Gosei Sentai Dairanger

5-Star Task Force Dai Ranger was TOEI Company Limited's 17th production of the Super Sentai television series. Its footage was used in the 2nd season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

1 Plot
2 Charatcers
3 Episodes
4 Cast

Plot

6050 years ago, the Daos civilization flourished in China. The Gorma Tribe tried to take it over. Thus began the war between the Gorma and the Dai Tribe. The battle continued for decades, led by the Gorma Triumvirate. The Chi Transmitting Beasts appeared to oppose the Gorma, whose magical powers had increased to the point where they could turn themselves into monsters. Five Dai warriors' chi powers had increased to the point where they could conrol the ChiTransmitting Beasts. The war ends with the disappearance of both the Dai and Gorma tribes. In 1993, the Gorma Tribe, one of its two branches, revived to take over the world. To counter them, Master Jiaxu assembled a team of five youths with high levels of chi. They became the Dairangers of present time.

Charatcers

DaiRangers

Ryou Tenkasei/Ryuu Ranger of the Heavenly Fire Star: Son of Zhang Liao & a human woman. Was not aware of this until recently. Has a younger sister Youko. He wanted to be the best gyoza cook in Japan & worked in Yokohama's Chinatown. He became a Dairanger after his encounter with captured by Baron String, saved by his Chi-Transmitting Beast, Ryuuseiou & taken to Master Jiaxu.

Daigo Tengensei/Shishi Ranger of the Heavenly Phantom Star: A most remarkable, gentle member of the team. He worked at a pet shop & had feelings for Kujaku. His Chi-Transmitting Beast is Star-Lion.

Shouji Tenjuusei/Tenma Ranger of the Heavenly Heavy Star: Dreamed of becoming a world boxing champion. He had a strong sense of fair play, and also competetiveness which he could only really apply with Kazu. Strong, balanced, playful and loving. His Chi-Transmitting Beast is Star Pegasus.

Kazu Tenjisei/Kirin Ranger of the Heavenly Time Star: A stylish beautician who escaped his home at age 15 and came to Tokyo. He was a great dancer, as he had mastered the Drunken-style of Kung-Fu. He had a tendency to go rushing into battle without thinking. His Chi Transmitting Beast is Star Kirin.

Lin Tenpuusei/Hohou Ranger of the Heavenly Wind Star: Master Jiaxu's niece. Came to Japan as an exchange student from China. Hates living with Kou, as he tends to look up her skirt. Once fell in love with Takamura Shouichirou, a.k.a. MediaMagician of the Gorma. Her Chi-Transmitting Beast is Star Phoenix

Kou Koushinsei/Kiba Ranger of the Howling New Star: The 9-year old who pulled out Yufan's Baihu True Sword. New to fighting, he is not particularsly strong. The KibaChanger allow him to assume an adult-form as Kibaranger. His Chi Transmitting beast is Won Tiger. Kou eventually learn he & Akomaru are twin brothers & are the sons of Shadam & woman from the Dai Tribe. Because of this, Shadam tried to recuit Kou to the Gorma when the boy was old enough to be converted. But Kou's mother baptism to purify Kou of his Gorma linage.

Help

Master Jiaxu: Originally a member of Gorma, he formed the Dairangers to oppose Gorma in the present day. But when Daijinryuu appeared, he returned to Gorma, hoping he could stopp the fight as the XVI Gotma Emperor. But he lost against Shadam & died.

GrandMaster Yuhon: Lin's great grand-uncle.

Kujaku: An follower of the Mahamayuri Vidyaraja, the Peacock Buddha. She became a follower to restore Gara by finding the Peacock's Tears, an ancient artifact said to heal whoever drinks from it. But Gara was unaware at the time as she joined the Gorma & through deception, trapped Kujaku in MirrorMakeup Artist. Kujaku swore revenge since then. And for six-thousand years she was imprisoned within that mirror, until she was freed by Daigo. But she had forgotten compassion & love during her long imprisonment, and the sight of Gara was enough to set her homing in with nothing in her mind but murder. It took a combination of Daigo's perseverance and a little girl's compassion and kindness to give her a change of heart. But by that time she had realized something was wrong. She was ill. When within her finally woke those deadened feelings of compassion, she stopped her pursuit of Gara & decided to return to her pursuit of the Peacock's Tears.

And when she learned that the reason Gara had become a Gohma, Kujaku was overcome with the compassion & love that had led her to begin her search in the first place. But all the pollutants and things in the world were killing Kujaku. Even if she took her one drink from the Peacock's Tears, she would only sicken again and die. So instead she used the artifact for Gara to restore her beauty. And when Kujaku died, she went to Heaven with Gara at her side.

IronMask Zhang Liao: The previous Ryuu Ranger who joined the Gorma. He appeared with his master, Archbishop Saw, to the fight the DaiRangers. Only that Zhang would eventally see the error of his way & turn on his master. Receiving a fatal blow for his troubles, he collapsed and was dying. Ryou held him close, and then they appeared. The four spirits of the other original Dairanger. They had come for him, to tell him they forgave him. He passed on the ancient knowledge of Dairenou to the new Dairangers before he died.

Daijinryuu: An enity who perserves the natural balance of the world. He appears whenever battles between the Gorma & the Dairangers have gone too far. Dairyuujin has no comtempt for either side, but has no tolerance for whoever threaten to disrupt the natural order of things.

Chi Transmitting Beasts

Ryuuseiou: Can transform to the Chi-Transmitting Warrior & combine with the Heavenly Chi Palace to form Dairenou.

Heavenly Chi Palace
- Star Lion
- StarPegasus
- StarKirin
- Star Phoenix

Won Tiger: Can transform to a human-like fighting mode & combine with the Heavenly Chi Palace to form DaiKibaou.

Daimugen: A giant-tortoise Super Chi-Transmitting Beast who turn on the human identy of Kameo to escape the fighting. He spoke in a Nagoya acent & with no memory of his previous life, made a living out of selling illustrations he made, and dreamed of writing children's books. And then one day he found the crystal that was the key to restoring him to his true form. He finnally remember his true self & resumed his true form when his new friend Kazu was in danger.

Daimugen could combine with the ChiTransmitting Beasts to form the Heavy Armor Chi Palace.

Gorma

Gorma Emperor: The 15th Emperor of Gorma, he is an extremely powerful entity, though a bit insane. The insanity was inherent aspect of all Emperors, though only few actually know the truth. The emperor was more of a playful, heartless creature until Shadam had the power to kill him. He was hoping for Shadam to fall to their enemies.

The Gorma Triumvirate

- Lt. Colonel Shadam: The leader of the Gorma Trumvirate, he was the one who spear-headed the Gohma attack against the Dai Tribe in China. Shadam's life was one of frustrated dreams. Power was his only comfort. Rising higher in rank his only goal. He wanted to become the 16th Gorma Emperor, deposing of the competion in anyway possible. He eventually realized his dream & the power of the Emperor when previous one died. He used the Great Earthshaking Jewel to takeover the world, but he had the DaiRangers to deal with. But when Dairyuujin appears, the whole war was settled in a duel between Shaddam & Ryou. Shadam lost & died, reverting a clay statue.

- Lt. Colonel Gara: 6,000 year member of the Dai Tribe. She joined the Gorma at 10 when she & her protected her friend Kujaku at the cost of her face. Mortified, she came to believe Kujaku refused to play with her. They soon meet again in battle, though Gara tricked her & trapped her within Mirror-Makeup Artist. Gara soon learned she was long dead & was a puppet created by Shadam as he remembered her. She eventally make her peace with Kujaku before she died.

- Major Zydos: The Strongman, brutal & prone to deep thinking. He was a keyplayer amongst the Gorma because of his power and he could create extremely dangerous new Gorma like Jin. He believed utterly in Shaddam as his leader, but was also prone to doing his own things. And when he finally died, it turned he was a clay created by Shadam as he remembered him.

Akumaru: A Gorma child who is the son of Shadam, though the two dispise each other fiercely. In fact, Akomaru is ranked higher than his father. He wants to replace his father as the Gorma military leader. He first appear to take the power of the Kibaranger, knowing Kou has it & aware of their relation & wanted Kou to fight by his side as brothers. Unfrotunely, Akomaru saw that Kou seemed unable to hate & it annoyed him. Akumaru he was made to believed his mother adbandoned him to a father who does not care about him. Akumaru soon return on the day of his tenth birthday, when he & Kou came into their adult power as Gorma. After his bodyguard Ikazuki died, Akumaru learned the truth that mother abandoned him because of a tabbo that one twin must be killed so the other have the power of both. So their mother dediced to save them, with Akumaru to live as a Gorma & Kou as a normal human. But Akumaru was soon mortally injured by Shaddam, but died in the embrace of his dying mother with the knowledge that he was loved.

Touhouten, Saihouten, Nanpouten, & Hoppouten (#28, 30–31): They are collectively named the Gorma Four Deva Kings. They are the most favored of the 15th Emperor's minions, being masters of displacement. Their teamwork skills were their power, as they could merge into a deadly four-faced enity. They were destoryed by the Heavy Armor Chi Palace

Jin Matoba: A master of Kempo and all manner of martial arts, a gentleman assassin. His favorite targets were martial arts masters, as his own master cut off his right arm. Jin got a prosthesis, perfecting his arts, went on a campaign to slaughter in fair challenge other masters who considered themselves fit to destroy promising students & fully intended, when he was ready, to return and kill his first teacher. But the man foiled that plan by dying before Jin got around to it.

But that all change the day he meet Ryou & was defeated by him. Kin soon later sold his soul to Zaidos become stronger than Ryou.But Jin perfected to learn his new powers on his own,after which he went hunting for Ryo. His power had many facets, and one of them was the deadly "Dance of the Spider" posioning technique. But Zaidos captured the the rouge & infused with more Gorma power, turning him into Garouki, the Hungry-Wolf Demon. Jin was soon purged of the Gorma influence & after on final bout with Ryou, went on the run.

Three Idiots(15, 24, 40): Gorma in the service of Zydos, though their foolishness deemed them at lower ranks.

- Boss Kamikaze
- Company President Gravestone
- Teacher Telephone

Ikazuki(43–44): Akumaru's insectoid bodyguard, this monster fought the Kibaranger-less Dairangers. He obtained name from the fact he fire lightning from parts of his body. He was winning until Kibaranger was purifed & rejoined the team, with Ikazuki crushed flat under the weight of the Heavy Chi Armor Palace.

Cotpotros: Gorma grunts in black tights with lipped but otherwise blank black and white faces.

Gorma Minions

Baron String (1–2, Movie): The first Gorma, took on the form of a boy who loved singing while playing with his yoyo. He injested people through the mouths at the end of his tentacles.

Purse Priest (2, Movie): A Gorma in the service of Zaidos. He liked basketball & takes the form of tall altehe. He serviced as executioner for Gohma sacrifices. His attacks were characterised by sending flying at his target seemingly hundreds of goards carved with smiling, human faces. Once these things secured someone's head, basically the body was under total control.

Key Jester (3–4, Movie): An oddball of a Gorma, but hard to catch. He spent most of his time rolling about on rollerblades, choosing children and stealing their souls to give life to his bloodthirsty dolls.

Rouge Song Princess (5, Movie): A Gorma in the service of Gara, Rougue Song Princess is exetremly vain. When her face was scarred from a fight with Lin, she vowed revenge. A swipe of her lipstick across a woman's lips turned the victim into a controlled slave, singing a dangerous soprano tone that tended to blow out our heroes' eardrums.

Archbishop Saw (8): An insane Gorma of higher rank than the Gorma Triumvirate. He was the one who recuited Zhang Liao.

Mirror Make-Up Artist (9): A Gorma in the service of Gara. He perfers women who admire themselves in his Mirror-form. He had Kujaku trapped within him for six-thousand years....

Cherry Blossom Viscount (10): A Gorma in the service of Gara, whose blossoms are violent-inducing. He seemed to enjoy the catfight between his mistress & Kujaku.

Father Magnet (11): A Gorma who poses as a man of the clothe, and his power was to set up a magnetic field by whomever he touched. The Dairangers were able to turn his own power against him.

Tofu Hermit (12): A semi-harmless Gorma. Except of course that he turned anything he touched into strong drink. He led revellers through the streets and ruined businessmen. He and Kazu engaged in a drinking contest, which he would have won but for Kazu's friends making sure the drink was just water.

Kabuki Novice(13–14): A Gorma SO obbessed with Kabuki, he had incorporated it into his character. He could possess people to gain full control over any special talents they had, which presented the Dairanger with difficulty when they had to face him without killing the person he possessed. He was pursued by Yufan for posessing his's fiance, Shoukyou, to lend his Kabuki talent greater authenticity when playing feminine roles.

Defense Teacher Haniwa Ventriloquist(16):

Lady Ring, Lady Necklace, & Lady Earring (#17–22): Three sisters who serve as Akomaru's bodyguards/nannies. After her two sister died, Lady Ring vowed to get revenge for them. But she was killed around the time as her master.

Heatwave Hood (23): A Gorma who devoured Kujaku and Daigo, using them as hostages. Trapped and being baked alive within him, instead of giving up, Daigo decided to literally punch his way out.

Copy Empress (25): A Gorma who posed as publicist, successfully taking a photo of each Dairanger. She then brought the copys to life, using them to fight the originals so they can be real.

Pot Taoist (26–27): The first of the stronger Gorma.

Fast-Talking Vagabond(29): A champion talker, he uses bombs that detonate if you can failed to say a tongue-twister. He was gathering children to slave for the Gohma, to open a crack in the gates of hell, so that the Gorma Triumvirate could drink in that power. It was during that that he exposed Kou as the KibaRanger.

Bird Cage Vagabond (32): A Gorma with a golen-left leg that made him nearly invincible. It was stolen by Jianx 6000 years ago, making Birdcage useless to the Gorma. He captured Shouji & an little girl to bargin the return of his leg. But Zaidos managed to get the leg for Bairdcage, who got killed in the end anyway.

Media Magician (33): A Gorma in the service of Gara, he posed as a photographer named Takamura. He was supposed to steal Lin's soul while she was vainly letting him take millions of photographs of her. But when he found out she did so really because she loved him, he went on a pinwheel of shock, for he fell in love with her. He saved her from himself, and then was mortally injured protecting her from Gara. He was born a Gohma, he said. And dying said to Lin he wished to be reborn as a human, so he could see her smiling face once again...

General Cactus (34): A Gorma in the service of Gara, though he shows he no respect. He has a thing for captured little girls & paralyze them so he could play with them like dolls. Some years ago he had given a cactus a soul, & somehow it had ended up in Daigo's care. The spirit called herself Michiru, and she acted to save Daigo's life from her creator.

Sergeant Cannon (35): A Gorma in the service of Zaido, who claimed that his cannonballs could instantly kill whomever they struck. Sergant Cannon was not terribly bright with a shot-first ask questions later persona. But he served to capture Jin.

Count Kaleidoscope (#36): A Gorma in the service of Gara, who sent him to prevent Kujaku from finding the Peacock's Tears. He could create solid illusions to set as traps, at one point making her think she had found the tears, but Daigo was in time to keep her from being killed by the poison within. He fired an intensified light-beam. But he was destroyed.

Great Famous Pachinko Player (#37): A Gorma who was obsessed with Pachinko. He was also part of Shaddam's plan to turn Kou into a Gorma. But this was all briefly foiled by the arrival of Daijinryuu.

Next Generation Baron String (#50): In the epilougue of the series finale{50 years after the final battle}, a new generation of Gorma emerged.

Duke of Trumps(Movie}: A movie-exclusive, he turned children into playing pieces in a card game, and was able to use special trumps of Braon String, Purse Priest, Key Jester, & Rouge Song Princess to bring them back and fight the Dairangers. He then asborbed them to become Great King Ojaru.

Episodes

01. Transform
02. Chi Pooower!!
03. Surender you Souls!
04. We Are Naive!!
05. The Jewels' Arival
06. Wind, Tear Them Apart
07. Traitor!
08. Father!!
09. Don't Be Vain
10. Ah, Vengeful Goddess
11. A Magnet Gauss!
12. Drunk On Tofu
13. The Ka-Kabuki Novice
14. Well, A Wedding
15. The 3 Idiots' Soccer
16. Child Stones Lying About
17. The Heart-Throb Pretty Girls
18. First Public Opening Of The Gorma Palace
19. A New Hero Appeared
20. The Top-Secret White Tiger Kid
21. Birth Of A Spirit Legend Beast
22. The Great Secrets Of The Tiger's Cub!!
23. True Love At Full Speed
24. The 3 Idiots' Super Baseball!
25. Oppositing Teams In Great Numbers
26. A Hateful, Hateful, Hateful Man
27. The Final Punch
28. General Entrance!!
29. The Secret Inside Story Of The Tears of Mother And Child)
30. The Deadly Fast-Talking Worker
31. Again, A New Hero Appeared)
32. The Orge's Golden Kick
33. First Experience As An Idol
34. New Secret Art Of The Spider's Dance
35. A Prickly Maiden Hunt
36. A 6000-Year Grudge...
37. You Have To See It!! A Huge Creature
38. Huh!! A Ceasefire!?
39. The Evil Fist Scatters In The Setting Sun)
40. Farewell, 3 Idiots
41. Kujaku's Great Ascension)
42. A Straight Line To Mother
43. Violent White Prohibited Past
44. Impression!! You Cry Too
45. The Real Disbanding!!
46. The Heroes Are Naked
47. Wow...The Truth
48. Magnificent!! Master Dies)
49. The Final Battle
50. Let's Go!

Cast

Keiichi Wada: Ryou Tenkasei/Ryuu-Ranger
Gensuke Yamashita: Shouji Tenjuusei/Tenma Ranger
Keisuke Tsuchiya: Kazu Tenjisei/Kirin Ranger
Natsumi Takahashi: Lin Tenpuusei/Hohou Ranger
Hisashi Sakai: Kou Koushinsei/Kiba Ranger
Masako Morishita: Kujaku
Akiko Kurisu: Gara
Yen Tamura: Zaidos
Hideaki Kusaki: Ryuseioh/Dairenoh, WonTiger/Kibadaioh, Daijinryu
Tomihisa Naruse: Kameo/Daimugen