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To avoid missing out on the monster craze, Toho produced this program specifically for television—their first such venture—featuring their wildly popular monster Godzilla and others. This is Zone Fighter.
00:213. This work, Meteor Man Zone, is the first TV show produced by Toho to not miss out on the monster boom, and it features Toho's hugely popular monster, Godzilla.
00:41Now, let's take a look at this work.
00:44Meteor Man Zone was produced by Mannensha and Toho and aired for a total of 26 episodes in 1973.
00:59The story begins with the sudden invasion of the peaceful planet Peaceland by the Garogabaran aliens, commonly known as Garoga.
01:09With their overwhelming fighting power, they destroy the planet Peaceland, but the people of Peaceland board the spaceship Pandora Capsule in families and become wanderers, Meteor Men, in search of a place to settle down, scattering into space.
01:29One of them reaches Earth and settles down as an Earthling, the Sakimori family.
01:37After that, the Sakimori family lived in peace, but Garoga had already constructed a space fortress station and was preparing to invade Earth. He set his sights on the Zone family, a formidable enemy, as his first target for his invasion of Earth, and attacked them.
01:56To prevent a tragedy like that which occurred on their home planet, Peaceland, from happening on Earth, their second home, the Sakimori family fights back against Garoga's invasion as the Meteor Man, Zone.
02:11So, let me start by introducing the Sakimori family, or the Zone family.
02:19First, there is the eldest son, Sakimori Hikaru, also known as Zone Fight. He is a cheerful and responsible young man who normally works as a test driver for an automobile manufacturer.
02:33The eldest daughter, Sakimori Hotaru, or Zone Angel, is an active and cheerful high school girl, but she also sometimes ventures alone into enemy territory and fights.
02:48The second son, Akira Sakimori, or Zone Junior, was an elementary school student whose curious nature often put him in danger by getting involved in Garoga-related incidents.
03:03His father, Yoichiro Sakimori, or Zonefather, is the owner of the Sakimori Toy Research Institute, but he also fights on the front lines alongside his children against the Professor and Garoga.
03:19The mother, Sakimori Tsukiko, or Zone Mother, is the spiritual breadwinner of the family, although she does not often fight alongside her husband and children.
03:35His grandfather, Sakimori, Raita, or Zone Great, does not have the ability to transform, but he fights Garoga by using various psychic powers.
03:49Another character is Joe Takeru, the owner of a model shop who knows the Zone family's secret.
03:59During battle, Sakimori Hikaru, or Zone Fight, transforms into a life-sized Zone Fighter by shouting "Zone Fight, power," and when fighting giant enemies such as monsters, he shouts "Zone Double Fight" and becomes gigantic.
04:21When giantized, it is 62 meters tall, weighs 55,000 tons, and can run at 800 kilometers per hour.Compared to its life-size appearance, only its face and belt change.
04:37The main energy source is proton energy derived from sunlight, and the remaining energy is displayed on the zone meter located on the buckle.
04:49When transformed, it is blue, but as its energy decreases, it changes from blue to yellow and then red, like a traffic light, and when it flashes red, it has 110 seconds of remaining activity time.
05:05One way to deal with this is to replenish energy from the horn ornament on the head, the Zone Smoker, or to use Smokey to replace the Zone Smoker itself, thereby replenishing energy through a Zone Smoker Change.
05:22However, if the body receives damage that cannot be tolerated, the character will be deemed unable to fight, and even if the zone meter shows blue, the giant size will be forcibly removed and the character will be returned to its normal size.
05:40I'll also explain the weapons and special moves you can use to repel enemies, starting with Meteor Might and Missile Might.
05:50The missile shells attached to both arms were deadly to almost every weapon used.
06:00There were two patterns, using one arm or both arms depending on the situation, and there was also an episode where he fired while flying.
06:10The meteor and proton beams are high-powered destructive rays fired from the Zone Moker on the forehead, but because they consume a huge amount of energy, they are most likely used when there is a lot of remaining energy, or when delivering the final blow to a powerful gun.
06:30Other techniques include a red wedge-shaped cutter ray fired from his hands, a meteor, a slice shot, a punch that he delivers by spinning at high speed in the air and using that rotational force, a meteor pinwheel, and a protective wall he creates by drawing a rainbow-colored outline with both hands, a zone barrier.
06:53Regarding the Zone Family's equipment and mecha, I'll start by explaining the Mighty Liner.
07:02Normally, this is the vehicle that Sakimori Hikaru rides in, but during battle, it transforms into the Mighty Liner by passing through another dimension using Zone Conversion.
07:13It is equipped with plasma and fluid vibration engines, weapons such as liner beams, radios, and is also capable of space flight. Its base vehicle is the Nissan Skyline.
07:27Smokey, a small reconnaissance and attack mecha used mainly by Zone Angel and Junior, boasts a flight speed of Mach 50 and is mainly used to support fighters and respond to low energy situations, performing Zone Smoker Change to supply energy.
07:48Zobots are small robots with communication and messaging functions, and are used like electronic pigeons, and also to request help from Godzilla.
08:02The Pandora Capsule is a large spaceship used by each family to escape from Peace Land. It is equipped with laser weapons and will be used to return to Peace Land.
08:16It also used a laser gun, the Maser Shot, which could also fire missiles.
08:25In addition, since we are the producers, Godzilla and King Ghidorah also appear in the film.
08:34When the Zone Fighters are in trouble, Godzilla is summoned by Angel or Junior using Zobots.
08:42By the way, Godzilla's special move is the same as in the movie version, the Radiation Heat Battle, which appeared in a total of five episodes.
08:51The Zone Family's enemy is the Garogabaran aliens, commonly known as Garoga or the Garoga Army.
09:01Their instinct is to attack and conquer other planets, and they conquer the Zone Family's planet Peaceland, and then begin their advance on Earth.
09:15Although they are Garogabaran aliens, they have long, mindless antennae and saw-like cutters on their arms, giving them an insect-like appearance and an ugly face with exposed teeth.
09:29They can transform into humans, control giant monsters and powerful beasts, and even become powerful beasts themselves.
09:39Within the organization, there are strict military-style laws and rules, and any failure will result in immediate execution.
09:50However, in the end, nothing was revealed about their home planet, Garogabaran, or about hunting.
09:59As for the organizational structure of the Garoga, Gold Garoga, whose trademark is his walking stick, is in charge of commanding the Earth invasion force.
10:14In terms of rank, Red Garoga is a commander class, and Silver Garoga is a regular soldier class.
10:24Silver Garoga can transform into powerful beasts by combining with other three members, and on Earth, when they transform into humans, they have webbed hands.
10:38In addition, the scientist type, Garoga, appeared as White Garoga.
10:46As for the equipment and mecha used by Garoga, they have a space station built as their base for attacking Earth, and they use special missiles to send powerful beasts to Earth.
10:59Additionally, the Garoga Cars used on Earth's ground are equipped with twin cannons and are used for sabotage and escapes.
11:12Now, finally, it's the final episode.
11:16A new type of missile is fired from the space station at the Zone family's residence, but it is deflected by the Zone Barrier.
11:24After the useless scientists who failed in their development are executed, Cobalt Garoga and his allies arrive.
11:33After arriving, he obtains the blueprints for a neutron energy device that had been successfully developed at the World Atomic Energy Research Institute, and proposes a plan to manufacture a neutron bomb to Commander Gold Garoga, which is approved.
11:50Cobalt Garoga first uses cobalt rays to rob a child working as a commander at the World Atomic Energy Research Institute of his sight.
12:01By chance, Sakimori Hikaru, who was taking the child to the hospital, met a person with glowing golden eyes and learned that the child had lost his sight.
12:14Meanwhile, Cobalt Garoga instructs the child's father to steal the blueprints for a neutron energy device in exchange for a medicine that will restore his eyesight.
12:26Meanwhile, Hikaru, Hotaru, and Akira, suspicious of their father's actions, spy on the laboratory and try to question their father about stealing the blueprints.
12:40Then, Cobalt Garoga appears, kidnaps the father, and escapes.
12:46During their escape, they transform into Zone Fighter and somehow manage to rescue their father, and defeat Garoga in an underwater battle, but the Garoga that were supposed to have been defeated combine and a powerful beast appears.
13:03When a powerful beast appears, he fights the Zone Fighter in a Zone Double Fight, enlarging himself, but because his eyes are attacked, he has a hallucination and sees the powerful beast as a Zone Angel.
13:18As a result, he is temporarily unable to fight, but by washing his eyes with sunlight, he overcomes the hallucinations and defeats the powerful beast.
13:28His mortal father, who had seen everything, keeps the secret by assuring him that it was not an alien but a young man who saved him.
13:40Meanwhile, the child who had lost his sight regained his sight after the powerful beast was defeated.
13:48Afterwards, the Sakimori family and the Zone family rush over to the scene where the parent and child embrace each other in joy, and share in the joy.
13:58In that scene, the narrator describes how the formidable Garo Gaganmar Xs are sent to Earth one after another with increasingly nefarious plans.
14:10The show ends with the comment that the next target could be you, the person watching TV right now.
14:23Now, let's take a look at the exploits of the meteor man, Zone.
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17:16Meteor Man John
17:21John John
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17:38Go, go, John
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17:49What did you think?
18:00The show ended with content that didn't seem like a final episode at all, but I later learned that this was due to the show being suddenly canceled due to a tuning out.
18:13A few years later, the same thing happened with Gambaron, although for a different reason, and I remember being disappointed, thinking, ``Here we go again.''
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