Kanpai Senshi After V

Kanpai Senshi After V is a 2014 Super Sentai parody tokusatsu series, airing concurrently with . In a similar vein to Toei's own 'unofficial' Sentai parody , it light-heartedly pokes fun at the traditions and tropes seen in Sentai series.

Plot
"The police and Self-Defense Force were powerless against evildoers hellbent on ruling the world. A new organization was created to defeat these villains... The Golden Warriors Treasure V: A team of five combat specialists. However, their drinking parties after battles became better known than the battles themselves, and they became known as the Cheers Soldiers, After V!"

- Opening narration.

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Villains

 * Commander (After V)
 * Combatant (After V)

Supporting Characters

 * Store manager (After V)

References/Homages to Super Sentai and other Tokusatsu

 * Aesthetically, After V is especially reminiscent of Super Sentai series made in the early 1980s. The name 'After V' is a homage to the 1982 Sentai series '. The teams' suits appear as a hybrid of the 1980 and 1981 Sentai ' and  with gems on the helmet like Goggle V. Likewise, the Treasure Robo is reminiscent of and the.
 * Treasure V is a five-man team with the color scheme Red/Blue/Pink/Yellow/Green, the most commonly used quintet of colors since the original ', also used in Denziman and various later Sentai including ', the Sentai whose run After V aired within.
 * Yellow has been shown to love eating curry, as the original in  did.
 * As was the norm for early Sentai, the gender ratio is four men (Red/Blue/Yellow/Green) and one woman (Pink).
 * Yellow's replacement being female is a reference to the change started by , the first Sentai with a female Yellow alongside the Pink, which gradually became the prefered option to this day.
 * The departure of the New Yellow (due to maternity leave) from the team and subsequent replacement by the original Yellow is another reference to Kirenger. In Gorenger, Daita Ooiwa left the team for a period of 13 episodes before rejoining following the death of his replacement.
 * Like the original and  from , Green wields a boomerang weapon.
 * The Chief emerging as Lame Gold is an example of the additions which was first experimented with in Bioman and ' before becoming tradition starting in '. The trope of the  becoming a hero assisting the team has also appeared in many Sentai.
 * The combatant's battle uniform while fighting After V is reminiscent of the of  seen in the  Kamen Rider Series, in particular the presence of a mask reminiscent of those worn by lucha libre wrestlers. While in the restaurant, the combatant addresses the commander with a salute and "Eeeee!" like servants of Shocker.

Cast

 * Red - Ryouta Murai
 * Blue - Kazuki Kato
 * Pink - Yu Kikkawa
 * Yellow - Buffalo Goro A
 * Green - Tsubasa Tobinhaga (Rubber Girl)
 * Commander - Shigeru Saiki
 * Combatant - Jiro Shison'nu
 * Store manager - Ryu Nakatani

Episodes

 * 1) After-V Arrives!
 * 2) Red! My Justice
 * 3) Battle with the Gold Devil!
 * 4) Flames Rising! Mass Panic
 * 5) Tears! Farewell, Yellow
 * 6) Our Yellow
 * 7) Once again, Farewell Yellow!