Kousoku Sentai Turboranger

Television series

Kousoku Sentai Turboranger (高速戦隊ターボレンジャー) is a Japanese television show and the thirteenth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries and the first title of the Heisei period. it was aired on TV Asahi on February 25, 1989, to February 23, 1990, replacing Choujyu Sentai Liveman and was replaced by Chikyu Sentai Fiveman with a total of 51 episodes (1 TV special and 50 ordinary episodes). Its international title in English was listed by Toei is Turbo Rangers. Turboranger was also the first Super Sentai series to air on Friday instead of Saturday. During its initial run, Turboranger was the 11th Super Sentai and billed as the 10th anniversary title of the Super Sentai series (as Battle Fever J was designated as the first Super Sentai series during 1988 to 1994 after the exclusion of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J. A. K. Q. Dengekitai due to rights issues with Shotaro Ishinomori). However, in 1995, Gorenger and J. A. K. Q. was included into the Super Sentai series once more, thus making Turboranger the 13th in the franchise.

20,000 years ago, the Fairy race assisted humans in a battle against the Bohma Tribe successfully sealing them. Due to modern day pollution and man's destruction of nature, the power of the Fairy magic has weakened, allowing the seal to be broken and thus the Tribe's escape. With the help of Dr. Dazai; Seelon, the last of the fairies summons five high school seniors. As children, they were showered with the "flames of spirit" of the fallen fairies in a forest and can now hear Seelon's voice. Donning powered suits, the product of a collaboration between Seelon's magic and Dr. Dazai's science, the five become the Turborangers, juggling days of fighting with their regular school lives, in order to defeat the Bohma Tribe.

Turbo Brace (ターボブレス): The Turborangers' two piece transformation devices. The left bracelet with a turbine activates the transformation, while the right bracelet is a communicator. The transformation call is either "Turboranger!" or the individual Turboranger's name ("[color] Turbo" (○○○○ターボ)). Turbo Lasers (ターボレーザー): The Turborangers' sidearms that can either be used as a handgun or transform into a sword.

Turbo Laser Plasma Shoot (ターボレーザー・プラズマシュート): Turborangers use their Turbo Lasers to form a plasma ball to kill the opponent. Combination Attack (コンビネーションアタック): The various attack formations utilized by all five Turborangers and their respective weapons. V Turbo Bazooka (Ｖターボバズーカ): A weapon later added and used to defeat more powerful Bohma, but was not used on any of the troopers. Its energy source is the Turbo Attacker's V Turbo Engine, which docks inside of the V Turbo Bazooka before firing.

Mach Turbos (マッハターボ): The motorcycles for each ranger, numbers 01 and 05. Their maximum speed is 360 km/h. Turbo Attacker (ターボアタッカー): Personal vehicle of Red Turbo, a buggy. An alternate vehicle for Red Turbo when not using Mach Turbo 1. The Turbo Attacker is armed with the side mounted Attacker Vulcans (アタッカーバルカン) and the roof mounted Attacker Magnum (アタッカーマグナム). This vehicle is powered by the V Turbo Engine (Vターボエンジン), which in mid term of the series, is the energy source of the deadly V Turbo Bazooka, with the engine docking inside of it.

Turbo Robo (ターボロボ): A giant robot formed from five automobiles by the command "Combination Shift! Turbo Robo! (合体シフト！ターボロボ！). Its main weapon is the High Speed Sword (高速剣) and it destroys monsters with its finishing attack, the Turbo Crash (ターボクラッシュ). Its other weapons are the Turbo Cannons (ターボカノン), the Turbo Shield (ターボシールド) and Turbo Punch (ターボパンチ). It was badly damaged by Zimba in episode 28 and it caused it to break the combination of the mecha. It returned at episode 30 to help the buried Turbo Rugger. Turbo GT (ターボＧＴ): A grand tourer driven by Red Turbo. It fires the GT Lasers (ＧＴレーザー). It is stored to the left of the Turbo Truck and the right of the Turbo Jeep. It forms the Turbo Robo's head, chest, and back. Its top speed is Mach 1.2. Its front wheels turn parallel to the chassis when the Turbo GT is flying. It appeared again in the Gaoranger vs Super Sentai. Truck (ターボトラック): A race truck driven by Black Turbo. It fires the Truck Cannon (トラックカノン). It forms the Turbo Robo's body, arms and upper legs and the Turbo Shield and the Turbo Cannon. It is stored to the left of Turbo Wagon and the right of Turbo GT. Its top speed is 980 kilometers per hour. After the Turbo Robo's defeat in episode 28, its combination was broken down and was damaged badly as well by Jimba. Daichi also used it as a lure to make sure that the Rugger Fighter was completed in episode 29. It was repaired in episode 30. Jeep (ターボジープ): A sport utility vehicle driven by Blue Turbo. It fires the Jeep Gattlers. It is stored to the left of the Turbo GT. It forms the Turbo Robo's left foot. Its top speed is 850 kilometers per hour. Turbo dune buggy (Buggy): A dune buggy driven by Yellow Turbo. It uses the Wire Grappler. It is stored to the right of the Turbo Wagon. It forms the Turbo Robo's right foot. Its top speed is 830 kilometers per hour. Turbo Station wagon (Wagon): A station wagon driven by Pink Turbo. It fires the Wagon Missiles (ワゴンミサイル). It is stored to the left of the Turbo Buggy and the right of the Turbo Truck. It forms the Turbo Robo's lower legs. Its top speed is 620 kilometers per hour. Turbo Rugger (ターボラガー): The Turborangers' second robot that transforms from the Rugger Fighter (ラガーファイター) airship. When the command "Transformation Shift! Turbo Rugger!" (変形シフト！ターボラガー！) is given, the Rugger Fighter's cockpit forms Turbo Rugger's back, the underside becomes the arms, and the sides become the legs, with the afterburners as the feet, the rest forms the chest, revealing the head. Turbo Rugger's head and chest forms the Super Turbo Robo's own head (with a special helmet) and chest, the legs become the arms, and the feet as the Super Turbo Robo's own. It is armed with the rugby ball like Battle Ball (バトルボール) and the Big Rugger Guns (ビッグラガーガン). It destroys monsters with its finishing attack, the Screw Rugger Kick (スクリューラガークック). It was first used to destroy an enlarged Jarmin in battle and was nearly destroyed by the mighty Super Violent Demon Beast. Super Turbo Robo (スーパーターボロボ): The combination of the Turbo Robo and the Turbo Rugger formed when the command "Super Shift! Super Turbo Robo" (スーパーシフト！スーパーターボロボ) is given. The size of the Turbo Robo and the Turbo Rugger increases so much in the combination that it cannot walk, though it can move its arms. It destroys monsters with its ultimate finishing attack, the Super Mirage Beam (スーパーミラージュビーム). It was first used to destroy the mighty Super Violent Demon Beast. Turbo Builder (ターボビルダー): The Turborangers' base which launches the Turbo Machines and the Rugger Fighter before it combines with Super Turbo Robo to form the Super Turbo Builder. It transforms to a humanoid form when the command "Build Up! Turbo Builder!" (ビルドアップ! ターボ ビルダー!) is given. It overheated in the finale and Zulten died in assaulting this base. Super Turbo Builder (スーパーターボビルダー): The combination of Super Turbo Robo and Turbo Builder. It is formed when the command "Combination Super Turbo Builder" (合体・スーパーターボビルダー) is given. It was first used to destroy Ragorn in both his forms with its ultimate attack, the Super Turbo Builder Beam (スーパーターボビルダービーム).

Dr. Dazai (太宰博士): A scientist who was contacted by Seelon and assisted in the invention of the Turborangers' mecha. Being a car enthusiast, he based their mecha and suits on vehicles and also had been experimenting on a non contaminant engine. A slight eccentric who longs for the Turborangers' teacher, Yamaguchi. Fairy Seelon (妖精シーロン): The last surviving Fairy with a height of 8 centimeters (approximately 3 1/4 inches) tall. She can only be seen with the naked eye by the Turborangers; Dazai invented goggles that allows him to see her. She teamed with Dr. Dazai to stop the Tribes. She befriends Saint Beast Rakia. She can emit a "Shine of the Soul" that temporarily disorients enemies, but can be fatal to her. She lives in a small, reconstructed doll house made for her by Dr. Dazai. She is not afraid to dive into danger to assist the Turborangers. After the finale, she becomes a star with Rakia. Sacred Beast Rakia (聖獣ラキア): A white maned, winged holy beast defender of Earth, the keeper of peace and guardian of fairies. He fought the Bohma long ago and sealed many of them, sealing himself near Bohma Castle. However the pollution of the Earth gravely weakened Rakia to being forced to negate the seal on Bohma Castle. He left the task of restoring peace to the future of the Earth to the Turborangers before dying and becoming a constellation to watch over them. Misa Yamaguchi (山口美佐): The Turborangers' homeroom teacher. Her subject is math. A gentle and well liked teacher, the five Turborangers are not in her good graces for how often they shirk their classes and extracurricular activities to take part in fighting (although it is unknown to her why they are always absent). She dislikes Dr. Dazai, believing he plays a part in corrupting the five. She is a fan of sumo wrestling. She has a younger sister named Mika who studies martial arts. She finds of the five's secret lives as Turborangers in the finale, boarding the Turbo Base to give them words of inspiration. Yumi Sakakibara (榊原由美): Classmate of Shunsuke Hino/Yellow Turbo. The first ordinary human being who is able to break the seal of the Bohma Beast. Since she is the one who frees Toritsuki Bohma, she is forced to help him steal the energy of a human child by playing her flute. Her conversation with Shunsuke helps her gain the courage to betray Toritsuki Bohma and foil his goal. Mika Yamaguchi (山口美香): Appears in episode 36. She is the little sister of Misa. She loves her sister more than anything and therefore hates the Turborangers for hiding something from Misa, while Misa cannot stop worrying them all the times. She later finds out Turborangers' true identities and learns to understand the situation. In the end, she does not tell her sister about the Turborangers and let her find out about it herself. After discovering the Turborangers' true identities, she stops hating them and befriends them instead.

The is a crime faction, where they are worshippers of violence and magic who lost to human Fairy coalition 20,000 years ago and were sealed away. However, due to pollution that weakened the Fairy magic that sealed them, the Bohma are free to take their revenge on humanity from Bohma Castle (暴魔城) as their operations base. In the finale, Bohma Castle is destroyed by the Super Turbo Builder. Great Bohma Emperor Ragorn (大暴魔帝王ラゴーン): The absolute dictator of the Bohma. He is initially partly immobile as he can still move his head and arms, he always remained seated on his throne with a set of tentacles that can stretch which he uses to punish his subordinates when they fail him. He is shown as merciless and cruel to everyone. He ends up sending Jarmin to her death after witnessing Zimba's brave sacrifice and that Yamimaru defeated the Turbo Robo. He sends Rehda to have his new Super Bohma Beast try to destroy the Turborangers. After Rehda and the Super Bouuma Beast were both killed, he decides to punish Zulten with his powers for cowardice. He 'dies' after the conspiracy of Yamimaru and Kirika, who decided to kidnap Riki and pit him against Ragorn in a one on one battle to the death. Riki mortally wounds him with a stab at the heart, causing him to receive explosions while Zulten only watched helplessly from a distance, not able to lift a finger to help him because of the red thread barrier Yamimaru and Kirika placed to trap him with Red Turbo. However, he becomes mobile after retrieving the monster enlarging orb, he tries to kill Red Turbo and he grows giant and decides to punish the two traitors Yamimaru and Kirika for their treachery. He was then 'destroyed' by Super Turbo Builder. He later revives himself by consuming energies of hatred and sadness around him, and becomes the gold skinned and mobile Neo Ragorn (ネオラゴーン). He faces the Turborangers as a giant in the finale in which he is destroyed for good by the Super Turbo Robo. Bohma Doctor Rehda (暴魔博士レーダ): A bearded mystic genius with an ammonite like head and a human face. He is second in command. Intelligent and cruel, he hates humanity and his schemes always involve the use of human deeds against humans themselves and mass killings of humans as well. He is usually portrayed to be the kind of field commander who does not show up often and works closely with Ragorn, receiving less ire and is entrusted with the most dangerous of operations. He is very skilled in witchcraft making him a powerful sorcerer. He was later sent to take care of the Turborangers with the Super Bohma Beast when both Jarmin and Jimba died where he almost buried them alive seeking revenge for Ragorn, as he was entrusted. When he saw the Turbo Robo pass by, he used his efforts to lure Red Turbo out to a battle hoping to divide the Turborangers. In that battle, Red Turbo and Rehda duel to the death. He reveals his illusion powers from his cape in an attempt to wipe out Red Turbo even with the ghosts of Jarmin and Zimba. However, Red Turbo managed to counter his attacks by slashing his cape, mortally wounded him and performed a GT Slash which inevitably killed him where he exploded violently as he uttered his final words in an illusion form cursing the Turborangers. Dark Bohma Zimba (暗闇暴魔ジンバ): A samurai like keikō wearing masked warrior in black armor, expert in all martial arts with a mastery of swords. He loves to hate, a sadistic madman who takes pleasure in human suffering, especially when it comes to love. The reason from this was that Zimba was originally a man who fought a powerful army to win the heart of a princess he loved. However, when the fight left him near death, Zimba's final moments were the horrifying knowledge that the princess was disgusted by his ugly appearance and never loved him. He died soon after, his spirit burdened by his grudge and transforming his corpse into a Bohma. He is in love with Jarmin as well but denies it at times. When Ragorn becomes furious of how the Turborangers defeat them everything, Zimba protects Jarmin from their leader's rage while volunteering to finish the Turborangers once and far all. He bade farewell to Jarmin with a slashed bell who was sad to see him leave worrying he may never return. He was able to stop the Turborangers from being able to transform for a time but he was defeated by Red Turbo with a GT Crash and was finished off by the others with shots from the Turbo Laser. Yamimaru saw the opportunity to use him and he was enlarged which he defeated the Turbo Robo. However, he was defeated by the Turbo Builder. Bohma Princess Jarmin (暴魔姫ジャーミン): A cold hearted magician whose face becomes serpentine whenever angered, motivated to attack humans out of envy and spite while using a whip as her weapon in battle. Her tactics involve deception like when she forced the Ice and Fire Bohma to fight for her. It was insinuated by Zulten that she used the Sigh Bohma to impress her lover Zimba but she reacted by whipping him. When Ragorn got mad and decided to punish the others, she attempted to beg to Ragorn but her lover Zimba intervened to save her from death. She was hurt to see Zimba bid her farewell with a slashed bell fearing he may never return. When Zimba was killed, she was hurt as she had feelings for him holding the bell that Zimba slashed earlier. She was sentenced to death by Ragorn after Zimba's death where she released her ally Kuroko Bohma. The downside was that whatever happened to her monster also happened to her. She fused her soul with her other half but was destroyed by the Turbo Rugger. Rage Flying Bohma Zulten (かっとび暴魔ズルテン): A fat, disgusting creature able to turn into an ATV like vehicle for Jarmin. He is armed with a slingshot. A cheat who does anything to win; weak willed, always sucking up to superiors. He was the last of the original four bad guys serving Ragorn to be killed. He was not in good graces with Ragorn for his cowardice (and serves as a scapegoat after the death of Rehda, he also tried to use Zulten Metal Type to win his position back) and remained hidden at times afterward but shows up at times especially after Rehda's death and during the arrival of Yamimaru and Kirika and remained unable to help his master during the battle of Red Turbo and Ragorn due to the red thread barrier placed by Yamimaru. He sided with the Wandering Bohma fearing his death but returned loyalty to Ragorn afterward being the type to side with whoever is in charge. He was killed when he tried to perform an assault on the Turbo Builder via fighter jets. : The foot soldiers under Ragorn's services, the black skinned Ular are a Bohma Tribe and have the ability to merge into ball shaped Ular Dumplings. They were originally led by Ular Bohma (ウーラーボーマ), the Ular Clan's leader and greatest warrior who was sealed away. Once unsealed by Rehda with the Ular's prayers, Ular Bohma finds the Ular Road, which Japan National Route 44 was built on, and released the vast army of Ular sealed there. Then, to show his kind's unwavering loyalty to Ragorn, Ular Bohma has some of his Ular sacrifice themselves to invoke an earthquake to wipe out the human population. However, the Turborangers stop the scheme and the enlarged Ular Bohma was destroyed by the Turbo Robo's Turbo Cannon. The Ulars since vowed to kill the Turborangers to avenge their fallen leader. The Ulars are usually led to battle the red skinned Ular Captain Wu (ウーラー隊長ウー) and Ular Captain Lar (ウーラー隊長ラー), but they no longer show up later on.

Before the very first story arc premiered in the second episode the following week, the first episode acted as a television special was aired to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Super Sentai since Battle Fever J at that time. On October 6, 1989 (the day that episode 32 aired) the show began to be broadcast later on Fridays instead of Saturdays. A movie was released at the Toei Manga Festival on March 18, 1989, which was the same day episode 4 aired. No. Title Director Writer Original air date

1The first episode of Turboranger was originally scheduled to premiere on February 25, 1989. However, due to the death of Hirohito on January 7, the finale of Liveman was postponed to February 18, thus moving the premiere of Turboranger to March 4.

In its home country of Japan, this was the very first Super Sentai series since Kagaku Sentai Dynaman to have episodes officially released on home video in the form of VHS by Toei from November 1993 to March 1994. Not counting the theatrical releases, as all were released on the format. However, only 30 out of 51 episodes were released on VHS and spread throughout six volumes with five episodes each, with some episodes skipped. However, it would later be released on DVD from May 21, 2012, to September 21, 2012, and for the first time, this release has all 51 episodes included spread through five volumes. The first four have 10 episodes, the last one holds 11. Later on April 8, 2020, A Low priced DVD collection was released with all episodes featured spread across two volumes with the first volume having 25 episodes, and the second volume having 26. In France, the series aired with a French dub on May 16, 1990, on TF1's Club Dorothée block as Turboranger. A mere four months after the last episode aired in Japan. This was the fifth Super Sentai series to air in the country. But the pilot episode was not dubbed as only episodes 2 through 29 were aired dubbed. Episodes 30 and 31 were actually also dubbed, but they were not shown due to hardware issues while the other episodes were unaired. In Hong Kong, it aired on TVB Jade from October 10, 1990, and ended on September 21, 1991, with all episodes dubbed in Cantonese Chinese. In Spain, it aired as Turbo Rangers and this was the second Super Sentai series following the previous series to air with a Castilian Spanish dub on July 19, 1992, on TVE1 and TVE2. Unlike the previous series which only dubbed the first 25 episodes, this series had all episodes covered, with the exception of the pilot episode. In Portugal, it aired on RTP1 from 1992 1993. It was imported from France where it aired the French dub of the first episodes from 2 29 with Portuguese subtitles. But for the rest of the episodes, it aired in the original Japanese audio with Portuguese subtitles. In the Philippines, it aired on ABS CBN from 1992 to 1993 and re aired on IBC 13 from 1993 to 1998 with a Tagalog dub. In Indonesia, the series aired in 1994 on RCTI with an Indonesian dub and aired under Pasukan Turbo. In South Korea, it was imported by Hyundai Trade and dubbed in Korean by Sungwoo Media, first, it aired on television in 1992 and later directly released to the home video market, known as Turbo Guerrilla (터보 유격대). Currently as for the Korean dub of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, It was officially renamed as Power Rangers Turboranger. In Thailand, Channel 3 aired the series with a Thai dub. Video Square later released a second Thai dub for home video later on for VCD and DVD. This series along with the previous one Choujyu Sentai Liveman were already both licensed to be aired in Brazil in the mid 1990s to be given a Brazilian Portuguese dub as merchandise was appearing locally. However, this fell through as Power Rangers was proven to be more popular to air and Saban was weighing competition in most international markets when they adapted Toei's work. As a result, Turboranger was not aired in the region.