Kaiju no Kami Reviews - Choujinki Metalder (1987) Series
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Spielban marked the end of an era for the Metal Heroes franchise. After five years, Shouzo Uehara stepped away from being the series’ headwriter and was replaced with Susumu Takaku. Takaku had been a writer going back a decade to Spectreman, Inazuman, Gorenger, and JAKQ, and then became a co-writer with Uehara on Spider-Man. He also was the head writer for Golion, the show that would become Lion Voltron. The idea was to make a series akin to that of Kikaider, but with their own spin on it, taking up the title of Super Android Metalder. Unlike what had come before it, Takaku wanted to take Metalder into a more serious direction, having the show revolve around a plot that stemmed from World War II. Finally, if you are not aware, Metalder was the source material for Ryan Steel and the villains of VR Troopers’ first season. Does Takaku have what it takes to make a show on equal footing with Uehara’s quintet? Or did Toei make a big mistake when they hired him? Watch to find out.
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I liked Metalder a lot and have no problems with your final verdict, because the mood, music and story kept me intrigued so much that i embraced its shortcomings. It’s good to see and experienced something completely different and unique once in a while and not get borefest after borefest and so on.Have great day and thanks for doing what you do best. 👍👏😎
Glad you enjoyed it. What episode is your favorite?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork (5.Hold on! Never-Missing Gunplay)(9.Dreaming Monster! Lovers in a Crossfire)(25.Fly! JAC Blitzkrieg Cheering Party)(26.Winners! Blazing JAC Guys) and so on....
I'm so happy you're finally reviewing Metalder!
Hope you enjoyed it.
Thank you for doing a video on the series. It is a hardcore fan favorite and I wish it finished at the classic long 51 episode.
Top Gundar is more like a honorable Hakaider as his color scheme and choice of weapon is a give away.
My favorite episode is with the reformed Hammer Ben-K reformed as a buddist monk saving future Ninja Manabu/Tiger Ranger Boi.
There is a two parter with all the JAC alumni appearing, besides Kenji Ohba, there’s Hiroshi Watari, Junichi Hurata and Lady Diana Makoto Sumikawa.
Hope Discotek or SHOUT! Factory releases it.
Oh, that Ben-K episode was a good one. I thought about bringing up the other friends of Hakko in the review beyond Gavan, but I felt it would have clogged it up and taken away from my Tenko comment.
Love the videos! Can’t wait for the B-Fighter series review!!!
This right here 👏
That one will be quite a while. 😛
Really good/special series for the franchise. For sure deserved better audience ratings but it happens sometimes/life inst fair. My favorite from all Metal Heroes broadcasted in Brazil and my second favorite overall behind Blue Swat.
What was your favorite episode?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork being a while to recall but I really liked the ones focused on Top Gunder. You mentioned a very good one too. I liked/enjoyed the series but I have the same issues. Yep, the hero was a cyborg/couldnt emote as much, but we already saw alot series with the same type of character where writers managed to develop something.. Not even need to look Into other series, on Metalder we have mecha vilains that were give the chance/able to give us something to connect with them. But since Im not a big fan of metal heroes formula (Im way more a fan of Sentai), Metalder stood out to me.
This show could be an argument for why the cliche 'monster of the week' formula is actually a good idea. While having every monster in the show at the same time is a striking image, having them in every episode makes things confusing, especially if they get brought back to life without explanation (personally I think it's because there's so many they couldn't keep track of who was destroyed).
So what's next? Gonna review Speilban to complete the VR Troopers? Moving onto B-Fighters?
Spielban is next. We finished watching it yesterday.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork whats after
Always remember this series to be a homage to kikaider and hakaider more so than it’s saban counterpart because of metalder and topgunder. The neros transformation was also very scary back then and it’s on par with the 80s sentai villains like turboranger emperor lagorn. Looking bad it’s ridiculous how big neros different factions are, but still can beat one robot. Along with jiraiya, it might be last recognizable season before the two B fighters seasons. The following season like Janperson, blue swat, and the others always feel like they are trying to be robocop like other of b movies from Asian countries during that time period.
I'm so looking forward to the upcoming Jiban BD.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork really
So do u think you'll review Spielban before Jiban comes out on Blu-Ray?
We did finish the show yesterday, but my review probably won't be out until two weeks-ish from today.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork Oh wow bro your just on a role this month
@@maingamer6846 I know.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork Also, your Neros-Trump joke was incredible lmfao
I always heard about Metalder and how good it is. But i never been able to watch it. Hope i found it soon.
Why have you never been able to watch it? Just couldn't get through it?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetworkI never found it anywhere
Ah. Metallic Fansubs is who I got it from. He has subbed a great deal of the MH series.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetworkOh that’s nice
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork Admittedly, I have watched Metalder through the fansubs that aren't done by Metallic Fansubs twice. I am planning to watch this series again with, well, Metallic Fansubs this time after I eventually finish up on watching Juspion, which I am effectively stalled on for some reason, and rewatching Spielban. I will then start off on Jiraiya after what would be my third overall viewing of Metalder.
Looking forward to watching this video!
Enjoy.
¿If there was an new show of metal hero coming up what motif you whold like to see in it?
I honestly do not know since Kamen Rider pretty much continued Metal Heroes with it merged. I guess I would like to see a brand new Space Sheriff that is in the same vein as Sharivan (horror based).
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork mine whold be something of an prehistoric or subaquatic motif
You know, after watching the henshin scene from that show, I half expected the instrumentals of "Crystal Sky" from Ohrangers to start playing.
lol
This show was released in 1987, where Megaman and Street Fighter came out.
And funny enough I did think of Mega Man at times.
I love this series, but I know it's not for everyone, so I like hearing other people's reason for why they liked it or not. I would love if they tried redoing Metalder in the space sheriff movie style, but that seems unlikely since they don't seem to care about anything that isn't Gavan.
I also don't think Metalder would work well these days due to its themes. Although, I wouldn't mind them continuing it to give it the ending it was supposed to have.
Considering what you said in the Jiraiya review, I'm gonna take a guess and say you didn't like it.
lol
Hence why I figured he would give the series two of five Grown Ups In Spandex at best. Maybe a three out of five if he's feeling really generous but I highly doubt that.
It definitely got better as time moved on. Sometimes, if not the majority of the time, the villains got the spotlight. There are really dark plots throughout, leading up to a rather unique finally. It’s not a perfect show but it’s not bad by any means.
I hated the finale. I wish we got the original vision.
I do want to say that I wonder how you would’ve reacted to the original ending where Metalder and the Robot Dog would’ve sacrificed themselves to end God Nero’s by blowing him up with a bazoka, causing he Ghost Bank to explode and take them with it while also killing he remaining forces.
If they fully actually fleshed out the purpose of why Neros did not want anyone know who he was originally, I'm sure it would have been fine. That is one of my problems though. They go through the entire series of him talking about how no one must know who he is, but nothing happened when they did. It was just like, "Oh, that's who he is... why do I care?" Plus, I didn't like how Top Gunder could get his face blown off and be fine, but then one little sword cut kills him.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetworkactually they were going to do that in the original full run that was planned with it being revealed that someone else was helping God Neros. Neros saying that he was going to "Shrowd himself in the Darkness of the Night" was even a hint to this. In fact the novelization even hints it at the end. But the cancelation effected those plans.
At this point you might as well as watch the original kikaider. One of the lesser work of Ishinomori just because it didn’t spawn a franchise out of it. There's two live action seasons, an short anime, and a grim reboot movie that was promoted in one Gaim episode just like how Gavan was promoted in sentai around that time period. The actor that played him in the modern reboot is just as robotic as Metalder. Also, there’s a lot of kamen rider series old and new to cover after you’re done with ultraman and sentai.
I'll get around to Kikaider at some point.
Just finished re-watching the review and I feel like even ordering from Discotek lol! Metalder is the only tokusatso series that I haven't ever seen one episode of. And the review just made me want to see it even more. It is a badass series and hopefully I get a dvd set soon.
I hope they end up releasing it at some point. I'll gladly buy it and have no problem giving it another shot.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork Yes. I've really never seen it to say if it's a well written or well produced show but one reason i like it is because it's one awesome looking show. The costumes look extremely well made, the sets, effects. Very different looking show that stands out compared to all the other tokusatso shows. But yes, I've seen enough clips to agree that the portrayal of Ryusei Tsurugi is kind of bland. No emotion, no personality. But maybe it is attributed to him being an android. But still, I would get that dvd in a heart beat!
35:14 even my arch enemy would look at the bastard who abandoned the puppers and hunt him down, not for recruting, well unless you count Traning Dummy as a rank
Yeah, that dude was a jerk. His whole excuse was his wife is sick.
Love this review!!
Honestly kinda wish they attempted something like this again. Toei has a pretty lousy track record with developing villains, so a series which focuses on the villains to the point where they outshine the hero(es) is highly interesting to me.
Well we did get that wit Gekiranger, which thankfully did not have way too many villains to keep track of.
I know about this one thanks to VR Troopers.
All I really know about VR Troopers is it had Metalder footage and teh villains.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork And a talking dog named Jeff.
Ugh, I hated the talking dog in both shows.
2:20, the show was like MMPR but unlike the global phenomenon, VR Troopers at times was a bit more serialized and more serious in tone compared to MMPR where sometimes, the monster would either want to betray their leader Grimlord or one of the beaten monster would force the hero to kill them, even creepily stating 'My LIFE HAS NO MEANING!!'. Way different than the more simple kill monsters at the end of a PR episode at the time.
3:34, also he looks like the Gobot Destroyer. A lot of these goobers look like they'd end up in Machine Robo/Gobots.
Then again, Katsushi Murakami was not only the designer to Golion/Voltron but he was also the father of Machine Robo and the Metal Heroes as well as Metalder so designs of him would make him similar to that of his other works. Metalder does look like if R-Jetan was stripped of his pink armor in the Battlehackers anime.
4:02, if that's worse...check out Changerion. XD Funny enough that you mentioned VR Troopers, I honestly wish Changerion was also used as VR Troopers but season 3.
5:13, Meteor saber?
5:58, ruclips.net/user/clipUgkxw8lRCA4HOcHs9UZvxRHBca_ijg7ebiA7?si=WiWVQWpghEZDQV39
7:30, I guess whoever in Saban productions saw this knew there was potential which was why Cybertron was a thing until it was decided that mixing in Spielban had to be made considering some of the characters...yeah, not do much for anyone tbh. At least Jeb wasn't in the stock footage and was basically comic relief in VR Troopers.
11:18, give my regards to Grimlord!! Aye-set-aiya!!!
12:26, good thing about robots is that they change their voice boxes. Think Galvatron from the classic movie and the cartoon.
15:10, what the?! I didn't know Spiderman played the villain! 0_- Again, the America comment on Metalder's design is spot-on. Nice going, man!
16:22, o.o Whoa.
18:06, Rotail is surprisingly a higher rank than Bebop and Rocksteady there? Neat.
20:14, I imagine Masako Nozawa doing Geldling for some reason. The Goku Black voice would do well too.
Majority of the designs here was done by Yasuhiro Moriki too. He's done things for Rayearth, Sonic X(yes, no joke), Dekaranger, Gobusters and Xardion, that weird SNES game. Why I'm mentioning this? Because Good Smile announced a model kit of Xardion will be coming soon. If you love Metalder and the Ghost Bank troops, you'll certainly love Xardion's model kit.
23:38, ah yes...Tyler Steele, is it?
The Ghost Bank was impressive that they made a play set for it when the show came out along with some of their troops and yes, including Top Gunder. VR Troopers also had some toys too to further immortalize some of the characters too.
RIP JDF and Ichiro Mizuki.
31:20, yeah and considering what happens during the time of its production, anime was picking up a lot of steam full-force. Shows like Z Gundam and Transformers was a huuuge hit in Japan during the time, a lot of mecha fans were possibly tuning into the show for the mecha designs. This was also the time the OVA boom was huge.
My only thought process here...could the Metal heroes be revived in some things like V-cinemas or the Toei Tokusatsu Fan Club?
33:51, a show like this in this era would certainly be quite something considering heroes have since been falling from favor for some stupid reason. People know toku heroes are gonna be the victors so something like this would go well with the likes of Kaiju No. 8, Godzilla and Go Go loser ranger.
37:50, my guess was that during the first episodes, there was a repair bay at the Ghost Bank just like one from Machine Robo Cronos which is the reason why most of the villains would come back as if nothing happened.
Never got into VR Troopers, but I'm sure they edited a lot out like the dream sequence of Top Gunder shooting Neros in the head.
Wasn't Changerion after VR Troopers?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork It was in April 1996 but that was too late considering VR Troopers had already fizzed out in Feb 1996 in the same year. If only Saban Prod. had waited a bit more, we could have given Changerion a second lease of life. T_T
35:09-35:15 That made me laugh so hard
Honestly I think I feel the same way about Metalder I did about Kamen Rider Stronger, I like villains more than the hero. I'm not saying I hated Metalder or his design (I appreciate the homage to Kikaider), but I mostly enjoyed and appreciated Neros and their designs, and I've always been a fan of villain groups with factions (though I agree the mechas should've been group together, cyborg or not.
Imagine how awesome this would've been had Top Gunder been the main hero, of course that also only would've worked had they kept it aimed at mature audiences. Obviously Golgo 13 is not for kids.
The crappy rushed ending didn't help matters either.
TROOPERS! EXTREME! GO!
(VIRTUAL REALITY)
Why extreme?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork oh wait no, it's SUPREME. I heard it wrong.
I feel like there are better toku with sentient robots. Metalder is stiff throughout the series despite what he been through. He might even have more emotion in his metalder form. The male sidekick feel like he’s always trying to cosplay and impersonate kamen rider black just without the combat skill. The early episode does feel grand with all the monster suits with actual stunt actors inside the big villain lair. Though it kind of look like a more impressive infershia from magiranger except most of It felt wasted though.
Oh my god, I'm not the only one that thought of Kotaro with Hakko's fashion sense.
VR Troopers were awesome 😎
Never really watched it.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork it’s a great show you should check it out it’s on dvd 📀
For as flawed Metalder is... it's still better than Kikaider Rebooted.
Also, kinda surprised, but still relieved we didn't get characters based on Haiakder, Bijinder, or Waruder.
Isn't Top Gunder supposed to be Hakaider?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork if you a be tech(nical). Hooray for bad jokes!
have to wonder how much it cost and took to make so many monsters all at once
No idea, but it was troublesome.
I liked the villains having ranks like Victorious Saint, and Brave General to the point that I liked to joke about them having a rank called Badass Motherfucker
There were just way too many ranks to keep track of.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork should have just had 3 or 4
Well... I guess Metalder is more of an 80 for Metal Heroes instead of the Leo of it.
Eh.
When I was little watching VR Troopers I always saw these two sumo wrestlers in the show but they were never acknowledged and I always thought it was weird did anybody else think this
I can't speak for VR Troopers, but I thought those two dudes were pretty cool and then they just up an disappeared.
Its a shame they never adapted the rest of the Metal Hero series. That said, my take on adapting MH would be an all original footage series & it would have 3 categories based on what's already been established. The Space Sheriffs, The fiction to real Super Heroes & Cyber Advanced Tech Heroes. Though some may blur in between.
I'm quite surprisd they never bothered to do anything with Gavan or Sharivan.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork The closest thing we got for Gavan was when he was adapted to Captain Chaku on Beast Morphers. But yeah so much more could've been done with such characters. If they decide to go back to adapting PR, MH could also be adapted as well. But only time will tell on that subject.
The ideas for the villains are really interesting, especially God Neros.
It's pretty rare to see Japan admit their war crimes in media there.
(I'm not saying that to be rude if it sounds like that)
YOu're not sounding rude and I agree.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork Okay thank you
Superhuman Robot Metalder
On the surface, it does not have a complex set of hero casts and while it is detrimental the amazingly done set of villains make up for it. The WWII aspect even if barely tackled upon is a unique and fresh concept however the series really get shitted upon due to its horrid finale.
3.5/5
Fav Episode: Probably the one you mentioned or Gunder's expulsion to the Neros Empire
Now that's left of the fallen tokusatsus (ended halfhazardly due to ratings or changed for the better) is Hibiki and BLUE SWAT
Next review after Metalder? Zenkaiger? or another metal Hero show
I think the WWII aspect not being fully fleshed out is the biggest crime of all. They did all of this stuff to reveal Neros' identity, but it amounted to nothing. LIke one early episode Neros was trying to hide who his WWII identity was, but for what reason? It didn't make sense since it had no relevancy on the show's outcome.
Spielban is my next review. After that, it is a toss up between Zenakiger, Jiban, and Ultraman Taiga depending on which one I finish first.
Fun Fact: Metalder was also used for VR-Troopers...
Yep, I said that in the review. 😀
Kaiju pulled out a mmpr reference. i respect it. Ngl this shows whole premise is weird
It is definitely that, but then, I wouldn't want my Toky any other way.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork that's fair enough
I'm pretty sad this did not turn out better it's one of the metal heroes series I kind of want to check out since it was part of the footage they use for VR troopers
Give it a chance, you might enjoy it. I know a lot of people were shocked I did not like the show.
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork I may give it a chance one day to be honest there was a super Sentai you review that you really really really really really really really hate it but I watch it not too long ago and finished it shockingly I actually enjoyed it
Which series?
@@TokuAndAnimationNewsNetwork oh boy here it is I actually like ryusoulger I mean I'm sorry I did not have the same problem as you did with it I like the characters and the hell did villains didn't really bug me that much I like how it kind of had a good mix of some dark moments and some company moments but I can see why it's not a super Sentai for everybody but I still agree with you dragons was still better theme
Also I hope one day you can review mental hero juukou b-fighter Mexican power rangers next to liking power rangers as a kid I was also a fan of big bad beetleborgs and I would love to see how the Japanese version was like
And there is nothing wrong with that. I'm glad you were able to enjoy it. What was your favorite episode?
I'll get to B-Fighter eventually.
Ikaru/Anger
Hunger! Oh wait...
considering it was the 80's maybe his flying car is a gas guzzler thus he rarely used it to save his robot money.
I believe they said his vehicles run on eletricity.
Awesome review i though it was good not great in my opinion 😊😊
Kaiju ¿wuold you like having an sentai where the stakes are lower than usual like if the villains win the humanity wuold’t seace existing?
While I wholeheartedly disagree with about 65% of your review, like I said I respect it for being different
Nothing wrong there. I'm hoping maybe if Discotek releases it I will enjoy it a second time, but I was really bored with it this viewing.
Metalder- The bootleg kikaider
lol
Me and my gf watched Metalder and she couldn't get through it so I finished it and it was meh. We're almost done with Speilvan and we're loving it. Once we're done with that we're going continue Janperson and then on to Exceedraft. 😀
Watch Winspector first.
Cruellica had a hard time with the show too. It was so boring.
🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿
🙂
I bet that curtain character who he didn’t want killed off was Metalder.
No, it was Balsky and a female robot.
YEAH ONE TIME I TRIED TO GET INTO IT BUT I JUST COULDN'T
Makes sense.
Sorry kaiju forgot me that I'm missed the review
No worries.
B fighter kabuto
What about it?
way too manny ranks
When you think your enjoy this show then just say that this show is basically a boring show with the most forgotten characters for the metal heroes series.
I don't know if I would say every character is forgettable, but yeah, it's boring.
This is series is just racist sorry that I'm saying but come on toel
?
How so?