Chouseishin Series

The official logo of the Chouseishin Series introduced in 2003/2004 during the run of Genseishin Justirisers

The ChouSeiShin Series (超星神シリーズ, Chōseishin Shirīzu^?), translated as Ultra Star God or Super Star God Series, is the name of a tokusatsu superhero TV franchise which debuted in Japan from 2003 through 2006. The Chouseishin Series were produced by Toho Company, Ltd., in association with Konami, in attempt to emulate and rival the success of Toei's Super Sentai and Kamen Rider genre. Unsuccessfully, it all failed in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

The Chouseishin Series

• ChouSeiShin GranSazer (超星神グランセイザー, Chōseishin Guranseizā^?) - 2003/2004: The first of the ChouSeiShin series, the GranSazers involves a group of 12 ordinary people who have the power to transform and don the GranSazers battle suits, that were created by an ancient race of humans, before an alien alliance wiped them out millions of years ago for being a threat to the universe. The GranSazers are divided into four tribes: flame, wind, earth, and water. Each tribe has a mechanoid called a ChouSeiShin, which they can summon only when the three GranSazers of each tribe join together and use their Knuckle Risers. With their ChouSeiShin, the Cloud Dragon, and Guntras, the GranSazers combat alien threats from the alliance that intend to finish what they started. However, near the series finale, the GranSazers learn the truth of what occurred in the past and try to clear humanity of the charges placed against it by a devious member of the alliance.

• GenSeiShin JustiRisers (幻星神ジャスティライザー, Genseishin Jasutiraizā^?) - 2004/2005: The second of the ChouSeiShin series, the JustiRisers involves a group of three people who were given the power to transform and don the JustiRisers battle suits, powered by the JustiCrystal which is sought by the forces of the Hadess Army under Kaizer Hadess. Eventually joined by their former enemy Demon Knight, the bearer of the Riser Stone, the JustiRisers contend with Hadess older brother Majin Daruga who seeks both powers for his own use.

• ChouSeiKantai Sazer X (超星艦隊セイザーX, Chōsei Kantai Seizā Ekkusu^?) - 2005/2006: The last of the ChouSeiShin series, it opens to Earth in the year 2500 when it taken over by a group of space pirates known as Neo-Descal. The remaining members of the human resistance send their trump card weapons, the three RyuuSeiShin warships to the past to try and change the future by defeating Neo-Descal's ancestors, the Descal fleet, when they invade Earth in 2005. Along with the RyuuSeiShin comes Ad, captain of the Adle-Eagle squad and his right hand man, Gordo, Kane, captain of the Beet-Vizor squad, and the twin Sazers Ein and Zwein, and Remy, who pilots Great Lio. Ad and Kane are joined by Takuto Andou, whose grandfather met Captain Shark, leader of the resistance, as a young man and was left with a Knuckle Cross to allow his grandson in 2005 to become the third member of the team known as Sazer X.

Specials

• Chouseishin Gransazer: Super Battle Memory - 2005
• Genseishin Justirisers: Super Battle Memory - 2005

Movie

• Chousei Kantai Sazer-X The Movie - 2006

Trademark Themes

• "Souchaku" (meaning "Equip") is the series' trademark henshin call, yet in the Philippine and English dubs of Gransazers, they replaced it with "Transform" In Justirisers, Filipino dubbers from Hero Channel used "Transform" while those from GMA had used both "Transform" and "Equip" for the whole series. Meanwhile, in Sazer X, Filipino dubbers discontinued the use of "Transform" and replaced it with "Equip" while the dubbers in Cartoon Network Philippines used "Power UP".
• "Dive In" is the series' trademark command for entering inside a particular Star God.
• In Justirisers, The Filipino dubbers of both Hero Channel and GMA used "Justiriser" instead of "Riser" to prefix the heroes' names so that Riser Glen was known as Justiriser Glen, and so on, although they also used the prefix "Riser" in some episodes.

References to Godzilla

• The Maser Cannons, usually seen in Godzilla films, are seen in the series.

• Many Toho Daikaiju, many from the Godzilla franchise, are lampooned in the series; including monster designs and monster roars. Similar to what Ultra Q did in the past.

Other media

• Riser Glen and Lio-Sazer featured in a professional wrestling match for HUSTLE with Kenzo Suzuki and Hiroko Suzuki, which they won.

External links

• Toho Website - Japanese