Juukou B-Fighter

is composed of combat robots. Led by Schwartz.

* Hammer Kong (3, 30): A silver and gold robot with giant hammers on his hands and a head in the shape of a hammer head with the striking surface being his face. He could pound his hammer hands on the ground to create explosive shockwaves ("Hammer Crush"), or toss them like giant boomerangs. He could also fire an energy beam from his one eye & spit giant nails to pin his enemies to the wall. He was destroyed by Reddle's Tornado Spark.

* Death Launcher (4, 30): A green robot with missile launchers on his shoulders and gun batteries on his wrists, which were his major weapons. He was destroyed by the Beetle Break.

* Gamerio (7, 30): A black camera-based robot with a lens on his chest and eyes that looked like flashbulbs. Gamerio disguised himself as a photographer, and when he took pictures of people they were transported to a Jamahl slave quarry to work for Jamahl. His transport could be interfered with by high-frequency sound waves, such as those emitted by a dog whistle.

* Ikari-Bomber (11, 27): A walking purple hand grenade with arms and legs and blue and green camouflage markings. When he got mad, his arms and legs folded in so that he looked like a giant grenade, the meter on the left side of his head went into the red zone, the pin on his head flew off and he exploded with tremendous power. He was destroyed when Reddle used the Wire Hand with the Magne Attachment to pick up Ikari-Bomber off the ground, and blown up by the Beetluder and Stagger Tank's guns. He was eventalluy rebuilt as Ikari-Bomber 2, with a new orange-colored body and slightly different head. Ikari Bomber 2 was now able to self-explode and self-repair. However, during a battle at a junkyard, he accidentally incorpated a hair clipper into his body, which grafted itself onto his left hand. Overcome by the hair clipper's desire to cut hair and to get back at those who had discarded it when it was still usable, Ikari-Bomber went on a rampage, shaving people's heads. He kept being blown up and coming back together until finally the B-Fighters destroyed his remains one by one to hinder his self-repair ability.

* Gagamirror (13): A white robot with a domelike head and a rounded chest that could open up into a large mirror, and anyone whose reflection he captured in the mirror could be trapped inside, and Gagamirror could assume their shape. He sucked Takuya into his mirror and disguised himself as Takuya to infiltrate the Heavyshell Base, but Rei realized his identity when Gagamirror stepped on flowers as he took a young boy who Takuya knew to see the Beetmachines (earlier, Takuya went as far as swerving and breaking in the Beetluder to avoid hitting some flowers). Killed by the Beetle Break.

* Dangar (25, 30): A blue robot with red circles on his chest, elbows, and shoulders, and black spikes on his arms, legs, and head. Dangar's mission was to eliminate the escapee Lala, who had been forced to help build the Death Gaohm, a super-cannon that could destroy an entire country in one blast, but had run away. Lala was actually a scientist from the Aroa dimension and although she fell in love with Takuya, she returned home after Dangar and the Death Gaohm were destroyed.

* Macho Number-5 (41): Schwartz's older brother, though Schwartz actually built him with his own two mechanical hands. He was a muscular robot with blue and white armor plating and a face/faceplate like Schwartz's. He was injured in a battle with the B-Fighters, however, mostly to save him, Schwartz entered Macho's head to pilot him personally. The two together were a formidable enemy, and Macho's final plan to get rid of the B-Fighter was a self-destruct switch he had installed in himself. He activated it and planned to take out the B-Fighter with him when he exploded, and so he told Schwartz to get out of his body. Schwartz refused, since they were brothers. But seconds before his death, Macho ejected Schwartz for his little brother's own safety. The only bit of remains Schwartz found later, was Macho's eyepiece which he took as a memento of his brother. He vowed to his brother he would defeat the B-Fighters for him.

Others

* "Training Robots" (2): The B-Fighters were testing their newly acquired powers on three robotic drones and practicing their guns' special beams. The robots were quickly destroyed. These robots were recycled from previous Metal Hero shows, one of which was a Janperson monster.

* Death Mult (17-18, 30): Originally one of Jera's soldiers, he was defeated by the B-Fighters easily. After this, Jera retrieved his body and decided to bring him back to life and make him a combination of all three monster army types. Though he still resembled himself, his armor was now red. Gigaro provided a scorpion's tail and wings while Schwartz added built-in shoulder cannons. Death Mult proved able to defeat the B-Fighter until the three generals started arguing about which feature he should use to attack and kill them. Death Mult was stalled by the conflicting orders, enough time for the B-Fighters to defeat him. He was later resurrected by Gaohm to exterminate the B-Fighters and Sinbad. He was destroyed again by Sinbad. Death Mult was later revived/absorbed by Jagul in the series finale.

* Babanba (32): At first, an old woman in a brown kimono with a brown cloth over her head and a wooden cask on her back. She could suck people inside the cask, which she used to turn them into pickles which she sold to creatures in other dimensions. She later revealed her true form, a demonic creature that could sprout and attack with claws and fangs during battle. Babamba was not truly evil, however, and although Jera tried to trick her into fighting the B-Fighters, an old man who had befriended her convinced her that she didn't need to fight anymore. She decided to stay in this dimension with him, and shattered her cask, freeing the people inside.

* Nero (37): A so-called bodyguard from another dimension who wore cowboyish attire. He appeared during a fight and offered Jera his services, but in the fight he missed the B-Fighters and escaped back to Jamahl for his pay. Later, he approached the B-Fighters and claimed that he was just trying to infiltrate Jamahl so he could take out Gaohm, and if they paid him he would do just that. Mai believed him and scrounged up enough to pay him. Nero was planning to take the money from both sides and leave this dimension, when Mai found out that he had Jamahl money. Jera also appeared, having discovered his secret, and Jera impaled Nero. Meanwhile, Mai had scanned Nero's gun and found out that it was designed to miss. Nero hated war, and never meant to kill anyone. He died after telling Mai to end the fight quickly, because war is a terrible thing.

* Figer (39): A legendary fire-breathing cat monster that was fossilized and unable to move. Gigaro had Schwartz use a youth-restoring machine to bring back Figer, but Schwartz set it too high and the Faigar that came out was a child who would breathe fire towards anyone around him, including Gigaro. While trying to stop it, Blue Beet tackled Figer and was hit by residual youth energy that was in it, turning Takuya into a child. Gigaro and Schwartz eventually recaptured Figer with candy so they can place Figer back into the machine to age it to a more dangerous age, but overdid it and the Figer that came out this time was blackened and burnt. Blue Beet also used this chance to restore his own age, then destroyed Figer with the Super Final Blow.

* Muscle (40): A mysterious armored amphibious alien who arrives on Earth with a shining feather that belongs to Saint Papilia. He was once healed by her power, and has followed clues about her to Earth. Already weakened upon his arrival on Earth, Muscle confronts both the B-Fighters and the Jamahl forces, only to be killed by Black Beet. Black Beet then gains possession of Papilia's feather. He was more of a guest character than a malevolent alien.

* Giga-Tsukinowa (42): The spirit of a bear who was hunted and destroyed in the mountains. Gigaro, who felt a common bond, rekindled Giga-Tsukinowa's hatred of man and made him a blood-thirsty monster whom Gigaro used for his "B-Fighter Hunt". Captured a young friend of Mai, though it appeared to show signs of compassion upon seeing a teddy bear that the young girl had with her. Eventually defeated by the team.

* "Giant Stone Statue" (48)

Episodes

# Insect Warriors!!
# The Dancing Human Hunt!!
# They Appeared - The Insect Mecha!!
# Super Machine Great Riot
# Heavyshell-Jack!!
# Listen to the Forest's Cry
# The Mysterious Violent Photographer!!
# Please!! Evil Jewel
# The Tabby-cat Recovery Operation
# A Violent Fight!! The Dragon Swordsman
# The Great Reckless Run of the Angry Robo
# Stealing Motivation!!
# Heavyshell Base Endangered!
# The Deadly Maze of Heaven
# The Idol who Flew
# The Flaming Super-dimensional Girl
# Death Fight!! The Combined Monster
# The Great Leader Dies!!
# Birth of the New Warrior of Darkness
# Crash!! The Black Terror
# Atrocious Insect Tag
# First Experience as a Heroine
# A Bouquet for a Monster...
# Enter the Giant Beetle
# The Beautiful Runaway!!
# Crabs and Swimsuits and Dad
# Revive the Bad-Haircutting Soul
# The Pure-hearted Ghost of Summer
# Great Crash of the Rivals
# The 13 Monsters Great Combat Meet
# A Dangerous Young Lady
# Loving Pickles!!
# The Delinquent Girl of Justice
# A Scaaary Pet
# Thank you, Kabuto-kun
# Behold - the Heavyshell Super Evolution
# Don't Swindle us, Bodyguard
# Professor!! The Heavyshell of Love
# The B-Fighter Boy's adventure
# A New Chapter - the Butterfly of Life
# My Older Brother is Buff
# The Spiteful Bear's B-Fighter Hunt
# I Saw It!! Black's Unadorned Face
# The Butterfly of Life Appears!!
# A Christmas Eve Memory
# Despair!! Heavyshell Impossible
# Revival to Victory!!
# The Immortal Combination Rushing Head
# The Spider Woman's Unfeeling Flame
# Rush!! Final Battle in the Fortress
# The Period of Light and Shadow
# Assemble!! The 3 Great Heroes
# Flap Your Wings!! Heroes
* Movie: Heavyshell B-Fighter

Miscellaneous Information

* Like many Tokusatsu, B-Fighter had its share of alumni actors:
** Daisuke Tsuchiya (Takuya) and Keisuke Tsuchiya (Shadow) are twin brothers. In previous projects, Keisuke played Kazu/Kirin Ranger in Gosei Sentai Dairanger while his brother guest-starred as a clone of Kazu. The two also worked as twin ninjas, Tarou & Jirou, in Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.
** Keiichi Wada who played as Ryo/Ryuu Ranger in Gosei Sentai Dairanger made a guest appearance as Kazuma Iwata/Night Biker.
** Shigeru Kanai later had experience in Super Sentai, he played Yuusaku Hayakawa/MegaSilver in 1997's Denji Sentai Megaranger.
** Ami Kawaii, who played Baara in Episode 10 is another sentai alumni. She played Lamie in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger.

* Actress Reina Hazuki had to leave the show due to a neck injury; in her final few episodes (starting with episode 16), she remains inactive other than in their base of operation (usually at a computer) and is seen wearing a large scarf concealing her neck, which she barely moves.

*In many of the episode previews, action footage lacks any animated effects which were added to the final footage, thus showing unfinished shots of characters disappearing, being pulled away while sparks shoot out (later an animated "beam" was added to many of these scenes) and other areas of unfinished footage.

*The series used some recycled music from Kamen Rider Black, Black RX and ZO as well as recycled footage from RX.

Cast

*Minoru Inaba - Narrator
*Daisuke Tsuchiya - Takuya Kai/Blue Beet
*Shigeru Kanai - Daisaku Katagiri/G-Stag
*Reina Hazuki - Rei Hayama/Reddle I
*Chigusa Tomoe - Mai Takatori/Reddle II
*Takeshi Watabe - Emperor Gaohm
*Toshimichi Takahashi - General Gigaro
*Keisuke Tsuchiya - Shadow/Black Beet
*Shunsuke Sakuya - Black Beet (voice)
*Jiro Okamoto - Black Beet (suit actor)

References

[http://www.grnrngr.com/documents/beetlefighter.html B-Fighter FAQ page]

External links

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* [http://www.grnrngr.com/documents/beetlefighter.html B-Fighter FAQ] B-Fighter FAQ page