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.
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 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.
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.
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 UA-cam, 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.
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.
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 🦅
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
The UA-cam 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 🦅🦅
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.
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
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 UA-cam 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 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.
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.
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.
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).
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! 🤖💙🙏
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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!
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.
@@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. :(
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. 👍
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.
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! 🦅
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
I watched one Dekaranger episode that was pretty dark, on par with some of the stuff you mentioned in the video I think. Basically the blue ranger had to execute his lover's brother for committing crimes whose motive were to save her life, the tone of that was super adult like. I recommend checking it out if you haven't, its episode 37 IIRC
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.
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.
You really unlocked some deep memories for me. I originally found this series in a random shop back in Asia on VHS. It didn't have all the episodes but about 4-5 (I can't remember). I forgot I even watched this series until your video got recommended to me. I HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NOW especially when you said the last few episodes had a twist. Thank you 🙏 and you definitely gained a sub from me!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 🦅🦅🦅
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!
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.
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.
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.
Great video! For some reason this show got locally dubbed and aired in my area few years before Power Rangers did, and I liked it so much. Except for that one episode with the Teddy Bear-like monster and some crystals that bursted out of people's skin that got me traumatized.
This gotta be one of the best videos I watched from you my man. I never knew power rangers were a Japanese thing ? It was NEVER on my radar , I was so stupid as a kid I though it was ripping off Metal Gear Solid lmao. So everybody at school was into Rangers and Ninja Turtles and I was More into Metal Gear and Splinter Cell (I was a total outcast lmao) Great video , also we need a origins video about your times on TV and being a Dj lol. That’s pretty cool.
Incredible video! Super entertaining. Thanks for examining this. Exploring past season of the Sentai has been a long term goal, and this let me know how interesting the storyline is on this one. I always did kind of like the suits.
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
Another excellent video on an unpredictable-in-a-fun-way topic! I was probably 4 years old when Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers came out, so I was enamored with the series and watched it for around a decade. Even as an adult, I think the Power Rangers/Sailor Moon formula is the best thing in the world. But I've never watched any Sentai shows because I had no idea where would be a good place to start. After watching this video, I know to start with Jetman if I can ever find the time! Thanks!
Yes I highly recommend watching the whole series. It’s not on now but the Toei channel puts up different Sentai series now and then. Right now they are halfway through Zyuranger and they have more recents as well. 🦅🦅🦅
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.
Honestly I’m going to let the suggestions come in and do whatever is most requested. Spider-Man is up there. Kamen rider 1 is now showing on the Toei YT channel so there might be a copyright problem there but after a the summer that’s how I’ll decide. Let the people choose!
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.
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
Well yes and no. Honestly this was supposed to be a one off. But it got so popular I know now that I must follow up on it. However I’m still thinking of the next topic and will probably take whatever is most requested by the end of summer. So whatever that is going to be will be it. And then others later after that
Is no one gonna mention the Sentai Jet-Man logo looks like a Contra power-up? Because that was bothering me the entire video lol 😂 Pretty cool to know you were once in one of the series though, it certainly adds a lot more depth and value to all your other videos I've seen before!
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.
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.
I have watch jet-o-man, mask-o-man and bioman growing up. These are my childhood. I have to admit some of the episode of jetman weirded me out when I was young.
What I heard on the playground was that Power Rangers was edited from a Japanese show about little kids who have a magic lunchbox where they store the Power Rangers who can grow to full size and protect them the bad guys. I've always been curious if that is something that actually happens in Super Sentai and if not where that idea came from. I kind of miss the mystery of the pre-internet world.
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 UA-cam." 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.
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 🦅
I find it hilarious that more adult themes means love triangle
And smoking!
@@GTV-Japan GARO IS NOW THE MORE ADULT SENTAI SHOW!
Oh yeah! How could I forget?
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.
No wonder Don Brothers is so good and feels different
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.
The cg ranger is a bit weird tho
Thank you!
@@Slade951 This season makes Zenkaiger my 2nd favorite Reiwa sentai
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.
@@SNS3000 I'll have to check it out. Do you remember what Pluto TV channel it's on?
@@Leoj305 Someone else made a separate comment on while I was typing that but it's TokuSHOUTsu
@@SNS3000 TY
@@SNS3000 I hate Hasbro so much for that.
Great retrospective! When Jetman became available on Prime Video I watched every episode. My hands down favorite Super Sentai series.
That’s cool! I had no idea! Thanks for watching 🦅🦅🦅
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 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 :)
I’ll pin this so you get some recommendations. In past comments time ranger and live man are often cited.
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.
Liveman, more darker than jetman i think, first episode already kills 2 people
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 think after Jetman, every series is mostly targeted for kids
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.
Oh!! Why didn’t they just say that?!
@@GTV-Japan It's the NES Era, it comes with the territory. lol
Yeah but they just say hard mode? Eh. Whatever
I remember it on the Famicom, it was fun and tough enough. Didn't see the show, but felt like I knew it from how good the game was
@@GTV-Japan they did... it says title right before the code.
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 UA-cam, 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.
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.
Thanks I’m glad you liked it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and memories 🦅🦅🦅
Jetman was supposed to be the first Power Rangers before Zyuranger was chosen.
The best sentai with the best ending song, once you watch and listening, you gonna love it. Bring back my childhood memories
The full length version is the best!!
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!
Check it out sometime!
"Jeto jeto jetoman *something something in Japanese* jeeeetomaaaaan"
Still remember the theme song from when heard it 20 years ago 🤣
Yeah I love the part where tilt goes something something
@@harizbadrulhisham3805 here you go! :) "Jeto jeto jetoman 'choujin sentai' jeeeeetomaaaan"
Shout Factory has it with subtitles. I first saw it last year and it’s really good. I’m going to try to cosplay Red Hawk at some point.
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 🦅
Also the more use of unmorphed fight scenes were also because the two actors requested to do it in that way.
It was cool to see a glimpse into your background. No wonder you're such a connoisseur of Japanese television!
… 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 🦅
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.
Totally!!
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.
Also, 80s and 90s have a lot of adult animes.
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.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinions! Much appreciated 🦅🦅
The Powerpuff Girls... 😂
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).
Ah now I see the connection! Thanks for sharing 🦅
The bird theme was an obvious hommage.
I loved the Smap ad from 2000.
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).
Yeah I’ve heard about that
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.
Many have said the same! Maybe I’ll comeback and revisit bioman someday soon. Or liveman
The UA-cam 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 🦅🦅
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. 🤝🏾❤
Shotaro only worked on Gorenger and Jakq and quit doing sentai after Jakq was received so poorly
@@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.
@@TheFrontzClub 石ノ森氏は戦隊だけではない、仮面ライダー、サイボーグ009、ロボコン、ハワイで有名なキカダーなど石ノ森氏の作品が日本漫画の基礎なのだよ、其所の発展派生でしかないし、石ノ森がいなければディズニーと手塚の負の面の宮崎しか日本の漫画には出なかったとなる、今日本物の日本人には宮崎アニメはモレク信仰のイルミナティー漫アニメーションとバレ始めて大不評と成った時代ですよ。
@@NastheVictorious 多分石ノ森がなければAKIRAアキラ宮城県出身作者や、ジョジョ荒木飛呂彦宮城県出身も石ノ森宮城県登米市出身も後に無い。
The final episode of Jetman is, to this day, the most memorable conclusion out of all the Super Sentai series in my opinion.
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
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 UA-cam 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.
Great to hear! Thank you for watching 🦅
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.
Thanks for that. You know me. I don’t riff! 🦅
@@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
Oh. Yeah. Well….
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.
Happy birthday 🎂 🍺
@@GTV-Japan Thank you! 🙏🏼
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.
You got it! Thanks for watching 🦅
Oh man, this is SOOO good. Well done, sir. I loved every minute of this.
Thanks friend! I’m working on a follow up but watching the episodes means it’ll take time. Probably by December. Keep it real brother 🦅🦅🦅
@@GTV-Japan Back at you sir. Hope is well with you!
Things are! Hanging in like always
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!🦅
@@GTV-Japan I heard they wanted the Dinos of Zyuranger because kids liked Jurassic Park as well.
Nice timing
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.
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).
Yeah that might be true. You should check out Akiba ranger which is on UA-cam right now. It’s like a parody of jetman!
Yes you finally covering the Super Sentai show
Sorry for the wait! It sailed through copyright checks too, shockingly 🦅
@@GTV-Japan It's fine my patience was definitely awarded
I already have the next video done too
@@GTV-Japan awesome I can't wait
I haven’t decided 6/17 or 24
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! 🤖💙🙏
Thanks I appreciate that! I am taking a 5 min break from editing the next video right now. See you later 👋
Me: This channel can't get any more high quality.
GTV: Hold my Super Sentai branded sausages.
Well I never said “that!” Thanks for supporting the channel!🦅
I've seen plenty of those ads but always wondered if they were ever any good
The ones wrapped like that aren’t so great. These days they sell ones with characters screen printed on them
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.
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.
Yeah I heard that. And it makes sense!
Note: Kousoku Sentai Turboranger was Tagalized in IBC 13
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!
Yeah it’s the easiest Family Computer game I’ve come across in a while. I can see why it’s fun🦅
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.
Many have expressed the same kind of confusion!!
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.
Q: Who is the coolest Jetman?
>6 days ago
>uploaded on Jun 10
I guess Yellow Owl...with some assistance of Dimensional Mammoth
Gai
Black Condor
yuki gai
Black Condor. No questions asked. We need more punk characters in Super Sentai.
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 :)
Awesome to hear!
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.
Yes it could have been! I wonder what the orders were as far as making a game because it looks like a winner but just ends up so easy. 🦅
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!
Hey I’m glad you consider me the go to source!
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.
I love hearing about it every time! 🦅
Great video man I heard of Jetman before but now I know more about it,I miss that old school video game music.
One of the best BGM! 🦅
@@GTV-Japan yep and your right the music sounds like Megaman music which is cool
I know! I was very surprised they put such effort into it! 🦅
@@GTV-Japan that is cool and thanks for doing this video and that is awesome you live in Japan. So where did you live before you went to Japan ?
I bounced around different American cities. Basically a nomad 👍🏻
Liveman is pretty good and really dark. I think it's much darker than Jetman, you should try it. Tho I don't think there was a game based on this one.
There wasn’t and that was the clincher in deciding what to go with. But maybe live man will have it’s day another time 🦅
@@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. :(
Well I don’t know yet but I’ll make a not to not say that
@@GTV-Japan OK.
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. 👍
Hey no problem thanks for watching 🦅
In Thai land jetman so popular
I’ve heard😄
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.
When an analogy is apt, it's apt.
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! 🦅
Jesus... I haven't watched the show in decades but I can clearly remember both moments.
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!
Thanks for watching 🦅
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.
Thanks for sharing your opinions and memories 🦅🦅🦅🦅
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.
Yeah! A great writer
My favorite Sentai series!! Thank you so much for this!
You got it! 🦅
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.
That’s too bad. I hated tv change times
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!
Ah I see. It would make sense if everyone had audio that didn’t sync but with just one character it was very jarring
I watched one Dekaranger episode that was pretty dark, on par with some of the stuff you mentioned in the video I think. Basically the blue ranger had to execute his lover's brother for committing crimes whose motive were to save her life, the tone of that was super adult like. I recommend checking it out if you haven't, its episode 37 IIRC
Oh yeah! I do intend to get to other series in the future so I’ll mention that!
"or forced to watch an ad for 6 seconds" then literally an ad plays 😂😂😂 you trolled us on that!
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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.
Oh. That’s interesting
So glad to hear you’re naming nintendo’s japanese 8-bit console correctly as the _FAMILY COMPUTER_ unlike other western youtubers. Kudos to you!
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 🦅🦅🦅
@@GTV-Japan yeah, i only include the famicom on the 16-bit part aka the Super Famicom. otherwise, i feel you
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.
That’s why I don’t use it!
You really unlocked some deep memories for me. I originally found this series in a random shop back in Asia on VHS. It didn't have all the episodes but about 4-5 (I can't remember). I forgot I even watched this series until your video got recommended to me. I HAVE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NOW especially when you said the last few episodes had a twist. Thank you 🙏 and you definitely gained a sub from me!
Yeah I don’t want to ruin the ending because it’s really well done.
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.
What did you think about Ryu drinking hot milk?
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
Some counties called the show bioman 2 but I can’t confirm
@@GTV-Japan Breh, that was Maskman (87-88)
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.
No way! That’s hilarious 😂
It also had a manga continuation, with a manga-exclusive "Green Eagle" Jetman.
Yes very true!
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.
It isn’t that it’s bad but just that you realize a lot of tv is something to kill time because you can’t leave your house!
Genius advert placement
Use it or lose it!
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.
It’s better than I expected! 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.
There was a manga that continues the story with a green jetman. But I’ve never seen it. Thanks for watching
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 🦅🦅🦅
Heard the theme song when I saw the thumbnail. I remember when a classmate introduced me to this show in Japanese class in college lol.
That’s awesome! 🦅
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!
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.
Oh yeah. Good tunes!
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.
Wow that’s still pretty neat!
I am 25 and this is my first Tokatsu Sentai to watch when I was 5 years old.
Oh great! Good way to start out 🦅🦅🦅
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.
Ah cool! Had no idea because it’s not mentioned anywhere in the game. Thanks for the info! 🦅
Thanks for this. This was my favorite super sentai show growing up. It was aired (dubbed) in the Philippines mid-90s. Need to rewatch this!
Awesome a lot of people said the same and saw the phils dub here
Great video! For some reason this show got locally dubbed and aired in my area few years before Power Rangers did, and I liked it so much. Except for that one episode with the Teddy Bear-like monster and some crystals that bursted out of people's skin that got me traumatized.
Sounds like a cray time
This gotta be one of the best videos I watched from you my man. I never knew power rangers were a Japanese thing ? It was NEVER on my radar , I was so stupid as a kid I though it was ripping off Metal Gear Solid lmao. So everybody at school was into Rangers and Ninja Turtles and I was More into Metal Gear and Splinter Cell (I was a total outcast lmao)
Great video , also we need a origins video about your times on TV and being a Dj lol. That’s pretty cool.
Thanks for the high praise! Well as for the old days there’s not much to say. I just auditioned and did it. It was so long ago.
Thanks for the high praise! Well as for the old days there’s not much to say. I just auditioned and did it. It was so long ago.
Incredible video! Super entertaining. Thanks for examining this. Exploring past season of the Sentai has been a long term goal, and this let me know how interesting the storyline is on this one. I always did kind of like the suits.
Thanks for watching 🦅🦅
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
That’s a good one!
@@GTV-Japan Quite traumatised by it tbh haha but when Gai appeared in Gokaiger, in a tribute episode, it definitely tug my heart strings
He’s the best ranger of all times
Another excellent video on an unpredictable-in-a-fun-way topic! I was probably 4 years old when Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers came out, so I was enamored with the series and watched it for around a decade. Even as an adult, I think the Power Rangers/Sailor Moon formula is the best thing in the world. But I've never watched any Sentai shows because I had no idea where would be a good place to start. After watching this video, I know to start with Jetman if I can ever find the time! Thanks!
Yes I highly recommend watching the whole series. It’s not on now but the Toei channel puts up different Sentai series now and then. Right now they are halfway through Zyuranger and they have more recents as well. 🦅🦅🦅
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.
When you have cred you’re not a snob!
Is that you, Sean Akizuki?
I love this episode! Make it into a series do more even other Toei shows, Japanese Spider-Man, Oh Ranger, Kamen Rider, Ultraman etc
Oh I think I will. But to take another season and watch them all will take some time. So be sure to come back for other videos until then!
@@GTV-Japan Do the original Kamen Rider or Japanese Spider-Man it’s the most interesting
Honestly I’m going to let the suggestions come in and do whatever is most requested. Spider-Man is up there. Kamen rider 1 is now showing on the Toei YT channel so there might be a copyright problem there but after a the summer that’s how I’ll decide. Let the people choose!
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 telling me!
@@GTV-Japan You are welcome
It made a huge impact on me, due to the ending.
It was a great ending and a great show! Actually right now I’m working on the follow up to this video. More Sentai goodness coming soon 👍🏻
Just discovered your channel, I love Japanese Live actions and animes. Continue your amazing job 👍
Thanks! I’ve done about 8-9 tv shows so far. But these topics are all over the place. Take a look around and tell me what you like🦅🦅🦅
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
It was a sad ending for him. Though he was redeemed!
Awesome video, I was never aware of this series. Would you ever consider making a Battle Fever J video?
Well yes and no. Honestly this was supposed to be a one off. But it got so popular I know now that I must follow up on it. However I’m still thinking of the next topic and will probably take whatever is most requested by the end of summer. So whatever that is going to be will be it. And then others later after that
Is no one gonna mention the Sentai Jet-Man logo looks like a Contra power-up? Because that was bothering me the entire video lol 😂
Pretty cool to know you were once in one of the series though, it certainly adds a lot more depth and value to all your other videos I've seen before!
Thanks as always for the support and yeah it does look like the contra power up
At 12:15 this move and the acting has been copied by SNK in the KOF serie. It’s one of Whip’s special move.
Nifty!
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.
Truth.
INSTANT NOODLE MONSTER, damn my childhood memory couldn't recall that
That Flashman placement was perfect!
I’m glad you liked that. No one said anything so far about it. And still no one has mentioned Koko b ware!
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.
That’s good news! Thanks for sharing
I have watch jet-o-man, mask-o-man and bioman growing up. These are my childhood. I have to admit some of the episode of jetman weirded me out when I was young.
I think you mean bi-o-man! Thanks for watching 🦅🦅
I watched all of Jetman a few years ago. One of the best decisions I made ever. Power Rangers wish it was as intense as this.
Totally! Funny that at least where I lived the power rangers were on at 3:30 and jerry springer was on at 4! It’s like why hide that from the kids ?
What I heard on the playground was that Power Rangers was edited from a Japanese show about little kids who have a magic lunchbox where they store the Power Rangers who can grow to full size and protect them the bad guys. I've always been curious if that is something that actually happens in Super Sentai and if not where that idea came from. I kind of miss the mystery of the pre-internet world.
I haven’t heard of that one. But it sounds like it could be an individual episode where the bad guy can shrink them and keep them in a lunchbox
Great video! But I wish you mentioned the robot more. Still great though! Thank you so much for your hard work!
You’re welcome!
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 UA-cam." 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.
And how crazy was japan that you have to buy the phone number with a new phone line and pay per minute ontop of that? Thank god that’s basically over.
Damn this brings me back to some memories. To bootleg VHS tapes in the 90s we had like 40 of them. 😂
Ah yes! The lost art of tape trading. Both video and audio ❤️
Anyone else get a good laugh out of the "Jetman Sausage" commercial or was it just me? Also, I kinda like that Tomato King character.
There’s been about 10 comments about it so far! There have been super Sentai sausage of all types every year since !