Denkou Choujin Gridman
| Denkou Choujin Gridman | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Superhero Sci-Fi |
| Created by | Tsuburaya Productions |
| Country of origin |
 Japan
|
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 39 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Kazuo Tsubaraya Nobuyuki Oyama Hiroshi Inoue |
| Running time | 24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Tsuburaya Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Tokyo Broadcasting System
|
| Original release | April 3, 1993 – January 8, 1994 |
Denkou Choujin Gridman (電光超人グリッドマン Lightning Superman Gridman?) is a Japanese tokusatsu "Giant Hero" series created by Tsuburaya Productions, the producers of Ultraman. The show ran from 1993 to 1994. It was the inspiration and source material for DiC Entertainment's Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. This would be Tsuburaya's last non-Ultra superhero production before Bio Planet WoO.
Shot on live video, Gridman was the first series by Tsuburaya Productions to utilize D-2 digital video for its special effects scenes, allowing for smoother slow-motion photography. Tsuburaya, having switched to digital techniques since then, would continue to use D-2 for all future productions.
Three computer-savvy kids, Naoto, Yuka and Ippei create their own videogame super-hero, but then discover it possessed by an inter-dimensional police officer, Gridman. Pursuing an evil program called Kahn Digifer, he merges with Naoto and fights Kahn Digifer's digitized monsters (created by social misfit Takeshi) in order to prevent the computerized demon from wreaking havoc on the Human World.
Most are virus monsters created by Takeshi and brought to life by Kahn Digifer to go his bidding, acting on their creator's petty grudges to the catastrophic extremes that Kahn Digifer intends to have an effect on the human world.
At giant size, Gridman's specifications are (the Computer World equivalents of): 70 meters in height, 60,000 metric tons in weight, and a flight speed of Mach 25. Gridman's powers include the Spark Beam (スパークビーム Supāku Bīmu?) (fired from the left wrist), the Grid Beam (グリッドビーム Guriddo Bīmu?) (fired from the back of the left arm), the Grid Hyper Beam (グリッドハイパービーム Guriddo Haipā Bīmu?) (fired from both hands), the Grid Light Saber (グリッドライトセイバー Guriddo Raito Seibā?) (generated by the left hand, wielded by the right), the Neo Superconductivity Kick (ネオ超電導キック Neo Chōdendō Kikku?), and the chest-projected Fixer Beam (フィクサービーム Fikusā Bīmu?) (which repairs damaged computer systems). Gridman's Helper Programs manifest as weapons and mecha, all designed by Ippei. Either Ippei or Yuka operate the machines via videogame control pad. His most prominent Helper Programs are:
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