Crab Shinka

**Crab Shinka**(カニシンカ *Kanishinka*) is a crab-based Shinka Beast from Episode 1 of Kagaku Sentai Dynaman.

He is voiced by **Toku Nishio**.

## Personality

Crab Shinka is a hostile Shinka Beast who mainly attacks and chases after people. He is also shown to be reckless as he’ll attack his enemies even if his allies are in the way.

## Appearance

Crab Shinka has a body covered with red crustacean shells on his limbs, his back, and on top of his head while having a grey-colored front side and a sand yellow abdomen. He has one eye with a green iris and a black pupil, a mechanical eyelid that folds up from underneath the eye, a small mouth underneath the eye, two tubes on his top shell, and six small crab legs hanging on each side of the abdomen. He also has legs with pointed feet, a pair of crab claws for the arms, and he has the Jashinka mark on his back. When grown as a giant, his legs became bigger and his claws became larger with his right claw larger than the left claw.

## Biography

After dormant volcanoes begin to inexplicably erupt, a new empire, called the Tailed-People Clan Jashinka Empire, rises up and starts kidnapping people to see if they can grow tails like them.

During one of the kidnappings, a girl is suddenly being chased through a beach. Her pursuer rises out of the sand where he reveals himself to be a Shinka Beast, named Crab Shinka, and blocks the girl’s path. A man named Hokuto Dan comes across the scene as he was on his way to an Invention Center and witnesses Crab Shinka trap the girl in a giant ball and she gets taken away in a truck. Hokuto is suddenly joined by a woman named Rei Tachibana and they chase after the truck to save the girl as well as the other captives trapped in more green balls. Along the way, they come across three other men named Ryuu, Yousuke, and Kousaku. They fight off the captors until they reveal themselves to be Tail Soldiers and chase them all back to the beach where Crab Shinka appears from the waters. Crab Shinka attacks the group with his Crab Bombs, sending them falling into the waters.

Fortunately, the group survived the fall and they all meet up with each other at the Yumendo Invention Center where they meet up with Commander Yumendo and forms the group into the Dynaman. Meanwhile, the general of the Jashinka Empire, General Kar, confirms that the humans are unable to grow tails. Believing the humans will get in their way of their progress, General Kar suggest that it’s time for them to take over and destroy the humans.

With the prince of the Jashinka Empire, Prince Megiddo, leading the mission, the Jashinka blow up a rocket base and Prince Megiddo gets Crab Shinka and the Tail Soliders to blow up a factory. The Dynaman arrive at the area in the DyJupiter and reveal themselves to Prince Megiddo with Hokuto as DynaRed, Ryuu as DynaBlack, Yousuke as DynaBlue, Kousaku as DynaYellow, and Rei as DynaPink. The Dynaman fight off the Tail Soldiers where afterwards Hokuto fights against Prince Megiddo and his two bodyguards. Despite Prince Megiddo in the way, Crab Shinka uses his Crab Bombs to blow up the Dynaman. As Prince Megiddo is avoiding Crab Shinka’s explosions, Hokuto knocks him down and cuts off one of his tails. After Prince Megiddo’s bodyguard take him to attend to his wound, Crab Shinka faces off again the Dynaman where tries to blow them up again. The Dynaman manage to kick him down and they use their finishing move, Super Dynamite, where they merge into an energy orb and strike down Crab Shinka.

However, Crab Shinka was able to survive the attack and he retracts all his limbs into his body. Once doing so, he activates his Big Bang Progress ability and his cells multiply rapidly, evolving him into a giant. The Dynaman board back inside the DyJupiter as Crab Shinka flies towards them with his limbs still retracted and fires a laser from his eye. Hokuto flies out of DyJupiter in Dyna Mach and shoots Crab Shinka down. After Crab Shinka pulls his limbs out again, Ryuu and Yousuke head out as well within the Dyna Mobile and shoot missiles at the Shinka Beast. Kousaku and Rei then head out within Dyna Garry and the Dynaman combine all their vehicles into Dyna Robo. Crab Shinka and Dyna Robo begin to fight each other where Dyna Robo uses the Beat Hammer on the Shinka Beast and slices his giant claw off with Dyna Boomerang. The Dynaman then use Dynamic Jump to bring Dyna Robo to the sky and Hokuto summons Dyna Robo’s Science Sword for the final blow. The Dynaman perform Lightning Gravity Fall where Dyna Robo falls back down toward Crab Shinka and slices him down the midsection with the Science Sword, blowing him up into a massive explosion.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Burrowing**: Crab Shinka is able to burrow into sand.

* **Bubble Ball Wrap**: Crab Shinka can inflate a large green bubble from out of his mouth that can trap people inside and solidify into a hardened ball.

* **Adapted Swimming**: Crab Shinka is able to swim through water as well as jumping out of it with ease.

* **Crab Bombs**: Crab Shinka can create explosions whenever his eye flashes.

* **Flight**: Crab Shinka can retract all of his limbs into his body to fly around in the sky.

* **Big Bang Progress**: Crab Shinka has the ability to multiply his cells on a rapid scale, allowing him to evolve into giant known as a Super Shinka Beast.

* **Eye Lasers**: Crab Shinka can shoot out a thin blue laser from his eye.

* **Crab Claws**: Crab Shinka has a pair of crab claws in place for his arms that he can use in combat. When grown as a giant, Crab Shinka’s claws grow larger where his right claw is larger than the left which he can use in combat as well.

## Gallery

Concept SketchFlight FormGiant Crab Shinka
## Trivia

* Crab Shinka is modeled after a fiddler crab.
* Despite the evolved concept, the designer, Harada, didn’t drew the design with the idea of Crab Shinka being an evolved crab, but instead drew him as just a simple monster.
* Harada chose the crab concept for Crab Shinka as he liked crabs and crustaceans.
	+ He also gave Crab Shinka only one eye because he likes things that don’t have two eyes.
* Harada’s idea to have the Jashinka mark on the back of Crab Shinka’s shell came from the Heikegani’s shell, which has the appearance of a warrior’s face.
* When Crab Shinka turned into a giant, the size from his knees to the bottom of his feet became huge, changing to a style where it’s like he’s wearing high clogs.