Gavanas Empire
Emperor Roxair XIII gives his orders to the Gavanas Empire Ninja Corp through this strange statue on an inside wall of the Garanas Empire's battle ship.
Captain Kogar (Hotta, Shinzō)) who, as is proper for a ship's captain, rarely leaves the Gavanas battleship but sends his subordinates on dangerous away missions. He leaves the battleship briefly to rescue his younger brother (episode 16). He also shows up on Belda to check on the progess of the Gavanas Ninja School in training boys to be ninja (episode 18).
Vice Captain Igar (Shirai, Jirô) who Captain Kogar's younger brother regulary goes on missions. Igar murdered Gen, Hayato's father, mother and younger sister on his first mission, his every other misssion is a failure. Phantom cut of his left hand (episode 16) and its replaced by an iron hand (episode 18).
Kunoi (Fujiyama, Ritsuko) is a spy who has the ability to diguise herself and is third in command of the Gavanas, introduced in episode 2 but not until episode 5 that Captain Kogar stars looking to her to assign the ninja corp elite warriors to missions (she often leaves the ship in order to monitor how the ninja are carrying out their orders).
Episode 1: Red Mask - Gen, Shin would have killed Igar if his suboridnate Red Mask had not stabed the older man in the back. Igar then murdered Shin's unarmed and terrified wife and daughter. Gen, Hayato used Liabe to shoot down Red Mask's fighter ship so Vice Captain Igar no longer has his bodyguard to protect him.
Episode 2 Vice Captain Igar, Kunoi in diguise and ninja troops
Episode 3 Vice Captain Igar, Kunoi in diguise and ninja troops
Episode 4: Genera Odar (Odar Shogun) - rules over planet Analys for the Gavanas Empire. He reveals to the masked ninja Shooting Star that no one has seen Emperor Roxair XIII only heard his voice
Episode 4: Hibito a rival to Shooting Star he is armed with a flaming sword, (Hibito is killed in this episode but is alive in the movie which make no sense as the movie has Phantom who doesnt appear until episode 6 and Hayato as the regular pilot of Balu Fighter which doesnt happen until episode 13 and it removes Kamiji from the series by sending him on a long journey to Earth)
Episode 5: Mebito - space ninja sent to planet Belda after the Liabe crew forces a cargo ship carrying slaves to build the Emperor's Fotress on Analys to return to Belda free the slaves. Mebito kidnapped and hypnotized all the adults who worked at the Ryu and Hayato's flight school before they arrived for a vist and then after wards hypnotized Balu so he would unknowlingy serve him as well.
Episode 6: Kemuribto acting under orders from Emperor Roxair XIII to bring Shooting Star to him, Kemuribto disguies himself as an ordinary ninja grunt and allows Ryu and Balu to capture him hoping Shooting Star will use his mask and armor to sneak on board their battle ship so they can capture Shooting Star, and this plan works.
Episode 6: The Emperor appears to Shooting Star as dark shadowy form with glowing eyes which is used to lure Shooting Star into a trap, he never saw the face of Roxair XII so his identity is still a mystery.
Episode 7: Iwabito - sent to Analys along with Kunoi, to stop rebels from hampering the completion of the Emperor's new palace, the two of them murder a rebel leader named Dan, Shooting Star & Phantom taking revenge on Iwabito
Episode 8: Kibito - ninja from the planet Tree, sent to Cita to abduct Delans (Balu's people), the intelligent ape people are told they are needed to build the Emperor's palace on Analys but in fact the Emperor wants them to be exterminaed. kidnaps the son of Galu a friend of Balu in order to force the father to betray his life long friend, Kibito is wounded by Shooting Star and Phantom but finished off by Balu in revenge for his friend
The Emperor's Palace on Analys is finally completed (episode 9) and the Emperor is set to take possesion when Shooting Star and Phantom attack the ground troops the Emperor is heard laughing as the battle ship flies away (episode 10), he laughs because he intends to destroy the planet Earth which he believes will cause the peoples of the Glora system, including Ryu and Hayato ,to finally be broken when the world of their ancestors is destroyed and they realize no one is coming to help them. Of course the plan fails.
Episode 9: Yamibito - ninja from Budatsu, the planet of darkness, he captures his enemies by throwing daggers into their shadows which freezes their bodies in place, uses this to capture Hayato and resitance leader Kamiji. Vice Captain Igar has the prisoners place in an "execution rocket" aimed at Glora the son, in order to lure Sofia into a trap, the Emeperor wants to sacrifce her on the altar of his new palace, weakened by light Yamibito is killed by Phantom armed with a small flashlight
Episode 10: Mizubito - water ninja sent to Belda to find a scienctist who can build a ship that Earth's defenses will recognize as an Earth shuttle and deactive the shield that protects the planet to let it land and of course the ship contains a bomb powerful enought to blow up the planet (except when it blows up in space not far from Belda it doesn't do any damage to Belda just shakes up the Gavanas battle ship in orbit a little)
Episode 11: General Tolkimu - Gavanas Empire officer in charge of Belda occupation forces sends troops to explore the "Forbidden Zone" but they did not return, no one ever does, hence the name "Forbidden Zone"
Episodes 11 & 12 : Mitsu-Kagebito - sent conquere the Mongo Clan which resides beneath the surface of Belda and protects itself with a powerul electron magnet dragging ships to their doom. Mitsu-Kagebito can split himself into three Tsuki-Kagebito, Hi-Kagebito, Hoshi-Kagebito, manages to abduct the Princess but loses her Star Emerald which is what the Emperor really wants so Vice Captain Igar has to demand the Emerald in exchange for the Princess
Episodes 11 & 12: Lord Gumo (Ushio Kenji) of the Mongo Clan betrays his King, Princess and Prince to Mitsu-Kagebito because he wants to be King Gumo, tries to blame Hayato for the disappearance of the Princess, killed by Balu
Episode 13: Hebibito aka Captain R- sent to Cita to put a stop to a week long religious festival, destroyes a state of the local deity but its only a copy, seeks a gold statue with a diamond said to be its real body, made Balu's human friend Pao a collaborator, Pao easily picks up the gold statue (which he couldn't possibly lift if it was really gold). Hebibito is armed with a whip which looks like a snake, for most of the episode keeps his head covered, uncovers for his battle with Shooting Star and Phantom, killed by Shooting Star he sounds an alarm as he is dying, causing Gavanas fighters to be launched so there can be a space battle
Episode 14: Tobibito - flying ninja from the planet Daquar retired on Cita, living as an old man, is forced back into service to save his kidnapped granddaughter, once the Captain and Vice Captain's combat trainer but they have no loyalty to an old friend and force him to fight Shooting Star and Phantom, the Empeor wants Shooting Star and Phantoms heads on pikes to decorate the courtyard of his palace. Kunoi, doesn't tell the old man who they are just that if he targets either Ryu or Hayato Shooting Star and Phantom will appear, he picks Hayato who sense no malice in him, of course Captain Kogar has aleady orderd that regardless of what happens the girl and her grandfather are to be killed so Kunoi is secretly watching the battle ready to betray Tobibito but Shooting Star and Phantom protect the old man once he has his granddaughter back, first Gavanas ninja not to be killed, Sofia takes the old man and his granddaughter to "some where safe, where Gavanas cannot find them".
Episode 15: Tetsubito aka Gorgon - sent from Cita to use germ weapon Gorgon X on "the mountain apes" of Belda, but the formula and the antidote are stolen and taken to Belda by a human so Kunoi has the germ released on a human village in an attempt to kill Hayato who got his hands on them and in case that doesnt work she imperonsates the woman who stole them (after having her killed) and blames Hayato for the release of the germ so the brother of one of Kunoi's victims will kill Hayato in revenge, Tetsubito's right arm is a sword and his armored body is immune to swords and throwing stars so he becomes the first ninja killed by Shooting Star and Phantom's "Lightning Double-Strike" attack"
Episode 16: Kumobito - from planet Spadar is sent to Analys to lure Phantom and Shooting Star into a trap by going after Hayato and Ryu since wherever they are Phantom and Shooting Star will be "skulking around, (seriously, Gavanas leaders don't know they are Phantom and Shooting Star), she not only catches Hayato in her web but also Hana, Kumobito spends most of the episode in diguise, unwilling to actually kill Hana who looks like her dead sister, she goes against Vice Captain Igar's orders and dies saving her (and Phantom and Shooting Star). Vice Captain Igar is nearly killed by the heroes but for the first time Captain Kogar leaves his battleship, to rescue his brother
Episode 17: Vampire Queen Mydia & Twin Vampires Chisuibito - Emperor Roxair XIII sends Vampire Queen Mydia and the Twin Vampires Chisuibito as his "messangers" to the Nazca village on Cita, where Princess Catherine of Iquana, the only survivor of Gavanas Empire's attack on her planet is hiding, they demand the village hand over the "Nazca Secret" (which could destroy the Earth), Vampire Queen Mydia can control vampire bats, she and her aides can also turn into bats themselves
Episode 18: Onibito - from panet Onigami sent to planet Belda to train kindaped children to become youth members of the Gavanas Ninja Corps, failures are killed by throwing them off a cliff, the best students are made to fight each other to the death, Obibito can clone himself, killed by Phantom
Episode 19: Director Titan & Officer Ramp - Gavanas officer in charge of mine slave labor in western Cita and his enforcer who is armed with a laser pistol, murderd the wife and daughter of local warrior Melos the only man to stand against them and instead of fighting back he has turned his back on the city that betrayed him, Director Titan is the first of these planet administrators shown to personaly kill innocent people and first be to killed in return, by Melos
Episode 20: Koribito - steals Delans religious scroll so Gavanas can impersonate their god, according to Delan legend when their god is angry a gold ship will come and take away their souls, the Gavanas after reading the scroll create a gold ship and make the sky turn purple to fit the legend, although this was his current mission Koribito is a Starshadow, a member of the Gavanas Ninja Corps advance scouts and has been in the Glora system for a long time in diguise, refuses to kill Hayato, but Phantom is not so kind to Koribito
Episode 21: Mabito - monster tamer from planet Zamon brings a tentacled monster to Belda but its really a trap for Sofia and she falls right into it by taking the monster to her ship thinkng to taje it back to its universe, the monster tramer is killed by the monster he tried to control before Phantom kills it with a magnetic gun
Episode 22: Roxair Demon Statue & Chibito - no longer able to travel between dimensions Sofia follwing Hayaot's advice heads for the underground kingdom she fears she is only brining them great danger and this is confirmed when Emperor Roxair XIII appears as a giant monster with laser beam eyes, after sending Ryu and Hayato falling to their supossed deaths, Roxair orders Chibito, from planet Chigumi, to confirm their deaths but this ninja cannot find their bodies, Shooting Star and Phantom appear and are joined by Mighty Balu, after Phantom kills Chibito, Emperor Roxair XII threatens to return and destroy the underground kingdom and kill Sofia before rocketing away as the narrator asks "What was that giant statue? Was it really Roxair's true form?"
Episode 23: Kagamibito - from the planet Raima, unlike Kunoi who merly disguises herself as others Kagamibito can actually take possession of a person in order to "borrow" their body, he can also become invisible or visible but insubstantial so that weapons cannot hurt him, he takes possession of one the resistance members as they plan an assault on the Gavanas Palace now that Emperor Roxair XIII has finally taken possesion of the palace, succeeds in capture the entire resistance but thats what they wanted to be taken into the palace so they could blow it up, only second Gavanas ninja to be killed by "Lightning Double-Strike"
Episode 23: Emperor Roxair XIII's statue appears after his palace is destroyed and tries to kill Shooting Star and Phantom but is driven off my Sofia using Liabe's blaster cannons, as the statue rockets away the evil voice promises that as punsihment for destroying his palace he will destroy the planet Belda
Episode 24: Otobito - from planet Nosui hears Ryu, Hayato, Balu planning to visit then Gen family grave because Sofia says Gen can destroy Roxair and Gen, Hayato figures there must be some secret at his ancenstor's shrine, Kunoi orders Otobito to discover the secret to defeating Emperor Roxair so she cant inform Captain Kogar who has been waiting for a chance to betray his Emperor, so that he can become Emperor himself, Otobito kills the Gen family ninja who protect the graves then tells Gen, Hayato he is the guaridan, Hayato learns that 500 years ago Roxair ruled the 1th Solar System but the Gen clan from Earth drove him away back to his home dimension using Emeralida, the ultimate weapon and of course Otobito hears it too, Otobito thinks he killed Hayato, but Shooting Star and Phantom appear to protect the Gen Family Secrets and for the third time use "Lightning Double-Strike"
Episode 24: Roxair Demon Statue - Roxair informs Sofia and the Prince and Princess of the underground kingdom on Belda that the comet Zatan is going to crash into their planet destroying it
Episode 25: General Tokimu - Gavanas general in charlge of Belda orders the last remaining Gavanas troops to board the last shuttle within five minutes, Hayato threatens to kill him if he doesn't order the Gavanas troops off the ship and let Beldan citizens on it, and apparently the troops actually obey that order but Emperor Roxair orders Captain Kogar to destroy the transport because he knows the cowardly General Tokimu and some of the people of Belda are onboard it and he conisiders cowardice to be treason and wont let a traitor live
Episode 25: Roxair Demon Statue - Roxair appears on Belda and says know what will be allowed to escape it (and then escapes it)
Episode 25: Kunoi, Vice Captain Igar, Captain Kogar - the commanding officers of the Gavanas Ninja Corp appear on Belda attempting to get Gen, Hayato to share the secret of destroying Roxair but he refuses knowing that Captain Kogar just wants to take his place, the three villains are driven off by warriors of the underground kingdom
Episode 26: Vice Captain Igar - Captain Kogar and Vice Captai Igar are ordred by Emperor Roxair XIII to capture Sofia alive, Igar goes to Analys and slaughters Kamiji's surviving resitance members and then murders Kamiji' leaving only Hana alive to trap Hayato. not to lure out Sofia but to try to extract the secret to destroying Roxair, Shooting Star tells Vice Captain Igar to send Kunoi away and he does, the men fight to the death, Igar's
Episode 26: Captain Kogar - tries to take the Star of Heaven and Star of Earth from Hayato after he learns about them because Shooting Star thought it was safe to tell Igar about them since he intended to kill him. not realzing Igar was in contact with his during their fight
Episode 26: Kunoi - picks up the Star of Heaven and Star of Earth during Captain Kogar and Gen, Hayato's fight, plans to keep them for herself, Emperor Roxair XIII's demon statue appears and executes her for treason, but orders Captain kogar to go to Cita
Episode 26: Roxair XIII - Hayato is captured and taken inside the Roxair Demon Statue where he meets the real Roxair XIII and is astonished, he calls her Sofia and she just laughs at him. The narrator asks "Was Roxair really Sofia" (and the same question is repeated in the preview for episode 27)
Episode 27: Roxair XIII - Sofia's younger twin sister "born with a wicked heart tries to convince Hayato that she is Sofia and has been deceiving him all along but Sofia appears inside the statue and teleports away with Hayato.
Episode 27: Captain Kogar finds the Star of Man on Cita then tricks Roxair XIII into taking him into the Demon Statue and steals the Star of Heaven and the Star of Hearth, but she laughs claiming he can do nothing with them nor escape from her, he uses "Ninja Arts Size Reduction" to shrink himself to get away from her, on Cita, Captain Kogar is confronted by Shooting Star and Phantom who claim no one with such a wicked heart can use the Stars and suggest he surrender and give them to them, he refuses of course, fourth use of "Ligthning Double-Strike", he claims if he dies the 15th solar system dies with him but as he explodes the thre Stars fly to Phantom (he is after all the last of the Gen clan)
After Captain Kogar is killed Roxair announces "he" will destroy Glora, the sun of the 15th Solar System, she is killed, the Gavanas flagship destroyed in the process but not wihtout great cost to the heroes...the Star of Life is required to trigger the weapon Emeralida and it is around Sofia's neck....Sofia has to sacrfice herself and her ship and in the process the Liabe and its fighters vanish as well. Though Ryu, Hayato and Balu are somehow safetly desposited on Cita.
The Gavans ninja troops can be armed with swords or with guns, they also serve as fighter pilots.
The Garvanas battle ship is where the Gavanas Empire Ninja Corp plans its attacks. The larger ship carries smaller fighter ships.