approve of the latter's cruelty and cold-blooded nature.

## Story

Young Shinjiro visited the Giant of Light Memorial with his father, Shin Hayata. Fascinated by SSSP and Ultraman, Shinjiro stayed to look around after his father met with an old colleague, Mitsuhiro Ide, and was asked for his autograph. While trying to reach the diorama on a VTOL jet, Shinjiro slipped and fell from a height of several floors, alerting everyone. Surprisingly, where a normal boy his age could easily die, Shinjiro was mostly fine, but crying. By the time he and his father left, he was fine. This abnormality surprised Shin, who could no longer deny the fact that his son was not normal.

10 years later, Shin and Shinjiro have grown apart and seem to be strangers. At school, he notices Rena Sayama being bullied by a gang and goes to meet them, despite his friends telling him not to. When one of the bullies tried to attack him, Shinjiro accidentally twists the bully's leg, breaking it. Shinjiro then runs away and jumps across rooftops, unknowingly pursued by a mysterious figure. Shinjiro leaves the house after an argument with his father and sits on a billboard, lamenting that he cannot control his power. A mysterious figure talks to him, saying that the kind of power he possesses should not exist on Earth, before attacking him. Shinjiro escapes to the stadium but is cornered and just as his attacker was about to kill him, Shin Hayata appears and tells his son that he is Ultraman while revealing a power suit under his coat.

Shin tells his son that he knew about his superhuman abilities all along before putting him in the SSSP helicopter and starting to fight the first demons. On board the helicopter, Shinjiro is again met by Ide, who has been ordered to ensure Shinjiro's safety and take him away. Instead, seeing Shinjiro's frustration at not being able to do anything, Ide decides to outfit him with the Ultraman Suit. Shinjiro accepts the offer and returns to the stadium, donning the suit as he took his father's place in the fight against the Demon. After a long battle, Ide taught him to use the Space Beam on Bemular, who surprisingly survived the attack. Seeing Shinjiro exhausted, Bemular simply says his name and leaves before the boy passes out.

He later joined this organization due to the fact that Demons began to penetrate the world, and soon they began to hunt for a certain Devilman, who was also considered an enemy. Although their true enemy, or rather the lord of demons, is Satanael.