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->''Only those who have learned the power of the Super-Civilization will be able to save humanity from its greatest crisis: Baranoia, the Machine Empire, which plans to invade the Earth!''
--> - '''The OpeningNarration, which got retired quickly- after episode 6!'''

''Chōriki Sentai Ohranger'' (Super-Powered Squadron Ohranger[[note]]"Oh" has many possible meanings, from being an acronym for ''Overtech Hardware'' to being the Japanese word for ''king'' to being short for ''olé'' or ''aura''.[[/note]]) is the nineteenth installment in Creator/ToeiCompany's ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' series, airing from 1995 to 1996. It saw the return and final narrating gig of Nobuo Tanaka in the series. The TitleThemeTune was sung by Kentarou Hayami.

Six hundred million years after being exiled from Earth by his creators on Pangaea, the evil robot Bacchushund has returned with his Machine Empire Baranoia in the year [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture 1999]]. In order to counter the Baranoia threat, five officers of UAOH (United Airforce Overtech Hardware) must use technology from Pangaea itself to become the mighty Ohranger team.

The show commemorated the [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]] of the Super Sentai Series, following the retroactive inclusion of ''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' and ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'' two years earlier. It was also the first Sentai show to start the yearly crossover specials between the current team and previous one with ''Olé vs. [[Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger Kakuranger]]''. Though it began as a fairly-serious show, it was re-tooled into something lighter after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack]].

Adapted into ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'', continuing where ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' left off.

It is the 4th Super Sentai to see a US release in November 2016. It can be streamed for free at [[https://www.shoutfactorytv.com/series/chouriki-sentai-ohranger Shout! Factory TV]].

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!!'''Recurring''' Franchise/SuperSentai tropes:

* AllYourPowersCombined: The Big Bang Buster, where the weapons are held together with one of the Ohranger's King Smashers.
* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: "''Chouriki Transformation!''"
* CallingYourAttacks
* ColorCharacter: The FiveManBand are another "[team prefix] [English color]" Sentai. This trope, however, is averted in the case of the SixthRanger, the black-colored King Ranger.
* CoolBike: The Jetter bikes. This was the last time until Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger where each member of the main team had bikes of their own. After this point, only certain rangers (usually reds or extras) rode bikes if there were any.
* {{Crossover}}: Started the tradition of the yearly crossover movie with ''Olé vs. Kakuranger''.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Momo sings a little of the opening theme to herself while riding a bike at the start of episode 24.
* TheDitz: Juri falls for some obviously evil traps simply because it involved cute and[=/=]or fun things.
* EmpathicWeapon: Any weapon powered by Choriki is implied to be this to some extent, but Red Puncher stands out. Oh Red has to go through a NearDeathClairvoyance sequence with the soul of its previous pilot to finally connect with it and be able to control it, by which one must understand that said previous pilot died because it was out of control, and Oh Red nearly suffered the same fate.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The Bara Cactus Brothers in episode 5 care for each other. This piques Bacchushund's curiosity, so he threatens to scrap Cactus 2 if 1 doesn't kill the Ohrangers. Cactus 1 fails and he returns to find his brother dismantled. Cactus 1 tries to avenge his brother but Bacchushund scraps him too.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Bara Nightmare, the MonsterOfTheWeek from episode 32, was marked for death by Bacchus due to his pedophilic desires.
* EvilWillFail: Subverted. While Baranoia goes through a series of regime changes and infighting, unlike most groups, it ends up making them stronger. [[spoiler:The final villains, Bulldont and Maltihua, hold the honor of being the only villains in the franchise to decisively defeat the heroes and establish a long term conquest of Earth - even [[Series/UchuSentaiKyuranger Jark Matter]] only manages the latter by doing so in the backstory. While the Ohrangers do make a comeback and defeat them for good, the two make no missteps and ensure the Ohrangers truly earn their victory.]]
* FinishingMove: Chōriki Dynamite Attack!
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Gorō
** TheLancer: Yūji
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Momo
** TheBigGuy: Shōhei
** TheHeart: Juri
** SixthRanger: Riki
%%* HomeBase
* HumongousMecha: ''Ohranger'' is known for having the most variety when it comes to individual mecha and possible mecha formations in ''Super Sentai'', even when compared to succeeding shows.
** AMechByAnyOtherName: The Chōriki Mobiles (the components of the Ohranger Robo) and the Blocker Robos (the components of the Oh Blocker).
** AnimalMecha: Only three this time. The Chōriki Mobiles for the male Ohrangers are based on mythological beasts, while the ones for the female members are tanks based on ancient humanoid statues.
** CombiningMecha: Two again. Their first one, the Ohranger Robo, also had [[WeaponizedHeadgear five interchangeable helmets]], one for each member, with the default one being Oh Red's Wing Head (the other four being Green's Horn Head, Blue's Graviton Head, Yellow's Vulcan Head and Pink's Cannon Head.
*** Chariot Formation (not exactly a mecha combination in the traditional sense, since it involves Green's and Blue's Chōriki Mobiles hauling Yellow's and Pink's respectively by being chained to them)
*** Gran Taurus + Dogu Lander = Taulander
*** Dash Leon + Moa Roader = Leoroader
*** Sky Phoenix + Gran Taurus + Dash Leon + Dogu Lander + Moa Roader = Ohranger Robo
*** Red Blocker + Green Blocker + Blue Blocker + Yellow Blocker + Pink Blocker = Oh Blocker
** MechaExpansionPack: The Red Puncher served this function to the Ohranger Robo, while the King Pyramider could work with both of them, as well as the Blocker Robos.
*** Ohranger Robo + Red Puncher = Buster Ohranger Robo
*** King Pyramider, the mecha of the King Ranger, has three formations: its default Pyramid Formation, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin where its shaped like a mobile pyramid]]; the Carrier Formation, where it becomes a land based warship that carries the Chōriki Mobiles and Red Puncher on top of it (Think the Freeden in [[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]] but scaled to Sentai levels); and the Battle Formation, where it becomes a giant robot after combining with the Chōriki Mobiles and Red Puncher or with the Oh Blocker.
** RobotBuddy: Tackle Boy, which transforms into a rolling wheel tossed by Oh Blocker.
** MechanicalLifeform: Gunmazin
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming
* InTheNameOfTheMoon: [=Ohranger=], Olé!
-->'''Goro:''' "[=OhRed=]!"
-->'''Shohei:''' "[=OhGreen=]!"
-->'''Yuji:''' "[=OhBlue=]!"
-->'''Juri:''' "[=OhYellow=]!"
-->'''Momo:''' "[=OhPink=]!"
-->'''Riki:''' "[=KingRanger=]!"
-->'''All:''' "Chouriki Sentai... Ohranger!"
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: Even though it is tradition for the first battles in Sentai series to have the whole team, Oh Red actually gets to fight a battle and look awesome on his own at the end of episode one, as his astonished teammates watch. It is in the next episode that they assemble and fight as a team.
** Also, Gorō's the only one who managed to tame the Red Puncher robot. Furthermore, he's a Captain, while the other four are all First Lieutenants.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: Acha and Kocha's reason for living.
* MiniDressOfPower: Part of the Ohranger girls' suits.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: The "Machine Monsters"
* {{Mooks}}: The Barlo Soldiers, who are MechaMooks
* TheMovie: Aired after Episode 7. One where the [=Ohranger=]s had to escape a [[ShowWithinAShow movie within a movie!]] One of the Machine Monsters in the movie reappears as the MOTW in Episode 31.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchPhrase: ''"Chouriki Transformation! Olé!"''
* RegularCaller
* SupervillainLair
* ThemeMusicPowerUp
* TransformationTrinket: Power Braces for the main five and King Brace for Riki.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Makes a return after a three-year absent with the fifth Yellow and Pink duo.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: As is the norm for ''Super Sentai'', we generally have Baranoia sending out a MOTW with an EvilPlan OnceAnEpisode, with our heroes then arriving on the scene to stop them.
%%* WeaponSpecialization:
%%** Gorō: [[CoolSword Star Riser]]
%%** Shōhei: Square Crushers
%%** Yūji: [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Delta Tonfas]]
%%** Juri: Twin Baton
%%** Momo: [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe Circle Defenser]]
%%** Riki: [[CarryABigStick King Stick]]

!!Tropes specific to Chouriki Sentai Ohranger:
* ActorAllusion: ''Ohranger vs. Kakuranger'' has a scene taking place in a Wild West-themed locale. The male rangers are cornered by cowboys with guns. And then Chief Miura shows up [[Series/KaiketsuZubat wearing a black leather cowboy hat, playing a certain tune on a guitar...]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 8 could be considered this for Ohranger Robo; the episode starts with a mecha battle and has a particularly elaborate battle for the episode's climax. Considering Ohranger Robo didn't debut until episode 7 (although two of the Chouriki Mobiles appeared in episode 6), episode 8 was likely written to make up for the lack of mecha for a month and a half.
* AllMenArePerverts: Subverted. Chief Miura is unaffected by Maltihua's Charm spells because he's trained his body and heart to resist being moved against his will. The Ohranger males however are constantly taken down by it, despite knowing who she is.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: In the first part of the finale, Baranoia discovers the location of Ohranger's mountain base and launch an all-out attack on it.
* BackToBackBadasses: Buster [=OhrangerRobo=]'s Gattai sequence starts with [=OhrangerRobo=] and [=RedPuncher=] standing back to back.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: A minor one. A lot of episodes start by showing a clip of something that happens later in the episode, but in the last show, the teaser shows the six rangers transforming on the beach. This didn't happen, as Riki was elsewhere the one time he changed during the episode.
* {{BFS}}: [=OhBlocker=]'s Twin Blocken Crash finisher. It combines the two sabers together above its head, allowing them to project a gigantic LaserBlade that comes crashing down on the monster. Was only used twice before mostly being replaced by [=OhBlocker=] rolling Tackleboy at the monster. And the Ohrangers only used this finisher on [[spoiler:Emperor Bacchushund,]] Bara Mammoth, Bara Police, and Onbu-Gear. The first three were successfully destroyed. The fourth only got tickled.
* BattleCouple: Bulldont and Maltihua. They even die together.
* BenevolentGenie: [[Creator/AkiraKamiya Gunmajin]]... Hm. In what way, you ask?
** "Punish those bullies" = Puts them on a ''very'' high branch and blows wind at them.
** "Take over/destroy the world for me!!" = "Don't wanna. Not fun." *reverts to ittybitty form* (Incidentally, it's [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama Bomber The Great]] giving this order. Think about it.)
* BondVillainStupidity: [[spoiler: In episode 27, the villains capture Riki. Bacchshund assumes he's dead, and decides to attack Ohranger with a robot based on him, Bara King. Instead of making sure Riki was dead, they send him into a weird dimension, that he could wake up in, escape from, and destroy the impostor robot.]]
* TheBoxingEpisode: Episode 20.
* CantLiveWithoutYou: The Baranoia monster Bara Brain was linked to a counterpart, the giant Bara Separate, and was destroyed when Bara Separate fell to the first use of the Ohranger Robo.
* CastingGag: Episode 5 has a teacher named [[Anime/SailorMoon Hino]] played by Creator/MichieTomizawa
* CatchPhrase: "Ole!" for... ''the whole team''.
* ContinuityDrift: The first episode states that the series takes place in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the then-future year of 1999]], but this fell by the wayside fairly quickly and subsequent appearances by the Ohrangers in [[Franchise/SuperSentai the greater franchise]] set their adventures in 1995-96, the years the show aired. Indeed, ''Ohranger's'' near-future placement was thrown out the window in the [[Film/GekisouSentaiCarrangerVsOhranger crossover]] with the [[Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger next series]], the endgame of which explicitly took place in January 1997.
* ContinuitySnarl: The ''Ohranger vs. Kakuranger'' crossover movie features the Oh Blocker, Tackle Boy and Gunmazin. [[spoiler:This is despite the fact the movie is set when Emperor Bacchushund is still alive, whereas Oh Blocker's first battle was precisely the battle where Bacchushund died and the other two appeared afterward.]]
* CruelMercy: [[spoiler:After he killed Buldont in a duel and succeeded in his coup, Bomber the Great was willing to spare Hysterrier...by banishing her and the remains of her son to ''the edge of the universe''.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: The show pulls no punches in the drama and emotion parts. Not even a {{Retool}} could fully remove these elements.
* DarkestHour: Episode 45 was already pretty bleak, [[spoiler:with Baranoia invading the Earth, the Ohrangers having lost their ability to transform, Oh Blocker and Red Puncher getting stolen by Baranoia, U.A.O.H [=HQ=] being destroyed and the Chief's fate being unknown while Shōhei and Yūji are captured, but Episode 46 actually makes things go FromBadToWorse as Dorin is mortally wounded, resulting in Earth losing Chouriki while the Ohrangers inside King Pyramider end up in space]].
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:It takes Dorin summoning an intense bolt of energy to destroy Bara Micron, the unstoppable Machine Beast that defeated the Ohrangers and successfully conquered Earth.]]
* DragonAscendant: Bulldont, who proves to be more dangerous than his father after his upgrade.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: At the end of episode 2, the rangers end up exhausted and sweaty after demorphing. Goro explains that happened because being in morph takes a lot of stamina out of the body. This idea is never brought up again.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: One of Baranoia's schemes was to have a monster amplify the sound of babies crying to destructive levels. They wanted to discourage humans from ever having babies; pity they never imagined they'd try desperately to calm them down.
* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: In episode 27, Riki is captured by Baranoia. Baranoia then sends a monster called Bara King to fight the rangers, claiming they turned Riki into the mindless robot. Although the monster is based on the King Ranger's look and fighting style, it's not Riki. The real Riki escapes the other dimension he was stuck in and blows up the robot.]]
* FakeDefector: Juri fakes cowardice in order to get the antidote for a monster's poison. [[spoiler: It doesn't go that well.]]
* {{Fanservice}}: One scene by the river during the Kakuranger team up, where we can see some talent from the Ohranger girls.
** There's also episode 23, in which Juri has to battle her brainwashed team-mates in first a one-piece swimsuit and then in a bikini.
** In general, Momo and Juri are two of the shapeliest Sentai heroines ever AND get a ton of panty shots.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Averted. Riki doesn't seem to care.
* FullFrontalAssault: Subverted in episode 23, which has the MonsterOfTheWeek zapping Juri's one-piece with its MindControl ray (like he did with the other rangers), essentially giving her the choice between succumbing to it or taking it off and fighting him completely naked. She seems to choose the latter, but it turns out she went back to the changing area to put on a bikini under the one-piece. Juri gets the jump on the monster before it has a chance to zap one of the pieces and double subvert the assault.
* KissingCousins: Kaiser Bulldont and Princess Maltihua get married in episode 41 and have a child six episodes later. There's no {{Squick}} because they're robots.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Riki considers himself the knight who is responsible for protecting Dorin.
* LadyInRed: Both Juri and Momo wear Tori's red dress in #9.
** In #44, Multiwa wears a modification of the sexy red dress in her human form to seduce the Ohranger men.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Bara-Snooska, a lazy, sleepy machine beast that was thought useless by Bacchushund, has a hypnotic spell so powerful that it can cause people to fall asleep while driving.
* LostTechnology: The [=Ohranger=]s get their powers from technology created on Pangaea.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: The lizard Paku, to Riki and Dorin.
* MercyKill: Bara Revenger asks to be killed so he doesn't have to serve Bacchus Wrath, who he was actually seeking revenge against, as he was under Bacchus Wrath's control due to a remote. He got his wish, following that up he went to die peacefully in a junkyard.
* MidSeasonUpgrade: Actually has two. Red Puncher Midseason, and it has a 3/4 season upgrade with Ohblocker later on.
* MythologyGag: The Chouriki Dynamite Attack is essentially an updated rendition of the [[Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman Dynaman's]] (New) Super Dynamite move.
** The method of the other mecha combining with King Pyramider in Battle Formation (entering through the back into a large open area) is rather similar to how the [[Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger Super Turbo Robo combined with the Turbo Builder]].
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Hysteria sees her son kidnap a human baby while considering her love for her own infant grandson, she realizes that [[spoiler:humans aren't so different from machines after all]]. This was foreshadowed as far back as the Cactus brothers in episode 5, and is the key element in [[spoiler:humanity finally making peace with Baranoia]].
* OffTheShelfFX: "Red Puncher buried itself in a valley." (cue video of what is very obviously a Red Puncher toy getting gravel poured on it)
* OlderThanTheyLook: Riki might be a kid, but he's a Six-Hundred Million Year Old Kid!
** He was in stasis though, so he's really not that old. He is however very mature for his age.
* PinkySwear: Happens between Momo and Gunmajin in episode 44.
* {{Precursors}}: Pangaea, again.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Bacchushund and Hysterrier dance to the "Blue Danube" in episode 9.
** Bara-Hungry wanders around to "The Nutcracker Suite" in episode 25.
* PunBasedTitle: "Ohranger" can mean several things depending on the context. It can refer to the [=O.H.=] (Overtech Hardware) technology used by the heroes, the Japanese word for "King", the Spanish word "Olé" (which is the catchphrase of the Ohrangers), or even as a homophone for the word "Aura" (oura).
* PunnyName: Bara Ivy. The Japanese word for "rose" is ''bara''.
** One guest character is named "Henna-jiisan", which literally means Old Man Henna. However, "henna" is also an adjective for someone who is weird, so his name ends up sounding like "weird old man".
** Also "Bara Noia" (Paranoia) whose powers can turn everyone into your enemy.
* PyramidPower: One of these provides the Ohrangers' power.
* RobotWar: The plot of entire series,
* ReunionShow: Jumpstarted the annual team ups between current and previous Super Sentai teams.
* ShirtlessScene: Several, including the end of episode 23.
* SmellySkunk: The Bara Skunk monster in episode 36.
* SuperPrototype: Red Puncher is shown to be pretty much the equal to the Ohranger Robot in fighting prowess, and it was the first robot made that used Choriki.
** It also invokes FlawedPrototype since by Chief Miura's admission, he just had learned how to synthesize Choriki and didn't get it right. In fact, it caused its first pilot's death! Captain Hoshino manages to tame it after a NearDeathClairvoyance sequence where said first pilot, Lt. Kirino, imparts upon him the wisdom that UAOH and Ohranger are meant to fight for all life, not just mankind.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Normally in the series, whenever a MonsterOfTheWeek has a particularly strong ability, especially in a multi-part episode, they will end up defeating the heroes, who will either find a countermeasure or use sheer HeroicWillpower to come out victorious. Case in point: Bara Micron, a combination of WalkingTechbane and AntiMagic that can control or shut down any machine it wants - including the Ohrangers' equipment and giant robots - and also cut off the Ohrangers from their Choriki. As expected, it handily beats the Ohrangers and the story moves to a second episode. [[spoiler:And the Ohrangers lose again. Turns out that, regardless of how hard you try, an enemy that can just shut down every single countermeasure you have cannot be overcome even by force of will. It takes a DeusExMachina to destroy Bara Micron, but the damage is done and Baranoia ends up ruling Earth for six months.]]
* TagalongKid: Averted with Riki in spite of his age.
* ThemeNaming:
** The Ohrangers, sans Riki, have surnames relating to their geometric symbols.
*** Maruo = Round tail
*** Nijo = Two Lines[[note]]Like the mathematical sign of equality, which Juri's symbol resembles.[[/note]]
*** Mita = Three Fields[[note]]Yūji's symbol is a triangle[[/note]]
*** Yokkaichi = Fourth Day City[[note]]Shohei's symbol is a rectangle[[/note]]
*** Hoshino = Star Field
*** Riki's symbol is the Kanji "''Oh''"/"King", matching his codename. It has six "terminals" in its shape as he's literally the SixthRanger of the group.
** The names of all the members of the Baranoia Royal Family have multiple meanings, at least one of which is a dog breed.
*** Bacchushund - Bacchus and Dachshund. The "hund" is often wrongly translated as "wrath".
*** Hysterrier - Hysteria and Terrier.
*** Bulldont - Pluto and Bulldog.
*** Maltihua - Maltese and Chihuaha
* TimeSkip: The sidetrip to [[spoiler:the home planet of the Dorin and of chouriki]] in episode 47 takes what ''seems'' like a few hours to the team, but it turns out to have actually kept them out of commission for six months.
* TinkleInTheEye: Happens to Juri in episode 12.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Juri and Momo. They switch based on the situation. Generally Juri is more physically competent and outspoken and confident, while Momo has a softer feminine personality and is the DistressedDamsel a few times.
* TorpedoTits: Keris shoots lasers from her nipples in giant monster form.
* TrojanHorse: The Ohrangers use a Trojan Horse gambit (Chief Miura directly brings up the myth, even) to get themselves and the Blocker Robos inside the Baranoia moon base in "The Five Robos' Great Riot".
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: This is set in the then-future year 1999. Or at least, it was intended [[RetCon before the teamups]].
* UnexpectedGenreChange: Episode 32 takes a sharp turn into horror territory. Also a call forward to Noboru Sugimura's involvement with the Resident Evil games.
* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: Episode 32. After a long streak of humorous filler episodes, we get a horror themed episode with the MonsterOfTheWeek being a pedophile who left Baranoia over a decade ago to kidnap little girls and trap them in a nightmare, unable to age as he forces them into scenarios to satisfy his desires, and when one of them calls to Momo in her dreams for help, he drags her into the nightmare and attacks her physically and mentally throughout the episode while all she can do is survive until the other Ohrangers can get her out of the dream.
* VillainDecay: A side effect of the show becoming LighterAndSofter, the Baranoia Empire, which start the show with a full fledged invasion of Japan, complete with troops, artillery, and aircraft (The first episode is even called "Invasion! 1999"), abandon their initial plan to bomb Japan and its government into submission after the first few episodes. Afterwards, they soon settle into pettier MonsterOfTheWeek style schemes. Their attitude also gradually changes from sadistic SocialDarwinist to more comical. In earlier episodes, Bacchus had no qualms about destroying minions whenever they displayed any sign of weakness or sympathy towards humanity. In a later episode, he and his son are seen admiring pictures of human women in swimsuits, which they subsequently try to hide from Hysterrier.
* WeirdnessMagnet: The Nittas consider themselves the unluckiest family in Japan after suffering from being hit by monsters interrupting their lives three times - in episodes 25, 31, and 43.
%%* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Paku.
* XanatosGambit: Bulldont and Maltihua combine this with a UriahGambit when they reprogram Bomber the Great and have him attack the Ohrangers. The outcome of Bomber the Great being defeated has a bonus as his death would trigger a missile that would destroy the sun. Fortunately, Gunmajin manages to stop the missile.
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