Tokusatsu here in the Philippines are mostly known in Kamen Rider,Ultraman and Super Sentai but this series came from the category of metal heroes and the last space sheriff in an Uchuu Keiji trilogy franchise rocks our country until now .Uchuu Keiji Shaider one of the cult classic during the 80's alongside with Bioman and Maskman make an icon for the Filipino children which is more awesome and remarkable particularly the Shigi-Shigi ritual and Annie's upskirt during battle.
This series made the late Hiroshi Tsuburaya popular as a stepping stone on his acting career,He is the grandson of the late Eiji Tsuburaya the creator of Ultraman.During that time this series is aired alongside with Bioman,Machine Man and the special Kamen Rider ZX,this is the first Metal Hero series to create 2 movies including the special space sheriff series.Hiroshi after the series also played on different movies and 12 years after he played on the Ultraman series during 90's as a commander from Ultraman Tiga,Dyna and Gaia and the last is being a guest in Gaoranger in 2001 after his death due to liver cancer on July.
Naomi Morinaga who played as Shaider's sidekick Annie is only 19 years old during that time, but her guts made her sexy and hot.Being a sidekick she's a tough one and spy in different personalities alongside with Shaider.Every battle scene she made,there is no complete episode with an upskirt scene every kick she made against those foot soldiers that's why her scene is very considered during our childhood times on her sexiness.After the series ended she's also the one of the main characthers of Spielvan as the protagonist sister and the last is Kamen Rider ZO movie,she's also pose on a porn magazine during late 80's and 90's and she become a popular model.
The transforming code is "SHOKETSU!!!!" meaning "Blue Flash!!!" until he gets a ray from Vavilos to transform in just lower than a second then a role called "Uchuu Keiji Shaider!!!" with matching some descriptionsby the narrator.In the Philippines it is called "Codename!!! Shaider!!!" same to his role call.There is no henshin device at all just a simple gesture as a password until he transforms.In weapons he have "Video Beam" in the Philippines it is called " Lazer Blaster " as a long range weapon and "Laser Blade" in the Philippines it is called " Shaider Cutter " as a melee weapon ang his finisher, it is a bending sword, when he start his finisher he's body is glowing like a raging warrior and called "Shaider Super Slash!!!" for the finisher with a back to normal background.
The arsenals like Blue Hawk is a vehicle for time space warp dimensional is really cool like a Kamen Riders' motorcycle especially on Ryuki.The Vavilos were most knowned as a large cannon against an evil mothership coming,it's also transformed into a robot,honestly speaking the mecha looks malnourish but the reason for that is to focus on the characther unlike Juspion on the following year it is focused only on his mecha Daileon.
This series is very popular to our country up until now they are many tokufans here still watching and it's also a foundation of Tokusatsu enthusiasm and being an otaku fan.The return of the series on GMA 7 during December 2003 makes a great comeback, the only problem was they remake this into a totally bullshit called "Zaido" and many of us are totally dissaponted about the outcome,it's just like spoofing around the series with matching seductive scenes and dull moments in airing this shit.
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