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| Yuki Yajima, the first Yellow Four. |
Everybody in the Philippines love the eighth Super Sentai series, Choudenshi Bioman. It brings back memories of my childhood days (I watch it along with Maskman). And everyone already knew that Mika Koizumi, the first Yellow Four, will die along the series.
The death of Mika happened in Choudenshi Bioman Episode 10: "Goodbye Yellow". Doctorman got a Bio Particle Negator, put inside the Bio Killer Gun. The Bio Killer Gun is said to deplete the Bioman's Bio Particles to make them weak and powerless. It was turned into an ammunition for a rifle-like weapon. Doctorman entrusted this weapon to Mason. He first targeted Red One but Yellow Four used her body to block it.
Yellow Four started to weaken. And since they are in a pinch, they retreated. But as they retreated and turned into normal humans, Mika is left somewhere, still having the Yellow Four suit. And as the episode progresses, they found out the weapon's weakness, the ammunition is rapidly depleting, and found a way to counter it.
Since weakened, Yellow Four took the heroic act and accepts all the lasers fired by Mason until it depleted and no more ammunition to fire. And weaker as before she was easily defeated and killed by Psygorn.
As always, BioRobo needs to fight the Mecha Gigan Chameleon Kans, the Biomen left Mika in the hands of Pibo. As the enemy got defeated, they got back on the side of Mika, which is still inside the Yellow Four suit. A footage of her waving goodbye is seen in her Super Electron Holography. And as we all knew, she was later replaced by Jun Yabuki as Yellow Four II.
As I have heard from many Sentai fans, Mika died in a very heroic and tragic death. She risks and sacrifices her life in having her friends from actual defeat, which could lead to Earth's fall on the Neo Empire's hands. One's death is much better than the death of the whole team.
But... And yes, a big BUT... Mika's death makes me wonder why is she still inside the suit when she is already weakened and later died? In most Sentai shows, once a warrior is already weak due to a battle, his/her suit automatically wears out and making him/her defenseless. But this did not happen on Yellow Four.
Yellow Four started to weaken. And since they are in a pinch, they retreated. But as they retreated and turned into normal humans, Mika is left somewhere, still having the Yellow Four suit. And as the episode progresses, they found out the weapon's weakness, the ammunition is rapidly depleting, and found a way to counter it.
Since weakened, Yellow Four took the heroic act and accepts all the lasers fired by Mason until it depleted and no more ammunition to fire. And weaker as before she was easily defeated and killed by Psygorn.
As always, BioRobo needs to fight the Mecha Gigan Chameleon Kans, the Biomen left Mika in the hands of Pibo. As the enemy got defeated, they got back on the side of Mika, which is still inside the Yellow Four suit. A footage of her waving goodbye is seen in her Super Electron Holography. And as we all knew, she was later replaced by Jun Yabuki as Yellow Four II.
As I have heard from many Sentai fans, Mika died in a very heroic and tragic death. She risks and sacrifices her life in having her friends from actual defeat, which could lead to Earth's fall on the Neo Empire's hands. One's death is much better than the death of the whole team.
But... And yes, a big BUT... Mika's death makes me wonder why is she still inside the suit when she is already weakened and later died? In most Sentai shows, once a warrior is already weak due to a battle, his/her suit automatically wears out and making him/her defenseless. But this did not happen on Yellow Four.
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| Yellow Four |
This made me notice that Yuki Yajima, the actress who portrayed the role of Mika Koizumi, is only seen in the first minutes of the episodes and was not seen again throughout. This pretty much hinted to me that the actress ditched very early in the series.
I've read about various rumors about Yellow Four's disappearance. The truth is still unknown but what almost all rumors have in common is that Yajima staged a walkout (Wikipedia also says so in Japanese language). There are many guesses for the reason of her disappearance. The most widely accepted is that she ran away with her manager.
Another rumor is that Yajima worked at a bar in those days in 1984. One day she was so busy on her work in the bar that she ended up missing and did not show up at the tapings. The furious director insulted her so severely that Yajima decided to abandon the tapings since then. All of JAC (Japan Action Club) members and her co-actors knew where she was at this point. They tried to convince her to come back to the program, even to the point where Yukari Oshima / Cynthia Luster (a.k.a Farrah Cat) visited her house to persuade her but in vain.
Consequently JAC, the management office responsible for casting the actors in Bioman, decided to cast Sumiko Tanaka in Yajima's place, and became Jun Yabuki (Yellow Four II).
Still another rumor is that Yajima left the show possibly out of pay issues, similar to Austin St. John (Red Ranger I), Walter Emanuel Jones (Black Ranger I), and the late Thuy Trang (Yellow Ranger I) in the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
But whatever the rumors are, there is still one undeniable fact: Yellow Four is the first female Sentai Warrior to die.
Source:
http://www.jefusion.com/
I've read about various rumors about Yellow Four's disappearance. The truth is still unknown but what almost all rumors have in common is that Yajima staged a walkout (Wikipedia also says so in Japanese language). There are many guesses for the reason of her disappearance. The most widely accepted is that she ran away with her manager.
Another rumor is that Yajima worked at a bar in those days in 1984. One day she was so busy on her work in the bar that she ended up missing and did not show up at the tapings. The furious director insulted her so severely that Yajima decided to abandon the tapings since then. All of JAC (Japan Action Club) members and her co-actors knew where she was at this point. They tried to convince her to come back to the program, even to the point where Yukari Oshima / Cynthia Luster (a.k.a Farrah Cat) visited her house to persuade her but in vain.
Consequently JAC, the management office responsible for casting the actors in Bioman, decided to cast Sumiko Tanaka in Yajima's place, and became Jun Yabuki (Yellow Four II).
Still another rumor is that Yajima left the show possibly out of pay issues, similar to Austin St. John (Red Ranger I), Walter Emanuel Jones (Black Ranger I), and the late Thuy Trang (Yellow Ranger I) in the second season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
But whatever the rumors are, there is still one undeniable fact: Yellow Four is the first female Sentai Warrior to die.
Source:
http://www.jefusion.com/
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