is a Japanese television tokusatsu series broadcast by TV Asahi. The series is the thirteenth installment of Super Sentai. Directed by Shohei Tojo, Takao Nagaishi, Kiyoshi Arai and Masao Minowa. It stars Kenta Sato, Yoshiaki Ganaha, Keiya Asakura, Junichiro Katagiri, Noriko Kinohara, Fujita Okamoto, Mayumi Omuta, Kanako Kishi, Yoshinori Tanaka and Masako Morishita. It aired from February 25, 1989 to February 23, 1990, replacing Choujyu Sentai Liveman and was replaced by Chikyu Sentai Fiveman. Turboranger was also the first Super Sentai series to air on Friday instead of Saturday.
During its initial run, Turboranger was the 11th Super Sentai and billed as the tenth-anniversary title of the Super Sentai series (as Battle Fever J was designated as the first Super Sentai series from 1988 to 1994 after the exclusion of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai due to rights issues with Shotaro Ishinomori). However, in 1995, Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. were included into the Super Sentai series once more, thus making Turboranger the 13th in the franchise.
Plot 20,000 years ago, the Fairy race assisted humans in a battle against the Hundred Bohma Tribes, successfully sealing them away. However, due to modern-day pollution and humanity's destruction of nature, the power of the Fairy magic has weakened, allowing the seal to be broken and thus the Bohma Tribes to escape. With the help of Dr. Dazai; Seelon, the last of the fairies, summons five high school seniors. As children, they were showered with the "flames of spirit" of the fallen fairies in a forest and can now hear Seelon's voice. Donning powered suits, the product of a collaboration between Seelon's magic and Dr. Dazai's science, the five become the Turborangers, juggling days of fighting with their regular school lives, in order to defeat the Bohma Tribe.
Characters Turborangers The eponymous Turborangers are high school students of Musashino Academy.
/: A brave high school baseball team captain. An ace pitcher, his technique is the "Demonball of Fire/Honoo" and dreams of becoming a professional. Riki has a high sense of justice and confidence, but is hyperactive and performs poorly at school. After the series ended, Riki had a cameo appearance on Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger to grant the Greater Power of the Turborangers to the Gokaigers. /: A patient track star who is also a good student giving him the fame of "Running Brain". He cares for his team and is self-sacrificing. /: A swimmer and high diver. He often harasses girls and has serious misbehavior problems. /: He is a gymnast. He was in love with a girl he knew as "Sayo-chan" when younger, who was actually Kirika, a human-Bohma hybrid. He has a younger brother named Shunji who was killed in a hit and run. /: A student council president, star student, being popular among and admired by her peers.
Allies : A scientist who was contacted by Seelon and helped create the Turborangers' mecha. He is a car enthusiast and based the mecha and suits on vehicles. He is slightly eccentric and has a crush on Yamaguchi, the Turborangers' teacher. : The last surviving Fairy, standing 8 centimeters (3.15 inches) tall. She is only visible to the Turborangers, or through goggles Dazai invented. She and Dr. Dazai work together to stop the Tribes and she lives in a doll house modified by the doctor. She can emit a "Shine of the Soul" that temporarily disorients enemies, but can be fatal to her. : A white-maned, winged holy beast defender of Earth, the keeper of peace, and guardian of fairies. He fought the Bohma long ago and sealed many of them, sealing himself near Bohma Castle. However, the pollution of the Earth gravely weakened Lakia, forcing him to negate the seal on Bohma Castle. He tasked the Turborangers with restoring peace to the Earth before dying and becoming a constellation to watch over them. : A math teacher and the Turborangers' homeroom teacher. Yamaguchi is gentle and well-liked, though disapproves when the Turborangers shirk classes and extracurricular activities to fight, not knowing why they are absent. She believes Dr. Dazai is a bad influence on the kids. She is a fan of sumo wrestling. She has a younger sister named Mika who studies martial arts. She finds out the five's secret lives as Turborangers in the finale, boarding the Turbo Base to give them words of inspiration. : Classmate of Shunsuke Hino/Yellow Turbo. She is the first ordinary human to break the seal of the Bohma Beast. It is heavily implied that she has feelings for Shunsuke which he reciprocates. : Little sister of Misa, appearing in episode 36. She loves her sister and dislikes for making Misa worry so often. She finds out the Turborangers' true identities, and decides to keep their secret, befriending them.
Hundred Bohma Tribes The are a race of demons who were sealed away by a human-Fairy coalition 20,000 years ago. However, due to pollution weakening the Fairy magic that sealed them, the Bohma are free to take their revenge on humanity from as their base of operations. In the finale, Bohma Castle is destroyed by the Super Turbo Builder.
: The partially petrified dictator of the Bohma. He can only move his head, arms, and tentacles, remaining on his throne. He is merciless and cruel, often punishing subordinates with his tentacles for failing him. He becomes mobile after retrieving the monster-enlarging orb, growing giant. He was "destroyed" by Super Turbo Builder, but later revives himself by consuming energies of hatred and sadness, and becoming the gold-skinned and mobile snake/dinosaur-like . He faces the Turborangers as a giant in the finale in which he is destroyed for good by the Super Turbo Robo. : A bearded mystic genius, powerful sorcerer, and Ragorn's second-in-command. He has an ammonite-like head, human face, and a cloak that covers his seahorse-like body. Intelligent and cruel, he hates humanity and his schemes pit humans against each other. He is a negligent field commander but is favored by Lagorn, working closely with him and being entrusted with the most dangerous operations. : A samurai-like keikō-wearing masked Haniwa-themed warrior in black armor, expert in all martial arts with a mastery of swords. He is a sadistic madman, taking pleasure in human suffering, especially when it comes to love because he was rejected in his past life as a human. He loves Jarmin but denies it at times. : A cold-hearted magician whose face becomes serpentine when angered, and uses a whip in battle. She is deceptive and attacks humans out of envy and spite. : A fat, disgusting creature able to turn into an all-terrain vehicle for Jarmin. He is armed with a slingshot and is a cheat and weak willed, always sucking up to superiors. : The long-haired Cyclops foot soldiers under Lagorn's services, the black-skinned Ular are a Bohma Tribe and have the ability to merge into ball-shaped Ular Dumplings. They were originally led by , the Ular Clan's leader and greatest warrior who was sealed away. Once unsealed by Rehda with the Ular's prayers, Ular Bohma finds the Ular Road, which Japan National Route 44 was built on, and released the vast army of Ular sealed there. Then, to show his kind's unwavering loyalty to Lagorn, Ular Bohma has some of his Ular sacrifice themselves to invoke an earthquake to wipe out the human population. However, the Turborangers stop the scheme and the enlarged Ular Bohma was destroyed by the Turbo Robo's Turbo Cannon. The Ulars since vowed to kill the Turborangers to avenge their fallen leader. The Ulars are usually led to battle the red-skinned and , but they no longer show up later on.
Wandering Bohma The are Yōkai, the offspring of humans and demons.
: A Tsuchigumo-themed Wandering Bohma who was refused from being a member of the 100 Violent Demon Tribes. Because he was half-demon, he was not sealed and simply wandered Earth for 20,000 years to obtain as much knowledge as he could, never being accepted by humans. In modern times, he assumed the guise of and transferred to the same school as the Turborangers. His goal is to destroy both humans and Bohma, leaving only the Wandering Bohma. : She originally lived as a normal girl named until she learned that she is a Wandering Bohma on her 18th birthday, after finding that the man and woman who raised (and protected her for 20,000 years) were really Skull Monsters. As Tsukikage, was an outcast in school who secretly loved Riki. She is permanently connected to Yamimaru through the "red thread of fate." Cruel and lacking compassion, she resentments humans for bullying her. Near the final, she meets her true father, a peaceful demon named , who tells her how much he loved her human mother, and how they both wanted humans and Bohma to coexist. In the finale, she saves Yamimaru and leaves to live a peaceful life with him.
Bohma Beasts The are a horde of demons that work for the Hundred Bohma Tribes.
Episodes The first episode of the series was actually a special to commemorate what was at the time the tenth anniversary of Super Sentai since Battle Fever J. On October 6, 1989 (the day that episode 32 aired), the show began to be broadcast later on Fridays instead of Saturdays. A movie was released at the Toei Manga Festival on March 18, 1989, which was the same day episode 4 aired.
1The first episode of Turboranger was originally scheduled to premiere on February 25, 1989. However, due to the death of Hirohito on January 7, the finale of Liveman was postponed to February 18, thus moving the premiere of Turboranger to March 4.
Cast Riki Honoo: Kenta Sato Daichi Yamagata: Yoshiaki Ganaha Yohei Hama: Keiya Asakura Shunsuke Hino: Junichiro Katagiri Haruna Morikawa: Yoshiko Kinohara Dr. Dazai: Fujita Okamoto Seelon: Mayumi Omura Rakia: Banjo Ginga Misa Yamaguchi: Kyoko Takami Ragorn: Takeshi Watabe Doctor Rehda: Masashi Ishibashi Princess Jarmin: Kanako Kishi Zimba: Seiichi Hirai Zulten: Hideyuki Umezu Hikaru Nagareboshi/Yamimaru: Yoshinori Tanaka Sayoko Tsukikage/Kirika: Masako Morishita
Guest stars Mika: Keiko Hayase (37) Yukari: Miho Tojo (35) Rin: Hiromi Yuhara (27) Yumi Sakakibara: Sayuri Uchida (9)
Songs Opening theme "Kousoku Sentai Turboranger" Lyrics: Composition: Arrangement Artist:
Ending themes
Lyrics: Ikki Matsumoto Composition: Yoshimasa Inoue Arrangement: Ryō Yonemitsu Artist: Kenta Sato
Lyrics: Ikki Matsumoto Composition: Yoshimasa Inoue Arrangement: Ryō Yonemitsu Artist: Kenta Sato
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