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Here is weird but cool 70s Japanese show.
This story follows robot detective K and his friends detective Shiba, and detective Shinjo. Shiba is kinda've a jerk to K, he is almost always insulting K and making him sad. But he eventually starts to treat K nicer.
Shinjo is a dedicated person willing to fight even the strongest robots in the show. Even though he fails every time, it's cool seeing him try, he even has a couple of stand out scenes where he actually does a good job at fighting.
Shiba has 2 daughters, Yumi and Nami. There's nothing much to them but it's cool seeing Shiba having a life outside of investigating.
I feel like the first few episodes are the most interesting, probably because it's before they started reusing episode plots later down the line but I'll get into that later. The evil crime organization BAD has been terrorizing the populated areas of Japan. The robot designs and abilities are on-par to what Kamen rider was putting out at the time.
This show follows the monster of the week format very strictly, and barely does anything different.
There is three robots in the show where on of their abilities is separating their limbs and reconnecting them, and it acts like it's never been done before.
The fights scenes are pretty good though, the fight choreography and unique locations lends the fight scenes more substance and realism.
There are some side characters that sometimes assist the trio but there is not much to them either.
Even though I really enjoyed this show, it's still hard to recommend this to newer viewers of tokusatsu.
But if you're interested, go right ahead!
You'll like this show a lot!
8/10.
This story follows robot detective K and his friends detective Shiba, and detective Shinjo. Shiba is kinda've a jerk to K, he is almost always insulting K and making him sad. But he eventually starts to treat K nicer.
Shinjo is a dedicated person willing to fight even the strongest robots in the show. Even though he fails every time, it's cool seeing him try, he even has a couple of stand out scenes where he actually does a good job at fighting.
Shiba has 2 daughters, Yumi and Nami. There's nothing much to them but it's cool seeing Shiba having a life outside of investigating.
I feel like the first few episodes are the most interesting, probably because it's before they started reusing episode plots later down the line but I'll get into that later. The evil crime organization BAD has been terrorizing the populated areas of Japan. The robot designs and abilities are on-par to what Kamen rider was putting out at the time.
This show follows the monster of the week format very strictly, and barely does anything different.
There is three robots in the show where on of their abilities is separating their limbs and reconnecting them, and it acts like it's never been done before.
The fights scenes are pretty good though, the fight choreography and unique locations lends the fight scenes more substance and realism.
There are some side characters that sometimes assist the trio but there is not much to them either.
Even though I really enjoyed this show, it's still hard to recommend this to newer viewers of tokusatsu.
But if you're interested, go right ahead!
You'll like this show a lot!
8/10.
This is an underrated giant robot show with entertaining characters and great giant robot battles.
This series follows a little boy named Saburo which he joins the red mufflers for revenge of the death his family who was killed by one of the giant robots made by the evil artificial intelligence Brain.
And along side Saburo he has a giant mech named Daitetsujin 17 fight off the many mechs and schemes the Brain party has in store for them.
The first 16 episodes are surprisingly dark and fast paced. Many scenes focus on violent battles with the Brain party soldiers and the red mufflers.
But the 17th episode introduces Gontetsu, which is the comedy relief. After that the show gets way more lighthearted. That's why I think the first half of the show is better than the second half.
Also Gontetsu is a decent comedy relief character.
His early episodes can be a little sloppy but he gets better as the show goes on.
Saburo has a lot of character development here.
When 17 says that he is Saburo's friend, Saburo is cheering and celebrating that he finally has a friend.
Now. The giant robot battles.
The giant robot battles are the best thing about the show. Each robot has a unique look and abilities. Each robot has a fair share of miniature destruction in each of their episodes.
I also think this show has some really good characters, the side characters are okay but the main characters are entertaining to watch.
Overall pretty good show!
9/10.
This series follows a little boy named Saburo which he joins the red mufflers for revenge of the death his family who was killed by one of the giant robots made by the evil artificial intelligence Brain.
And along side Saburo he has a giant mech named Daitetsujin 17 fight off the many mechs and schemes the Brain party has in store for them.
The first 16 episodes are surprisingly dark and fast paced. Many scenes focus on violent battles with the Brain party soldiers and the red mufflers.
But the 17th episode introduces Gontetsu, which is the comedy relief. After that the show gets way more lighthearted. That's why I think the first half of the show is better than the second half.
Also Gontetsu is a decent comedy relief character.
His early episodes can be a little sloppy but he gets better as the show goes on.
Saburo has a lot of character development here.
When 17 says that he is Saburo's friend, Saburo is cheering and celebrating that he finally has a friend.
Now. The giant robot battles.
The giant robot battles are the best thing about the show. Each robot has a unique look and abilities. Each robot has a fair share of miniature destruction in each of their episodes.
I also think this show has some really good characters, the side characters are okay but the main characters are entertaining to watch.
Overall pretty good show!
9/10.
Don't let this 63 episode length concern you, this series is fantastic and really enjoyable to watch.
This series follows a group called the pollution control or later renamed to the monster squad. It consists of a cast of entertaining characters. One of those characters is named George (i watched this with its English dub btw) which he can transform into the golden protector of earth SPECTREMAN.
He defends the earth from alien invaders, monsters made by man's pollution, and the monsters made by Dr. Gori and his servant Karas.
This show is very kid themed, some episodes focus on the well being of kids or sometimes the monsters wouldn't even be spotted without a young child witnessing it.
The kaiju action is so well done, to fun and original monster designs, to the hundreds of miniatures just waiting to be destroyed. The kaiju and kaijin fight scenes are some of the best of early 70s Tokusatsu. This is a perfect mix of Kamen Rider and Ultraman, mixing giant and human size action in no other way it has been done before at the time.
The pacing in around the first 20 episodes are really inconsistent. Sometimes it can be an action packed adventure or a dry miserably paced episode where the monster shows up in the last 3 minutes and the characters just sit around and watch Spectreman beat the monster to death.
The first 20 episodes also show a lack of budget, when they run out of money for the miniatures they just make them fight in quarries or dirt roads with a couple of miniatures laying around. But this isn't much of a problem because the fight choreography is still really well done. Episode 30 is when the series takes a huge improvement in everything.
There is a weird sense of sexism in the show. The female lead keeps getting replaced and they are written pretty blankly. It's like they were just there to be the girl of the team.
But this show is still so good!
This is one of the best Toku shows I've ever seen.
It's amazing.
10 OUT OF 10!
This series follows a group called the pollution control or later renamed to the monster squad. It consists of a cast of entertaining characters. One of those characters is named George (i watched this with its English dub btw) which he can transform into the golden protector of earth SPECTREMAN.
He defends the earth from alien invaders, monsters made by man's pollution, and the monsters made by Dr. Gori and his servant Karas.
This show is very kid themed, some episodes focus on the well being of kids or sometimes the monsters wouldn't even be spotted without a young child witnessing it.
The kaiju action is so well done, to fun and original monster designs, to the hundreds of miniatures just waiting to be destroyed. The kaiju and kaijin fight scenes are some of the best of early 70s Tokusatsu. This is a perfect mix of Kamen Rider and Ultraman, mixing giant and human size action in no other way it has been done before at the time.
The pacing in around the first 20 episodes are really inconsistent. Sometimes it can be an action packed adventure or a dry miserably paced episode where the monster shows up in the last 3 minutes and the characters just sit around and watch Spectreman beat the monster to death.
The first 20 episodes also show a lack of budget, when they run out of money for the miniatures they just make them fight in quarries or dirt roads with a couple of miniatures laying around. But this isn't much of a problem because the fight choreography is still really well done. Episode 30 is when the series takes a huge improvement in everything.
There is a weird sense of sexism in the show. The female lead keeps getting replaced and they are written pretty blankly. It's like they were just there to be the girl of the team.
But this show is still so good!
This is one of the best Toku shows I've ever seen.
It's amazing.
10 OUT OF 10!