Early Sentai is kind of weird, historically. For a long time Gorenger and JAKQ weren't considered part of the franchise; Battle Fever J was the first "official" Sentai (and that was the first one with a mech). The other two shows weren't added to the official tally until sometime in the 90s (I think). JAKQ wasn't a huge hit, but I'm not sure how much that influenced Battle Fever J, especially since that was made as part of the partnership with Marvel that gave us "Supaidaman."

Didn't JAKQ only end up with 30 some episodes?

Yup, only 35

Yeah, it got cancelled.

Did anyone sub the Toei Spider-Man series? I remember having the movie on VHS with horrible dubbing, but I watched the shit out of that as a kid and I'd love to see the show.

If I may, I'd like to weigh in on the subject of people liking Gaim because it isn't Wizard. Personally, I liked Wizard. While it won't go down as one of my favorite Rider series of all time, I enjoyed the ride(pardon the pun :lol). As for Gaim, I went in with no expectations because I don't partake in hyping/prejudcing a show before it starts. As of right now, if the show keeps going as it is it might become one of my favorite Rider shows of all time. It works for me because it hits my three pillar of enjoying a show: good humor, good action, and good story.

See that's where people's opinion differ, since I thought the show became more awesome due to the introduction of Meteor.

I actually fully expecting to hate Gaim because of all the fruit theme, I was never so glad to be wrong

Subs were up on Marvel's site, at least for awhile. Not sure if they're still there or not.

I like Ryusei a lot - favorite character from the show - but it feels like the show stagnated after he came on. The whole "gee, I wonder who Meteor is?" stuff went on a lot longer than it needed to and the later part had to scramble to make up for the time spent drawing out the Ares/comatose buddy stuff.