 This article is about an episode in Dengeki Sentai Changeman.
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The Rainbow-Colored Girl Ira (虹色の少女アイラ Nijiiro no Shōjo Aira) is the forty-fifth episode of Dengeki Sentai Changeman.
Synopsis[]
A naive alien girl is manipulated into unknowing sealing away the power and identity of her childhood friend Hiryu.
Plot[]
A young girl, with her body adorned with rainbow-colored streaks, skips ecstatically across a field after stepping out of an UFO; her name is Ira, and she comments how Earth is still as beautiful as she remembers from many years ago. Accompanying her is a creature called Daros, who appears friendly to her, and uses energetic beams to make the streaks all over her body disappear. Now able to easily blend in with people from Earth, she sets off to find a certain person: Hiryu Tsurugi.
She soon arrives at an EDF base and breaks into it easily, only agreeing to speak with Hiryu, who is summoned to help with the situation. On his way, however, he is attacked by Daros, who reveals himself to be a Space Beast under the employ of Gozma. Daros uses his energy beams on Tsurugi once he transforms into Dragon, but flees before the Changeman can strike back. Despite his confusion, he proceeds back to the EDF base, where the soldiers are now surrounding Ira. Dragon quickly intervenes to talk to her, but she refuses to believe he is Hiryu unless he takes off his Change Protect uniform. Dragon, however, finds himself unable to detransform, which leads a disappointed Ira to steal a jeep and run away.
While all this is happening, Ahames exposes to Bazoo that what Daros did was extracting the sunlight spectrum from Ira's body (thus removing her rainbow streaks) and passed it on to Dragon who, under the influence of the spectrum, is unable to detransform. Meanwhile, as Dragon is being studied, his teammates note that, being unable to take off his uniform, Hiryu will be unable to feed, and the more he spends transformed, the greater is the toll on the user's body. Just then, a soldier comes in, informing them of Ira's whereabouts, and Dragon, even severely weakened, steps out to go after her.
Ira is having difficulties to commandeer the jeep, when Dragon shows up driving the Change Cruiser, asking her to stop, until Daros and Booba attack him, allowing Ira to escape. The battle does not go too well for Dragon, who is having to hold back and prevent overexertion, until he sees Ira has lost control of her vehicle and is hanging off a cliff. He runs to help her up, just as Super Giluke shows up and blasts him, sending them hurtling to the river below.
The two survive, however, and after Dragon manages to bring Ira back to her senses, she recalls a story of when she was a child and first came to Earth, having snuck into a spaceship as a prank: she was starving and picked up a persimmon from a nearby orchard, which led some boys from the neighborhood to chase her and beat her up, until another kid, a young Hiryu, intervened to protect her. They then started pelting Ira and Tsurugi with rocks, until they fell off a cliff and into a river. When Ira came to, Hiryu had caught some fish for her to eat and placed a flower in her hair, as it made her look prettier. Touched by his kindness, Ira vowed to come back to see Tsurugi again but, back in the present, she is saddened that she might never have the chance to do so. Dragon, then, places a flower in Ira's hair, and the gesture finally convinces her that he is Hiryu. Before he can explain why he cannot show her his face, Booba and Daros corner them, and the latter admits that he was using Ira to get close to Dragon and kill him, but now she has no use for them anymore, so they will be sent to hell together.
In spite of his weakened condition, Dragon is able to fend off a wave of Hidrers while protecting Ira, but fares badly against Daros. As the Space Beast moves in for the kill, Ira blasts him with a ray gun, which causes him to the sunlight spectrum to return from Dragon's body to her own, allowing him to finally demorph. She runs away to take cover, as the rest of Hiryu's teammates join him. Feeling renewed, Hiryu leads his team into an easier fight this time, destroying Daros first with the Power Bazooka, then with the Change Robo's Super Thunderbolt.
Later, Hiryu follows Ira to her ship. She does not want him to come any closer to her due to their different adult physiology. Hiryu calms her down by again, repeating the same gesture of endearment, and explaining that appearance does not matter when there is a true friendship, and he promises her that his friends will crush Gozma and bring peace to the universe. Ira pledges that, no matter how far apart they are, she will come and see him again someday.
Cast[]
- Hiryu Tsurugi (剣 飛竜 Tsurugi Hiryū): Haruki Hamada (浜田治貴 Hamada Haruki)
- Sho Hayate (疾風 翔 Hayate Shō): Kazuoki Takahashi (高橋 和興 Takahashi Kazuoki)
- Yuma Ozora (大空 勇馬 Ōzora Yūma): Shiro Izumi (和泉 史郎 Izumi Shirō)
- Sayaka Nagisa (渚 さやか Nagisa Sayaka): Hiroko Nishimoto (西本ひろ子 Nishimoto Hiroko)
- Mai Tsubasa (翼 麻衣 Tsubasa Mai): Mai Ooishi (大石麻衣 Ōishi Mai)
- Chief Yui Ibuki (ユイ・イブキ): Jun Fujimaki (藤巻潤 Fujimaki Jun)
- Officer Suzuki (鈴木隊員 Suzuki Taiin): Genshu Suzuki (鈴木玄秀 Suzuki Genshū)
- Officer Shoji (庄司隊員 Shōji Taiin): Hirokazu Shoji (庄司 浩和 Shōji Hirokazu)
- Officer Watanabe (渡辺隊員 Watanabe Taiin): Minoru Watanabe (渡辺実 Watanabe Minoru)
- Officer Nomoto (野本隊員 Nomoto Taiin): Nahoko Nomoto (野本奈穂子 Nomoto Nahoko)
- Officer Kikuchi (菊池隊員 Kikuchi Taiin): Kaori Kikuchi (菊池香理 Kikuchi Kaori)
- Star King Bazeu (星王バズー Seiō Bazū): Kazuto Kuwahara (桑原一人 Kuwahara Kazuto)
- Star King Bazeu (Voice): Seizo Kato (加藤 精三 Katō Seizō)
- General Giluke (ギルーク司令 Girūku Shirei): Shouhei Yamamoto (山本昌平 Yamamoto Shōhei)
- Queen Ahames (女王アハメス Joō Ahamesu): Fukumi Kuroda (黒田 福美 Kuroda Fukumi)
- Adjutant Booba (副官ブーバ Fukukan Būba): Yoshinori Okamoto (岡本美登 oshinori Okamoto)
- Adjutant Seama (副官シーマ Fukukan Shīma): Kana Fujieda (藤枝かな Fujieda Kana)
Guest Cast[]
- Daros (ダロス Darosu, Voice): Takeshi Kuwabara (桑原たけし Kuwabara Takeshi)
- Ira (アイラ): Yoko Nakamura (中村容子 Nakamura Yōko)
- Ira (Child): Miki Takahashi (高橋美樹 Takahashi Miki)
- Guard: Yutaka Hirose (広瀬 裕 Hirose Yutaka)
- Boy: Tamaki Ito (伊藤 環 Itō Tamaki)
- Hiryu Tsurugi (Child):Yoshiaki Takahashi (高橋良明 Takahashi Yoshiaki)
Errors[]
- to be added
Notes[]
Yutaka Hirose as an EDF Soldier
- Viewership: 13.9%
- Ira is portrayed by Yoko Nakamura, who plays Sara in Choshinsei Flashman.
- In addition, Yutaka Hirose, who would play the villain Leh Wanda in Flashman, has a cameo appearance as a soldier.
DVD releases[]
- Dengeki Sentai Changeman DVD Volume 5 features episodes 45-55
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