Choukou Senshi Changerion Episodes 1 and 2

Let’s get this ball rolling with Big Nova Subs’ main release this year: Toei’s Choukou Senshi Changerion! Some background on this show: This was Toei’s first non-franchise Tokusatsu series since Bycrosser, 11 years prior. Interestingly, the show was co-produced by Sega Enterprises, of all companies. Sega had worked with Toei to make Amemiya Keita’s Mechanical Violator Hakaider film in the previous year. The only game produced for the show was a simple one for the Sega Pico.

This series is often referred to as a prototype for the Heisei era Kamen Rider series. The main writer is the infamous Inoue Toshiki (Choujin Sentai Jetman, Mikazuki, Kamen Rider Agito), and the producer is the equally infamous Shirakura Shinichiro. Changerion himself is played by Hagino Takashi, who would later appear in Evolver and as Asakura in Kamen Rider Ryuki. Additionally, this was Toei’s first series filmed entirely on video.

Some translation notes:

• In the title, “Changerion” is written with accents over the “e” and “i”. This will be written without the accents.
• The transformation phrase is “Sanzen”, which means “Brilliant” or “Radiant”. Weeaboo-Shogun recommended using “Scintillate”, meaning “To radiate when struck by light”. It’s rather poetic.

The commercial bumpers in the show are also way too short to put trivia in, so that will accompany the release posts. Speaking of that:

The design process behind Changerion was to make a hero out of clear material. After many twists and turns of figuring out how to get that to work, they ended up with a suit that weighed somewhere between 40 kg and 100 kg. It was so heavy that the only JAC stuntman who could wear it was Okamoto Jiro. He recalls that “It was a total pain on the neck”. They tried to get Hagino Takashi to wear it at one point, but it was too heavy and he was scared of breaking it.

Raws: Bunny Hat Raws
Editor/QC: Tokugami
Translator: FlusteredSimplicity

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