While hiking in the woods, Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) and her friend Mina are caught in an eartquake, but are saved by Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) and Zone Junior (Takashi Sato). Only, it wasn't a real earthquake but caused by the Garoga's nearby monster stomping ground - but only Mina has witnessed that and is since in shock. However, the Zone family is soon convinced that Mina was telling the truth and investigates - when they find miniature Garoga monsters in containers littering the neighbourhood and upon investigating them realize they're built to grow to giant size in a mere three hours if they aren't destroyed first. And soon, the first monster, Kabutogira, grows to giant size, but Zone Fighter is quick to destroy it. In the meantime, Zone Angel and Mina go back to the forest to get evidence of the monsters Mina claims to have seen, and really three more, Moguranda (from episode Terrifying Attack! The Garoga Robot), Spider Uros (episode Find the Secret of the Red Spider!) and Garoborg (episode Hair-Raising! The Birthday of Terror) turn up, and when Zone Fighter tries to grow to giant size the monsters prevent him and ultimaely he's knocked out. Zone Junior flies to the rescue in the Zone family's shuttle ship Smoky, and Godzilla shows up as well to give the monsters a sound beating. In the meantime, Mina saves Zone Figher, he grows to giant size, then shoots down the Garoga monsters with his missles and death rays, to save the world for yet another day.

The idea of having Zone Fighter face multiple monsters is of course not new but at least promising, even if most monsters just return from earlier episodes. But that said, to squeeze a bit of set-up, a monster one-on-one, a monster battle royale and a subplot about blossoming romance between Zone Fighter and Mina all into one episode actually makes the whole thing extra-rushed and the plot under-developed - even by Zone Fighter standards. It's still some fun to watch for silly monster fights, it just has little beyond that.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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