英語検定ライティング準１級（第77回）

タイトル「ウルトラマンは人生に影響するのか？」

Yes, this suggestion is acceptable.
One reason makes the opinion supportable.

初代ウルトラマンの記憶はほとんどない。始まったのはほとんど60年前なのだから。だが彼が最終回で強すぎる怪獣に負けて死んだことは何故か知っている。再放送で。
Special effect films about the “Ultraman” series have perhaps been broadcast since 1966, but “Ultraman” of the first generation has been absent from my memory because my age maybe didn’t arrive at three, almost six decades ago.
But my mind still keeps the fact that he was defeated and killed by too a strong opponent named “Zetton” at the final episode, the scene of which has been broadcast many and many times since 1966, called “re-air.”

死んだウルトラマンが地球に帰ってきて、新シリーズが始まったのは覚えている。小学校に入学した歳だった。確か年に50話あるシリーズだったと記憶している。
The dead “Ultraman” came back to life as “Jack” and the new series with him featured began to start in 1971, which attracted intensive attention from elementary school pupils like me.
My memory remembers that such a series perhaps had about 50 episodes in a year, which extremely made me excited once a week.

初代ウルトラマンがゼットンに殺された時に、ある大阪に住む少年は大変なショックを感じた。彼は奴をやっつけたいと思った。そして翌日に空手道場に入った。
“Ultraman” of the first generation was killed by “Zetton” at the last episode, which extremely shocked a certain boy living in Osaka and he thought that he would never fail to attack the strongest opponent to his heart’s content someday.
And his aggressive attitude toward the strongest rival “Zetton” resulted in his attending the martial arts school in his neighborhood just the next day.

彼はゼットンに復讐するために身体を鍛えた。驚くことに、彼はそれから10年以内にプロレスラーとしてデビューしている。その職業を得る動機が普通ではない。
In order to take revenge on “Zetton,” every day naturally he trained his body and his physical muscles, to our surprise, and he finally became one of the most famous professional wrestlers within about a decade, his motivation of which seems to be very extremely extraordinary to an ordinary citizen like me, talking of choosing a job or business.

普通は勉強して大学に入学して会社に就職する。このコースから外れたり、もともと興味がなかったりすると、格闘技の世界に入る可能性は高いかもしれない。
We usually study hard, enter a college and are employed in a company, which seems so typical or normal in our society in our modern age.
A person who is out of the acceptable course or isn’t originally interested in the respectable course is likely to enter the entertaining world like a professional wrestling , a comedian and so on.

しかし彼の職業選択のきっかけは、ウルトラマンがゼットンに負けたことだった。両者は架空の存在だ。人の人生は極めて奇妙な出来事が左右するのだろう。
His choice of the business, however, was determined by an incident that “Ultraman” failed to beat “Zetton,” both of whom were imaginary characters in special effect films, which might be unbelievable among us.
Our life crossroad would depend on a strange and accidental event, maybe.

His name is Akira Maeda, as you know.

This reason makes the question titled above favorable.