Kaiju no Kami Reviews - Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya (1988) Series 

Jiraya is one of my favorite Metal Heroes for a reason. Nice review Kaiju.

I remember watching Jiraiya back in the day, along with other Metal Heroes (e.g., B-Fighter, Junperson, Jiban). I miss those times.😢

It's a shame that metalder failed. I loved how different it was compared to the shows that came before and after.

Kenji ohba was great here and probably the last time he played someone somewhat young and fun before he went all serious as master/senpai. Hope he recover and can guest star in more toku other than space squad vs taisen related movies.

I love this show. Broadcated on TV in 1989 in France on the channel TF1. And we have Kenji Obâ, Machiko Soga and so on. The french ninja named Catherine is palyed by Dorothée (who presented Récré A2 and Club Dorothée).

I thought the title at first looked like a teriyaki beef jerky ad and I got a little hungry. This is better

Speaking of Metalder I can't wait for you to review it

I think I saw Demost, or someone that looked like him in that one Kyuranger special.

I actually like Jiraiya as you mentioned, it is basically G Gundam in Toku form. I was a bit disappointed that the action wasn't bad ass since Toei has a large category of Ninja and Samurai shows (Jidai serial) back from the 50s to 80s and could have amazing fight choreography. But it is a kid's show and no blood in it also. Manabu guest stars in an episode of Jiban playing the same character although disappointing that Jiraya didn't appear to team up with Jiban. I am benching quite a number of non-sentai/rider series and there are some interesting and some not, like Nebula Mask Machine Man which I enjoyed despite it is low budget and it's follow-up Kyodai Ken Bycrosser which is okay for what it is.

1988. The year i was born. Neat.

I had to look up Hashimoto's age, I didn't know Boi was that young in Zyurangers.

Jiraiya appears in Ninninger when Akaninger uses power of jiraishin mecha for Jiraiya top stop the yokai and kyuranger vs space squad gavan and shaider are allied by jiraiya facing ufo ninja.

I love it that in this show everyone seems to know karate you don't always get that in these shows as the main hero always seems to save his friends from the villains

I remember catching a compilation video of this years ago. And then a few episodes on the Tokushoutsu RU-vid channel, so i got a bitnof nostalgia from this Metal Heroes series.

It wuold be cool that an future sentai season does something similar of what the villains did here but instead of the villains hiring the world ninjas to fight the heroes the villains do an somewhat clandestine tv show where they bring ninjas from the whole planet to fight the heroes and retrieve what the villains want without the main villains getting their hands dirty

When I start the showa era for Kamen Rider Super Sentai and ultraman I plan to watch metal hero shows starting with gavan and the other space sheriffs when I finish black rx(since it was the last rider show before kuuga). Any other metal heroes I should check out?

16:55 This might be our first battle royale toku too multiple characters with the same title but with different powers battling it out over a thing that grants wishes

0:01 I Worked On That Star Wars Plan. The Plan For Using Orbiting War Machines In The Near Future

Have you thought about watching the 2 b fighter next? Besides gavan, it might be the most iconic metal hero duology to cover and review because of its American counterpart. People might be more curious about it than the rest of the other metal hero series. The lead actor was also the real life twin of the yellow ranger from dairanger.

that clip of the guy looking over his sword collection reminded me of general grevious

get your ninja on

Machiko Soga is always in the best form in her various roles

Kaiju: what wuold be the motif you wuold have liked to see in metal hero

You know, I've yet to watch Jiraiya in it's entirety, so the most I've known about were from random videos, wiki's and tv tropes, but until I've watched your review, I didn't even know Jiraiya even had a GIANT ROBOT. Where the hell did that come from!?

I'm looking forward you review Jiraiya Successor - Jiban

Time for Ninja!

I love Jiraiya. It's huge in Brazil

So Ik your gonna be reviewing Mobile Cop Jiban later this month with the Blu-Ray, but are still gonna be doing reviews for Spielban and Metalder? Cuz once you do I believe you'll be able to ever season from Solbrain forwards.

I think youtube recommended this for a bit & then disappeared while I was watching Den-O (painful). To me, Jiraiya has a lot of charm. I only watched like 20 eps of it (I got bored around the time the ninja princess lost her memories, I was blitzing through Faiz at the time). The writing aren't exactly captivating, but everything else was. When I said charm, I don't know what to describe it's goofy, funny silly cringe & the 80s feel the show gives. I kinda like how Toha is just a regular dude who has to put his armor & drives a car, it adds a layer of realism & normalcy which only serves to highlights the goofiness, the insanity of the villains he fought & the creative designs on the suits. It also makes the flashy action attacks feels more special as well. The stereotypes are kinda fun & gives a vague impression of the world events at the time, which I guess by the 2024 American sensitivity would probably consider these to be racist or degrading or something. To me, Jiraiya knows it's strength & weakness & gave it their all. It's a beautiful gem, flawed but the flaw adds to the charm, kinda weird to explain.

This was very famous in Brazil back in the day.

Its really interesting how our opinions differ. I really like Metalder while i find Jiraiya to be a mixed bag. I love the Ninja Tournament like setup and some of the characters are great Toha's dad and Not Bandora. The issue is the cast is average if not some are mediocre to bad. Like the main trio of villains and that stupid ass robot that is so damn worthless! With Metalder, i'll get onto why i love it. For Jiraiya i'd give it a 3/5

Interesting 😊

10:29 Good thing he's not the one from America. Right? It's also fun seeing the metal hero characters adapted into Power Rangers.

I wonder if Demost is what inspired Alpha 5?

Never seen jiraiya seems interesting tho

Unleash the Buffalo!

Other than ninninger, I don’t think he appeared in a whole lot of other movies. However, Jiraiya is one of those classic old show along with gavan and b fighter kabuto that constantly get mentioned in the fandom. I get it contrast a lot of the police detective metal heroes prior and after it and it’s based on Japanese real mythology like kakuranger, but I don’t think it was that special or revolutionary. It’s a one off series metal heroes series that felt like kikaiderish metalder and blue swat because it stand out among the rest of the metal heroes. Kind of like how Changerion often get mistaken to be another cancel metal heroes series that tries to be different.

That kid was Boi from Zyuranger?!

of course they have to give the American ninja a gun but that is how actual ninjas work in the past with using flintlock rifles and pistols.

The whole ninja world and Boi from zyuranger fighting kind of remind us that we got the 3 ninja trilogy in the west during that time period. It’s like karate kid mix with home alone. However, Jiraiya is okay and average at best. It’s definitely not as good as kakuranger. Maybe it was time for metal heroes to come to an end like showa kamen rider. This metal hero series feel like hibiki being force to title itself under kamen rider. Also, the franchise is hitting a stagnant period where every metal hero successor is kind of the same until Kikaider like Metalder. Too bad it got cancel early. It’s like when they cancel some of the 70s showa riders series and Changerion in the 90s starring ouja from ryuki as the lead protagonist. Back when ratings matter more than toy sales, what did toei produce to sub in and replace the cancel series? Very curious Do they just start the new metal hero or rider production early simultaneously with the one currently airing. Toei also did a bunch of sailor moon like mini series called fushigi comedy series starring gravure idol of that time. One of them even appear in the kamen rider wizard and fourze movie with other old school toei superheroes from the 70s as villains.

the monty python joke was perfect for it, besides jokes from those guys is never not welcome i suggest if you ever review the the first kamen rider series you use the knights who say NEE! for the shocker grunts

Aaa Combattler V jump scare

I'm guessing your next review will be Jiban.

do ask weird question since kamen rider gavv is snack theme i just wonder about if do make fruit theme super sentai like see do with red as strawberry blue is blueberry yellow is lemon green is lime and orange is well orange and maybe 6th ranger be about veggie or other i mean do much pick 4 ranger be 6th ranger or extra hero like pink is raspberry purple is grape cyan is huckleberry fruit and brown is well i do go to kiwi but not sure like if this be after boonboomger see do with kamen rider gavv if be do team up or just do fight and whice one is better not sure what do make fruit theme sentai but will see really do got what you think

NINJA!!!!

so many ninjas

😮

I hope Discotek Media gets the rights to the show.

Wait, that's actually Hatsumi. WTF!?!?

I like Jirayia but I know it’s first half isn’t that good.

whats next

Two metal heroes series in a month what the fuck is happening?

does not feel like a metal hero series

and its also really dumb at times for me personally