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The evil Phantom Militia release their last giant robot monster,
Kumagoros, a dinosaur-like creature with a missile launcher on its back,
against Gentaro (Shoji
Ishibashi), agent for Professor Tsushima, and Iron King,
Gentaro's giant robot buddy who unbeknowest to Gentaro is really his klutzy
colleague Goro (Mitsuo Hamada), who have by now come awfully close to the
Militia's headquarters. Of course, Gentaro and Iron King manage to chase
the monster away.
Then Gentaro and Goro meet Junko, who thinks the two of them are
Militia-men too and she tries to chase them off, just like the Militia has
chased off pretty much the entire village but herself, but ultimately she
realizes they are fighting on the same side, and they team up.
Unfortunately though, Junko then tries to go after the Phantom Militia's
headquarters, which Gentaro and Goro have by now identified, on her own
... and is of course taken captive. Of course, Gentaro and Goro soon
manage to save her, but then Kumagoros attacks once more, and while
Gentaro immediately goes after the monster, Goro and Junko are knocked out
for the time being, leaving Gentaro alone with only his steelwhip as
protection - and soon enough, he is taken captive like the other two, and
they are already to be trampled by Kumagoros - when Gentaro manages to
save all three of them, and while Goro, as Iron King, takes care of the
monster, Gentaro enters the Militia's headquarters to give the Militia and
its leader Phantom Gekko (Matsumura Yoshimi) their just desserts - when
Gekko sets the headquarters on self destruct, hell-bent on taking Gentaro
down with him. Fortunately though, Iron King has disposed of Kumagoros
just in time, and he now crashes the ceiling of Phantom Militia HQ to save
Gentaro just before the place explodes.
Mission accomplished, but the next threat is waiting just around the
corner.
The conclusion of Iron King's second storyarc, but not
one of the better episodes of the series: Since Kumagoros is one of the
less wacky and less impressive monsters of the series, one tends to
concentrate more on the plot than the monster-scenes - and the tired,
tried and true plot mechanics become just teribly obvious, to a point when
you don't care anymore. True, giant monster television lovers like myself
will still find plenty to enjoy about this episodes, it's just not one of
the better (and funnier) ones.
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