The first of Toho and Konami's
ChouSeiShin trilogy,
Chou Sei Shin Gransazer debuted in 2003.
About 400,000,000 years ago, there was an Ancient Civilization of humans who were wiped out by the Warp Monarch alliance. When the Warp Monarch returns to destroy all modern life on Earth, 12 descendants of the ancient humans awaken their powers as the
Zodiac / animal-themed "Sazers". Divided into four
elemental tribes, the Sazers are initially turned against each other by Karin, a representative of Warp Monarch. However, once they get over their differences, the Sazers stand together against the villains.
The Sazers themselves are:
The Fire Tribe:
The Wind Tribe:
The Earth Tribe
The Water Tribe
The villains
- Saeki Karin: A disguised alien of the Akelon race. Tries to use her disguise to put the Gransazers against eachother. When she is exposed, she goes One-Winged Angel, but is defeated.
- The Impactors: A Proud Warrior Race trio consisting of Henshin Villains. They consist of:
- Logia: The leader of the trio. A Gun Slinger who mainly uses dirty methods to get what he wants. Also likes to use the trope 'Unexplained Recovery' multiple times.
- Radia: The hotheaded Brute. Uses an ax as weapon. Subtlety is NOT his preferred method.
- Lucia: Almost as equally hotheaded as Radia, but completely devoted to please her leader Logia. Wielder of a Boomerang Blade.
This show features examples of:
- Absentee Actor: Unless needed, all 12 Gransazers don't appear in the same episode. Some are justified that they're all doing separate jobs—Jin working on his fashion line, Akira and Ai working at the hospital—but others aren't excusable.
- Animal Themed Superbeing: Everyone.
- Fire Tribe: Birds.
- Wind Tribe: Insects.
- Earth Tribe: Mammals.
- Water Tribe: Aquatic animals.
- Combining Mecha, Humongous Mecha and Transforming Mecha: The Chou Sei Shins, who transform from mecha animal to robot, and combine together to form Daisazer.
- In a neat twist, the tribes' four transforming mecha merge with a humanoid to form a dragon-shaped robot instead of a bigger humanoid.
- Disappeared Dad: Ai's father. He's actually Dr. Bear/Professor Wakui.
- Dogged Nice Guy: Jin and Tappei.
- Elemental Powers: We have:
- Energy Absorption: The Bosquito's modus apparatus.
- Everybody Calls Him Barkeep: The mysterious benefactor who kept an eye on Ai addressed imself as Mr. Bear. In reality he's Professor Wakui who's also her father.
- Freudian Trio: Each tribe is composed of one.
- Geodesic Cast
- In the Blood: Subverted; it's revealed that the Gransazers, and possibly all humans, are descendants of the Bosquito. However, it's just propaganda set up by Belzeus.
- It's Personal: Ai personally wants to take down Lucia after the latter nearly killed Dr. Wakui/her father and also because she gave the chip to the Guntroller.
- Lost Technology: The Ultra Star Gods, Cloud Dragon and gunthras.
- One-Hour Work Week: Subverted; many times we see the Gransazers doing their jobs (Tenma being a delivery service, Jin a fashion designer, Akira and Ai both working at the hospital, etc.)
- One Steve Limit: Averted; two successive victims of the week were named Shinji.
- Precursors: Ancient Humanity.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Impactors.
- Rousing Speech: Tenma usually gives these to the members of the Water Tribe, explaining that the Gransazers are fighting together and it's nothing about tribes.
- The Smurfette Principle: An interesting play: While each tribe has exactly one female Sazer to play the trope straight, the subversion comes when they all got together. The ratio is still the same though.
- Superpowerful Genetics
- Taking the Bullet: Subverted. Go tries to do this agaisnt Logia but Tenma pushes him out of the way. Good thing too...Go would've been ''obliterated' if he wasn't pushed.
- Token Romance: Naoto and Ryoko.
- Unexplained Recovery: Impactor Logia. He clearly committed a suicide attack and when he returned, no real explanation was given apart from that Logia wanted vengeance.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: A Victim of the Week has a far greater survival rate if he is a human than if he is an alien.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Tenma asks what Go was thinking when Go decides to take a bullet against Logia.
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
0 reviews