Hikaru Sakimori / Zone Fighter
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- For the 1973 television series, see Zone Fighter (Series).
Zone Fighter (ゾーンファイター Zōn Faitā), real name Hikaru Sakimori (防人 光 Sakimori Hikaru), is a seijin created by Toho that first appeared in the 1973 tokusatsu kaiju series, Zone Fighter.
Design
Zone Fighter has a silver humanoid face, with yellow eyes and a silver antenna protruding from his forehead. His body is mostly silver except for a blue triangular pattern on his upper chest, two red lighting bolts across his body, and a large multi-colored belt buckle-like object on his lower body. This buckle indicates how much power Zone Fighter has, and ranges from blue when at full power, to yellow when his power is draining, and finally to a deep yellow-red which indicates that he has only 110 seconds before he is forced back into human form.[1] His legs and arms are blue and his gloves are silver. The outer parts of his boots are green and the inner parts are red.
History
Zone Fighter
Hikaru Sakimori and his family are natives of the planet Peaceland which became under attack by the beings of a neighboring planet, Garoga. The planet was ultimately seized and destroyed, forcing the Zone Family to flee to Earth. The Garogas, wanting only for Hikaru's death, followed the family to Earth and began plotting its subjugation. Hikaru and his siblings possess the ability to transform into the superheroes known as Zone Fighter, Zone Angel, and Zone Junior. However, Hikaru is the only one of the three who is also able to grow to giant size. The Garogas often deploy giant monsters to terrorize Earth and therefore Hikaru's aforementioned ability makes him the only eligible combatant. By day Hikaru is a test driver for a car manufacturer[1], but harbors only contempt for the Garogas, battling against them to protect his new home planet.
Abilities
Physical Ability
Zone Fighter's strength is on par, or equal, to that of most Terro-Beasts.
Flight
Zone Fighter can achieve flight in the same manner that Jet Jaguar can, by raising his arms in a 'Y' shape and levitating off the ground. He flies at the average speed of a jet (around 300 mph).
Teleportation
In human form, Zone Fighter is able to teleport through a broadcast from a TV set, and arrive at the location displayed in his giant form. When entering the TV, he shouts, "Astro Dash!".
Meteor Missile Might
Zone Fighter is capable of unleashing barrages of missiles called the Meteor Missiles from summonable, wrist-bound gauntlets that are strong enough to destroy most Terror-Beasts. This is one of Zone Fighter's strongest attacks, as it is used as his finishing move quite often.
Double Anti-Missile Might
After his first battle against Super Jikiro, Hikaru was surgically implanted with pieces of the Terror-Beast to upgrade his gauntlets to counter its Anti-Missile Might technology.
Meteor Proton Beam
Zone Fighter can fire the Proton Beam from the antennae on top of his head. The Proton Beam uses much of Zone's energy. It can destroy some Terror-Beasts in one shot, however Jellar was able to take several shots of the beam without suffering any ill effects.
Meteor Freezer
Zone Fighter can spray a freezing mist capable of killing weakened opponents.
Meteor Punch
Zone Fighter can perform an Meteor Punch where his fists speed up into a blinding fury.
Meteor Kick
Zone Fighter can use a variety of super-charged kicking attacks.
Meteor Meteorite Collapse
Zone Fighter confuses the opponent with multiple jumps, then leaps over then and punches them in the back.
Meteor Windmill
Taking to the sky, Zone Fighter loops in the air multiple times, building up speed, before ramming the opponent.
Barriers
Zone Barrier
Zone Fighter wraps his entire body in a red energy barrier for protection.
Meteor Zone Barrier
Zone Fighter can create a wall of energy to block varying degrees of projectile attacks.
Meteor Reflection Barrier
Tracing the outline of a traditional shield, Zone Fighter can create a barrier that can catch and deflect a Terror-Beast's energy beams.
Meteor Static Power
By rubbing an object rapidly against his body, Zone Fighter can charge them with deadly amounts of electricity.
Meteor Proton Cut
Zone Fighter can release a series of shocking energy waves to paralyse nearby opponents.
Meteor Slice Shot
A stream of arrow beams from his hands. Weak in power, they are capable of removing a Terror-Beast's limbs. They can be fired from one or both hands, or a larger variant that can decapitate a Terror-Beast.
Meteor Zone Slice
Zone Fighter can fire a golden energy arrow from each hand after charging energy from his shoulders.
Meteor Jet
Zone Fighter can charge himself with energy to move at incredible speeds for a short burst.
Gallery
- Main article: Zone Fighter/Gallery.
Trivia
- An interview with Shunsuke Fujita revealed that at one point, Zone Fighter was considered for an appearance in the 2014 PlayStation 3 and 4 video game, Godzilla.
- Zone Fighter is Toho's second tallest tokusatsu hero, surpassed only by Megaloman.
- Zone Fighter's suit actor was Tatsumi Nikamoto, who also played the Red Garoga, in addition to Ultraman Leo from the show of the same name, the various Zensei Majin from Warrior of Light Diamond Eye, Titanosaurus from Terror of Mechagodzilla, and countless other tokusatsu roles.
External Links
- Zone Fighter on Tokupedia
References
This is a list of references for Zone Fighter. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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