Chojin sentai Jettoman

One of my best childhood memories was to wake up early in the morning and watch Chojin sentai Jettoman, this my favorite sentai series, specially for the characters.

Commander Ryu is volunteer to the jetman project, he successfully get hero energy in him but for the next volunteer, an earthquake break lose, the rest of the four energy spread to civilian people, one noble woman, one farmer, one sport student, and one gangster type, together when they join forces they become the jetman squadron.

The sentai has been made since 1960s, this series was made in 1991, and I must say this is my favorite series because of the characters, all five of them are likable and related. And I do believe it's the first time it's five different characters with five different personalities, one girl is a rich family type, girl number two is a sport type, the main hero ryu is a mix of a hero type but also comical, and then the other two guys, one overweight farmer and the other one is a cocky lowlife type but still do things right. This on is my favorite sentai.

Super Sentai Jetman is a great series despite not having an Power Rangers counterpart like one year before Zyuranger that eventually launched Mighty Morphing Power Rangers that is the start of the Power Rangers franchise.

It is a really good enjoyable series that is aimed for all ages just with Power Rangers. It felt like Power Rangers RPM, but with the military aspect in Jetman, which some ideas of the government aspect did make it to Power Rangers that is RPM. Honestly there were some inspiration from Jetman that made it into Power Rangers RPM that is adaption of Super Sentai Go-Onger.

Overall, Super Sentai Jetman has good storytelling with more-matured themes into it with the complex relationship of our lead characters.

The series was enjoyable for the most part. It was more violent than recent Sentai shows and it was definetly more serious for a majority of the time.

I liked the suit and mecha designs and the characters were likeable for the most part.

But here are my problems with this show:

• the love triangle plot gets annoying very fast
• the goals of the villans are not really understandable most of the time. they just want to kill the Jetman because that gets them to elect their leader? Guys how about simply voting or throwing a coin or something?
• Ako and Reita are not contributing anything to the plot. Most of the time they are only there so that Kaori has someone to talk to or that Gai and Ryu can be seperated from another if they try to punch each other again
• The ending (i mean the last few minutes) were drama for the sake of drama. Nothing more

A lot of Sentai fans would regard this to be a remake of Gatchaman. Which I do acknowledge the fact they acquire some of the ideas from that anime to create this series. While at the same time it also has the elements you would see in the earlier Super Sentai shows. Including fully masked heroes with unique powers. Costume monsters to fight and giant Mechas to take on giant monsters.

The story takes place in an untold time period in the 90s. Where an air force group is developing a bird energy device that would make any normal human gain powers and be able to transform into a bird man. However a trans-dimensional group called the Vyram has made themselves known to the human race. Threaten them they will destroy all of man kind.

To stop them, five selected young people with bird energy powers form the Jetman team. Together they must learn to set their differences aside and fight the Vyram before they could succeed in world domination.

This is a good series while at time it could get weird like some Sentai shows like the designs of the dimensional beasts. And it also has some morbid and mature moments that would never be released as a Power Rangers series in America despite it being a kids show in Japan.

It's worth watching if you like Super Sentai, but I don't have the heart to say it's the best one.

Yup, this is another very good series from a screenwriter who could give some interesting ideas to overrated people in hollywood business on how to take a material from all spectrums and budget (from the most humble and low-cost to the most serious and filled to the brim with money) and make it impactful, provided of course you have a talent behind the camera screen like the director of this series. And the way is...to inject a lot of stuff taken from classic with a capital C anime shoujos like Versailles No Bara, Candy Candy, Mahou Tsukai Sally, The first Disney Princess movies etc. Etc. Etc., stuff that not only is directly quoted in the series by scenes, music and characters (for example Gai being mostly an impression of Terry from Candy Candy) but apparently people like me love with all themselves so it's a plus. The only real "problem" of this series in respect to my previous experience with Kamen Rider Kiva is the typical tokusatsu tendency to lose a bit of steam towards the end, something Kiva managed to avoid IMHO but unfortunately it didn't happen here, but again it's not a problem of anyone involved in the production of this series (not just the writer) but simply a tendency of all tokusatus series in general. All in all, highly recommended.