Shaider
| Space Sheriff Shaider | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Tokusatsu Superhero fiction |
| Created by | Toei |
| Starring |
Hiroshi Tsuburaya Naomi Morinaga |
| Narrated by | Toru Ohira |
| Opening theme | "Space Sheriff Shaider" by Akira Kushida |
| Ending theme | "Hello! Shaider" by Akira Kushida |
| Composer(s) | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 49 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | March 2, 1984 – March 8, 1985 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Space Sheriff Sharivan |
| Followed by | Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion |
Space Sheriff Shaider (宇宙刑事シャイダー Uchū Keiji Shaidā) was a tokusatsu television show that aired on from 1984 to 1985. It is the last of the Space Sheriff Series, the previous two being Space Sheriff Gavan and Space Sheriff Sharivan.
Action footage from Shaider was used for Season 2 of VR Troopers. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Space Captain Sheider.
In college studying archaeology, Dai Sawamura deciphers the figures on the Nazca Plain in Peru. Impressed by this feat, the Galactic Union Police (銀河連邦警察 Ginga Renpō Keisatsu) recruit and train him to be Earth's third Space Sheriff. He is 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.
Based on the Babylos (バビロス Babirosu), it serves as headquarters of Shaider and Annie as it circles around the Earth. In combat, the Babylos can fire the Babylos Beam (バビロス ビーム Babirosu Bīmu) from its wings. Whenever Shaider enters the Fushigi Dimension (known as "Time Space Warp" in the Philippines) and encounters a giant Fuuma gunship, he summons the Babylos, commanding it to transform either into a giant gun called the Big Magnum or a giant robot called the Babylos Robot whose chest emits a giant laser beam called Babylos Fire, fires Babylos Lasers from its hands, catch the Fuuma Gunship's missiles and throw it back towards the Gunship and can shoot Babylos Missiles.
Fushigi World Fuuma (不思議界フーマ Fushigikai Fūma) is a religion from the Mayan Pyramid-like Fushigi Palace in the Fushigi Dimension, a subspace made of atomic particles that reaches temperatures around 6,000 degrees Celsius. The residents of this realm revere Kubilai as a god while carrying out his intent of conquering the universe through psychological attacks on many planets, destroying worlds like Gao, Omega, Mind, Gor, Marine, and Mount before targeting Earth to establish the second Mu Empire. Their airforce includes mini-carriage-like fighter jets and battleships with frowning faceplates. Eventually, on the day of Kubilai's birth, the Fuuma celebrate by systematically destroying every planet while pressing hard on their goal to conquer Earth. But once Kubilai is killed, the Fuuma disbands as the palace self-destructs just as they nearly dominated the entire universe.
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