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In 1966, five children were kidnapped by an alien group known as the Alien Hunters for the Reconstructive Experiment Empire Mess, who wanted samples of humans from Earth to experiment on. The children were rescued by Mess' arch-enemy, the Flash alien race, which took each one to a different planet of the Flash solar system for training. Each of them was trained separately in a range of superpowers that will allow them to fight Mess, their bodies also adapted to the atmosphere of the Flash Solar System making them gain special abilities. When they finally return to Earth in 1986 to combat Mess, who is now trying to invade it, they use the opportunity to search for their birth parents. They later learn that their time on Earth will be cut short as their birth planet's atmosphere has become deadly to them and after a year, they will die from what is known as the Anti-Flash Phenomenon. Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Norsk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 50
  • Aired: Mar 1, 1986 - Feb 21, 1987
  • Aired On: Saturday
  • Original Network: TV Asahi
  • Duration: 25 min.
  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 128 users)
  • Ranked: #55063
  • Popularity: #14790
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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50 of 50 episodes seen
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Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 4.5
Everything the show did well:
-Cool premise where the rangers were abducted as babies and are trying to find their families now that they're on earth.
-The Tokimura family is continuously entertaining and likeable throughout the show's run.
-Meg is a pretty good robot helper.
-The episodes written by Toshiki Inoue are pretty good (which is weird since I usually don't like him as an episode writer), as these are the episodes were the team get more personality.
-Some cool world-building here and there.
-Really great final arc.
-The team being able to use their powers outside of their suits is interesting.
-The dynamic of them trying to get used to earth is pretty entertaining.

Everything the show did bad:
-Despite their interesting background, the team is just really generic and their personalities overlap way too much with the exception of the Inoue episodes.
-None of the villains are interesting with exception of the main antagonist who's just kind of allright.
-The plot twist behind Doctor Lie Köpflen is decent but not that interesting.
-The special effects for the on-ground fights in this show are really bad for the most part and end up making some of the franchise's worst. The mecha fights are also pretty boring.

Reasons for the show's strengths:
The staff tried its best to make an unique premise.

Reasons for the show's problems:
This was Hirohisa Soda 5th sci-fi Sentai show in a row without breaks, this was just when was getting out of ideas and the shows started overlapping a lot. The experiments for the show's action backfired.

Overall:
While the show's doesn't do anything offensively bad it doesn't do anything that particularly amazing besides the finale. It just ends up as a really average show with not much going for it. Despite not being bad I have hard time recommending this show when this franchise offers far better seasons.

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Details

  • Drama: Choushinsei Flashman
  • Country: Japan
  • Episodes: 50
  • Aired: Mar 1, 1986 - Feb 21, 1987
  • Aired On: Saturday
  • Original Network: TV Asahi
  • Duration: 25 min.
  • Content Rating: G - All Ages

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  • Score: 7.5 (scored by 128 users)
  • Ranked: #55063
  • Popularity: #14790
  • Watchers: 377

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