Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger | |
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Genre | Tokusatsu |
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Narrated by | Chō |
Opening theme | "Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger" Performed by Hideaki Takatori (Project.R) |
Ending theme | "Let's! Zyuoh Dance" Performed by Yohei Onishi (Project.R) |
Composer(s) | Koichiro Kameyama |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 48 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 24–25 minutes |
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Original network | TV Asahi |
Original release | February 14, 2016 | – February 5, 2017
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Preceded by | Shuriken Sentai Ninninger |
Followed by | Uchu Sentai Kyuranger |
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Official website (TV Asahi)< |
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Official website (Toei Company) |
Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger (動物戦隊ジュウオウジャー Dōbutsu Sentai Jūōjā?) is a Japanese Tokusatsu television series and the 40th entry of Toei's long-running Super Sentai series, following Shuriken Sentai Ninninger. Zyuohger premiered February 14, 2016, joining Kamen Rider Ghost, and later, Kamen Rider Ex-Aid in the Super Hero Time line-up on TV Asahi affiliate stations, until its conclusion on February 5, 2017. Released as part of Super Sentai's 40th anniversary and Toei's "Super Hero Year", Zyuohger is the second series in the franchise whose main motif is animals, 15 years after Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger. The lead screenwriter for the series is Junko Kōmura.
The cast and characters were revealed at an event at Tokyo Dome City on January 23 and 24, 2016, while the characters had their official debut in the film Shuriken Sentai Ninninger vs. ToQger the Movie: Ninja in Wonderland.
Yamato Kazakiri, a zoologist, uncovers Zyuland, a world inhabited by an anthropomorphic animal race known as the Zyumans (ジューマン Jūman). However, it coincides with the arrival of the Dethgaliens (デスガリアン Desugarian) from outer space who have chosen the Earth to be the site of their 100th Blood Game (ブラッドゲーム Buraddo Gēmu) competition. Four of the Zyumans – the shark woman Sela, the lion man Leo, the elephant man Tusk, and the tiger woman Amu – try to defend Zyuland from the Dethgaliens but their fight takes them to Earth, with Yamato in tow, and it is revealed that he possesses an artifact known as the Champion's Proof, the fifth of a set also possessed by his Zyuman companions. The Champion's Proofs transform into devices that allow the five of them to transform into the Zyuohgers and fight the Dethgalien general attacking the Earth. After the fight, the Zyumans realize that they are now trapped in the human world, as there needs to be six Champion's Proofs for them to return to Zyuland. Yamato helps the four Zyumans live in the human world while they search for the sixth Champion's Proof, all the while continuing to battle the Dethgaliens who have added the Zyuohgers to their Blood Game festivities, which become even more intense when the invaders kidnap the human Misao Mondo and transform him into an artificial Zyuohger to fight in their stead. However, once the Zyuohgers release Misao from the Dethgaliens' control, he joins their side as Zyuoh The World.