Fire Shogun Blaird is a commander of the Space Pirate Fleet Descal and a major antagonist in Chousei Kantai Sazer-X. He is the hotheaded fire-themed member of the Three Shoguns and rival of Takuto Ando / Lio-Sazer.
He is voiced by Kentaro Itou, who also voiced Cyborg 0013 in Cyborg 009 and N'Doul in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
History[]
Blaird was orphaned when he was young and was raised by Captain Barder, coming to view him as akin to a father figure or god as a result.
When Captain Barder gave the order for Descal to travel to Earth and reclaim the planet they had been driven off of, Blaird arrived on Earth alongside the rest of Descal with the intention to conquer it. Blaird and his fellow Shoguns were ordered by Captain Barder to go out and collect the Cosmo Capsules so they could use them to take over Earth. In the original timeline, Blaird and his fellow Shoguns were successful. During their gathering of the Cosmo Capsules, Blaird met Lightning Shogun Thundera after she left the underground and became lovers with her, leading to him fathering a bloodline with her that included Grouza.
However, Sazer-X traveled back in time to stop Descal from conquering Earth, and as such the Three Shoguns instead found themselves met with opposition when they came to Earth. Blaird quickly developed a rivalry with Takuto after clashing with him over a Cosmo Capsule.
While Aqual and Cyclead were both able to obtain Cosmo-Capsules, Blaird was unsuccessful at obtaining any and thus had none to show when Captain Barder assembled the three shoguns to present what they had obtained. As such, Blaird lured out Takuto so he could steal his Lion-1 capsule, but when he tried to return to Balgareon Takuto hung on to him and was transported there with him. Blaird and Takuto resumed their fight inside Balgareon until they accidentally stumbled into the ship's trash compactor. The two spent three days inside of the trash compactor before they figured out how to escape by using their attacks to propel themselves out. While Takuto left to return his family, Blaird reunited with his fellow shoguns, but was disappointed to learn that they hadn't noticed he was gone for three days.
When lightning struck Balgareon and exposed Captain Barder as a robot, Blaird suffered a crisis of faith in their mission now that his father figure had been revealed to have been deceiving them. However, he resolved to keep on fighting in order to defeat Takuto and settle his rivalry with him.
The Three Shoguns would later make a final play to defeat Sazer-X before returning to space by using their strongest pirate, Bankein. After Bankein was defeated by Sazer-X, the Three Shoguns fled but found themselves approached by Grouza, a member of Neo Descal who had traveled back from the future to ensure the timeline stayed the same and Descal conquered Earth. Grouza showed the Three Shoguns how to use the Cosmo Capsules to enlarge and empower things, which they tested on Blaird by making him grow giant. The giant Blaird went on a rampage through the city and Sazer-X showed up to fight him, but after five minutes the effects of the enlargement wore off and Blaird returned to normal size. Blaird then attempted to flee Earth with the Three Shoguns in Balgareon, but Grouza forced them to turn back and battle Sazer-X's Ryuuseishin. Although Balgareon was blown up by a beam fired from Lio-Carrier, Grouza teleported the Three Shoguns out just in time and brought them to the Galeo Rogue, a Neo Descal warship commanded by Garade.
However, Blaird did not want to serve the Neo Descal and instead only wanted to pursue his rivalry with Takuto, leading him to go rogue. When Neo Descal captured the other members of Sazer-X, Blaird formed a temporary truce with Takuto and assisted him in his attempt to rescue them due to not liking Neo Descal either. However, the plan failed and he, Takuto and Remy were captured. While Takuto and the rest of Sazer-X were later all freed by Commander Shark, Blaird stayed in the captivity of Neo Descal.
However, Blaird was able to trick Cyclead into setting him free. He then strapped all of them onto himself and went to Earth with them in order to lure Takuto out. He was pursued by a group of Deathmeid, but with Takuto's help he was able to fight them off. However, Blaird was then dogpiled by Sazer-X and captured, before being brought to Lio-Carrier for interrogation. He would later be moved to the Ando residence, where he begrudgingly helped Haruko and Yui out with chores. Blaird would begin to open up more after Haruko began cooking him natto and eventually came to appreciate the value of family, something he even lectured Takuto about when he wasn't being appreciative to his mother and sister.
Blaird would later find himself back with the Neo Descal when Sazer-X traded him for Sojiro Ando in a prisoner exchange. After being brought back to the Galeo Rogue, Blaird was thrown in a cell in the brig but escaped when Jackall busted out. Soon after exiting the ship, Blaird and Jackall got into a fight, during which Blaird was able to wound Jackall in the leg. Impressed, Jackall agreed to let Blaird follow him in his quest to get revenge on Commander Shark and Sazer-X.
When Lighting Shogun Thundera left the underground and began playing her shamisen to find her love, Blaird was drawn to the sound of her music and went to find her. Takuto got to Thundera first, leading her to believe he was her destined lover even though he wasn't interested in her. Although Blaird was jealous of Takuto, after seeing how much Thundera loved him Blaird agreed to let Thundera have him, but Takuto still wasn't interested in her and only wanted the Cosmo-Capsule in her possession. Seeing that Takuto didn't truly love her, Thundera agreed to let him have the capsule out of a respect for his desire to help his friends, but then turned to return to the underground. Blaird tried unsuccessfully to convince Thundera to stay and be with him, but Thundera still found herself attracted to Takuto's kindhearted personality. After Thundera returned underground, Blaird searched for an entrance that could lead to it but was not successful.
Although Jackall had been wounded by Commander Shark, Blaird stood by him as he piloted Drill Angler and made another attempted to battle Commander Shark in Shark Leaguer. After Jackall became too injured to keep piloting his Drill Angler, Blaird piloted the mecha in place of him. However, as Blaird was fighting Shark-Leaguer with it, Jackall died from the injuries he had sustained. Jackall's death taught Blaird the outcome of a life consumed by revenge and led him to stop fighting Shark. He would then bury Jackall a grave which Commander Shark also visited.
After King Neo Descal and Barreda arrived from the future to personally take command of the invasion, Blaird allied with Sazer-X to stop them, with the eventual goal of reuniting the Three Shoguns. Piloting Drill Angler, Blaird assisted Sazer-X in their battles against the Terror Beasts sent out by Neo Descal. At the same time, Blaird would make multiple attempts to reach out to Aqual and Cyclead and convince them to leave Neo Descal.
During the final battle, Blaird arrived with Aqual and Cyclead to help Sazer-X after freeing Cyclead from his brainwashing. When Takuto went inside of Dark Geran to take back the Lion-1 capsule, Blaird went with Ad and Kane rescue him. Together, Blaird combined his might with the rest of Sazer-X to destroy Neo Descal and Dark Geran before they could cover the Earth in darkness.
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