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Ryusei Ningen Zon 16
episode 16 / Zone Fighter - Terrifying Attack! The Garoga Robot
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, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Kohei Oguri, Norio Komata, created by Susumu Takeuchi, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Koichi Kawakita
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The evil Garoga take little Hiroshi captive to implant a telepathy chip
into his brain then they send him right in front of the car or the Zone
family to be run over. He comes out of it uninjured, but has lost his
memory, so the Zone family takes care of him, especially Hotaru (Kazumi
Kitahara) and young Akira (Takashi Sato) - so things are going right
according to plan for the Garoga as they needed a mole within the Zone
family to destroy the proton barrier that guards the Zone family's home
from Garoga attacks. And Hiroshi almost succeeds, too, and can only be
prevented from bringing doom to the Zone family at the last moment. They
of course figure that Hiroshi hasn't acted on his own and soon discover
the chip in his brain. And since that chip can't be surgically removed,
it's decided that Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) needs to go and blow up the
Garoga headquarters that control the chip - and to find the headquarters
he actually uses Hiroshi, or rather his chip, as a homing device. Locating
the headquarters isn't the problem, but it's guarded by two Garoga who
promptly transform into giant robot Moguranda, a creature that at first is
no real threat for Zone Fighter, once he's grown to giant size, but then
Hiroshi telepathically summons a meteor that impacts right next to
Moguranda and feeds the robot with some red stuff upon which he can pretty
much spew fire and pretty much exhausts Zone Fighter with its attacks. His
situation is so desperate that the Zone family sends Akira in his Zone
Junior guise to blow up the Garoga headquarters now all eyes are on the
fight. He succeeds of course, upon which the spell on Hiroshi's broken and
also Moguranda promptly loses direction and is easily defeated.
In all, this episode is more of the same, as series like this were
basically made to follow a formula to be easily comprehensible to a young
audience. What's fun about this one though is Moguranda with its drill
growing upwards out of the back of its neck. It's not seen to serve any
particular purpose and is too oddly placed to be practical, but it looks
fun in its pure randomness.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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