Should Metal Hero Series return with a new show?

[Kamen Rider ZIX]

Oh for the love GOD YES!!! I don't see why Toei is so afraid of reviving the Metal Heroes. They look bad ass just by standing there. I mean if it's about marketing toys, Metal heroes always had some kick as equipment and vehicles that I always wanted to get when I was 5 and watching Shaider dammit!

Well, Rescue Force/Fire is pretty Metal Hero-ish even though it's made by Takara Tomy. The show reminded me of SolBrain when early scans were popping up.

 

[FreedomR8G6B1]

It will be great if they will do another sequel to B-fighter..

[insert Beetleborgs Season 3 joke here]

:sly:

 

[Nightmare]

ah,i hope TOEI will make another uchuu keiji generation if they are reviving the metal heroes....

 

[Forever Knight]

If Metal Heroes ever did return we all know it would be a new Space Sheriff series. It would be blasphemus if it wasn't.

 

[The_Next!!!]

Yes, so that way we would have less gadgets in KR and MOAR bike action!

I think they should start with a remake of the Uchuu Keiji Series.

 

[ryuuseipro]

Yes, so that way we would have less gadgets in KR and MOAR bike action!

Which is, incidentally, why Sean Connery wanted to quit the James Bond series; he thought the films were progressively focusing less on the characters, and more and more on all the gadgetry and "space stuff!" I have nothing against that stuff, mind you, but I can understand where Connery was coming from, as he was familiar with the Ian Fleming James Bond books, which were very different from the movies. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service was the first of the films to follow the original book quite closely, and even kept the downbeat ending!) The books were more realistic, and focused on action. Gadgets were used sparingly, allowing Bond to use his wits and brawn, so he was not quite the glorified superhero the later movies made him out to be (though, let's face it, he's a more "realistic and believable" superhero than the "Dark Knight" Batman). The first few films (especially Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and to a point, Goldfinger) were more "grounded," and seemed like pulp action dramas, which the books were! I'm guessing Connery agreed to do Never Say Never Again, because it was more realistic and focused on the characters, compared to the then-current films with Roger Moore (whose best Bond film was For Your Eyes Only, as many fans feel).

Now... picture the exact same thing with Masked Rider. Since the Heisei-era, it was less about the action, and more about those silly excessive gadgets and stuff. Seeing Tetsuo Kurata back in action in Decade is like, say, seeing Timothy Dalton (one of my favorite Bonds, and from the same era, no less) back as an older, superior Bond! Though I think Daniel Craig is way too good to be compared to the Heisei Riders.

About the only other thing to compare to Connery in Never Say Never Again is Hiroshi Fujioka in the Rescue Force movie!

Wait, isn't this thread supposed to be about the Metal Heroes?

My prior views still stand...

 

[theoutlaw]

Now... picture the exact same thing with Masked Rider. Since the Heisei-era, it was less about the action, and more about those silly excessive gadgets and stuff. Seeing Tetsuo Kurata back in action in Decade is like, say, seeing Timothy Dalton (one of my favorite Bonds, and from the same era, no less) back as an older, superior Bond! Though I think Daniel Craig is way too good to be compared to the Heisei Riders.

Heisei era tokusatsu series for Toei is more about making more money from the fans(especially housewives and schoolgirls).

I think the quality of Toei series will not improved in the future even if they want to revive Metal Heroes series. I just hoped that there will not be any Goranger movie like Kamen Rider The First movie because the main heroes will not be as good as the original series plus the enemies probably going to be just a bunch of clowns to will not have the guts to kill people(probably).

Probably the quality of current series by Toei is the reason that Fujioka Hiroshi working with Takara Tomy now.

I don't get why Toei doesn't do more than two shows for Super Hero Time.
Is it because they don't have enough money? Or is there no room for a time slot?

During the Showa era, Toei have the support of television networks like Mainichi Broadcasting System, Nippon Television and NET(later known as TV Asahi) to air their series. Now they only have TV Asahi(the people worked there don't even care the quality of the series produced by Toei) to air their series.

Airtime needs a lot of money. No television networks want to air a series that will not make them a lot of money(especially during the time of global economy downturn). Animation is also important for television networks since there are more animation created every year compare with tokusatsu during the Heisei era. Some of the animation series like Pokemon, Digimon, Doraemon and Naruto have a lot of loyal fans(that is the one of the reasons why TV Tokyo have more animation series than other networks in Japan).

Most likely the fear of failure. (No $$$ making) Those 2 are guaranteed $$ makers. Even though KR is basically 'in name only' related to what it once was heh.

Actually before Kamen Rider was revived, Toei produced B-Fighter which is actually similiar to Heisei Kamen Rider. Heroes are not cyborg anymore just like B-Fighter. Heroes designs were average or bad just like most Heisei Kamen Rider. I glad that Hirayama Tohru don't stay there anymore.

"Showa era Kamen Rider is also known as Hirayama Kamen Rider since he was the "Father of Kamen Rider". All the ideas of Kamen Rider are from Hirayama and Ishinomori just helping him to create the character."

 

[Scissors]

As a show, I doubt Metal Hero would have any chance of gaining popularity with the younger ones. They already have KR to fill that spot.

However, there is still the older audience who watched the Metal Hero shows when they were kids.
Bring a high-budget Space Sheriff trilogy to the big screen, and I think we have a winner :thumbs: