Taro is really the fairy tale of the Ultra series! Taro fights a kaiju called Mochiron who has stolen all the mochi in the area! Is it silly, yes! Is it fun, hell yes!!
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Taro is really the fairy tale of the Ultra series! Taro fights a kaiju called Mochiron who has stolen all the mochi in the area! Is it silly, yes! Is it fun, hell yes!!

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Itâs Mochiron from Ultraman Taro (1974)
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Mochiron from Ultraman Taro ep. 39
He really likes mochi (rice cakes).
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That one Ultraman Taro episode about New Year
People have talked about the Ultraman Taro episode about Christmas, but itâs worth pointing out that the very next episode, 39, is about New Year, as well as about Japanâs relationship with Christmas and with their own traditions. Itâs an episode with subtext that I canât make justice but I can try to write about.
Itâs also the debut of Mochiron, the mochi monster. This monster:
Now, what IS mochi? Itâs a popular, dumpling-like candy made of rice paste.Â
And what does this monster, that looks like a weird tree trunk thingy, have to do with mochi, you may be wondering? It actually becomes clear at the end of the episode, but I wonât spoil that bit. Itâs a nice surprise that is actually foreshadowed.
Anyway, the episode begins with two main characters finding a leftover christmas star a few days after the festivity, wich they casually give to a passing kid to play with. One character laments that da kids nowadays donât care too much about January, and that only the adults do so, as we see some people making mochi.Â
The characters then come across a group of kids from an orphanage run by one old man, and decide to make mochi for them, much to the kids happiness and enthusiasm. The old man tries to make mochi himself but itâs too much for him, as it involves smashing rice with a giant hammer, leaving it to series protagonist Kotaro instead.
Thatâs when the giant monster Mochiron shows up. He comes from the moon, Mary Poppins style, but instead of an umbrella he has some weird metal zeppelin tied to a long cable. Mochiron eats the mochi the characters were making. All of it. Because he finds it delicious. Then simply floats aways, not caring about leaving the kids without mochi. And thatâs terrible.
The whole sequence is so silly, funny and surreal...
...it canât possibly prepare us for what suddendly happens in between it all...Â
The thing that happens is sudden and unexpected (at least to a non-japanese like me) and the episode just carries on like nothing, but it just canât be unseen... I canât properly describe the experience of getting to this part and watching the rest of the episode with an eerie feeling in the back of my mind, so if you are interested in knowing first-hand what Iâm talking about, this is your last chance to go watch the episode yourself. Ultraman Taro, episode 39.
Alright, so, remember that old man running the orphanage? The one that tried to make mochi? In between Mochironâs glutouny, he starts reacting weirdly, like heâs having an episode or something, AND THEN for a few seconds a bunch of black-and-white photographs flash one after another, depicting a younger version of the man as a soldier, looking up to the sky in fear and then getting inside a basement or bunker alongside some civilians. The old man is having war flashbacks.
Then Mochiron, who has eaten all the mochi, flies away towards the other adults that were also making mochi. We witness a second set of flashback photos from one of them, who spins around crazily as pieces of mochi fall over him, shouting âItâs a bombâ. Indeed, the photos this time are of planes, throwing bombs, as well as one of the National Diet Building.
As mentioned, the episode continues on like any other (at least, like one would expect from an Ultraman Taro episode): Mochiron eats all the mochi, the good guys try to fight him with planes to no avail, Mochiron spins away at high speed like Sonic the Hedgehog, the good guys are unable to find him, the orphans are sad because no mochi, Kotaro meets a certain character from a previous Ultra series who explains what Mochiron is, we learn that it was created from the dreams and prayers of japanese people as they saw a crater in the moon as a rabbit making mochi (you may have noticed that Japan tends to associate the moon with rabbits in all kinds of media), they find Mochiron in a mountain and try to reason with him, as it turns out he can talk, but heâs stubborn so they decide to sort it out with a nice traditional sumo wrestrling match as Kotaro turns into Taro, then Taroâs father shows up and the stuff that I donât want to spoil happens...
In the end all is well and good, the mochi is made, everyone is happy, especially the orphans who get to eat mochi, and Mochiron is returned to the moon...
And I just canât stop thinking about those war flashback pictures. Fortunately, the episode hasnât forgotten about them either, and decides to tie the loose end with some more, non-diegetic black and white photographs, this time of babies. Healthy, alive, chubby happy babies. Most likely taken after the war shown in the previous pictures. Itâs an optimistic ending.
This all may seem random at first to a non-japanese guy like me, but it doesnât take too much research to put all the story elements together.
Remember how the episode took place soon after christmas, in the last days of december? In Japan christmas tends to be celebrated as something fun and exotic, even romantic, christianity not being very common as a religion. Itâ was likely one of several things brought over from the west after World War 2.
And remember how that one character talked about kids not getting exited about the month of January? Turns out in Japan itâs tradition to make Mochi during the last days of December and to eat it during the early days of January.
Now, the episode doesnât seem to demonize christmasâs place in Japan like one may expect. I mean, the previous episode used it as the setting rather nicely, and the main character here is happy to give a christmas star to a kid. The other character lamenting the shift of holiday enthusiasm is also quickly brushed aside in favor of making those orphan kids happy, and later the priority becomes protecting people from a rampaging monster, and all the while a nice tradition is shown to still be alive and well.
This episode seems to paint an interesting picture, about acknowledging the past and the present, but while focusing on whatâs really important as time continues to go on, while looking with optimism towards the future. It may sound hard to believe that a 70s superhero episode about a monster that looks like a tree pot could carry all this stuff with it, but thatâs Ultraman Taro for you.
Happy new year!