Denji Sentai Megaranger

  Denji Sentai Megaranger is Toei Company's 21st production of the Super Sentai television series. This series centered around five high school students who find out a game they play is actually a combat simulator that leads to them become a team to fight against the evil scientist Dr. Hinnelar and Nejirejia, an evil dimensional group who plan to take over the world. The series ran for 51 between 1997 and 1998. Megaranger was used as the basis for Saban's Power Rangers in Space.

See Through It! The Mecha of Genius High (Episode 15)
Shun, the blue ranger, gets an e-mail from his friend Soichi who attends an elite high school saying something strange is going on. Shun heads over to the school and sees Soichi, who says his e-mail was nothing to take serious and may have been because of stress. Soichi invites Shun to see the school's digital research club; the club comes together to develop and solve graduate school level problems. As Shun looks on at the monitors he sees the image of an owl appear in every other image. The owl image is part of a virus put in the computers by Fukuro Nejire (Owl Nejire) to control the members of the club; with them, Fukuro Nejire has the club start building him a digital tank. Shun is able to break Soichi out of the control and flees the building; they see the physics teacher going into a building across from the main building and follow him thinking he is Fukoro Nejire in a human disguise. When they discover the teacher is human, the teacher accuses Soichi of being the human disguise of Fukuro Nejire as his body temperature is higher than normal. Shun appears to come under Fukuro Nejire's control, sits down at a computer and begins working on Fukuro Nejire's tank. Fukuro Nejire reveals he was possessing Soichi and comes out in his true form. After knocking the teacher unconscious and taking Shun to the club room to work, the other Rangers come to try and free Shun and the others. Somehow Shun has pretending to be under Fukuro Nejire's and destroys the digital tank and joins the other Rangers to take on and take out Fukuro Nejire, which frees the digital research club from his control.

Tenacious! Hinnelar's Counterattack (Episode 45)
Kenta (the Red Ranger) hasn't been doing well in class, neither have Shintaro and Jiro, two classmates of Kenta. The trio get Koichiro (the Black Ranger) to help them study to improve their grades. As Shintaro and Jiro are walking they see a bus for a Super Infinite Ability Development Seminar. Shibolena, the female general, appears and promises that anyone who takes the seminar for one hour will be able to pass any entrance exams. The people surrounding the bus eagerly enter the bus to take the seminar; Shintaro runs to be the last person on the bus, leaving Jiro behind. The bus drives off. Shintaro appears late to take the make-up test with Kenta and Jiro; Shintaro takes the exam with ease and passes it with a perfect score, to the surprise of Kenta, Jiro, and their teacher. Three female classmates of Shintaro come up to him and he leads them to the large classroom where he took the test; there he shoots laser-like needles from his hands and puts clips on their ears, bringing them under the same control as he is. The four leave the room and encounter three more classmates; they shoot the needles and put them under control. Jiro tells Kenta about what has happen and they go and look for Shintaro and the others. Kenta finds Shintaro and the other going into the seminar bus; Kenta follows and finds the bus is actually the passage to Hinnelar City, the city Dr. Hinnelar has built. Kenta is stopped Togebari Nejire (Thorn-Needle Nejire) who puts a control clip on Kenta and tells him to go into the city. The Rangers follow after and see that the controlled people are helping build Dr. Hinnelar's army and potentially serving to be digitized as part of his experiments. The Rangers and Jiro (who followed them into the city) encounter controlled Kenta and Shintaro who order them to obey Dr. Hinnelar and fight with them. The Blue and Yellow Ranger are able to shoot the clips off of Kenta and Shintaro and free them. After they fight and destroy Togebari Nejire, Hinnelar City disappears along with the people brought there.