Sharivan
| Space Sheriff Sharivan | |
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| Genre |
Tokusatsu Superhero fiction |
| Created by | Toei |
| Written by |
Shozo Uehara Susumu Takahisa Keiji Kubota Akira Yuyama |
| Directed by |
Toshiaki Kobayashi Hideo Tanaka Takeshi Ogasawara Satoru Tsuji Michio Konishi |
| Starring |
Hiroshi Watari Yumiko Furuya |
| Narrated by | Issei Masamune |
| Opening theme | "Space Sheriff Sharivan" by Akira Kushida |
| Ending theme | "Tsuyosa wa Ai da" by Akira Kushida |
| Composer(s) | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 51 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Toru Hirayama |
| Running time | 22x25 min. |
| Release | |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | March 4, 1983 – February 24, 1984 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Space Sheriff Gavan |
| Followed by | Space Sheriff Shaider |
Space Sheriff Sharivan (宇宙刑事シャリバン Uchū Keiji Shariban) is the second installment in Toei's Metal Hero Series and aired on the TV Asahi network from 4 March 1983 through 24 February 1984. It served as a direct sequel to its predecessor, Space Sheriff Gavan and featured many of the same characters.
For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Space Guardian Shariban.
Initially appearing in Space Sheriff Gavan, Den Iga is attacked by a monster called Buffalo Doubler, member of the Space Mafia Makuu. Den is seriously injured in the attack when he is found by Gavan, who takes him to Planet Bird for medical assistance. Qom, leader of the Galactic Union Police (銀河連邦警察 Ginga Renpō Keisatsu), is impressed by Den's courage. Den returns in the final episode of Gavan, saving Gavan himself in his newly acquired form of Space Sheriff Sharivan during Gavan's final battle. After Don Horror is defeated, Sharivan is assigned to Earth and is partnered together with Lily from the planet Bird as he deals with the threat of the Madou Space Crime Syndicate on Earth.
Based on the Grand Birth (グランドバース Gurando Bāsu), it serves as headquarters of Den and Lily as it circles around the Earth. It has two modes: Battle Mothership move able to fires the Birth Beam and the vaguely humanoid Battle Birth Formation that fires the Grand Buster and Plasma Cannon (the latter being based on the blueprints of the Space Cannon built by Voicer, Gavan's father).
The Space Crime Syndicate Madou (宇宙犯罪組織マドー Uchū Hantsumi Soshiki Madō, literally "demon way") is an organization of psychic criminals whose headquarters, Genmu Castle (幻夢城 Genmu Shiro), lies within the Genmu World (幻夢界 Genmukai, Phantom Dream World) dimension, a "white hole" where all the matter sucked up by black holes ends up. The syndicate intends to conquer the universe through chaos created by its members' psionic abilities, along with their space fighters and the Madou Battleship.
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