Freedom Squadron: Liberanger

Freedom Squadron: Liberanger

*"You can never have too many rangers!"*

- Wolfie during each roll call.

**Freedom Squadron: Liberanger** is upcoming 10th installment of Super Animal Squadron. It will serve as a spiritual successor to Uchu Sentai: Kyuranger (Whose mecha, but not ranger suits, are getting adapted into Power Rangers Cosmic Fury) in that it will have a core team of nine rangers, but each ranger will take on a motif based upon a past series.

## Production

The idea for the tenth installment being themed around space had been considered as early as 2020 during the run of Prehistoric Squadron: Saurusger. At this time, it was uncertain of Kyuranger would get adapted into Power Rangers. During this time, it was considered for it to be two teams with one team consisting of the colors Black, Gold, Silver, Orange, and White and would be a veteran team, while the other would have the colors Red, Blue, Green, Pink, and Yellow and would be a rookie team. Hosbrai and Kitty-Puter were characters who existed this early in development. By 2021 however, it was decided that series 10 would be an adaption of Kyuranger, using the suits, mecha, and villains mixed with original characters, and would have been called Galactic Squadron: Novaranger (As a reference to Jason Bischoff's idea for a Kyuranger adaptation, Power Rangers Supernova. The suited characters from Kyuranger all would have had their designs be carried over to their counterparts while the seven rangers played by face actors would all have counterparts that were anthro versions of their respective animal. The counterparts of Koguma Skyblue and Houou Soldier were set to be female, the former of which was carried over to Liberanger. In 2022, when Power Rangers Cosmic Fury was announced to be using the mecha and villain suits from Kyuranger, but would use original ranger suits, Novaranger was canceled as a result that Kyuranger was now deemed unadaptable for Super Animal Squadron. It was later announced that Series 10 would be a spiritual successor of Kyuranger, with the original ally and villain characters getting carried over, called Freedom Squadron: Liberanger.

Upon finding out that Cosmic Fury was only going to be 10 episodes long, Eli J. Brown had wondered if he could have had Series 10 be a sequel to Cosmic Fury, with a Super Animal Squadron team using the actual suits from Kyuranger, but would either pilot the original Cosmic Zords or proxies of them (as the originals were destroyed by the end of the season). This however would create a few problems as the remaining 35 episodes of Kyuranger, along with the specials that went unadapted, would not provide very much for a series that was meant to run for 40-46 episodes. Since Liberanger had already been planned for sometime following Cosmic Fury's announcement, it was decided to stick with doing that series.

It is also worth noting that Novaranger was the final time that seasons of Super Animal Squadron adapting full seasons of Super Sentai were ever considered and would never be revisited again. Meaning that Super Animal Squadron would do original stories for however long it continued to last with only a few elements of Super Sentai getting implemented. Doing original series also leaves more creative freedom open, as if it was adapting Super Sentai, it would have some restrictions.

## Storyline

After being imprisoned for millions of years, the most feared criminal in the galaxy, Hosbrai, manages to escape and begin his conquest of conquering the universe. It is up to the Liberangers to put a stop to his evil plan.

## Characters

### Allies

* Kitty-Puter
* Jake Barkley & Justin Monkeyson
* Professor Anton Weaselstein
* Seth Snowfox
* DJ Macaw
* Veloci Rocker

### Villains

* Hosbrai
* Octavias
* Manager Cnidarius
* Hailey Heelcrusher
* General Lizardo
* Arghacher
* Punkacle
* Footsoldiers
	+ Clockwork Drones
	+ Neondions
* Hosbradrones (Mecha)

### Invention

* Otamanote
* Libre Star Randomizer

### Monsters

* Skeletosaurus
* Coalkeeper
* Pill Pharmacist
* Lupinsune
* Hogtruck
* Telesheep
* Aquadeer
* Venomphibian
* Screamsickle
* Beak Buster
* Birthglar
* Illiemenator
* Liberangers Meet the Qittaswell Sisters:
	+ Jarhead
* Dr. Crab
* Snot-Dog
* Mr. Tater
* Goldslotter
* Arcadian
* Legoman
* Timepiece
* Mary Bee
* Lightning Zapper
* Sing with The Liberangers:
	+ Arachno-Wolfette
	+ Arachnerella
* Roller Saber
* Psychatail
* Dino-Crow
* Man-Chair
* Liberanger Vs. Draconighter:
	+ Securitron
	+ Busini
* Frostee Bomber
* Milkpion
* Soily Potter
* Toxifly
* Satellite Fright
* Facial Creep
* Blighted Mirror
* Hackwrym
* Flamingo Fencer
* Dolphring
* Mr. Cadobbit
* Bloopregard
* Old Pump
* Whamurai
* Chickensaurus
* Dinger Bell
* Mechadillo
		- Batterox
		- Shockjaw
* Hosbarangers
	+ Hosba Red
	+ Hosba Black
	+ Hosba Yellow
	+ Hosba Blue
	+ Hosba Green
	+ Hosba Orange
	+ Hosba Zenith
* Liberangers Meet the TUFF Agents:
	+ Tuffalo
	+ Thumpallo

## Mechs

* LiberenOh
	+ Libre Wolf
	+ Libre Bird
	+ Libre Oryx
	+ Libre Jet
	+ Libre Racer
	+ Libre T-rex
	+ Libre Leopard
	+ Libre Bear
	+ Libre Dragon
	+ Libre Missile Fox
* AgentTeiOh
	+ Libre Mobile

## Episodes

1. Howling From the Stars
2. Trapped In The Factory
3. Fighting With Orange and Black
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### Specials

* Freedom Squadon: Liberanger the Movie
* Freedom Squadron: Liberanger Vs Draconightger
* Freedom Squadron: Liberanger Meets The Bad Guys
* Freedom Squadron: Liberanger Meets The Qittaswell Sisters
* Sing With the Liberangers

## Trivia

* This series marks the first of the following in Super Animal Squadron
	+ The first series to have an Orange, Gold, and Silver Core Ranger.
	+ The first series to have nine rangers on the core team as opposed to the usual five.
	+ The first series to have a ranger be related to a character from the Sing series (Salvador and Suki Lane are nephew and aunt).
	+ The first mainstream series to have additional core rangers.
* This series also marks the second of the following.
	+ The second series to have a female Green Ranger after Foresger.
	+ The second series to feature a human villain after Foresger.
	+ The second series to have a Red Wolf Ranger after Gamerman.
	+ The second series after Foresger to have at least ten rangers prior to the Returns Special (With the eventual Sixth Ranger coming in to make the team have twelve members).
* As it is a spiritual successor to Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, it contains many similarities to said Sentai series.
	+ Both series have a core team of nine rangers with five getting sent out at a time in most cases.
	+ Both teams' Green and Pink Rangers are female while the Red, Blue, Yellow, Orange, Black, Gold, and Silver Rangers are all male.
	+ Both have additional core rangers who are Violet and Aqua. A difference would be that in Kyuranger, the latter color was male, but in Liberanger is female.
* Many elements from Liberanger were originally going to be part of Galactic Squadron: Novaranger, a series that was set to be adapting Uchu Sentai Kyuranger, but was canceled due to Power Rangers Cosmic Fury adapting the zords from said Sentai series without also adapting the ranger suits.
	+ Kitty-Puter, Hosbrai, Hailey Heelcrusher, and a lot of original monsters of the week were all set to be in Novaranger, but were moved over to Liberanger.
	+ The names of the female rangers were carried over from Novaranger, even keeping the same colors.
	+ Kotaro Sakuma's counterpart was set to be female, Lizzie Snowfox is a remnant of this idea.
	+ Octavias is the love-interest to Hosbrai, which was planned to be the case in Novaranger. After Cosmic Fury came out and it was shown that Madakko wasn't used, Octavias was brought back for Liberanger.
* This series will exist concurrent with Bakuage Sentai: BoonBoomger as well as TUFFAgentShepherd's own series, Jurassic Squadron: Shinobiger.
	+ Both SAS series will have a ranger who is a member of the Jamal family, a member of the Tigris family and a ranger who is a relative of a Sing character.
		- Interestingly, Kyuranger had also existed con-current with a Super Sentai side-series with a dinosaur theme, Power Rangers: Dino Force Brave.
* While the crossovers with the Qittaswell Sisters, Sing, and The Bad Guys are set to be specials rather than main chapters, Novaranger would have had them be regular chapters, due to the limitations on how many episodes of Kyuranger were to be available for adaptation. The decision to have them be specials was due to Liberanger not having the restrictions of having the stories be tied down to episodes as well as to expand upon the Liberanger's story.
* The catchphrase "Saying nine-eleven rangers are too many should be a crime" is a reference to how most Kyuranger fans think that the huge amount of rangers on the team was not a reasonable excuse to not fully adapt the series and say it is the second LEAST reasonable.
	+ It is worth noting that the most likely reason Cosmic Fury reduced the number of rangers down to seven could be because of its ten episode run, which Eli J. Brown has stated was a very poor choice by the producers and Netflix and that they really should have just done the usual 40 episodes if there was nothing stopping them from doing so.
* This series is set to run for 46 chapters as opposed to the usual 40. This is due to it being an anniversary series as well as to make-up for Uchu Sentai Kyuranger not receiving the PR adaptation it deserved and instead got an adaptation it didn't deserve. 40 chapter seasons will resume in the following series.
	+ At first, it was only planned to have 45, but this was changed.
* The fact that their suits and mecha reflect past seasons makes them similar to the Zenkaigers.
	+ Thought a difference is that four members of the Zenkaigers became their own mecha while the Liberangers do not.
* It was confirmed that the Sixth Ranger (Actually Twelfth) won't be a Red Ranger as Kyuranger's Houou Soldier was, but will instead have a unique color from the rest of the rangers.
	+ This will be the one color difference between Kyuranger and Liberanger.
* The Japanese dub's title is Jiyū Sentai: Riberanger.
* A few months before Liberanger began, producer Eli J. Brown stated an idea he had on doing a series called Agent Squadron: TUFFRanger - Cosmic Chase which would fully adapt Kyuranger and act as a sequel to Cosmic Fury. This series was confirmed to not come out both due to it not making sense to do it and Liberanger, and due to criticism regarding Cosmic Fury and Hasbro's decisions.

## See also

* Uchu Sentai Kyuranger - The Super Sentai Series Liberanger serves as a spiritual successor to. See comparison page.
* Power Rangers Cosmic Fury - The Power Rangers adaptation of Kyuranger, which Liberanger was made to bring justice to Kyuranger not receiving a true adaptation See comparison page.
* J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai - The first Sentai to have an additional ranger.
* Power Rangers Ninja Storm - The first Power Rangers series to have additional rangers.