Kaiju no Kami Reviews - Chojin Sentai Jetman (1991) Series 

I love how in Japan, even if this (and many other shows) in all intents and purposes, a kid's show, they did not hold back in having scenes with drinking, smoking, gambling, a lady in a Playboy Bunny type suit, fist fights against teammates, and death by being stabbed by a purse snatcher. Jetman is really a great series.

The sentai that saved the series

Adult geek who grew up watching Power Rangers here (SPD was the last season I watched, I think, at the ripe old age of 16). This was really helpful, as someone trying to get back into the Sentai game. Props, dude. 🖖🏾

Love this series. Yuki Gai is my most favorite of all the members of Jetman. He's a stand up guy though. Also Yasuhiro Ishiwata, who played Bun from Flashman guest started along side Kanako Maeda who was Momoko in Maskman in the episodes Ep. 23: A New Squadron Debuts and Ep. 24: Launch, Super Robot.

Black Condor is the original epic sax guy (pun intended).

were not the only ones who find the theme song awesome, I hear that haim saban actually sang it out loud in a restaurant while meeting with one of the toei executives

was the first sentai series I fully watched it was a real interesting one. also I like how the cockpits for the mecha were remodeled for zyuranger

This was another awesome review. Choujin Sentai Jetman is another Sentai series I am very interested in watching. Man, my list of Sentai shows I'm interested in just keeps growing.

The greatest Sentai series of all time

This is still one of my favorite Sentai Series, I like how different is Jetman from every other '90s entry and the themes about humanity. Jet Garuda is one of my favorite mechas. I totally love the puns in the review, they are the best. My only regret is that Radiguet in human form had a lot of potential, he had a kind of romance with an ill girl when he suffered amnesia but they destroyed it at the end of the episode. It was so sad.

Gai's death is the one thing I have a real problem with I mean killed by a mugger what the hell

Great review! I remember loving Jetman quite a lot since it was my first Sentai and got me back into Power Rangers and Tokusatsu. Gai and Gray's rivalry is one of the most memorable aspects for me, two great characters. Also this show had one of my favorite tributes in Gokaiger. However, with older eyes I'm a bit hesitant getting the Shout dvd, I fear it may not hold up as well on a rewatch.

The Ryu-Gai-Kaori love triangle just screams X-Men. (Ryu-Cyclops; Gai-Wolverine; Kaori-Jean Grey).

Gray is essentially the sophisticated version of Bender.

Jeto Jeto Jetoman! Never watched this series but the song is so catchy xD

I have a Theory for why gai was acting so out of character in that one. Scene notice he was dressed as a ninja well obviously he was shurikenger in disguise all along sent back in time by akaranger to warn the jetman of the Horror that would become of ninninjer the jetman at first didn’t bat an eye and who could blame them nobody would assume humans could actually create something so awful and well they were right black cross from goranger made a deal with the devil,Hitler,Vladimir Putin, Kim jon un,and even mike zuckerberg in an attempt to lower the destroy sentai’s reputation once in for all at first the jetman didn’t take it that seriously but gai being the badass he is started to research in silence unknown to the rest of his teammates every time he would act out of character that was actually shurikenger disguised as him however and would only return as a permanent member of the team in the last quarter sadly though he was killed trying to stop the bastard who Greenlit nininjer NOT BY A REGULAR MUGGER

I watch this show 6 years ago... Shout factory needs to release it to US

Holy shit never clicked on a video that fast in my life.

Nice to see a review of this series, without too big of spoilers (I think) since I started watching it yesterday, at least 14 episodes in. Definitely a Super Sentai series worth watching after learning about most of the series before it.

This is an all time classic entry. It had great characterization and character arcs, the heroes and villains were fleshed out, and it didn't talk down to the audience. My fave episode involves the Ramen Noodle monster and that guy that had a crush on Ako, it's hilarious but also kinda creepy when he creates a ramen noodle named after her, and the jingle for the product is 'all day long I want to eat Ako Chan'.... Great googly moogly! I was on the floor laughing but also like 'wtf?' that's not creepy or suggestive at all! This is also my wife's fave Sentai, although she hated that Gai died such a pointless death. I understand why she feels that way. But I also understand the meaning behind why he died the way he did. The stabbing was something that could have easily been treated if he went to a hospital, but he was determined not to miss the wedding. He didn't say anything about his injury because he didn't want the focus to be on him, cuz it was his friends special day. Gai was being completely selfless after spending most of his life and much of the early parts of the show being rather selfish. Granted it is a.needlessly tragic end to his character arc, but a memorable one.

Saban tried to use Jetman to launch Power Rangers from what I have heard. No go. The Dinosuar craze helped Saban bring his version of Super Sentai to the west. Smart for Toei to do a Dino themed Sentai after Jetman.

The last ep hit me hard in the feels

I love the noodle and caveman eps lol. The ridiculousness is what's appealing. I don't take much from the Sentai series seriously. Though, it does have its serious, emotional moments.

the dvd just arrived and I'm very happy with this addition to my Tokusatsu collection

i am watching it now ..#throwback just getting back at the year of 2000 when jetman ... released in the philippine's television

I've seen and heard people suggest Carranger should have been skipped in favour of adapting Jetman as it has a more serious tone. Having now watched Jetman in its entirety, I can safely say I can see their point, when they're not fighting noodles, vacuum cleaners, walking piles of garbage or tomato headed monsters. As for Jetman as a Sentai, this is a huge breath of fresh air compared to the three or four seasons preceding it which, while each had their moments, started to feel like a stale routine. The writing is complex and nuanced, with the team learning to become a team rather than simply getting on with each other from the very beginning. Jet Icarus and Jet Garuda combining is friggin' epic, with the high-five / fist bump before they reconfigure into one colossal mech. All of the rangers undergo some level of character development, which is a big plus, particularly Gai who goes from a creepy lone wolf to someone who values and respects his team-mates. His appearance in Gokaiger 20 years later is confirmation of this. I could have done without him admitting his attraction to the girl in the vacuum cleaner episode, but I guess this is a culture thing. Ako I think has the least development of the five, but she does rise from a selfish schoolkid to a young woman with a strong sense of responsibility. I felt for Raita when he had a chance to live in the stone age with a woman who loves him, people who worship him and a society which strongly depends on the agriculture he loves so much, but he gives it all up to save the earth. Sacrifices don't come more heroic than that. Kaori grows from being something of a spoiled princess to a brave warrior, giving up on Ryu's love when she realises how much Gai's been sacrificing himself for her, but ultimately realising Gai's not the right guy for her and comforting Ryu in his hour of need. Ryu tips the balance for me when it comes to Jetman being my favourite season. Not for his iron-clad will or morals, but for his humanity when he falls into depression for losing Rie. Right from ToQger was my previous high-standard for this, though his own struggle with darkness was from contact with a darkness fuelled monster, while Ryu's is based and somewhat more realistic. I still hold ToQger in very high regard, but Jetman is my new favourite because of this. Ryu finds happiness while still being a hero, something which I can aspire towards. The tomato headed monster, easily one of the silliest monsters in all of tokusatsu, has to have the darkest and most brutal defeats in all of the 1000+ episodes of Sentai I've seen so far. I would strongly recommend this season for anyone wanting to start watching Sentai. I've already watched Zyuranger, so my next Sentai will be Dairanger.

Hideaki Kusaka is also the suit actor for Go blue, Time yellow, Gao black , Kabuto Raiger, Deka Master, Wolzard and Wolzard fire, Bouken Silver, Kyoryu Grey, and Shou Ronpou/Ryu commander as well as larry in zyuoger master Shafu in gekiranger And he is also 59 years old

I have been waiting for this review!

MMPRtoys just released a new video mentioning that Shout Factory is releasing Chōjin Sentai Jettoman on DVD on September 25.

So since there's going to be a release of Jetman from Shout Factory are you going to be doing an updated version of this?

Pumkins at 7:55

Love Jetman so far my favorite sentai. Yellow owl is my favorite l love his style of sumo and toss a rock at thing. But that ending...man that was heartbreaking and shocking.

I loved evrything about this season the characters,suits,and the mechs. Also not toku related but did u watch black lightning and what did u think of it?

12:20,speaking of Inoue...I got a feeling in an episode of DBZ,he wrote Gohan and Vegeta fight while Goku was still on Namek. This particular scene I'm willing to assume: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pfaH_1COq-0.html&ab_channel=DragonSlayer12396 Two guys,regardless of age beating the shit out of each other due to pride or honor,kinda like Ryu and Gai strangely enough. Oh yeah,I forgot. Toshiki Inoue worked as a writer for the Dragonball Z anime: dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Toshiki_Inoue Oh Inoue,don't ever change. XD

Nice intro 10/10!! Thumbs up!

God I love this show growing up alongside MMPR thru CDs. Gai is basically the Tommy of this but at least he did have a reason for his seclusion to the team. Also,about the if the whole team is needed and then the auto-pilot thing was brought up,my guess is that the transformation data was saved into the machines when they were first brought up together. Same thing happened with MMPR with the Green Ranger in Green with Evil Pt.2. Lol,there were some things both shows were similar to me that I didn't even notice. ^_^ So yeah,must have been a back-up plan if one person in the team were to be vaporized or retired,this feature would be brought up but then again,it wouldn't bring the Jet Icarus or anything else up to full power. There were times that the Jet Icarus and other mechs were controlled with one or 4 rangers but it's not enough to put the monster down. Demon God Veronica is one instance. Also,Pumpkin Rapper is an idiot.

I doubt i'd see these guys become lawyers and fight for anime character legal rights, Harvey Jetmen they'd call it

Jetman will be released from shout factory in september

Cool review on Jetman. Ako was my favorite Jetman too.

I hope that's an upper 4 stars, coz man I could've given this show 6. I watched this as a kid since it was aired here in our country back in the 90's. Even some adults here watched it because of the love triangle aspect. Gai is my most favorite character in all of sentai. He's so bad ass, he even beat God in a game of poker. I'm glad he was the one who guest starred in Jetman episode of Gokaiger. Also, what happened to him by the end of this show is really tragic. Just when he's finally done being a loner and finally accepted other people in his life....Ah I wouldn't spoil it for the ones who have yet to see it. But yeah that ending cemented him as the most Badass Ranger. Also, I dunno if it is an easter egg of some sort but Ryu from Street Fighter morphs into Red Hawk Ranger in the Recent MMPR fighting game. Not the same as Red Hawk Jetman, but I thought it was a neat correlation since they are both named Ryu.

You are awesome and hilarious I love all of your reviews but RU-vid never gives you the attention you deserved!

The time when Ko's mom was willing to shoot anyone for being lazy.

RIP Masaki Tachi AKA Back Dimensional Count Radiguet .

Watched a bit of Jetman thanks to Shout Factory's on demand. I notice that the cockpits would reused in Zyranger.

Jetman Is Such A Great Classic

SniperCat actually sounds like he'd be a reject villain from ThunderCats.

And 30 years later the finale of Jetman is recreated as an attack in Zenkaiger... I am fucking serious

Jetman is great! Loved the Famicom game, too!

Knowing that there was an English dub of Gatchaman, had Jetman been chosen for MMPR, what are the odds that there would be some people during the days talking about how it reminds them of "Battle of the Planets"?

Forgot about your Alfred Hitchcock parody. Love It.

It occurred to be that Gai may have been the best interpretation of Reggie from Archie Comics.

Freakin love this shows. Best decision ever to make it my first sentai

Weird. I kinda expected this to go into a certain ending element, and a little deeper into those odd love triangles. Otherwise another great review. Was there some reason you decided not to cover Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia Vol. 2: Choujin Sentai Jetman as part of this?

so you're telling me that the Pumpkin Rapper and the Soccadillo monster from MMPR came from Jetman? makes sense.

18:00 - The point where Tran becomes the adult Tranza marks a tonal shift for the show too. The villains stop competing to defeat the Jetmen and instead have to work together to stop him, and the Jetmen have a villain that is just badass, easily able to outfight the team. They are defeated in every major encounter with him, up until the last one (Ryu manages to damage him a bit in one fight, but if the fight had kept going, Tranza would probably have still won out). And the only reason they win the last one is because they have an assist.

Just think if Saban had started Power Rangers a year earlier, we would have been watching the rangers in their Jetman suits instead of their Zyuranger suits.

Just got done finish watching it last month it had me research every rock quarry Japan, new York, every city and county lol that's how the show got me lol

When you look at the comments section of a video clip of Kaori's nightmare where she watched herself getting killed, lets just say you know which people has watched the series and which didn't if some thinks she really was getting killed off. Makes you wonder who they think the woman watching this and freaking out was. What can be said, the user horaciosi has the best comment.

I have a fanmade DVD set based on the Toei discs, with the exact same encode and the subtitles from “Grownups in Spandex”. I’ll make a comparison with Shout! Factory’s release, but I can say for certain they won’t be using the exact files on the disc due to the stats. Shout! Uses 8 discs, and Toei has 10. That’s doesn’t instantly mean anything, as if there was unused space on the discs, it could be a 1:1 clone. Which isn’t the case. Toei used up almost all the space on their discs, leaving only a few hundred megabytes left unused. Video bitrates are very high for DVD. Bitrates around 8.7 mbps (with the max Bitrate of DVD being 9.9) on average. Audio is encoded as stereo, but it was produced in mono. This is because early DVD players had trouble playing mono tracks at higher bitrates. Audio quality is superb with very good range and compression being non-existent. Shout! will certainly have lower bitrates, but it depends on the compresionist (the guy who does the encoding). It could very possibly look better despite the space. I’m certain it’ll be at least very close if not equal in terms of PQ.

How about review Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman, the show that came before Jetman

It's crazy to think that we may not have ever had power rangers if not for jetman. This is definitely my favorite sentai so far with zyuranger and dairanger tied for second.

what i like here is that unlike the 80s sentai, not all episodes end with mech battles and theres also a human side of it such as guy gambling and drinking, him and ryu fighting over kaori. in the 80s theres less of these scenes and its just battle, battle and battle which makes it boring and dragging as the series goes on

00:00 Love the Hitchcock isisms....I get it. The Birds. 07:38 Who would have thought Matt Cameron moved from singing to playing the drums for one of my favorite bands...Soundgarden, although Pearl Jam is just as good. 07:49 I LOVE PUMPKIN RAPPER...he could beat the MMPR or Zyranger in a rap battle.

This series definitely did it for me. It is my favorite Sentai, personally

Good video. I've tried Jetman several times. However, it just doesn't work for me. Tokusatsu fans in Brazil idolize this show and you're in trouble if you say something bad about it. I had lots of fun with Changeman, Flashman, Goggle Five (with its involuntary humor), even with Zyuranger - I saw it after getting old - but Jetman just bored me. If I have time, I'll probably give it a go once more (because of your video).

I love Jetman so much. Everything about the show is absolutely top notch from the protagonists, the antagonists, the story, music, themes, and action. My only complaint is that some of the filler episodes are really not good and Ako sort of gets the short end of the stick in some areas, but overall great show. 5/5 G.U.I.S for me. Favorite episode was definitely the one where the characters’ hidden personalities are brought out by a motw.

I have recently watched Jetman and I have to admit that it is such a spectacular season.The season has a very dark concept and some episodes was quite apprehensive.The story plot of the villains is so intriguing.Grey is my favourite villain.He is evil but at the same time he fights with honour and has love inside him for Maria.Maria is a damn bitch but I really feel sad for Rie because she is not at all like Maria.The red Hawk is an amazing leader and his love for Rie is so pure and exquisite.Black Condor is my favourite jetman ranger and I absolutely hate it that the makers killed him at the end His death was so unnecessary and after fighting so many tough and painful battles he was killed by an amateur thief just really makes me furious.If the makers wanted to kill him then they should have gave him an honourable death like dying during an epic battle.I really liked Kaori and Gai as a couple rather than Ryu and Kaori.I wish Kaori and Gai got married but Ryu's marriage to Kaori kind of makes sense because Rie's last wish was that Ryu should forget her and erase all her memories from his heart and also it was showed in the series that Gai and Kaori was having problems in their relationship because of their different opinions towards life.I wish at the end Gai ended up with Kaori and Rie stayed alive and got together with Ryu.

Thanks to you, I ended up watching it and being my 2nd favorite super sentai 1st being shinkenger

Yuta Mochizuki is also known for playing the second Tuxedo Mask in the Seramyu musicals, as well as Dracula in the Dracul Trilogy of Seramyu musicals.

Hey mr.Hank it’s hassan the kid who you subbed Mrs.Hunts class

Jetman saved sentai the same way Mariano Rivera saves games. Gai was the cut fastball the series relies on, the pitch destroys bats while Gai destroys enemies testicles.

I haven't seen the whole series but what I have I thought was amazing (even the cup noodle episode). As always, a solid review. Also, are you aware that Turboranger and JAKQ are being fansubbed by a group called Love & Care?

I feel some things were way to out of the and all over the place. also I feel both sides got smacked around all over the place and a little to much drama tho there were was some good episodes and some things more focused on then others, While I did like that some of the villains killed people and a few of the monsters killed people to and some times things seemed intense but I feel things could have been better. I feel the weapons were hit and miss. The mecha felt to boxy tho they had their own good points . the mecha battles were not bad the combining was not bad the villains were interesting but they seem to shift from tough to weak same with the rangers and feel them competing to lead could have been done better. I feel them questioning humans morals is cause they try to show humans are not better then them and that they hate that they act so noble but are not. The foot soldiers were magma based i feel to many complex relationships. The monsters were hit or miss the 2nd ones seemed better the music it or miss. Gai's death I feel ruined it for me. Also his death was weak killed by a mugger if they wanted to kill him give him a epic death.

I just finished it, I liked it. But I think at the end it kinda falls apart and they didn't really know how to wrap things up with some characters so they do it in a rush. The Vyram were the best.

Jetman: Chip Chip Chip I'm A Bird 🐦🕊️

This was my first pre zyuranger series I watched & I loved it mostly because the suits reminded me of the 1986 show silverhaws that I watched when I younger.

Just a random question, u think kaori looks better in tan or no tan?

7:14 well because Kohei Takeda actually learned to play violin for his role.

Gai is the 6th ranger of the team before 6th ranger is officially a thing one year later

Also, Ako has a last name. It's Hayasaka

I love Jetman so much. My favorite Super Sentai series by far.

What are your best super sentai shows from before 2001 ? Your top 5 ? 1 Jetman 2 Liveman 3 Dairanger 4 Zyuranger 5 Bioman I also like Kakuranger a lot.

It's not an exaggeration to say Masaki Tachi, the actor for Radiguet, hated playing him because of how nasty he was as a character, and even attempted to quit the show after reading the script for episode 18 (in which Radiguet spoliers). For a time he didn't even let his own son know that he appeared in Jetman because of this.

Sadly I got to like episode 13 and just couldn’t get into it :(

Jetman It is my favorite sentai and I love all characters. I miss good old super sentai, they just lost the magic after Gekiranger.

I was expecting you would give it 5⭐️. It got a 4. The high caliber drama series was there with JAKQ, Bioman, Maskman and Liveman. All the Sentai fans keep saying this is the “First Dark Dramatic” Sentai. It’s no lie that this series attracted adult viewers which saved the series. I first saw it in 1994 during the toku journey as I refused to put up with Saban. And I am not a fan sadly for the series. The majority of the characters killed this series for me. With the only exception of Ako, and Gai(who evolved). And even I own it on DVD from SHOUT! Factory. I am still not a fan or this is a favorite of mine. Fans are welcome to their freedom and opinion and love the series. But being an independent and an oddball I prefer something else. Fun fact: before Zyurangers. And after Bioman. Saban was gunho in importing Jetman to the States and he was singing the theme song to death. However the deal fell through and the rest as they say is DINOSAURS! The character of Grey/Gray. Isn’t just based on Guardnoid Gash(Liveman) but is played by the same actor and is one of my favorite character that keeps me tuning in. And not forget Yutaka Hirose, he played Dr. Kemp in Liveman as well. The character design is done by the visionary Keita Amamiya. Yet the Vyram Beast does nothing for me sadly. There was the 2011 live action Gatchaman movie that came out and I always wish Jetman had the same energy as that movie did. One of the past videos I am catching up of your archives.

Stupid question, but what was your intro based on? Was it an old cartoon?

I think I asked this before but where do you find these pre zyu sentai subbed or any sentai subbed besides what is from shout. I'm trying to watch every single sentai. Thanks

My favorite sentai series by far.

I can never forget this show I love this

Saw this show on shoutfactorytv last year good review😊

Do you have the copies of jetman? Pls upload all the episode or the episode you have pls. Thankyou

Nice review. I watched Jetman in the Philippines during the 90's and this is probably my favorite sentai of all time.

Sadly Radiguet’s actor passed away in 2018

Super Sentai and Power Rangers both continued after seasons that were thought to be final seasons. Maybe showrunners and companies should learn from this and play each season like it would be their last.

So when Shout gets around to the DVD are you just going to review the DVD itself so as not to retread the review of the show itself?

It could have been cool that they used the wuole “generals dispute for who is the leader” but this time being three brothers who dispute his father”s power and fortune (is father being an crazy galactic hunter))with the only condition being who defeats the rangers first is the one who gets all the power and fortune that is father ad

Right now I only seen Dairanger (as you already know), but I'm planning to make this and Kakuranger my next Sentai show's.

I'm only thinking in my head cannon is that after the incident with his childhood friend with the Fashion Jigen,Raita sees Kaori as a stress ball to hold him until his real GF comes back. Also,you think that the love triangle here is worst?!! KR Faiz has beat you into the punchline with a love HEXAGON!! AHAHAHAHAHA!!

The most respect series of all time