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Ryusei Ningen Zon 13
episode 13 / Zone Fighter - Hair-Raising! The Birthday of Terror
Zone Fighter - Shiver! The Birthday of Horror
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Ishiro Honda
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Jun Fukuda, created by Tomoyuki Tanaka, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Kichio Tabuchi
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Hotaru's (Kazumi Kitahara) 16th birthday, and the Zone family has
a birthday cake delivered - when they receive a threat from Gold Garoga
(voiced by Munemaru Koda) who informs them they are all going to die
today. They figure there must be a bomb in the birthday cake so Hikaru
a.k.a. Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) drives off and throws the cake into a
river where it explodes rather violently. He is then faced by three
Garoga, who make a cowardly escape though rather than letting him beat
them to a pulp. Hotaru and family friend Takeru (Hideaki Ohara) go to the
bakery they got the cake from to inquire about the delivery boy, and the
delivery boy promptly takes them captive. He's easily bested though, and
it's found out that he's been brainwashed - so the Zone family lets him go
through with his kidnapping plan, and that way they find out where Garoga
headquarters are located in this episode. And after Hotaru and Takeru are
freed, the Garoga drop their weekly giant terror beast, this week Garoborg,
who looks like a giant red brain based on top of a
dinosaur suit painted silver, whose body's all electrically
charged so Zone Fighter can't wrestle him like he's used though. He rubs a
pole in his armpit (really) though to statically charge it and with it
discharges Garoborg. Then after a round of wrestling he destroys the
monster with his trusted missiles. Now Garoborg sure makes a
good monster, and the way Zone Fighter discharges him is worth a laugh for
sure. Otherwise though this episode is pretty routine, with little in
terms of surprises let alone originality. That's not to say it isn't fun
for fans in a nostalgic sort of way, just little beyond that.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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