Uchuu Keiji ShaiderNumber:3Number of episodes:49First episode:The Strange WorldLast episode:The Three Space Sheriffs - Gavan, Sharivan, Shaider Great Gathering!Intro:Space Sheriff Shaider (theme)Adapted into:VR TroopersOriginal airing:March 2, 1984 - March 1, 1985Production OrderpreviousnextUchuu Keiji SharivanKyojuu Tokusou Juspion
In college studying archaeology, Dai Sawamura deciphered the figures on the Nazca Plain in Peru. Impressed by this feat, the Galactic Union Police recruited him and trained him to be Earth's third Space Sheriff, after which he was given the code name 'Shaider' in memory of an ancient warrior who defeated the villain Emperor Kubilai and brought down the Fuuma 12,000 years ago. When the Fuuma returns, Dai is deputized as he returns to Earth to battle the Fuuma.
In the ABS-CBN dub as detailed below, their Japanese names are renamed as Priest Poe has been voiced by a female voice actress despite it was portrayed by a Sentai actor which it later became popular in other media and also replayed in IBC-13 in 1992 to 1998 and GMA Network a rival network to ABS-CBN in 2005. Therefore, GMA dub has a remake version to differ the voices from the rival network as most dubbers on the network are playing different characters aside from voicing to their main characters. However the ABS-CBN dub has been premiered once again by the defunct HERO channel until its disbandment in 2018.
In both opening and ending themes in the Philippine Dub, it was sung by Norman Caraan (credited as Bodjie's Law of Gravity) when it was replayed in 1992 through 1998 on IBC-13 following his stint in singing both opening and ending themes in Hikari Sentai Maskman which is originally sung by Hironobu Kageyama. However, both ABS-CBN and GMA dubs, they use both opening and closing themes performed by Akira Kushida.
A video game based on the TV series, The Space Sheriff Spirits, was released for the PlayStation 2 system on May 25, 2006 by Bandai Namco. This product was made available in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The actors for Gavan and Sharivan reprised their roles, but Hiroshi Tsuburaya died before the game was developed.
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I love Christmas episodes of tokusatsu! Last year, I did a writeup of the the Christmas episode of my favorite Super Sentai series, Ninja Sentai Kakuranger. This year, I wanted to do another and sort of start a tradition of doing a fun little review of weird Holiday episodes. I think I found the perfect one.
First, a bit of setup before we get into the episode proper. Space Sheriff Shaider is the third show in the Metal Heroes series, it is also the third and last of the Space Sheriff series following both Space Sheriff Gavan from 1982 and Space Sheriff Sharivan from 1983. It tells the tale of intergalactic lawman Shaider (real name Dai Sawamura) and his partner Annie as they attempt to thwart the evil ambitions of the Fushigi World Fuuma, an evil cult that worships the giant Golden Head of Great Emperor Kublai.
As in most tokusatsu shows, the Fuuma go about their business by creating a monster to carry out their wicked plans. In Shaider, these monsters of the week come from an egg created by an energy orb spit out by the head on a wall that leads the villains that then falls into a small pool of blood before emerging as an egg that hatches into the monster of the week.
Cut to our heroes, who are helping a pet store owner get ready to deliver presents to a bunch of his clients. Um... why are they wrapping up live animals and sticking them in a sack?! That doesn't seem like a very good idea to me!
Shaider gets asked to help deliver one special present (a finch in a cage) to a pair of kids but he has to do it in properly Santaesque fashion. Apparently Japanese Santa doesn't use the chimney and just comes in through any available window.
Yeah, hiring strange men to walk into your children's' room to leave presents sound totally safe and legit! Oh well, it could be worse and it gets worse. As soon as Shaider leaves the cage, Satan Claus makes his move and brings his true gift... a really bad LSD Trip!
No, he actually swaps out the kids' finch for a cage full of Fuuma monsters. His intent is to turn all of the kids in Japan against the real Santa by giving them crappy, scary gifts. I bet these days doing that would just get him a massive merchandising deal with Hot Topic.
Somehow this works and the kids gather to commiserate while Shaider's pet store owner friend complains he's ruined because now he has to give refunds to all of his customers for the bad gifts. Or maybe the pets just died because you wrapped them in packages without air holes you dork!
The ceremony goes on with the kids joining a weird, haunting chorus and being turned into black clad, facelessly masked figures as well. Fortunately, Shaider arrives to break up the party and rescues the kids! The next morning he even returns them to their families.
As far as WEIRD Christmas episodes go, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat. I've never seen anything so dark come out of a Holiday offering that wasn't intended for adults. The villainous plot was a glorious twisted perversion of the holidays with some hopefully unintentionally borderline blasphemous imagery for any Christian viewers. Had this been on American TV, I can see a massive backlash.
This is actually the first episode of Space Sheriff Shaider I have ever seen. Now, I want more. If any of the other episodes have this kind of out-there feel and look to them, I have to see them for myself!
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