The era ends here! Time for part final!
Episode 43: Pteranotele Gin will be shortened to PT Gin to save time typing. The villains notice the curtain from last episode and try to peek in. Chevalier notices Garoa being spooked and is told to go in against his will. In it is a bunch of fog that pushes them back. Chevalier thinks something strange is going on when Medor appears and tells them to stop. Cut to Magma Base where the Fivemen are talking about whatever, something to do with computers- Holy crap they showed a kid watching Denziman! Not even joking! Also some kids playing baseball. Black and the boy's mom try to convince TV boy to play baseball with his friends while- Wait, now he's watching Battle Fever J? Toei must have had a marathon back in the day or this is the Turboranger special. Maybe Fiveman takes place in the same continuity as those anniversary episodes of Kamen Rider OOO? Yoshino refuses and just wants to watch TV. Black opens his window and his friends want him to come outside, but he refuses. That night we see PT Gin flying around town. Toshino is told by the TV not to turn it off at 11:13 PM. The TV soon comes alive into a humanoid form with a dress and even shows clips from the first episode of the series. THIS CONFIRMS CONTINUITY! The same thing happens around Tokyo with people being attacked by their TVs in humanoid form with the opposite sex.... They're appealing to robosexuals! Quick, AkibaRed, hide! At Vulgyre we see Dongoros introducing PT Gin to the other villains and his torso TV impresses Billion. He also shows his plan of brainwashing people with TVs around Tokyo because killing rich people would make poor people open to attack, I think. Yoshino tries to escape, but his TV won't let him and even chases after him. The other boys stare wondering what the hell is going on as his TV confesses her love. The chasing goes on for a while until Black attacks her, breaking the screen, but it regenerates and an energy beam is emitted from the screen. Black tries taking Yoshino, but can't shake her until Red and Blue drop a box on her. Pink says the same thing is happening around town when Dongoros appears and attacks them- HIS TV SURVIVED BEING CRUSHED! Dongoros says she is doing a good job and PT Gin uses his screen to teleport attacks from Doldora, Billion, and Zaza to the Fivemen.
Black takes Yoshino to a park when the other boys start taunting. This continues into giving their position away as Black and Yoshino go into a maze. One of the boys points out that maybe helping the homicidal TV isn't a smart idea. Yoshino regrets watching so much TV and Black tells him not to worry. Even the other boys scold the psycho TV and she starts attaccking Yoshino and Black. They make it out of the maze and into an abandoned facility. The TV still finds them and one of the boys gives him a baseball outfit. He is then joined by a bunch of boys running around trying to find him. This makes the TV dizzy and it displeases Dongoros. The others show up, Black gives a speech and transforms, and the TV explodes beofre PT Gin jumps in. Black uses his five tector armor to fight back and Chevalier uses his pistol through the screen, but that fails. Black then does the fire ball and ram shtick and Dongoros has a gorlin absorb him followed by Red bringing in S5. PT Gin tries flight rams, but S5 tosses him. Black Gorlin is brought out to help briefly and 5R is summoned to form Super 5R. After that Super 5R uses a V energy beam from the V on its forehead to stun PT Gin followed by using the Jet Knuckle and finishing the fight with the Super Five Beam. The episode ends with Yoshino back to playing baseball and Black playing ball with them, striking out when on bat. Next episode shows a black flag and Garoa as a giant robot that tears Super 5R to pieces.
Pteranotele Gin: Powers include flight, life instilling into televisions, and a torso dimensional screen
Episode 44: After a flashback of the Tokyo attack in the first episode we ssee the elementary school officially repoened for teaching complete with balloons and kids with potted flowers. The Fivemen are getting dressed up at Magma Base for the occasion. G6 sees a meter go up and down before cutting to the Arctic where the Vulgyre is heating up. The villains scramble to figure out what is going on. A gorlin is hooked up to organic wires and we see his is Garoa's doing. Chevalier curses him when Garoa says he is done mopping and a flashback shows he found the wires from the ceiling which zapped him. He is using the Vulgyre's power to power up a gorlin to make himself more powerful. Meanwhile, the Fivemen take a jeep when a bulldozer suddenly attacks them. The ask what the hell when the powerful up gorlin appears and absorbs a bunch of construction vehicles to become Big Garoa with him piloting. How he is piloting it I do not know, but screw it, the guy is out for revenge. The Fivemen transform and have S5 appear just for it to get gunned. During this the students wonder where there teachers are. 5R is called in for Super 5R to form, but that fails as Big Garoa slaps its crap. Even the Super Five Beam fails to stop its big claw.... Then Super 5R gets blown to bits by Big Garoa's guns! G6 tries contacting them just as the thevillains surround the bot's remains. Garoa laughs and Chevalier wants their bodies since they aren't present. Garoa thinks they are at Magma Base and that they should assault it. During this we see that the Fivemen are injured.
Big Garoa marches toward Magma Base while the Fivemen run toward it as well. However, when they show up Magma Base has disappeared into outer space. After another flashback of the first episode, Garoa gets angry when he sees a computer message on his monitor. Apparently Big Garoa is intercepting a computer message the students are sending. G6 picks this up too and tells the Fivemen. Apparently this situation is bad as Big Garoa goes toward the elementary school. Big Garoa makes way through the city when the Fivemen show up on a rooftop. Garoa tells them they are doomed as he marches his big robot forward. G6 shows up to become the Earth Cannon and apparently the blast at the forehead stopped Big Garoa to its knees. Red gives a speech about whatever before Big Garoa stands up. The Fivemen jump down.... Toward a quarry to lead Big Garoa away. Magma Base returns to Earth I assume from auto pilot. The various cannon defenses fire all at once and Big Garoa is destroyed. At Vulgyre, Garoa returns all burnt. Medor appears to say Garoa was brave, but he still failed miserably. The episode ends with the wreckage of Super 5R being looked at by the pilots and G6. Next episode shows Gunther returning and Red at Vulgyre.
Big Garoa: Powers include twin torso guns and a left hand claw that emits electricity
Episode 45: The Fivemen work on repairing Super 5R with Black getting shocked during the repairs. How the pieces were returned to Magma Base is anyone's guess. Red tries to keep everyone on task while Black starts having doubts. Cut to Vulgyre where Medor says that now that Super 5R is down now is the time to strike. Garoa says he will proudly lead the charge into battle which rallies the other villains complete with Billion taking a shot of liquor. Suddenly, the Gingamen show up with machine guns pointed at the Zone Empire. Chevalier says he is sending ina galactic warrior he knows named Iwakaseki Gin who arrives via meteor falling. He says Iwakaseki Gin will entrap the Fivemen while being smug. Chevalier's black dish flies around Japan and the Fivemen head out for some reason. Chevalier and Iwakaseki Gin are beamed down and the former gives a speech about how screwed they are before attacking via summoning rockmen. The Fivemen attack them in melee to no avail followed by the five blasters failing. Pink is forced into a rock to which Chevalier says is his trophy before kissing her mask. The fight continues with them using their five tectors, but the rockmen reform and take everyone except Red into rocks. Chevalier attacks Red himself via laser pistol before the rockmen try to imprison him. Suddenly a ball of energy appears which is revealed to be Gunther who is glad to see Red. Gunther manhandles a rockman before Chevalier has everyone beam up on his black dish. Gunther's jumping abilities allows him to grab onto it as G6 worries what will happen.
At Vulgyre, Chevalier has two rockmen restrain Red while telling Garoa he is better than him. He also has a rock prepared for his imprisonment with everyone unaware Gunther is beating up batzers. He soon makes his way in, but it is too late. Garoa demands Gunther be terminated for trying to interfere, but he just uses an energy chain to take Red's rock away. Chevalier is too smug to care while Gunther manages to hide himself from the villains. He whips out an ax, but a pair of organic wires from the ceiling stops him and suspends him. Chevalier walks in and Gunther kicks the rock away from him near the curtain. This causes it to suck up a rockman and the rock, both of which are dissolved by acid from a wire. Red wakes up and tries to find a way out. He manages to transform and pokes a hole in the floor which causes a huge scream. Red realizes something strange is going on and is zapped out to a regular room. He turns on his five tector armor and does a fire ball ram at Iwakaseki Gin which takes out the rockme and frees the others. G6 shows up to greet them while Chevalier throws a fit. Red shows the other villains the ship is alive as one of the walls has not wires, but intestines. In other words the Vulgyre is alive and this horrifies them. Garoa calls for Medor when the ground shakes around them. Medor appears on a screen saying her underlings screwed up and because of this they are going to perish. Vulgyre gets up and flies off, attacking Japan with the Fivemen viewing at Magma Base. Lots of explosions everywhere! Medor figures that if they won't destroy Earth then she will and laughs about it. Next episode shows Doldora giant sized, Gunther injured, and Billion dueling with Red.
Iwakaseki Gin: Powers include a meteor form and rockman spawning
Episode 46: Medor is happy that Vulgyre is about to rampage across the planet with her minions and Red inside. At the school the kids see the Vulgyre fly by and it scares them. Medor notices that the white flowers were absorbed by Vulgyre and it causes the ship to crash. Garoa demands an explanation and the hologram screen Medor used suddenly cracks. This is followed by some weird voice talking and Doldora goes made saying she will destroy the place because betrayal and such. She starts sobbing and Zaza runs to her only to be shoved aside. Once Doldora takes off her helmet she continues to lose her sanity as the strange voice talks to her and an intestine grabs her. Zaza tries freeing her, but that fails and the two are fused into the monster Baradol Gin. Billion takes a shot and Red goes after Baradol Gin, but Billion demands he fight him first because allies and such. Baradol Gin goes to the school garden to mutate the flower to attack kids. The others arrive to fight Baradol Gin while Vulgyre starts to twitch. The mutant plants turn their flowers from white to red and restrain the others via thorny vines. Gunther frees Red from Billion attacking him as the Vulgyre shakes. One of the kids saves a potted flower and Baradol Gin gives chase. The boy is cornered by a tree and throws the flower. Red kicks her and gets entangled by a vine. Billion arrives and says something before charging at Red. Gunther takes Billion's sword and keeps it in place. He uses his ax to free Red from the vine and falls over a cliff that clearly was not there before.
Red tries waking up Gunther as the others show up. Gunther whispers something in Red's ear- I WISH I KNEW JAPANESE! Gunther looks into the sky and shares his back story of when their parents helped him out at one point. After that is when he took S5 and their mom even cooked up pudding. Gunther regrets doing all that and dies as two kids watch from a distance, one with the potted flower. Billion and Baradol Gin show up wanting to fight and Red tells them this is the end before they transform. The kids discover their teachers were the Fivemen as Red duels with Billion and the others get entangled by Baradol Gin. Billion throws his liquor and has a climactic fight with Red sword to sword and even tears off his cape. Red stabs him in the gut and wears his five tector before doing the fire ball ram. Billion looks at the moon before dying an explosive death. A gorlin shows up to absorb Baradol Gin to make her a giant and S5 is sent in with G6 piloting it. Red tells the others the must avenge Gunther and proceed to use S5 to punch up Baradol Gin. A Star Gun shot stuns her before they use the Hanging Beam and a second shot to terminate her. The episode ends with the Fivemen making a grave for Gunther, and the kids showing up with the flower to show the continuation of life and such. Next episode shows the villains panicking and fighting the Fivemen as well as Black Gorlin.
Baradol Gin: Powers include a flower mutating ray from the mouth, a knife, and four head tentacles that emit energy surges
Episode 47: At night Magma Base picks up something in orbit. The Fivemen try analyzing it while G6 places the picture taken on Sidon. The Fivemen yell to their mom and dad as their signal is received by them at the asteorid P16.... HOLY CRAP THEY ARE ALIVE! I did not expect this! They find out it is their kids (somehow) and try to reply back. Just then the radio at Magma Base fries and they see Vulgyre lighting up which is likely the interference. The head out at sundown where Vulgyre starts moving upright and moves around. This creeps them out as well as the villains. Two random alien doctors are killed and Vulgyre tells the underlings to collect drops of his blood from the ceiling to enhance themselves that Dongoros collects with a giant beaker. The ship emits fog and Garoa leads batzers to fight the Fivemen with Chevalier joining with his Gingamen. The Fivemen transform to fight both groups at once- Wait, Chevalier is fighting Garoa- Wait no he isn't, he's fighting Red in the chaos. During this Vulgyre turns into a giant egg which has everyone looking. During this the parents still try contacting their kids and we find out their dad took a bunch of notes on Vulgyre. The beaker Dongoros has been using fills up as the fighting outside continues. Garoa uses a new energy cyclone attack on the others while the Gingamen attack Red all at once. The egg cracks with lightning around it as the beaker is near being full. The Gingamen try a new combo attack which sends Red near Garoa, allowing him to slice the left horn on his helmet off. After that the Fivemen take out the Gingamen, one slash and they all go boom. Chevalier curses them.
Dongoros continues to collect green blood and Chevalier summons black gorlin to go after the Fivemen. 5R is brought in to deal with him, but Chevalier catches Red with a long handcuff, forcing them to duel to the death. Chevalier goes in hard while Blue pilots 5R. Black Gorlin uses some boxing and wrestling followed by shoulder missiles. Star Carrier comes in with G6 piloting and firing at Black Gorlin. Dongoros starts freaking out as the beaker is almost full and Black Gorlin continues fighting in melee. Chevalier uses his laser pistol to give him an advantage and 5R combines with S5 to form Super 5R. Black Gorlin brings out the chained mace as the egg starts to get bulbous. Red and Chevalier charge in slow motion and Super 5R uses the Super Five Beam on Black Gorlin, destroying him. Red executes a cut that bisects Chevalier, including his sword, and causes him to fall and release the handcuff. Chevalier turns into a ball of fire and goes into the egg. Two tentacles emerge from it and Garoa and Dongoros are frightened. The last of the beaker is filled with a different liquid as Vulgyre goes on a long speech about how his minions have failed him. Garoa goes nuts from the psychological effect and egg hatches in a fiery burst to form Vulgyre's true form. This ends the episode with everyone scared and the parents trying to figure out how to save their kids. Next episode shows Vulgyre in all his glory and the Magma Base being blown up.
Episode 48: After a quick recap of last episode Vulgyre starts talking about the destruction of earth and Garoa laughs like mad. He hovers and spews fire balls everywhere as well as bash with his four tentacles.Tokyo becomes filled with destruction as Super 5R heads toward Vulgyre and uses that V beam. Vulgyre fails to care as his wings create hurricane force winds strong enough to send the bot flying away. Cut to P16 where the parents still call for help, the mom crying and the dad trying to maintain composure. Civilians get zapped and it looks horrific. Flower boy from two episodes ago takes the potted white flower and runs off against his mom's wishes. Super 5R tries to get up as Vulgyre approaches. Once it does Super 5R marches and G6 lifts Magma Base up so Max Magma can be formed. SO MUCH FIRE POWER! Also Vulgyre proves to be friggin gigantic in comparison as that isn't enough! VULGYRE FOR COLOSSAL KAIJU COMBAT- Ehh mhm. Sorry about that. The parents continue their worrying as Max Magma begins to fall apart. The parents manage to contact their kids and they answer them back. Their dad tells them the Sidon flowers are Vulgyre's weakness before static stops the transmission. The dad monologues to himself while Vulgyre continues rampaging through Tokyo and aims for potted flower boy who is wandering the streets.
Vulgyre chases the boy into a field when the Fivemen show up and find him. They save him from a fire ball and the pott goes down a cliff, but Yellow nabs it with her ribbon. Red tells him the flower is important and that he did the right thing. The Fivemen head off toward the damaged Max Magma and enter the cockpit as awesome electric guitar music plays. Vulgyre is slowly destroying it as Super 5R flies out and goes straight into his mouth. The Fivemen head out while Garoa acts inside inside of him and encounters the Fivemen. Sword fighting happens and Red cuts off his other horn. Dongoros tries stealing as many gold bars as he can as the Fivemen and Garoa find Medow in human form in a coffin. The flower allowed her spirit to separate from her body. Here we find out that Vulgyre wanted her to be her queen and she refused so he entrapped her body in a glass coffin and used her spirit as a projection to guide the underlings. An organic ship in love with an alien human woman, that is.... One weird version of Beauty and The Beast. She uses the Sidon flower's power to charge herself up and ram into what I think is Vulgyre's heart. Her body rapidly decays and Garoa dives into her coffin. Super 5R makes it out in time with Vulgyre in pain. It forms a fire ball and rams through Vulgyre with Garoa trapped in the coffin and Dongoros unable to find an exit, destroying all three villains in a fiery explosion. After that the Fivemen confront their students about how wonderful life is and whatnot while saying they have to leave. The kids cry and sing as a farewell gift to their teachers and protectors. The episode ends with the Fivemen taking off in Star Carrier and waving to their students goodbye as they reach P16.
Vulgyre Ship Form: Powers include flight, storage, frontal energy blasts, and an energy ball cannon on the underside
Vulgyre Monster Form: Powers include storage, four tentacles, levitation, mouth fire balls, torso lightning, and hurricane winds from the wings
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I LOVE THIS SERIES! Worst Sentai? Not even close! Pants on fire rating for that myth! Ranger balance turned out to be good, everyone got appropriate amounts of screen time. The villains were mostly good, they had nice Maskman style intentions with monsters similar to that of Changeman and it was never annoying. The big twist at the end was well done even though some build up earlier could have made it better. Vulgyre actually proves to be a great main villain because he is essentially tricking his minions to such a degree for his obsessive love and at the cost of everyone else to the point of using her, against her will, to make him happy. A giant predator that doesn't seem like a predator and has been leading the forces of evil from the shadows, much like Gozma! In fact he might be a better villain because if the Fivemen couldn't stop him he would have been immortal and that would have been it! Gozma you can at least argue if someone develops weapon busting tech he may lose. This also officially makes him a bigger troll than Dr. Man because even as smart as he is he can only do so much. Garoa reminds me of Death Giller, hammy and enjoying himself, but also serious while Chevalier is his rival, the bishonen smug villain that took over as sentai rival from Dynaman onward, in a way it is two types of rivals fighting each other and my favorite lasted longer! I can understand the laziness and inconsistent plans as time went on as they focus more toward beating the Fivemen, that way nobody could stop their invasions. My only serious gripe with this series was the Gingamen, the anti-sentai and they were nothing more than grunts with different guns, what a shame. As for the puppet dolls, they were adorable, I can understand someone not liking them, but they provided jokey entertainment. That final battle was absolutely friggin amazing, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone that wants a taste of why people like Super Senati.
Overall it is my second favorite Sentai after Changeman! Why second and not first? Aside from the laughable use of the Gingamen, Changeman also gave villains that weren't evil a happy ending, here that doesn't happen. Not to mention Garoa being reduced to janitor duties in the third quarter, while funny, was a bit too harsh. Still, Changeman is one of those pinnacle tokusatsu series that expecting to beat it is extremely hard for even stuff in other genres to stack up to and second best with such competition is still saying something.
Changeman > Fiveman > Denziman > Bioman > Dynaman > Maskman > Goggle-V > Turboranger > Battle Fever J > Flashman > Gorenger > JAKQ > Sun Vulcan > Liveman
Also, as promised, ranking vehicles and bases as well as mecha! Quick note, just because something is in the bottom section does not mean I don't like it or loathe it or anything of the sort as I enjoyed everything being listed here and it will continue to grow over time. First with things that store and carry other things:
Magma Base > Turbo Builder > Denzi Tiger > Battle Shark > Goggle Caesar > Sky Ace > Dyjupiter > Machine Buffalo > Jaguar Vulcan > Bio Dragon > Varidreen > Varibloom > Star Condor > Shuttle Base > Turbo Ranger > Varikikyun > Gran Tortoise > Round Base > Big Baser
and now mecha; temporarily I am not adding combined forms, that will happen after I take on Jetman:
Great Five > Bio Robo > Turbo Robo > Star Five > Five Robo > Flash King > Goggle Robo > Live Boxer > Change Robo > Dyna Robo > Battle Fever Robo > Sun Vulcan Robo > DaiDenziJin > Live Robo > Turbo Rugger > Titan Boy > Land Galaxy
Speaking of which, Jetman will be taken on some time later, I have so many things to catch up on until then. Now to close this with Big Garoa in a menacing stance.