Juukou B-Fighter

Storyline

Characters

B-Fighters

• Takuya Kai / Blue Beet is a 23-year-old entomologist at the Earth Academia Japan Branch and is the team leader. He is very tender-hearted. His sense of responsibility is very strong. The first to meet Guru in the South American rainforest, he was also the first to gain a B-Commander and use his suit. As Blue Beet, his armor was modeled after a male Japanese rhinoceros beetle. His blood was used in the creation of his "evil twin", Shadow. After learning the true colors of the shadow, he feels responsible and goes missing. In the second half of the series, Blue Beet gained the ability to evolve into Super Blue Beet by the command "Metal-Phose!".
• Daisaku Katagiri / G-Stag is a 23-year-old impetuous but nature-loving man. A tree doctor, Daisaku claims to be able to hear trees and plants when they are dying. He was captured along with Rei by the Jamahl during the start of the invasion of Earth. Upon receiving his B-Commander, Daisaku made quick work of Jamar soldiers. He was aquaphobic until he overcame his fear to save his father Daitetsu Katagiri, a fisherman, from a trap laid by the Ebikaania. As the most physically powerful of the B-Fighters, G-Stag's armor is modeled after a stag beetle. G-Stag is strong enough to lift the Jamar soldiers and toss them around like rag dolls.
• Reddle is the third member of the B-Fighters whose armor is modeled after a ladybug.
• * Rei Hayama is a 22-year-old animal instructor at Earth Academia's Aquarium. Captured along with Daisaku at first and receiving her B-Commander at the same time, she demolished the Jamar soldiers before joining forces with Takuya and Daisaku. She eventually left for the South American branch of Earth Academia to do research and help with protecting the wildlife there.
• * Mai Takatori is Rei's successor, a young and cheerful 19-year-old student who was "chosen" by Rei's B-Commander as the next Reddle. Mai has a positive look on life and tries to see the good in everything. She also has a love for Daisaku Katagiri and animals.

  Allies

• Kenzo Mukai is the chief of the Earth Academia's Japanese branch, dedicated to the pursuit of justice. He fell in love with Sayuri, a plant researcher, many years ago, but left her. When they meet again during Rasbelga's attack, Mukai donned a special armor and donned the title of "Mukaider K3" to save her, with attacks like Mukaider Magnum, Mukaider Kick, Mukaider Punch, and Mukaider Feint. He works as a "mentor" for the B-Fighters, usually working at Earth Academia to assist the team by leading research on Jamahl's warriors and developing new weaponry and vehicles for the B-Fighters.
• Sage Guru is the elder of the insect tribe, and looks like a big brown rhinobeetle. He carries a staff with a curled top and was the one who gave the B-Fighters their powers. Guru possesses great mystical power of his own.
• Drago is another insect warrior. Drago lost any memory of his past until his fight with Blue Beet restores it. His powers are dragonfly-based. Once learning who he really was, he helped the B-Fighters defeat Hellsgyra.
• Mercenary Gorgodal is an armored warrior one of Jera's mercenaries who fights the B-Fighters for the money. When Mai scolds him for following Jera and ultimately Jamahl for money, Gorgodal quits and tries to return the money he has been paid. But Gaohm didn't accept this and brainwashes Gorgodal so that he is nothing but a raging monster. Mai tries to talk to him again, but he can barely remember her name. Reddle eventually destroys Gorgodal by using her Saber Magnum. He is given a burial and his grave is marked with his own shuriken.
• Lala is a scientist from the Aroa dimension who falls in love with Takuya.
• Kaori is a ghost called forth by one of Jera's soldiers, who breaks free of his control and helps fight against him.
• Night Biker is originally Kazuma Iwata, a reckless biker. He is put in Jamhal's "Survival School" with Mai who tries to get him and the other captured people out of the School. Kazuma is brainwashed and changed into an evil armored warrior by a machine used by Jera. The control device is in his bike's fairing, and when that was destroyed, Night Biker changed back into back to normal Kazuma.
• Babanba appears first as an old woman in a brown kimono with a brown cloth over her head and a wooden cask on her back. She can suck people inside the cask, which she uses to turn them into pickles for sale to creatures in other dimensions. She later revealed her true form, a demonic creature that can sprout and attack with claws and fangs. Babamba is not truly evil, and although Jera tries to trick her into fighting the B-Fighters, an old man who had befriended her convinces her that she doesn't need to fight anymore. She decides to stay in this dimension with him and shatters her cask freeing the people inside.
• Nero is a so-called bodyguard from another dimension who wears cowboy-like attire. He appears during a fight and offers Jera his services, but in the fight he misses the B-Fighters and escapes back to Jamahl for his pay. Later, he approaches the B-Fighters and claimed that he was just trying to infiltrate Jamahl to take out Gaohm, and if they pay him he would do just that. Mai believes him and scrounges up enough to pay him. Nero is planning to take money from both sides and leave this dimension, when Mai discovers that he has Jamahl money. Jera also appears, having discovered his secret, impales Nero. Meanwhile, Mai had scanned Nero's gun, learning that it was designed to miss. Nero hates war, and never means to kill anyone. He dies after telling Mai to end the fight quickly, because war is a terrible thing.
• Sinbad is a contestant in Jamahl's "Ghost Zone" battle, for which they kidnapped the B-Fighters and sent them to another dimension where they forced them to participate in combat. Daisaku soon learned that Sinbad was infiltrating Jamahl in an attempt to assassinate Gaohm for destroying his homeworld. Gaohm learned of this, however, and sent a resurrected Death Mult to kill Sinbad and the B-Fighters. Realizing that the only way for the B-Fighters to return home was by the explosion caused by Death Mult's demise, Sinbad kamikazed Death Mult and killed them both. Before the B-Fighters became free and left the dimension, Sinbad asked them to defeat Gaohm and the Jamahl.
• Extradimensional Supplier Kabuto is Guru's son who left his father a hundred years ago and has been traveling across the dimensions as a supplier of weapons and equipment. He returns to Earth to visit his mother's grave, bringing the Beet Ingram with him. Very childish and naive, Kabuto often tries to be a hero, only to put himself in danger. He returns at the end of the series to assist the other Metal Heroes in defeating Jagul.
• Saint Papilia is a legendary "butterfly of life" who can grant immortality. She appears when the life on a world has been destroyed. She then revives the world by giving it new life. Saint Papilia already appeared once on Earth, after the Ice Age, and revived the Earth so the life of today could be born and grow. Saint Papilia has also revived Muscle during the course of her existence. Both Gaohm and Black Beet sought Saint Papilia in the hopes of obtaining her gift of eternal life. After defeating Shadow, Takuya was severely wounded and died. Saint Papilia appeared above him and resurrected him, saying that Earth still needed him.
• Muscle is 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 is more of a guest character than a malevolent alien.
• Janperson and Gun Gibson are robotic detective heroes from the 1993 Metal Hero Series Tokusou Robo Janperson. They assisted the B-Fighters in their battle against Jagul at the end of the series.
• Blue SWAT are a trio of special, heavily armed alien-destroying heroes composed of Show Narumi, Sara Misugi, and Sig. They were three main heroes from the 1994 Metal Hero Series Blue SWAT. Sara and Mai were captured by Jagul. Show, Sig, Janperson and Gun Gibson rescued the B-Fighters.

  Arsenal

• B-Commanders are the B-Fighters' transformation and communication devices. The B-Fighters' bio-armor suits are stored in a shrunken form within the B-Commanders. Their transform command is "Juukou!". The B-Commanders later disappear with Guru's death in B-Fighter Kabuto.
• Input Magnums: The Input Magnum is the B-Fighters' sidearm. It has a ten-key pad on the side, and by keying in different combinations of three numbers the gun can fire a variety of different projectiles, although not all of these are used in the show.
• * 110: Beam Mode
• * 119: Fire Extinguishing Mode or Cooling Mode
• * 010: Freezing Mode
• * 818: Flame Mode
• * 964: Flash Mode
• * 108: Ultrasonic Beam
• * 026: Boiling Water Mode
• * 289: Magnetic Beam
• * 305: Torimochi Bullets
• * 264: Flash Bullets
• * 967: Anti-Gravity Beam
• * 049: Rescue Signal
• * 088: Laughing Gas
• * 409: Anesthetic
• * 054: Recovery
• Stinger Weapons are the B-Fighters' signature wrist-mounted weapons.
• * Stinger Blade is Blue Beet's triangular sword-like Stinger Weapon. Its powerful attack is the Beetle Break
• * Stinger Claw is G-Stag's Stinger Weapon, a large yellow pincer-like claw that he can use to crush enemies or grab them. It can also be used as the Stinger Boomerang. Its powerful attack is the Raging Slash.
• * Stinger Plasmar is Reddle's Stinger Weapon. It has an array of 4 red beam emitters that fire powerful beams of red ion energy. Its powerful attack is the Tornado Spark.
• Stinger Drill is an augmented Stinger Weapon used by Blue Beet after a fight with Black Beet damaged the Stinger Blade. A large drill attaches to the wrist-piece of the Stinger Weapon. The front and back halves of the drill rotate in opposite directions, and his attack with it is the Strike Blast, a charging stab that bores a hole through his enemies. It first appeared in episode 21.
• Pulsabers are short swords modeled after a Hercules Beetle with a gold blade which first appeared in episode 22. Used by each of the B-Fighters, they have voice-activated features and can be used with Mega Herakles. With this each fighter can execute the PulSlash, a diagonal slash with the Pulsaber. The Pulsaber can also attach to the top of the Input Magnum to form the Saber Magnum.
• Saber Magnums is a combination of the Input Magnums and Pulsabers. It can fire a powerful beam of energy in the Maxim Beam Mode. The Maxim Boiling Water mode was used in Episode 26 in a finishing strike led by G Stag.
• Beet Ingram is a red and white semi-automatic-like double-barreled gun. Its legend is that it can only be used by a great hero. The top of the Beet Ingram can fold forward and over the barrels so that they are covered by a single barrel with two pincerlike armatures protruding from it. In this mode it can be combined with Blue Beet's Pulsaber by attaching the Pulsaber to the top, to create the Final Mode, whose power reached full potential when wielded by Super Blue Beet for Super Final Blow attack. The Beet Ingram is seen in a flashback in B-Fighter Kabuto episode 35.
• Sonic Flap is the B-Fighters' ultrasonic wave attack.
• Training Robots : Three robot drones built for the B-Fighters to test their arsenal on.
• EIG : Short for Electronic Intense Heat Gun, is an experimental thermal laser that shoots a beam of intense heat. It was once used by the B-Fighters when they needed to disable Ikari Bomber's self-detonation chip to defeat him.