Morolians are recurring characters in the Space Channel 5 series as well as the series mascots. They are an alien species first appearing as secondary antagonists in the first Space Channel 5.
They speak in a distorted high pitched voice, but appear to still be perfectly understood by humans. They were born on the planet of Morodia.
Morolians are humanoid aliens that stand much shorter than the average human. They have long legs, large, digit-less feet, and mittenlike hands. All Morolians have two ear-like antennae that are tipped with yellow. They also appear to glow, as seen in the in-game videos between reports. In lieu of a typical face, Morolians have a glass screen with a red border, though it seems to function perfectly fine.
Morolians come in a variety of colors, but the most common ones are red, yellow, green, light blue, purple, and pink. Morolians that are special characters tend to be a unique color.
As of Space Channel 5 VR, it is apparent that Morolians' bodies are smooth and shiny, almost reminiscent of plastic in appearance.
History[]
Space Channel 5[]
The Morolians initially invaded Spaceport 9, among other locations, in 2499, to brainwash people into dancing uncontrollably. Ulala successfully shoots them and frees their hostages, including Pudding and the Space Rescue Police, throughout her reports. Behind the scenes, the Morolians hold meetings seemingly run by Hoorg to come up with new plans after consistent failure. It is eventually discovered that they were actually hypnotized and manipulated by Chief Blank to garner better ratings at Channel 5. After his confession to this and later defeat, the Morolians have started being treated as normal citizens.
Space Channel 5: Part 2[]
In Part 2, the humans have made peace with the Morolians and only Hoorg, who is a major character, has any significance to the game's main story. In this game, they now have their own space broadcasting channel called Moro-Channel 5 with Hoorg and Morolian Eight being some of the most notable employers.
Three Morolians, Proonk, Yaroo, and Blib, appear when Ulala does a secret command input, their appearance increasing the view rating, typically ranging from 0.2 to 1%.
In this game, the Morolians' most notable role happens in the Ulala's Dance Mode, a minigame where Ulala must fight them in a 100 stage battle without failing.
Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash![]
The Morolians are, once again, secondary antagonists in the Virtual Reality game, Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash!. In the first report, Morolians Strike Back!, they start a new invasion again, on Spaceport 9 where they force people to dance. Ulala and the recruit, Roo and Kie, go to the Spaceport to investigate the case and defeat the Morolians, first rescuing their hostages in a dance battle where they must copy the aliens moves, then they avoid getting hit by the Morolians attacks and counter by copying their moves and lastly, they fight a Coco★Tapioca, who was assisted by three yellow Morolians.
After being defeated, the mysterious space organism, Glitter, thanks them for the Groove Moxie they gathered during their invasion and as a form of "gratitude", he injects X Space Cells into them, turning them into a new type of Morolian called Othermoros. The new Morolians attack Ulala in the next report, A Chorus in White, where they try to get her Groove Moxie, but are defeated by Ulala and flee. The Othermoros don't make another appearance again until the fourth report, The Final Report, where they assist Glitter in the final fight, but are later freed from his control and turned back into Morolians after Glitter getting enough damage. Then, the Morolians turn to the heroes' side and assist them at getting enough Groove Moxie to defeat the space organism once and for all. Once Glitter flees, the Morolians celebrate along with the main heroes.
In this game, it is rather unclear why exactly the Morolians started an invasion, considering that if they were already brainwashed by Glitter, he wouldn't need to inject X Space Cells into them, unless of course, it was to make them stronger, as X Space Cells are said to cause side effects such as making the Morolians produce non Morolian sounds according to the official website.
Trial Dance Morolians appear in the Trial Dance minigame, assisting Jaguar from the first to the fourth stage.
Costume A Morolian costume for Ulala is available for download in the Hatsune Miku DLC.
Morolian, according to the official website: A mysterious alien who makes people dance with beam rays. The character seems to be different depending on the color. He speaks Moro language, but the meaning is unknown to Earthian.
Rez: A Morolian appears as an unlockable character, being the Hacker's seventh form.
A Morolian in Phantasy Star Online.
Phantasy Star Online: Morolians, referred to as Moro in-game, appear as a Mag, an equippable magical creature, in Phantasy Star Online. In order to obtain it, the Heart of Morolian must be used as an item while a level 50+ Kumara is currently equipped.
Phantasy Star Online 2: Morolians once again appear as a Mag, but this time are called Morolian B (short for Morolian Blue). In Phantasy Star Online 2, Morolian B is a special final evolution that can only be obtained by using Evolution Device / Morolian B on any level 100+ mag.
SEGA Superstars: There's a Space Channel 5 minigame based on Ulala's Dance Mode from Space Channel 5: Part 2, where the player must fight against Morolians.
Sonic Riders: In Sonic Riders, giant Morolian statues appear at the SEGA Illusion circuit, shooting at the circuit and slowing down racers that get hit.
SEGA Superstars Tennis: Many Morolians also appear in SEGA Superstars Tennis in the Space Channel 5 tennis court and Ulala is assisted by them when using her super move.
Puyo Puyo Quest: Morolians also appear as alternate skins for the Puyos in Puyo Puyo Quest. In addition, Cred, Yaroo, Gromb, Blib and Plurp appear as playable units in Puyo Puyo Quest.
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary: Morolians are featured as an alternate set of blocks, along with Space Channel 5 themed garbage indicators.
Puyo Puyo! 20th Anniversary: Morolians are featured as an alternate set of blocks, along with Space Channel 5 themed garbage indicators.
Puyo Puyo Tetris: Morolians are featured as an alternate set of blocks, along with Space Channel 5 themed garbage indicators.
Virtua Fighters 5: A Morolian can be unlocked as an emblem in Quest Mode in Virtua Fighters 5.
Samba de Amigo (Wii): Many Morolians including Hoorg, appear along with Ulala in the Space Channel 5 thematic level from Samba de Amigo for the Wii.
Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing: In Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing, a Morolian will drive Ulala's vehicle while she is using her All Star move.
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: Two Morolians will appear dancing around Ulala in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, again when she uses her All-Star move.
Yakuza 5: Morolians appeared as crane game figures. [3]
Project X Zone series: Morolians appear as enemy units in both Project X Zone and its sequel, Project X Zone 2.
SEGA Hard Girls: Morolians have also appeared in the Japan exclusive multimedia project, SEGA Hard Girls and its anime adaptation, appearing in episode 4, "We Tried to Dance Space Channel 5".
4Unique "Never Gonna Change My Love" Music Video: Morolians, along with Ulala and Coco★Tapioca, cameo in a Space Channel 5 inspired music video for 4Unique's song "Never Gonna Change My Love." The video was produced in 2001 in part by Fiftyeight Animation.
According to the Space Channel 5 Japanese website, the Morolians personality varies depending on their color.[5] The Website exemplifies this saying that red colored Morolians tend to be angry.[5]
This is proven to be true, as there is a red Morolian called Cred, whose In-Game Profile claims to be short-tempered and hasty.
The Morolians were voiced by Ulala's voice actresses in all of the games[6] but the Japanese version of Space Channel VR, where they were voiced by Tomoko Sasaki instead.
Ironically, Space Channel 5 VR is the first game where Ulala's English voice actress voiced them, as they were voiced only by Ulala's Japanese voice actress in the previous games.[6]
In SEGA Superstars, their "Hey" was recorded by an unknown voice actor separately.
Their Japanese voice actress in Space Channel 5 VR, Tomoko Sasaki, also voiced the Chaos in some games of the Sonic the Hedgehog series and the Nightopians in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams.
It has been noticed that the playable characters from the murder mystery game Among Us bear a resemblance to the Morolians.
SEGA making an Among Us joke on Twitter.
On March 2nd, 2021, SEGA made an Among Us joke using the Morolians on Twitter.[7]
In a magazine ad for the first game, it is stated in a small print that when Ulala shoots the Morolians, they aren't really harmed. Instead, their souls go back to their home planet (Planet Morodia), where they are recycled and go on to live a happy, productive lives.[8]
The language the Morolians speak, Moro Language, is the second fictional language SEGA made up. The first being a language created for the SEGA Saturn game NiGHTS into Dreams, called "Dream Language", which is spoken by the Night Dimension residents.
In both NiGHTS and Space Channel 5, the humans appear to perfectly understand both the Night Dimension residents and Morolians languages.
Even though the Morolians have their own language, the two Morolians who back up Texas speak in human language.
In a Space Channel 5 TV commercial, Morolians are also shown to speak in English, contrary to their behavior in the actual game.
In a Space Channel 5 TV commercial, Morolina says Female Humans are the Morolian's natural enemy.
Despite her encountering and even working alongside them in two prior games, Ulala does not appear to know or remember the Morolians in Space Channel 5 VR.
↑ 6.06.1The Morolians' voice samples during dance sequences (Up, Down, Left, Right, Chu) are actually Ulala's Japanese voice samples from the first game at a higher pitch.
