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Originally Posted by GoldenXtreme

Winspector and Solbrain are fantastic shows that truly comitted to their unusual concept. Can't recommend them enough to anyone who wants something different. Janperson is also phenomenal. I've been getting more into Metal Hero stuff in the past few years and I went from "Metal Hero is Toei's third-rate tokusatsu franchise that couldn't survive Kamen Rider's comeback" to "Metal Hero is Toei's awesome and experimental tokusatsu franchise" pretty quick.

I always viewed it as just Toei's continuation of non-sentai hero shows but without the limitations of "Bug guy riding a motorcycle" that Kamen Rider presented. Then, when they ran out of ideas for Metal Heroes, they brought Kamen Rider back. Actually, I see Sentai/Project RED the same way - they want to expand beyond the scope of Sentai even more than they have been, and Project RED lets them do that while still returning to a typical Sentai format in the future if they so desire.

Anyways, I've been interested in checking it out for a while, just wasn't sure where to start. I was thinking that either Gavan (the beginning), B-Fighter (grew up with Beetleborgs), or Jiraiya (it just looks cool) would be good picks, but if there are other standouts maybe I could check those out too.

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Winspector is special because it was the bread winner for Toei in 1990 despite a limited budget but printed money with one of its roleplay toys, and the show itself was really unique in that it wasn't another beat up bad guy wearing clunky fiberglass armor and helmet. They really committed to the rescue side of things more compared to most toku hero shows.

Was that the first "rescue" tokusatsu? Would it make sense to start there before watching the Tomica shows? Or just jump into Tomica to have it be even more different (instead of a different shade of Toei format)

Also, random question - I haven't seen Gogo V, but how much would you say it was influenced by something like Winspector?