Chousei Kantai Sazer-X | |
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Created by | Toho |
Starring | Yuu Asakura Ryosuke Takahashi Hiroshi Matsunaga Shindo Gaku Ryosuke Takahashi Ryosuke Miura Chinami Ishizaka |
Composer(s) | Hiroshi Takagi |
Country of origin | Japan |
No. of episodes | 38 |
Production | |
Running time | 25 minutes (per episode) |
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Original network | TV Tokyo |
Original release | October 1, 2005 – June 24, 2006 |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Genseishin Justirisers |
Followed by | Chousei Kantai Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Star Warriors |
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Chousei Kantai Sazer-X (超星艦隊セイザーX Chōsei Kantai Seizā Ekkusu?) translated as Super Star Fleet Sazer-X: The Faces of Evil is a tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toho Company Ltd., and Konami. This series is the third in Toho's Seishin (Star God) series. The series lasted 38 episodes and was the last of the Chouseishin franchise after its cancellation until the movie. It deviates from its predecessors in several ways, in that it is more comedic in nature and is much more Science-fiction-orientated in contrast to fantasy.
In the year 2500, the earth has been taken over and covered in darkness by a race known as the Neo-Descal. The remaining members of the human resistance send their trump card weapons, the three Meteor God warships to the past to try to change the future by stopping Neo-Descal in 2005, when their attacks began. Along with the Meteor God warships comes Ad, captain of the Adle Eagle squad and his right-hand man, Gordo, Kane, captain of the Beet-Vizor squad, and the twin Sazers Ein and Zwein, and Remy, who pilots Lio Carrier. Ad and Kane are joined by Takuto Ando, whose grandfather met Captain Shark, leader of the resistance, as a young man and was left with a Knuckle Cross to allow his grandson in 2005 to become the third member of the team known as Sazer X.
Sazer X fight the space pirates known as Descal, and later Neo-Descal when they arrive from the future after the defeat of their ancestors. Captain Shark, known as the Shark Sazer, arrives later from the future, along with his rival, Jackall, a mysterious Sazer-like being who holds one of Shark's greatest secrets.
A team assembled in the year 2500AD with the goal of traveling back in time five hundred years and changing history by collecting the twelve Cosmo Capsules. Each member of the party is equipped with a Strage-Ring around their wrist that amplifies their elemental powers, and their own personal Knuckle-Cross, worn on the back of the opposite hand. When the Strage-Ring sparks the Knuckle-Cross, they can equip the high-powered suit of armour stored in their Knuckle-Cross and become Sazer-X, as long as they have enough rupees. Their transformation call is X-Equip.