Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
| Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
36th Super Sentai Series <Previous Sentai: Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger Concurrent airing: Hikounin Sentai AkibaRanger >Next Sentai: ?? |
特命戦隊ゴーバスターズ Special Missions Sentai Go-Busters
The 36th Super Sentai series that started February 26th, 2012. Catchphrases are "Busters, ready? Go!" and "It's Time For Buster!"
Aired from: Feb 26, 2012 to ?? (?? total episodes)
Plot
Takes place in N.C. 2012, where NC probably stands for New Century. The Japanese term for NC is Shin-seireki 新西暦 which approximately means New/Neo AD. On Christmas 1999, a virus made the main computer of the Transport Research Center to become sentient. Calling itself Messiah, it plotted to take over the world, but was foiled when the whole center was teleported into subspace. Three children were the only survivors of the event, modified with a vaccine to combat the computer virus. Their modifications allow them to withstand teleportation, gives them special powers, but also gave them weak points.
They were enlisted to become the Go-Busters by the Special Missions Department of the Energy Management Center. (Energy Kanri Kyoku エネルギー管理局) They fight an organization called the Vaglass, with Messiah at the helm in subspace. Most of the Vaglass schemes are devised by a mysterious figure assisting Messiah named Enter.
The series focuses on a resource called Enetron, which is used as an energy source for both domestic use, and for power of the series mecha (Megazords) by the Energy Management Center (E.M.C.) The Vaglass are constantly going after Enetron as well as technological detail of the E.M.C.
Characters
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
The agents in the field for the Special Missions Department of the E.M.C. Since the show's theme is ostensibly spies, they wear Men in Black style glasses when in the field, their logo is based on sunglasses, and the final move of their transformation is to attach the visors from their wrist device to their helmet. This needs to be done any time they take off their helmets.
- Red Buster / Sakurada Hiromu - Suzuki Katsuhiro
- Blue Buster / Iwasaki Ryuuji - Baba Ryouma
- Yellow Buster / Usami Youko - Komiya Arisa
- Beet Buster / Jin Masato - Matsumoto Hiroyo
Buddyroids バディロイド
- Chida Nick - Voice actor: Fujiwara Keiji
- Gorisaki Banana - Voice actor: Genda Tesshou
- Usada Lettuce - Voice actor: Suzuki Tatsuhisa
Special Missions Department
- Commander Kuroki Takeshi - Sakaki Hideo
- Operator Morishita Tooru - Takahashi Naoto
- Operator Nakamura Miho - Nishihara Fuuka
The Vaglass
- Buglars' バクラー
- The expendable grunts. Enter creates them by swiping his card on his machine.
- Metaroids メタロイド
- The monster of the week. Created by Enter placing a chip on an object then swiping a card. The Metaroid created gains the property of the object Enter used, plus it becomes a teleportation marker for the Megazord.
- Giant Robo Megazords 巨大ロボメガゾード
- Currently comes in three types: Alpha (Speed type), Beta (Power type), Gamma (Reinforced battle type) which usually are seen having the same appearance traits of the Metaroid that was created beforehand as well as the Metaroid's attributes.
Chronology
| Episode | Title | Air date | Episode writer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission 01 | Tokumei Sentai, Assemble!
特命戦隊、集結せよ! |
Feb. 26, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 02 | Promise From 13 Years Ago
13年前の約束 |
March 4, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 03 | GT-02 Animal, Deploy!
GT-02アニマル、出撃! |
March 11, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 04 | Specials Missions and Determination
特命と決意 |
March 18, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 05 | Overheated and Out of Control!
キケンな熱暴走! |
March 25, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 06 | Gattai! GoBuster-Oh
合体!ゴーバスターオー |
April 1, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 07 | Ace Can't Be Fixed?
エース整備不良? |
April 8, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro |
| Mission 08 | Protect the Machine's Design!
マシン設計図を守れ! |
April 15, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 09 | Usada Recovery Operation!
ウサダ奪還作戦! |
April 22, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 10 | Reason for Fighting
戦う理由 |
April 29, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 11 | The Weak Point is being Targeted
ねらわれたウイークポイント |
May 6, 2012 | Shimoyama Kento |
| Mission 12 | Do you like to dress up?
変装はお好き？ |
May 13, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro |
| Mission 13 | A Surprising Day Off
サプライズな休日 |
May 20, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 14 | Ça va? Rescue Operation
サバ？救出作戦 |
May 27, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko |
| Mission 15 | June 3, 2012 | ||
| Mission 16 | June 10, 2012 |
Music
Opening Theme
"Busters Ready Go!" (バスターズ レディーゴー!)
- Artist: Hideyuki Takahashi (Project.R)
Ending Themes
"Kizuna ~ Go-Busters!" / "Bonds ~ Go-Busters~" (キズナ～ゴーバスターズ!)
- Artist: Nazo no Shin Unit Starmen (謎の新ユニットSTA☆MEN, The Mysterious New Unit Starmen)
"One Wish, One Day"
- Artists: Katsuhiro Suzuki & Keiji Fujiwara
Trivia
- During the opening sequence, the seemingly random gibberish text on screen is from the English wiki for Sentai.
- Forgoes the practical effect of sparks upon impact for some action scenes. A lot of the time, the sparks are added afterwards with CGI (Some of the sparks that come out are numbers). This creates awkward moments where sometimes enemies will get slashed, but no sparks will come out (One obvious example of this is in the opening).
References to Power Rangers
Go-Busters contains several references to Power Rangers, which is the American remake of Super Sentai . Usually these references refer to 'firsts' in Sentai history of plot devices already in place in Power Rangers.
- The mecha are called MegaZords. This is for both the heroes and villains. The difference is that individual mecha are also called MegaZords, unlike in Power Rangers where the name refers to a "giant robo", usually a combiner. 'Zord' is used as a suffix for Metaroids' MegaZords, such as ShovelRoid's ShovelZord.
- The term "Zord", which originated in Power Rangers, was also used. The last time this happened in Super Sentai was for the G-Zord in Mirai Sentai Timeranger.
- The Morphin Brace shouts "It's Morphin' Time!" when activated, which was used throughout Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo, the first two Power Rangers adaptations of Super Sentai shows.
- Also the Morphin Brace has a sunglasses theme similar to Power Rangers: Jungle Fury, except the Go-Busters don't actually put them on like the Jungle Fury rangers but the sunglasses form the Visor when the Go-busters shout "Let's Morphin"
- The main villain, Messiah, is very similar to Power Rangers: R.P.M.'s Venjix as they were both computer viruses, not to mention very impatient and angry. Messiah is also a floating head from a different dimension, just like Zordon.