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After a couple of months of watching, I'm very pleased to say that I have finished Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion. And what a journey this show was. The entire thing was a real roller coaster of emotions for me, especially since this was my first Metal Hero show save for a few episodes of Winspecter. If I could describe Juspion in two words, those words would be Time Capsule. Juspion is, in just about every way possible, a show completely of its time. The outdated fashion, the soundtrack, the aesthetic, the fact that the main character drives around the city in the most boring looking car I've ever seen, everything about this show screams 80s tokusatsu. Above all of that though, the most outdated thing about this show is its villains, the Megabeast Empire, and the methods they use in their attempt to take over the earth.

Using advance technology, and bit of magic, The Megabeast Empire causes chaos in human society not by sending monster after monster to destroy a few buildings and scare a few faceless people but by instead attacking humans at their core. They lie to the innocent to take advantage of their gifts and talents for their own selfish desires, corrupt good people to give into their dark human desires, and torture those who try and stand up to them by destroy their families and forcing them to work for the devil. While this in and of itself isn't foreign to modern tokusatsu, what is foreign is how... real, for lack of a better word, everything is.

The heroes and villains all use realistic looking weapons, they often cause great destruction and chaos using methods that can replicated in real life, and the focus of an episode is often split between Juspion and the helpless victim, often a child, who is forced to watch as either their life or the life of somebody close to them is destroyed without being able to do a thing to stop it. the Megabeast Empire is even willing kill helpless children *on live television* while their parents are forced to watch, further showing just how cruel they are. The fact that there was once a time when a kids shows could do such a thing in such a blunt way leaves me speechless.