Gosei Sentai Dairenjâ (Five Star Task Force
Dairanger)
February 19, 1993 - February 11, 1994 (50 episodes)
Toei's 17th Sentai series is a favorite among many American fans.
Cast
Character | Actor/Actress | |||||||||||
Tenkasei, Ryô | Keiichi, Wada | |||||||||||
Ryuu Ranger | Ôfuji, Naoki | |||||||||||
Tengensei, Daigo | Nomi, Tatsuya | |||||||||||
Shishi Ranger | Kitagawa, Tsutomu | |||||||||||
Tenjyôsei, Shôji | Hamura, Ei | |||||||||||
Tenma Ranger | Shôji, Hachisuka | |||||||||||
Tenjisei, Kazu | Tsuchiya, Keisuke | |||||||||||
Kirin Ranger | Hirofumi Ishigaki | |||||||||||
Tempusei, Lin | Natsuki, Takahashi | |||||||||||
Houou Ranger | Murakami, Rie | |||||||||||
Dôshi Kaku | Kôji, Naka | |||||||||||
Ryuuseiô & Dairenô | Kusaka, Hideaki | |||||||||||
Kujaku | Morishita, Masako | |||||||||||
Gorma Emperor XV | Kôda, Munemaru | |||||||||||
Lt. Colonel Shadam | Nishi, Rintarô | |||||||||||
Lt. Colonel Gara | Amamatsuri, Yôko | |||||||||||
Major Zydos | Tamurao, Yen | |||||||||||
Motoba, Jin | Hirose, Takumi | |||||||||||
Kôshinsei, Kô | Sakai, Hisashii | |||||||||||
Kiba Ranger | Watanabe, Minoru | |||||||||||
Akomaru | Shibata, Shôhei | |||||||||||
Won Tiger, Kibadaiô, Daijinryuu | Kusaka, Hideaki | |||||||||||
Kameo/Daimugen (voice) | Imagawa, Sugisaku | |||||||||||
Kameo/Daimugen (voice) | Naruse, Tomihisa | |||||||||||
Narrator | Miyata, Hiroshi |
Shishi (Lion) Ranger of the phantom star (Tengensei, Daigo) - worked at a pet shop. Weapons/Powers: Lion Fist, Lion Staff, Heaven Phantom Star Mist Concealment. Chi Transmitting Beast: Star Lion.
Tenma (Pegasus) Ranger of the gravity star (Tenjyôsei, Shôji) - dreams of becoming a world champion boxer. Weapons/Powers: Pegasus Fist, Pegasus Nunchakus, Pegasus High Speed Spinning Kicks, Heaven Weight Star Gravity Inversion Destruction. Chi Transmitting Beast: Star Pegasus.
Kirin Ranger of the time star (Tenjisei, Kazu) - beautician. Weapons/Powers: Drunken Master Kirin Fist, Kirin Nine Section Staff, Heaven Time Star Time Reversal, Rod Arrow. Chi Transmitting Beast: Star Kirin.
Houou (Phoenix) Ranger of the wind star (Tempusei, Lin) - Master Kaku's niece. Weapons/Powers: Phoenix Fist, Spear Phoenix, Heaven Straight Line Whirlwind. Chi Transmitting Beast: Star Phoenix.
The original five Dairangers are all armed with Dairen Rods, Star Cutters and Star Swords The Star Cutters and Star Swords are combined to produce Dai Busters. Dai Busters can be combined to form the Chi Power Bomber. Later the five Dairangers are armed with Big Wheel Blades and the Super Chi Power Bazooka.
In episode 19 the living sabre, White Tiger True Sword (Byakkoshinken), chooses a young boy to be its user and sixth Dairanger, the Kiba (Fang) Ranger.
Kiba (Fang) Ranger of the howling new star (Hôshinsei, Kô) - son of Shadam and a woman of the Dai tribe. Weapons/Powers: White Tiger True Sword (Byakkoshinken), Howling New Star Chaos Echo, Fang Punch, White Tiger Bolt of Lightning Chi Transmitting Beast: Won Tiger. Kôsjinsei, Kô transforms into the adult Fang Ranger using Kiba Changer: "Kiryoku Tenshin Kiba Chenjâ!" (Chi-Power Transform! Aura Changer!)
Initially Dôshi Kaku and the original five Dairangers did not know who the Kiba Ranger was. Eventually Hôshinsei, Kô moves in with Tempusei, Lin. Kô was a spoiled brat and Lin should have given him a spanking.
The five Dairangers ride 5 motercycles, the Kiba Machines: Red Kiba 1, Green Kiba 2, Blue Kiba 3, Yellow Kiba 4 and Pink Kiba 5. Kiba means "fang". The Kiba Ranger sometimes rides Kô's skateboard.
Grandmaster Yufang, Lin's great great uncle invented the Aura Changers, Kiba Changer, Big Wheel Blades and Super Chi Power Bazooka. He hid the Kiba Changer behind a picture in Lin's house and plunged the White Tiger True Sword (Byakkoshinken) insto a stone so only the Kiba Ranger would be able to pull it free.
The Dairangers' friend Kameo turns out to be Great Infinity (Daimugen) a giant turtle creature who took on human form thousands of years ago and over time forgot his true nature. In the end Dôshi Kaku returns to Gorma as Master Jiaxu, turning against the Dairangers. He thinks that he can defeat Shadam to become the new leader of Gorma and end the war. His failure to explain exactly what he was doing to the Dairangers helps lead to his downfall and the Dairangers have to win the war without their mentor.
Kiba Ranger's beast is Won Tiger.
In episode 37 a massive dragon, Daijinryuu, appears. It is on no side. It just wants the war between the Gorma and Dai tribes to cease. It shows its outrage at the war by devistating Tokyo. A short lived peace follows. In the final episode (50) Daijinryuu apparently decides that Gorma is the problem, because it destroys the Gorma Palace.
With the death of Shadam and the destruction of the Gorma Palace it appears that the battle between the Dai Tribe and the Gorma Tribe is finally over. However, 50 years later a New Gorma Monster (Shin Gooma Kaijin) appears, to be fought by the new Dairangers, the grand children of the original Dairangers.
The Dairangers starred in their own movie "Five Star Task Force
Dairanger" (April 17, 1993).
The Episodes
The Songs
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Gosei Sentai Dairenjâ was followed by
Ninja Sentai Kakurenjâ
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