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.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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