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[[File:Dinaranger.jpg|framed|right|Looks like the cover to a typical shonen series, right? [[Covers Always Lie|Boy, are you in for a shock...]]]]
The leader of the ZOFA, frustrated with their recent string of defeats, entrusts the responsibility of bringing down the DinaRangers to his henchwoman Ghana, who has developed a sinister new method for [[Face Heel Turn|converting humans to their side]]. By coating human females in [[The Corruption|ZOFA cells]], they become latex-skinned, [[Brainwashed and Crazy|mind-controlled]] slaves, capable of transforming others through sexual intercourse. This transformation process is so effective that not even the DinaRangers are immune...
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*[[Cancellation]]: The tragic ''true'' fate of the DinaRangers; not getting corrupted into ZOFA soldiers, but getting their entire book series canned with no resolution whatsoever.
* [[Calling Your Orgasms]] / [[The Immodest Orgasm]]: No [[Hentai]] would be complete without it. In this case it's [[Justified]], as ZOFA cells are capable of pushing humans to pleasure "thousands of times greater" than a normal orgasm.:▼
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** DinaRed, Ayase Maya, is the unofficial leader of the DinA Rangers, but has the typical blue personality, being the most uptight and serious of the trio.
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* [[Cliffhanger|Cliff Hanger]]: The final issue ends with a massive one: {{Spoiler|Maya, after being repeatedly raped and altered by the ZOFA, has finally broken. She's about to emerge from her cocoon as a new, powerful ZOFA solider.}} Unfortunately, thanks to monmon canceling the comic, the cliffhanger is never resolved - we never get to see what this new solider even looks like.
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* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]▼
*[[Cut Short]]: Thanks to monmon losing interest in continuing the story. Made all the more frustrating as it ends on a massive [[Cliff Hanger|Cliff hanger]] that will never be resolved.
**A DinaRanger's SuperMode bestows incredible strength and agility for a short time. It also temporarily immobilizes her afterward.
**General Sierra pops a strength-enhancing pill in order to keep up with {{spoiler|Shiori, who has just unleashed SG Mode for the first time}}. It's not long before she starts coughing up blood.
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▲* [[Determinator]]: Really, Maya has absolutely no reason to believe that her mother is still alive, after having been taken from her by ZOFA five years ago. Yet it is her desire to rescue her mother that spurs her on for the majority of the series.
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▲* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: Narratively speaking, the four properties that ZOFA Cells ''need'' are a) a high infection success rate and high spreadability, b) the ability to make the body harder and stronger, c) a corruptive influence that induces psychological pleasure, and d) the power to reprogram the mind to induce total obedience. At no point is sexual intercourse necessary; in fact, some scenes show people being turned into ZOFA Soldiers without it.
▲* [[Developing Doomed Characters]]: A case of this trope done right. The characters are actually sympathetic, and you feel bad for them when they're transformed into ZOFA soldiers and cruelly robbed of all of their characterization.
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▲* [[Dressed All in Rubber]]: ZOFA Soldiers.
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▲* [[Dutch Angle]]: The artist is fond of drawing scenes at conspicuously slanted angles, especially when things are going, or are about to go, south for our heroes.
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▲* [[Eldritch Location]]: ZOFA's Supervillain Lair, as seen at the very end of Chapter 4, is suitably sinister: A sleek outer wall; giant, haphazardly cut columns, several times the height of said wall, jutting out in every direction; chunks of floating rock scattered about; a cylindrical tower that stands above it all. And all of that is set in a strange, swirling void.
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▲* [[Emotion Eater]]: It's outright stated in Chapter 17 that {{spoiler|the ZOFA Cells are fueled by human despair.}}
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▲* [[Empathic Weapon]]: The DinaSuits are implied to be this. The heroines' compatibility with their strength-enhancing suits is determined by their emotional state. If they get sufficiently enraged, they can access a [[Super Mode]]. If they suffer emotional distress, on the other hand, their suits become weaker, and in extreme circumstances, {{spoiler|render them unable to move}}.
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▲* [[Evil Feels Good]]: As the victims of ZOFA cells will [[The Immodest Orgasm|very loudly announce, repeatedly.]]
▲* [[Evil Is Stylish]]: Why do the Supreme Leader and his Generals insist on constantly giving long-winded speeches, putting them in elaborate [[Death Trap|rape-traps]], and just generally dicking around instead of just chucking them into an open vat of ZOFA Cells or something? Well, in Chapter 17, [[Justified Trope|we get a reason.]] {{spoiler|Because ZOFA Cells are fueled by human despair, ZOFA has intentionally engineered situations to create a false sense of hope for those involved, before crushing it utterly.}}
* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: In some appearances, the Great Leader is depicted this way. In others, his face is visible. It seems to flip-flop.
▲* [[Exotic Equipment]]: See [[Beware My Stinger Tail]] above.
▲* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: In some appearances, the Great Leader is depicted this way. In others, his face is visible. It seems to flip-flop.</p>
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** In Chapter 13, Ghana promises to call off the invasion of Dina Headquarters if Maya can resist the effects of the ZOFA Cells. One chapter-long session of humiliation later, when Maya still shows defiance, Ghana makes good on her promise, and leaves. {{spoiler|Or starts to, rather; she comes back when Maya loses it and starts begging her to finish the job.}} But see [[Evil Is Stylish]] above.
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▲* [[Genre Blindness]]: Most of the heroes' failures can be attributed to the fact that they are not aware that they are starring in a pornographic doujinshi.
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▲* [[Genre Deconstruction]]: Of the [[Sentai]] genre.
▲** [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: If you require a super suit to battle evil, [[Brought Down to Normal|the next time you lose access to your suit]], you will learn the hard way that [[Determinator|raw determination and a pistol]] will not make up for it. Not even close.
** [[Heroic Willpower]]: It'll help you to resist the influence of Mind Control, but as long as the villains are keeping you on a short leash and deal with your resistance attempts as they come, it's not going to do you any good.
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**[[Sixth Ranger]]: A new recruit is going to be inexperienced and undisciplined, and as such will not provide nearly as much help against troublesome foes as a straight-up use of this trope would indicate.
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*[[Horned Humanoid]]: General Sierra has a giant facial horn sticking out from between her eyes, as well as another, slightly smaller horn protruding from the back of her head. She is the only ZOFA to have prominent non-human features. {{spoiler|Though Chapter 18 reveals that the facial horn at least is just part of her mask}}
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▲* [[Industrialized Evil]] The ZOFA Cells were initially developed as a means of utterly breaking the DinaRangers, after they foiled ZOFA's plans one time too many. They quickly saw the utility of their new bio-weapon, and began using it as an easy and self-sustainable method of generating obedient foot soldiers.
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*[[Left Hanging]]: Issue 18 ends on perhaps the heroes' darkest hour; {{Spoiler|Dina has been all but annihilated, thanks to its Director being a double agent. Its staff have all been raped and corrupted into ZOFA soldiers. Miki likewise has been remodeled into a Chimera ZOFA. Shiori is still fighting, but the time limit on her Super Form is about to run out. The only sliver of hope is that Maya's real mother has been found, who holds the key to defeating ZOFA once and for all - but it may already be too late, for Maya, after being endlessly violated by her brainwashed former friends and teammates, has finally succumbed to the corruption, and is about to emerge as their most powerful solider.}}... and then the artist abandoned the story altoghter.
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*[[Loss of Identity]]: What happens to everyone brainwashed by ZOFA; everything they once knew is erased in exchange for loyalty to ZOFA.
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**[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: ZOFA soldiers are willing to attack and transform their former friends and allies.
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**[[Not Brainwashed]]: After an attempt to cure her of the influence of ZOFA Cells fails, {{spoiler|General Ghana}} reveals that she was working for ZOFA of her own free will all along.
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*[[Orphaned Series]]: The artist suddenly packs it in after eighteen chapters, leaving absolutely ''none'' of its big questions or its plot threads resolved. Hell, some new plot threads were introduced in the ''very last issue.''
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**Although it was revealed to the audience much earlier, in Chapter 9 {{spoiler|Ayase Maya is devastated to find out that her mother is General Ghana}}.
**A second instance occurs in Chapter 15, this time {{spoiler|the Commander, father of Fujiwara Miki}}.
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** And on the ZOFA side, Ghana resents Benin for having been selected as the Great Leader's number two. Benin was the one who engineered the ZOFA Cells, but Ghana was the one who researched and developed methods for infecting and transforming humans into ZOFA Soldiers. Ghana firmly believes that her contributions far outweigh Benin's, and feels she deserves the promotion more. It certainly doesn't help matters that Benin clearly enjoys rubbing her success in Ghana's face. The end result of all this is that Ghana puts all her time and energy into developing more and more advanced systems of brainwashing, in order to prove her worth to the Great Leader and show Benin up. This gives us a rare case of a villain in a hentai work that has motivations beyond such stock cliches as [[Revenge| petty revenge]] or [[Take Over the World|world domination]].
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*** Her successor and sister Shiori is The Spunky Kid. The fact that she agrees to take Saori's place despite knowing of the danger shows her [[Plucky Girl|pluck]], and she is shown to be sufficiently spirited when she finally goes toe-to-toe with a General and holds her ground despite her inexperience.
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