After surrendering to Ultraman and leaving Earth, Alien Mephilas suddenly wakes up in the body of a schoolgirl at the Kaiju Graveyard High School. Hilarity Ensues as Mephilas tries to get used to her new environment, make new friends (all of whom are also defeated kaiju), and restart her dream of capturing the heart of the Earth.
Written by Shun Kazakami, Ultra Kaiju Anthropomorphization Project feat.POP Comic Code is a Gag Series manga that is, predictably, created as part of the Ultra Kaiju Anthropomorphization Project by Tsuburaya, featuring designs from POP Comic Code. It was published in Young Champion from January 27, 2015 to January 14, 2020. Seven Seas Entertainment licensed the manga for America since 2018 under the title Ultra Kaiju Humanization Project feat.POP Comic Code.
This manga provides examples of:
- Butt-Monkey: Jamilar always seems to find misfortune no matter where she goes, whether it involves being sprayed with water or being the only one on a crashing spaceship.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Most of the cast has quirks that make them seem this way from time to time, but special mention goes to Red King, who manages to overpower Alien Icarus in the Fourth Dimension because its Power Nullifier effects don't work on someone as dense as her.
- Hey, That's My Line!: Mephilas doesn't like it when other people use her "as I presumed" line, which has attained In-Universe Memetic Mutation.
- Left Hanging: The English localization has not been updated since February of 2020 with Volume 4, presumably due to the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic the following month; however, readers get a doozy of a reveal: Ultraman's greatest villains did not become the girls we have seen throughout the series when they had been defeated and killed (Mefilas, of course, being the only exception, having admitted defeat and vowing to return, yet still ended up in the Kaiju Graveyard despite never having died, which the others have done), but somehow, through scientific means, these girls were altered physically and mentally to resemble them, down to the last facet of their appearance and personality, as shown when Mefilas and Eleking remember each other as "Rin-chan" and "Eri-chan," respectively. Whatever means in which this was done and whoever was responsible is only able to be revealed once Volume 5 eventually releases...hopefully. Averted with the original Japanese release.
- Lighter and Softer: It's a Gag Series after all. It's probably even lighter than Kaiju Girls.
- Man, I Feel Like a Woman: Mephilas does this immediately after waking up.
- Recursive Canon: The Ultra Series exists in-universe and the cast occasionally watches it like a documentary to get exposition about certain characters.
- School of No Studying: Parodied. The Kaiju Graveyard High School only has self-study classes, so there isn't any need to actually study.
- Villainous Crush: Played for Laughs with Alien Godola's crush on Dan Moboroshi and Yapool's obsession with Ultraman Ace.
