
Ultraman is the 2nd longest running "hero" show from japan the longest running is the Metal Hero Show
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and now here is a summery of the first sentai ever: GoRanger
Secret Task Force
GORANGER
1975-77
- first, longest sentai series
Story
- Black Cross sends five Mask Monsters to destroy Eagle's Japanese bases: Eagle Kanto Base (Golden Mask), Tohoku Base (Warrior Mask), Kyushu Base (Bronze Mask), Hokkaido Base (Jade Mask), and Osaka Base (Poison Gas Mask)
- survivors reorganized under Commander Edogawa in Tokyo to form the Secret Task Force Goranger, armed with Goranger Suits that gave them superhuman abilities
- Gorangers avenged their fallen comrades by defeating Black Cross's first five monsters and the others that followed
EAGLE (Earth Guard League)
- international peacekeeping organization, defends world from Black Cross Army
- Gorangers belong to Japan Block
Gorangers
- Goranger Storm soccer-ball kicking technique (later Goranger Hurricane football-kicking technique)
- balls often transform into whatever the Mask Monster is least fond of
Red Ranger (Kaijou Tsuyoshi)
leader; cool, calm tacician
- skills: guns, whips, soccer/kicking, disguise
- lost older brother in Kantou destruction
Blue Ranger (Shinmei Akira)
\- second in command; cool, capable decision-maker
- wields Blue Cherry (later Ultra Blue Cherry) bow
- skills: archery, mecha piloting
- formerly a marksmanship instructor at Tohoku branch
[Also Big One in JAKQ, Miura in OhRanger.]
Yellow Ranger (Ooiwa Daita [1-54, 68-84])
strongest
- used YTC radio, later acquired Keysticker pole
- formerly engineering researcher at Kyushu branch
- loves curry rice
Yellow Ranger (Kumano Daigorou [55-67])
- replaced Ooiwa, who became the commander of the Kyushu branch for a time
- fatally wounded in stomach by Can Opener Mask's Can Opener Cutter
Pink Ranger (Peggy Matsuyama
explosives expert
- armed with earring bombs, Pink Mirrors, Pink Cards
- formerly a chemical analyst at Hokkaido branch
- has a Swiss father and a Japanese mother
Green Ranger (Asuka Kenji)

- youngest
- armed with Greenmerang boomerangs
- originally from Kansai branch
[Also first Battle Cossack in Battle Fever J.]
Commander Edogawa Kenpachi
- commander of EAGLE's Japan Block, only direct commander of Goranger team
- normally poses as the manager of Snack Gon
Agent 007 (Katou Youko)
- EAGLE secret agent, waitress at Snack Gon
- other agents include 008 (Hayashi Tomoko) and 009 (Nakamura Haruko)
- younger brother (Katou Tarou) hangs out at Snack Gon, asking Ooiwa questions
Snack Gon
- small restaurant, serves as the secret entrance to Goranger headquarters
- destroyed in episode 44
Vehicles
- Red, Blue, and Green Machines: motorcycles; Yellow and Pink ride in Blue and Green sidecards; armed with explosives to destroy Navarone Fortress in episode 54
- Red, Blue, and Green Stars: replace Red, Blue, and Green Machines
- Variblune: flying fortress, propelled by helicopter blades under the craft; blown up by Iron Man Mask Temujin in episode 42
Varidreen: bird-like replacement for the Varibloon
Varitank: six-wheeled tank with claw arms; rolls out of the beak of Varidreen
Variccune: passenger-carrying balloon (episode 69, on)
Black Cross Army
- army of cyborgs, seeks world conquest and extinction of the human race
- Mask Monsters: monsters
- Zolders: grunts in black
- Battlers and Condlers: bat-winged fighter planes
Black Cross Fuehrer
mysterious leader, resembles a KKK member
- revealed as Black Cross Castle himself
General Sunring Mask (15-20)
- first general, from Africa
General Iron Mask Temujin (21-42)
- second general, 'Demon of the Mongols' from Gobi Desert
- died destroying Variblune
General Firemountain Mask Magman (42-54)
- third general, from Ekra (sp?) volcano of Iceland
Great General Golden Mask (55-84)
- final general, from Africa; resembles a pharaoh
- personally resurrected by Black Cross Fuehrer
- has own personal guards
- into magic and astrology
- turned into gold dust to reveal location of Goranger headquarters to Fuehrer (84)
Mobile Fortress Navarone (43-54)
- Earthen pyramid, opens to reveal cannons, the "Guns of Navarone"
- can burrow and rise anywhere
Black Cross Castle (64-84)
- gigantic flying battleship shaped like a black cross with its bridge tower at its center