Musasabilar

**Musasabilar**(ムササビラー *Musasabirā*) is a Vader Monster that appeared in Episode 1 of Denshi Sentai Denjiman. He is number “00”.

He is voiced by **Shōzō Iizuka**.

## Personality

Musasabilar is shown to be a bloodthirsty monster as he’ll look for humans to kill or terrorize, even right after being born, but can get overconfident to the point where can underestimate his opponents. He can also get enraged when defeated in battle.

## Appearance

Musasabilar has an asymmetrical body with the right side of his upper half covered with brown thick, bumpy scales and his left side covered with gray ridges up front. His head has a wrinkled-up appearance with no real facial features, has a big flap wing in place for his left arm, has red legs with the right leg partially covered with ridges while the left leg fully covered with ridges, and is wearing black boots.

## Biography

An evil empire, called the Vader Clan, start their invasion on Earth by opening up portals around Japan and shooting beams out of them, destroying structures and killing innocents. In order to fight back, a telepathic dog from Denjiland, named IC, heads out to find five people to turn into the Denjiman. After IC manages to find two, one named Akagi Ippei as Denji Red and one named Momoi Akira as Denji Pink, one of portals shoots out a small meteorite that crashes into a construction site. Scientists, one of them named Kiyama Jun who IC picked as Denji Yellow, take the meteorite to a lab and observe it where they find out through x-ray that it’s really an egg containing one of the Vader Clan’s monsters, called a Vader Monster. As the scientists and a detective and his son, Midorikawa Tatsuya, are observing the x-rays, the egg suddenly hatches early, due to Tokyo’s air filled with carbon monoxide and nitrogen at the time, and gives birth to the 00 Vader Monster, Musasabilar. After discovering that the egg hatched, Tatsuya and his father search the lab until the father finds Musasabilar, somehow grown into a giant, over on top of the building through the ceiling’s window and gets killed. After Tatsuya finds his father dying, IC picks him as Denji Green. Afterwards, Musasabilar goes around the city as a giant and finds a circus performer at a closed fair, named Oume Daigoro, and attempts to kill him. Fortunately, IC arrives and scares off Musasabilar, then he chooses Daigoro as Denji Blue. Musasabilar arrives back at the Vader Clan’s headquarters to meet with the ruler, Queen Hedrian. After finding that Musasabilar is fully hatched, Queen Hedrian orders an attack led by General Hedora. For the first attack, Musasabilar swims in the waters and unleashes a toxic mist that chokes nearby workers at a dock and reduces them into skeletons. The police attempt to shoot down Musasabilar while he’s still in the ocean, but the Vader Monster grows back into a giant and steps out of the water. Despite Musasabilar’s sudden size, they still shoot at him but their bullets have no effect on his giant body and he kills them with his Toxic Mist. In order to stop the Vader Clan’s invasion, IC calls forth Ippei, Akira, Jin, Tatsuya, and Daigoro where they are given Denji Rings to become the Denjiman. As they arrive in the city, Musasabilar confronts them with a group of Dustlers. As the Denjiman fight off the Dustlers, Musasabilar attempts to make his escape but the Denjiman chase after him. Musasabilar climbs up a building where the Denjiman make their way up to. Once up the building, Musasabilar blends into the buildings’ structure only for Denji Red to find him with Denji Scope and strike him with Denji Stick. Musasabilar makes his way back down the building with the Denjiman chasing him again. They continue fighting each other until the Denjiman form their Denji Sticks together to form the Denji Boomerang, striking Musasabilar. However, Musasabilar was able to survive the attack and he then changes his size into a giant again. As a giant, Musasabilar rampages through the area while the Denjiman keep a safe distance away. Denji Red summons the Denji Fighter, which transforms into DaiDenjin, and they board inside to face the giant Musasabilar. DaiDenjin and Musasabilar duel each other until the Vader Monster disarms DaiDenjin, so Denji Red summons the Denji Ball to entangle Musasabilar. Musasabilar destroys the chain on Denji Ball so Denji Red summons the Denji Sword and they briefly duel again. Finally, DaiDenjin performs Electric Full-Moon Slash and decapitates Musasabilar, letting his headless body fall to the ground and explode.

## Powers/Abilities

**Size Change**: Musasabilar has the ability to control his cell structure, allowing him to change his size as a giant.

**Giant Cutter Knife**: Musasabilar’s main weapon is a giant cutter knife with a handle stick on one side, allowing him to use it like a sword.

**Extraordinary Leaping**: Musasabilar is able to perform leaps at any direction with ease. He can also use this ability to make his escapes.

**Adapted Swimmer**: Musasabilar is able to swim through water.

**Toxic Mist**: Musasabilar can unleashed a mist from his mouth that can choke human beings and reduce them as skeletons.

**Bullet Resistance**: Musasabilar has a thick hide that makes it impossible for bullets to penetrate through, making him immune to gunfire.

**Camoflage**: Musasabilar can blend into his surroundings to hide from his enemies.

**Wall Crawling**: Musasabilar can crawl up on the side of a structure by flapping his limbs.

**Hurricane Winds**: Musasabilar can blow his enemies away by creating a strong wind by flapping his arms.

**Teleporting**: Musasabilar is able to teleport himself to avoid his enemies’ attacks and to leap forward at any direction.

## Trivia

* Despite being named after the Musasabi, the Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel, 00 Musasabilar has no particular motif.
	+ Ryu Noguchi made the design for Musasabilar with only an image in mind for the scenario at the planning stage. However, when asked what Musasabilar is suppose to be by the producer and writer, Ryu Noguchi made the Vader Monster a flying squirrel based on the pattern of the wing. He also said that it has nothing to do with flying squirrels.