Chousei Kantai Sazer-X

Chousei Kantai Sazer-X
Created by	Toho
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	38
Production
Running time	25 minutes (per episode)
Original release
Network	TV Tokyo

Chousei Kantai Sazer-X (超星艦隊セイザーX, Chōsei Kantai Seizā Ekkusu) translated as Super Star Fleet Sazer-X 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. Compared to the previous two series, this series is more comical, and much more futuristic and technological themed, as opposed to the more fantasy-like elements of the previous series as well. In addition, Public Service Announcements are done at the end of every episode. This is the final installment of the Toho's Seishin series lasting only 38 episodes.

Synopsis

In the year 2500AD, the Earth has been covered in a smog of eternal darkness, giving birth to a race of Space Pirates that have begun to conquer the galaxy, leaving each planet in ruins. With no other options, the remaining resistance devise a plan to use a wormhole to travel back in time and change history so that the Earth was never consumed by darkness and the future can be saved.

This team is known as Sazer-X.

Their mission is to collect the Cosmo Capsules; twelve items of great power that are scattered throughout Earth in the year 2005AD. When all twelve are gathered, they grant one wish to their owner; it was this wish that doomed the Earth to an eternity of darkness. Sazer-X must gather all of the Cosmo Capsules before history has a chance to repeat itself.

Characters

Sazer X

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. Their transformation call is "X Souchaku!" ("X Equip!")

Lio-Sazer

Takuto Ando, the main character of the series. He dreams of becoming an F1 racer and having his grandfather accept him as a man. Unlike the other members of Sazer X, he is from the present day. He is seemingly in love with Remy

As Lio-Sazer, his element is Fire and his personal weapon is the Lio-Breaker sword. When the Cosmo Capsule "Lio-1" is equipped in Lio-Breaker, he can perform his finishing move, "Lio Fire".

Eagle-Sazer

Ado, the serious member of the group. He who does not take well to Takuto or any of the current era's Earth populace, accusing them of neglect in allowing themselves to be conquered by the Space Pirates in the past, leading to the eventual destruction of his home planet Biyodo.

As Eagle-Sazer, his element is wind and his personal weapon is the Eagle-Blaster gun. When the Cosmo Capsule "Eagle-2" is equipped in Eagle-Blaster, he can perform his finishing move, "Eagle Typhoon".

Beetle-Sazer

Kane, the immature member of the group. He usually goofs off when they are not fighting, and is especially fond of sightseeing. However, he is a strong believer that even if he has a relaxed attitude most of the time, he comes through when he is needed the most. He is the oldest of seven siblings, and hails from the planet Rady.

As Beetle-Sazer, his element is Lightning and his personal weapon is the Beet-Hawk axe. When the Cosmo Capsule "Beetle-3" is equipped in Beet-Hawk, he can perform his finishing move, "Beetle Slash".

Shark-Sazer

Commander Shark, the commanding officer of Sazer X. He does not travel back in time with Ado, Kane and Remy straight away, choosing to support the troops in the future before heading back himself. He eventually appears once the Neo Descal fleet arrives in the present day. He is also the adoptive father of Remy. His special Knuckle Cross is named Shark-Knuckle.

It is eventually revealed that he is half Space-Pirate, which means that the success of the Sazer-X mission would cause him to be erased from history, having never been born. Despite this, he is resolute to carry out the mission to completion.

As Shark-Sazer, his element is Water and his personal weapon is the Shark-Bash sword. When the Cosmo Capsule "Shark-4" is equipped in Shark-Bash, he can perform his finishing move, "Shark Flash".

Sazer Support Team

Remy Freede

Takuto's support technician, who usually has to show him how to use the Sazer equipment. She co-pilots Lio-Carrier with G2. Unlike the other members of the support team, she has no Sazer form. She was adopted by Shark and raised from the planet Roue, which was destroyed by the Neo-Descal. However, it is revealed that she actually was born during the 1960s, and was brought to the future by Shark to cure her terminal disease. It is possible she has feelings for Takuto.

Capsazer G2

A robot that co-pilots the Lio-Carrier with Remy who is G2's "mother". G2 is designed to safely store the retrieved Cosmo Capsules as well as the personal weapons of Sazer-X, and can teleport them upon command to the team.

Gordo

Ado's usually quiet (and lazy) support tech who possesses immense strength, shoulder-length ragged blond hair, and is more than capable of fighting on his own. He co-pilots Adle-Eagle. In addition, he has a device which enables him to turn into a Sazer Form called "Sazer Gordo, which has partial armor and helmet, and an arm attachment which consists of a mace and axe.

Twin-Sazers Ein & Zwein

Kane's support team; They are a brother/sister team who assist Kane in battle, and co-pilot Beet-Vizor. Like Kane, they too are inexperienced. They are almost always in Sazer Form, which led to speculation that they were robots. However, their true forms are shapeless pink and blue colored blobs which can leave their suits on command. They enjoy taking baths in the Ando household, due to their ship not having a bath.

Patora

Gordo's wife and a master of infiltration. She snuck aboard King Neo-Descal's ship in order to get to the present.

The Three Shogun

A legendary trio of Space Pirates who gained the nickname of "The Three Shogun". The first enemies of Sazer-X, they came to Earth under the command of Captain Barder of the Space Pirate Descal fleet with the intent of taking over the Earth, which had once been populated by their ancestors. In the original timeline, they were successful in gathering the twelve Cosmo Capsules, and their wish to take over the Earth plunged it into eternal darkness. Thus, they are the ancestors of the future Space Pirates that rule over Earth.

Fire Shogun Blaird

The leader of the Three Shogun. He is the strongest fighter of the trio, but he is the least intelligent and tends to become riled up easily. He quickly develops a one-sided rivalry with Takato/Lio-Sazer, vowing to someday "settle the score" and defeat him. After Barder is revealed to be an android, he begins to question the mission of the Three Shogun on Earth. His rivalry with Takuto becomes a grudging friendship, and he joins forces with Sazer-X with the goal of reuniting the Three Shogun and returning to space.

He temporarily joins Jackall against Sazer-X and especially Shark-Sazer. Jackall's eventual death teaches Blaird the folly of a life consumed completely by revenge and combat, and he returns to the side of Sazer-X piloting Jackall's Drill-Angler.

Water Shogun Aqual

The female of the Three Shogun. Aqual likes to believe that she is the most intelligent of the Three Shogun, and while she is quite smart she is also extremely vain and prideful. She is the one most dedicated to the Three Shogun's original mission to take over Earth, mainly because she loves power and praise. As a result, she is the one that formally breaks up the Three Shogun by discarding Blaird from the group when he begins to question their mission.

When Neo Descal appears, they begin by flattering Aqual as their honoured descendant to gain her trust, but this is simply because they cannot kill her without erasing themselves from history. As time goes on, she is relentlessly bullied and humiliated by Neo Descal- especially Grouza- until Aqual snaps and attempts to assassinate both leaders. She fails in killing Grouza, and only manages to wound Garade. She is saved from a vengeful Garade by the arrival of King Neo Descal himself.

Aqual soon grows wise to the schemes of the new leaders, and how they have used Cyclead and herself to further their plans. However, she still has to fight against her own pride before she can accept the trust of Sazer-X and finally side with them.

Wind Shogun Cyclead

The inventor of the Three Shogun. Cyclead is clearly the most intelligent of the Three Shogun, and invents many of the devices that they use in their plans. However, he's also the least dedicated to the plan to take over Earth.

After their original pirate ship is destroyed, he constantly advocates abandoning the whole plan and returning to space. However, he is bullied into staying by Aqual's forceful personality. Because of his inventing abilities, he constantly gets all the credit for the plans implemented by Neo Descal, because even if Aqual came up with the plan it is his machines that get the attention.

When Neo Descal himself arrives to the present, Cyclead is brainwashed with a more aggressive, sadistic personality in order to serve as a distraction while King Neo Descal's real plan is put into motion. He is eventually rescued by Sazer-X, and sides with them and the other two Shoguns.

Other

Lightning Shogun Thundra

The fourth Shogun. She is the direct descendant of the shoguns that chose to stay on Earth and live underground, as opposed to the shoguns that chose to flee to space. The door to the surface would only open every million years. A legend in her home stated that the first man she met on the surface world would be her destined man.

According to history, that man was supposed to be Fire Shogun Blaird. He would have obtained the last Cosmo Capsule from her, and that would have plunged the world into darkness. However, due to a mixup, the first man she saw was instead Takuto, and she instantly fell in love with him.

Though Takuto played along at first to obtain the Cosmo Capsule, he eventually confesses that he doesn't love her and can't live with her. Though she is heartbroken, Takuto apologizes and convinces her that he only had good intentions for his actions. Her heart is moved, and she gives him the last Cosmo Capsule before returning to the underground world.

Villains

Space Pirate Fleet Descal

• Captain Barder
• Fire Shogun Blaird
• Water Shogun Aqual
• Wind Shogun Cyclead

The Space Pirates from the present time, led by Captain Barder.

Barder was eventually revealed to be a robot, and the pirate ship was destroyed in a battle with Sazer-X.

Future Space Pirate Fleet Neo Descal

• Garade
• Groaza
• Jackall
• Water Shogun Aqual
• Wind Shogun Cyclead

The Space Pirates from the future, who forced their way through the wormhole in order to backup the Three Shogun and ensure that their plan to take over the Earth in the past was successful. Although they had open distain for the Three Shogun, they could not kill them or they would erase themselves from history.

Garade was the commander of the fleet, and an extremely powerful, though grumpy warrior. He possessed the ability to split into three clones of himself, each equal in power to a member of Sazer-X. He is killed when King Neo Descal arrives from the future and kills Garade for his failures.

Groaza was the technical genius of the fleet, with intelligence matching that of Cyclead. She is erased from history when the Lightning Shogun Thundra, who she had earlier dismissed as being superflous to history, returns to the underwater world without falling in love with Blaird. This significant change in history destroys Grouza, for she had been the direct descendant of Blaird and Thundra.

Future Space Pirate King Neo Descal

• King Neo Descal
• Barreda

The ruler of the Space Pirates in the future, King Neo Descal. After the failures of Garade and Groaza, Neo Descal himself travelled back in time to ensure a future of darkness. Instead of using the Cosmo Capsules to plunge the world into darkness as history dictated, he planned on constructing a massive machine on the Moon called the "Dark-Armor" to accomplish this task.

Barreda was his loyal second-in-command, and was killed by Neo Descal when she was of no further use to him.

Jackall

A mercenary working for Neo Descal as part of an intense campaign to get revenge on Commander Shark. He believes that Shark, his one-time friend, betrayed him by leaving him behind in cold stasis, when in truth Shark had to do that to protect him from Neo Descal's wrath.

He possesses powers similar to that of Sazer-X, and is able to equip a high-powered suit of armor with the transformation call "Souchaku!" ("Equip!"). Despite working as part of Neo-Descal, he frequently disobeys orders in his quest for vengeance.

He keeps losing against Shark but refuses to give up no matter how beaten up he is. He eventually dies from these prolonged injuries right in the middle of a battle, showing Blaird the futility of his strife and the consequences of hatred.

Cosmo Capsules

Cosmo Capsules are those that can equip the Sazers their power by inserting it into his weapon, while the Space pirates uses it to create monsters. If either of them can collect all of the capsules, they can wish for something. Lio-1(Lio-Sazer) A Cosmo Capsule that was given to Takuto by his Grandpa. ·Lio Fire

When Lio-Sazer spins his weapon around, a lion will dash through the target/enemy and destroys it with a big explosion.

Eagle-2(Eagle-Sazer) ·Eagle Typhoon

Similar to Lio Fire, but destroys an enemy rapidly as an eagle flies through to the enemy and destroys it.

Ryuuseishin

Core-Calibur

The center of the main three Sazer-X mecha formations. It is a humanoid black-and-white fighter which is stored upon Lio-Carrier. It is armed with various attacks such as "Core Lasers". When hit by an "Optimize Beam" from one of the three Sazer ships, the Core-Calibur can combine with that ship to form a new, more powerful mecha called a Ryuuseishin (Shooting Star God). The transformation/combination call is "X Formation!"

For most of the series, only one Core-Calibur exists. However, towards the end two more are created, allowing all four Ryuuseishin to be formed at the same time.

Ryuuseishin Great-Lio

Formed when the Lio-Carrier ship combines with the Core-Calibur. Piloted by Lio-Sazer and crewed by Capsazer G2 and Remy, Great-Lio specializes in close combat. Its weapon is the Lio-Javelin. It's finishing move is the "Howling Crush".

Ryuuseishin Wind-Eagle

Formed when the Adle-Eagle ship combines with the Core-Calibur. Piloted by Eagle-Sazer and crewed by Gordo, Wind-Eagle specializes in fast, mid-range attacks. Its weapon is the Eagle-Rifle and its finishing move is "Twister Shoot".

Ryuuseishin Magna-Beet

Formed when the Beet-Vizor ship combines with the Core-Calibur. Piloted by Beetle-Sazer and crewed by Twin-Sazer Ein and Twin-Sazer Zwein, Magna-Beet specializes in powerful long range attacks. Its weapon is the Megaro-Cannon and its finishing move is "Beet Buster".

Ryuuseishin Shark-Leaguer

Shark-Sazer's personal Ryuuseishin. Unlike the other members of Sazer-X, he does not need to combine his ship with a Core-Calibur in order to form a Ryuuseishin. Instead, the Shark Leaguer takes off from Commander Shark's ship, the Shark-Base, and undergoes a simple transformation into its Ryuuseishin form with the command "X Formation!". Its weapon is Sword-Pressure and its finishing move is "Hydro Slash".

Drill-Angler

The personal mecha of Jackall. Like the Shark-Leaguer, it functions both as a ship and as a combat mecha, undergoing a transformation activated by the call "Battle Formation!". Its specialty is close-range combat, and its main weapon is the massive drill mounted on its chest.

Fire Shogun Blaird inherits the machine after Jackall.

External Links

TOHO's official Sazer X homepage