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Ryusei Ningen Zon 17
episode 17 / Zone Fighter - Go! Fighter, Scramble
Zone Fighter - Go! Fighter Emergency Take-off
Japan 1973
produced by Kimihiko Eto, Shunji Takahasi, Yoshio Nishikawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka (executive) for Mannen-Sha, Toho/NTV (= Nippon Television Network)
directed by Jun Fukuda
starring Kazuya Aoyama, Kazumi Kitahara, Takashi Sato, Shoji Nakayama, Sachiko Kozuki, Shiro Amakusa, Hideaki Ohara, Munemaru Koda (voice), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (voice)
written by Satoshi Kurumi, created by Susumu Takeuchi, music by Goh Misawa, special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano
TV-series Zone Fighter
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The evil Garoga kidnap the Zone family's shuttle that's usually hidden
in the clouds, Smokey, and when Zone Angel (Kazumi Kitahara) and Zone
Junior (Takashi Sato) go after it, they walk right into a Garoga trap
that's somehow set in the negative zone and renders all Zone family
weaponry useless. Now Zone Fighter (Kazuya Aoyama) goes after the kids,
walks into the same trap, but builds up a Zone barrier just in time. In
the meantime, the Garoga try to steal his flying car, but once he has
freed himself and Angel and Junior out of the trap he commands the car
back by telepathy, then he flies to another planet to get Smokey back -
and is attacked by terror beast Balgaras that somehow can transform back
and forth between a dinosaur and a giant ball and can even reassemble when
blown to smithereens - but its Achilles heel is its horn, and once Zone
Fighter has ripped it off, Balgaras is easily killed, and once deceased, a
cross grows out of the ground and a halo appears above it ... ...
which is a rather bizarre ending to an overall pretty entertaining
episode, entertaining because the terror beast that sometimes appears as a
ball is lots of fun, and Zone Fighter is allowed to tear the
horns/antennae off one of the Garogas. Plus an other-worldly setting is a
welcome change, even if it doesn't do much to drive the story in a vastly
unfamiliar direction. That said, pretty amusing, this one.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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