Pink Moonlight! Wolf Corps (ピンクの月光! オオカミ部隊, Pinku no Gekkō! Ookami Butai) is the seventh episode of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
Synopsis
The discovery of a normal human turned into a wolf-man leads Tsuyoshi and Peggy to a town where a Masked Monster is turning captives into a bestial army.
Plot
A teacher is playing with the children, until she notices that Rika is alone. She recommends that she join the others, but the little girl does not respond.
A werewolf breaks into the kindergarten and kidnaps Rika before the Professor's desperate cries for help.
The werewolf takes her to the roof of a building while he is chased by two police officers. At the same time Peggy and Kaijo arrive on the scene, transforming and climbing to the top with their Birdies. The werewolf escapes by jumping off the building. Peggy manages to grab Rika and Kaijo uses her Silver Shot to launch a tranquilizer dart at her. The werewolf returns to normal, turning out to be Rika's father, Shiraishi.
At the hospital Shiraishi warns Kaijo and Peggy about the wolf troops, and that they are led by Crescent Moon Mask. Immediately he appears and with a lightning bolt from his scepter he turns Shiraishi back into a werewolf who attacks Kaijo and manages to escape from the hospital, being followed by Rika and taking her in her arms.
Kaijo chases Crescent Moon Mask in his Red Machine, he appears riding his own motorcycle and they have a confrontation that ends with Kaijou's defeat.
Peggy comes to see how the 3rd EAGLE division was massacred by the wolf troops, and notices that there is a city nearby, she begins to investigate, she asks a gas station attendant about werewolves, only to be mocked. she. She is subsequently arrested and taken to a cell on the charge of "traveling without permission." Peggy asks to speak to the supervisor, who turns out to be Crescent Moon Mask, who already had the entire city under her control.
Already in the Gorenger Room, Kaijo is attended to by 008, at the same time that everyone realizes that Peggy has not reported in.
Peggy is taken out of the dungeon and taken to a training camp where all the werewolves are and watches as they punish Shiraishi by whipping him. They take her to a queue where some scientists together with the Zolders are injecting the Lycanthrope Virus into people, they take Peggy to the beginning, she resists but the appearance of Crescent Moon Mask next to Rika and threatening her with death makes Peggy stop. . They threaten her that if she does not allow herself to be infected, they will start with Rika, Peggy agrees to give her the injection. At that moment they warn Crescent Moon Mask that Akarenger is on the way and he leaves the place to confront him, which Peggy takes advantage of to escape and rescue Rika.
Akarenger and Crescent Moon Mask have a rematch, until Akarenger receives an SOS signal from Peggy and goes to the enemy base to rescue him from it. They both manage to save all the hostages with the help of the Variblune and its sucker.
Crescent Moon Mask appears with his troop of wolves and sends them to attack, Akarenger begins to sedate everyone he can, Crescent Moon Mask manipulates Shiraishi to attack Akarenger, but he manages to escape unharmed.
All the Gorenger appear and the final battle against the Mask Monster begins, in the end they launch the Gorenger Storm, but the enemy regenerates from the damage, until Akarenger orders Aorenger to shoot an arrow at the crescent moon of his staff, which ends murdering him Shiraishi and Rika finally reunite and the effect of the werewolf virus completely disappears.
Finally, Black Cross Fuhrer calls in Poison Fang Mask for his next plan.
Cast
- Tsuyoshi Kaijo (海城 剛, Kaijō Tsuyoshi): Naoya Makoto (誠 直也, Makoto Naoya)
- Akira Shinmei (新命 明, Shinmei Akira): Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋, Miyauchi Hiroshi)
- Daita Ooiwa (大岩 大太, Ōiwa Daita): Baku Hatakeyama (畠山 麦, Hatakeyama Baku)
- Peggy Matsuyama (ペギー 松山, Pegī Matsuyama): Lisa Komaki (小牧りさ, Komaki Risa)
- Kenji Asuka (明日香 健二, Asuka Kenji): Yukio Itō (伊藤幸雄, Itō Yukio)
- Commander Kenpachi Edogawa (江戸川 権八, Edogawa Gonpachi, Voice): Toshio Takahara (高原駿雄, Takahara Toshio)
- Yoko Kato (加藤 陽子, Katō Yōko)/Zero Zero Seven: Eri Kanuma (鹿沼絵里, Kanuma Eri)
- Tomoko Hayashi (林 友子, Hayashi Tomoko)/Zero Zero Eight: Megumi Shiragawa (白川恵美, Shiragawa Megumi)
- Haruko Nakamura (中村 春子, Nakamura Haruko)/Zero Zero Nine: Miki Honda (本田みき, Honda Miki)
- Taro Kato (加藤太郎, Tarō Katō): Hiroyuki Konuma (小沼宏之, Konuma Hiroyuki)
- Black Cross Führer (黒十字総統, Kuro Jūji Sōtō, Voice): Mitsuo Andō (安藤三男, Andō Mitsuo)
- Narrator - Nobuo Tanaka (田中 信夫, Tanaka Nobuo)
Guest Cast
- Crescent Moon Mask (三ヶ月仮面, Mikazuki Kamen, Voice): Shozo Iizuka (飯塚 昭三, Iizuka Shōzō)
- Poison Fang Mask (毒牙仮面, Doku Kiba Kamen, Voice): Takeshi Watabe (渡部 猛, Watabe Takeshi)
- Shiraishi (Gorenger): Shingo Hiramatsu (平松慎吾, Hiramatsu Shingo)
- Police: Kenji Ushio (潮 健児, Ushio Kenji), Eiichi Hoshino (星野 暁一, Hoshino Eiichi)
- Teacher: Mari Nakamura (中村 万里, Nakamura Mari)
- Girl: Hiroko Sakaguchi (坂口 浩子, Sakaguchi Hiroko)
Suit Actors
- Akarenger - Kazuo Niibori (新堀 和男, Niibori Kazuo)
- Aorenger - Hiroo Kawarazaki (河原崎 洋夫, Kawarazaki Hiroo)
- Kirenger - Nobuyuki Ishizuka (石塚 信之, Ishizuka Nobuyuki)
- Momorenger - Midori Naito (内藤 みどり, Naitō Midori)
- Midorenger - Bunya Nakamura (中村 文弥, Nakamura Bunya)
Notes
- This episode aired on NET the same day episode 8 of
aired on
TBS.
- Viewership: 16.7%
- An uncredited voice in this episode was Kenji Ushio.
- This episode marks the first appearance of the Silver Shot.
- This episode is the first time a Mask Monster is not defeated by the Gorenger Storm.
Digital Releases
- Himitsu Sentai Gorenger DVD Volume 2 features episodes 7-12.[1]
- Himitsu Sentai Gorenger Blu-ray Volume 1 features episodes 1-16.
