VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire (ＶＳ騎士ラムネ＆４０炎, Basaasu Naito Ramune & 40 Fuaia) is a Japanese original video animation series that follows the adventures of Cacao and Parfait, holy virgins, in their search and rescue mission of the 4th Warrior Ramunes, given to them by the apparent head of their religious order, Master Follower. They are joined in these adventures by Lemon, a twelve-year-old girl, and PQ, a hand-sized blob with a face that is an expert on spiritual topics. The OVA is known as VS Knight Lamune and 40 Fresh (VS騎士ラムネ&40FRESH) in Japan, and is a sequel to VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire, an anime television series; it was released in the U.S. by Software Sculptors and Central Park Media.
Overview[]
Ashi Production once produced "NG Knight Ramune & 40" as a TV animation (April 6, 1990 - January 4, 1991), but since then it has been developed in various forms such as OVA, radio drama, and novels. This work will be the first new TV version in six years, and the series composition will continue to be handled by Satoru Akahori.
The main character of the previous work, Ramune Baba (2nd generation Ramnes), and the heroine of the previous work, Arara Milk's son "Baba Ramunedo", become "3rd generation Ramnes" and adventure. Tsuyoshi Kusao also played the role of Ramune, following the role of Ramune . In addition, it inherits many of the worldviews and characters from the previous work. Among them, "Da Cider" played by Kazuki Yao and "Heavy Metallica" played by TARAKO have appeared as main characters in this work as well.
Like the previous work, it is basically a bright style, but the final chapter turned into a serious development.
In 2009, the DVDBOX was released as a first-time limited production. After that, sales of single DVDs also started.
Synopsis[]
VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fire[]
Baba Ramunade III is followed home by two strange peddler girls who give him a CD-rom game. After he beats "The Legend of Ramuness", the girls come out of his computer and bring him to DokiDoki Space. He is the third descendant of the hero Ramuness who must stop Don Genosai from resurrecting the great evil Abraham. Accompanied by PQ, his advisor robot, and Parfait and Cacao, he must pilot the Kaiser Fire mecha. However, he needs another pilot, and Da Cider is chosen as the second pilot.
VS Knight Lamune & 40 Fresh[]
To save the galaxy from impending doom, Cacao and Parfait are sent on a mission through time and space to retrieve the Fourth Warrior, Lamunes.
Unfortunately, Cacao and Parfait discover Lamunes at the helm of the marauding Giga Genos invasion fleet. World by world, Lamunes is determined to bring the entire galaxy under his tyrannical heel. With the help of a plicky orphan, it's up to Cacao and Parfait to stop Lamunes from taking over the world.
List of Published Books[]
A five-volume manga by Mine Yoshizaki based on the series was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's, Monthly Shonen Ace magazine from June 1996 to July 1998.
- Released date July 4, 1996 - ISBN 978-4047131446
- Released date December 6, 1996 - ISBN 978-4047131682
- Released date July 10, 1997 - ISBN 978-4047131873
- Released date January 16, 1998 - ISBN 978-4047132061
- Released date August 3, 1998 - ISBN 978-4047132290
TV Anime[]
The show lasted for 26 episodes, and its story follows the adventures of Baba Ramunade III, the son of Baba Ramune II (the protagonist of NG Knight Lamune & 40).
Staff[]
- Comicalization - Yoshizaki Kannon (Kadokawa Shoten "Monthly Shonen Ace" serialization)
- Planning - Toshihiko Sato
- General Director - Hiroshi Negishi
- Original Draft/Series Composition - Satoru Akahori
- Series Composition Supplement - Masaharu Amiya
- Literary Setting - Masanobu Arakawa
- Screenplay Cooperation - Buraza Appo
- Chief Director - Yoshitaka Fujimoto
- Character Design - Tsukasa Kotobuki
- Animation Character Design - Kazuya Kuroda (Zero G Room)
- Character Design Works - Seiji Kishimoto
- Main Mechanic Design - Yoshinori Sayama
- Mechanic Design Works - Hiroshi Ogawa
- Main Mechanic Animator - Koji Ito
- Color Design - Michiaki Nakano
- Art Director - Toshihisa Koyama
- Cinematographer - Mitsuru Sugiura
- Chief Editor - Jun Taguma
- Acoustic Director - Hideyuki Tanaka
- Music - Akira Odawara, Akira Nishizawa, Shinkichi Mitsumune (episode 8-)
- Music Producer - Yuji Ozeki (Gabby Office)
- Music Cooperation - TV Tokyo Music
- Producer - Manabu Shandong
- Setting production - Shigeki Hatakeyama
- Producers - Noriko Kobayashi (TV Tokyo), Ritsushi Yamazaki (ASATSU), Akiyoshi Sakai (Ashi Production)
- Production - TV Tokyo, ASATSU, Ashi Production
| Episode No. | On-air date | Subtitle | Screenplay | Comte | Staging | Animation Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 3, 1996 | The Hero Reborn!! | Satoru Akahori | Hiroshi Negishi | Yuusuke Yamamoto | Tsunenori Saito |
| 2 | April 10th | The Legendary Hero Appears | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Seiji Kishimoto | ||
| 3 | April 17th | Doubts!! What it Takes to be a Hero. | Masaharu Amiyama | Hiroshi Nishikori | Ikuo Shimazu | |
| 4 | April 24th | The Bewitching Gates | Katsumi Hasegawa | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Akira Shimizu | Masayuki Hiraoka |
| 5 | May 1st | The Dangerous Hero Stew | Sumio Uetake | Shōri to han'ei | Toru Katagiri | |
| 6 | May 8th | The Hungry Prince | Jun Takada | Takao Maki | ||
| 7 | May 15th | The Spirit Knights Clash?! | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Osamu Sato | |
| 8 | May 22nd | The Legend in the Ice | Masaharu Amiyama | Yuusuke Yamamoto | Kazuya Kuroda, Tsunenori Saito | |
| 9 | May 29th | The Love That Transcended Time!! | Katsumi Hasegawa | Hiroshi Nishikori | Ikuo Shimazu | |
| 10 | June 5th | Love's Memory | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Seiji Kishimoto | ||
| 11 | June 12th | The Uncertain Hero | Sumio Uetake | Shōri to han'ei | Natsuki Egami | |
| 12 | June 19th | The Showdown at Dimension Castle!! | Satoru Akahori | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Akira Shimizu | Masayuki Hiraoka |
| 13 | June 26th | The Enemy's Name is Black Lamuness! | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Osamu Sato | ||
| 14 | July 3rd | Into the VS Field!! | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Seiji Kishimoto | ||
| 15 | July 10th | Stone Panic | Nobuaki Kishima | Jun Takada | Takao Maki | |
| 16 | July 17th | The Nightmare Exposed | Sumio Uetake | Shōri to han'ei | Natsuki Egami | |
| 17 | July 24th | A Game of Hero Snakes and Ladders?! | Masaharu Amiyama | Hiroyuki Ishido | Ikuo Shimazu | |
| 18 | July 31st | Who Am I?! | Katsumi Hasegawa | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Akira Shimizu | Masayuki Hiraoka |
| 19 | August 7th | The Hero is a Three-Year-Old?! | Nobuaki Kishima | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Osamu Sato | |
| 20 | August 14th | Cacao's Tears! | Masafumi Kubota | Shigeki Hatakeyama | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Seiji Kishimoto |
| 21 | August 21st | Parfait's Heart is Pounding | Masaharu Amiyama | Hiroshi Nishikori | Yoshiki Yoshida | Nobuhiro Hosoi |
| 22 | August 28th | The Phantom Girl | Katsumi Hasegawa | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Yoshihiro Oda | Takao Maki |
| 23 | September 4th | The Distant Vow | Sumio Uetake | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Osamu Horiuchi | |
| 24 | September 11th | Dandy's Suicide Strike!! | Satoru Akahori | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Tetsuya Kobayashi | Osamu Sato |
| 25 | September 18th | Love, Sorrow, and Friendship | Yoshihiro Oda | Takao Maki | ||
| 26 | September 25th | The Legend's End | Yoshitaka Fujimoto | Seiji Kishimoto | ||
OVA[]
A sequel OVA was created called VS Knight Lamune & 40 FRESH (ＶＳ騎士ラムネ＆４０ＦＲＥＳＨ, Bāsasu Naito Ramune ando Fōtī Furesshu) which follows the adventures of Cacao and Parfait, holy virgins, in their search and rescue mission of the 4th Warrior Ramunes, given to them by the apparent head of their religious order, Master Follower. The anime was licensed in North America by Discotek Media on December 2, 2019, and can be watched on Crunchyroll.
Staff (OVA)[]
- Planning: Toshihiko Sato
- Original: Ashi Pro Planning Office
- Original Plan / Series Composition: Satoru Akahori
- Director: Fujimoto Yoshitaka
- Screenplay: Katsumi Hasegawa
- Character Design/Total Drawing Director: Osamu Horiuchi
- Main mechanical design: Yoshinori Sayama
- Mechanical design: Hiroshi Ogawa
- Producer: Hiroshi Kato
- Animation Mechanic Design: Seiji Kishimoto
- Color Design: Satoko Asai
- Art Director: Osamu Honda
- Director of Photography: Kazuhiro Konishi
- Editing: Jun Taguma
- Sound Director: Hideyuki Tanaka
- Music: Yo Imaizumi
- Production: Ashi Production
『VS Knight Ramune & 40 FRESH』 is an OVA series created in 1997 as a sequel. Directed by Yoshitaka Fujimoto. The OAV is known as VS Knight Ramune and 40 Fresh (VS騎士ラムネ&40FRESH) in Japan, and is a sequel to VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire, an anime television series; it was released in the U.S. by Software Sculptors and Central Park Media.
In addition, Takeshi Kusao, who played the role of the main character in "NG" and the previous work, plays the villain / fake Ramness "Rumfard Orisis" and the key person in the story, "Legendary Knight" in this work.
After the release of Vol.6 in November, the sequel OVA series 『VS Knight Lamune & 40 FRESH LEMON』(Versus Night Ramune and Forty Fresh Lemon) was planned to be released, but it was actually a false notice of undecided production. As a result, the Ramune & 40 series was discontinued with this work.
| No. of Episode | Subtitle | Staging | Animation Director | Mechanical-Animation Director | Chief Animation Director | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | Go on a Trip! | Yoshihiro Oda | Osamu Sato | Seiji Kishimoto | Osamu Horiuchi | May 21, 1997 |
| Volume 2 | Past and Present | Fujimoto Yoshishita | Takao Maki | Ichiro Kobe | June 21st | |
| Volume 3 | Broken Heart | Yoshihiro Oda | Yuichi Nihei | July 24th | ||
| Volume 4 | True Destination | Fujimoto Yoshishita | Takao Maki, Osamu Horiuchi | - | August 21st | |
| Volume 5 | The Other World | Yoshihiro Oda | Yuichi Nihei | Osamu Horiuchi | October 22nd | |
| Volume 6 | Endless Legend | Fujimoto Yoshishita | November 21st |
Character[]
The main character of this work. He is in the third year of junior high school. His signature line is "I'm feeling incredibly hot blooded!!! RIGHT NOW!!!" Since the predecessor, the second Ramunes, lost his power as a hero, he was summoned from Maji Maji World to Doki Doki Space by Parfait and Cacao as a new hero to defeat the Great Evil God Abram. A hero who inherits ". He also serves as a Kaiser Fire pilot. It is also possible to fly using the hot-blooded boosters on both his hips. Like the second hero in the previous work, he is called "Ramuness" in the story, and he is almost never called his real name "Ramunade". He is later revealed to be the son of the second hero Ramunes (Ramune Baba) and the third princess of the Kingdom of Arara, Milk. He lives in an apartment.
He has a personality just like his father, but unlike Ramune, who had a lot of affairs even after he became a lover with Milk, he was devoted to his favorite, and after the appearance of drums, he was devoted to drums. He is also a "glutton", according to PQ. Since he is 15 years older than Ramune, who was 10 years old, he is also in the middle of puberty, so when he is awakened by an unpleasant past, he falls into self-loathing.
After learning the truth of the Ramune's legend, he tried to defeat Abram without using the sword of Ramune's, but in the end, with the self-sacrifice of Mito and Drum and the support of Da Cider, he used the sword of Ramune's and Abram to destroy. Immediately after returning to Maji Maji World, he learned that his friend Yume was the reincarnation of the drums, and was greeted by his resurrected parents. Then, knowing that the friends of Doki Doki Space were also revived, the first and second generations shouted without embarrassment, "I'm passionate about Mourets!", and the story ended.
In the comic version, he loses his memory in a battle with the Ultimate Evil Knight Trianglant and drifts to an uninhabited island with Cacao. His name at that time was "Muneras-sama". Cacao's death made him angry at the world, awakening as a destroyer, the "Jet Black Brave", absorbing the "Jet Black Power" from Abram and becoming a "Black Ramunes" that surpassed Abram, but parfait saved his heart. Awakening the power of a hero, he became Ramunes Fire. After the battle, when he returned to Earth, he was called by PQ and moved to Doki Doki Space again. He will bring light to a world where there is neither darkness nor light and revive those who have died in battle.
Abilities[]
As a 3rd Generation Hero, he has a contrary playful demeanor and a quick mind like his father. The 3rd generation Ramune manipulates the Divine Spirit Knight Kaiser Fire. A hot-blooded man with a strong sense of justice who is light-hearted. He gradually awakens to his awareness as a hero. Angered by the loss of Cacao, he awakens to his power as a destroyer, but with Fruit Parfait's guidance, he regains his righteous mind. After defeating the original Ramune, who assimilated with Abram, he returns to his original world.
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| Age: 2 years old in human terms / Total length: Spherical with a diameter of about 7cm / Weight: 2kg (CV: Satomi Cricket) The son of Tama-Q and Ure-P, who appeared in the previous work "NG Knight Ramune & 40", and an advisor robot for Ramunade. He uses PQ gates attached to Ramunade and Cacao, allowing him to move freely between the two. He has a very shy personality. There is also a heartless side that quickly escapes so that he will not be harmed by his master's pinch. He is also quite a sharp tongue, and if he says anything unnecessary, he is beaten, pulled, and twisted by Ramunade in retaliation. There are brothers with similar appearances, and it is impossible to tell who is PQ (appeared in "NG Knight Lamune & 40 DX"). In the comic version, the Kaiser Fire was wrecked in the battle against the Ultimate Evil Spirit Knight Triangrant, and the PQ CD-ROM was also damaged. Kaiser Fire was self-repaired but cannot be summoned since there is no CD-ROM. In front of the resurrected Abram, he used his own body and memory to turn into a pseudo-CD and summon Kaiser Fire NEO (after that, there is a piece with his body lying around). However, he did not die and calmly appeared to summon Ramune who had returned to Earth. |
In the previous work "NG Knight Ramune & 40", he was another hero who fought alongside the second-generation hero Ramune, also known as Ramune, and was also a passenger of the guardian knight "Queen Sideron". He freezes the minds of his opponents by saying very cold puns.
He rushes in front of Ramunade as a hero but loses Queen Sideron while the Evil Spirit Knight's merciless preemptive attack fails. He decided to board the Kaiser Fire. He often quarreled with Ramunade over trivial matters, and there were many clashes due to stubborn rivalries over "who is the true hero?" He is the 2nd Brave Cider, and a descendant of the 1st Brave Cider who fought Gobouriki and Abram alongside the first Ramnes. He is also the reincarnation of the brave Cider, and the memory of the soul that saw off the first-generation Ramness, who rushed in to seal Abram, overlapped with the third-generation Ramness, who similarly thrust into Abram.
In the final episode, after Ramnado was taken down from Kaiser Fire, it exploded with Kaiser Fire and was thought to have died, but she was saved and returned to Resca. At 20 years old, he is the oldest member, and he should be an experienced senior who has survived all the battles in the "NG" series. is not respected at all, and Ramunedo is called "old man" or "perverted pun father". However, when Ramnes collapses, he is worried and shows his elder side, such as protecting parfait and cacao.
In addition, the design of the machine gun has changed from the previous work to a guitar type, but this is a parody of the main character "Nekki Basara" of "Macross 7".
In the comic version's appearance scene, he appears riding a mecha called Orient Cydance, which he obtained during his travels, but he is completely useless and is defeated. He didn't ride the Guardian Knight Queen Saidalon, but he boarded it in the final stage. After being separated from Ramunes and the others in the battle against the ultimate evil spirit knight Triangrant, he serves as the leader of the anti-Abram resistance organization "Mr. Da Ciders", which leads the other Guardian Knights (Forties). He boarded the Dimensional Castle alone to help the captive Leskas, but was defeated in a battle with Gel Genosai in a state of severe exhaustion due to the Negative Wall. He almost lost his life in a suicide attack once, but was revived by the second Ramone pouring his life (energy) into him. In the battle against Abram, he pilots the Kaiser Fire NEO with the second Ramunes. Abram became the first generation Ramuness (hereinafter "Black Ramuness"), and Kaiser Fire NEO was wrecked with a blow of darkness. He tries to hit Black Ramuness with one shot in the flesh, but he runs out of strength and dies again.
Abilities[]
He actually bears more of a comic relief role during the series. Near the middle of the series, Da Cider realized he was brainwashed by Don Harumage and becomes one of the good guys as destined, but still maintains sort of a villainous image. Da Cider is incredibly stubborn and arrogant; he'll always be the one getting in fights with Ramune. He meets up with the new Ramuness in the second episode after attempting to save him from Pheromone Lip and Narcist Dandy and is Ramuness' partner to pilot Kaiser Fire. He eventually follows the footsteps of the first-generation Cider, that is fighting with Ramune and in the end watches him fight Abraham. Da Cider have odd perception of everything but this method his is actually helpful in combat giving them a perfect synergy with Ramune III.
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Heavy Meta-Ko (ヘビメタコ) Age: Age doesn't matter because it doesn't grow / Total length: About 25cm / Weight: 2kg (Voiced by TARAKO) A snake-type advisor robot for Da Cider. He calls him "Darling" in this work, and he is always in his shoulder pad. In the previous work, he had the role of summoning Queen Sideron, but in this work, the summoning egg was destroyed by the enemy, so he lost his position as a summoner. He mainly plays the role of drummer for Da Cider's puns, but one side was drawn, such as complaining about parfait's hysteria and being fond of jewelry. |
A real-life super robot. It is different from the previous work, which was mainly deformed robots. It is summoned across the space-time gate from the organ space-time laboratory "Temple between dimensions" in the super future world just before the destruction of Doki Doki Space. The reason why it can be summoned even in the virtual world "VS Field" is because Organ knew in advance that it would fight in the VS Field.
According to the legend, it is the knight who sealed the Great Evil God Abram, but it is different from the truth, and it is said that the first Ramune's used it to seal Abram after switching from King Squasher after the battle with Gobouriki, but in reality, the organ is the third generation Ramune's. A copy of the three Divine Spirit Knights created after seeing the "Divine Spirit Knights I made myself" made for us.
In the comic version, the ruby "Ramunes Spirits" is given to the Divine Spirit Knight.
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A Divine Spirit Knight for close-range combat, Flame Spirit Emperor, was created by Organ in the temple between dimensions to defeat the Great Evil God Abram. He puts a golden CD-ROM in PQ's mouth and summons it. The cockpit is double-seat, with Ramunado in charge of maneuvering at the bottom, and Da Cider in control of the weapon at the top, but the seats often change. Since the DNA of the 3rd generation Ramuness (Baba Ramunade) has been registered by Organ from the design stage, it is impossible to summon anyone other than the 3rd generation Ramuness (when the spirit is replaced, Da Cider, who has the body of Ramuness, will be summoned). Organic parts are reminiscent of bones and muscles exposed in the cross-section of the arms and legs cut off in the battle against Godbram. The color of the oil (?) is green. He defeats Godbraam, even though he is full of wounds, but as a result, Abram is released from the prison called "the body of the first Ramness", and is completely destroyed and exploded by the fully revived Abram (At this time, the armor is removed. All of them were blown away and their bare bodies were exposed). Unlike the previous King Squasher, the fate to lose was decided from the beginning. Its main armament is the telescopic sword on its right shoulder, the "Kaiser Phi Blade". Its Special Move is manipulating the power of the Divine Spirit of Fire and striking the phoenix to pulverize the enemy (Kaizeru Phi Blade). In addition, when Kaiser Fai Blade is activated, the blade of the knife extends and becomes a sword, so it is named Blade. In the battle against Godbram, the depiction is different, Kaiser Fire himself is charging with flames without hitting the phoenix. Also, only Ramuness can be used due to the design concept of the organ. The left arm is equipped with a bow, and in episode 15, he uses the "Diamond Arrow" obtained in the VS Field. When summoned: (After PQ swallows the CD-ROM and [NOW LOADING] [...0101011...] [SET UP] is displayed) It is summoned by shouting "Kaiser Fire!". In the comic version, he was wrecked in a battle with the Ultimate Evil Spirit Knight Triangrant. Evolved into Kaiserfire NEO along with self-repair. NEO's passengers are Da Cider and the second-generation Ramnes. His special move is the Royal Five Blade. Powers include flight, the Kaiser Fi-Blade which launches firebirds, and an ice magic arrow called the Diamond Arrow.
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Video Game[]
The main mecha of the series, Kaiser Fire, was featured in the 2011 video game Another Century's Episode Portable and noted as being the only true super robot in the otherwise real robot cast. Kaiser Fire was also featured in the 2015 mobile game Super Robot Wars X-Ω" as part of a limited-time event.
See also[]
- NG Knight Ramune & 40 (Prequel)
External Links[]
- TV Anime "VS Knight Ramune & 40" Starchild Official Page [Broken Page]
- VS Knight Ramune & 40— Wikipedia JP
- VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fire — Wikipedia EN
- VS Knight Ramune & 40 Fresh— Wikipedia EN
Trivia[]
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