Purse Priest

**Purse Priest**(ガマグチ法師 *Gamaguchi hōshi*) is a gamaguchi-based Gorma Kaijin from Episode 2 of Gosei Sentai Dairanger.

He is voiced by **Nobuyuki Hiyama** while his human disguise was played by **Kyoji Kamui**.

## Personality

Purse Priest is shown to be a cowardly fighter as he always relies on his Purse Dunk attack and would run away during battle at any chance he has. However, he is overly-confident of Purse Dunk attack and believes it can’t be outmatched. He can also get easily frustrated and annoyed with his enemies.

## Appearance

Purse Preist has a red upper body with kanji on his chest while having a black legs. He is wear golden arm gloves, gold boots, and, as his name suggest, has a large Gamaguchi purse for a head only one eye shown. Hidden in his purse head is his real, red-colored head, which his shoulder pads are designed after.

## Biography

After the defeat of Baron String, one of the members of Gorma, Zydos, walks through the city carrying a sack. After stopping at a location, Zydos opens up the sack and throws out its content: a Gorma Kaijin named Purse Priest. Later, Shoji is training with his young friend, Kenbo, and they come across a group of men playing basketball. When they lose the ball, Kenbo goes to get it until it flies back to one of the basketball players. The basketball player turns the basketball into a large red head and throws its at Kenbo, trapping his head inside and allowing the basketball player to kidnap him. Shoji chases after them but the basketball player vanishes and Shoji gets ambushed by Purse Priest. Shoji changes into TenmaRanger and faces against Purse Priest, but the Gorma Kaijin uses his Purse Dunk attack and hits TenmaRanger with his flying red heads. TenmaRanger then uses his Gravity Inversion Destruction, but the attack shows no effect against Purse Priest’s Purse Dunk and he ends up getting hit again, allowing Purse Preist to make his escape. As soon as all the Dairanger meet up with Master Kaku, he believes that Purse Priest is intending to perform a demonic sacrifice ritual called Biidoro Boodoro to celebrate Gorma’s return. In order to do so, five sacrifices with pure hearts are required to offer up their lifeblood. Four of the Dairangers look around to find the kids while Master Kaku trains Shouji to fight against Purse Priest’ Purse Dunk. Meanwhile, Purse Priest finds another kid walking through a tunnel and traps his head in another large red head of his. Rin finds Purse Priest running away with the child and tries to chase after them, only to get kidnapped herself. Afterwards, the members of Gorma, Zydos, Shadam, and Gara, arrive at a ship at the dock where the ritual starts to take place at with Rin being used as one of the five sacrifices. Purse Preist, dressed in a black robe and wearing a hockey mask, prepares to begin the ritual by sacrificing Rin upon Gara’s command. Fortunately, Shoji arrives in time and throws one of the Cotpotros’ sword at Purse Priest, knocking him down. Shoji then uses one of the Cotpotro’s swords to free Rin and they help free the captured children by slicing Purse Priest’s red heads off. Shadam, Zydos, and Gara proceed to finish off Shoji and Rin themselves until the others arrive and save them. The three members teleport away so Purse Priest tries to make his escape as well along with the Cotpotros. Shoji and Rin transform into TenmaRanger and HououRanger and they catch up with Purse Priest. They begin fighting the Cotpotro’s with TenmaRanger fighting against Purse Priest. Purse Priest uses his Purse Dunk attack again, but TenmaRanger, using what he learned from Master Kaku’s training, manages to dodge each of the flying red heads and he uses his Revolving Kicks to repeatedly kick Purse Priest at a high speed. Once knocked down, Purse Priest pulls out an Enlargement Bomb and prepares to throw it in order to grow into giant. Fortunately, the Dairangers use their Dairen Rods to trap him and prevent him from pulling the pin and throwing it. The Dairangers then use their Ch’i Power Bomber and launch an energy ball at the trapped Purse Priest, blowing up the Gorma Kaijin.

## Powers/Abilities

**Human Disguise**: Purse Priest can disguise himself as a male basketball player with black hair and wearing a chain necklace, black shorts, long white socks, sneakers, bandages wrapped around the knees and right elbow, and a black tank top with “Boston” written on the front and with the number “4” on the back. He can also turn himself into a man wearing a black robe and a hockey mask while carrying a scythe.

**Purse Dunk**: Purse Priest can throw a large red head at his victims to trap their heads inside. When in his Killing Mode, Purse Priest can shoot the heads out of his purse head when opened up.

**Teleporting**: Purse Priest can teleport away by vanishing into thin air. He mainly uses this ability to misdirect his enemies.

**Mallet**: Purse Priest’s main weapon is a large, red mallet with a long handle.

## Quotes

* *I’m free! I’m free! Purse Priest!*
* *You can never go home.*
* *Purse Priest is here!*
* *Purse Priest Killing Mode! Purse Dunk!*
* *How’s that? Give up?*
* *Adios!*
* *You won’t be going home anymore!*
* *Run away!*
* *Not again!*
* *Stop showing off!*
* *Enough prattling! Bring it on!*
* *I’ll send you to the underworld, TenmaRanger!*
* *You jerk!*
* *No way!*
* *No! I can’t throw it!*
* *Adios!*

## Trivia

* The design for Purse Priest was based on the Gamaguchi wallet Shinohara had at the time. He based it on his wallet when he was looking around his desk, wondering what to do for an inorganic motif.
	+ His Gamaguchi wallet also had a netsuke of the Seven Lucky Gods attached to it, so Shinohara used the image of the Seven Lucky Gods as a motif.
* The title, Hōshi(法師 *Hōshi*), in Purse Priest’s Japanese name can also translate as “Monk”, making one of the alternate translations of his name, **Purse Monk**.
* Purse Priest is one of the examples of a Super Sentai Kaijin who’s giant transformation gets interrupted.