The man who lost memory is handed over from a mysterious woman electrician an item of red eyeglasses and is begged to save this world. Although he feels frustrated as to who he is, he knows that he is an agent of DEUS, along with K, he chases the alien plotting invasion. However, it appeared there was a gigantic alien Galkimes. And the battle of his life begins with the red eyeglass type item in hand.
Yagi shared that the development of the first episode was slow until the final draft was decided, with screenwriter Yuji Kobayashi putting in significant effort.
Airing late at night, unlike previous series aimed at children, the show sought to distance the DEUS setting from traditional "SSSP" and "Ultra Guard." From the outset, their goal was to create a series that avoided the typical hero genre, instead adopting a style similar to Western sci-fi films and TV shows.
Yagi was inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner when constructing the worldview. He also drew from hardboiled detective fiction, like Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe series. For the plot, Yagi aimed to capture the allure of popular Western TV shows like 24 and Lost. He had long wondered if an Ultraman series could adopt this style, so this project was deliberately different from other Japanese tokusatsu shows.
As for the visual presentation of giant monsters, it was done in an entirely different way. While miniature models were not completely absent, they were hardly used. The primary goal was to showcase a more realistic world, which was achieved through real-location shots combined with CGI.
According to a 2008 conversation between Yuji Kobayashi and Takeshi Yagi:
The first episode underwent about 8 to 9 drafts. The story's concept was based on the images that Yagi had in his mind—"a man floating in water" and “a woman standing in a pure white room.” These images formed the foundation of a style that differed from previous works. Additionally, they had considered the idea of making the series last for two seasons.
Kobayashi noted that since the show aired late at night, they initially decided that it was fine not to include monsters or aliens in the story, which allowed them to throw in a curveball and approach the story in a different way.
The antagonists of the first episode (a male named KING and a female named QUEEN) were inspired by chess, with the "Knight" representing Jin.
At Yagi's strong request, MiWa, who had played the Suit actor in the 2006 film Silver Mask, was brought in to portray QUEEN.
This episode aired in the United States on TOKU on June 5, 2017.
