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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

Speaking of Metal Hero shows and their eternal aspiration to leave me with no strong opinions, I watched Shaider. It... It was just Sharivan but worse, what am I even supposed to say?! To be fair, it did have a few things that stood out. Annie is a much more impactful heroine than Lily was in Sharivan and the visuals try to play up the surrealness factor. And is that... a male actor who spends the entire show dressed in glamorous women's clothes? Pretty wild for the 80s. But overall the show is just not particularly compelling, with very standard episodes for the genre, to the point I could barely maintain my focus on it as I watched. Meh stuff!

It also has one of the all-time greatest tokusatsu Christmas episodes.