The series was first created to replace Kamen Rider’s time slot, as Super-1 did not hold interest in keeping that franchise going. The impact of Star Wars and western 1980s sci-Fi was very strong in Japan and influenced the show in its style. Ultimately, what did the show in was it trying to pivot to more kid friendly stuff like Kabutack and the redundancy of having three Toku hero shows as Kuuga revived Kamen Rider a year later. Toei did try to bring back the Space Sheriffs part with Sentai crossovers and an Avengers style event called Space Squad but both lack of interest and Covid-19 killed any hope of a revival. Toei seems content with just its big two, but toku fans take comfort in knowing that canonically the Space Sheriffs, the first three shows, exist within the Super Sentai universe, specifically the world of Dekaranger.
The singer of most of these openings is Akira Kushida, he is still working in toku songs and anime. He also voiced the OOO Driver from Kamen Rider OOO, some of his most popular songs are from the Kinnikuman franchise and the opening of Toriko.
The Metal Heroes are divided into segments: the Space Sheriffs are the first three. Then came the experimental era where they first tried to do new takes on the formula of the previous era before going into reworkings of classic henshin heroes from the previous decade and being influenced by more 80s sci-Fi movies like Robocop, Jiban and Janperson being the most blatant clones of that. Next came the Rescue Police, a trio of shows which focused less on monsters and more on saving people from disasters, human super criminals/terrorists and fires. Blue Swat was a turning point where the Parents turned against the show due to using real guns and selling toys of said guns to children. The scary aliens didn’t help either, though it is amusing that they blatantly ripped off part of the Back to the Future theme as part of its soundtrack. Lastly there is the B-Fighter series which was turned into Beetleborgs and the B-Robo series which killed the show, Kamen Rider eventually returned and later took over the time slot that Metal Heroes had. However, a part of the series lives on in Kamen Rider through its writers and certain elements merged into it. Riders were once cyborgs but then became everyday men and women in power suits much like Metal Heroes, Super Sentai’s GoGo V carried the heroic spirit of the Rescue Police with daring rescues of civilians added. Even though Metal Heroes is gone from the airwaves, it lives on in parts through its elder sister shows.
Sadly, I missed the premiere. Metal Heroes at its core is about how advanced technology in the right hands can build a better future. They have sheriff trilogy, juspion, and Spielban are the space heroes, and actually were used to really experiment with tv special fx potential. Metalder is a heavy inspired by the Android kikaider by Shotaro Ishinomori. Jiraiya has LOTS OF NINJA but is also based on how ninja were historically on the cutting edge of tech in the past and brings that concept to modern day with the aforementioned responsible use of science. Jiban is basically a uses the cyborg premise of Robocop but making it about a brother and little sister fighting crime and evil biomechanical villain. And it's the first cop theme season. The sidearm shifts between a gun, and jutte style baton, and a Sword. Winspecter, Solbrain, and Exceedraft are the self-explanatory rescue police trilogy, and is a procedural cop show but Scifi with powersuits and android team mates. Janperson (FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE, SUCKA) is inspired as a modern take on Ishinomori's Robot detective K. He's an advanced prototype military android turned thinking & feeling Special Police officer by his creator in a megaman x like future where he's fighters corrupt business men, eco-terrorist, cyborg cultist, and hi-tech mercs. Blue swat is basically secret invasion. It was popular with adults but it's more serious tone made it less successful with kids. B-fighter and Kabuto has an alien invasion plot too. The last two were basic smaller children aimed and was basically the end point because I think they were gearing up for the kamen rider revival with akuuga in 2000. Final note: cyborg is short for cybernetic organism. Kamen Rider were cyborgs. Androids are advanced robots, like Data or Megaman/X with varying levels of intelligence and possible free will.
Actor Hiroshi Miyauchi, who played boss Shunsuke Masaki in Winspector, Solbrain and Exccedraft, debuted in tokusatsu playing Kamen Rider V3. He was also the Ao Ranger in Gorenger, Big One in JAKQ, Zubat in Kaiketsu Zubat, and the boss Naoyuki Miura in Ohranger.
VR troopers used footage from Spielban, Metalder, and eventually Shaider. Metalder and Shaider’s suits were used by Ryan Steele and the suits from Spielban were used by J.B. and Kaitlyn.
Olá , seu amigo aqui do Brasil , aqui nos tivemos a honra de passa do Gavan ate o Solbrain com dublagem em português, aqui o Jaspion e o Jiraya são lendas , quem não conhece tokusatsu sempre diz ISSO DAI É JASPION NÉ? KKKKK um abraço meu amigo um salve do Rio de Janeiro , parabéns pelo canal
Actually, TOEI never using Metal Hero term for their franchise. Its from the Fans because the Hero using some Metallic Armor for the early Space Sherrif Trilogy. So TOEI make these "Metal Hero" official franchise Title. Fun fact, Gavan (1982) inspire Robocop (1987) design with the Silver Suit. Then, they have Robocop inspire concept with Cyborg Police, Jiban. Some of those theme like Space Sherrif, Police or Rescue theme then adapted to Super Sentai concept. So, yeah... VR Troppers Season 1 adapted from Spielvan and Metalder. In VR Troppers Season 2, they change Metalder Suit with the Space Sherrif Shaider suit, kinda weird because they doing backward with the previous season and make the Shaider footage kinda oudated because the different year. B-Robot Kabutack and Robotack, has different approaching for younger audience but still fun to watch with kids. the show has Tournament formula for each episode, so they aren't fighting monster, but to reach/get the key item, they must compete each other to finish the competition. So, it's basicly DGP before DGP. After that, Metal Hero project was stopped because they started the Kamen Rider project and became Kamen Rider Kuuga. Back then, Metal Hero aired after the Super Sentai aired. But the show slot changed into Kamen Rider, and it's continue until now. It's kinda difficult to bring Metal hero to modern audience, because the individual Title Hero now is claimed by Kamen Rider series, the group hero is claimed by Super Sentai series. It will confused some Japan child now. The newest and unique concept right now might be useful for new Kamen Rider concept because its sell more than using Metal Hero title. But the Metal Hero still appear in some crossover movie or special episode.
Yeah sometimes I wonder what it would've been like if they had more stock footage to work with. Then again it still wouldn't have lasted long since the Metal Heroes franchise died before the 2000s
The show may be pretty good at best (couldn’t finish it before the channel uploading it got taken down) but Spielvan’s opening is legendary. Especially those first 10 seconds with the sunset and the guitar riff!
Androids are the ones that are complete machines, cyborgs are the ones that are part human. The DBZ dub totally messed it up by incorrectly calling them androids. The actual Japanese version call them cyborgs or artificial humans.
Toei created a movie trilogy sequel for the Space Sheriff Trilogy also called Next Generation. The original space sheriffs reprised their role aside from Shaider (RIP Hiroshi Tsuburaya). These movies acted as passing of the torch to the new generation. You can try watching them as each is about an hour and a half long only.
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING A SOUTHEAST ASIAN AND JAPANESE KID BORN IN THE 80S AND GROWING UP IN THE 90S. metal heroes1989 - 1998 was literally our childhood. As for the 1982-1988 we can only access it through vhs rental/vcd rental
Oh nice, wasnt expecting this not gonna lie, thanks for checking this out and using my vid for it, hopefully it wasnt as draining as my ultraman one was.
the metal heroes is arguably the follow-up to the "heroes of justice", the mix of character from before and along kamen rider that had no unified theme, like inazuman, kikaider, Kaiketsu Zubat (also known as zubatman) or the kagestar. but those are a bit less consistent, if no less fascinating. for some ungodly archiving reason, the Japanese Spiderman is considered one of the Heroes Of Justice recently, both Gavan and Jiraya appeared into Power Ranger Production, as Gavan happears into Go-busters ('13) and in PR Beast Morpher, and jiraya appeared in Niniger ('15) and because of that in (Super)Ninja Steel, in roles directly connected to their original in both the japanese and american show; beside that, the space sheriffs got a film remake each in the mid-10 in the middle of the retro-wave. also the gavan suit makes a guest appearance in KRAgito also, if you remember that DragonBallZ filler-ark-and-film exclusive charatcter, Pikkon, he's directly inspired by the metal heroes in his movements. his finisher goes trough all 3 space sheriffs transformation pose before launching metalder is actually considered a spiritual sequel to Kikaider, and just looking at the suit should be enough to understeand why, honestly take it with Ishinomori when it comes to android. Toriyama learnt EVERYTHING from him. just look at Cyborg 009 and the Gammas, and he actually had hands in many of these shows it is sad that some of these show today would be stamped ad "copaganda" where there was pretty much none of that in the creation of those. in japan the idea of "police officers you may not be happy to be coming for you, but you can count on them out there" as been the average, and with both the police, the paramedics and the firemen being under the same powerstructure, it made sense to have them being in charge of the civilian super futuristic high-tech. the franchise story was WEIRD in execution: first, there were the early toku shows, the toei came out and made Kamen Rider and the Heroes of Justice, then they created super sentai, which eventually replaced the HOJ, and after the end of Kamen Rider Black RX, the Metal Heroes started, the Super Sentai got boosted into the MH time slot and they moved down to the second half hour of saturday&sunday morning show, then Metal Heroes ended and Kamen Rider started anew. Hilariously, the time slot change is the official canonical reason for the fight between Super Sentai and Kamen Riders in the first crossover film, as in they literally break the fourth wall and have the riders being all mad and seething for that
It's funny you mention the Androids & stuff because you're technically wrong. Android 17 & 18 ARE Cyborgs instead of Androids & in fact I'm other parts of the world they are called Cyborg 17 & 18 so it really depends on where you live.
shaider cast actor is gone for long time sharivan cast still going to event when they ask him to and gavan cast is very old now he used to be battle kenya and denji blue on sentai too
Man it sucks that this franchise ended so soon. Do you guys want us to do the ending themes next?
after black rx and before kuuga metai hero series is fill a void
robocop get inspire from gavan and jiban get inspire from robocop it full circle 🎉🎉
The series was first created to replace Kamen Rider’s time slot, as Super-1 did not hold interest in keeping that franchise going.
The impact of Star Wars and western 1980s sci-Fi was very strong in Japan and influenced the show in its style.
Ultimately, what did the show in was it trying to pivot to more kid friendly stuff like Kabutack and the redundancy of having three Toku hero shows as Kuuga revived Kamen Rider a year later. Toei did try to bring back the Space Sheriffs part with Sentai crossovers and an Avengers style event called Space Squad but both lack of interest and Covid-19 killed any hope of a revival.
Toei seems content with just its big two, but toku fans take comfort in knowing that canonically the Space Sheriffs, the first three shows, exist within the Super Sentai universe, specifically the world of Dekaranger.
@@KevinSmith-wm8tdAnd yet ironically Super Hero Taisen Z happened with Super-1 alongside Fourze, Meteor, Decade, Dekaranger, Flashman & Gavan
I'm a bit late to comment, i hope you guys still planning to do the ending themes.
The singer of most of these openings is Akira Kushida, he is still working in toku songs and anime. He also voiced the OOO Driver from Kamen Rider OOO, some of his most popular songs are from the Kinnikuman franchise and the opening of Toriko.
Nice. I thought that was him. His Kinnikuman openings were my favorites.
13:42 Funny enough, when Jiraiya showed up in an episode of Ninninger, the chase scene had a nod to this very scene
The Metal Heroes are divided into segments: the Space Sheriffs are the first three.
Then came the experimental era where they first tried to do new takes on the formula of the previous era before going into reworkings of classic henshin heroes from the previous decade and being influenced by more 80s sci-Fi movies like Robocop, Jiban and Janperson being the most blatant clones of that.
Next came the Rescue Police, a trio of shows which focused less on monsters and more on saving people from disasters, human super criminals/terrorists and fires.
Blue Swat was a turning point where the Parents turned against the show due to using real guns and selling toys of said guns to children. The scary aliens didn’t help either, though it is amusing that they blatantly ripped off part of the Back to the Future theme as part of its soundtrack.
Lastly there is the B-Fighter series which was turned into Beetleborgs and the B-Robo series which killed the show, Kamen Rider eventually returned and later took over the time slot that Metal Heroes had.
However, a part of the series lives on in Kamen Rider through its writers and certain elements merged into it. Riders were once cyborgs but then became everyday men and women in power suits much like Metal Heroes, Super Sentai’s GoGo V carried the heroic spirit of the Rescue Police with daring rescues of civilians added. Even though Metal Heroes is gone from the airwaves, it lives on in parts through its elder sister shows.
Sadly, I missed the premiere.
Metal Heroes at its core is about how advanced technology in the right hands can build a better future.
They have sheriff trilogy, juspion, and Spielban are the space heroes, and actually were used to really experiment with tv special fx potential.
Metalder is a heavy inspired by the Android kikaider by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Jiraiya has LOTS OF NINJA but is also based on how ninja were historically on the cutting edge of tech in the past and brings that concept to modern day with the aforementioned responsible use of science.
Jiban is basically a uses the cyborg premise of Robocop but making it about a brother and little sister fighting crime and evil biomechanical villain. And it's the first cop theme season. The sidearm shifts between a gun, and jutte style baton, and a Sword.
Winspecter, Solbrain, and Exceedraft are the self-explanatory rescue police trilogy, and is a procedural cop show but Scifi with powersuits and android team mates.
Janperson (FIGHTS FOR JUSTICE, SUCKA) is inspired as a modern take on Ishinomori's Robot detective K. He's an advanced prototype military android turned thinking & feeling Special Police officer by his creator in a megaman x like future where he's fighters corrupt business men, eco-terrorist, cyborg cultist, and hi-tech mercs.
Blue swat is basically secret invasion. It was popular with adults but it's more serious tone made it less successful with kids.
B-fighter and Kabuto has an alien invasion plot too.
The last two were basic smaller children aimed and was basically the end point because I think they were gearing up for the kamen rider revival with akuuga in 2000.
Final note: cyborg is short for cybernetic organism. Kamen Rider were cyborgs.
Androids are advanced robots, like Data or Megaman/X with varying levels of intelligence and possible free will.
The singer for most of these songs is Kushida Akira, who's still very much an active icon to this day in Japan.
Actor Hiroshi Miyauchi, who played boss Shunsuke Masaki in Winspector, Solbrain and Exccedraft, debuted in tokusatsu playing Kamen Rider V3. He was also the Ao Ranger in Gorenger, Big One in JAKQ, Zubat in Kaiketsu Zubat, and the boss Naoyuki Miura in Ohranger.
メタルヒーローを好きになってくれて日本人としても嬉しいです😊
9:49 Those two children will later be in Mirai Sentai Timeranger, as TimeRed and TimePink
VR troopers used footage from Spielban, Metalder, and eventually Shaider. Metalder and Shaider’s suits were used by Ryan Steele and the suits from Spielban were used by J.B. and Kaitlyn.
Olá , seu amigo aqui do Brasil , aqui nos tivemos a honra de passa do Gavan ate o Solbrain com dublagem em português, aqui o Jaspion e o Jiraya são lendas , quem não conhece tokusatsu sempre diz ISSO DAI É JASPION NÉ? KKKKK um abraço meu amigo um salve do Rio de Janeiro , parabéns pelo canal
Obrigado por assistir. Adoramos ouvir os fãs de Takusatu do Brasil
Winspector, fez muito sucesso, nos anos 90, aqui no Brasil..
Actually, TOEI never using Metal Hero term for their franchise. Its from the Fans because the Hero using some Metallic Armor for the early Space Sherrif Trilogy. So TOEI make these "Metal Hero" official franchise Title.
Fun fact, Gavan (1982) inspire Robocop (1987) design with the Silver Suit. Then, they have Robocop inspire concept with Cyborg Police, Jiban. Some of those theme like Space Sherrif, Police or Rescue theme then adapted to Super Sentai concept.
So, yeah... VR Troppers Season 1 adapted from Spielvan and Metalder. In VR Troppers Season 2, they change Metalder Suit with the Space Sherrif Shaider suit, kinda weird because they doing backward with the previous season and make the Shaider footage kinda oudated because the different year.
B-Robot Kabutack and Robotack, has different approaching for younger audience but still fun to watch with kids. the show has Tournament formula for each episode, so they aren't fighting monster, but to reach/get the key item, they must compete each other to finish the competition. So, it's basicly DGP before DGP.
After that, Metal Hero project was stopped because they started the Kamen Rider project and became Kamen Rider Kuuga. Back then, Metal Hero aired after the Super Sentai aired. But the show slot changed into Kamen Rider, and it's continue until now.
It's kinda difficult to bring Metal hero to modern audience, because the individual Title Hero now is claimed by Kamen Rider series, the group hero is claimed by Super Sentai series. It will confused some Japan child now.
The newest and unique concept right now might be useful for new Kamen Rider concept because its sell more than using Metal Hero title.
But the Metal Hero still appear in some crossover movie or special episode.
though Gavan inspiring Robocop is a widespread rumor it is completely false actually
i watched beetleborgs and vr troopers as a kid, but i never knew that they were both from the same series. that's crazy. lol
Yeah sometimes I wonder what it would've been like if they had more stock footage to work with. Then again it still wouldn't have lasted long since the Metal Heroes franchise died before the 2000s
Metal heroes OP’s are funky as hell, it’s great
The show may be pretty good at best (couldn’t finish it before the channel uploading it got taken down) but Spielvan’s opening is legendary. Especially those first 10 seconds with the sunset and the guitar riff!
Androids are the ones that are complete machines, cyborgs are the ones that are part human. The DBZ dub totally messed it up by incorrectly calling them androids. The actual Japanese version call them cyborgs or artificial humans.
Toei created a movie trilogy sequel for the Space Sheriff Trilogy also called Next Generation. The original space sheriffs reprised their role aside from Shaider (RIP Hiroshi Tsuburaya). These movies acted as passing of the torch to the new generation. You can try watching them as each is about an hour and a half long only.
THE PRIVILEGE OF BEING A SOUTHEAST ASIAN AND JAPANESE KID BORN IN THE 80S AND GROWING UP IN THE 90S. metal heroes1989 - 1998 was literally our childhood. As for the 1982-1988 we can only access it through vhs rental/vcd rental
Oh nice, wasnt expecting this not gonna lie, thanks for checking this out and using my vid for it, hopefully it wasnt as draining as my ultraman one was.
No problem. Thanks for making this compilation. The Ultraman 1 was surprisingly good and didn't drain us haha
JUSTICE + CHAMPION = JASPION
the metal heroes is arguably the follow-up to the "heroes of justice", the mix of character from before and along kamen rider that had no unified theme, like inazuman, kikaider, Kaiketsu Zubat (also known as zubatman) or the kagestar. but those are a bit less consistent, if no less fascinating. for some ungodly archiving reason, the Japanese Spiderman is considered one of the Heroes Of Justice
recently, both Gavan and Jiraya appeared into Power Ranger Production, as Gavan happears into Go-busters ('13) and in PR Beast Morpher, and jiraya appeared in Niniger ('15) and because of that in (Super)Ninja Steel, in roles directly connected to their original in both the japanese and american show; beside that, the space sheriffs got a film remake each in the mid-10 in the middle of the retro-wave. also the gavan suit makes a guest appearance in KRAgito
also, if you remember that DragonBallZ filler-ark-and-film exclusive charatcter, Pikkon, he's directly inspired by the metal heroes in his movements. his finisher goes trough all 3 space sheriffs transformation pose before launching
metalder is actually considered a spiritual sequel to Kikaider, and just looking at the suit should be enough to understeand why, honestly
take it with Ishinomori when it comes to android. Toriyama learnt EVERYTHING from him. just look at Cyborg 009 and the Gammas, and he actually had hands in many of these shows
it is sad that some of these show today would be stamped ad "copaganda" where there was pretty much none of that in the creation of those. in japan the idea of "police officers you may not be happy to be coming for you, but you can count on them out there" as been the average, and with both the police, the paramedics and the firemen being under the same powerstructure, it made sense to have them being in charge of the civilian super futuristic high-tech.
the franchise story was WEIRD in execution:
first, there were the early toku shows, the toei came out and made Kamen Rider and the Heroes of Justice, then they created super sentai, which eventually replaced the HOJ, and after the end of Kamen Rider Black RX, the Metal Heroes started, the Super Sentai got boosted into the MH time slot and they moved down to the second half hour of saturday&sunday morning show, then Metal Heroes ended and Kamen Rider started anew.
Hilariously, the time slot change is the official canonical reason for the fight between Super Sentai and Kamen Riders in the first crossover film, as in they literally break the fourth wall and have the riders being all mad and seething for that
Fun fact; the Gavan suit was used for the first time in America in Power Rangers Beast Morphers (2020), for some weird reason.
Iirc they do have crossover with gobusters? Or is it gokaiger i forgot.
@@WhiteRaito gobusters i think
oh yeah the cyborg captain chaku, instead human using hi tech suit
AHHHHH MORE PEOPLE REACTING TO METAL HEROES
BEST TOEI FRANCHISE 😤😤😤
Hironobu Kageyama anime song 1984 -2017
The new Metal heroes are cool specially when they Movie collab with Super Sentai
24:26重甲ビーファイター
Every tales of series op would be nice
I mean we can call it as it is with Saban and that he was being cheap in not wanting to make American footage
It's funny you mention the Androids & stuff because you're technically wrong. Android 17 & 18 ARE Cyborgs instead of Androids & in fact I'm other parts of the world they are called Cyborg 17 & 18 so it really depends on where you live.
shaider cast actor is gone for long time
sharivan cast still going to event when they ask him to
and gavan cast is very old now he used to be battle kenya and denji blue on sentai too
シャイダーの俳優は十年程前に癌で亡くなりました。
彼はウルトラマンの制作会社の円谷プロの創設者で初代ゴジラの特撮監督の円谷英二の孫でした。
Gavan!