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Toei Superheroes are superhero shows produced by Toei Company, a company that has done the largest number of live-action tokusatsu superhero shows in Japan.Many of the Toei Superheroes were featured in the video special Toei 100 Great Hero Super Fight (東映100大ヒーロー スーパーファイト) released on July 21, 1986.
The series can now be streamed on Toei's YouTube channel called "Toei Tokusatsu Official". [2] In France, the series aired as simply Jiban on TF1 on the Club Dorothée block on August 24, 1990, with a French dub produced by Arachnée and originally licensed by AB Groupe. But only the first 26 episodes were aired and dubbed.
Denkou Choujin Gridman (電光超人グリッドマン, Denkō Chōjin Guriddoman, lit.Lightning Superman Gridman), known as Gridman the Hyper Agent in some English-speaking territories, is a 1993–1994 Japanese tokusatsu "Giant Hero" series created by Tsuburaya Productions (the producers of Ultraman) and would be Tsuburaya's last non-Ultra superhero production before Bio Planet WoO. [1]
The Official Toei Tokusatsu YouTube channel also broadcast the series online from January 23 to July 1, 2012, then from June 16 to November 29, 2014, November 4, 2017, to April 21, 2018, and December 15, 2021, to May 25, 2022. The Toei Tokusatsu Nico Nico Official Channel also broadcast it online from April 21, 2013, to March 9, 2014.
Ultraman, is Japan's first and most famous Kyodai Hero. Kyodai Hero (巨大ヒーロー, Kyodai Hīrō, lit. ' Giant Hero ') is a television subgenre in tokusatsu that involves Japanese superheroes or robots either with the ability to grow to immense heights to fight giant monsters or who are originally giant as a part of their lives.
The Metal Hero Series (メタルヒーローシリーズ, Metaru Hīrō Series) is a metaseries of tokusatsu superhero TV series produced by Toei for Japanese television.. The protagonists of the Metal Hero Series are mainly space, military and police-based characters who are typically either androids, cyborgs, or human beings who don "metallic" [clarification needed] armored suits.
Subgenres of tokusatsu include kaiju such as the Godzilla and Gamera series; superhero such as the Kamen Rider and Metal Hero series; Kyodai Hero like Ultraman, and Denkou Choujin Gridman; and mecha like Giant Robo and Super Robot Red Baron. Some tokusatsu television programs combine several of these subgenres, for example, the Super Sentai series.
Space Sheriff Gavan (宇宙刑事ギャバン, Uchū Keiji Gyaban) is a Japanese Tokusatsu series produced by Toei Company that aired on TV Asahi from March 5, 1982, to February 25, 1983. The series launched the Metal Hero franchise and was the first installment in the Space Sheriff series.