Blitzivan: Born to be Reloaded

Blitzivan: Born to be Reloaded (also known as Blitzivan: The Movie in Europe) is a 1997 Vlokozuian-El Kadsrean science-fiction action tokusatsu superhero film. It is directed by Frederick Lloyd, written by Max Axis and Akira Hisashi, and distributed by El TV Kadsre Films and Vlokozuian Media Union in El Kadsreand the Vlokozu Union and Silver Bullet Pictures outside of El Kadsre and the Vlokozu Union. The film is the first installment in the Blitzivan franchise.

The film revolves around Ray Daichi as he becomes the titular Blitzivan by his sister Ivy Daichi. However though, things began to tense up when Ray discovers that his sister has a connection with an evil organization that he faces with and must save her sister and stop the organization's leader before they commit their most devastating plan yet.

The film was released on September 26, 1997, and was a critical and financial success, receiving positive reviews from critics and grossing $265 Million worldwide against its $90 Million budget.

Plot
In the distant future of 2047, 15-year-old Ray Daichi and his older sister Ivy Daichi visited a local mall in Mirai City so that Ivy can check out her new Neo Armor that she planned to upgrade on. The mall soon ran into trouble when bank robbers headed inside the mall in an attempt to steal all the money of a local bank. Ray leaps into action and managed to beat all of the robbers, but one of the robbers shot a laser gun at his arm before fleeing.

Ivy then carried Ray back to their home and treated his wound. While preparing dinner, Ivy secretly poured a sleeping substance mixed with anesthetic at his cup because she will use Ray for her top secret experiment. Once she woke up Ray, the two then started dinner. During the dinner, Ray then drank his cup and suddenly begun to feel sleepy, and fell to the ground. Ivy then carried her to her secret laboratory.

Ivy, impressed by Ray's combat skills when he fought the robbers earlier, decided to turn him into the perfect all-in-one war machine. She first removed Ray's brain and eyes and placed it in a jar, and constructs an all-new robotic body, complete with every necessary and built-in offensive and defensive weapons and created an energy sphere that grants him super strength and access to all the built-in weapons. She then carried Ray's brain and eyes and transferred it into the new robotic body, while modifying his brain to work with the new robotic body.

Once Ray woke up after the experiment, he discovered that his body was replaced with the robotic one, leaving him both shocked and confused, he then asked his sister on why she transferred him in a robotic body. Ivy explains that she transferred him into the robotic body because she wants him to become a hero, to which Ray was surprised. The robotic body then picks up a scream from miles away, in which Ray then leapt into action. He arrived just in time to fight the target; a monster whose made up of different mobile devices, in which Ray finishes off the monster using his finisher, the Drill Strike.

The people who encountered their fight were amazed at Ray's new body, and asked him what is his name. At first, he thought of using his name, but he instead uses his new alias Blitzivan. The following week, news spreaded of Blitzivan being Mirai City's newset hero. However, this news also caught the attention of the evil organization Makriox, and that their leader Orynxion, was impressed because he now has an enemy to face off with. He's also interested in Blitzivan's reactor, and plans to use it for his future schemes. Meanwhile, in Ivy's Secret Lab. Ivy was preparing to introduce Ray to his new vehicle, the Hypercycle. However though, Makriox's troopers arrived at her lab and took her into their secret base in which Orynxion scolds Ivy for plotting something against them, and told the troopers to turn her into a monster permanently and trick her into fighting Blitzivan

Once Ray headed back home, he suddenly found the house all messed up. He then discovered his sister's secret lab and discovered some folders revealing that Ivy was actually Orynxion's right hand henchmen of Makriox, and that she commited a number of major crimes across the world, leaving Ray devastated. He then hear a call and, using the new Hypercycle that Ivy made for him, heads towards the source of the sound. He then arrived to discover that this was actually Makriox's secret base. He then fought off a massive amount of Makriox's troopers and monster army and heads towards the leader's base, only to get sabotaged by a brainwahsed Ivy in her monster form. He then faces off both Ivy and Orynxion but during the process, Ray accidentally injured Ivy using his arm cannon's Hyper Knockout. When he finds out that the monster he fought was actually Ivy, he began to feel the anger within him which only causes him to become stronger. Both Ray and Orynxion fought again, this time, Ray gets the upper-hand and easily defeats Orynxion. However, Ornyxion transforms into his Perfect form and the two fought again, but Blitzivan was easily apprehended by Orynxion's Perfect form. He then prepares to finish off Blitzivan but Blitzivan called his bike just in time to knock Orynxion into the base's reactor which becomes his demise. Meanwhile, Blitzivan carries Ivy into her arms and drives away just before the base explodes.

Back in the lab, Ray makes a desperate attempt to revive Ivy with the healing pod, which succeeded. Not only was Ivy revived, but she was returned into her human form. The two then hugged each other and shared a laugh. Ivy apologizes to Ray, saying that she joined the organization was because she wanted to support herself and Ray so that they won't go poor. Ivy offers Ray to transfer him back

into his human form, but he declines, saying that after all the events that happend, he decided to live a double life as a superhero instead.

Cast

 * Patrick Cruz as Ray Daichi/Blitzivan
 * Paulina Tan as Ivy Daichi
 * Terry Ebert as Ornyxion
 * Harrison Reyes as Ivy's Monster Form
 * David Bay as the Cellphone Monster
 * Garry Shimoda as Ro-Hornet
 * Sean De Guzman as Hitmark-Tron
 * Eric Santiago as Knock-Down
 * Akio Hibiki as Screecher
 * Hiroaki Fumihiro as Ornyxion's Suit Actor
 * Seiichi Naoyuki as Civillian 1
 * Koji Asinas as Civillian 2

Cameos

 * Frederick Llyod as a News Reporter
 * Hideo Kouichi as Himself
 * Rei Yoshiko as News Reporter

Production
In June of 1996, writer and director Max Axis submitted an incomplete script to El TV Kadsre Films for a science-fiction action film. Once the executives read the script, they liked it, but advised Max to rewrite and revise a few points to make it more original. So Max rewrited the script and brought alongside fellow co-writer Akira Hisashi to give his own ideas into the script. Once they completed the revised script, they submitted it to El TV Kadsre Film's executives again, this time with much more confidence. The executives actually enjoyed the revised script and settled on a budget of $90 Million.

Filming
Filming had began on Feburary 16, 1997 to August 29, 1997. However though, the date was extended to September 15 due to the stunt doubles often injuring themselves and the amount of technical issues occurred during filming.

Effects
To keep the film's budget intact, the director insisted on using practical effects more than CGI. The suits made for the film were designed by El TV Kadsre Film's Special Effects Department. Some of the designs that were intended to use CGI with them were either scrapped or used in other films with much larger budgets. Some of Toei's sound stages were used for Ivy's Secret Lab and the Makriox's base.

The visual effects were made by CGiWOW and Zecter Media (though they were uncredited in the credits). The only parts that the CGI were used is for the digital backgrounds and the laser rays that some of the weapons make.