Junichi Haruta

This article is about an actor in Dai Sentai Goggle V.

This article is about an actor in Kagaku Sentai Dynaman.

Jun'ichi Haruta played Kanpei Kuroda (GoggleBlack) in Dai Sentai Goggle V and Ryuu Hoshikawa (DynaBlack) in Kagaku Sentai Dynaman. He also played Madgalant, one of the main villains of the Metal Hero show Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion, in 1985. Haruta is peculiar among tokusatsu actors in which he in one of the few who also does his own stunts, in and out of suit. Aside from doing his own stunts as Goggle and DynaBlack, he was previously a suit actor for Spade Ace and Big One in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai.

Trivia

• He is the last actor so far to play two different main Rangers of a team.
  • Shiro Izumi notably also played two heroes, but one of the main team (Yuuma Oozora/Change Pegasus) and a Sixth Hero (Burai/DragonRanger)
  • Both Masashi Goda and Yousuke Itou both played two different Warriors (with Yousuke also playing two different characters wearing the same color), both their second characters only appeared for a minute at best, while both of Jun'ichi's characters were core members and stayed for on for 50 and 51 episodes respectively.
    • Masashi Goda: Shun Namiki/MegaBlue; Masataka Shiba/ShinkenRed I
    • Yousuke Itou: Sen'ichi "Sen-chan" Enari/DekaGreen; Magis/GoseiGreen
  • This does not count Teruaki Ogawa, who while playing two suited characters, these two included one Sentai hero (Sasuke of Ninja Sentai Kakuranger) and one Extra Hero (Black Knight Hyuuga of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman)