Shine, Five Stars of Victory
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| "Shine, Five Stars of Victory" 輝け! 勝利の五つ星
(Kagayake! Shōri no Itsutsu Hoshi) | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | December 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Masumi Kaneda | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Ban Magami | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | TV Magazine continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 2025 | ||||||||||||
Solon makes the most important decision of his life! It involves metallic hotpants.
Synopsis
[edit]As Deathsaurus and Liokaiser plunder Earth's energy, Victory Saber, Laster and Braver arrive to meet their challenge.
Elsewhere, Blacker catches up with Solon and Tigerbreast, taking the small boy hostage. Blacker and Solon have a heart-to-heart and Solon explains that his parents were killed in the Transformer War and he was badly injured. Deathsaurus took him in, saved his life by turning him into a cyborg and adopted him as his son. Solon refuses to believe that he is human anymore due to his mechanical body. Blacker explains to him that there's more to being human than having flesh and that his homeworld, the Earth, is in dire need of help from all its children. Blacker then tosses Solon a set of armor (modeled after himself, naturally) and speeds off to help Victory Saber. Solon reflects on what he's just been told.
On the battlefield, the Decepticons have the Autobots at their mercy and the Victories are helpless to do anything about it (surprise surprise). Just then, Blacker arrives and combines with the Brainmasters to form Road Caesar. Road Caesar helps Victory Saber to his feet, but the fight still looks hopeless.
Suddenly, a small laser blast strikes Deathsaurus on the cheek. He looks down to discover Solon has switched sides! Patty is pleased as punch and declares that the Victories can at last perform the "Five Stars of Victory" attack. Jan transfers his courage into Star Saber, Shūta transfers his cunning into Braver, Cab transfers his skill into Laster, Solon transfers his power into Blacker and Patty transfers her love into Victory Leo. With that accomplished, they shout "Let's seigō!" and power-up Victory Saber's and Road Caesar's swords into the Victory Calibur.
The attack sends the Decepticons running back to the Space Fortress, where Deathsaurus vows the final confrontation will take place.
With the threat momentarily over, Jan officially welcomes Solon into the Victories. Solon says he'll only join under one condition: if he gets to have Patty as his big sister, too. Patty is embarrassed, Jan is infuriated, and everybody else decides the whole thing is hilarious.
Featured characters
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Notes
[edit]- Solon received his injuries and went on the lam with Tigerbreast at the end of "Victory Saber Is Strong!".
- Blacker was disappointed that none of the Victories were wearing any armor modeled after himself in "Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber!", which may be why he happened to have a set of unused Blacker-style armor on hand.
- Patty seems to just know about the "Five Stars of Victory" attack and all the members of the Victories seem to just know how to perform it. Even the new guy. Odd.
- The phrase "Let's seigō!" is a pun that's rather difficult to fully realize into English. "Let's" is spoken in English, while "seigō" (整合) means "coordinate (an attack)". However, it happens to sound like the English words "Say go". So they're saying both "Let's coordinate!" and "Let's say go!" at the same time.
- Unless you count that time they mopped the base in "Victory Saber Is Strong!", this is the only time the Victories have ever done anything of merit in the entire series.
- Although Victory Leo is mentioned, he is never shown separated from Victory Saber during the entirety of the issue. On the page where the Victories are shown transferring their abilities into their respective Autobots, Victory Leo is the only one not seen.
- The Space Fortress which Deathsaurus speaks of will be seen in the next issue, "The Grand Victory War".
