Hiromu Sakurada

Hiromu Sakurada (桜田 ヒロム) is Red Buster (レッドバスター) of the Go-Busters.

His Buster Power is super speed. Thus his legs can move at an unbelievable velocity, making him look as if he were teleporting. His partner Buddy Roid is Cheeda Nick.

His power, like the other Busters, has a Weakpoint trade-off. Whenever Hiromu panics or is immensely startled, he freezes up completely, even in mid-air. However, it is commonly activated when Hiromu sees a chicken, an animal in which he has developed a phobia of.

Biography
Hiromu is 20 years old and the second oldest on the team. Thirteen years ago before the events of the first episode, Hiromu's father had saved the world by isolating his entire research building in Hyper Space to contain the virus called "Messiah". Hiromu, along with two other children, escaped this isolation.

A program in his body grants him superhuman abilities. However, his sister Rika refuses to allow him join the Go-Busters training program, which is organized and run by the Energy Management Center. Despite her refusals, Hiromu had already decided he would eventually join when the time comes that they truly need him. Thus Hiromu, though irregularly, undertakes some simulations and training in order to prepare for the eventual threat. His training sessions were done unbeknownst to his sister. In one of their pre-Vaglass outings, they take on their predecessors' nemesis, Basco ta Jolokia. However, they take him on stealthily before heading back home (to the Energy Management Center) and without the Gokaigers' knowledge.

When the EMC finds the threat escalating, Takeshi Kuroki has the Go-Buster basic gear sent to the Sakurada residence hoping for a positive response. When Hiromu receives the gear, he immediately tells his sister that he must go and, despite his sister's protests, that he's already made up his mind to join the Go-Busters.

Hiromu arrives just in time as the ShovelZord, a MegaZord Beta, attempts to destroy Enetron reserves to funnel Enetron for Messiah. Using the untested Buster Vehicle CB-01, Hiromu battles the MegaZord while the other Go-Busters tackle ShovelRoid.

Super Hero Taisen
Early on in his career, he and the other Go-Busters meet almost the entire Super Sentai and Kamen Rider community when a crisis forces their figureheads into a ruse that created one of the biggest battles of Sentai and Rider history.

Super Hero Taisen Z
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Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters
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Zyuohger vs. Ninninger
Red Buster appears as part of a conference of the first 38 Reds whom address the Ninningers and Zyuohgers.

Chou Super Hero Taisen
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Powers and Abilities

 * Hyper Speed:
 * Hiromu can move at extreme fast speed, which rivals even a near-lightspeed power.


 * Body Flicker:
 * By combining with Cheeda Nick in Powered Custom mode, Hiromu can move even faster, to the point of a short-range teleportation.

Weaknesses

 * Fear Immobilization
 * When he confronts, or just simply sees or hears anything related to chickens (his biggest fear due to a psychological childhood trauma of being brutally attacked by one), he is instantly frozen, even in mid-air. However, he has gradually suppressed this weakness due to his friends helping him confront his fear. At most in more recent appearances, it does not fully immobilize him but slows down his movement and superhuman reflexes significantly.

Personality
Hiromu is the serious young leader of the Go-Busters. He loves his sister, even if she thinks he shouldn't be a Go-Buster. He is also quite blunt, as it's his personal policy to give it to a person "straight," like telling Cheeda that he has poor directions despite being a Buddy Roid. It's because of his bluntness that he often clashes with fellow Go-Buster Yoko, who hates being wrong.

Hiromu has a deep fear of chickens which ironically became his Weakpoint. This started when Hiromu was young and playing hide-and-seek with Nick. Hiromu accidentally locked himself into a chicken coop and a startled chicken attacked him, which caused his fear. .

It is also revealed that Hiromu was affected the most by the trauma of losing his parents at such a young age. This is especially evident when Filmloid tries to psychologically defeat the Go-Busters with illusions displaying their deepest desire. Hiromu was the only one affected, when the monster showed him being with his parents.

Another one of his weaknesses is that Hiromu wants to do things alone most of the time, not wanting to bother other people with his problems. An example of this is that he wants to bear the pain of losing his parents all by himself, instead of talking about it.

Hand-Offs
Red Buster rides up to Gokai Red on his motorcycle. After getting off, Gokai Red throws a punch which Red Buster stops, (The punch being the continuing responsibility). Gokai Red leaves shortly after. Red Buster quickly turns in the direction Gokai Red headed towards and bows out of respect. This is the first Hand-Off to involve another character, as Red Buster's motorcycle is Cheeda Nick. However, this is minor, as Nick does nothing more than be a normal motorcycle.

Red Buster appears to walk towards the camera until suddenly Kyoryu Red attacks him from behind. They get into a short scuffle until Red Buster catches a punch (similar to his interaction to Gokai Red) stopping the fight. Kyoryu Red faces the camera and punches towards it while Red Buster leans on top of his shoulder.

Super Hero Taihen
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Go-Busters video game
Hiromu as Red Buster appears with his team in the Nintendo DS Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters video game.

Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O

 * Profile
 * Hiromu Sakurada/Red Buster: to be added
 * Hiromu Sakurada/Red Buster Powered Custom: to be added

Super Sentai Battle Base
Red Buster is among the vast pantheon of Rangers which are avaliable in the mobile game Super Sentai Battle Base, with his Powered Custom being avaliable as well.

Energy Management Center profile

 * This profile is given in the Go-Busters credit shots in the opening sequence.

Hiromu Sakurada
 * ID: 555-913-315
 * Code Name: Red Buster
 * Blood type: AB
 * Age: 20

Imitations

 * A copy of Red Buster was created by Filmloid as part of a fake Go-Buster trio.
 * Two Buglars were given the appearance of Red Buster by Sprayloid 2.
 * Enter copied his bio-data from the Messiah card in Hiromu's body to become Dark Buster, a twisted evil variation of Red Buster Powered Custom.

Portrayal
Hiromu Sakurada is portrayed by Katsuhiro Suzuki (鈴木 勝大). As a child, he is portrayed by Ryu Hashizume (橋爪 龍). Hiromu was briefly voiced by Syo Jinnai (陳内 将) when he disguised himself as Enter in Mission 14: Ça va? Rescue Operation. Hiromu was also briefly portrayed by Arisa Komiya (小宮 有紗) in Mission 28: Beware of Chickens, when Sprayloid 2 caused his appearance to change into that of Yoko, though Katsuhiro Suzuki still provided Hiromu's voice.

As Red Buster, his suit actor is Yoshifumi Oshikawa (押川 善文), whose previous role was Gokai Blue in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. He has also done suit work for Gosei Black, Shinken Blue, Go-On Blue, and several Kamen Riders. This is the first time he has played a Red Ranger.

Behind the scenes

 * Hiromu is the first Red ranger since two of his predecessors to receive the following:
 * The first since Ryo of the Heavenly Fire Star/RyuuRanger (Dairanger) where his primary mech can transform into its own giant robot (0.5 Robo).
 * Although several Red Rangers had secondary mechs that had their own giant robot forms, such as Ryouga Hakua/AbaRed (Abaranger), Sosuke Esumi/Go-On Red (Go-Onger), and Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red (Shinkenger).
 * The first since Matoi Tatsumi/GoRed (GoGo-V) to have his own motorcycle.
 * He's the second Ranger to be based on a cheetah, the first being Ran Uzaki/GekiYellow (Gekiranger). Coincidentally, both characters' names are written in the same fashion, where the given name is in katakana and the surname in kanji.
 * Also, his Volcanic Attack in Powered Custom is similar to the three Gekirangers' Geki Waza Bullet attacks (GekiRed's Gun-Gun Bullet, GekiBlue's Spin-Spin Bullet, and GekiYellow's Blink-Blink Bullet), in that they manifest their power into a projection of a big cat to charge at their opponents.
 * His super speed Buster Power is strong enough to compete in the same league with famous Clock Up System, which enables Kabuto to travel at near-light speeds by slowing down time. This is shown in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, where Hiromu takes on Tsukasa Kadoya (Kamen Rider Decade), who  into Kamen Rider Kabuto.
 * Hiromu, as well as Cheeda Nick, have their own personal theme: One Wish, One Day. This song was played during the end of Episode 9 and 10 of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
 * Hiromu's ID number (555-913-315) is coincidentally similar to the combined code numbers of Kamen Riders (555),  (913), and  (315) from .
 * Hiromu's super-speed is similar to that of Bun of the Flashmen.

Dub Names

 * In the Korean dub of Go-Busters entitled Power Rangers Go-Busters, which aired in South Korea, Hiromu is renamed Jacky, while he keeps his ranger name.

TV Asahi

 * TV Asahi's page on Red Buster

Dice-O

 * Red Buster at the Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O official website
 * Red Buster Powered Custom at the Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O official website
 * Red Buster at the Dice-O Wiki
 * Red Buster Powered Custom at the Dice-O Wiki