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Before I started watching Ultraman, I was under the impression that an Ultraman was an actually character and, when he bonded with a human, he would continue to talk and interact with him. When I watched Ginga, my first Ultraman series, and saw that Ginga himself didn't talk, I figured that he was just the odd man out. This was further enforced by the Taro Spark Doll, who was able to talk with the main character.

Reading up something about X though, which I had only seen a few episodes of at that point, I found out that X is something of an oddity in that he regularly talks with Daichi.

Is it true that, once they bond with their host, an Ultraman pretty much has no character? While I've seen more Ultraman series recently, Ginga(S), X, Orb, Mebius, in all of them, with the exception of the before mention Ginga, either have the Ultra speaking with their host or they themselves are the Ultraman.

Having started Gaia a couple of days ago though, its a bit...disappointing to go from actual characters to an Ultra who only grunts.