Choujinki Metalder is the sixth and shortest entry of the Metal Hero Series, running from March 16, 1987, to January 17, 1988, for only 39 episodes. It was the first series to air on Sundays instead of Mondays. Metalder bears many similarities to Toei's earlier program Android Kikaider, particularly in its themes, characters, and the hero's costume design. The action footage of Metalder was adaptated for the first two seasons of VR Troopers. On February 21, 2007, Toei released the complete Metal...
21 years ago, a baby arrived on earth inside of a peach. Today, five warriors based on the legend of Momotaro fight enemies that are inhabiting humans, invisible to the naked eye. Together they fight to take back gears based on previous Super Sentai....
The intercom rings. When Tanaka Yuka responds, she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman says she wants to pay back the money she'd borrowed for taxi fare to Yuka's husband Shinji, who insists he lent her the money at a bar. Yuka, who is suspicious of the differing stories between the two, looks at her husband's phone that night. There she finds exchanges of extramarital affairs with five women. Shocked, Yuka works together with Kaito in order to identify and eliminate her husband's adul...
A film version of Choujinki Metalder, set between episodes 17 & 18 premiered on July 18, 1987 at the "Toei Manga Matsuri" film festival, where it was shown as part of a quadruple feature alongside Dragon Ball: Sleeping Princess in Devil's Castle, Saint Seiya: The Movie and the film version of Hikari Sentai Maskman....
The referendum whether nuclear power plants should be banned has been held in Japan. People must decide their future....