Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers (鎧真伝サムライトルーパー)

Granny, are you here yet?

WISDOM

Don't call me "Granny." It's not—

Not rock 'n' roll, right?

If you get it, then start calling me Yoshie.

Give me a break.

Anyway, what brings you to the city all of a sudden?

There's something I need to tell you, no matter what.

Granny!

Granny, what's wrong?!

Granny!

Did you do this?

Kaito...

You always wanted to be a Samurai Trooper, didn't you?

It's my fault... you weren't picked.

You are one of the chosen.

Kaito, believe in yourself and forge ahead...

Granny!

I know this means a lot to you.

You've got to...

hang on to it...

That monster's in there.

You're a Samurai Trooper too, aren't you?

That thing is mine!

You sure put on one hell of a show.

Ryu!

But you've crossed the line.

Armor.

This time, we settle things for real!

I thought you'd lost the strength you had as a monster.

Do you ever shut up?!

Not half bad.

Now it's my turn to get serious.

Oath of Grace, emissary of Light!

Armor of Light!

Now I'm fired up!

EPISODE II ARMOR

That's...

Armor-Gear?

Isn't that guy—

Keep your head in the fight!

You're in no shape to beat me.

He's gone?!

I'm still here. Just moving too fast for you to see.

Stay put, damn it!

Anti-Magic Bullet!

My eyes!

Where'd he go?!

Right here.

Ryu!

Guess I'm getting old.

THE PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED BECAUSE YOUR DEVICE IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET.

I can't get online.

How am I supposed to read my fortune?

What are you doing?

Wouldn't you like to know?

You look like you're up to no good.

Anyway, things sure have gotten crazy, huh?

Those guys nearly killed you, didn't they?

Yeah.

I can't believe they turned on me like that.

Really?

I wasn't especially surprised.

They talked big, but they were only ever in it for themselves.

Hey! You—

PUNISHMENT APP

Well? How do you like high-voltage current?

You ugly—

Who are you calling ugly, huh?!

Want me to pluck out your eyeballs and replace them

with artificial ones that can see true beauty?

I can't tell who the bad guy is here...

PUNISHMENT APP

Damn it...

Where are we?

Our mobile secret base!

We call it the Fortress Train.

It has cloaking tech, and it can fight back, too!

It's my ultimate masterpiece!

I mean, the demons did wreck HQ.

Yeah, sure did. The commander's got it rough.

Who knows what she'll tell the top brass?

Yesterday's casualties alone reached at least 100,000.

Demon barriers are still preventing contact with the outside world,

so I expect our losses will only continue to mount.

What about those Samurai Troopers?

People are telling me a demon you captured killed them.

Yes, sir. Four of the five weren't recoverable.

What?! This is a disaster!

"Do you realize how much funding I've allocated to the DST?!"

You sound just like him.

What's this? I figured he'd be giving us more trouble.

You could say he's been tamed.

Come again?

I'm told you tried to steal a Weapon-Gear. What do you want it for?

Ow, ow, ow!

Hurry up and tell her.

To become a Samurai Trooper.

And then what? Destroy Japan?

Nothing like that.

I'm going to become a Samurai Trooper and take down my father.

Your father?

My father is Demon Emperor Ramaga.

It would appear that Gai seeks the Samurai Troopers' "Weapon-Gear."

To slay me with, no doubt.

Nezu, retrieve Gai. Dead or alive.

As you wish, sire.

You're the one who turned the prince human.

What's your game?

I act on secret orders from Emperor Ramaga.

Beyond that, I leave you to guess.

He had this thing on top of the CD?

A video tape? Just how analogue is this guy?

I copied the data, just in case,

but is this really going to teach us anything about demons?

INTENSIVE COURSE CONQUERING THE HUMAN WORLD I

The Demon World was born from the accumulated negative emotions of humanity.

Emperor Ramaga channeled that malice into armor to create more powerful demons.

This will be on the test, my prince!

He's laying it all out for us!

They have tests, too?

So, it was your father who made the Demon Soldiers so strong?

And that's not all. He's also the one who crafted the Puppets.

What are those?

Puppets are dead humans revived by imbuing them with the Demon Element.

Any human slain with a Sorcerer Sword becomes a Puppet.

THOSE SLAIN WITH SORCERER SWORDS RISE AGAIN VIA THE DEMON ELEMENT.

ALL SUCH BECOME RED-EYED PUPPETS.

A CREMATORIUM IN SHINJUKU

So even the dead have nowhere to go...

When a human is killed with a Sorcerer Sword,

it takes roughly 24 hours for the animosity to take hold.

The corpse then rises again as a Puppet.

Driven by malice, these red-eyed Puppets destroy everything in sight.

Now, this is the important part.

To these Puppets,

powerful demons such as Emperor Ramaga and we of the Ten Warriors are—

What am I watching?

Some jackass recorded over it.

Yeah, that's a problem with tapes.

Hey!

Over here!

What was that?

I don't know.

All the bodies started moving out of the blue.

Please stay put. I'll deal with it.

Armor!

H-He's...

a Samurai Trooper!

My dad wants to use me as his new body.

He says he can't go all out in the one he's got now.

So he plans to make my body his vessel when I turn fifteen.

I see. But why fifteen?

Beats me.

Because that's the optimal age for a Trooper.