Bag Shadow

**Bag Shadow**(バッグシャドー *Baggushadō*) is an antique Victorian purse bag-based Shadow Kaijin from Episode 1 of Ressha Sentai ToQger.

He is voiced by **Hisao Egawa**.

## Personality

Bag Shadow is a sadistic Shadow Kaijin who enjoys making children cry, but can get easily annoyed and irritated with anyone he comes across.

## Appearance

Bag Shadow is wearing a black robe with over-sized sleeves that hold pearl necklaces around the arms, wrists, and waist, three purse handles around the abdomen, and three eyes on the lower half of the robe. His upper body has a large frog mouth purse clip on top that holds two faces on the clips, one having the appearance of a silver-colored pale face and the other one having the appearance of a bird skull with a black beak and empty eye sockets, and has a large purse handle over the heads. He also has yellow, bird-like, limbs, checkered undergarments, and opened-up purses for the over-sized sleeves.

## Biography

As kids are playing around in the city, they each suddenly get abducted by a black steam train, called a Kuliner, that came out of nowhere. Inside the train, the kidnapped kids are all crying as a Shadow Kaijin, Bag Shadow, is inside the train with them and is encouraging them to cry some more. However, he finds a young man, named Raito, snoring in the train, much to Bag Shadow’s annoyance. Bag Shadow tries to wake him up until the trains from the Rainbow Line, called Ressha, arrive. Bag Shadow uses the Kuliner to fight back against the Ressha but ends up falling over when Raito bumps into him, resulting in the Kuliner stopping at a train track. Bag Shadow heads out to face the ones operating the Ressha, as well as Raito who pushes Bag Shadow out. The Ressha stops at the track as well and four ToQgers come out to fight the Shadow Kaijin. Bag Shadow summons the Kuros and the four ToQgers fight them off. Trying to understand the situation, Raito charges in and tries to fight Bag Shadow only to get kicked away by the Shadow Kaijin. With Raito injured, the four ToQger take him onto the Ressha where he finds out that the four are his childhood friends, Tokatti, Mio, Hikari, and Kagura. Meanwhile, Bag Shadow is contacted by Madame Noir where she wants to know if the station he chose is completed for the Shadow Line or not. He tells her that he already decided on the name of a station he chose and all he has to do now is take the kidnapped children there in order to create a great amount of darkness from their cries. Later, after Raito is told he’s going to be the fifth ToQger by the Conductor of the Rainbow Line and his right hand man, Ticket, they come across Bag Shadow’s Kuliner again and Raito jumps on board to save the kids. He confronts Bag Shadow inside the Kuliner only to get kicked around by the Shadow Kaijin. The others join up with Raito where he manages to gather another strength to punch Bag Shadow out of the Kuliner, causing it to stop. The ToQger get the kids out of the Kuliner and face Bag Shadow, who summons the Kuros again. Once Raito is given his own ToQ Changer, the five prepare to transform where a white line is created to keep Bag Shadow and the Kuros at bay. The five then transform with Raito as ToQ 1gou, Tokatti as ToQ 2gou, Mio as ToQ 3gou, Hilari as ToQ 4gou, and Kagura as ToQ 5gou. The ToQgers fight off the Kuros with their weapons and their ability to swap colors with each other, which confuses Bag Shadow. Raito, while in the color green, fights Bag Shadow until he knocks him down. The ToQgers then have their colors swapped back to normal and follow Ticket’s instructions to form their weapons together into the Renketsu Bazooka. Using his imagination, Raito uses the Rainbow Rush attack and fires the bullet train at Bag Shadow. Once Bag Shadow is struck by the bullet train, it turns into a statue of a crying kid in his hands and suddenly a bunch of other statues appear right on top of him. Overwhelmed by the weight, Bag Shadow collapses and all the statues fall over and crush him, blowing him up in the process. However, all the darkness Bag Shadow collected from the children crying is suddenly absorbed into his body and he revives as a giant rising out of his flames. Upon Ticket’s instructions, the ToQgers board into the Express Ressha and they combine them together into ToQ-Oh. ToQ-Oh approaches Bag Shadow while still on the tracks as the Shadow Kaijin shoots ammo at the giant robot with his staff. After laying some blows on Bag Shadow with the Railway Crossing Sword, the ToQger decide to finish the fight right away and use Ressha Slash to lay the final blow on Bag Shadow with the Railway Crossing Sword, resulting in him blowing up.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Super Strength**: Bag Shadow has enough strength to kick his enemies with enough force to send them crashing back.

* **Gamaguchi Rod**: Bag Shadow’s main weapon is a black rod with a bronze gamaguchi purse on top that holds spikes on top.
	+ **Extendable Rod**: Bag Shadow’s Gamaguchi Rod can extend outwards to hit distance enemies
	+ **Rod Cannons**: Bag Shadow can shoot ammunition from the tips of the spikes on his Gamaguchi Rod.

* **High Jumping**: Bag Shadow is able to jump up high at an extraordinary height.

## Trivia

* Shinohara decided to use a bag as the motif for Bag Shadow because it was decided that the monster in the first episode will be one who kidnaps children.
	+ The bag motif is based on the image of a kidnapper stuffing a child into a bag.
* Shinohara gave Bag Shadow two heads because a two headed Kaijin was wanted for the show at some point.