GoGoVexy has subbed the first episode of Kyukyu Sentai GoGo V. To be honest, I am not a fan of the GoGo V suits, but it looks fitting for a rescue force. Anyways, here’s what happened on their first day as a Sentai team.
The Earth is now at the center of the Solar System in terms of planetary alignment. Because of this, it formed a cross, called a Grand Cross that will cause a great disaster upon Earth. Now, a meteor is hurling towards our planet. Meanwhile, a scientist was able to predict this catastrophe and it is time for him to take action.
The meteor hit Earth and now, its time for the rescuers to start their action! We are now introduced to the Tatsumi siblings. We first introduced to Matoi, a firefighter, Nagare, a chemist of the fire department, Shou, a member of the Aviation Division of the fire department, Daimon, a police officer and Matsuri, the only female in the siblings and a paramedic. After doing their respective jobs in controlling the situation, the five met up and witnessed the rise of a monster coming from the fallen meteorite.
In true Sentai fashion, it started terrorizing town. After this short terrorizing scene, we saw the siblings back in a small house, its there old house and we saw a robot, who introduces itself as Mint. We then learned the man being foreshadowed earlier is their father, Tatsumi Mondo and he was missing for ten years.
Naturally, one of the siblings will be pissed about it considering that he never showed up for ten years. But this is serious business they are dealing with so, we are introduced to the base, the way going into the base and the GoGo Brace, this show’s henshin device. After they arrived into the top of the base, they received instructions to press the button of their respective brace and to transform. This is where they received their color designation. Matoi is GoRed, Nagare is GoBlue, Shou is GoGreen, Daimon is GoYellow and obviously, Matsuri is GoPink.
They team now entered the GoLiner and started operating it. How they operate it? There’s a computer found in there helmets that aides them in operating such things. Now, the GoLiner is heading to the scene. After they arrived, they received an order to move to the vehicles at the back of each car of the train. All of them went to their designated vehicle. Now, most of them are in amazement of the mechanism found in their vehicle.
GoRed now started to look for survivors, he found two kids and an adult stuck in an elevator. Since this is a rescue team, they are now heading to save those who are trapped in the building.
So, since they can’t come closer to the building, they are commanded to form the first combination of their respective mecha, the Victory Walker. How they will form it, simple, like in good ol’ Bioman, the computer found in their helmets will aide them. Now kiddies, look for your dad’s old Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue toys and for these! Using the green’s mecha, it will pull the blue’s mecha to form the legs and then, using the pink and yellow’s mecha, they will form the feet! We now have a walking torso that extinguishes flames. Wait. What?! This is the weirdest Sentai gattai I have ever seen!
Since the flames died and the magma is cooling thanks to a walking… torso, its time for red to take action, his mecha will not be called Red Ladder if it doesn’t have a ladder or something! So, after setting the mecha by punching the building to create a hole, the three, Red, Yellow and Pink, take action. After Yellow found the survivors, the cable in the elevator broke and now, they are now officially stucked in the elevator.
This is when the Life Bird came into picture. Red called the Life Bird and this is where we saw its multi-purpose capabilities. Its beak became a drill for Red and bits of it became a fire extinguisher for Pink. After they rescued Yellow and the survivors, we are now back with the monster.
Red asked Yellow and Pink to find a safe place for the survivors. Red returned to his mecha, retracted his mecha’s ladder hand…, and almost was killed by the monster but because of Green’s support; he lifted his older brother and now, its time for the five mecha to combine to form the Victory Robo.
The mecha came closer to the monster and did some rapid punches using the ladder arms from earlier! The magma flowed coming from the monster stopped and at the end, they were able to beat it and it died with a bang. So, a new heroes are born in the year 1999, they are Kyukyu Sentai… GoGo V!
On to the review, unlike most Sentai series that I watched, we are introduced to the mecha earlier in the series. Most of the time, it will take at least 2-3 weeks before the mecha introduction, the longest that I watched was on Jetman, which took them 5 weeks before they introduced the mecha and the following episode to introduce Jet Icarus!
Speaking of the mecha, it fits with the rescue theme. But until now, Victory Walker still irks me. Seriously, a walking torso that extinguishes flames?! Thank God, it never aired here in the Philippines or else, I might here jokes about it being the other half of a monster that loves to eat babies!
The team was okay to start with. Matoi and Shou stood out in the first episode. Matoi being determined to save lives because he knew, they are the future of the earth while Shou, for being a badass this entire episode and being a good support character to most of them. The others never gave a good impression right now. Maybe the following eps will fill those things, and I heard thanks to the Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai film, that Daimon loves to drink milk and it is like his spinach!
We were never introduced to the main enemies. But seeing the monster of the week, it seems that they are one terrifying group of villains.
Overall, the first episode of GoGo V is a good start of the series. It gives us a really good impression about the team. The suits fit well to the rescue theme but the amount of whites found in the suit still troubles me because it sometimes distract me. The whites partly overpowered the look of the entire suit. Since it started with a bang, hope they would maintain it till the very end of the series.
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