The 4 Tennou / The 4 Mashou.(Just so you know, I'm still using both because in a couple of the official YST books they jump between calling them the Tennou and the Mashou.
Why did they do this? I honestly have no idea. What I'm writing here is my own guess. Since I have no idea who worked on these books and why they chose the wording they did, there's no way I can know for a fact.[/div]
The feeling I get is that the books that include calling them the Tennou is that before the Shinjuku 1988 invasion, these boys were called the Tennou. When they began Arago's invasion, that's when they were called the Mashou.
When it comes to the extremely few books I've seen including these, the only thing I can guess is that they were made VERY early on during YST being broadcast on TV. And the person who was in charge of writing out the Mashou information had access to sketches that had them labeled as Tennou in one instance and Mashou in another instance. So the person probably shrugged and went 'fine, I'll include both terms, then'.
I could go into such a ramble session on this one detail, but I won't. This page is going to be long enough the way it is without me going on a tangent.)
From the book Kaitai Shinshou, "In the initial plot of "Go-Yu V," the 4 Tennou (the 4 Heavenly Kings) was referred to as "Toratoru" (stubborn), "Bakurai" (depth charge), "You" (attractive / bewitching / calamity), and "Masamune.""
(I'm not going to try and get into all the possible meanings for 'Masamune' 正宗 まさむね, but for the sake of this, and since I know some out there, like me, are curious as to what it translates to, here are the meaning for the kanji.
正 - masa - correct, justice, righteous
宗 - mune - religion, sect, denomination, main point, origin, essence
Make of that what you will.)
We're not given which of the 4 Tennou got which name, so it's anyone's guess.
"As the project progressed, it seems that there was a time when Shuten Doji was set apart from the 4 Mashou.
The rough sketch shown here is the fifth draft, and is based on a draft by Akihiro Kanayama."
These pictures show the progression from 'early design' to 'final version'.
Shuten Doji
Naaza
Rajura
Anubisu
(Yes, I know it's SUPPOSE to be written as 'Anubis' but between that being Shuten's English dub name, and me having spelled this boy's name as 'Anubisu', writing down how it's written in katakana, in everything I've been translating for years, I'm not going to change that.)
Kayura
(Because she has a good bit to her character design, these pictures are thumbnailed. Click on these pictures to see the larger versions.)
These two heavily black and white pictures are from the soundtrack 異神篇 (I Jin Hen / Strange God Collection).
It was first released back in 1988 includes art that was probably based on the early art of YST.
I say this because of the one big detail of Kayura and the armor she's wearing.
We only see anything similar to that in the very early concept art for her. Not in any of her finished designs.
And her finished outfight design doesn't look like this.
Although she first appeared well into the second season / latter half of the series, and she wasn't even a thought in the Go-Yu V/ pre-YST time, I wanted to include her here as well since her appearance went through quite a few changes before the final version.
"The design of Kayura, an important character who appears in the second half of the series, was worked out while talking with Director Hamatsu.
Early on, there was some consideration of using a golden color as the base color for the armor she would wear in battle.
The length of the three pieces of her plate on the chest, of the junihitoe (her fancy 12 layered kimono), and the position of the plate when she is in her armor were also examined in detail."
