The eponymous Dairangers are human practitioners of Chinese martial arts who possess high levels of qi powers against the Gorma Tribe.

As a group, the primary members perform the Qi-Power Bomber (気力ボンバー, Kiryoku Bonbā) finisher by gathering their qi and firing it towards the enemy.

Ryo of the Heavenly Fire Star (天火星・亮, Tenkasei Ryō)[1] is the team leader who is the son of Choryo and a human woman.

Initially, he was completely unaware of his Dai heritage as his mother died prior to the series' beginning leaving him to raise his younger sister, Yōko, by himself.

As the red-colored Ryu Ranger (リュウレンジャー, Ryū Renjā),[1][c] he specializes in the Dragon Fist style and uses the powers of fire and thunder.

Shoji of the Heavenly Gravity Star (天重星・将児, Tenjūsei Shōji)[1] is a former delinquent who dreams of becoming a world boxing champion after reforming from his past as a member of a violent street gang.

The Mythical Qi Beasts (気伝獣, Kindenjū) are giant mechanical life forms that are summoned via the powers of Heavenly Treasure Lai-Lai Jewels (天宝来来の玉, Tenpō Rairai no Tama).

But when Daizinryu returned to Earth, Kaku returned to the Gorma in his metallic red Cyclops-like armor and fought Shadam for the right to the throne to become the 16th Gorma Emperor and end the fighting, using the Tower of You-Power (妖力の塔, Yōryoku no Tō) and the Tower of Qi-Power (気力の塔, Kiryoku no Tō) as boosters.

Once Gara and Zydos destroyed the towers, Kaku was defeated and mortally wounded in the battle against Shadam, and later died in the arms of the Dairangers.

Iron Face Choryo (鉄面臂 張遼, Tetsumenpi Chōryō, 7 & 8) was the previous Ryu Ranger who joined the Gorma and became immortal as a result.

20 years prior to the events of the series, he fell in love with a human who gave birth to his son Ryo and daughter Yoko (洋子, Yōko).

After Yoko was born, Choryo was summoned back to the Gorma by his master, Archbishop Riju, to fight the Dairangers after the Triumvirate failed to do so, but stopped upon hearing his son is the new Ryu Ranger.

Unfortunately, Kujaku realized that she would sicken and die even if she drank the Sacred Peacock's Tears, causing her to use the artifact to restore Gara's beauty instead.

Despite his appearance, Guhon was the inventor of the Aura Changers and later provided the Dairangers with their Dairinken (大輪剣) blades and the Super Qi-Power Bazooka (スーパー気力バズーカ, Sūpā Kiryoku Bazūka).

Prior to the Kabuki Boy incident, Guhon entrusted his fiancé Shokyo with Byakko Shinken which he placed within a stone until the rightful owner (Kou) could claim the weapon.

As Gorma XVI (ゴーマ十六世, Gōma Jū-roku-sei, 49 & 50), he intended to use the Earth Shaking Jewel to take over the world despite suffering its mind-warping effects, fighting the Dairangers.

Commander Gara (ガラ中佐, Gara-chūsa, 1–49) is the female member of the Gorma Triumvirate, though she was actually a clay copy of the original Gara and a former member of the Dai Tribe who joined Gorma at age 10 when she believed that her friend Kujaku abandoned her after she was scarred in the face while protecting her, getting revenge with Mirror-Makeup Artist's aid.

Though he barely survived Jukou Kiden for the second time, Zydos died when he turned into his true form: a clay figure created by Shadam as he remembered him.

The Three Court Ladies of Hell (地獄の三人官女, Jigoku no San-nin Kanjo, 17-22) are three sisters who served as Akomaru's bodyguards/nannies, mistress of the 3-as-1 fighting style.

They attempted to use their illusions to trap the Dairangers with key figures (Kujaku, Jin, Three Gorma Stooges, and Akomaru) individually.

Their teamwork skills were their greatest power, as they could merge into one deadly four-headed Deva entity called Combined Four Heavenly Kings (合体四天王, Gattai Shiten'nō).

He obtained his name from the fact that he can fire lightning from parts of his body, powerful enough to attract Daizinryu and the Gorma-infested Kiba Ranger's attention.

Jin got a prosthesis, perfected his arts and went on a campaign to slaughter other masters who were too hard on their students to return and kill his first teacher.

But Zydos captured the rogue and infused him with more Gorma power, turning him into Garouki (餓狼鬼, Garōki, Hungry-Wolf Demon; 39).

The universe's will that he obeyed told him that the two warring factions had to agree a cease-fire, so Daizinryu would spare the lives of everyone on Earth and the planet itself, but he gave a warning to both the Dairangers and the Gorma not to incur his wrath by destroying most of Tokyo.

The annoyed dragon crushed the monster to death under his massive foot, then turned and disassembled DairenOh with a lightning bolt.

When the Dairangers dealt with Ikazuchi, Daizinryu seemingly put many civilians in Tokyo under his control, lining them up on top of buildings to fall to their deaths, before Kaku counter-acted the spell.

Directed by Shōhei Tōjō and written by Noboru Sugimura, the movie was originally shown as a triple feature alongside Kamen Rider ZO and the film version of Tokusou Robo Janperson.

The main villain of the film is an original monster, named the Duke Trump (トランプ公爵, Toranpu Kōshaku), who gathers four of the Dairangers' previous adversaries to defeat them.

Shōhei Shibata, the young actor who played Hiroshi Mochizuki in ZO later joined the cast of Dairanger as Akomaru, son of the main villain Shadam.