Choujin Sentai Jetman
Choujin Sentai Jetman
Choujin Sentai Jetman
Genre
Tokusatsu
Created by
Toei
Starring
Kotarō Tanaka
Tomihisa Naruse
Rika Kishida
Sayuri Uchida
Toshihide Wakamatsu
Narrated by
Tsutomu Tareki (?? ? ,Tareki
Tsutomu)
Opening
theme
"Choujin Sentai Jetman" (????????
?? ,Chōjin Sentai Jettoman) by
Hironobu Kageyama
Ending
theme
"The Heart is an Egg" (???????
,Kokoro wa Tamago) by Hironobu
Kageyama
Composer(s) Kazuhiko Toyama
Country of
origin
Japan
Language(s)
Japanese
No. of
episodes
51
Production
Producer(s)
Jun Kaji
Takeyuki Suzuki
Kyōzō Utsunomiya
Running
time
approx. 25 minutes
Broadcast
Original
channel
TV Asahi
Original run February 15, 1991 – February 14,
1992
Chronology
Preceded by Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman
Followed by
Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger
Choujin Sentai Jetman (?????????? ,Chōjin
Sentai Jettoman), translated into English as
Birdman Squadron Jetman, was the fif-
teenth entry of the Super Sentai television
series. Produced by the Toei Company and
Bandai, the series aired on TV Asahi on
February 15, 1991 to February 14, 1992,
with a total of 51 episodes. This sentai is a
homage to the Science Ninja Team Gatcham-
an anime series. Unlike the previous series,
Jetman has a darker and more serious story.
It also has a considerably tragic ending des-
pite the fact that the heroes win the final
battle.
Plot
This series takes place in 199X[1] on the
Earth Ship, the command center of an inter-
national defence agency called Sky Force,
the guardian of peace on Earth. In the ship,
scientists have developed "Birdonic Waves",
a newly developed technology which gives
the subject superhuman abilities. Experi-
ments called "J-Project" were successful. Aya
Odagiri, the director of the project, chose five
elite Sky Force officials from Earth to use
this technology. Ryū Tendō, one of the Sky
Force officers, was successfully exposed to
the Birdonic waves, making him the first Jet-
man, the Red Hawk.
However, the Earth Ship is suddenly at-
tacked by Vyram, an evil outer-dimensional
organization bent on inter-dime