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So this episode brings in a new character, in the form of Samurai Caliber, who can turn into… a samurai caliber. He’s a homage to the Gridman Sword from the original live action show, a shield that could combine with the sword hidden within it to become a larger sword (it was modelled after a hot dog. No, really), while the name is a reference to its counterpart in the American version Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad, released as the Samurai Sword, and that show’s protagonist, Sam Collins.

And for the casting thing, Caliber is played by Ryosuke Takahashi, who you can also hear as Hudram in Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga. But he’s mostly a live action actor, in which capacity he played F1 racer Ando Takuto/Lio-Sazer in Chousei Kantai Sazer-X (a show that features the guy who went on to play Ankh as the kid-appeal comic relief) and the bad guy from Revice’s Live/Evil and Demons V-Cinema (I forgot his name and can’t be bothered to look it up now). He’s doing voice work here a) because he was inspired to by the VAs for the alien characters back during Sazer-X and b) he was supposed to reprise the role for a stage play that never happened (as to why, the show was scheduled for 2020).