Every other comment:
"Oh no! MAC team killed! RIP MAC 🙏"
"Haruko's final birthday before being killed, too. 😢"
"Wow, Silverbloome actually had the balls to kill off MAC"
Considering that Dan's Ultra Psychokinesis is said to shorten his life every time he uses it, he has been using it fairly a lot in this series.. and he's still alive. XD
Kotaro Higashi (Saburō Shinoda) and his alter-ego, Ultraman Taro.
Originally, Ultraman Taro was unique amongst the Ultra heroes, because he was not an Ultra who merged with a human. Instead, when Kotaro Higashi was was killed fighting a kaiju in the first episode, Mother of Ultra used light energy from the Ultra Brothers (Ultraman, Zoffy, Seven, Jack and Ace) to bring him back to life and make him Ultraman Taro.
By the end of the series Kotaro is tired of having to fall back on changing into Taro to defeat kaiju. He returns his Ultra Badge to Mother of Ultra, renouncing his powers. Then, as a normal human, he defeats his final enemy, then sails off into the sunset.
That explains why Ultraman Taro was absent whenever the Ultra Brothers appeared in Ultraman Leo; he didn't exist anymore.
That lasted until the 1984 film The Ultraman Story, at which point Taro's story is retconned to make him the flesh-and-blood son of Father and Mother of Ultra.
Ultraman Taro is way overhated just because it's kid friendly. I love the weird stories, I love the land of light lore, Kotaro's a very good main character, and the ending is one of my favorites in the whole series. Kotaro giving up Taro to prove the power of human ingenuity and spirit is absolutely legendary.
It's been 50 years since Leo/Gen Otori again faced the enemies who destroyed his original home planet, L77. He has since called Earth his second home and sought to protect it at all costs.
My fan edit. Some clips of the first two episodes.