"One! Hate unjust, evil deeds! Two! Pursue mysterious cases and... three! Investigate with futuristic science! Four! The horrible evil of the universe... five! Speedily exterminate!"

伴番赤座 - Banban Akaza (22-year old 載寧龍二 Ryuji Sainei). They call him Ban. He was in training out in space until he was assigned to the SPD Earth Unit. One of the formative experiences of his life was when a child hit/attacked by Moyaida died in his arms. Ban follows orders... mostly. He's the team's fireball. He has a chaotic, but fiercely loyal personality. He drives regularly the Machine Doberman patrol car, pilots the PatStriker and the PatWing 1, and tries his best to compete with Hoji for girls. He won Deka Gold's attention in the Fullblast Action Dekaranger movie, fell for and lost the lovely Maira in episodes 9 and 10, much to his distress won Faraway's heart in episode 30, and bonded with Yarko in episode 38. Episode 20 was one of his, no girls that time. When the Earth was at threat, he cut Hoji out of the picture to protect him and ran the danger of dying to save us all in episode 43. When he saw Jasmine's and Hoji's deep distress over their former partner and friend Gyoku Rou, he took off to find the man for them in episode 47. His initiative and fighting spirit so impressed Rou, he was offered a position on the Fire Squad team. But he was hesitant to leave the Earth team, for he knew the one weakness they had. None of them was a fireball like himself. They could be stopped. When he was body-snatched in episode 48, Tetsu took up the challenge and ran the risk of killing Ban to stop the enemy, proving that he had what it took and making Ban feel secure about leaving to pursue his career.


戸増宝児 - Houji Tomasu (21-year old 林剛史 Tsuyoshi Hayashi). The most professional member of the team, Hoji is a perfect shot. He also seems incredibly arrogant and it takes a long time to get to know him. He was the leader of the Earth team, actually, until Ban grew into the part. A master of the machines they drive and the computer systems they use. He rides the Machine Husky motorcycle, pilots the PatGyrer and the PatWing 2. He was not at all happy with Ban's arrival, didn't like the boy. Episode 11 was our first look into his heart, when he found that a former partner of his had gone bad. The episode exposed a fragility about him. Then, in episode 19 he was body-switched, and had to somehow convince the team, unable to communicate with them, that he was not the criminal alien. Episode 26 showed us his will and determination, when he got the crap beat out of him in an illegal fight-club trying to catch the criminals, which he eventually won. In episode 43 he shared the spotlight with Ban, when he tried to risk his life to save the world and went hysterical when he thought Ban was dead. In episode 47, we found out something we'd had no clue about. That before they'd gotten their Deka suits, he and Jasmine had been captured by an Alienizer. They'd been saved from certain death by the man who was Red, but that man was crippled in the saving. And then he'd left and they never heard from him. So Hoji and Jasmine blamed themselves, and Hoji had not liked Ban replacing his former commander. That same fragility was exposed again in episode 48, when he could not bring himself to do what he had to, kill Ban to stop the enemy. He finally returned Ban's affection and called him buddy, but that was after a year.


江成仙一 - Senichi Enari (19-year old 伊藤陽佑 Yosuke Ito). They call him Sen-chan. He is the most intelligent of the team, with a remarkable ability to think things through. Oddly, he does his best thinking when he's upside down. Perhaps it's all the blood rushing to his head.... He drives the Machine Bull as partner for Umeko. He pilots the PatRailer and PatWing 3. Sen was almost always the one with sense. And he was often showcased at his best. In episode 6 he quickly pinpointed the actual suspect in a murder investigation. In episodes 15 and 16 he recognized the emerging persona in the robot girl he named Flora, and taught her what it meant that she was alive. In episode 25 he was injured and saved by an elderly alien woman, living on Earth disguised as a young girl, and she temporarily turned him into a man of more appropriate age for her. Episode 34 and he had to save the life of an alien who had accidently gotten himself targetted by aliens who amused themselves hunting down sentient prey. In episode 41, Sen was captured by an alien criminal who stashed him in a room that was closing in on him, and we learned that, as a child, he'd fallen down a well and now has a fear of enclosed spaces. He was almost overwhelmed, until Ban's furious shouting broke him out of it. He saved all their lives by figuring out how the alien was killing. In episode 46 he had a worse problem, when he found Umeko being victimized by an alien, and he went nearly mad with fury about it. He saved the team by signalling with the lights in the base to tell them how to override the cockpit.


礼紋茉莉花 - Marika Reimon (19-year old 木下あゆ美 Ayumi Kinoshita). They call her Jasmine. She rides shotgun in the Machine Doberman with Ban. She pilots the Pat Armor and PatWing 4. We learn right away that she is psychic. By preference or habit she picks up her sense impressions through her right hand. She's a calm, collected individual. But she wasn't always that way. She is showcased in episodes 7 and 8, where we learn that as she was growing up, her powers would periodically spike. At those times the thoughts of everyone around her would come rushing in until she drowned. When her best friend's thoughts came through exasperated with the fact that she'd go weird in the middle of school sometimes, it broke her heart. She almost committed suicide-by-Alienizer, when Doggie Kruger found them and saved first her life, and then her sanity. Jasmine returned the favor, by rescuing a lonely boy with the power of teleportation from being led into evil by an Alienizer. Jasmine was featured again in episode 17, mostly having to deal with Umeko deciding to turn herself into an imitation-Jasmine. Thankfully that was sorted out. Then Jasmine had to deal in three episodes with an Alienizer female of terrible power, who wanted to keep our heroine as a pet. Or possibly something less wholesome, but they never said. Jasmine was instrumental in detecting and defeating the crazed Alienizers. In episode 27, Jasmine was shot by Niwande, accidently. He was aiming for the murdering alienizer his former "little brother" had become. She kept him from becoming a murderer. In episode 35, Jasmine had to deal with a retired veteren alien who'd come to Earth seeking revenge on the three Alienizer who murdered his daughter, thirteen years before. She managed to stop him in his murderous course and help him heal. Jasmine, as with Hoji, had been wounded when their team leader was crippled saving their lives. She might have taken it more personally in a way. The Alienizer who'd taken them sucked the life-force out of espers to power himself. With Hoji, she had to learn not to let even that terrible even overwhelm her good sense.


胡堂小梅 - Koume Kodou (20-year old 菊地美香 Mika Kikuchi). They call her Umeko. They once dedicated a whole episode around how you shouldn't judge people by first impressions. With Umeko, it required second, third, fourth, fifth... for me, anyway. She had the dubious honor of being written as the team nitwit. She rides with Sen in the Machine Bull. She pilots the Pat Signal and PatWing 5. She is a master of disguise, but that's actually done by just using a different actor. She spends every moment she can in a bubble bath. She was featured in episode 5, in which she happened to lose her badge while shopping, then get assigned to train Murphy, the K9 robot who becomes their cannon. She was featured again in Episode 12, when an alien baby dropped on Earth decided she was its mother. She soon adapted to the role and adored the baby. In episode 17, after screwing up at a stakeout and seeing how Jasmine saved the day, she tried to be Jasmine. I thought that was the most ridiculous thing to have an adult woman, a trained police officer, do. Umeko was next featured in episode 24. She managed to be the hostage negotiator with an alien who speaks in opposites. She figured that out, but still managed to screw up. I found that annoying of the scriptwriters. Finally they did a really good Umeko episode, 31. There is a princess from an alien world who looks exactly like Umeko. Our girl spends the day playing princess to expose an assassination plot. Unfortunately, being a princess proves to involve lots of painful, annoying trials, and Umeko eventually blows her top. She also wears a protective vest hidden under her clothing, demonstrating she does have more sense than we've been shown. In episode 39, Umeko volunteers to get sucked into an Alienizer's dreamworld in order to find and save other young women whose minds have been stolen away. The alien torments her constantly with visions of everyone in the base dying because of her, and demonic toys. In episode 46 we find Umeko's had a boyfriend for three months, who is so busy she only ever sees him for an hour at a time, and he asks her to marry him. Unfortunately, he's an Alienizer who, for sport, makes young women fall in love with him, and then when they utterly give him their hearts, slaughters them. Umeko is under his influence, but unfortunately for him, she hears him bragging about it to Sen, and breaks the spell herself, as well as taking him out of the picture. She then realizes she's falling for Sen, but hides it as best she can.


Dekabreak, super-elite in from space to fight the worst of the Alienizer coming to Earth. Tetsukan Aira 姶良鉄幹 (22 year old 吉田友一 Tomokazu Yoshida), affectionately known as Tetsu. He rides the Machin Boxer, something so badly designed they could only show it with CGI. But heck, it's of alien make. He drove the Deka Bike, which could transform into the DekaBike Robo, and much to his surprise the others insisted on hopping the Deka Robo aboard it like it was a real motorcycle. In the movie he piloted the Blast Buggy, but that didn't come to Earth. In episodes 28 and 29, they introduced us to the Alienizer who'd murdered Tetsu's parents when he was about five years old. That was actually sort of an accident. Their car had crossed that Alienizer's path when he was running from the police and he'd automaticall blasted it. Tetsu's mother had begged him to save her son. He'd done that, mesmerized by the flames and her eyes, then left the little boy by the flaming wreckage. Tetsu was raised by the Space Police off-planet. He arrived in the series around episode 22, sent in to use his training and specially engineered suit to stop the Three Hell's Siblings. He had complete confidence in himself. He knew the limits of his suit. He tried to ground the Dekaranger, convinced they'd only get in his way since they didn't seem capable of obeying his orders. He took an instant liking to Swan and hoped to lure her away from Earth by promising a bigger lab. He thought he knew all there was to know about his enemies... but he didn't. They pulled a resurrection out of their hats and he was almost killed. The Dekaranger pulled his fat out of the fire, showing him that there were things he had yet to learn. So he stayed on Earth and called them his seniors, halfway like a lost puppy. He learned that Umeko was an incredibly bad shot (but certainly better than I), that Hoji was a better shot than he was. That Ban had a will stronger than the suits they wore. That Sen was cleverer than he was, and that Jasmine had abilities you can't build into any suit. In episode 40, he was almost taken back into space by his commanding officer, who was deeply annoyed to discover his professionalism had been compromised, corrupted by emotion. But he learned from a child how to defeat the enemy, while she was nearly killed by that same. And the threat of being demoted proved hollow, for he was a police officer, regardless of the color of his badge. Tetsu was vaguely featured in episode 45, when we found that an alien had fallen utterly in love with him, and he thought it was because the alien believed he was a woman.... But it was Tetsu who proved that he could let emotion drive him to do what had to be done, to risk killing Ban to stop the Alienizer controlling him. That freed Ban to leave, and Tetsu has taken his station as the fifth Dekaranger on Earth.