Show of hands, how many people knew I was even working on this? None? That’s why it’s a secret!

An unexpected drop to add to your backlog of shows to watch, it’s the 1983 Super Sentai series, Kagaku Sentai Dynaman (translated as Science Squadron Dynaman), fully subbed in its entirety.

I realize another group was doing Dynaman, but after a status update 10 months ago saying they only had one episode left, they still haven’t released the final 15 episodes. Rather than pick up where they left off, I decided to do the whole series.

Dynaman is a very interesting series. It was the first to use the spandex outfits that are used even today in super sentai. The suits look a little like baseball uniforms, and that’s because it was originally supposed to be a baseball themed series called V-Leaguer (there are even prototype suit photos out there).

At first, the series is funny, very kiddy, but full of action. Jun’ichi Haruta is back to kick more ass, Kouta Unoji (Blue) is also a trained stuntman, and Dyna Pink gets a suit actress, the first stuntwoman in the main team since Battle Fever.

Starting with episode 10, the runtime of each episode is cut down to 20 minutes, which would continue in super sentai shows until episode 8 of Megaranger in 1997. In my opinion, trying to pack so much action into a short runtime is what made the 80’s and early 90’s sentai the best.

Anyway, our heroes create inventions at Dr. Yumeno’s Invention Center with the help of some little kid friends. About episode 37 or so, that all changes when the series takes a really dark fork in the road. The kids and the Invention Center are gone, and the plots and consequences become a lot more dire.

The Evilution infighting is also quite interesting and takes the focus in more than a few episodes, especially in the last 10 episodes when Dark Knight shows up. The villain ranking system is pretty unique. Reminds me a little of Metalder except WAY easier to understand.

Speaking of the villains, I’ve chosen to translate yuubijin (有尾人) as Salamander People. Yuubi are the first two kanji of yuubimoku (有尾目), which is Japanese for Urodela, the biological order of amphibians that includes salamanders. I haven’t seen this translation anywhere else really, but I think this is what the writers were going for, especially given the designs of the Tail Soldiers.

The movie is included with the batch. Very much the opposite of most tokusatsu movies of the 70’s and early 80’s, the movie was actually released early on in the show and then edited down and re-shown as episode 32, rather than the movie being a blown up version of an episode from the series.

Wander over to the Releases page to get downloading! Explode!

Keep reading for what my next series will be. Yes, I’ve always known what was coming next. You know I always plan 2-3 series in advance, right?

Since the series was claimed in 2016, and no episodes have been released, and the Hong Kong bootleg subs are god-awful passable at best, here it is:

It’s the second Space Sheriff series, 1983’s Uchuu Keiji Sharivan!

Yes, I’m departing super sentai and going back to my roots in the Metal Heroes series. More convoluted plots and nightmare fuel incoming!

I have the SD and HD raws, so I will be releasing both at the same time, in batches of 10 episodes each (the last batch will have 11).

To be completely honest, I’ll be going after Uchuu Keiji Shaider directly afterwards. Maybe by the time I get there, someone will have ripped the Blurays of that series too.

Shaider is a show that everyone needs to see to believe. It’s the product of a drug addled mental patient super fun and completely crazy.

To those of you asking if I will do Turboranger, the answer is no. It is actively being subbed by Wandering Moonbeams. Turboranger is probably my least favorite super sentai as well, so unless WM officially drops the series before they finish, I will not be doing it.

Same goes for Changeman. Changeman has been completed, but some people have suggested I redo the series so it has one cohesive sub instead of 2 or 3 different groups’ subs. I will not be doing that either, because I also don’t really like Changeman. The series has been completed and I’ll leave it at that.

It is possible there may be secret side projects in the future, so keep your eyes peeled for updates!

Enjoy Dynaman!