Seijuu Sentai Gingaman

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
The title card for Seijuu Sentai Gingaman
Genre	Tokusatsu Superhero fiction
Created by	Toei
Written by	Yasuko Kobayashi Junki Takegami Naruhisa Arakawa Tsuyoshi Kida Tetsuo Okita Kei Murayama
Directed by	Ryuta Tasaki Masato Tsujino Takao Nagaishi Hajime Konaka Satoshi Morota
Starring	Kazuki Maehara Kōji Sueyoshi Shōei Nobuaki Takahashi Juri Miyazawa Teruaki Ogawa Kei Mizutani
Narrated by	Norio Wakamoto
Opening theme	"Seijuu Sentai Gingaman" by Ryu Kisami
Ending theme	"Hadashi no Kokoro De" by Ryu Kisami
Composer(s)	Toshihiko Sahashi
Country of origin	Japan
Original language(s)	Japanese
No. of episodes	50
Production
Producer(s)	Kenji Ōta (TV Asahi) Shigenori Takadera (Toei) Kōichi Yada (Toei Agency)
Running time	approx. 25 minutes
Release
Original network	TV Asahi
Original release	February 22, 1998 – February 14, 1999
Chronology
Preceded by	Denji Sentai Megaranger
Followed by	Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGoFive
External links
Website

Seijuu Sentai Gingaman (星獣戦隊ギンガマン, Seijū Sentai Gingaman^?, ) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. It is Toei's 22nd entry of the Super Sentai television series. The series aired from February 22, 1998 to February 14, 1999 airing alongside Tetsuwan Tantei Robotack. Its footage was used in the adaptation of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy.

This series is not to be confused with the one-time villainous but humorous Sentai from Chikyu Sentai Fiveman, the Ginga Sentai Gingaman.

Three thousand years ago, the Space Pirates Barban invaded Earth. The Star Beasts and the first Gingamen, warriors of the Ginga Forest, fought them with a mystical power known as Earth and eventually imprisoned them. The Ginga people later cloaked their forest within marked boundaries and passed on the duty of the Ginga warriors through generations.

In the present day, Hyuuga, Hayate, Gouki, Hikaru and Saya are chosen as the 133rd warriors of the Star Beast Swords. Ryouma is very happy that his elder brother Hyuuga succeeds to the title. When Elder Ohghi holds the succession ceremony of Star Beast Swords, an earthquake breaks the seal on the Barban.

Ohghi orders the 133rd warriors to get the Ginga Braces hidden in Roaring Mountain. However, the Barban attacks them to prevent the birth of the new Gingamen. During the battle, Hyuuga is swallowed into a crack in the ground created by the Barban's leader, Captain Zahab. Enraged, Ryouma activates his hidden Earth power and awakens the Ginga Braces. The Gingaman fight together with the Star Beasts against the Barban, who desire to revive the Demon Beast Daitanix, on whose corpse they built their castle.

The Gingamen are descendants of the original Gingamen from the Ginga Forest who use a fighting style originating 3,000 years ago and are chosen at a ceremony to become the current Gingamen.