Chōjin Sentai Jetman

Jetman, known fully in Japan as Chōjin Sentai Jetman (鳥人戦隊ジェットマン, Chōjin Sentai Jettoman , translating to Birdman Squadron Jetman), is Toei Company's 15th installment in the Super Sentai metaseries. The series originally aired in Japan from February 15, 1991 to February 14, 1992 and ran for 51 episodes.

Synopsis Set sometime during the 1990s, The Earth is orbited around by the Earth Defense Sky Force to keep peace around the planet 24/7. SF-W6 (Ryu Tendo) and SF-W3 (Rie Aoi) are two agents that were sent to help out when problems began to occur. When they got in the ship, Commander Aya Odagiri is put in charge to be director of a project to choose five elite Skyforce official agents from Earth to be promoted to J-Proect status. It is explained when they are exposed to Birdronic Waves, they will become Chōjin Sentai Jetman (Birdman Squad Jetman). Ryu Tendo was the only one to be successfully converted to become a Jetman. When Rie was going to be next, it was interupted when the Vyram attacks. Radiguet, the leader has announced that they conquered other detentions and now want to conquer the third dimension. Upon this, Ryu tragically loses Rie through a hole in the ship as the Birdronic wave machine gets destroyed and the four remaining waves are sent down to Earth, hitting four random civilians. After that happens, Ryu and Aya must go down and find the remaining members and vow to be trained for the battle of their lives to put an end to the Vyram's scheme once and for all.

Dubbing History[]

This series was released on VHS and VCD by Speedy Video with an English dub by Speedy Video citing released around 1994-1995, whom they also released a Malay dub of the series. It's reported that only thirteen volumes were released with the first 26 episodes dubbed in English. Each release contains two episodes.

Cast[]

Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor
Ryu Tendo/Red Hawk	Kōtarō Tanaka	¿?
Kaori Rokumeikan/White Swan	Rika Kishida	¿?
Raita Oishi/Yellow Owl	Ikko Tadano	¿?
Ako Hayasaka/Blue Swallow	Sayuri Uchida	¿?
Gai Yuki/Black Condor	Toshihide Wakamatsu	¿?
Commander Aya Odagiri	Mikiko Miki	Noriah Abd Rahman
Jiiya	Yūzō Hayakawa	¿?
Rie Aoi/Maria	Maho Maruyamo	¿?
Radiguet	Masaki Tachi	Syed Sadik
Tran	Miku Kuga	Noriah Abd Rahman
Grey	Hideaki Kusaka (voice)	¿?
Narrator	Tsutomu Tareki	¿?

Notes[]

• Jetman was actually intended to be adapted into an American series by Haim Saban around 1992. This was the second attempt of him doing such idea by taking a Super Sentai series and making a new series based on it for international audiences. He previously tried to do this back in 1986 with a pilot that was produced by adapting 1984's Choudenshi Bioman into a new series. However, no station picked it up. He would then settle on adapting the successor series from 1992 which is Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers in 1993 instead of Jetman, followed by massive success.
• In some regions, this was the very last Super Sentai series to air with dubs, before settling on dubbing for the Power Rangers adaptations instead, due to international competition weighed in by Saban. But however, most Asian regions continued to show dubs of both Super Sentai and Power Rangers, especially Japan, where Japanese dubs of some of the U.S. adaptations aired.

Video Releases[]

Distributor	Year	Format	Contents	Region	Country
Speedy Video	1994-1995		Episodes 1-26 13 Volumes	PAL	Malaysia