 This article is about an episode in Choriki Sentai Ohranger.
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Invasion!! 1999 (襲来‼１９９９ Shūrai!! Ichi kyū kyū kyū) is the first episode of Choriki Sentai Ohranger. It is the opening episode of the series unique in introducing only one Ranger of the five-member squadron instead of a larger squadron, the leader OhRed, as a means of introducing the concepts of the team.
Synopsis[]
When the Machine Empire Baranoia begins an assault on Earth, United Airforce commander Goro Hoshino takes matters in his own hands to fight back against them and save his four new teammates as OhRed.
Plot[]
On a base located on Earth's moon, the Machine Empire Baranoia looks over their troops, lead by their leaders: Emperor Bacchus Wrath, the Empress Hysteria and Prince Buldont. Acha, the butler, arrives with his partner Kocha saying that Earth's conquest is at hand and the empire's army is unmatched, with no planet able to stop their army's might and that the emperor's leadership will lead to success. Buldont orders the army to head out.
TOKYO, 1999 AD
On a quiet day, the Baranoia army descends from the heaven, their ships flying through the sky causing chaos through the streets. A child drops her doll and runs back, but a beam fired by the ship incinerates all in their path, human and otherwise.
At a base for the United Airforce, a captain named Goro Hoshino arrives as news of the Baranoia invasion reaches the radio: 58 buildings destroyed, three highways impassable and with casualties still being counted. At the base, Goro speaks with a fellow officer about the Tokyo invasion, stating that the army have already conquered New York and Paris. Goro reads a printout from the Baranoia forces, ordering the immediate surrender of the planet to the machine army under the conditions of forfeiting all natural resources and turning over the entire planet's population to be slaves with half to be taken to other planets and the others to remain on Earth; if they refuse, a major metropolitan area of Earth will be attacked every day at noon. Goro crumbles up the paper and throws it on the ground questioning who the machine army is to force them around before asking his commander where his four soldiers for his "special forces" are, with the commander replying they're to arrive shortly. The commander then tells Goro to accomplish great things himself in the "special forces" as another soldier mentions that two Thunderwings heading over from 12th district base are being attacked.
In the sky, two Thunderwings fly with the four "special forces" soldiers: Lieutenants Shouhei Yokkachi, Juri Nijo, Yuji Mita and Momo Maruo. As a squad of Takonpas approaches, Shouhei states they're not letting the machines take Earth as Juri tells him that three crafts are approaching which begin to fire on the planes. Yuji tries to keep up in stopping them but Momo notes they're now behind them as they try to face them in aerial combat. Juri catches a Takonpas on radar as Shouhei and Yuji fire missiles, but the Takonpas survive as one of them follows Yuji's tail and the machine soldier shoots, throwing both planes to the ground plummeting towards a desert where they barely are able to land.
At UA base, a soldier notes that both planes were shot down as the commander asks for a rescue squad; but Goro states he should handle it since they're his fellow members of the "Ohranger". The commander soon takes a helicopter to them as the four soldiers run for their lives from the Takonpas, with Shouhei noting that the machine army suddenly wants to kill them personally; Juri stating this is how aliens tend to handle these things. One of the Baranoia saucers releases an army of machine soldiers, the Barlo Soldiers, as a Takonpas descends to the ground on tripod legs assisting them, forcing the four soldiers to run from the attack where they fall down and try to evade in the bush. The Barlo scream out savagely while the Takonpas continues pursuit destroying the forest, forcing the four UA soldiers into a dead-end until the machines further shoo at them. Noticing a vine, Yuji leads the team to swing across the chasm to safety, but the Takonpas continues pursuing on the ground until it suddenly rains, the weather surrounding the team as the Barlo use the brief pause to attack and throw the quartet into a mudslide!
At a base for the United Airforce's "UAOH" base, the Thunderwings have been stated to have crashed at "Point 1130" and that they will now begin Operation HG-326 and to prepare another Thunderwing for flight. Goro prepares to fly out with his own Thunderwing from the 4th Gate around a mountainous terrain as his plane flies out into the snowy mountains.
Meanwhile, the four soldiers are trapped within the rainy terrain; Yuji states they've escaped but Momo complains they'll be found right away; Shouhei shuts her down stating they've helped each other get through the worst of times due to being a team. Juri states further that they are the best team in the United Airforce allowing for them to get this far, but has no idea what this "Ohranger" project is supposed to be but they've earned it. However as they start a fire, Momo is suddenly attacked by a snake, making Juri yell at her being annoying; but then her teammate screams to look behind her as Juri is confronted by another Barlo, forcing her to hit it with a log that breaks over it's head. The Barlo knock away the males while shocking Juri, who only escapes by burning the two machine soldiers and then using one of their weapons against them. However even when destroyed, an arm escapes and attacks Juri's leg, making Momo attack it as the partner female wonders what those things even are! Another wounded Barlo staggers as it spits a gear towards them, slicing a small tree in two as the team avoids it before firing a beam covering Momo in a net. More Barlo appear before the others, forcing them to avoid attack as Shouhei uses the previous gear to free Momo from the net. A Barlo fires another beam knocking the quartet into a river and towards a waterfall as they try to avoid the machines but are cornered by them and the rapids below as more Takonpas and Barlo beams force them beneath the water and to fall into the rapids helpless.
Eventually reaching a calm point, the four escape, but soon feel an earthquake as a massive drill emerges from the ground chasing after them before rising up and taking the form of a humanoid being known as the Machine Beast Bara Drill. Bara Drill shoots a flamethrower at the four soldiers knocking them down as more Takonpas and Barlo continue to corner and pursue them. However, the machines are soon pushed back at Goro arrives in his Thunderwing, shooting and attacking the machines stating he found the survivors and will be saving them. Locking on with radar, Goro uses a special "Choriki Cannon" to fire and destroy the Takonpas, shocking him in how powerful the cannon is in combat and making everyone at base celebrate. As a commander known as "Colonel Miura" arrives, someone congratulates him on how well things are going, stating the cannons are a major success, but the colonel states that they can't rest since UA headquarters have discovered the Baranoia Moonbase constructed there.
On the moon, Hysteria states that humanity enjoy foolish concepts such as "love" and "kindness"; Bacchus and Buldont consider it weak and foolish unlike them, stating they as machines live forever comparatively and are the only beings fit to rule the universe. Thus they need to make humanity suffer to realize their inferiority to the machine empire.
On Earth, Goro leaves his Thunderwing on a bike and drives through smashing into Bara Drill whose cannon is used to destroy a Takonpas! Goro rushes the Barlo Soldiers, using a device to transform into a new soldier in red who charges in against the machine warriors while watches by his future teammates. Goro makes quick work of the Barlo, summoning his Battle Stick to slash at them obliterating them, then shooting a King Blaster to break another Barlo to pieces. Bara Drill charges at Goro with it's massive chest drill, knocking him into rocks to the ground before another Takonpas shoots at him. Combining the two weapons together, Goro forms the King Smasher harming the Takonpas before the flamethrower of Bara Drill continues to attack the Ohranger throwing him around. Goro fires the King Smasher but it isn't enough as he's knocked to the ground buried by rocks which he quickly emerges from ready to fight. Confronted by both the Takonpas and Bara Drill, Goro jumps out of the way having both attack each other before summoning his Star Riser sword, using it to fly right into a wound in Bara Drill's head destroying it while the four future Ohranger use the Barlo's own weapon against the disabled Takonpas destroying it as well.
As the team emerges from the battle, they see Goro emerge victorious walking towards them, meeting with him wondering who he is. The soldier states he is OhRed, Captain of the Choriki Sentai Ohranger Special Forces.
Cast[]
- Goro Hoshino (星野 吾郎 Hoshino Gorō): Masaru Shishido (宍戸 勝 Shishido Masaru)
- Shouhei Yokkaichi (四日市 昌平 Yokkaichi Shōhei): Kunio Masaoka (正岡 邦夫 Masaoka Kunio)
- Yuji Mita (三田 祐司 Mita Yūji): Masashi Goda (合田 雅吏 Gōda Masashi)
- Juri Nijo (二条 樹里 Nijō Juri): Ayumi Hodaka (穂高 あゆみ Hodaka Ayumi)
- Momo Maruo (丸尾 桃 Maruo Momo): Tamao Sato]] (さとう 珠緒 Satō Tamao)
- Chief Counsellor Naoyuki Miura (三浦尚之参謀長 Miura Naoyuki-sanbōchō): Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋 Miyauchi Hiroshi)
- Emperor Bacchus Wrath (皇帝バッカスフンド Kōtei Bakkasu Fundo, Voice): Toru Ohira (大平 透 Ōhira Tōru)
- Empress Hysteria (皇妃ヒステリア Kougou Hisuteria, Voice): Minori Matsushima (松島みのり Matsushima Minori)
- Prince Buldont (皇子ブルドント Ōji Burudonto, Voice): Tomokazu Seki (関 智一 Seki Tomokazu)
- Butler Acha (執事アチャ Shitsuji Acha, Voice): Kaneta Kimotsuki (肝付兼太 Kimotsuki Kaneta)
- Butler Kocha (執事コチャ Shitsuji Kocha, Voice): Shinobu Adachi (安達忍 Adachi Shinobu)
Guest Cast[]
- Commander: Ryousuke Kaizu (海津亮介 Kaizu Ryosuke)
- UA Base Announcer (Voice): Seiichi Hirai (平井 誠一 Hirai Seiichi)
Errors[]
- As OhRed destroys three of the Barlos with his Battle Stick, another Battle Stick is holstered on his left hip.
Notes[]
- Viewership: 6.4%
- This was the highest rated episode of Choriki Sentai Ohranger, 1.9% above the series average.
- The scene where the Baranoia army is attacking the forest is used as footage for the scene of Machine Empire invading KO-35 in "Countdown to Destruction".
- One of the U.A.O.H. soldiers in this episode is portrayed by Ryousuke Kaizu, who previously portrayed Takeru in Hikari Sentai Maskman.
- During the initial airing of this series, Ohranger was originally set in 1999. However, during the initial airing of 1998 Super Sentai series, Seiju Sentai Gingaman, this series was retconned to set in year that series was aired, 1995, as 1999 Super Sentai series, Kyukyu Sentai GoGoFive, was set in 1999.
DVD releases[]
- Choriki Sentai Ohranger DVD Volume 1 features episodes 1-12
- Choriki Sentai Ohranger: The Complete Series was released in North America by Shout! Factory on November 1, 2016.
See Also[]
- Zeo Serial - Power Rangers counterpart . See comparison page. (Barlo Solders and Takonpas footage in Shorts #6, 11, 12 and 23)
- A Zeo Beginning - Power Rangers counterpart in Zeo. See comparison page.
- Power Rangers Zeo: Zeo Quest - Power Rangers counterpart . See comparison page.
- It Came From Angel Grove - Power Rangers counterpart in Zeo. See comparison page. (Bara Drill footage)
- Countdown to Destruction - Power Rangers counterpart in In Space. See comparison page. (Baranoia invasion footage)
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