Kaiju no Kami Reviews - Space Sheriff Gavan (1982) Series 

Can we really just notice how Ohba was in his late 50's in the Gaven movie and still looked like he could kick everyone's butt?

Haven't watched the show. But that theme song is a 10/10.

The metal hero that started it all. And it's on RU-vid.

Oba Kenji wanted to have a laser blade during the show after watching Star Wars. And, for the transformation, at first, kenji Oba just had to put rise a head, but finally, choreography arrived !

You know, making a list of the worst toku villain leaders doesn't sound like a bad idea.

As I've recently become aware of this show/movies. I couldn't watch the older series as seriously as I might have been as a kid although I recently watch the newer movies and was amazed. The Uchuu Keiji/Kamen Rider/Sentai crossovers were just awesome due to it's special effects. Definitely might take some time to watch the original.

4:10 to 4:25 Seems like Bandora and Barza from Zyuranger used to have quite a history with each other. Would not have surprised me if they dated in a past life.

I watched GAVAN a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it overall, but my complaint was, like a lot of Toku, the constant use of stock footage and same battle scenes every week gets tiring

I hear you mention Gavan, and I thought you were talking about me. But as it turns out Gavan is spelled with an A and not an I.

kaiju no kami saves the day! other people who reveiws this, only reveiwed the physical dvd like the box art and font on the back. im so happy SOMEONE is actually talking about the show!

Can't wait for this review my friend it's been while since u did a metal heroes review

Really enjoy your toku video reviews/commentaries analysis. You’re one of the few consistent toku youtuber that would cover the older somewhat obscure and less popular toku shows and include the source footage from the actual shows. Really recommend you try reviewing more of the other metal heroes shows like Gavan’s successor shaider and sharivan . They’re like Dyna and gaia to tiga for gavan since ohba return in both as guests. B fighter kabuto and its sequel is an interesting choice as well given it’s the final metal heroes show that happens to be adapted by saban as well before toei try to test on one off shows like changerion that feature ouja’s actor from ryuki. The metal heroes are suppose to be toei’s replacement answer to kamen rider after its revival failure given zx didn’t receive his own full length series. Kind of ironic that kamen rider is back on top and the Gavan trilogy series continues to try and reintroduce metal heroes with kenji ohba and his successor in space squad in the recent years, but with no avail. Kenji is the goat for coming up with the iconic Gavan transformation pose. He went from being akared stuntman suit actor that was insecure about his physique to being in multiple toku series as lead character before returning guest starring in more later on just like kamen rider v3 actor. Even after you finish the big 3 toku franchises and gavan there’s still garo, side series like akibaranger spinoff from sentai, and shojo oriented toku like sailormoon and cutie honey live action that feature a lot of familiar actors faces from other toku series.

While watching Gavan, a certain OG guest stars playing his father.

What some of the next reviews you have planned fore the summer

What did you think of the Gokaiger vs Gavan movie that came before the Gavan movie?

Gavan/Gaban, named in France as X-OR and broacasted in 1983. My favorite space cop !

Great review, looks like a classic for the metal heroes.

On Gavan I love the one music you didn't mentionned. The one used often when the dragon dol arrives. It's the only one that's pretty electronic and it's quite nice.

Hello ! Did you watch the two others Space Sheriff series since ?

The Gavan movie I find to be the most entertaining is the Dekaranger crossover. But all in all, I didn't expect Gavan to be as entertaining as it was. I just wanted something to relax to in between my attempt to get into modern kamen rider binge.

in the Story Writer's Perspective, Mamma's Boy & the Traitor could have easily been combined into One Character.

Another Metal Hero show you may want to check out is Janperson.

I have finally seen all your Space Sheriff review. The series should get 4/5 ⭐️. It is the series that put Toei to the Map of Toku history. Ohba outdid himself in this series. You needed to add Gavan appearing in Gokaiger as a resurrection act. And the Gavan Movie is actually good. The worse Toei movie that put me to sleep is the 1991 Shin(True) Kamen Rider!!!

Finally a review another toku show

One of those musical tracks in your montage of music that you liked was recycled from Bob Sakuma's incidental music for Gatchaman (1972-74). I recognize it well from several episodes of that series. It's usually used in that series in conjunction with scenes involving factories and industrial processes or other location establishing shots.

the makku dimension is basically Dark Souls Hard Mode

6:51 Official Gavan subtitles provided by Toei clearly explained that Mimi actually 'make an illusion of Earth's bird'. the term 'Transformation' (Henshin or Henkei) never ever seen any use in the show. Remember that the 1982 was a 'Laser' age as well as 'Disco' era. By then every Sci Fi considers 'Lasers' to be a magic word because not much potentials of lasers were discovered and exploited yet. nor the actual understandigns of 'Lasers'.

I found a DVD set of this show at G-Fest one year.....only to find out none of the episodes came with English subtitles. What a shame, sounds like I might have enjoyed it if I could understand what was going on. Also what I learned from this video: The Gokaigers were right, their Don is more impressive than Don Horror.

Your review of Gavan is fair. The star himself is great but the franchise tends to suck his show off but it is really ok at best. Personally I think Modern Gavan is better because I followed him throughout his movies and come to accept him. Well now that I've pissed off the fans I'll be leaving now. Lol Great review.

I'd love to see you review the Gatchaman movie from 2013

Hey Kaiju. Not sure if you watched other metal hero shows but i would recommend Jiban. It’s got nice gadgets and villains. It’s one of the best imo.

Love the review, also what are you planning to review or do a news update in the upcoming months.

I’ll say this, I enjoy Geki himself and his later appearances I think are better. Space Squad stuff anyway.

19:03 You made a tiny mistake editing here haha Good video

Hunter Killer means "Flower Of Peace" on Planet Bird.

Fitting your reviewing this now since Gaven expected to appear in Beast Morphers and his episode was released world wide today.

Just in time cause this video is starting on my sister's birthday xd

I believe you haven´t mentioned the events of the last three episodes to avoid spoilers, but I´m curious about your opinion on the arrival of a new (and red) character in episode 44, as well as the fate of Voicer, Gavan's father. Gavan's episode 43 was very remarkable. It has practically no action scenes, but with great and dramatic moments. Not to mention the participation of the legendary Sonny Chiba. About Geki, the Gavan Type G: I believe that the character's "voice" was only found when Naruhisa Arakawa (confessed fan of Shozo Uehara, the main writer of the 5 first Metal Heroes) started to write the character in Uchuu Keiji Sharivan Next Generation. Before that Geki was written by three different writers in their appearances (Yuji Kobayashi in Gavan - The Movie, Kento Shimoyama in Go-Busters´s episodes 31 and 32 and Shoji Yonemura in Super Hero Taisen Z), which made Geki have little consistency as a character.

He's a metal hero and a Sentai hero cool

Maku space in the Philippine dub they re named it time space warp

Speaking of Sheider, his Actor was played by the Grandson of Eiji Tsuburaya.

Have you checked the Link I gave you in the unboxing ultraman ace vid? And will you review the show?

Haven’t watched much Metal Heroes. The only one I have was Ninja Jiraiya and the new Metal Hero movies that have come out in the last decade, but now since Toei Tokusatsu World provides lots of Metal Heroes, especially Gavan, it’s the perfect time to do so.

When do you plan to review Magiranger and Boukenger?

Wander what would be like if both Episode 15 and Episode 18 would be multi-part episodes rather than single-part episodes? Also, why i would re-imagine Episode 18, i would retitle it something different like "Battle on the Beach!" or something like that. I would chance the plot that the Blue Turtle Doubler kidnap beachgoers, along with Kojiro, who isn't taking pictures of women in the beach, where Makuu planning on creating an army of Blue Turtle Doublers or something else, i guess, where Gavan set out to stop their mad plan and save the beachgoers and Kojiro.

It's Gavan Time

Can't wait for metalder

And I liket Gavan's return in the movie with Gokaigers !

Well nowhere for the space sheriffs to go but up, am I right?

I leave the first like

I only watched the two firsts episodes that Toei uploaded and subtitled in his youtube page. they feel way too rushed, like if the scripts where a 60 minutes cropped into a 20 minute episode, especialy the firts one.

Kaiju no kami that review looked awesome spielvan is my favorite of all time

Thoughts on Discotek Media bringing it to Blu-Ray in October?

Discotek will be releasing Gavan on Blu Ray!!!

Gavan is another Toku series I wanted to check out at some point thanks to a pretty epic crossover movie that the Gokaigers have with him especially for the Metal Heroes’ side of things. I have already seen Metalder and I’m planning to watch that series again since I loved it that much. I’m also planning to check out Spielvan.

Gavan was very popular in Malaysia during the 80s/90s, although even then i always found the show to be a bit cheesy.

Cant wait for people that gets angry when someone criticized Gavan because its their childhood. ( Dont worry my childhood favourite is PR turbo and that show sucks )

he definitely isn't French or space French.

Error Wakika Kano never appeared in BFJ at all. That would be Nahomi Haga who was Ms. America II.

I loved it as a kid. It was very popular in France under the name X-or.

Where did you watch Gavan? I was watching it from Toei Tokusatsu RU-vid channel but Episode 1 and 2 are the only episodes have English subtitles. I really want to watch Gavan. Badly

2:20 Narrator is the same person who shortly later did G1 Transformers narration in Japan. His name is Masamune Issei.

I saw this and clips of Space Sherriff Shaider and the blue guy in that series makes me think of Signalman from Carranger.

Wait... what was that brief shot of a dinosaur? I couldn't understand what he said.

I think we call Gavan, Skyranger in my home country. I think he also screams "Metamorphosis" to transform. 😅 If my memory serves me well. 🤔

14:33 lol that was funny Gavan is kinda Good. I have watched it a long time ago. It's not perfect, neither was any Kickstarter Tokusatsu series. But it sure was fun. Also does Gavan's cloth remind me of Rocketeer ?

Sometimes I thinked Gavan had off screen team ups with Max Tennyson and these days were before Max's Grandson became the most people hero in the Multiverse

I just came to comment that after looking at the reveal who the Villains will be in Zenkaiger, I’m reminded of the wall villain in this show.

14:37 Toei did got a license from Marvels to do Spiderman Tokusatsu a couples of years prior to Gavan.

cybernetic James Bond from OUTER SPACE

I can't believe you showed the Dragon God Palace episode and neglected to mention the part where they depict the underwater journey to the dragon palace by just showing a drawing of Hunter Killer and the Turtle Monster's submarine going there, as if they couldn't fit the effect into the budget and just resorted to using their storyboard.

I am not a big fan of the cyberian cycle. The design mostly, I don’t get why it’s a side car.

Gavan is so Underrated

Just started this show and I'm only about six episodes in and I love it! For all of the fantastic fight scenes and effects and whatnot, the show is an action.packed cop Show. Kenji Ohba is amazing, the way he can switch from affable, heartfelt and slightly goofy to deadly serious is fantastic. I love that the grunts don't wear elaborate costumes but simple biker jackets and jeans and boots, but their heads look like elaborate ski masks. Gives off a nice punk criminal vibe. Fave episode so far is the one with the Octopus Food that makes kids smarter but also indoctrinates them to serve Makka as Doublemen. That one had some nice surreal imagery, and the presence of the weather balloon immediately put me in mind of Rover from the 60s series The Prisoner. Will say more when I've finished the series.

I'm the only one here right now. (In the chat)

The planet Bird Every visitor gets given the bird from the planet and it's inhabitants.

19:30 Actually this is the reason why Toei created Space Gangster Makuu with ability to generate a dark Makuu Space. because it was easier to film Tokusatsu with hero in shiny armor and light emitting sword without leaving a trace of ugly filming tools, instruments, and ancillaries. The Narration 'Inside the Makuu Space, BEM Monsters (and shortly later, Double Monsters) are three times more powerful than they are on Earth' (actually more actions and SFX than without Makuu Space activated) actually means it is much easier to film evenmore intensive actions when sky goes darker. This is due to the CG was at infancy stage. I'm very sure that Gavan was amongs the first Tokusatsu ushered the age of 'Computerizations'.

Planet Bird wtf that's hilarious

In France, he was known as "X-Or" and goddamn he was highly popular amongst the viewers in the early 80s (including me :)).

This makes we want to watch Gavan again , as I watched it intermttently and so long ago I recall little of the series. I'm part way though the Ultraman blu-ray and a season of Peter Davison as Doctor Who on blu-ray at the moment though, so it will have to wait.

Also known as Captain Chaku in Power Rangers.

You should do Akibaranger

don horror was majorly voiced by shozo iizuka.

plus the theme song rocks!

Love metal heroes I did a review of 2 myself

I have a few things to say. 5:08 I remember the series I told you about A WTF Moment in Toku series on here I watched and this was one of them. I still don't know what to make of this. 7:33 Jeez, I thought I was watching a Toku series not a freaking Harem anime. 9:18 No, No, No they wanted to save that for Gai later in Gokaiger. 15:02 Told you. That idea was used in the first three Metal Hero shows then later B-Fighter and then in GOGO V. I've got other things to say but I'll say them in a bit.

You forgot the cross over with the gokaigers and powerangers beast morphers

I can't believe you just said the music of Gavan was lacking.

God I love that dragon mech, so awesome. I would love to see that thing battle it out with the Red Dragon Thunderzord.

Gavan was broadcasted here in Brazil in the early 90's but was a total failure. The dub was atrocious and the show was broadcasted years after Juspion (and after other 4 more modern metal hero shows,including Sharivan),the public thought it was a ripoff of that series.It came too late here. A shame because despite all the flaws the hero was excellent. In general Metal Hero villains are pretty weak,except from Juspion and Jiraiya. You should watch Cybercops.It was a Metal hero rip off,but had a great cast and an excellent antagonist (Cyber Lucifer).

In Malaysia & Indonesia, the word gavan (gaban) had been used as memes.

Why does she say laser vision when she turns into a bird?

I liked the lead, music and action, I got bored with the second half of the show though. I loved the wierd bird headed girl in the Maku palace. Who are you bird head girl?

This series for me was so boring. Though kendo ohba was great but still it just felt like a Sentai and rider series combined with some new ideas. I hated the make space as it felt like what Sentai villains would do to make their monsters grow.

Funny acts : some musics come from japanese spiderman !

Three members of Makuu disliked it.

I need Dragon mecha power. Insert dragon Caesar theme enter the thing from changes man is and of we have to include that it it’s one of the few sentia majority think is the best summon. I summon the dairanger theme song in classic can not be out down mode and end my turn.

oh god. No it’s the end of the world as we know it every time I hear about a McDonald’s I think of the awfully ridiculous Mac and me 😂

I liked how Gavan fought mostly alone kind of like the kamen riders of old The main villain I wish had legs he looked ok. some wasted potential with hunter killer. the other villains mixed feelings the monsters mixed feelings the main mecha reminds me of Daireds mecha effects ok the music could be better the episodes could be better the movies not great