With Zyuohger’s premiere less than a week away, here’s the episode summaries for the first two episodes! Be warned: they contain A LOT of spoilers for the first two episodes.

Episode 1: Heart-pounding Animal Land (Airdate: February 14th)

Summary: While giving a group of children a tour of the forest, novice zoologist Yamato Kazakiri drops his childhood charm - a cube - and chases after it. He finds it near a huge cube structure - the Link Cube - and discovers that his own cube fits perfectly in a slot embedded in the Link Cube. After placing it in the slot, a door appears and sucks Yamato into it.

Yamato wakes up in a strange land, Zyuland, which is inhabited by beastmen called Zyuman and is discovered by four of them: Sera, Leo, Tusk, and Amu. Meanwhile, a huge spacecraft belonging to the space outlaws Deathgaliens approaches Earth, which they plan on making the next ‘playground’ for their Blood Game.

The Zyumans explain that the Link Cube connects the “Human World” and “Zyuland”. The only way to activate the portal is by inserting all six King’s Credentials into the Link Cube. However, one of the King’s Credentials was lost a long time ago. With Yamato being in possession of the lost King’s Credential he is instantly thought to have been the thief that stole it. Scared, Yamato fleas back to the Human World through the Link Cube but is chased by Sera, Leo, Tusk, and Amu. However, when they arrive in the Human World, they witness people and animals alike running from the Deathgalien invaders.

Episode 2: Don’t Underestimate This Planet (Airdate: February 21st)

Summary: Using the hidden power of the “King’s Credentials”, Yamato, Sera, Leo, Tusk, and Amu were able to transform into the Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger. However, even though they were able to defeat the Deathgalien’s vanguard, the Zyumans lost one of the six King’s Credentials needed to open the portal to Zyuland. Without the last King’s Credential, the four Zyuman cannot return to their homeland.

Yamato, feeling responsible, offers to take care of the four Zyuman and let them live with his Uncle Mario and himself. Sera, Leo, and Amu accept but Tusk refuses Yamato’s offer and goes off alone. Yamato, concerned about Tusk, wants to go after him but a new Deathgalien appears.

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