#queen ahames

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Queen Ahames from Dengeki Sentai Changeman (1985).

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Queen Ahames vs. Change Phoenix and Change Mermaid from 1985′s Dengeki Sentai Changeman.

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Evil Spirit Princess Denus from Kyukyu Sentai GoGo V (1999). / Vypra from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue (2000).

Queen Ahames from Dengeki Sentai Changeman (1985).

Leh Nafel from Choushinsei Flashman (1986).

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Queen Ahames riding on the back of her two-headed flying monsters Jangeran from 1985′s Dengeki Sentai Changeman.

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Adjutant Sheema (Kana Fujieda) and Queen Ahames (Fukumi Kuroda) from 1985′s Dengeki Sentai Changeman.

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Change Mermaid and Change Phoenix battle some of the Commander level villains of Gozma from 1985′s Dengeki Sentai Changeman.  Apparently when fighting a man, they do just fine but when against another woman, they have problems.

Then again, Queen Ahames and Adjutant Sheema are probably the two most competent of the Gozma Star League.

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One thing I love about Dengeki Sentai Changeman are the villains, especially General Giluke and Queen Ahames.  These are former leaders of their respective planets, planets conquered by the evil Bazoo and added to his Great Star League Gozma. 

The pair refused to kowtow though and teamed up to try and overthrow the despotic space monster.  They failed and now serve him as a means to protect their own lives while seething with hatred for the conqueror who ruined their homelands and essentially enslaved them to do the same to other worlds.

Bazoo still suspects them and refuses to allow Giluke and Ahames to work together to conquer the Earth even though the pair of them would likely be able to rather quickly.  He wants to keep them totally separate in case they would try and betray him again and they would.

One of the reasons I think they hate the Changeman team so much is they see in them what they could never be, an actual resistance and threat to Bazoo.  These five humans oppose his will and thwart Giluke and Ahames’ own plans for terrestrial conquest in ways the pair of rulers never could.  Though they are still evil, I kind of sympathize with them as they are forced under threat of death or the destruction of their homeworlds, to serve a Master neither wishes to have anything to do with.

In fact, it seems no one has joined Bazoo willingly.  Booba was a space pirate conscripted into Gozma and Sheema was a former Princess and future Queen roped into working for the League.  It’s not a good way to run things when all of your underlings have reasons to hate you and want to see your downfall.  Only Bazoos immense power and the threat he poses to entire planets keeps everyone from turning on him.  It’s not a situation that can last forever.

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In episode 17 of 1985′s Dengeki Sentai Changeman, the team travels to Nagasaki in search of a Ghost Ship seen in the sky around the Dutch Quarter. This is interesting to me because during the Tokugawa Shogunate’s isolation of Japan, of all Westerners only the Dutch* were allowed to set foot on Japanese soil in their own quarter of Nagasaki to trade for things the Japanese wanted and to spread rangaku or ‘Dutch Learning’. Thus, scholars flocked to the city for a taste of exotic foreign goods and ideas they could not be exposed to elsewhere creating a kind of Cosmopolitan port as seen in this illustrated map from 1680.

That’s why there is still a Dutch Theme Park called Huis Ten Bosch (ハウステンボス) in Nagasaki complete with windmills, tulips and the kind of costumes seen being worn by new series antagonist Queen Ahames in her first appearance.

For the record, this is what she normally looks like when not trying to blend in on Earth.

*there were also trading ports for the Russians, Chinese and Koreans through  Satsuma, Tsushima and Matsumae but Nagasaki was still the center for Western trade and learning.