Jirahs

**Last appearance** | Sevenger Fight - Episode 1 "Killer Move! Sevenger Haze Slash"

**Jirahs** (ジラース) was a mutated frilled-Lizard created by the mad scientist who aspired to create a legend-worthy beast. It was killed in a duel with Ultraman.

Subtitle:

* Frilled Monster (エリ巻き怪獣 *Erimaki Kaijū*)
* Ruffed Dinosaur (エリ巻恐竜 *Erimaki Kyōryū*)

## Conception

### Design

Of all the Ultra Kaiju in the Ultraman Series, Jirahs is among the most recognizable for his appearance.

Jirahs is actually a redesigned Godzilla suit. Unlike Gomess, Jirahs was created simply by combining the head of the DaisensoGoji suit (from the movie *Invasion of Astro-Monster*,) with the body of the MosuGoji suit (from *Mothra vs. Godzilla*) with some yellow paint sprayed on parts of his body and a yellow frill around the neck. To further demonstrate the similarities between Jirahs and Godzilla, Jirahs possesses a modified but still recognizable Godzilla roar, as well as his Electric Ray attack bearing a very close resemblance to Godzilla's own signature Atomic Breath. Also adding to Jirahs' close relationship with Godzilla, the portrayal of Jirahs was done by suit actor Haruo Nakajima, who is famous for portraying Godzilla in the first twelve Godzilla films.

The reason behind Jirahs' creation was because at the time of Ultraman's production, Tsuburaya actually intended for a different design for the monster for Ultraman to fight, but due to the minimal budget at the time (which is seen between episodes 8 through 19) and a very short schedule, Eiji Tsuburaya had negotiated with Toho Co. Ltd to have the Godzilla suit loaned to Tsuburaya Productions, which had been left in Toho's warehouse now that Toho, at the time was moving on to use a new suit for *Son of Godzilla*. The conditions for using the suit however was that it'd be in good condition once filming was complete.

It can also be said that Jirahs' creation and appearance is to pay homage to the creation of Godzilla himself as Eiji Tsuburaya made his career famous in handling the special effects for Toho Co. Ltd, and for creating many of Godzilla's enemies and allies.

## History

### Ultraman

A monster created by Professor Nikaido, Jirahs was being raised in Lake Kitayama. When reports of an abundance of fish suddenly disappearing in the lake came in, the SSSP was called in to investigate. When they didn't find any clues, the captain let them go on a vacation nearby at a nice hotel until they could be picked up. When Ide went fishing with a female reporter who had interviewed the scientist, they saw the scientist out on the lake about to feed Jirahs. They then went to his house to investigate, but were beaten there by the scientist himself. When he found them in there, he took them hostage since they saw him earlier.

When the rest of the SSSP went looking Ide and the reporter. Jirahs was released by the scientist to attack them. With the Scientist holding off the SSSP and revealing that Jirahs was his creation, the scientist pulled off his mask to reveal his true self as an acquaintance of Captain Mura. During the scuffle between Jirahs and the SSSP, the Scientist got trampled by Jirahs, causing the monster to go out of control. Ide fixed his radio and told the rest of the SSSP that he was being held hostage in the scientist's house. Then right as the SSSP was about to get them out, Jirahs came and attempted to destroy the house with them inside it.

Hayata pulled out the Beta Capsule and transformed into Ultraman. The battle was slow paced with Ultraman in control of the match, shoving Jirahs back to test his superior strength to the monster. Once the monster was provoked, Ultraman tore off Jirahs' frill and taunted it even more by imitating a matador bullfight with it. After wrestling with the angry monster, Ultraman punched Jirahs as hard as he could with an Ultra Sword Haze in an attempt to knock the monster out. Jirahs began bleeding profusely from the mouth and collapsed, dead. Instead of detonating the dead monster with his Spacium Beam, Ultraman paused for a moment to replace the kaiju's torn-off frill, and stood for a while to pay his respects to his opponent before flying away to recover his energy.

#### Trivia

* Suit actor: Haruo Nakajima
* In Mill Creek's first dub of the 1966 Ultraman, Jirahs sported the name Keyra.