We’re at the exact halfway point! Just 19 episodes to go.

These episodes introduce Akira’s new assistant, Rui. She is played by Matsui Yuka, who is relatively unknown to the Tokusatsu scene. Her only Toku role is this. After this, she went on to do some variety shows and gravure shoots. She was also a race queen on the Formula Nippon Le Mans team, but she hasn’t done much otherwise.

Episodes 17 and 18 are a 2-parter. They herald the return of Kuroiwa, and the introduction of another disguised Darkzeid monster. Strangely, episode 17 was the lowest-rated episode of this show, with 2.1% viewership!

Episode 19 is an episode that covers some backstory on Rui, and it’s pretty decent.

Episode 20 is the season-requisite clipshow. It’s pretty standard and entirely skippable, but it does have the best worst English opening theme.

TRIVIA:

Katagiri Kazuki is played by Tokusatsu veteran Hirose Yutaka, whose roles encompass Sentai, Rider, and Metal Hero. He is best known for his roles in Super Sentai, most notably as Ley in Flashman, Doctor Kemp in Liveman, Emperor Tranza in Jetman, and Demon Boxer Jin in Dairanger. He is another favorite actor of Inoue’s.

I’d also like to make a special shout-out to the Flurbdini Church of Toku for their article about the first 5 episodes of Changerion.

Download the episodes at the Releases Page!

UPDATE 4/22/17: FortMax informed me of an issue in episodes 18-20 where fonts were not muxed with the video files, causing the title sequence to appear wrong. The original files have been removed from the Mega folder, and the torrent has been replaced with a new one with the fixed files. If you would like to seed it, get the updated episodes from Mega and seed using those. Additionally, I have a patch you can use if you have the original files. To use it, unzip the archive, then drag-and-drop the original video files onto the included .bat file.

EXCUSES TIME:

Yeah, it’s been over a month since the last release. Keep in mind that both the translator and I are in college. We do this out of our own free time, and we both had exams to deal with. But we’ll be bringing you more Changerion very soon! So for now, enjoy these 4 episodes.

TRIVIA:

This show is credited with two designers. Character design was done by Shinohara Tamotsu, and the Super-Light Knights are credited to Submarine. Shinohara is known for a lot of creature design in the Metal Hero series from Metalder onward and the Super Sentai series from Turboranger onward. Additionally, he designed the Tactical Suits in Tekkoki Mikazuki, and most recently, some mechanical design for Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans. He made a website featuring all of his original drawings and designs for Changerion a few years back, which can be seen here. Submarine can be mainly credited with mechanical design for Space Runaway Ideon and the 1979 Cyborg 009 series.

Head over to the Releases Page to download the episodes!