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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

The main reason I added "bad rap" is because of what was said in a completely different thread: http://www.tokunation.com/showthread...spector&page=5

User Sunred posted this in 2017: "Here is one that is from the metal heroes:
- It is most likely the reason Winspector did not follow the typical good guy defeats bad guy formula and was set as a special rescue team is because there was a serial killing in Saitama at the time and anime and toku were the subject of criticism regarding fictional violence."

A year later in 2018, I asked the followiing: "- If there was criticism, why wasn't Sentai as affected? Winspector would've been around '89 roughly, which was about the same time as Turboranger.

- Rescue Heroes would only last about three shows. Did the criticism start to waver a bit for them to return to the older format? Did the decline in Rescue Heroes factor into that decision?

- Given that the rescue theme was an answer to real-life events, was Toei marginally shocked at the popular response to Winspector?"

User Sunred responded: "Purely speculation but my guess with sentai is that for Turboranger they probably had no choice but to follow the schedule and wrap up production ASAP and just plow through the remainder of the filming without trying to further provoking the media and people in general. Which kinda makes me wonder maybe that is the reason they setup Fiveman as a team of superheroes who are school teachers and also were a family to give a more positive image of super sentai teams as guardians and that they value family and all that positivity. Again, this is just purely speculation.

As for the rescue police wavering last I checked it seems it was just the decline of interest at the time Exceedraft aired. I guess people were tired of the same old. Solbrain probably gets a pass because it is in a way somewhat of a sequel to Winspector narrative-wise whereas Exceedraft had less of a connection with the first two shows.

As for Winspector being popular, probably because they seemingly were more popular than Fiveman that year. Giga streamer roleplay toy was also a popular item that year too from what I gathered. There is also that the metal hero department had less to work with since they blew most of their budget on Jiban the previous year so them managing to make what they did was quite the feat."

Oh, now I know what you're talking about and I just suddenly recall something: Tsutomu Miyazaki aka "the otaku killer". Yeah, I remember this case, this infamous serial killer cause a moral panic in Japan and a backlash against anime and manga. I didn't know tokusatsu was also a victim of the backlash. I just thought Toei wanted to take a different direction. But looking at the year Winspector, Solbrain, and Exceedraft came out (Winspector came out a year after Miyazaki's reign of terror). Yeah I can see why those 3 Metal Heroes differ from other, so it wasn't a Toei's change in direction, it was a victim of a moral backlash against violent media.