The third show in the "Super Star
God" series, Super Star Fleet Sazer-X began
airing late in 2005 on TV Tokyo Channel 12. The television
show, with its full Japanese title being Super Star
Fleet Sazer-X,
was produced under a large production committee that involved
Toho, Yomiko, General Entertainment and TV Tokyo. Principal
staff from earlier shows in the series once again returned
to the fold, such as special effects director Koichi
Kawakita, while the main directors for the serial
included Ryuichi Ichino, Toshiharu Ikeda, Kenzo Maihara
and Okihiro Yoneda, who directed Rebirth
of Mothra 3 (1998).
The overall plot of the show starts in the year 2500 with
an alien race, simply dubbed the "Space Pirates",
now ruling over a conquered Earth. The invaders first started
their conquest back in 2005, sending a lone warship and
a small fleet. After capturing the twelve Cosmo Capsules,
the aliens forces dramatically increased their ranks, sending
a huge number of Megarion war machines to the Earth's surface.
The ensuing war lasted for 500 years, as the Earth's surface
become charred from the numerous conflicts while the major
cities were quickly decimated, forcing the planet's factors
to move toward underwater locations to conceal themselves.
Without hope for the present Earth, a final offensive with
the planet's resistance's is put into action. Mounting their
attack around a small band of soldiers named Sazer-X, it's
Earth's hope that they might be able to buy them enough
time with a full scale attack so that they can slip into
a briefly appearing wormhole. With a bit of luck, the offensive
is a success as Sazer-X travels into the space disturbance
and is thrust back in time, back to the year 2005 before
the "Space Pirates" began their invasion. Joining
forces with Ando Takuto from that time period, Sazer-X's
mission is to secure the twelve capsules and defend Earth
from the Pirates' attacks.
Roughly 12 episodes into the show, a theatrical movie
on the series went into release called Super
Fleet Sazer-X the Movie: Fight! Soldiers (2005)
that also included characters from the earlier The
Gransazers and The
Justirisers shows.
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