Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
| Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters 特命戦隊ゴーバスターズ | |
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| Genre | Sentai |
| Creator | Hatte Saburou |
| Writer | Kobayashi Yasuko and others |
| Director | Shibasaki Takayuki and others |
| Starring |
Suzuki Katsuhiro Baba Ryoma Komiya Arisa Matsumoto Hiroya |
| Voices of |
Fujiwara Keiji Genda Tesshou Suzuki Tatsuhisa Nakamura Yuuichi |
| Narrator | Munakata Osamu |
| Opening theme |
Busters Ready Go! Singer: Takahashi Hideyuki |
| Ending theme |
Kizuna ~ Go-Busters! Singer: Nazo no Shin Unit Starmen |
| Composer(s) | Oohashi Megumi |
| No. of episodes | 50 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Sasaki Motoi (TV Asahi) Takebe Naomi Wakamatsu Go (Toei) Yada Koichi Fukada Akihiro (Toei Agency) |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
TV Asahi Toei Toei Agency |
| Fan Rating | 4.08 / 5 Stars |
| Discussion | Forum |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | TV Asahi |
| Time | 7:30am - 8:00am |
| Day | Sunday |
| Original run | February 26, 2012 – February 17, 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger |
| Followed by | ZyuDen Sentai Kyouryuuger |
| External links | |
| TV Asahi site | |
| Show Logo | |
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特命戦隊ゴーバスターズ
Tokumei translates to special missions.
Catchphrases:
- Busters, ready? Go!
- (バスターズ レディーゴー！)
- It's Time For Buster!
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 Subdimension. 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. They fight an organization called the Vaglass, with Messiah at the helm in Subdimension. 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
Note, all the Japanese names use kanji for the family name, but use simplistic katakana for the given name. See the trivia section for more detail.
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.
Normally, they only refer to themselves as Go-Busters. They never use their full title Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. In the show, the full phrase is only mentioned twice. once by Usada in the first episode and by Ryuuji in Space Sheriff Gavan Appears!.
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Sakurada Hiromu / Red Buster
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Iwasaki Ryuuji / Blue Buster
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Usami Youko / Yellow Buster
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Jin Masato / Beet Buster
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Beet J Stag / Stag Buster
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Buddyroids
バディロイド
- Chida Nick - Voice actor: Fujiwara Keiji, Suit actor Asai Kosuke
- Gorisaki Banana - Voice actor: Genda Tesshou, Suit actor Okamoto Jirou
- Usada Lettuce - Voice actor: Suzuki Tatsuhisa
Special Missions Department
- Commander Kuroki Takeshi - Sakaki Hideo
- Operator Morishita Tooru - Takahashi Naoto
- Operator Nakamura Miho - Nishihira Fuuka
Other characters
- Sakurada Rika - Hiromu's older sister
- Sakurada Yousuke 桜田ヨウスケ - Hiromu and Rika's dad.
- Sakurada Michiko 桜田ミチコ - Hiromu and Rika's mom.
- Usami Kei - Youko's Mom
The Vaglass
ヴァグラス
- Escape - Misaki Ayame
- Messiah - Voiced by Sasaki Seiji
- The creators 創造する者たち
Voice Actors
Stunt Actors
- Red Buster - Oshikawa Yoshifumi → レッドバスター - 押川善文
- Blue Buster - Takeuchi Yasuhiro → ブルーバスター - 竹内康博
- Yellow Buster - Hachisuka Yuichi → イエローバスター - 蜂須賀祐一
- Beet Buster - Seike Riichi → ビートバスター - 清家利一
- Stag Buster - Satou Daisuke → スタッグバスター - 佐藤太輔
Chronology
Aired on Super Hero Time with Kamen Riders Fourze and Wizard.
February 26, 2012 - February 17, 2013 (50 Missions)
| Mission | Title | Air date | Writer | Director | Viewership |
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| Gokaiger VS Gavan ゴーカイジャーVSギャバン |
January 21, 2012 | Arakawa Naruhisa | Nakazawa Shojiro | N/A | |
| Mission 01 | Tokumei Sentai, Assemble! 特命戦隊、集結せよ！ |
February 26, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Shibasaki Takayuki | 3.80% |
| Mission 02 | Promise From 13 Years Ago 13年前の約束 |
March 4, 2012 | 3.20% | ||
| Mission 03 | GT-02 Animal, Deploy! GT-02アニマル、出撃！ |
March 11, 2012 | 5.00% | ||
| Mission 04 | Special Missions and Determination 特命と決意 |
March 18, 2012 | Nakazawa Shojiro | 4.50% | |
| Mission 05 | Overheated and Out of Control! キケンな熱暴走！ |
March 25, 2012 | 4.40% | ||
| Mission 06 | Gattai! GoBuster-Oh 合体！ゴーバスターオー |
April 1, 2012 | Watanabe Katsuya | 4.10% | |
| Mission 07 | Ace Can't Be Fixed?! エース整備不良？！ |
April 8, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | 4.50% | |
| Mission 08 | Protect the Machine's Design! マシン設計図を守れ！ |
April 15, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Shibasaki Takayuki | 5.20% |
| Super Hero Taisen スーパーヒーロー大戦 |
April 21, 2012 | Yonemura Shouji | Kaneda Osamu | N/A | |
| Mission 09 | Usada Recovery Operation! ウサダ奪還作戦！ |
April 22, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Shibasaki Takayuki | 4.40% |
| Mission 10 | Reason for Fighting 戦う理由 |
April 29, 2012 | Takemoto Noboru | 3.50% | |
| 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 | 4.40% | |
| Mission 12 | Do you like to dress up? 変装はお好き？ |
May 13, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | Kato Hiroyuki | 5.10% |
| Mission 13 | A Surprising Day Off サプライズな休日 |
May 20, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Nakazawa Shojiro | 4.60% |
| Mission 14 | Ça va? Rescue Operation サバ？救出作戦 |
May 27, 2012 | 4.50% | ||
| Mission 15 | The Gold Warrior and His Silver Buddy 金の戦士と銀のバディ |
June 3, 2012 | Kaneda Osamu | 3.60% | |
| Mission 16 | The Man From the Subdimension 亜空間から来た男 |
June 10, 2012 | 5.20% | ||
| Mission 17 | And the Name is Go-Buster Beet! その名はゴーバスタービート！ |
June 17, 2012 | Takemoto Noboru | 3.60% | |
| Mission 18 | Joint Operation 3000 Meters Underground 地底3000メートルの共同作戦 |
June 24, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | 3.30% | |
| Mission 19 | My Gestalt! Buster Hercules 俺の合体！バスターヘラクレス |
July 1, 2012 | Shimoyama Kento | Maihara Kenzou | 3.90% |
| Mission 20 | Five Parts Combine! Great Go-Buster! 5体結集！グレートゴーバスター！ |
July 8, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | 3.00% | |
| Mission 21 | Farewell, Blue Buster さらば ブルーバスター |
July 15, 2012 | Watanabe Katsuya | 4.80% | |
| Mission 22 | The Lovely Avatar Escape 美しきアバター エスケイプ |
July 22, 2012 | 2.20% | ||
| Mission 23 | The One To Carry On the Spirit 意志を継ぐ者 |
July 29, 2012 | Kato Hiroyuki | 3.10% | |
| Go-Busters THE MOVIE: Protect the Tokyo Enetower! ゴーバスターズ THE MOVIE 東京エネタワーを守れ！ |
August 4, 2012 | Shibasaki Takayuki | N/A | ||
| Mission 24 | A Très Bien Summer Festival トレビアンな夏祭り |
August 5, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | Kato Hiroyuki | 3.80% |
| Mission 25 | Pursue the Mystery of the Avatars! アバターの謎を追え！ |
August 12, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Takemoto Noboru | 3.20% |
| Mission 26 | A Powerful Little Enemy! Command Center SOS 小さな強敵！司令室SOS |
August 19, 2012 | Shimoyama Kento | 3.90% | |
| Mission 27 | Escape the Mazelike Complex! 暴走コンビで迷宮脱出！ |
August 26, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | Shibasaki Takayuki | 3.30% |
| Go-Busters VS Beet Buster VS J ゴーバスターズVSビートバスターVS J |
September 2012 | Kato Hiroyuki | N/A | ||
| Mission 28 | Beware of Chickens! ニワトリに注意せよ！ |
September 2, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Shibasaki Takayuki | 4.40% |
| Mission 29 | Plunge into the Subdimension! 亜空間への突入！ |
September 9, 2012 | Butsuda Hiroshi | 5.20% | |
| Mission 30 | Shutdown Messiah メサイア シャットダウン |
September 16, 2012 | 4.60% | ||
| Mission 31 | Space Sheriff Gavan Appears! 宇宙刑事ギャバン、現る！ |
September 23, 2012 | Shimoyama Kento | Watanabe Katsuya | 5.10% |
| Mission 32 | Friendship Tag Battle with Gavan! ギャバンとの友情タッグ！ |
September 30, 2012 | 4.90% | ||
| Mission 33 | Morphin! Powered Custom モーフィン！パワードカスタム |
October 7, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Kato Hiroyuki | 3.30% |
| Mission 34 | The Enemy is Beet Buster?! 敵はビートバスター？！ |
October 14, 2012 | 4.50% | ||
| Mission 35 | Tategami Lioh Howls! タテガミライオー 吼える！ |
October 21, 2012 | Shimoyama Kento | Takemoto Noboru | 4.90% |
| Mission 36 | Go-Buster Lioh Gagiin! ゴ―バスターライオー ガギーン！ |
October 28, 2012 | 5.30% | ||
| Mission 37 | The Black Bride and the White Bride 黒と白の花嫁 |
November 4, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Watanabe Katsuya | 3.70% |
| Mission 38 | Live! Ace Death Match 実況！エースデスマッチ |
November 11, 2012 | 3.50% | ||
| Mission 39 | Hissatsu! Messiah's Fists 必殺！メサイアの拳（こぶし） |
November 18, 2012 | Kaneda Osamu | 4.00% | |
| Mission 40 | J Covers the Messiahroid カブるJとメサイアロイド |
November 25, 2012 | 3.00% | ||
| Mission 41 | Pink Buster the Mysterious Thief! 怪盗ピンクバスター！ |
December 2, 2012 | Mouri Nobuhiro | Kato Hiroyuki | 4.40% |
| Mission 42 | Plunge into the Megazord! 突撃！メガゾードの中へ |
December 9, 2012 | Kobayashi Yasuko | 3.70% | |
| Mission 43 | A Resolute Christmas 決意のクリスマス |
December 16, 2012 | Takemoto Noboru | 3.50% | |
| Mission 44 | Holy Night • Time to Fulfill the Mission 聖夜・使命果たすとき |
December 23, 2012 | 4.00% | ||
| Mission 45 | New Year's. The Powerful Little Enemy Returns 謹賀新年 小さな強敵、再び |
January 6, 2013 | Shimoyama Kento | Watanabe Katsuya | 2.70% |
| Mission 46 | A New Fusion and Overheating! 新たな融合と熱暴走！ |
January 13, 2013 | Kobayashi Yasuko | 3.40% | |
| Go-Busters VS Gokaiger ゴーバスターズVSゴーカイジャー |
January 19, 2013 | Shimoyama Kento | Shibasaki Takayuki | N/A | |
| Mission 47 | Reset and Backups リセットとバックアップ |
January 20, 2013 | Kobayashi Yasuko | Watanabe Katsuya | 3.70% |
| Mission 48 | It's a Trap 仕掛けられていた罠 |
January 27, 2013 | Kato Hiroyuki | 4.30% | |
| Mission 49 | Determination and a Decision 覚悟と選択 |
February 3, 2013 | Shibasaki Takayuki | 4.90% | |
| Mission 50 | An Eternal Bond 永遠のキズナ |
February 10, 2013 | 4.40% | ||
| Super Hero Taisen Z スーパーヒーロー大戦Z |
April 27, 2013 | Yonemura Shouji | Kaneda Osamu | N/A | |
| Go-Busters VS Go-Busters ゴーバスターズVSゴーバスターズ |
June 21, 2013 | Shimoyama Kento | Kato Hiroyuki | ||
| Kyouryuuger VS Go-Busters キョウリュウジャーVSゴーバスターズ |
January 18, 2014 | Sanjou Riku | Sakamoto Koichi | ||
Viewership
Average: 4.1% (All Missions)
Highest: 5.3% (Mission 36)
Lowest: 2.2% (Mission 22)
Other Releases
- Net Movie Kamen Rider x Super Sentai: Super Hero Taihen
- Premiere Meeting
- From January 28-29, 2012 at the Prism Hall in Tokyo Dome City.
- MC Terasako Maro 寺迫麿
- Metaroid - Burnerroid
- Starts with the Busters fighting off a Vaglass invasion of Prism Hall. Has a guest appearance by the Gokaigers. And a live performance of the opening song.
Music
Opening Song
- Singer: Takahashi Hideyuki (Project.R)
- Lyrics: Fujibayashi Shoko
- Composer: Oishi Kenichirou (Project.R)
- Arranger: Oishi Kenichirou
Trivia
- The Busters get their name from the Japanese term for antivirus programs, "Virus Busters".
- The Busters frequently finish off an enemy by saying "Enemy eliminated". Thinking back though, this phrase would probably be better as "Enemy deleted" or "Enemy erased" to go along with the anti-virus theme for Go-Busters. The Japanese word for it, sakujo 削除, in computer terms means erase/delete.
- During the opening sequence, the seemingly random gibberish text on screen is from the English wikipedia article for the Super Sentai series.
- The title of the opening theme isn't the series name itself. It breaks a long trend of opening themes being named from the series name.
- 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).
- The ending theme "One Wish, One Day" is also Hiromu and Nick's Image Song.
- The Morphin tends to be without an apostrophe, which is how it's done in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers spelling. However, in the Morphin Blaster commercial, the words in English say Let's Morphin' with an apostrophe, in contrast to the toy logo in the same commercial which doesn't.
- Unlike other Sentai, the Go-Busters don't announce themselves as Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters in the roll call (except the movie: Gokaiger vs. Gavan). Instead, they do their "Busters, ready? Go!" bit.
- In fact, within the show, the phrase Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters occurs only once so far. In episode one, about 11:55 in, Usada describes the team as Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
- The naming in Go-Busters is unusual too. All the family names are written in kanji, but all the given names are written in katakana, the alphabet for foreign names. While this doesn't necessarily mean anything, it does make it seem as if this reality is a bit different from the current reality (since most Japanese people write their names with kanji and hiragana, not katakana). This fits since they're in N.C. 2012 while we're in AD 2012.
- This may also make the show seem more western, but this conclusion is a bit of a stretch. In most likelihood, this was a move to make it easier for the writers so they don't have to come up with kanji for names, and it's easier for the kids who watch who may not know many kanji.
- This is rather ironic since the last Sentai to really use a lot of kanji in names was Shinkenger, a series designed to make kanji appeal to young viewers. However, (perhaps as an unintentional blowback from that) all the character names since then (with the exception of Gai from Gokaiger) have been written in simplistic katakana. The Goseigers and Gokaigers aren't native Japanese, and the Go-Busters are from a slightly different dimension. This probably makes it easier for kids to remember.
- Before the series came out, the theory was that the show would have a Ghost theme since the Japanese name closely resembles the Japanese spelling for Ghostbusters. ゴーバスターズ Gou Basutaazu / ゴーストバスターズ Gousuto Basutaazu. It's basically Ghost Busters with two of the Japanese characters removed.
Actor Trivia
- Sakaki Hideo (Commander Kuroki Takeshi) is a hero in real life too. He caught a peeping tom on August 24, 2012.
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 for the G-Zord was in Mirai Sentai TimeRanger.
- The Morphin Brace shouts "It's Morphin' Time!" when activated, which was used throughout the Power Rangers series.
- 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 Jungle Fury Morpher Sunglasses were an american creation that didn't appear on GekiRangers.
- 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.
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Related Links
External Links
- JP Wiki
- TV Asahi site
- Toei site
- Super Sentai Friends site
- Toei Video site
- Wiki on TV ratings
- Go-Busters Location Guide
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