Ultraman Noa

Ultraman Nexus
Ultra Series character
Ultraman Nexus in Anphans as portrayed in the Crunchyroll poster of his series.
First appearance	Ultraman Nexus (2004)
Created by	Hiroshi Maruyama (all forms)
Portrayed by	Daisuke Terai Hideyoshi Iwata
Aliases	Ultraman Noa (true form) Ultraman The Next (devolved form) Ultraman Noa Legendary Giant

Ultraman Nexus (ウルトラマンネクサス, Urutoraman Nekusasu) is the titular character of the 2004-2005 Ultra Series Ultraman Nexus. His true form is the legendary warrior Ultraman Noa (ウルトラマンノア, Urutoraman Noa), he chased his twisted doppelgänger Dark Zagi and managed to defeat the villain but the battle cost him his true form, causing him revert first into Ultraman The Next (ウルトラマン・ザ・ネクスト, Urutoraman Za Nekusuto) where he chased the Space Beast, Beast the One to Earth and bonded with an Air Force pilot named Shunichi Maki. Five years later in 2009, he evolved into Ultraman Nexus and bonded with several hosts, called Dunamists to fight against a wave of Space Beasts and the dark giants. When Dark Zagi rose to prominence once more, Nexus bonded with Kazuki Komon and regained his true form, Noa, defeated the evil warrior and finally killed him for good.

Nexus has become the main Ultra Warrior in the media of the Ultra Series and continues to appear in later installments in this form despite his true and strongest form being Noa, although the latter did had several appearances. A distinction of Nexus from the other Ultra Warriors is his Energy Core, which he retained in all of his forms, which is used as the main logo of the ULTRA N PROJECT. As Noa, he is acknowledged by the franchise to be the oldest Ultra in existence at the age of 350,000 years old, surpassing Ultraman King from Ultraman Leo whose age is 300,000 years old.

Ultraman Nexus' grunts were provided by Yasunori Masutani (増谷康紀, Masutani Yasunori), who did Noa's grunts as well. As Ultraman The Next, he was voiced by Hideyuki Tanaka (田中 秀幸, Tanaka Hideyuki), the current voice actor of Zoffy in the Heisei Era of Ultra Series. In the series, Ultraman Nexus was played by suit actors (寺井大介, Terai Daisuke), who was also Ultraman Noa's suit actor and sometimes by (岩田栄慶, Iwata Hideyoshi), the suit actor of dark giants Dark Faust, Dark Mephisto and Dark Zagi. For Ultraman The Next, his suit actor was (長谷川恵司, Hasegawa Keiji).