Spoiler notes: This video does not discuss the ending of the Jetman series and only explains who the main characters are, their origins, and the plots of select episodes that are inconsequential to the story arc or ending.
This is quite a series. To take on a more adult themed Sentai, love the idea. Characters sound fascinating, and the journey can go so many directions. 51 that is some run.
Yep one episode a week straight thru! Most have about 50 and they have a pretty good system where the rest of the shows that run in the same slot start over with a new cast in a cycle so it’s like 3 times a year a new series is always starting 🦅
Jetman's Head Writer, Toshiki Inoue, has returned to as head writer in the current sentai show Avataro Sentai Donbrothers! It's easily the best sentai has been in a long while, with an older Inoue, who wrote a lot of rider in the mean time, giving the Sentai formula a fresh and unique spin! In a way, its a lot like what he did with Jetman! Highly recommend it if this vid peaked your interests on Sentai.
Yeah I recently decided to watch donbrothers and it feels so much like kamen rider instead of the previous boring sentai episode formula. It's so much better and interesting.
This is gonna be a great watch for me. Power Rangers was such a big part of my childhood. As a child, I always wondered why there were clearly different people in the suits during the action suits and why Rita was clearly speaking another language. Thank you, Japan, for creating such a generation defining genre.
For awhile the Shout Factory was actually releasing these on DVD with subs in the United States (including the series this video is about). Unfortunately when Hasbro got the Power Rangers IP, they put an end to that. Pluto TV shows Super Sentai but only the ones that the Shout Factory covered.
The code at the end of the game isn't for a soft reset. At the title screen, where you choose between "Start" and "Battle Mode", have the cursor on "Start", press and hold A+B, and press Start. Now you can choose Hard and Very Hard difficulties, the latter of which makes you die in one hit in the platforming sections. Still not an impossible game, but sure makes you play more carefully.
I watched all of Jetman after seeing this video. It took me a few weeks. What a ride! After growing up with power rangers this was the perfect watch as an adult. The moral ambiguity, those moments where the good people don’t always win, the drama, the unexpected turns. Amazing! Like a fine glass of Grey’s wine, or one of Gai’s bottles of wild turkey 😂I would like to read the novels by the creator which apparently take this to another level. Thanks for the recommendation! I wanted to ask if anyone knew of another Sentai of similar tone? I am giving Timeranger a go now, about a quarter of the way through. While it covers some darker areas than power rangers time force, I was hoping for more of what I felt during Jetman. I don’t know, Jetman just hit different for me and I loved how it felt. Does anyone have any recommendations? I will finish Timeranger as it is a great show, but after that I was looking to keep my dive into Sentai going :)
Watched shinkenger once (the samurai one). It was a lot more mature than I was expecting. Still a kids show with goofy stuff but overall had a more dramatic, character focused story.
If you are willing to watch stuff from the 1980s, all the shows between 85 and 88 (Changeman, Flashman, Maskman, Liveman) have lots of drama with adult dilemma.
I can only imagine the joy you must have felt when you found a tv station that would show reruns of old anime and live action tv shows. That feeling must have been incredible. When I was in my early 20s I used to wake up extremly early on some sundays. I randomly zapped through TV stations and found a timeslot that showed old cartoons and anime. I watched that stuff for like 6 months until the station closed down. Good times.
From 6-8 was the best time! They would plow thru different series in blocks and the lineup was always changing. And it beats the usual Japanese tv shows where rich people sit around talking and eating
I think one of the things that made Jetman special is that it knew how to appeal its target audience of young children but also knew how to bring a mature audience into viewing the show since it did get an adult novel later on
Funny enough, Jetman was actually my first power ranger as a kid. I got the bootlegged vhs from my cousin and watched over and over. Didn’t realized how darker and more adult it was until I bought the dvd from shout factory and rewatch it. Love this video, and the way you present it.
There's one thing that this video neglects to mention--Jetman was an homage to the 1970s anime "Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman", or "Science Ninja Team Gatchaman", better known in the West under the titles "Battle of the Planets", "G-Force: Guardians of Space", and "Eagle Riders", the latter of which was an adaptation of the Gatchaman sequels "Gatchaman II" and "Gatchaman Fighter", which was produced by Saban. Each of the Jetmen are based on the main characters from Gatchaman (Ken the Eagle bcomes Ryu/Red Hawk, Jun the Swan becomes Kaori/White Swan, Ryu the Owl becomes Raita/Yellow Owl, the male Jinpei the Swallow becomes the female Ako/Blue Swallow, and Joe the Condor becomes Gai/Black Condor). Not only that, but "Gatchaman" was a major influence on "Super Sentai" as it was the origin of the Five-Hero Team tropes seen in Sentai (your Hero character, your Rival/Lancer, your Big G/Strongperson/Hothead, your Little G/Smart G/Kid, and your Chick/Heart).
Another banger of a video buddy. Your curation of Japanese media is second to none. You’re a preservationist, editor, director, producer, and scholar, on a platform filled with “content ‘creators.’” Thanks for always offering the best videos on RU-vid, and today, for entertaining me while I dismantled, cleaned, and reassembled Genesis carts I won in an auction. 😁
I don’t “create” kawn-tent. Seriously what did I create here? Nothing! I just stole a bunch of stuff and shuffled it around 😂 good luck on the cart cleaning 🦅
@@GTV-Japan I know! The title is such a misnomer. When these people get upset for getting struck, because they didn’t transform the media they’re uploading, because they’re “kawn-tent ‘creators’” it always gives me a chuckle.
I'm all for more adult oriented super hero shows. I saw this as a kid back in the 90's, so the themes naturally flew over my head. Time to give it another run.
Well, are you looking for adult as in mature storylines (not kiddy story lines) or are you fine with occasional bewbs and blood? Oh, and death. Several deaths per episode. If that sounds like something you'd like, search up Garo. No, not the anime that came a few years later. This was a live action Tokusatsu show that was broadcast late at night. You can find DVDs of both seasons as well as...I think there were three or four movies - by Kraken Entertainment or something like that.
Kids are treated too much like.. well.. kids these days. I’ve been complaining for a long time about superhero shows being dumbed down. Like I grew up with Batman the animated series. Now kids superhero content is either for nostalgic adults or toddlers. Like the upcoming super pets movie. That said I was obsessed with the original power rangers likes everyone else, and that was very kid gloves. I stayed a fan for a couple of more years than you before I dropped off, but I did grow out of it and would’ve liked something more mature.
I've always wanted to try Jetman. The theme song has always been great and the suits are really cool. Didn't know the story was as dark as that. Thanks for the history lesson!
Great video! Jetman is one of my all-time favorite Sentai series! Fun fact: Jetman has the first sentai team where all members refer to each other by their actual names. Previous sentai teams would usually just use their color code names in order refer to their teammates. It was actually Kotaro Tanaka and Toshihide Wakamatsu (Ryu and Gai's actors respectively) who suggested this, as they thought it was weird that members would still use codenames even after they've become very close friends. This ultimately helped a lot in giving the Jetmen a much more realistic team dynamic than most other Sentai teams.
That’s a good point! Obviously they have a real name and then a Sentai team name. It seems weird to refer to one and not the other. Thanks for watching 🦅
… curator! 😂 But seriously when I got here it was a very different time internet was expensive and flop house apartments didn’t have them. The one shared computer at work blocked every website nearly and there was no video sites to go. Plus discovering Japan wouldn’t be as fun if you were still plugged in to your old way of life and never got to immerse yourself in what you’re doing now. It was a fun time thanks for watching as always 🦅
That and Timerangers finale...got to be the saddest endings. I felt that both endings were the end of their respective sentai eras before the new eras started. Just like how Jetman was supposed to be the final sentai and Timeranger being the final sentai of the 20th century
Nice seeing someone who enjoys Jetoman. When i saw the ending of the show as a kid, i was kinda felt weird as it wasn’t really a happy ending for all. The sentai series were available for most European countries to watch in the early or mid-80s. Blessed to watch all kind of Sentai. The 2 favorites in France were Bioman and Liveman (also renamed Bioman 3). Bioman success was a phenomenon for kids and adults made fun also of the show. In Liveman, the main MC of the french kids show even made a appearance in the show towards the middle of the series (episode 30) when the series introduced the 4th and 5th sentai (Black and Green). Everything went down south when Power Ranger was introduced and also because of politics in the Country.
It's still a kids' show. It's ALWAYS been a kids' show. Japan just has a wildly different idea of what's appropriate for children. Power Rangers brought back Tommy as the White Ranger (actually adapted from a different season) after he loses his powers, to much fan acclaim. In Zyuranger, when the Dragon Ranger's candle burns out, he doesn't lose his powers, he fuckin' DIES. And he NEVER comes back. The writers got letters and letters from children who wanted Burai to come back, but they refused to acquiesce. They wanted to send a message about death and finality. The most iconic American shows to the last few generations have been ones that treat children like they're intelligent and don't use "kid gloves" just because "it's a kids show". Shows like X-Men, Bruce Timm's DC Animated Universe, the Powerpuff Girls, and Samurai Jack.
I was about 7-8 years old when the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers reached England - I remember being caught up in the massive wave of hype that greeted their arrival, they were a genuine Pokémon-level craze when they first debuted and I had a Power Rangers pencil tin and a couple of the Mechazords in my toybox (and I had zero notion of their Japanese origin, expect maybe to wonder occasionally why the robot shots looked so much fuzzier than the ones with the actors). That said, I was never a committed fan and my interest in the series started drifting off when the initial fad died down. I recall that when Saban ran out of Gyuranger footage and so the Power Rangers transitioned to "Power Rangers Zeo" I actively disliked the new look and switched off very much instantly, and that was the end of any childhood interest I had in Super Sentai. Still, I imagine that had I seen this version of the show as I was growing out of the Power Rangers it would have been catnip to me. You say that Jetman is being pitched at adults, but I see it more as being pitched at adolescents - it was MATURE and had BLOOD and SWEARING and so it was DEEP and was for GROWN-UPS like ME. It comes across like any one of a thousand edgy teenage fanfics that the bloodthirsty brat who was into Warhammer 40,000 would have devoured to show how sophisticated and beyond the baby stuff he was. The final comment about the 18+ novelisation amused me - if as you say Jetman had a cross-demographic appeal with bored housewives, it would make a change from the usual Poldark bodice-rippers they had to pass an afternoon! ...and hey, you were on TV? You have to tell us more!
Yeah maybe teens would have liked it too but a lot of the pacing is very slow so I’d say kids and teens would be bored with it for the most part. Yeah in a time before RU-vid I was on several tv shows but that was ages ago. And before that in the 90s I was a dj on the radio so I go way back
I don’t know that writing an ongoing love triangle soap opera storyline that took up a huge chunk of the series was an attempt at showing how dark and edgy they were, the show is just unabashedly crazy and I don’t think it’s really trying to prove anything to anybody
MMPR was amazing to my 10 year old mind. Watching a live action superhero sci-fi series for kids was what up until that point I could only experience through cartoons without the live action part.
I fell in love with Super Sentai when I was in my last year of high school. I knew a lot going into this video because I've seen all of Jetman, it was one of the earliest subbed of the Sentai shows but there was some facts you brought up I didn't know so that was great to hear.
Thank you Shotaro ishinomori for making Our Childhoods Extraordinary. Your imagination and creative spirit will never be unforgettable for your impact on our lives for creating such an Extraordinary Super hero team spanning from different Cultures, customs, ethnicities and Personalities. You will be missed and let your legacy live for the next Century on end. 🤝🏾❤
@@TheFrontzClub ik but without his work on the very first issues of The gorenger/super Sentai series, than we would've never gotten Super Sentai Jetoman or Zyuranger at all.
Gai Yuki/Black Condor is an incredible character. He's the perfect foil to Ryu Tendo/Red Hawk. You have the red ranger, which has to be basically mr. goody two shoes and then you have a second-in-command antihero in the form of Gai Yuki. His ending's pretty incredible and somewhat ironic too.
Thank you for covering this. I could never get into power rangers, and most of my other sentai exposure was to riffs on em. I haven't even watched the video yet, but I'm sure I'll walk away with appreciation of some of the things.
@@GTV-Japan I was right, this was deeper than I thought ,but I still won't get into it I don't think, too old lol. And hmm, you riff on sponsorships :P
You posted this on my birthday, haha. Thank you for your hard work always. I adored Jetman then, and I adore it even now. I'm 40, but I might never truly recover from the shock that was its final episode. Those who watched it will understand.
This was the first complete SS series I ever watched, because of the opening theme! But I found it to be the best too! I've read in many places that this was considered at first to be made into MMPR but that never came to be. For anyone else who liked this I would also check out Hikari Sentai Maskman, with the commander role played by General Tani of Takeshi's Castle fame!!
That’s true it was going to be power rangers but what I’ve heard is that it wasn’t the more mature theme of the not action scenes that prevented it but a lack of footage to make enough episodes out of! As I said many episodes they aren’t suited up for long and a lot of it soap opera stuff so I guess there wasn’t enough fighting to stretch it out which makes sense. Thanks for watching day one!🦅
Yeah, I can see the dinos making money, but the characters in Jetman were almost identical to the original five Rangers, so that would've been a good place to start adapting.
@@GTV-Japan Supposedly the main problem was too many mecha scenes where the characters were out of suit. Since the mecha were the primary toys they wanted to sell that proved to be a problem. And the scenes where they aren't suited up much either was was a good point. Until season 2 Power Rangers couldn't film much original footage, so they were stuck with the Sentai suit footage exclusively.
There seems to be missing information here regarding the transfer of tokusatsu from japan to the west. Specifically that before Saban attempted anything, Stan Lee was already trying much earlier. Toei partnered with Marvel to make Supaida-Man (essentially toku spiderman) and it was the first time a giant robot was included as part of such shows. The idea worked so well (and spider-man was so popular) that it led to the next sentai show, Battle Fever J, to have a giant robot (this being the second marvel related toku show). Marvel wanted to bring Spider-Man and the 3 other sentai they made (Battle Fever J, Denjiman, Sun Vulcan) to america and made a pilot in 1985 but it was rejected by the major networks. The other missing piece of information here is the inspiration for Jetman. Jetman takes a lot from Tatsunoko Pro's Kagaku Sentai Gatchaman. Gai even has the same fate as Joe/Jyo the Condor.
Yeah I had all that in the rough draft but cut it out to keep things under 30 minutes. I felt it was a drag on the front end of the video and so I left that out to keep things focused. Thanks for the input!
I was the perfect age when this show came out & I was absolutely obsessed with it as a kid! For me it was all about the Ninja Turtles & the Power Rangers :) Yet as a kid I had absolutely no idea this was based off of a pre-existing show from Japan.
I was raised on Bioman, not Power Rangers, as a kid who grew up in the Philippines. I did enjoy PR for little bit until I realized how much I missed true Sentai. I am a Sentai Snob as they say and proud of it.
As the prior Super Sentai season before Zyuranger (itself the footage used for MMPR), I'd been curious about Jetman. It's gonna be great to dig into this info. Thanks, GTV.
Some episodes of Jetman were written by Naruhisa Arakawa, who was also known as the writer of good seasons of Super Sentai such as Abaranger, Dekaranger, Gokaiger, and most recently, Kiramager.
Great video! I always love seeing more reviews of Super Sentai including the shows that predate Power Rangers. Before Zyuranger, the only other time "Ranger" was used in the title was in Kousukou Sentai TurboRanger in 1989. Probably because it was the 15th year anniversary for Super Sentai since GoRanger in 1975.
Thanks for watching! Yes I think that’s why too. But I recall it was the 10th series but they didn’t include some of them at the time and they do now. Kind of weird 😂
@@GTV-JapanAt the time, they didn’t officially categorize Goranger and JAKQ as official Super Sentai shows since neither of those shows originally had “Super” Robots. But it was still then 15 years since Goranger so having “Ranger” in Turboranger pays tribute to the first Sentai show. By the time they came out with OhRanger, they officially placed Goranger and JAKQ as the official first and second shows in the franchise.
6:34 - I saw that you mentioned Bioman, even though it's part of the Super Sentai series. Speaking of Bioman, I wondered what will a video about the series in France will be like, since it was very popular here, alongside Maskman and Liveman (renamed as "Bioman 2: Maskman" and "Bioman 3: Liveman" when it aired on TF1 at the time in the early 1990s).
I remember this one being broadcasted on TV in 1991 just after TurboRanger (they skipped Fiveman for some unknown reason). Those two were the only sentai series for a while (so I thought it was some kind of Season 1 and 2 of a Japanese super hero series). After a hiatus of three or four years another TV channel would broadcast Saban's power ranger, which at the time I thought it was a rip-off of TurboRanger until finding out it was an American version of a series called Zyuranger.
Now for the bizarre South America tale: as you know, no NES or Famicom here. Just fami-clones from Taiwan. Advantage? Cloned NES AND Famicom games. So, imagine when we got Power Rangers on TV and the Super Sentai game from the Super Sentai season used for the first Power Rangers season. The game was all in japanese so for us it was the Power Rangers game. The only fishy thing was no Zordon and instead a guy that was nowhere to be seen on Power Rangers. Great video.
The RU-vid algorithm hits gold again. Glad to have stumbled upon this cool video. I liked that you added the commercial transitions in the video as well. That's the unique thing I love about anime and Japanese TV shows. Keep up the awesome work my guy!
Thanks! And here I was toiling in obscurity for 7 years waiting to be found 😂 I have 131 other videos so I hope you look around and comment on what you like. Talk to you later 🦅🦅
The game is pretty slight, but inoffensive. While it has that Natsume polish, it's essentially Solbrain/Shatterhand minus all the effort that went into that game's level design and power-up scheme. The boss fights look cool, but once you figure out that you just need to turtle up and charge your projectiles, they're as good as done. It could have been so much more.
Great video! I played the video game when I was a kid and I still remember it as one of the best Famicom games in terms of music, graphics, and gameplay. The fact that it was easy was a plus to me!
@@GTV-Japan Sorry but if you did do it, you would probably come up with the assumption that Professor Bias was ALWAYS a child or something inaccurate like that. :(
This was one of the last few super sentai that got aired (and dubbed) in the Philippines. As a kid the issues presented each episode went over my head. Rewatching it as an adult removes all the nostalgia filter made me realized that I may have completely misunderstood what they are showing onscreen.
Actually Toei is quite successful when they made "Seinen" genre series. Some Kamen Rider can pull it off quite good such as Agito,Ryuki, 555, Kabuto and don't forget about new Black movie and 2016 Amazon which was literally for adult audience. But only Jetmen that produce with little darker tone for super sentai series. I really hope Toei also adapt this genre or tone to sentai series. I mean, for the fans who knew sentai for more than decades I think Toei also need to serve their adult fans. Just imagine a sentai series with the plot that influence (let say) berserk golden age arc plot. Where there were manipulation, romance, leadership, rivalry, rebellious attitude, betrayal (some veteran/current rangers change side) and also some rangers were died during missions. So it is not just about heroism but also the dynamic among characters and their development. Yet it is going to be super crazy when it is not about right or wrong/ good guy vs bad guy. The main characters had to do bad things for their main purpose and also the opposite side claim their noble goals on their perspective.
As a kid growing up in the Philippines... Jetman was aired with barely any censorship dubbed in our local language. Pretty surreal given the adult themes it had.
Two most memorable moments from the show for me were the final moment of Tran, one of the villain, that scene was haunting for me as a kid, another was the final battle between Gai and that black robot villain.
I really liked Tran/Tranza as a character. They really put effort into writing for the bad guys and even tho they were bad and had to lose, you feel for them in there personal struggles. Rather than the usual were evil just because you often see. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and opinions! 🦅
I have a feeling they made Jetman like this to appeal to Mothers watching with their children while the kids watched it for the action. Gai made a lot of Mom’s in Japan extremely thirsty.
Ohh man, I liked Jetman, but I was more of a Fiveman-kid, and as the rest of the Filipinos commenting here mentioned, a lot of the Super Sentai series were aired in the Philippines. I for one grew up watching Fiveman, Jetman, Bioman, Ultraman, as well as the other Saban versions like VR Troopers, Beetleborgs and Mask Rider... The nostalgia is really kicking in, thank you sooo much!
I totally WAS that high school kid (well, junior high, but who's counting) that loved MMPR. Its debut on US TV was very shortly after my infatuation with all things Japanese, began. Unfortunately it was also a time where anything genuinely Japanese that did make it over here was horribly butchered, dubbed or straight up altered, lest kids actually learn something about another culture. The horrors! When I finally did get to go to Japan for the first time, in 1996, the very first purchase I made was a VHS of Ohranger episodes, heh. It's funny how you mention taking an interest in watching tokusatsu stuff "before you could just pull it up on RU-vid." Thinking back to that time, before cell phones, before the internet really existed in any meaningful form, hell, only four people of over 25 in the group I was traveling with had e-mail addresses(!), actually makes me feel more claustrophobic, today. After touching down in Tokyo, I didn't call home for over two weeks. For that to happen today, you'd have to be dead, or imprisoned by a totalitarian state somewhere. I genuinely miss those days of freedom and exploration on your own, without "cyber training wheels" directing your every action and spoiling stuff before you even step off the plane.
Loved this video. Thank you for reviewing Jetman! I watched the whold series as an adult and still loves it. I also read somewhere that it's an homage to Gatchaman, hence the bird theme and the rebellious lieutenant (Gai is basically Joe).
So funny that you mention the mouth not syncing with the audio, as a non american kid, we grew up watching everything not local dubbed to out country's language so mouths not syncing with audio was pretty normal to us, Haha. Great video!
To be correct - Jetman on Famicom was programmed by Natsume. Legendary studio who also made awesome games such as Wild Guns, Ninja Warriors Again, Power Rangers licensed games, Mitsume Ga Tooru, two part Power Blade games in tandem with Taito and Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain aka Shatterhand just a name a few.
There's a specific audience this is for and that's me. I was born in 88 with a mother from Japan and my entire childhood before kindergarten was Jet man
I just realized while watching this, the Persona series is referencing this particular show with their in-universe sentai, Phoenix Ranger Featherman R. The particular lineup of characters, their archetypes, and everything are all based off of Jetman. What an unexpected revelation.
Jetman is and will be the best Super Sentai series forever. Gai is my favorite sentai ranger. When he returned back in Gokaiger he proved it again. After all he's one of the few guys who can easily beat the Red Rangers.
In the US you can watch these now free -- Shout TV those guys who re-release old 70s-90s tv shows and movies, even some older into the black and white era of early Godzilla, Ultraman, and related, they setup a special sub-channel that globally web streams that has these original super sentai shows all on there along with the stuff I mentioned and more to just watch. Might be worth it for those not in Japan like you to enjoy to watch at no charge with subtitles. They called it TokuSHOUTsu a play on the old name and their network. Today as this airs they're running Ultraman season 1. They run Ultraman, Kamen Rider, various 'ranger' shows and more. Totally worth a look. Maybe your show will show up.
Jetman would be there since it was released on DVD before by the Shout Factory. Unfortunately they can't do anymore Super Sentai because Hasbro put an end to it as soon as they got the Power Rangers IP. That's why they are focusing on Kamen Rider for now which Hasbro has no control over.
@@SNS3000 I mean I get it, but that's just shameful. As if Hasbro would see any benefit from locking that down in the slightest. Either way it's great Shout broadcasts this stuff. I just wish they'd get their act together and get an ios and generic android app out there as web based on mobile stinks.
@@TanookiSuit My guess is that Hasbro objects to the Super Sentai having blood, swearing, and other material that would be considered objectionable to Americans. They probably consider it harmful to the Power Rangers brand.
As far as I know there was a region 1 dvd that came out in 2018, but the whole series was just re (re-re-)released in japan a month ago. Of course there’s always a pirates life as well.
@@TanookiSuit Great news, Fiveman (the series right before Jetman) was just announced so it seems the Shout Factory was able to work things out with Hasbro at last. At least for Fiveman but that's a good sign.
Wow, in México and latinoamerican two shows of súper Sentai arrived, the flashman dubbed in Venezuela and flashman in Brazil. Many people in México unknown this shows was on tve because never had a fixed scheduled, sometimes on saturday on noon or changed by programming tv local shows like news. Great video camarada and play hard and sing along with hinorubu kageyama jeto man.
I've been waiting for you to cover Super Sentai. Jetman is a great series to start with. Also,everyone and their uncle has made comparisons between The OG Power Ranger Teens and the Teens from Saved by the Bell XD.
This brings back some good memories. I voiced Lord Radiguet for a fan dub of this back in 2008. Sadly, we were only able to complete one episode before stopping.
Sentais arrived here in Brazil on late 80s. We had ChangeMan, FlashMan, Winspector, Jiraiya, Jaspion, Kamen Rider and some others i dont remember the names of. Jetman didnt air around here for obvious reasons, the guy that brought Sentais to Brazil probably thought it was too violent/adult too.
Great video! This was my first time running into your channel. And I love the way you have the "commercial breaks" that relate to the video too. Very well done and informative. It definitely kept me interested through the whole video. Keep up the awesome work! 🤖💙🙏
SO MUCH LUV for THIS...............THANK YOU!! JETMAN is my personal favorite of the sentai shows, pretty much for all the reasons that you hit upon here. And I was almost in celebration when the day came that SHOUT! released the entire show for sale in the U.S. on DVD in their SUPER SENTAI original versions with English subtitles line-up. 👍
My first "rangers" show, was Bioman, I was at the right age so i liked it a lot. Power Rangers was nice for a couple of seasons, but like you, i grew too old to be invested in the show.
Thanks for the insight into this show. I have to admit that the bosses from the Famicom gave me a fairly amount of trouble, just like the bosses from the SNES game, it's a fun game though and the soundtrack is awesome.
In Spain it was just broadcast in the regional Basque TV channel, completely dubbed to Basque. It was never dubbed to Castilian though ( the main language of the country). They probably lincesed it due to POWER RANGER'S success, however, as you said, it was more mature. That is why it was broadcast only once and never again.
Thanks for especially highlighting Jetman. It's a transitionary series within the Super Sentai franchise. While I don't want to start any rumors or know if it's been noted in the comments, Jetman was allegedly to be the last of the Super Sentai series. The team got a lot more latitude to write and do more with Jetman as a result than prior ones. Simultaneously, much of the old production staff left or retired after 1990's Fiveman. Since there was a lot of old blood let out and new blood that did care if it continued or not injected, the franchise continued on past Jetman. This also helped production realize that the main issue with Super Sentai at the time was that it was being misdemographiced as only a kid friendly show from a generation prior.
One thing I kind of forgot about is that during this time kamen rider was off the air, kind of forgotten about. Maybe super Sentai was really on the bubble. Thanks for watching 🦅🦅🦅
Power rangers written with adults? That’s impressive theory. By the way, love the content of your videos. Suppose Jetman had another sequel but with Green AND Orange Jetman.
I too watched Jetman after this video, though I marathoned it in like 3 work days. It was an amazing ride and some characters like Gray were absolutely amazing. Thanks for this video and I hope you manage to get more attention and views, I've shared it around with friends and hopefully they'll give Jetoman a chance as well :)
I remember that noodle-episode. In my country even the jingle was dubbed and was catchy lol "Ako-Soup". It was my favorite episode and that was also the reason why I liked Blue Swallow more than White/Pink Swan. As a kid I didn't like Guy (Black Condor) at all because he was so uncooperative, but I realized when I grew up how convincing his character was. I was just glad there was a tribute episode in Gokaiger to have a closure to Jetman's ending.
Did you see my video about why? That explains it all. Even if I do say “Famicom” as in “Super Famicom” you mustn’t say “fa-muhh-cawm.” But ファミコン！ Boy, that drives me insane too. Anyway thanks for watching 🦅🦅🦅
Well getting into the weeds with it, Nintendo never called it Famicom and didn’t even own the trademark to the term initially. They called it family computer for always and ever.
@@GTV-Japan too bad that even wikipedia gets inundated with westernized inputs on its japanese history, it skewed the terminology as it's convenient to them.
I watched Jetman as a kid and one episode stuck with me till this very day - one where they had to fight some crystal monster and this thing can make crystals stick out of your body hahah
This was a nice trip down memory lane, this was showed in the Philippines during the early 90's didn't really notice it was more adult themed till now, LOL
i was 4years old when i was watching this searies in japan and yeah i can agree it is not for kid like me before but still i love jetman this is part of my childhood. i cried when ranger black sacrifice his life for his mate wedding day despite all of the thing he messed up. can recomend this for adult viewers
As always everytime I finish a toku series I come directly to your channel to see the review. Thank you for all the work you do. As I'm watching all the Super Sentai in chronological order, Jetman more than lived up to the hype, it just broke the mold in so many ways (specially in the Giant Robo fights)! Also the effects are getting better and better. Of course some of the story could be less cheezy sometimes but I found the dynamic between Gai and Ryu very fresh. The villains also were very cool. Only thing I missed (for a few seasons already) is the crazy stunts and the amzing camera shots during battles early sentai had, as you always mention. Gotta say it just became my favorite so far, getting high hopes for the next ones as they experiment more with the formula. Once again, thanks for the review and keep up the great work you do here. Ganbatte, Kami-san!
Jetto jetto jettoman! This opening song and ending song was performed by Hironobu Kageyama, who was the king of tokusatsu and anime song back then. My fav Kageyama song is this OP song and Cha-la Head Cha-la from Dragon Ball Z.
I had fond memories when Jetman was aired in Philippines during the 90s. I got more than expected and it became one of the best series from all of the original sentai series I've seen. It was too bad when the network shifted to air PR and cheesy soap opera instead of sentai from Japan, it made me furious and gave up watching local network forever.
Any episode in this show looks a million times better than the best Power Rangers episode ever aired. Also, LOL at the Jetman Sausages...wtf...I love you, Japan :D
I live in the PH, i have a vague memory of this show or might have confused it with bioman, but i know it was Jetman cause i remembered the song. anyway, this was offered/shown on a local tv channel called ABC5 back in the day(early to 90s), which the time slot of 4.30pm to 6pm was for kids, and then the news timeslot would follow. thanks for the vid. watching a show for kids that is made for adults during or in my adult years :O :O
