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Zenderman Character Biography: Judgement/Trial Machine

The Judgement/Trial Machine (it goes back and forth between the two names throughout the series) is a machine that serves as judge, jury, and exicutioner to the Akudaman at the end of every Zenderman episode and serves as a carry over of the punishment gag from Yatterman. It's never explained who actually designed it, though it's possible Toboke made it.

Speaking in a deep monotone voice, the machine goes over the Akudaman gang's prior course of actions and determines the cause of failure. Unlike Dokurobei's methods of punishment, this machine is designed to single out one member of the Akudaman trio to blame for their failures, although these rulings can be just as unfair at times and all three members occasionally got punished together.

A notable feature of the Judgement / Trial Machine is it's red gavel which it loudly bangs when summoning the evil trio. It also comes equipped with treads and an arsenal of guns and claws. With that said, most of these features are seldom seen and only prominently displayed on the toy of the machine and when it appears in the game Bokandesuyo as a boss.

Nyaravolta was never subjected to any punishment and even controlled some of the torture devices, possibly because he really didn't do anything during the Akudaman gang's escapades. But for the last punishment on the show, Toboke ensured that the cat would get his dues by being shot out of a cannon alongside Muujo so they would both "ascend to the heavens".

In the penultimate episode, the Judgement Machine drops the monotone voice and gets furious when the Akudaman don't show up. This is because they did succeed for a change, having finally found the Elixir of Life and also defeating the Zenderman's Zender-Gorilla.

In the following finale, the conclusion has the Akudaman reduced to babies due to said Elixir and summoned by an increasingly impatient Judgement Machine. When it saw what happened to them, it was so enraged that it blew itself up and sent the infants flying towards a log in the midst of rapids.

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Zenderman Character Biography: Nyaravolta

Nyaravolta is a talking cat and pet of the Akudaman trio, starting the tradition of having a fourth member that didn't adhere to a set characteristic like the other three. Oddly enough, his name appears to be based off that of actor John Travolta.

He made himself known to the gang in the basement of their mansion, where he provided them with the funds (specifically koban coins) to build mecha bodies for their Sharekobe Mecha to travel through time. Muujo immediately takes a liking to him and adopts Nyaravolta as her pet, much to her lackeys' envy and annoyance. From there on out he assists the Akudaman gang in their scheme to find the Elixir of Life, mostly by spying on Dr. Monja for clues to the elixer's location in time.

Nyaravolta is shown to have an obnoxious and sadistic personality. He takes sheer delight in clawing people's faces and laughing at the misfortune of others, and more often than not is the one who controls the devices that punishes whichever Akudaman member is considered at fault for failing. While he travels with them in their Sharekobe Mecha, he hardly follows them outside of it, preferring to nap until a mecha battle ensures.

He's always on good terms with Mujo, constantly clawing or tricking people, mostly Toboke, on her behalf, and he even goes out of his way to obscure her body when she winds up naked. However, he still takes pleasure in watching her and the rest of the trio get tortured at the end of each episode. Nyaravolta himself was exempt for these punishments until the 50th episode, where Toboke tossed him into a cannon with Muujo.

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In truth, Nyaravolta found the lake containing the elixir long ago and had actually lived for thousands of years due to a sample he obtained. However, the elixir's effect wasn't infinite, and by the end of the series he was in need of more. He used the Akudaman trio to locate the lake for him, and had no intention of letting them have any of the elixir.

Having found it in the penultimate episode, he stored some of the elixir in a bamboo container and later blew a hole in the trio's supply so they wouldn't have any. When they discoverd his treachery, he attempted to run off in the Sharekobe Mecha, only for the Zenderman and the Zender-Gorilla to stop him.

After he was defeated, the Akudaman trio then took his container away from him and drank the elixir. Shortly afterwards his immortality wore off, and he instantly withered up and died. Notably, this is one of the few moments in the entire Time Bokan series where a character is actually killed off.

Despite clearly dying, he makes cameos in Bokandesuyo's intro and Bokan Go Go Go's story for the Akudaman gang. Maybe they got another cat that happened to look like him?

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Time Bokan Gag Robot: Odate Buta (Zenderman/Zendaman)

Zenderman's take on Odate Buta was more or less the same as Yatterman, this time climbing up a railroad semaphore in line with Zenderman's train motif. It also zigzagged back and forth between the semaphore and the original palm tree from time to time.