After Ancient Legends had concluded on February 15, 2025, Battle Warriors was joined in the lineup two weeks later by Power Rangers Royal Hive (after a prequel/"Episode Zero" was aired the week prior (February 22nd) ). The week after Battle Warriors' finale, the series would be replaced in the lineup by Hasbro's Fusion Warriors.
On May 31, 2024, Hasbro told fans during a Fan First Friday event that the next Justice Warriors adaptation was about to begin filming and that it would be based off the 2022 Battle Royale-based Kamen Rider season, Kamen Rider Geats although the official title wasn't given at the time as it was shown off as "Unnamed KR Geats Adaptation (2024)".
It was then revealed a couple months later in July 2024 during the US red carpet premiere for the uncut version of Hasbro's Demon Warriors: Gang Warfare that the adaptation would be called "Hasbro's Battle Warriors" with the cast reveal also being done at the same time before a teaser trailer was shown off to theatregoers along with a premiere date of September 7, 2024 and a live performance of both the opening and ending theme songs.
Plot
Around 60 years ago, people had left an intolerable Earth to live inside colonies out in space but all this did was cause some very heated arguments over who should be in charge of the whole operation. So to avoid war among the nations, a competition is held every four years where one person from each country becomes a highly advanced super soldier simply referred to as a Battle Warrior and takes part in a match known as the Warrior Fight where they earn points by defeating others in battle and saving people. The winner of the tournament will earn their nation the chance to govern ALL of the other colonies and live in their own "Ideal World".
But this time around there seems to be something a bit different about the tournament as an evil force from another world called the "Doomsday Organization" plans to invade the almost-broken blue planet and plunge it into their own chaotic regime. To combat this threat, the Battle Warriors must try to put their differences aside and work as a team in order to obtain the feeling of TRUE victory in this fight.
Episodes 1-7: Let the Games Begin!, this arc introduces the main characters of the story, the shows overall tone and the first two rounds of the 13th quadrennial Warrior Fight tournament.
Episodes 8-26: Master the Super Mode!, this arc features the start of the shows MAIN storyline which would see Karen Fukuhara attempt to track down and defeat her brother Ginjiro, who descended to Earth after betraying their family and stealing a powerful battle suit which has the power to destroy all of humankind. It also sees Karen's attempts to unlock the true potential of her suit's "Super Mode".
The "Master the Super Mode!" arc is divided into 3 smaller sub-arcs:
Episodes 9-13: Warrior Fight World Tour, this arc sees Karen travelling around the world looking for clues about the mystery surrounding Ginjiro's dissappearance whilst helping her four main rivals deal with some rather troublesome advesaries. Towards the end of this arc, the concept of the Dark Warrior Cells and their ability to control people gets explained.
Episodes 14-18: Trapped in Tokyo, this arc sees Karen return to Neo Japan's capital city of Tokyo where she is reunited with her old teacher, Master Asia (Battle Warrior Zenshin), the former King of Hearts and reigning champion of the Warrior Fight as they both team up to take on the Dark Warrior's Doom Brigade but all is not as it seems. Towards the end of this arc, we are introduced to the true identity of Battle Warrior Grizzly and Karen gains the power of Command Form thanks to the sacrifice of the Shuffle Alliance.
Episodes 19-26: Highlands Training, this arc sees Karen head to the Guyana Highlands in order to complete the final steps of her training to unlock the true potential of her suits "Super Mode" with the help of Neo Canada's Alice Renauld (Battle Warrior Grizzly) as well as the final battle between Karen and her brother before she heads to Neo Hong Kong for the finals of the 13th Warrior Fight tournament. She also encounters her four rivals and once again has to help them deal with their specific problems. Towards the end of this arc, Karen gains the power of the Boost Mark II form, Ethan gains access to Rising Form and both modes of Command Form whilst Heba, Gandharv, Zhang and Alice each get the power of the new Jackpot Battle Grip. This arc also sees the complete destruction of the Doomsday Organization following the supposed death of the Dark Warrior.
Episodes 27-47: Fight for the Warrior Cup!, this arc features the final round of the 13th Warrior Fight tournament in Neo Hong Kong. In this arc Karen gets a new set of allies, encounters a new enemy in the form of Wong Yunfat (Neo Hong Kong's Prime Minister) and looks to achieve the 2nd part of her objective (winning the Warrior Fight) in order to bring back her mother after the latter was sentenced to cryogenic suspension by the Neo Japan government.
The "Fight for the Warrior Cup!" arc is divided into 3 smaller sub-arcs:
Episodes 27-36: Let the Finals Begin!, this arc sees the start of the Warrior Fight finals as the New Shuffle Alliance try to earn as many points as possible so they can progress to the Battle Royale section of the tournament and get closer to ultimate victory! Towards the end of this arc, we are introduced to Erick Beardsley (Battle Warrior Vulrey), a man whose strength is on the same levels as Karen and later joins the NSA as an honorary member. Karen also gains a brief power-up in the form of Hyper Kitsune thanks to her obtaining Erick's Battle Card Blaster.
Episodes 37-42: The Gauntlet of Honour, this arc sees Karen take on both her fellow members of the New Shuffle Alliance as well as Alice Renauld in a series of 1-on-1 exhibition matches in order to prove that she deserves to move on to the next stage of the finals whilst also resolving several minor storylines in the process. Karen also learns how to perform the "Sekiha Tenkyoken" attack towards the the end of this arc after obtaining the Boost Mark III Battle Grip. With the grip, she gets two new power-ups in the form of the Boost Mark III and Kitsu-Nine forms. This arc also features the debut of Zhang's Shark form, Ethan's Shogun form, Heba's Fantasy form and Gandharv's Demon Lord form.
Episodes 43-47: The Royale at Lantau Island, this arc sees Karen, Alice and the Shuffle Alliance head to Lantau Island ahead of the last stage of the Warrior Fight finals. This arc features Daisuke's first transformation into Battle Warrior Civet, the brief return of the Doomsday Organisation's Doomaians and the deaths of Master Asia, Ginjiro Fukuhara and Alice Renauld as well as the revelation that Ginjiro didn't actually steal the Dark Warrior as Mikino told him to not let it fall into the hands of the military. This arc also reveals that Alice is actually an android clone of Ginjiro that was made by him after he reanimated Neo Canada's Battle Warrior using DW cells.
Episodes 48-51: The Great Space War, this arc sees Karen and the others go to the Neo Japan colony when Itsuki Hashimoto surpisingly declares war on the other colonies after Neo Japan's victory in the Warrior Fight before kidnapping Daisuke to use him as part of his plans to once again resurrect the Dark Warrior so that he can plunge Earth back to the days of the World Wars and abolish the Warrior Fight, in turn allowing him to potentially rule the world forever!
G Gundam also inspired some of the main ideas for the plot such as the "country vs country" element, the ideas for the colonies, the introduction of a narrator and Karen's personality.
Like the previous series, there were two versions of the show produced for Netflix during it's run due to Hasbro's wishes to make a more mature series that teens and young adults who watched the original Japanese version online could get behind. These were:
The "Kid-Friendly" version which aired at 12pm EST on Saturday afternoons as part of the Super-Charged Afternoons programming block. This version censors any depictions of swearing, graphic violence, blood and adult themes by doing numerous things such as replacing words in the dialogue or showing shots from a different perspective. This version is rated TV-G.
The "True"/"Uncut" version would air at 10pm EST on Saturday evenings and it would keep all the beforementioned things intact. Despite the series being live-action rather than animated, this version of the show would also be shown during a simulcast on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block. This version is rated TV-14-LV.
Battle Warriors holds the record for the most Justice Warriors that have appeared or have been mentioned in the TV series.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Although I won't be helping EmperorHadrian with his King-Ohger adaptation (like I did/am currently doing with Ancient Legends), me and him have given each other permission to use each others series for the purposes of promoting the "Supercharged Afternoons" programming block that exists in our shared universe.
This article is about a/an series entry (the 2nd) in the Justice Warriors Series.