Ronin Warriors: The Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers

Ronin Warriors: The Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー, Yoroiden Samurai Torūpā), is a Canadian-Japanese anime series, produced by Discotek Media and Viz Media, animation provided through Sunrise, based on the Japanese anime series of the same name by Hajime Yatate and is a revival and reboot of the 1988 anime series of the same name. It will be directed by Gorō Taniguchi and will air on Adult Swim’s Toonami in the USA and TV Asahi in Japan. The series revolves around five teenage boys; Ryo Sanada, Sage Date, Cye Mouri, Kento Rei Fang, and Rowen Hashiba. Ronin Warriors also features many recurring characters. The series will become infamous for the fantasy violence that satirizes a large range of subject matter. A manga adaptation was serialized on Kodansha in Japan and Viz Media in the USA and the cha
pters collected into 2 tankōbon volumes.
== Ideal Plot ==
A millennium ago, a demon named Talpa conquered The Mortal World. His reign of terror went unopposed until the appearance of a warrior mage and his loyal white tiger. This warrior defeated Talpa and saved The Mortal World from doom. But the mage knew that an evil power like Talpa's could not truly be destroyed, thus he split the remains of Talpa's evil armor into nine separate armors. Imbuing each with a special virtue, the mage gave them to nine families for safekeeping. Six hundred years later, the defeated and exiled Talpa returned and began to search for the armors. He tracked down four with their current owners, weak men with weak hearts and a lust for power that made them perfect for Talpa to manipulate. He recruited these young men into his army, transforming them into his Dark Warlords of the Netherworld. In the 20th century, Talpa gains more and more power and enters The Mortal World to conquer it once more. But all is not lost. The owners of the five remaining armors have returned with their powers and are ready to unite against Talpa and his minions. The only problem is they can't remember how to use all of their powers. Can the Ronin Warriors master their skills in time to free humanity from the evil Emperor Talpa?
== Characters ==
=== Main Characters / Protagonists ===
* Ryo Sanada - The main protagonist of the series and the leader of the Ronin Warriors. He is known as Ryo of the Wildfire (Rekka no Ryo in the Japanese version). Ryo is the warrior of fire. He is also the holder of the legendary White Armor of Inferno (the Kikoutei in the Japanese version). His favorite color is red and he can control fire power after being trained by the Ancient One. His ability to breathe fire and shoot fireballs from his hands. Ryo is short-tempered and aggressive due to his firepower using energy to let out his rage. His mind is a mishap involving predatory mammals like tigers and wolves.
* Sage (Seiji Date) - The one of the main characters of the series. He is known as Sage of the Halo (Korin no Seiji). Sage is a warrior of light. His favorite color is green and he can control lightning power after being trained by the Ancient One. Sage is the fastest member of a team due to his lightning power using energy and his speed at about 100mph. He is also an aloof and mature member of the team. His mind is a mishap involving eastern dragons. His poker card motif is Spades ♠️.
* Cyrus "Cye" (Shin Mouri) - The one of the main characters of the series. He is also known as Cyrus of the Torrent (Suiko no Shin). Cye is a warrior of water. He is the bearer of The Armor of Torrent. His favorite color is cyan (light blue) and he can control water power after being trained by the Ancient One. Cye has a very polite and gentle personality, and he is very considerate of others. His ability to swim and never drown to breathe underwater. His mind is a mishap involving killer whales and other marine creatures. His poker card motif is Hearts ♥️.
* Kento (Shu Rei Fang) - The one of the main characters of the series and arguably the strongest member of the Ronin Warriors. He is also known as Kento of Hardrock (Kongo no Shu). Kento is a warrior of earth. His favorite color is orange and he can control earth power after being trained by the Ancient One. His ability to break stones and dig through dirt with his claws to burrow into the ground. His mind is a mishap involving gorillas, bulls, or bears. His poker card motif is Clubs ♣️.
* Rowen (Touma Hashiba) - The one of the main characters of the series and a the intellectual one of the five Ronin Warriors. He is also known as Rowen of the Strata (Tenku no Toma). Rowen is a warrior of wind. His favorite color is blue and he can control wind power after being trained by the Ancient One. His ability to fly and use sonic blast due to his wind using energy. His mind is a mishap involving birds of prey like eagles, hawks, and falcons. His poker card motif is Diamonds ♦️.
=== Antagonists ===
* Emperor Talpa (Arago) - The main antagonist of the series. He was defeated by the Ancient One during his first attempt to conquer Earth a thousand years earlier. Talpa's spirit was banished to the Nether Realm while his armor remained on Earth. Since the armor could not be destroyed, the Ancient One split it apart into nine separate armors with their own powers and virtues. Talpa re-acquired four of them, Cruelty, Corruption, Illusion, and Venom, and gave them to four humans who became his Dark Warlords.
* Anubis (Shuten Douji) - Previously the leader of the five Dark Warlords at the beginning of the series. Four hundred years ago, he was a warrior named Toshitada Koma (狛 俊忠, Koma Toshitada), whose ambition and blood-lust made him susceptible to Talpa's influence. Anubis wears the Armor of Cruelty, also known as the Armor of the Ogre - Bear (貴力, Riki, lit. '"Noble Power"), which represents Transition. Its guiding virtue is Chū (忠, Loyalty). In his curse, he becomes an ogre (oni) in his true form. Unfortunately, lost his powers due to his members being defeated by the Ronin Warriors. Now he has to figure out what to do without his abilities. Anubis is an evil counterpart of Ryo Sanada.
* Sekhemt (Naaza) - The second Warlord to fight the Warriors. He has pale skin, purple eyelids, and beady black eyes. He is the main opponent of Cyrus Mouri. His armor is the Armor of the Venom/the Snake (薬師, Yakushi, lit. Doctor in archaic Japanese), which represents Autumn and the guiding virtue Tei (梯, Obedience). In his curse, he becomes a giant naga in his true form. In his animal form, he becomes a snake. He died at the end of Season 1 due to an enemy attack.
* Cale (Anubis) - The third Warlord to fight the Warriors. He has powers over darkness. He primarily fights Sage of the Halo, who controls light. His armor of Darkness-Corruption/the Jackal (漆黒, Shikoku, lit. "Jet-Black") represents Winter and the guiding virtue Kou (考, filial piety). In his curse, he becomes a werejackal in his true form. In his animal form, he becomes a jackal. He died at the end of Season 1 due to an enemy attack.
* Dais (Rajura) - The oldest of the Five Dark Warlords and the fourth Warlord to confront the Warriors. His main opponent is Kento Rei Faun. Dais was the first of the Warlords to confront Anubis when he re-emerged. Anubis tried to sway Dais from evil, but Dais stayed with the Dynasty until Talpa was destroyed for good. His Armor of Illusion/the Spider (夢幻, Mugen, lit. Infinity) represents Summer and the guiding virtue Nin (忍, lit. "to endure"). In his curse, he becomes a drider in his true form. In his animal form, he becomes a tarantula. He died at the end of Season 1 due to an enemy attack.
* Horus (Tengu) - The youngest of the Five Dark Warlords and the fifth Warlord to confront the Warriors. He is an evil counterpart of Rowen Hashiba. His Armor of Storm/the Vulture (台風, Taifū, lit. Hurricane) represents Spring and the guiding virtue Inochi (命, lit. "life"). In his curse, he becomes a harpy in his true form. In his animal form, he becomes a vulture. He died at the end of Season 1 due to an enemy attack.
* Lady Kayura - The last known member of the Ancient One's clan. For this reason, she was abducted from her home by the Dynasty at a young age. Talpa kept Kayura under his control with a magical amulet worn around her neck and raised her to be his ultimate weapon against the Ronin Warriors. In her first appearance, she battled Ryo and Rowen while the others were captured by the Dynasty. The Warriors were no match for her until Anubis appeared and summoned the Inferno Armor. Ryo and Rowen faced her several times during their quest through the Nether Realm, and were always at a disadvantage unless they could use the other Warlords' armors to summon the Inferno.
=== Allies ===
* Anna (Akane Sanada) - Ryo's younger sister by two years and a love interest. She has a nice and kind-hearted personality.
* The Ancient One (Chaos) - A powerful mystic and warrior who defeated Talpa during the Warring States period and banished him to the Nether Realm. He created the nine mythical armors from Talpa's discarded armor. He acts as the Ronin Warriors' mentor during their battle with Talpa. He also helped Anubis defect from Talpa by showing him how Talpa regarded him as a tool.
* Mia Koji (Násti Yagyu) - A major in ancient legends at Shinsha University. She uses her knowledge of the legends to help the Ronin Warriors defeat the dynasty. Her grandfather was possessed by a nether spirit and died.
* Ully (Jun Yamano) - A young child who helps the Ronin Warriors fight the dynasty. He uses the Jewel of Life to defeat Talpa, and photographs Sekmet to see how many arms he really has. He has two, he just moves them really fast to make it look like he has six. He is also used for comic relief sometimes.
* White Blaze (Byakuen) - A large white tiger as Ryo's pet. He's really cool, and more powerful than you would think. He saves Ully in a lot of situations, and likes to kill lots of Dynasty soldiers at once. He is usually the first one to attack.
== Casts ==
=== Main Casts ===
Character 	Seiyuu 	English VA
Ryo Sanada 	Takeshi Kusao 	Matt Hill
Sage (Seiji Date) 	Mamoru Miyano 	Kirby Morrow
Cyrus (Shin Mouri) 	Nozomu Sasaki 	Sam Vincent
Kento (Shu Rei Fang) 	Tomokazu Seki 	Andrew Francis
Rowen (Touma Hashiba)	Hikaru Midorikawa	Mark Hildreth
=== Supporting Casts ===
Character 	Seiyuu 	English VA
Anna (Akane Sanada) 	Miyuki Sawashiro	Tabitha St. Germain
Anubis (Shuten Douji) 	Toshihiko Seki 	Brian Dobson
Sekhemt (Naaza) 	Akira Ishida 	Brian Drummond
Cale (Anubis) 	Tomokazu Sugita 	Scott McNeil
Dais (Rajura) 	Ryōtarō Okiayu 	Michael Adamthwaite
Horus (Tengu) 	Kazuhiko Inoue 	Ted Cole
Lady Kayura 	Ryō Hirohashi 	Nicole Oliver
Mia Koji (Násti Yagyu) 	Hōko Kuwashima 	Kelly Sheridan
Ully (Jun Yamano) 	Minami Takayama 	Cathy Weseluck
The Ancient One (Chaos)	Norio Wakamoto 	David Kaye
Emperor Talpa (Arago) 	Shigeru Chiba 	Richard Newman
=== Additional voices ===
==== Japanese ====
* Masumi Asano
* Shigeru Chiba
* Jun Fukushima
* Jun Fukuyama
* Issei Futamata
* Wataru Hatano
* Ryo Horikawa
* Yui Horie
* Sōichirō Hoshi
* Akira Ishida
* Hideo Ishikawa
* Yūki Kaji
* Akira Kamiya
* Masako Katsuki
* Ryōhei Kimura
* Katsuyuki Konishi
* Jūrōta Kosugi
* Rie Kugimiya
* Lynn
* Yasunori Matsumoto
* Shin-ichiro Miki
* Masakazu Morita
* Shigeru Nakahara
* Tomomichi Nishimura
* Romi Park
* Chiwa Saito
* Soma Saito
* Daisuke Sakaguchi
* Chika Sakamoto
* Wataru Takagi
* Minami Takayama
* Kumiko Watanabe
* Kappei Yamaguchi
* Daiki Yamashita
* Kazuki Yao
==== English ====
* Alistair Abell
* Michael Adamthwaite
* Ashleigh Ball
* Kathleen Barr
* Lisa Ann Beley
* Nicole Bouma
* Don Brown
* Shannon Chan-Kent
* Garry Chalk
* Ian James Corlett
* Richard Ian Cox
* Trevor Devall
* Brian Dobson
* Michael Dobson
* Paul Dobson
* Brian Drummond
* Tabitha St. Germain
* Mark Gibbon
* Saffron Henderson
* Janyse Jaud
* Alessandro Juliani
* David Kaye
* Peter Kelamis
* Scott McNeil
* Kelly Metzger
* Jillian Michaels
* Brent Miller
* Richard Newman
* Nicole Oliver
* Kelly Sheridan
* Chantal Strand
* Brad Swaile
* Venus Terzo
* Lee Tockar
* Vincent Tong
* Cathy Weseluck
* Chiara Zanni
== Episodes ==
=== Main article: List of Ronin Warriors: The Legendary Armor Samurai Troopers episodes ===
Seasons	Episodes	Originally aired	Originally aired
Seasons	Episodes	First aired 	Last aired
1 	25 	August 13, 2016 	January 28, 2017
2 	25 	 	
3 	25 	 	
4 	25 	 	
5 	25 	 	
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=== Development ===
=== Writing ===
=== Casting ===
=== Animation ===
=== Post-production ===
== Reception ==
== Films ==
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== Toys and merchandise ==
== Cultural references ==
=== Cameos ===
== Development ==
Discotek Media and Viz Media in America and Sunrise in Japan have team-up to develop a reboot series with author Hajime Yatate and Gorō Taniguchi creator of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion as executive producers and showrunners with order for more than 50 episodes, Matt Hill will reprise his role as Ryo Sanada, Ian James Corlett as Sage Date, Samuel Vincent as Cye Mouri under the character’s new name Cyrus Mouri, Andrew Francis will voice Kento Rei Fang in the OVA miniseries will reprise that role for the new series, Mark Hildreth as Rowen Hashiba, Tabitha St. Germain as Anna Sanada to be Ryo’s younger sister and a new character of the series, Paul Dobson reprising his role as Anubis, Brian Drummond as Sekhmet, Scott McNeil as Cale in episode 31 - 35 will reprise that role for the new series, Michael Adamthwaite as Dais, Ted Cole as Horus to be a fifth Warlord and a new character, Nicole Oliver as Lady Kayura, Kelly Sheridan as Mia Koji, Cathy Weseluck as Ully Yamano, David Kaye reprising his role as The Ancient One, and Richard Newman as Talpa. Adult Swim had acquired the show along Sailor Moon Orion and Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac given their history with the original shows airing on the networks' programming block Toonami.
== Gallery ==
== Trivia ==
* In every episode of the series and the OVAs, his first name is pronounced by other characters, calling him “Rye-oh” instead of its proper “Ree-oh”.
* In English dub of the series, Ryo’s guiding virtue is Benevolence (仁 Jin), and Sage’s is Courtesy (礼 Rei) instead of Wisdom (智 Chi), and Rowen’s is Wisdom (智 Chi) instead of Life (命 Inochi). For the Dark Warlords, both Sekhmet and Cale can switch their guiding virtues and Dais’ is Endurance (忍 Nin) instead of Serenity (靜 Shizu), Horus will use it.
* All ten warriors are martial artists.
* All ten warriors have supernatural abilities, including elemental powers, natural weapons, movements, and fixed forms.
* Ryo can breathe fire similar to Natsu Dragneel in Fairy Tail.
* Five Ronin Warriors transform into demons when they’re using demon crystals resembling the Nerdlucks “Monstar” versions in the 1996 film “Space Jam”. Also turn into different elemental dragons after using dragon stones, and Kajiu too.
* Like the Warlord Kale, Ryo turns into a werewolf when he sees the light of a full moon after he gets bitten by a wolf in every single episode similar to how Saiyans in Dragon Ball franchise turn into giant rampaging monkeys.
* Cye's first name changes to Cyrus Mouri.
* New Characters: Anna Sanada, a younger sister and love interest of Ryo, and Horus is a fifth of the five Dark Warlords that is a vulture demon and an evil counterpart of Rowen Hashiba.
* Five Dark Warlords have true forms, such as an ogre/oni, a naga/orochi, a werewolf/fenrir, a drider/tsuchigumo, and a harpy.
* Takeshi Kusao in Japanese and Matt Hill in English reprising that role as Ryo Sanada.
* Mamoru Miyano in Japanese and Kirby Morrow in English will voice Sage (Seiji Date), replacing Daiki Nakamura and Matt Smith.
* Nozomu Sasaki reprising his role as Shin Mouri in Japanese. In English dub, Samuel Vincent will voice Cyrus Mouri, replacing Michael Donovan.
* Tomokazu Seki will voice Shu Rei Fuan in Japanese, replacing Tomohiro Nishimura. In English dub, Andrew Francis reprising his role as Kento Rei Fang in the OVAs.
* Hikaru Midorikawa in Japanese and Mark Hildreth in English will voice Rowen (Touma Hashiba), both voiced Heero Yuy from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, replacing Hiroshi Takemura and Ward Perry.
* Toshihiko Seki in Japanese and Brian Dobson in English will voice Anubis (Shuten Douji), replacing Kiyoyuki Yanada and Paul Dobson.
* Akira Ishida in Japanese and Brian Drummond in English will voice Sekhemt (Nahza), replacing Issei Futamata and Ward Perry.
* Tomokazu Sugita in Japanese and Scott McNeil in English will voice Cale (Anubis), replacing Yasunori Matsumoto and Richard Newman.
* Ryōtarō Okiayu in Japanese and Michael Adamthwaite in English will voice Dais (Rajura), replacing Jūrōta Kosugi and Matt Smith.
* Ryo Hirohashi in Japanese and Nicole Oliver in English will voice Lady Kayura, replacing Masako Katsuki and Jane Perry.
* Hōko Kuwashima in Japanese and Kelly Sheridan in English will voice Mia Koji (Násti Yagyu), both voiced Sango from InuYasha, replacing Kaori Kusakabe and Maggie Blue O'Hara.
* Minami Takayama in Japanese and Cathy Weseluck in English will voice Ully (Jun Yamano), replacing Kumiko Watanabe and Danny McKinnon.
* Norio Wakamoto in Japanese and David Kaye In English reprising that role as The Ancient One (Chaos).
* Shigeru Chiba in Japanese and Richard Newman in English as Emperor Talpa (Arago), replacing Shigezō Sasaoka and Mina E. Mina.
* In English dub, Ryo's voice actor Matt Hill and Cyrus' Samuel Vincent both worked together on Mobile Suit Gundam SEED as Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala.
* Five-Man Band Concert: The Ronin Warriors form a band in the video for "Touchdown to Tomorrow". They're also credited with a number of other songs associated with the franchise; Ryo, The Leader and a main protagonist, is the lead singer and the only one with an In-Universe musical career. Sage, The Lancer, is the backing vocalist and plays a bass. Rowen, The Smart Guy, plays an electric guitar. Kento, The Big Guy, plays the drums. And Cyrus, The Heart, is playing a keyboard.
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