Category:Shinkengers

The Shinkengers are samurai tasked to defeat the Gedoshu. Armed with the ShodoPhones, able to channel mojikara and the Shinkenmaru, the 18th head of the Shiba clan and his loyal retainers continue to fight to ensure the Sanzu River does not overflow.

Team History
For 300 years, a squadron of five samurai as ordained by the Emperor of Japan had continually protected the nation from invasion of the forces of the Gedoshu of the Sanzu River. The team had continued their effort for seventeen consecutive generations. It ultimately culminated with Masataka Shiba, the leader of the 17th generation, using a special character to temporarily seal and rip apart Dokoku Chimatsuri, the leader of the Gedoshu forces. However the cost of this victory was hollow: many of his retainers bore damage, some of which was heavy, while Masataka himself lost his life to deliver the seal with the strain on his own Mojikara. He had already passed on his genetics and powerful Mojikara to an unborn daughter, but chose to hide her existence from the world and Gedoshu by usage of a kagemusha: a young boy named Takeru who inherited the will to become the 18th Lord of the Shinkenger. Likewise, the four other clans likewise chose children and raised them accordingly for the day that Dokoku and the Gedoshu began their assault on the human world once again.

The Gathering of the 18th Generation
On the day the Gedoshu began to attack the human world again and Dokoku returned from his battles with the 17th generation, Takeru was brought forth to begin his battle with the evil forces once again. With his guardian, Hikoma Kusakabe and an army of the clan's Kuroko by his side, he summoned forth the retainers of the other four clans to join in the battle with the Gedoshu: rising kabuki actor Ryunosuke Ikenami (Shinken Blue), matronly child-care worker Mako Shiraishi (Shinken Pink), cheeky teen male Chiaki Tani (Shinken Green) and the young and trained Kotoha Hanaori (Shinken Yellow), who went forth in place of her sickly older sister Mitsuba.

Initially the retainers had problems adapting to their new lives and to assisting Takeru in the Gedoshu battles: some like Ryunosuke and Kotoha threw themselves hard into their new positions, almost over-doing it in some manners. Chiaki, on the other hand, quickly grew tired of the constant seclusion, training and of those whom they had to deal with, particularly Takeru and Hikoma. However, after nearly getting others around him in danger and showing off his own style in battle, Shinken Green came around and decided to stay if only to surpass the lord. Takeru himself appeared to be a very strict, noble lord, yet knew how to protect others and the mission at hand, allowing for the retainers to all gain a quick loyalty towards him.

The Lost Origami
Although the team were well prepared and equipped for their war with the Gedoshu, Takeru and Hikoma knew they had to keep pushing themselves further with the increased threat. Knowing that there would eventually be opponents that not even blades could cut, Shinken Red began training with the Kabuto Disk, a special Mojikara disk that allowed for his weapon to attack Gedoshu that swords couldn't cut, such as the Ayakashi Yanasudare. Aside from being a disk, the Kabuto Disk was likewise a Kabuto Origami that further gave the team another weapon to fight the Ayakashi's second life. However, they knew that there were other "lost" Origami out there that previous Shinkenger had access to and they knew would be useful for their war.

The second lost Origami was the Kajiki Origami, a swordfish that had been lost for so long that it reverted to it's wild roots. Ryunosuke was sent to catch it and did so with the assistance of Sakutaro Komatsu, a former Kuroko who left without feeling loyalties to the clan to become a fisherman. After Ryunosuke's act and feeling Shinken Blue's passion to Takeru, Komatsu returned to his position with the Shiba clan and the Shinkenger gained another Origami for their arsenal. Ryunosuke's influence from this act would later influence Richard Brown, an American man infected by the Ayakashi who was saved by the Kajiki Origami, to become an "American Samurai" with Shinken Blue as his teacher.

The third of the missing Origami was the Tora Origami, a tiger which peculiarly had fallen into the hands of the Ayakashi Hitomidama and who used his animal-training abilities to keep it under his control. The Ayakashi attempted to use his abilities to force Ryunosuke to likewise be under his control and force Takeru to take on his retainer, but ultimately defeats him while using his own Shishi Origami to take back the Tora Origami from his control and use it to defeat it's controlling master.

With all three Origami back in their control, the Shinkenger learn from Hikoma that they now possess the power to utilize a new Origami formation: Daitenkuu, a giant bird that would help them further. Takeru and Ryunosuke both became two of the summoners, but when Chiaki was passed over for Mako regardless of his fast development, Shinken Green became outraged and threatened to leave until finally coming to grips with his own powers. Shinken Pink knew from the beginning that Chiaki truly deserved the final disk and, once he proved himself in battle against Ayakashi Okakurage, gave him the final disk to allow for Daitenkuu to be summoned by the male Shinkenger to stop its second life.

The Lord's Dilemma
Although the Shinkenger gained strength through the three new Origami against the main Gedoshuu forces, they started being watched by a mysterious wild-card: Juzo Fuwa, a "lone-wolf" Ayakashi who bore no allegiance to Dokoku and who could peculiarly change between his monsterous form and one akin to a human samurai. Juzo watched over the Shinkenger and appeared to them several times initially, including in protection of Dokoku ally Dayuu Usukawa, as well as intercepting the battle between Takeru and Ryunosuke.

Amidst the problem, the retainers soon find out likewise that Dokoku's forces are specifically targeting Takeru due to the past history between the Shiba clan and the Gedoshuu and the potential of using the sealing character on the leader. When Ushirobushi, one of the most powerful Ayakashi, is released to take them on, the retainers become more active in protecting Takeru, to the point of Ryunosuke and Kotoha taking massive damage against it. Yet it was during this fight that Juzo finally took action, fighting Takeru and Ushirobushi hoping to get the thrill of battle he desired. As the battle settled with a stalemate, his retainers hurt and his mind riled by Juzo, Takeru leaves the mansion feeling the burden he had caused. However, after a visit with a child-care worker who helps him rediscover why he has to fight and the will of fighting for others, Takeru begins to fully understand and appreciate the retainer's loyalty to Shinken Red. During the battle with Ushirobushi, the team choose to combine the Origami of Shinken-Oh and DaiTenkuu for the first time, creating TenkuuShinken-Oh to finish off Ushirobushi.

The Sushi Samurai
As the Shinkenger continued to face various Ayakashi threats, one of the most bizarre occurred on a day when Takeru was attacked within the Shiba mansion itself! In the midst of these attacks, a similar penetration of defenses occurs when an arrow breaks through into the mansion with the proclamation "Coming Soon". As Takeru and half the retainers keep track of the invisible Ayakashi, the others trace the strange note as an advertisement by the teenage owner of the "Gold Sushi" food cart that had recently arrived in the area. As the Shinkenger finally discovered and cornered the Ayakashi Isagitsune, which had done the invisible attacks on the mansion, the sushi seller reveals himself as "Shinken Gold", a new 6th Shinkenger who possessed Iaido swordsmanship skills and the squid-like Ika Origami!

Yet Takeru identifies him as Genta Umemori, a childhood friend who wished to be a sushi seller yet also a samurai to protect Takeru when the time came, leading to Shinken Red to give Ika Origami to him in secret. Over the years until his return, he used his technical wizardry to master an electronic version of Modikara he can access through his Sushi Changer cell phone in place of not physically having it himself, while further studying and understanding the concepts of the technology the team uses. Genta tries to prove to Takeru and the others that he is worthy of fighting as the sixth Shinkenger, but has a hard time making his case, with Takeru not wanting his friend to get hurt, while others such as the more studious and culturally conservative Ryunosuke thinking that he is too wild and lax to be a samurai. Through battles with the Ayakashi, Genta slowly wins over the critics and wins his place as a part of the Shinkenger, while at the same time supplying his own Origami for the team: the lobster-formed Ebi Origami.

The Multi-Dimensional Menace
Although the war between the Shinkenger and the Gedoshuu continued forth on Earth in their known dimension, they would become embroiled in a war that would span multiple dimensions! When the samurai encounter strange mechanical minions, the team is saved by Sosuke Esumi, a hot-blooded hero of the Engine Sentai Go-Onger thrown back to the "Human World" (the name of the regular universe based upon the Braneworld concept of Go-Onger) after a devastating battle with Pollution President Batcheed, the last remaining leader of the Gaiark.

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