Mahō Sentai Magiranger

is a Japanese Tokusatsu television show and Toei Company's twenty-ninth production of the Super Sentai metaseries. It aired from February 13, 2005, to February 12, 2006, replacing ''Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger'' and was replaced by ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger''. The action footage was used in '' Power Rangers Mystic Force'' and both shows had scenes simultaneously shot in New Zealand. The main themes of this series are courage and love of family. This series was dubbed into Korean under the title ''Power Rangers Magic Force''. It aired as part of TV Asahi's Super Hero Time alongside ''Kamen Rider Hibiki''. This was the very last installment to be produced and broadcast in the 4:3 aspect ratio.

Synopsis

A war between the Infershia and Magitopia had occurred unbeknownst to humans. After being imprisoned within the Earth for fifteen years, the Infershia have returned to get revenge from their imprisonment. When the Infershia attack, five siblings witness their mother change in front of them and she hands them Magi Phones to transform into a magic team. Now endowed with magic powers, these five vow to live up to their family's legacy. They have yet to discover many more family secrets.

Characters

Magirangers

The are a family of mages that initially consisted of five children (three brothers and two sisters) who lived peacefully with their mother, Miyuki, on the assumption that their father died in an expedition in Antarctica. However, the siblings learn their family legacy as they battle against the Infershia after their mother was taken from them.

; : The youngest child of the Ozu Family who is team leader despite being in high school, impulsive yet optimistic and brave. He is able to become the , , deriving his power from , with a proficiency in alchemy and fire magic. Kai bore animosity towards Wolzard for apparently killing Miyuki for most of the series before learning his true identity as Isamu, gradually accepting him while inheriting his techniques and ideals.
; : The second youngest child and middle son of the Ozu Family, the rational second in command despite being laid-back and irresponsible at times. He is able to become the , , deriving his power from , with a proficiency in potion-making and thunder magic.
; : The middle child and youngest daughter of the Ozu Family, a kind-hearted yet strict girl who acts like a surrogate mother to her siblings. She is able to become the , , deriving her power from , with a proficiency in fortune-telling and water magic. Overtime, while being mentored by Hikaru, Urara began to develop feelings for him and eventually married him prior to the series finale.
; : The second oldest child and eldest daughter of the Ozu Family, a somewhat ditzy girl who looks on the bright side of things while sometimes working as a fashion model. She is able to become the , , deriving her power from , with a proficiency in transformations and wind magic.
; : The oldest child of the Ozu Family, who is a father figure to his younger siblings and grows vegetables on his personal "Aniki Farm". He is able to become the , , deriving his power from , with a proficiency in herbology and earth magic. He despite being appearing to overbearing, he is truly the linchpin that keeps his family together.
; : An apprentice of Isamu's whose true identity is , having fought Infershia in the past before he was turned into a frog as a side effect of sealing Raigel before Urara kissed him to break the spell. Assuming his human identity, Hikaru transforms into the gold-colored , , resolving to serve the Ozu siblings as their mentor in magic while settling things with Memmy. Overtime, while ending up learning from them, Hikaru began to develop feelings for Urara and eventually married her prior to the series finale.
; : The Ozu siblings' mother who can become the , , whose power is derived from Snowgel. Following Isamu's disappearance, convincing Magiel to grant her children magic as a precaution, Miyuki concealed the truth of her and her husband fighting Infershia from their children until its forces resume their attack on the surface. Through it appeared Wolzard killed her, which motivated the Magirangers to fight Infershia, he momentary regained his memory as Isamu long enough to teleport her away into the Flower Garden of Souls as light. But Miyuki was then taken captive by Toad until her children rescued her.
; : The Ozu siblings' father, revealed to be Magitopia's champion who was forced to leave his family to seal the Hades Gate with him trapped in Infershia where he is transformed into the violet-colored , . Wolzard battled the Magirangers until he regained his memories and sacrificed himself to seal N Ma into his body, hiding himself away until he was attacked and nearly killed by Dagon, only to be healed by Miyuki. After absorbing Wyvern's flames. Isamu gains the ability to transform into the crimson-colored "Heavenly Hero", .

Allies

; : A young mandrake the Magirangers met when they found their secret headquarters. Despite being in a pot, he can hop around as well as fly. He can even be plucked out of the pot, which, true to his species, will cause him to emit a deafening cry, though the experience comes to him as painful (as seen in Stage 3, when Tsubasa, with headphones on, did so). Mandora Boy will often give advice to the team, particularly Kai, and introduced their individual abilities to them. He is very emotional and easily excited and tends to bicker with Smoky after he and Hikaru moved in.
; : Hikaru's mischievous feline genie who resides in the Magi Lamp, which was found in the cave that was Raigel's tomb. Smoky came into being from the volcano in Flagel's domain on Magitopia, causing trouble for the Magitopians with his pranks until he was inflicted with a curse from opening the Annihilation Box. Sungel saved Smoky by placing him in the Magi Lamp, but the cat is informed that he can't last more than three hours outside the lamp. Smoky can be released from the curse if he grants the wishes of others, but Smoky prefers to grant only one wish to whoever awakens him from his slumber, and only if he is compensated for his services. When the Ozu siblings wished for Infershia to be gone, he denied their request, stating that the power the Infershia wield is greater than his own. He seems to have some limited magical powers as well, such as getting brief glimpses of the future and enlarging himself to help the gang out and by turning food into sand as a prank. Despite being a goof-off, he is a capable fighter and once piloted Travelion (though he usually just shovels the coal). He sees Urara as a mother figures and bickers with Mandora Boy now and then.
; : The manager of Kai's high school soccer team whom he developed a strong crush on despite her falling in love with Magi Red. But Yuka learns of Kai's identity as Magi Red during the events of ''Bride of Infershia'', when abducted by Glúm do Bridon to be his bride. She kept this from Kai as she supports him from afar.

Heavenly Saints

; : The first Heavenly Saint with lunar abilities the Magirangers encounter, an ally of Blagel who acted on his orders to seal Hades Gate with "key magic", keeping it close while she lives. But Lunagel loses her memory after being attacked by Raigel, wandering in a human form that Kai later named before she regaining her memories. Despite her initial thoughts on the Magirangers, she reconsiders after Kai saves her as she returns to Magitopia while helping the Ozu siblings in any way she can.
; : The Heavenly Saint Miyuki derives her power from and former apprentice of the Five Legendary Magicians' pupil, able to unleash one's dormant magic with a person, perform cryokinesis, and assume an infant-like guise. But after the tragedy of Miyuki and Blagel along with Raigel's treachery, Snowgel took refuge in the Marudeyona World called the "Lamentation Sea" formed from her tears. The Magirangers manage to find Snowgel and convince her to aid them acquiring the Legend power. Snowgel later appears to aid in Magirangers' battle against Drake, revealing her true adult form while giving Hikaru an important lesson.
; : The giant-sized leader of the Heavenly Saints who resides in Heavenly Temple, the highest point in Magitopia. At first, she refused to let the Ozu siblings borrow Unigolon due to the fact that Magitopian law dictates that Heavenly Saints are not allowed to intervene in human affairs. Magiel even admitted she frowned on both Blagel's choice to sacrifice himself and Miyuki's intent to learn magic. But after seeing the same courage their parents showed, Magiel allowed them Unigolon's aid and made a later exception on the distribution of the Legendary Magicians' power to the Ozu siblings. When N Ma attacks Magitopia, after failing to stop him, Magiel teleports Lunagel to the human world while seemingly killed by the demon's rampage. But Magiel teleported herself to the Flower Garden of Souls at the last second and remained there during the final battle. A year after N Ma's destruction, Magiel is still getting used to Urara living on the rebuilt Magitopia.

Underground Hades Empire Infershia

The are an underground empire which was ruled by the mysterious N Ma. Fifteen years ago, N Ma created the Hades Gate to send his entire army to Earth, but was stopped by the Heavenly Saint Blagel. N Ma uses his agents to break the seal so he can conquer the surface world. However, over time, some of the Infershians began to realize N Ma's insane obsession of destroying Magitopia and the Ozu Family was reckless due to needless deaths. Once N Ma was destroyed, Hades Goddess Sphinx took over the Infershia to rebuild their world and start anew with Magitopia.

; : The ruler of Infershia and the main antagonist of the series, a Cthulhu-themed demon of pure evil motivated by sheer malice and an uncontrollable hunger to devour everything in sight. His original form is a giant-sized octopus with dragon-headed tentacles. For the first half of the series, N Ma contacted his minions via a white pool at the center of their lair before a purified Blagel sealed the demon's soul in his own body. But Hades Gods extracted N Ma with Titan sacrificed to enable N Ma molding the god's body in his image. Three days after acquiring his new form, , N Ma attacks Magitopia while revealing his ability to absorb all magic. The Magirangers ultimate use the ability against him to cause him to explode from being unable to contain their unlimited magic.
; : The Frankenstein's monster-themed high commander who was previously a High Zobil, armed with the Imperial Sword Hell Fang created from N Ma's fang that he uses in his "Hell Slash" attack. Branken desires to reach the surface world and clashed with Wolzard over it, using the Hades Beasts to systematic slaughter people in hopes one among would be Lungel with her death removing the seal on the Hades Gate. Once Lunagel was found and captured, Branken forced himself through the partially unseal Hades Gate before he is destroyed by Magi King with Wolzard taking his Hell Fang to forge into a replacement sword.
; : The mummy-themed high commander who took over following Branken, armed with an extendable fan. He was originally , Glagel's apprentice who believed magic is a means to grant his own selfish desires. He betrayed his comrades during their battle with Infershia, abandoning Blagel and sealing Lunagel's memories before confronted by Sungel in a battle that ended with them sealed in a cave with Raigel's mummified remains covered by Vancuria. Meemy, seeing himself as N Ma's vassel, uses the Hades Beastmen in schemes to bring N Ma into the human world before succeeding with the Magirangers' Legend powers. But he is killed after engaging Hikaru in Duel Bond match, crumbling to dust while revealing the advent of the Infershia Pantheon.
; : A vampire queen who serves Infershia's spy, adversely unaffected by sunlight and virtually indestructible. She acquired to the ability to travel freely between the surface and Infershia when she developed the ability to split herself into two bodies to over her lonely existence. The two fragmented halves, , are mischievous in personality with Nai appearing 'older sister' since Mea repeats some of words. Eventually, Vancuria joins Sphinx in siding with the Magirangers to stop N Ma.
; : Zombie-like soldiers who wield axes and follow the High Zobil. There are thousands of them in the lair. Underneath their helmets are their repulsive rotting skulls with maggots. In the finale, they are shown with builder hats building the bridge that links the surface world to Infershia.
; : Higher-ranked Zobils who wield either large spear-like staffs or whips and leads the Zobils into battle as a field commander. They can also control some of the Hades Beasts. While they first appeared in Stage 1, they first fought the Rangers in Stage 3, where the one they fought against and was beaten by the Rangers was killed by Branken as punishment for incompetence. Branken was originally a High Zobil himself. Toad occasionally ate High Zobil from a bowl.

Hades Beasts

The are the first wave of monsters to fight the Magirangers, send by Branken to kill humans in hopes that one of their victims is Lunagel, whose death would open the gate.

Hades Beastmen

The are the second wave of monsters to fight the Magirangers, previous humans who sold their souls to N Ma and were more powerful and intelligent than ordinary Hades Beasts. They had been sealed away by Blagel, but were set free by Meemy where they are bond to serve him as commanded by the Dark Contract to sacrifice many humans so that N Ma could be revived.

Infershia Pantheon

The are the antagonists of the second half of the series, composed of ten giant-sized deities residing in the until they were revived upon N Ma's death to deliver on mankind with any interference having grave consequences for both the surface world and Magitopia. The reason for this is because the Hades gods' deaths serve an alternate purpose to provide N Ma with selecting a vessel among the survivors. Each deities follows a self-made code of conduct called the , using the to pick the chosen god to cast divine retribution with a dark aurora heralding their arrival to the surface, assuming a human-size form to carry out the punishment. Should they choose to play games with anyone, they must abide by the rules they made. They are divided into three groups: The , , and the .

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Production

The Mahō Sentai trademark was registered by Toei on May 31, 2004, around 4-month before of trademark for the Magiranger's team name, The Magiranger trademark was registered on September 22, 2004.

Films

Theatrical

Bride of Infershia

: A 2005 film that takes place between Stages 25 and 26.

V-Cinema

*: A 2006 V-Cinema release that takes place between Stages 31 and 32.

*: A 2007 V-Cinema release that takes place between Episodes 42 and 43 of ''GoGo Sentai Boukenger''.

Other Specials

*: A 2005 special DVD.
*: A 2018 Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club-exclusive special.

Cast

*Kai Ozu:
*Tsubasa Ozu:
*Urara Ozu:
*Houka Ozu:
*Makito Ozu:
*Hikaru:
*Miyuki Ozu, Goddess of the Spring (Special DVD):
*Isamu Ozu:
*Yuka Yamazaki:
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*Nai:
*Mea:
*Rin:
*Magiel:

Voice actors

*Mandora Boy, announcer (calls each episode's title):
*Smoky:
*Snowgel:
*Hades Beast Emperor N Ma:
*Absolute God N Ma:
*Branken:
*Vancuria:
*Meemy, Raigel:
*Sleipnir:
*Drake:
*Dagon:
*Sphinx:
*Gorgon:
*Titan:
*Wyvern:
*Toad:
*Cyclops:
*Ifrit:
*Zobil, High Zobil: Katsumi Shiono,
*Narrator, Spell Voice:

Songs

;Opening theme
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**Lyrics: Yūho Iwasato
**Composition: Takafumi Iwasaki
**Arrangement: Seiichi Kyōda
**Artist:

;Ending theme
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**Lyrics: Yūho Iwasato
**Composition: YOFFY
**Arrangement: Psychic Lover & Kenichirō Ōishi
**Artist: Sister MAYO

References

External links

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