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| “ | Oh great and mighty Boccowaus, only a single world remains to be contained within a Tojiru Gear until we've subjugated them all. Yes. | „ |
| ~ Ijirude's status report to Great King Boccowaus in the first episode. |
| “ | King Boccowaus!!! | „ |
| ~ Ijirude's final words before his death. |
Mechanic Officer Ijirude is an officer of the Tojitendo and a major antagonist in the 45th installment of the Super Sentai franchise, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger. He is responsible for the Tojiru Gears used to create Worlds and Kudaitests. He serves as Tojitendo main inventor, monster maker and resident genius and one of Great King Boccowaus's most trusted minions. He is also one of the Zenkaigers' primary enemies.
He is voiced by Masanori Takeda.
Biography[]
Ijirude joined the Tojitendo and became third in command of the Tojitendo (second only to field general Mobile Commander Barashitara and the Tojitendo's ruler Great King Boccowaus). He became one of Boccowaus top minions and was Tojitendo top scientist, monster maker and resident genius. It was Ijirude that invented the Parallel World Gate which they had been using to observe and go to various parallel worlds as part of their nefarious schemes for conquest of the entire multiverse. At some point in the past prior to the start of the aforementioned series' events, while he was using the Parallel World Gate to monitor the parallel worlds that they are intending to conquer as part of their evil plans, Ijirude had noticed both Isao Gokishida and Mitsuko Gokishida along with successfully capturing them as part of his sinister goals.
Not only that, after he had captured the two scientists themselves, he had stolen their knowledge regarding the Sentai Gears in order to create the technology that would be used as the basis of the Tojiru Gears which would be utilized as part of Boccowaus' tyrannical goals of ruling over all of existence. However, in order to maintain his credibility as the kingdom's resident genius, he had kept the entire truth regarding the technology that was used to create the Tojiru Gears as well as the current status of both of Kaito Gokishida's parents to himself.
Zenkaiger[]
After a portion of Kikaitopia mysteriously fused with the Earth from Kaito Goshikida's world, Great King Boccowaus ordered Ijirude to invade it and trap it inside a Tojiru Gear. However, for an unexplained reason Ijirude was unable to trap the 45th world inside a Tojiru Gear, nor was he able to deduce why the world had fused with part of Kikaitopia. In his meeting with the Great King, Ijirude reported to Boccowaus that it was the only world left for them to conquer, but Boccowaus was displeased with the lack of progress in invading the final world. Vroon, who was mopping the floor, then attempted to ask what was going on but Ijirude zapped him with his ostaff. Gege then suggested that they invade it to add more territory to the Tojitendo's domain, to which Boccowaus agreed and instructed Barashitara to lead the invasion.
After Barashitara's advance attack was fought off by Zenkaizer and ZenkaiZyuran, Ijirude decided to use one of his Tojiru Gears to create a World to invade the universe. Arriving on Earth, Ijirude summoned a Kudakk and placed a Tojiru Gear onto it, turning it into the Mushroom World. After the Mushroom World was destroyed by the Zenkaigers, Ijirude summoned a Kudaitest to deal with them, only for the Kudaitest to accidentally step on the Tojiru Gear left behind by the Mushroom World and be transformed into the Great Mushroom World.
When Barashitara returned from leading an attack with Ice World, Ijirude mocked him for slipping on the ice created by the World and commented that his Tojiru Gears must be stronger. Barashitara rebuffed him and claimed that the only reason he slipped was because it wasn't tuned for his use.
After Vroon discovered that the captured worlds of the Tojitendo were being liberated and reported it to Ijirude, Ijirude set out to have him eliminated to keep him from revealing the secret. Vroon escaped into the World of Zenkaiger, where he joined up with the Zenkaigers and became their fifth member.
While Barashitara sent out Garbage World, Ijirude stayed in his laboratory to work on a new device, leading the other Tojitendo generals to wonder what he was up to.
Ijirude's new device would turn out to be the Geartozinger, which he gave to Stacey to use against the Zenkaigers. Upon witnessing the device overpower the Zenkaigers, Boccowaus commended Ijirude for his engineering talent while Gege commented on how he was able to build it in such a short time. Barashitara would later approach Ijirude and ask why he gave the device to Stacey, to which Ijirude answered he wanted someone as close to a human as possible to wield it, as Zenkaizer was also a human.
When Stacey's summons suddenly however, Boccowaus demanded an explanation from Ijirude, who stated that Stacey had summoned so many mechas the Gear had run out of power.
After Twokaizer showed up and drove Stacey off, Stacey asked Ijirude who Twokaizer and demanded to know why he hadn't warned him, but Ijirude stated he had no idea Twokaizer would show up. Gege then commented that it was curious that the World Pirates they had encountered before would choose to show up now, before Boccowaus demanded another explanation from Ijirude and pounded his fist so hard it caused Ijirude to fall over. Ijirude told Boccowaus he would develop a countermeasure at once before getting up and telling Stacey to come with him.
While Barashitara reported to Boccowaus, Ijirude continued his work on a countermeasure to Twokaizer, all while being watched by Stacey.
In the midst of the Great Onigokko World's destruction, Ijirude oversaw the construction of a colossal mecha which he commented he hoped to finish soon.
Stacey later came up to Ijirude and asked if it would be done soon, to which Ijirude answered it was almost ready and he was putting the finishing touches on it. It would later be completed just as the Zenkaigers were facing off against the Great Snail World, leading Ijirude to hand his new creation, Battle Caeser Robo, over to Stacey for him to take out into the field.
When Stacey stepped forward to confront Barashitara after hearing him dismiss the performance of Battle Caeser Robo, Ijirude put his staff in front of him to hold him back. Ijirude then asked Barashitara why he had taken the fake Tojiru Gears left over from his experiments to create the Geartozinger, to which Barashitara answered that he was "recycling" them.
Ijirude (having taken a break from his mysterious project) attended a meeting where Barashitara is disgusted when a Kudakk sent to Earth to attack the Earth with a Kudaiter returns as the sole. However, when a Tojiru Gear falls down after Boccowaus pounds the ground, Gege suggests punishing the Kudakk by infusing it with the power. Boccowaus agrees and Ijirude inserts it into the Kudakk which creates Super Warumono World who is later destroyed by the Zenkaigers.
Ijirude’s special project was revealed to be an evil copy of the Geartlingers dubbed the Geartozinger with the same capabilities. He revealed this to Boccowaus as Stacy confronted the Zenkaigers with said weapon much to his majesty’s surprise but also admirance. Later on, after Stacy henshins, Barashitara confronted Ijirude and he revealed his motives for using Stacy. As it turned out, Stacy was being used as little more than an experimental guinea pig since he needed to test it on a human first due to the similarities between Stacaesar and Zenkaizer. Even so, Stacy later had to withdraw due to overusing his Sentai Gears.
Ijirude was confronted by Boccowaus when Stacy’s tactic of summoning many primary Robos from Super Sentai history failed as they cease to exist. Ijirude realized that using too many Gears at once has completely drained the Geartzoinger of all of its power so it needed to recharge.
Endgame[]
When he had heard news that the Zenkaigers had somehow been transported to the Tojitendo Palace, Ijirude had prepared his personal mecha aka the Ijirudestroyer IV in order to deal with the heroes themselves once and for all. In spite of the combination of both the power of one of his self-proclaimed great inventions and the support of a summoned Kudaitest so that he could one up his opponents, Ijirude had lost the advantage that he had in the fight in question as a result of the arrival of the other Zenkaigers along with Secchan. During the climax of the final showdown itself, Zenkaizer proceeds to list down everything that Ijirude had played a significant part in throughout the series in question with all of the other Zenkaigers offering their own opinions regarding Ijirude's actions throughout the series itself. Once everything has been said and done, the Ijirudestroyer IV tried to defend itself from the Zenkaigers' final attack but they had successfully broke through its guard which had destroyed the giant robot itself. As a result, the Tojitendo's resident genius only had just about enough time to scream Boccowaus' name out loud before he had perished along with his personal giant robot in a blaze of glory.
Legacy[]
Despite his death, Buccowaus finished absorbing the Tojigear’s he asked Ijirude to retrieve, allowing him to assume his final form, though he himself would be destroyed by the Zenkaiger’s as well. God (Zenkaiger) would transport Ijirude’s Tojigear system to the World of Zenkaiger and use it to seal all of the Parallel Worlds back into Tojigears with the exception of the World of Zenkaiger. After his defeat against Kaito in game of Scissors, Paper, Stone for the fate of all Parallel Worlds. God would inform Kaito of the location of the Tojigear System, located above the Tokyo Skytree, with a cloaking system to hide it in plain sight. Kaito would destroy the Machine with the Zenryoku Zenkai Cannon, freeing all Parallel Worlds and destroying the last of Ijirude’s inventions.
Trivia[]
- He is named after the Japanese word for "tinkering" (いじる Ijiru).
