Chapter 1: The Legendary Blades

The Legendary Blades (伝説の刃（やいば） Densetsu no Yaiba) is the first episode of Seijuu Sentai Gingaman, first broadcast, February 22, 1998.

Synopsis
3,000 years ago, the Space Pirates Barban invaded Earth. The Starbeasts and the first Gingaman, warriors of the Ginga forest, fought them with the mystical power called Earth and eventually were able to imprison them. Now, the ceremony to choose the 133rd incarnation of the Gingaman has begun just as the space pirates escape their imprisonment.