Kenzan
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- Kenzan is an Autobot Swordbot from the Go! portion of the Aligned continuity family.
Kenzan (ケンザン) is an Autobot police car and leader of the Swordbot Samurai Team. He can combine with Jinbu and Ganoh in various configurations. With Kenzan as the top, GoKenzan (ゴウケンザン Gōkenzan) is formed.
Fiction
Go! cartoon
- Voice actor: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese)
Triple Combination! Swordbot - Samurai! Pursue! The Legendiscs!
Toys
Go!
- A roughly Voyager-sized toy, Kenzan transforms from a Japanese-style police interceptor into a samurai-styled robot, even including a robotic chonmage topknot! He can also form the top, middle or bottom of the Swordbot Samurai Team's three combined robot forms. He has two swords (with 5mm handles) that can be held or stored on tabs on his backpack or shoulders. He also has essentially no lower torso, with his legs and kusazuri flap masquerading as his abdomen.
- His kabuto helmet is worn in GoKenzan form to form the super-robot's head, and combines with those of Jinbu and Ganoh to form large shields for GoJinbu and GoGanoh. It can also transform into a large, ungainly double-barreled cannon which can attach to Kenzan's back or, via 5mm post, be held by the robot or mounted atop the police car.
- Kenzan features complex electronic lights and sounds. In vehicle mode, pressing the Autobot-symbol button on his roof activates flashing lights and a repeating siren. Transformation into robot mode triggers a shout of "Transform!" and the classic transformation sound. In robot mode, pressing the same button triggers a number of phrases (in Japanese, natch). The button's functionality changes when held down: in police car mode, it now activates yet another phrase, while in robot mode, it triggers shouts by all three Swordbot Samurai to combine, followed by a musical "combination sequence" tune that plays until a) his kabuto is snapped in place, b) the button is pressed again, or c) his batteries run out. This music is accompanied by a strobing three-color LED.
- Once a combined form is completed, the kabuto attached determines what clips further presses of the button will play, but they are all dialogue delivered by the appropriate voice actor of the top third of the combination. In addition, GoKenzan's dialogue is punctuated with a blue LED, GoJinbu's with yellow, and GoGanoh's with red.
- Upon his initial release, Kenzan included his Mini-Con partner Zan when purchased from a large number of retailers (including Amazon Japan).
Notes
- The Japanese word "Kenzan" can be translated many ways. "Ken" can mean "sword/blade," "heaven," or "emperor" (among many other things), and "Zan" can mean "killing," "balance," and more. "Kenzan" can also be a word meaning "meeting/seeing," or it can refer to a needle-pointed base for standing flower arrangement, or it can mean a frog.
- The Japanese word "Gō" (used in GoKenzan) means "strong" or "manly".
