Mashin Sentai Kiramager Kaijin

The Kaijin from the 44 entry of the Super Sentai Series, Mashin Sentai Kiramager. They are called **Jamenshi**(邪面師 *ja-men-shi*) and were once the foot soldiers of the Dark Empire Yodonheim, called Bechats, until they were given evil masks, called Jamens, by Carantula, giving them special powers related to what their Jamen is based off on. By using the idea to use Earth’s customs against them, Carantula uses Jamens based on inanimate objects. They are sent down to the human world to gather Dark Energy to open up Invasion Gates that would unleash a Dark Beast wearing a giant Jamen, giving them the name Jamen Beasts. If a Jamenshi isn't able to gather enough Dark Energy before it ends up dying, either they give out their own Dark Energy to the Jamen Beast before they blow up or Carantula uses their old Bechat Masks to fill in the needed Dark Energy, based on an Insurance Contract the Jamenshi made, to open an Invasion Gate.

Rugby JamenVise JamenJoystick JamenDigital Camera JamenFreezer JamenOven JamenHyakunin Isshu JamenMusic JamenReset Button JamenMeteorite JamenSL JamenMarshmallow JamenMole Tataki JamenSumikae JamenGlue JamenTsurizao JamenKinko JamenSpeaker JamenBomb JamenSuper Glue JamenMannequin JamenNazokake JamenGolf JamenMushiba JamenHarigane JamenManeki-neko Jamen

## Trivia

* **Motif**: Various motifs based off of earth’s customs.
* **Common Design Feature**: Slender bodies with scale-like decorations on the chest and capes.
* The mask motif for the Jamenshi, as well as the Yodonheim race, came from an idea thought up by K-SuKe that the race is made of ugly-faced people and the culture of wearing masks took root.
* The Jamenshi are the very first series of Super Sentai Kaijin to appear in the Reiwa era.
* Before designing the Jamenshi, K-SuKe was told just to just work on the face. Struggling with the order, K-SuKe decided to give the Jamenshi’s faces a “masked look”.
	+ He then treated the Jamenshi’s masks as dioramas to express their motifs so the viewers can easily understand.
* The Jamenshi are homages to the Masked Monsters from Himitsu Sentai Goranger with their masks motif and with their last names, Jamen and Kamen, being similar, just with “Ja” replacing “Ka”.
* The name, **Jamenshi**, is a combination of the words “**Ja**aku”(**邪**悪), “Ka**men”**(仮**面**), and Kyo**shi**(教**師**).
	+ ”Kyoshi” is the Japanese word for “Teacher”, while the kanji, 師, also stands for master, expert, model, or exemplar. This most likely is based around on how they’re foot soldiers who were upgraded into a higher position.
* The Jamenshi are the 6th series of Kaijin from Super Sentai who do not have a way of growing into giant size.
	+ The first five series of Kaijin are:
		- The Egos Kaijin from Battle Fever J, who had giant robot duplicates called “little brothers”.
		- The Synthetic Beasts from Dai Sentai Goggle V, who piloted giant robots called Kongs.
		- The Beastnoids from Choudenshi Bioman, who weren’t the “Monsters-of-the-Week” but instead were the giant-sized Mecha-Gigans.
		- The Alienizers from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, who mainly piloted giant robots with only a few of them being able to grow giant size.
		- The Metaroids from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters, who had giant robots, called MegaZords, that would use weapons based off the Metaroids’ data and what object they were created from.
* The way the Jamenshi would reuse a few costumes is similar to the Android Soldiers from Nebula Mask Machineman.
	+ Each group use the same body type for each Kaijin.
	+ They both only have one small change in each episode(The Jamenshi with their Jamen and the Android Soldiers with their arms/weapons).
	+ They would sometimes use different aspects for their suits(The color of the Jamenshi’s Bechat bodies and the Android Soldier’s heads).
* The Jamenshi are also similar to the Dester Robos.
	+ Each group always have the same exact body type that comes with different colors with each Kaijin and with a different head as well.
* The method of reusing the body suits and changing the head for each Kaijin would be used again for the World Kaijin in the next season.