 This article is about an episode in Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan.
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The North Pole's Machine Empire (北極の機械帝国 Hokkyoku no Kikai Teikoku) is the first episode of Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan.
Synopsis[]
When the Machine Empire Black Magma decides to issue a challenge to conquer the world, three male soldiers of the Guardians of World Peace are gathered together to fight against them as Sun Vulcan.
Plot[]
The series begins in the North Pole, where a large ice floe begins drifting fro the Arctic Ocean to the North Pacific. A Guardians of World Peace submarine investigates, but is destroyed by Machine Empire Black Magma from within the floe. A search plane arrives, but gets destroyed as well. Soon, Black Magma starts activating abnormal weather upon the world. A summit by the United Nations is interrupted by Black Magma Führer Hell Saturn, who announces his invasion of Earth. The summit quickly decides to form the Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan.
Meanwhile, Ryusuke Owashi was napping at his house, when he is suddenly ambushed by Zero One of Black Magma. As Zero One escapes, his Vulcan Brace goes off.
Meanwhile, Asao Hyo was eating lunch, when he finds a balloon. He gives the balloon to a girl, but shortly after, hears a bomb countdown from the balloon. He throws the balloon away and it explodes a second later. Then his Vulcan Brace goes off.
Meanwhile, Kinya Samejima was playing guitar on his boat, when he is attacked by two robotic scuba divers. After defeating them, his Vulcan Brace goes off.
The men go to the Snack Safari shop, where they put their emblems on an object that guides them to an underground base. There, they meet Misa Arashiyama, who was swimming in a pool. Asao quickly to undress to swim with her, but Kinya stops him. Misa guides them to the control room, where they meet EPDS commander Daizaburo Arashiyama, Misa's father, his assistant, Ms. Kageyama, and Misa's talking dog, CC, whom Asao fears. The men transform into Sun Vulcan; Ryusuke into VulEagle, Kinya transforms into VulShark, and Asao transforms into VulPanther, and begin to practice combining the Cosmo and Bull Vulcan to become the Sun Vulcan Robo.
Meanwhile, Zero One returns to the Black Magma base in the North Pole to show Hell Saturn footage of the Sun Vulcan Robo. The Zero Girls create Grub Monger and send him to attack the Guardians of World Peace base.
Grub Monger attacks, but is ambushed the Sun Vulcan team. After defeating the Machinemen, the men try to destroy Grub Monger with the Vulcan Ball, but the latter grows bigger.
The men deploy the Jaguar Vulcan to launch missiles at Grub Monger. The men then launch the Cosmo and Bull Vulcan to attack Monger. Then the two Vulcans combine to form the Sun Vulcan Robo. After a brief fight, the Sun Vulcan Robo destroys Grub Monger with the Aurora Plasma Return.
The men return successfully, but Arashiyama informs them that there is a Black Magma spy inside the EPDS base, and quickly deduces that it is Ms. Kageyama. Ms. Kageyama reveals herself as a Dark Q and tries to escape, but gets captured and destroyed. The team and the Arashiyamas then explore the safari park above the base and the episode ends.
Cast[]
- Ryusuke Owashi (大鷲 龍介 Ōwashi Ryūsuke): Ryusuke Kawasaki (川崎 龍介 Kawasaki Ryūsuke)
- Kinya Samejima (鮫島 欣也 Samejima Kin'ya): Kinya Sugi (杉 欣也 Sugi Kin'ya)
- Asao Hyo (豹 朝夫 Hyō Asao): Asao Kobayashi (小林 朝夫 Kobayashi Asao)
- Daizaburo Arashiyama (嵐山 大三郎 Arashiyama Daizaburō): Shin Kishida (岸田 森 Kishida Shin)
- Misa Arashiyama (嵐山 美佐 Arashiyama): Yumi Nemoto (根本 由美 Nemoto Yumi)
- Jiro Sakai (坂井 次郎 Sakai Jirō): Hiroki Takeda (武田 弘樹 Takeda Hiroki)
- Masao Akino (秋野 正男 Akino Masao): Takumi Ito (伊藤 巧美 Itō Takumi)
- Mari Ogawa (小川 まり Ogawa Mari): Yumi Yamaguchi (山口 由美 Yamaguchi Yumi)
- CC (シーシー Shīshī, Voice): Kotoe Taichi (太地 琴恵 Taichi Kotoe)
- Führer Hell Saturn (ヘルサターン総統 Heru Satān Sōtō, Voice): Shozo Iizuka (飯塚 昭三 Iizuka Shōzō)
- Zero One (ゼロワン Zero Wan): Takako Kitagawa (北河 多香子 Kitagawa Takako)
- Zero Two (ゼロツー Zero Tsū): Mariko Higashi (東 まり子 Higashi Mariko)
- Zero Three (ゼロスリー Zero Surī): Yuki Udagawa (宇田川 由紀 Udagawa Yuki)
- Zero Four (ゼロフォー Zero Fō): Toshiko Takashima (高島 敏子 Takashima Toshiko)
- Sun Vulcan Robo (サンバルカンロボ San Barukan Robo, Voice): Eiji Kanie (蟹江 栄司 Kanie Eiji)
Guest Cast[]
- Grub Monger (ジムシモンガー Jimushi Mongā, Voice): Teiji Ōmiya (大宮 悌二 Ōmiya Teiji)
- Dark Q/Reiko Kageyama (影山 令子 Kageyama Reiko): Akiko Ayase (彩瀬 晶子 Ayase Akiko)
- Girl: Ayako Kobayashi (小林 綾子 Kobayashi Ayako)
Errors[]
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Notes[]
- Viewership: 14.6%
- The narration at the beginning of the episode is accompanied by Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain composition.
- Daizaburo Arashiyama's first appearance in this opening episode was accompanied by a memorial message in the television reruns of Sun Vulcan which began airing in the Tokyo area after actor Shin Kishida's death on 28 December 1982.
DVD releases[]
- Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan DVD Volume 1 features episodes 1-10.
- Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan DVD-Collection Volume 1 features episodes 1-25.
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