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Ryusei Ningen Zon 10
episode 10 / Zone Fighter - Zone Fighter, Destroyed!
Zone Fighter - Zone Fighter Annihilated!
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 Moto Nagai, 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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The evil aliens Garoga send a meteor to earth - that's just too easy
for earth's alien protector, the Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama), to destroy,
deceptively easy in fact. But at first everything's fine, only Zone
Fighter's shadow develops a mind of its own. Also, when Zone Fighter
fights the next terror beast sent by the Garoga, the squid on legs-like
Shipdraw, he has little problems defeating it - when out of his shadow
grows Shadorah, a giant monster that directly drains Zone Fighter's
energy, leaving even his helpers/siblings Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) and
Zone Junior (Takashi Sato) helpless when they try to refuel Zone Fighter.
Thus, Zone Fighter perishes, and only his human alter ego Hikaru remains,
in a less than healthy state. So the rest of the Zone family (Shoji
Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa) try to figure how to defeat
Shadorah - and eventually figure to beat the monster they have to blow up
the Garoga base ... which they can only find when Zone Fighter faces
Shadorah once again. So once more Zone Fighter grows to giant size - and
takes a violent beating from Shadorah while the Zone family try to track
the Garoga base, and ultimately infiltrate and destroy it for another
happy ending - and just in time, too, as Garoga was about to destroy a
nuclear power plant. One of the more fun episodes of Zone
Fighter as it diverts somehow from the by now already grown stale
formula and has its titular hero show some vulnerability. Also the monster
designs are rather loveable in this one and there are also some loveable
scenes of utter destruction, all culminating in some good if mindless
kaiju fun.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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