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Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters (特命戦隊ゴーバスターズ, Tokumei Sentai Gōbasutāzu) is a Japanese tokusatsu series that serves as the 36th installment in the Super Sentai franchise and the 24th entry in the Heisei era.

The primary members of the eponymous Go-Busters composed of Hiromu, Ryuji, and Yoko each carry a Morphin Brace as their transformation device along with an Ichigan Buster handgun and a Sougan Blade dagger, which double as a reflex camera and a pair of binoculars respectively and can combine to access the former's Special Buster Mode, as their sidearms. They also each possess a unique Buster Power ability at the cost of being afflicted with a Weak Point side effect.
The secondary members composed of Masato and Jay each carry a Morphin Blaster, which doubles as a cellphone, as their transformation device along with a DriBlade sword, which doubles as a steering wheel for their Buster Machines, as their sidearm. Unlike the primary Go-Busters, Masato's Buster Suit is created from Jay's armor parts that are cast off when they transform.
The Go-Busters later acquire GB Custom Visor adapters, which allow the primary members to fuse with their Buddyroid partners and assume Powered Custom forms that grant upgraded versions of their Buster Powers, and the Lio Blaster, which doubles as a briefcase and can combine with a Sougan Blade to access the former's Final Mode.
The Buddyroids are sentient robots capable of understanding human behavior who behave similarly to humans. Despite initially being unable to take part in combat, they later gain the ability to transform into protective armor and fuse with their Go-Buster partners via the GB Custom Visors.
The Energy Management Center (EMC) is a fictional organization whose Special Operations Unit employs the Go-Busters in their fight to keep the fictional energy source Enetron safe from Vaglass.
The Buglers are Vaglass' robotic computer virus-themed foot soldiers created by Enter using a Bugler Card that are capable of piloting giant Bugzords.
The Metaloids are Vaglass' robotic warriors created from objects infected with a Metavirus, a fragment of Messiah's data that mimics its inorganic assimilation and transforms the object into an artificial life form. A Metaloid's primary purpose is to serve as a beacon for its corresponding Megazord, though it will teleport within a three kilometer radius of them due to a margin of error in the teleportation process. Enter creates them to fight the Go-Busters, siphon Enetron, and buy time for the Megazords to arrive while Escape creates them to cause as much human suffering as possible.
The Messiah Metaloids are Metaloids created from so-called Messiah Cards, Messiah's backup data capable of activating on their own. Enter scatters them to the four winds to select their vessels and siphon a nearby Enetron source before absorbing enough data to become powerful enough to survive the Go-Busters' attacks, potentially allow Messiah to take over one of them, and transmit copies of their data to Messiah Card 13 as part of Enter's master plan.
The Megazords are giant robots built by the EMC during their early research into Enetron before Messiah took over the Megazords' programming and turned them against the EMC. Vaglass are capable of reformatting the Megazords by downloading a Metaloid's Metavirus, granting them the latter's attributes, and teleporting them from Hyper Space to attack the city for its Enetron. The EMC developed three distinct Megazord models: the speed-oriented Type Alpha, the brute force-oriented Type Beta, and the multi-purpose Type Gamma. Later in the series, Vaglass steals the BC-04's specs to develop the parasitic, destructive Type Delta model.
Messiah Megazords are stronger versions of the regular Vaglass Megazords. Unlike the previous iterations, Type Delta Megazords can be reformatted into a Messiah Megazord.
Rika Sakurada is Hiromu's older sister. Because of her dislike of machines, she seldom visited the Transport Research Center. After learning of parents' disappearances, she refused to allow Hiromu to become a Go-Buster for fear of losing him as well. Upon learning that he did so anyway, she slowly grows to accept his decision and accept Cheeda Nick into her family.
In an alternate timeline where Messiah never came to exist, depicted in the V-Cinema special Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters Returns vs. Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters, Rika idolizes Hiromu after he joins the Doubutsu Sentai Go-Busters team, was inspired by him to become unofficial member Pink Cat, and joined the Go-Busters in their final battle against the Mechalius Empire.
Rika Sakurada is portrayed by Risa Yoshiki. As a teenager, she is portrayed by Rin Mizumoto.
Yosuke Sakurada is Hiromu and Rika's father, the chief of the Transport Research Center, and the only known scientist to have devised a way to install programs into humans. Thirteen years prior to the series, he, his wife Michiko, and their scientists sacrificed themselves to trap Messiah in Hyper Space and were digitized into him. Despite this, Yosuke managed to retain some of his free will and makes contact with Masato Jin to aid Hiromu and the Go-Busters, who eventually succeed in destroying Messiah at Yosuke and the other digitized scientists' request.
Yosuke Sakurada is portrayed by So Yamanaka.
Michiko Sakurada is Hiromu and Rika's mother and a staff member of the Transport Research Center, before she sacrificed herself to trap Messiah in Hyper Space 13 years ago.
Michiko Sakurada is portrayed by Michiko Hosokoshi.