Space Sheriff Shaider

Space Sheriff Shaider
Created by Toei
Starring Hiroshi Tsuburaya
Naomi Morinaga
Narrated by Toru Ohira
Composer(s) Michiaki Watanabe
Country of origin Japan
No. of episodes 49
Production
Running time 30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel TV Asahi
Original run 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.[1]

Plot

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.

Characters

Vavilos Crew

Based on the Vavilos (バビロス Babirosu), it serves as headquarters of Shaider and Annie as it circles around the Earth. In combat, the Vavilos can fire the Vavilos 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 Vavilos, commanding it to transform either into a giant gun called the Big Magnum or a giant robot whose chest emits a giant laser beam called Vavilos Fire, fires Vavilos Lasers from its hands, catch the Fuuma Gunship's missiles and throw it back towards the Gunship and can shoot Vavilos Missiles.

Arsenal

Earth

Galactic Union Police

Fushigi World Fuuma

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.

Other Villains

Cast

Episode list

# Episode title Original air date
1 "The Fushigi World"
"Fushigikai" (不思議界) 
March 2, 1984
2 "Dance, Petpet"
"Odore, Petopeto!" (踊れペトペト!) 
March 9, 1984
3 "Annie Doesn't Listen"
"Anī Ōtōnashi" (アニー応答なし) 
March 16, 1984
4 "The Children Who Became Dogs"
"Inu ni Natta Kodomotachi" (犬になった子供達) 
March 23, 1984
5 "Suddenly! Lazy People"
"Totsuzen! Namakemono" (突然! なまけもの) 
March 30, 1984
6 "Strange Cooking Counterattack"
"Fushigi Ryouri no Gyakushuu" (不思議料理の逆襲) 
April 13, 1984
7 "Have You Seen the Girls' Hallucination?"
"Mitaka Gyaru Hengen" (見たかギャル変幻) 
April 20, 1984
8 "Rebellious Girl From the Stars"
"Hoshi kara no Hikō Shōjo" (星からの非行少女) 
April 27, 1984
9 "I Hate the Blue Boys Band!"
"Aogaki Tai Daikirai" (青ガキ隊大キライ) 
May 4, 1984
10 "House of Twilight"
"Towairaito no Ie" (トワイライトの家) 
May 11, 1984
11 "Leave It to Annie"
"Anī ni Omakase" (アニーにおまかせ) 
May 18, 1984
12 "Perfect-Score Genta's True Identity?"
"Hyakuten Genta no Shōtai?" (百点源太の正体?) 
May 25, 1984
13 "The Gold Medal Tricked People"
"Kin Medaru Shikakenin" (金メダル仕掛け人) 
June 1, 1984
14 "The Love Mutant"
"Koi no Myūtanto" (恋のミュータント) 
June 8, 1984
15 "Marine Blue of the Seashore"
"Nagisa no Marin Burū" (渚のマリンブルー) 
June 15, 1984
16 "The Surprised Alien Life Form"
"Tamageta Isei Seibutsu" (たまげた異星生物) 
June 22, 1984
17 "The Mysterious Writings of the Space Sheriffs"
"Ginga Keisatsu no Nazomoji" (銀河警察の謎文字) 
June 29, 1984
18 "The Fallen Empire Swallowed by the Pacific Ocean"
"Nazoga Nazoyobu Taiheiyō" (謎が謎呼ぶ太平洋) 
July 6, 1984
19 "Annie In Danger"
"Anī Kiki Ippatsu" (アニー危機一髪) 
July 13, 1984
20 "The Fushigi Song"
"Fushigi Songu" (不思議ソング) 
July 20, 1984
21 "Oh No! The Beast Family"
"Yāda! Chinjū Kazoku" (ヤーダ! 珍獣家族) 
July 27, 1984
22 "The Merman Calls the Ocean of Mysteries"
"Ningyo ga Yobu Umi no Kai" (人魚が呼ぶ海の怪) 
August 3, 1984
23 "The Great Escape With Wounds All Over"
"Kizudarake no Dai Dassō" (傷だらけの大脱走) 
August 24, 1984
24 "The Beautiful Poe's Mask"
"Utsukushiki Pō no Kamen" (美しきポーの仮面) 
August 31, 1984
25 "Esper Queen"
"Esupā Kuīn" (エスパークイーン) 
September 7, 1984
26 "Great Crash Into the Demon Zone"
"Makai Zōn Ōatari" (魔界ゾーン大当り) 
September 21, 1984
27 "The Demon Island Deathmatch"
"Desumatchi no Matō" (デスマッチの魔島) 
September 28, 1984
28 "The Demon Palace's Backstabbing Brothers"
"Makyū no Uragiri Kyodai" (魔宮の裏切り兄弟) 
October 5, 1984
29 "Police Woman with a Hundred Faces"
"Hyakumensō da yo Onna Keiji" (百面相だよ女刑) 
October 12, 1984
30 "The Message of Life Slicing the Sky"
"Kū wo Saku Inochi no Kōshin" (空を裂く命の交信) 
October 19, 1984
31 "Canned Beast Bargain"
"Mōjū Kanzume Bāgen" (猛獣缶詰バーゲン) 
October 26, 1984
32 "Our Melody"
"Boku to Kimi no Merodi" (僕と君のメロディ) 
November 2, 1984
33 "The Walking Puppet Master"
"Sanpo-suru Hukuwajutsushi" (散歩する腹話術師) 
November 9, 1984
34 "Kubilai's Secret"
"Kubirai no Himitsu" (クビライの秘密) 
November 16, 1984
35 "The Mysterious Golden Arrow"
"Nazo wo Iru Ōgon no Ya" (謎を射る黄金の矢) 
November 23, 1984
36 "It's the Maddening Age of Yumecom"
"Yumekon Kyō Jidai da" (ユメコン狂時代だ) 
November 30, 1984
37 "Roaring Beam Gun"
"Hoero Bīmu Gan" (吼えろビームガン) 
December 7, 1984
38 "Demon Girl Cinderella"
"Mashōjo Shinderera" (魔少女シンデレラ) 
December 14, 1984
39 "The Masked Dancing Choir"
"Kamen ga Odoru Seikatai" (仮面が踊る聖歌隊) 
December 21, 1984
40 "Vavilos S.O.S."
"Babirosu-gou Esu Ō Esu" (バビロス号SOS) 
December 28, 1984
41 "Direct Attack on the Female Journalist"
"Chokugeki Jajauma Musume" (直撃じゃじゃ馬娘) 
January 11, 1985
42 "The 6th Grade Class 0 Strangeness"
"Rokunen Zero-Gumi no Fushigi" (6年0組の不思議) 
January 18, 1985
43 "Our Fuuma"
"Bokunchi No Fūma" (ぼくンちのフーマ) 
January 25, 1985
44 "The Great Invasion"
"Fuki Areru Daishinryaku" (吹き荒れる大侵略) 
February 1, 1985
45 "The Fire Breathing Golden Idol"
"Hi o Haku Ōgon Kyozō" (火を吐く黄金巨像) 
February 8, 1985
46 "Phantom Showtime"
"Maboroshi no Shōtaimu" (幻のショータイム) 
February 15, 1985
47 "Twelve Thousand Years of Darkness"
"Ichiman Nisennen no Ankoku" (一万二千年の暗黒) 
February 22, 1985
48 "Justice - Friendship - Love"
"Seigi - Yūjō - Ai." (正義・友情・愛) 
March 1, 1985
49 "The Three Space Sheriffs - Gavan, Sharivan, Shaider Great Gathering!"
"Sannin no Uchū Keiji: Gyaban, Shariban, Shaidā Daishūgō!" (3人の宇宙刑事 ギャバン シャリバン シャイダー大集合!) 
March 8, 1985

Movies

Two movies were also filmed. Space Sheriff Shaider (宇宙刑事シャイダー Uchū Keiji Shaidā) takes place between episodes 19 and 20, and was released on July 14, 1984. Pursuit! The Strange Kidnappers! (追跡! しぎしぎ誘拐団 Tsuiseki! Shigi-Shigi Yukaidan) takes place between episodes 39 and 40, and was released on December 22, 1984.

Songs

Opening theme
Ending theme

In other countries

Space Sheriff Shaider was released in the Philippines as Shaider in the late-1980s, where it became the first tokusatsu show to be dubbed in Tagalog by ABS-CBN (1988-1991), IBC (1992-1994), GMA Network (2003-2005), Hero TV (2008), TeleAsia (2014), DZRH News Television (2015), TV5 (2016), RMN (BEAM 31) (2017) and Bombo Radyo Video Streaming (2018). In this release, Dai Sawamura was renamed Alexis. In 2007, the GMA Network would produce a loose sequel series with Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan. It was met with mixed reception from fans.

The series was also broadcast in Brazil, also under the name Shaider, in the early 1990s. Different from other tokusatsu series in Brazil, Shaider was broadcast on a channel not as popular as the main ones around that time in Brazil, Rede Gazeta. As a result, only a few people saw the show. Rede Globo, though one of the most popular television channels, later began broadcasting Shaider in the early morning, around 5am, until it disappeared completely from television.

Video game

A video game based on the television series, The Space Sheriff Spirits, was released for the PlayStation 2 system on May 25, 2006 by Bandai Namco. This product was made available in Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The actors for Gavan and Sharivan reprised their roles, but Hiroshi Tsuburaya died before the game was developed. So anime voice actor; Takuo Kawamura took over the role of Shaider instead.

References