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Ryusei Ningen Zon 8
episode 8 / Zone Fighter - Defeat the Invader of Fear / Zone Fighter - Smash the Terrifying Invader!
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Akiyasu Kikuchi
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Satoshi Kurumi, created by Tomoyuki Tanaka, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Koichi Kawakita
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Akira (Takashi Sato), youngest of the Zone family, and family friend
Takeru (Hideaki Ohara) witness a terror missile crash into a nearby lake
and decide to just blindly chase after it - and of course it's not long
before Takeru is captured by the Garoga and to be sawed in half. Akira
saves him from that fate but is captured himself. But fortunately he has
sent out a beacon for his siblings Hikaru (Kazuya Aoyama) and Hotaru
(Kazumi Kitahara) - Zone Fighter and Zone Angel respectively - to home in
on, and they come to the rescue, beating the Garoga to a pulp before Gold
Garoga (voiced by Munemaru Koda) releases the monster of the week from the
terror missile, the single-fanged dragon Gelderah, whom Zone Fighter first
treats to some missiles fired from his flying car before he grows to giant
height to finish the monster off. But Gelderah hasn't been weakened much
by the missiles and almost defeats Zone Fighter by biting him in the neck.
But of course, ultimately it's Zone Fighter who comes out on top.
Not an episode that goes out of its way to be original, but
that said it still has its moments, what with the rather goofy looking
dragon monster, and the Garoga's new-found ability to detach their
feelers/horns and use them as whips. So formulaic and silly as it may be,
it's a fun watch at least, with of course the nostalgia factor on high.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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