Tsutsujidai

Venora City

Tsutsujidai (ツツジ台) is a city that forms the setting of SSSS.GRIDMAN. It is a mysterious place, secretly under the control of Akane Shinjo and Alexis・Kerib.

History

Tsutsujidai was created by Akane Shinjo with the help of Alexis・Kerib in the Computer World as a means of escapism from her real life problems.

Anosillus the 2nd, who has been watching the unfolding of events for some time, seemed to be the only one to know of the reality of the city and everyone else lives their lives as if as if everything was normal.

Tsutsujidai is frequently attacked by monsters sent by Akane herself, for the purpose of deleting whoever and whatever she disliked, and the destruction would be undone by the 13 Venoras later on, with the monster attack victims having their history rewritten to have died years before.

Those same monsters also release gasses that make people fall asleep on the train, to prevent them from learning the truth of the city, as there is actually nothing outside. The train goes in loops until greater forces demand otherwise, and the outside world is destroyed by some means when the area no longer serves its purpose. Also, memories of the appearances of the kaiju and Gridman are erased by the next day.

After all the Venoras die out, the fog dissipates and reveals that the city is covered by a ceiling and outside of it is really the Computer World.

It is later revealed that the people are actually programs called Repli-Compoids (レプリコンポイド Repurikonpoido), that were made to unconditionally like Akane, while believing that they were real humans.

Tsutsujidai and the rest of the Computer World were repaired by Gridman via his Grid Fixer Beam in the finale, turning it into a replica of the real world. After Alexis' defeat and Akane's departure, the people of Tsutsujidai can live normal lives.

Kaiju & Hyper-Agents

Hyper-Agents

The Hyper World (ハイパーワールド Haipā Wārudo) is the home world of Gridman. The inhabitants have a police force called Hyper Agents (ハイパーエージェント Haipā Ējento), of which Gridman is a member. They hunt down criminals, such as Kahn Digifer.

It is parallel to the Computer World (コンピュータワールド Konpyūta Wārudo) which Gridman can cross to.

Kaiju

Ultra Kaiju (ウルトラ怪獣 Urutora Kaijū lit. Ultra Monsters) is the term for the monsters that appeared in the Ultraman Series. The monsters featured in this category includes both evil and good, villainous and benign, heroes and hostiles. This category is the base category for all the monsters in the Ultraman Series, including Kaiju, Seijin, Terrible-Monsters, and imitation Ultras.

Kaiju (Japanese: 怪獣, Hepburn: Kaijū, lit. 'Strange Beast') is a Japanese genre of films and television featuring giant monsters. The term kaiju can refer to the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and engaging the military, or other kaiju.
The term kaijū translates literally as "strange beast".[13] Kaiju are science fiction and fantasy creatures, generally "Godzillian" in size and character. They can be antagonistic, protagonistic, or a neutral force of nature, but more specifically as preternatural creatures of divine power. Succinctly, they are not merely, "big animals." Godzilla, for example, from its first appearance in the initial 1954 entry in the Godzilla franchise, has manifest all of these aspects. Other examples of kaiju include Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, King Kong, Gamera, Daimajin, Gappa, Guilala and Yonggary. There are also subcategories including Mecha Kaiju (Meka-Kaijū), featuring mechanical or cybernetic characters, including Mogera, Mechani-Kong, Mechagodzilla, M.O.G.U.E.R.A., which are an off-shoot of kaiju. Likewise, the collective sub-category Ultra Kaiju (Urutora-Kaijū) is a separate strata of kaijū, which specifically originate in the long-running Ultra Series franchise, but can also be referred to simply by kaijū. As a noun, kaijū is an invariant, as both the singular and the plural expressions are identical.

Daikaiju

Daikaijū (大怪獣) literally translates as "giant kaiju" or "great kaiju". This hyperbolic term was used to denote greatness of the subject kaiju; the prefix dai- emphasizing great size, power, and/or status. The first known appearance of the term daikaiju in the 20th Century was in the publicity materials for the original 1954 release of Godzilla. Specifically, in the subtitle on the original movie poster, Suibaku Daikaiju Eiga (水爆大怪獣映画), lit. "H-Bomb Giant Monster Movie" (in proper English, "The Giant H-Bomb Monster Movie").

• Computer World Kaiju

Trivia

• In the original draft of Gridman the Hyper Agent F, the inspiration of SSSS.GRIDMAN, Tsutsujidai was the name of the industrial high school that Ippei Baba and Yuta Hibiki attend.
• Many of the places in Tsutsujidai are modeled after real-life locations.
• One of the stops for the buses and trains is Sakuragaoka, which is the city that forms the setting of Gridman the Hyper Agent.