Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters

Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters

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Concurrent airing: Hikounin Sentai AkibaRanger

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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.

Sakurada Hiromu / Red Buster

Actor: Suzuki Katsuhiro

Powers: Super speed/teleportation.

Weak point: Freezes when he sees chickens.

Iwasaki Ryuuji / Blue Buster

Actor: Baba Ryouma

Powers: Super strong arms.

Weak point: Overheats, when he does he goes out of control.

Usami Youko / Yellow Buster

When her name appears in English in-series, it's written as Yoko

Actor: Komiya Arisa 小宮有紗 / Suit Actor: Hachisuka Yuuichi 蜂須賀祐一

16 years old, apparently still in high school.

Powers: Strong legs.

Weak point: Must keep her calorie levels up, otherwise she crashes. In show she is shown to be constantly snacking.

Buddyroids バディロイド

Chida Nick チダ・ニック

Voice actor: Fujiwara Keiji 藤原啓治

Chida Nick is the assigned Buddyroid of Sakurada Hiromu/Red Buster since the original center was teleported into subspace, much to the disapproval of Hiromu's sister, Sakurada Rika. He helped raise Hiromu alongside Rika, where they stood on opposite sides in either discouraging Hiromu to fight, or to fight for what he believes in. Chida assists Hiromu for transportation as a motorcycle as well as in battle, yet he is frequently getting lost due to having no sense of direction. Chida's last name is a play on the word meat (niku 肉) and is modified to resemble the name Nick (nikku ニック) as the theme for each Buddyroid is a food that their animal eats. His first name is a portmanteau of Cheetah and Sakurada.

Gorisaki Banana ゴリサキ・バナナ

Voice actor: Genda Tesshou 玄田哲章

Gorisaki Banana is the assigned Buddyroid of Iwasaki Ryuuji/Blue Buster. Often neurotic, and frantic with worry for Ryuuji, he is seen as a soft touch by the other Buddyroids. Unlike Nick and Usada, Gorisaki didn't grow up with Ryuuji. His first name is a portmanteau of Gorilla and Iwasaki.

Usada Lettuce ウサダ・レタス

Voice actor: Suzuki Tatsuhisa 鈴木達央

Snarky and smart-mouthed, Usada often refers to himself in the third person. Like Chida, he is often seen scolding his partner, Youko. Usada's last name breaks the pattern since Usagi/bunny and Usami would be Usami again. It is likely they added a generic -da to make it so their names didn't overlap.

Support staff

Kuroki Takeshi 黒木タケシ

Actor: Sakaki Hideo 榊英雄

The commander. Cold, calculating, he prioritizes the mission above all else. When he yells his voice becomes all guttural and he talks out of his throat.

Morishita Tooru 森下トオル

Actor: Takahashi Naoto 高橋直人

An operator that gives support for the Go-Busters.

Nakamura Miho 仲村ミホ

Actor: Nishihara Fuuka 西平風香

Also an operator, like Morishita. She's new to the group. Her specialty is tracking teleportation.

The Vaglass

Enter

List of French words used by Enter

Messiah

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
Mission 14
Mission 15
Mission 16

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.