Power Rangers: Shinobi Force---PRIMER

NOTE: THE PREMIERE EPISODES WILL BE POSTED IN ABOUT ONE WEEK!

This is a "primer" of sorts for the newest NRIO Network Super Sentai-to-Power Rangers adaptation..."POWER RANGERS: SHINOBI FORCE!"

ABOUT:
Power Rangers: Shinobi Force, or PRSF is the twenty-fourth entry into the Power Rangers franchise. It's motif is based upon ninjas. Power Rangers: Shinobi Force is based off of the Japanese children's television series "Shuriken Sentai Ninninger."

STORY:
Long ago, ninjas defeated a warlord and his armies to stop them from uniting the world with terror. Upon his defeat, the warlord vowed to return. After more than four hundred years...he has returned as a demon. Two brave warriors battled his forces, and sealed them away with forty-eight Shuriken Seals. In present day Forest Hills, one of the surviving demons entered a cave outside of the city, and stole several of the shurikens. The two warriors tried to battle the demon, but one was badly injured, and near death. Five students at a martial arts dojo are recruited to become Power Rangers, and seal the demons for good.

CAST:
STARRING CAST-
Ryan Dao as Ian Frost\Red Shinobi Ranger
Seth Austin as Xavier "X" Wyatt\Blue Shinobi Ranger
Seaun Carlo as Joshua "Josh" Turner\Yellow Shinobi Ranger
Sadie Robertson as Isabella "Izzy" Frost\White Shinobi Ranger
Melanie Rains as Brooklyn "Brook" Padilla\Pink Shinobi Ranger
Andrew Liang (Andrew Frost)

RECURRING CAST-
Bruce Allpress (Raymond "Ray" Frost)
Antonia Prebble (Antonia Frost)

VOICE CAST-
Bruce Allpress (Narrator)
Kurt Strauss (Ninjakon)
Joe Odagiri (Genghis)
Chris Auer (Kuraizo)
Sarah Major (Monukye)

RANGERS:
Shinobi Rangers
Five closely-knit dojo students (led by Raymond Frost's grandson and granddaughter), who are recruited to become Power Rangers to battle the freed Demon Core demons, and save the world. (NOTE: The five are so close, that they are like family.)

Ian Frost\Red Ranger
Age 20. Asian male with a Japanese background. Adopted by the Frost Family when he was a baby, with a birth name of "Hideo Yoshino." As siblings with Izzy, both get into sibling rivalry-like squabbles. He helps his sister at the animal shelter. He can be hot-headed at times.

Xavier "X" Wyatt\Blue Ranger
Age 19. Caucasian male with an Italian background. Cool headed, he loves European soccer, and wishes to someday join one of their teams, and play for Italy in the World Cup. He is a distant relative to the inventor of the Ferrari.

Joshua "Josh" Turner\Yellow Ranger
Age 20. African male with a Haitian background. An "Introvert," loves to be by himself...most of the time. He is a self-taught, astute chess player, earning the nickname of "Checkmate Turner". Lost family members in the 2009 Haitian Earthquake. To cover his sadness, he tries to be comedic.

Isabella "Izzy" Frost\White Ranger
Age 18. Caucasian female with a British background. As siblings with Ian, both get into sibling rivalry-like squabbles. She is "down-to-Earth," and very friendly. She is an animal advocate, and often feeds a group of stray cats near an abandoned warehouse...fights animal abuse, and volunteers time at the local animal shelter. She will graduate high school during the series.

Brooklyn "Brook" Padilla\Pink Ranger
Age 19. Mixed background (75% Hispanic, 25% Caucasian) female with a strong Mexican background. She is a semi-environmentalist, and often organizes clean-ups...dislikes litter-bugs. She also likes to tinker with electronics.

ALLIES:
Ninjakon
A alien ninja master, and younger brother of Ninjor. Fifty-five years ago, Ninjakon was injured in a battle against the demons, and was rescued by Raymond Frost, another ninja warrior, and the two became best friends, and faced the demons together. In the final battle against the demons (about fifty years ago), the two were able to successfully seal the demons into forty-eight Shinobi Shurikens. After that battle, Ray and Ninjakon went their separate ways...Ninjakon decided to hibernate in stasis to protect the Shurikens while Ray went on to start a family, and run a ninjustu dojo in the city. Not long ago, an intruder entered the cave, and frees the demons. Ninjakon awakened to stop him, but is injured a bit in the process. When Ray comes to help, he is severely injured due to his age, and is near death. The demons escape, leaving the two to die. Ray and Ninjakon decide to merge their souls to save their lives...but can no longer fight the demons alone. Now merged together, Ninjakon\Ray decides to keep the "merging" a secret, and recruits Ray's descendants at the dojo to fight the demons as Power Rangers, using the powers from some of the Shurikens.

Raymond "Ray" Frost
Age 75 (born in 1941). The father of Andrew, and grandfather of Ian and Izzy. (Please read Ninjakon's bio above for the rest of Ray's backstory).

Andrew Frost
In his mid-40's, he is a husband to Antonia, and father to Ian and Izzy. He is the son of Ray. Runs a dojo in the city for his father.

VILLAINS:
The Demon Core
A sect of demon villains who are gathering fear in order to bring their master back to the surface world. They were sealed by Ninjakon and Raymond Frost fifty years ago in several Shinobi Shuriken seals, An unknown being frees the demons, breaking the seals and scattering the Shurikens.

Genghis
The leader of the Demon Core.

Kuraizo
A male general of the Demon Core.

Monukye
A female general of the Demon Core.

Oni
The minion soldiers of the Demon Core.

Rage Monsters
The monster fighters of the Demon Core. All will be called "[possessed item] Rage"...for the most part. I am planning a original concept story arc that will not follow this.

Chainsaw Rage (2)
Turtle Rage (3)
Skater Rage (5)
Freezer Rage (6)

EPISODES:
NOTE: All episodes will have a production code of "24xx," and will be posted sequentially. Also, when these episodes are written, instead of using the actual video footage of the episode, the summary from "The Morphin Grid" (www.powerrangers.wikia.com) articles will be used as source material.

Episode #1: Shinobi Destiny (1)
In 1966, the evil warlord Genghis revives as a demon after more than four hundred years. Two warriors battle Genghis and his Demon Core, and work hard to defeat and seal them into several Shinobi Shurikens. Decades later, an unknown intruder releases the demons.

Episode #2: Shinobi Destiny (2)
Five students at a martial arts dojo are recruited to fight the demons as Power Rangers, using the power of the Shurikens.

Episode #3: Frost-y Relations
While training at the dojo, Ian gives out some advice to his teammates, but Izzy does not agree with him, starting a sibling rivalry fight between the two siblings, and Xavier is caught in the middle of it.

Episode #4: Code Of Honor
During a fundraiser for the animal shelter, Izzy is accused of stealing. After discovering a demon plot, the others come to the defense of their teammate, even though she seeks to prove herself.

Episode #5: Rise Of Kuraizo
Josh wants to become a better ninja, and decides to study various reference books. Meanwhile, the powerful Kuraizo appears, and wants to battle the rangers.

PLANS FOR THE SERIES:
> I am planning a run of 65 or more episodes. With the original arc (see next plan below), it could very well end up being 70-80 episodes.

> A story arc that will be completely original. A new villain will use special Shurikens to make a powerful set of monsters (think sort of like the "Pantheon\Ten Terrors" plot of MAGI\PRMF). The monsters will have a different naming pattern than the usual Rage Monsters.

> Team-up #1: Shinobi Rangers with the "Express Rangers" to battle a common enemy (loosely based upon Ninninger vs. ToQger).

> Team-up #2: Shinobi Rangers will team up with the rangers from Ninja Storm and Kendo Warriors in order to battle a demon who has turned Ninjor and the Ninja Rangers (MMPR-Season 3) evil.