is a Japanese Tokusatsu television show and Toei's twenty-seventh production of the Super Sentai metaseries. After Toei filed a trademark for the series on October 17, 2002, it aired from February 16, 2003, to February 8, 2004, replacing Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, and was replaced by Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. The program was part of TV Asahi's 2003 Super Hero Time block with Kamen Rider 555. The series is based on dinosaurs and explosions. Its action footage, and episode 10 in its entirety, was used in Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
The cast members from the series reprised their roles for the 2014 film Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell Our Eternal Friends.
Shout! Factory released the series on Region 1 DVD on 8 November 2022.
Plot Scientists believe that 65,000,000 years ago, a meteorite's crash on Earth killed off the dinosaurs. In truth, it split Earth into two parallel universes. Dino Earth is an Earth where dinosaurs are still the superior species. Our Earth is referred to as Another Earth by the residents of Dino Earth. Over time, the Saurian and Bakuryū races came into being on Dino Earth. They were at war with the Evoliens, entities that emerged from the meteor. The two Earths are separate until Asuka, one of the Saurians from Dino Earth, arrives on Another Earth via a trans-dimensional portal. However, he is followed by the Evoliens in their Anomalocaris spaceship along with three Bakuryū under their control. As the Bakuryū attack Tokyo, a call is sent out to three destined ones who possess Dino Guts to gain the power to tame these beasts. Together with their Bakuryū partners, the three become Abarangers to protect their dimension from the Evoliens. In time, another Abaranger appears, takes the name Abare Killer, and fights the others while the Evoliens carry out their ultimate goal: the resurrection of their god.
Characters Abarangers The eponymous Abarangers are individuals chosen by the sentient dinosaur mecha for their unique spiritual energy, which allows them to activate where they extend spikes from their , or in the case of Abare Killer, to gain animalistic fighting instincts.
Each primary member carries a as their transformation device along with an , which can switch between and , as their sidearm. By combining their personal weapons, they form the , which can further combine with up to two of the secondary Abarangers' sidearms to form the and/or , to destroy human-sized Trinoids. With the exception of Mikoto, the entire team rides Velociraptor-themed creatures for transportation. In Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger vs. Hurricaneger, the Abarangers combine their Super Dino Bomber and the Hurricanegers and Gouraigers' Victory Gadget to form the .
: A 22-year-old environmental protection investigator from the United States who is the brash, good-natured, and warm-hearted leader of the Abarangers. He is also his niece Mai's guardian after the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law, and does his best to raise her. Ryoga becomes and is partnered with , nicknamed . In battle, he wields the staff. Later in the series, Ryoga acquires the shield/sword hybrid, which allows him to transform into the evolved . He also gains a second partner in , nicknamed . Ryoga tours the United States with Mai after the Evoliens are defeated. In Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters: The Great Dinosaur Battle! Farewell Our Eternal Friends, Ryoga is kidnapped by Neo-Geilton so his Dino Hope can be extracted for Voldos, but is saved by the Kyoryugers. He and his team then join forces with the Zyurangers, Go-Busters, and Kyoryugers in order to defeat their common enemy. In Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger 20th: The Unforgivable Fury, Ryoga uses his teammates' Dino Guts to further evolve his Abare Max form into . : A 21-year-old chiropractor who initially became for the money and is partnered with , nicknamed . In battle, he wields the shield. Despite his cool exterior as the result of a falling out with his father trying to prep him as the next head of their family's company, Yukito has a kind heart. He resumes his chiropractic career after the Evoliens are defeated, making appearances in Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger vs. Abaranger where he helps fix Doggie Kruger's back problem, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger where he married Emiri while helping the Gokaigers master his team's Great Power, and Kyoryuger vs. Go-Busters where he infuses his Dino Guts into the Abaranger Zyudenchi developed by Yayoi Woorushade. : A 20-year-old tech-whiz with an interest in anything mechanical who becomes and is partnered with , nicknamed . In battle, she dual wields the twin . Her Abare Mode also grants a pair of pterosaur wings. Ranru finds work on a racetrack after the Evoliens are defeated. : A warrior from who battled the Evoliens as with his partner , nicknamed ), utilizing the harmonica-like key in conjunction with the bracelet to transform. In battle, he wields the rapier, which allows him to perform varying elemental-powered attacks. However, his Dino Harp is damaged while escaping to with the Dino Braces, providing them to the primary Abarangers while assuming the identity of . He eventually joins the Abarangers once he restores his Dino Harp, later manifesting his Dino Guts and learning that his wife Mahoro was brainwashed by the Evoliens with their unborn child becoming Lije. After regaining his family, renaming his daughter in honor of Mikoto, Asuka returns to Dino Earth with the Bakuryū. He makes return appearances in Dekaranger vs. Abaranger and GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai. : A disillusioned doctor who found joy in witnessing the first Evolien attack before the primary Abarangers ruined his fun, coming across a prototype of the Dino Brace called the and the egg of , nicknamed . Mikoto utilizes the Dino Minder to become the white-colored as he targets the Abrangers. In battle, he wields the sidearm, which can switch between its quill-like and its sword-like . His Abare Mode also equips him with the twin wrist-mounted blades. Even after learning that his 0gou Suit is a flawed prototype with a self-destruct mechanism, Mikoto saw it as incentive to continue fighting as he revives Topgaler and drafts , nicknamed , while siding with the Evoliens as their leader at Lije's request. He is eventually revealed to be a host for the other half of Dezumozorlya, who kept the Dino Minder's self-destruct mechanism in check, joining the Abarangers out of disdain for being manipulated and purging all traces of Dezumozorlya from his body. Near death, he is taken into the atmosphere by Topgaler as the two die in the explosion. Mikoto is temporary revived a few times after the series. In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Mikoto appears in a vision to Gai Ikari and grants him the Great Power of the Abarangers, which is GouZyuJin.
Allies : A high school student, nicknamed , who attempted to become Abare Yellow despite her body being unable to support the transformation. She normally aids the Abarangers by suggesting names and acting as their unofficial member . After the Evoliens' defeat, Emiri becomes Yukito's assistant chiropractor and eventually his wife. : An old man who runs a curry restaurant called , which is the Abarangers' base of operations. When the Bakuryū first came to Another Earth, Sugishita heard their call and nearly became Abare Blue. However, his body could not support the transformation. Kind and supportive, he advises and assists the team whenever possible. After the fight with the Evoliens, Sugishita's business becomes successful. Although in Dekaranger vs. Abaranger he becomes wealthy and opens a worldwide chain of Dino House restaurants which are frequently referenced in later entries of the Super Sentai series, he loses ownership to Yatsudenwani. : Ryoga's five-year-old niece who is one of the few people to see Lije's spirit. : A regular customer in Dino House. : A powerful crocodile-themed Trinoid with Fatsia and telephone elements that forced by Abare Killer into serving him while attempting to redeem himself to his creator Mikela. He also stalks Ranru on occasion. He later joins the Dino House as a staff member and, deciding to remain on Another Earth, eventually takes over the restaurant after it becomes a franchise.
Wicked Lifeforms Evolien The are the main antagonists who originate from Dino Earth, residing in the fortress with the as its core. They utilize amoeba-based as their army, along with black and white variants called and respectively, and battleships to turn Dino Earth into a desert wasteland in an event known as the .
: A parasitic entity the Evoliens revere as a god who was held in the meteorite that crashed to Another Earth with its being split along with the planet. Each half takes a resident of their respective Earth as a host and transmigrated through their descendants, said to have influenced history in negative ways. Piror to the series, Mikoto held the essence of the inactive Another Earth-counterpart while the Dezumozorlya of Dino Earth resided in Tree of Life before taking a host in Lije through Mahoro. But once Lije became Lijewel, Dezumozorlya entered a dormant state until coming in contact with Mikoto and seeking to rejoin its other half at the cost of the hosts' lives to assimilate all life. After being purged from Lijewel, Dezumozorlya sought stronger inhuman hosts by merging Mikela and Voffa as a temporary vessel to obtain BakurenOh as a new body and absorb Mikoto. But both attempts failed with the death of the other half and Dezumovorla's demise. This forces Dezumozorlya to merge back into Tree of Life and spread its primal urges throughout the entire Invasion Garden and remake into to invoke a 200 Days of Darkness event on Another Earth. But the Bakuryū manage to destroy their enemy and escape its attempt to take them down it. : Dezumozorlya's childlike metatron who was Asuka and Mahoro's unborn child before Dezumozorlya entered the latter's body and took the infant as a host with the power to teleport others to Another Earth with a kiss. But a part of Lije's mind gradually became a separate astral being that supported the Abarangers after Lije force grew herself into an adult form called , eventually struggling against Dezumozorlya before being mutated into . But the Abarangers help both sides of Lije to merge back together to expel Dezumozorlya, causing Lijewel to revert into an infant that was renamed Mikoto in honor of Mikoto Nakadai. But Mikoto still possessed Lije's ability to travel between the two worlds, allowing Asuka to travel back to Another Earth whenever needed. : An Evolien commander who was originally , Asuka's beloved who was captured alongside her brother Mizuho and brainwashed by Dezumozorlya into believing Asuka betrayed them. She killed Geilton for failing in the first attack on Another Earth so she can utilize the ammonite-themed . But she loses the armor to Asuka while her mind as Mahoro was restored, aiding the Abarangers in secret against the Evoliens. : The first of the Evolien commanders to attack Another Earth, he was originally Mahoro's older brother . Like Mahoro, believing Asuka had betrayed them and must be punished, discarded his old name. He managed to defeat Asuka in battle and take possession of the Armor of Darkness, being one of the few users to retain his mind. Once on Another Earth, Geilton led the attack with the Bakuryū and an Anomalogaris. But after his defeat, mortally wounded, he had Jeanne kill him so she can use the Armor of Darkness to fulfill their revenge on Asuka.