[Salaryman Zero]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Metal Heroes isn't a category, it was a specific franchise - like Ultraman, Kamen Rider, or Super Sentai. It ran alongside Sentai as Toei's other big toku franchise for most of the 80s and 90s. It tended to have pretty inconsistent ratings, though, and it often lacked a franchise-unifying premise, which is a big part of why its been dormant ever since Kamen Rider proved successful back in the early 00s.

Cybercop - which I'd never heard of and had to look up - was made by Toho, not Toei. That alone disqualifies it as a Metal Heroes series.

Ah, mea culpa. I think I knew that somewhere in the back of my mind but I was having a brain fart. Shame that Metal Heroes never lasted into the new millennium, I always thought the designs were super rad.

Metalder does feel like a weird hybrid between 80s-era Sentai and Kamen Rider so far. Is the only unifying trope among the franchise that its heroes are robotics-based? So either cyborgs/androids, or powered armor users etc.