History of Japanese Spider-Man! (Supaidāman)

Marvel actually helped make a live action Japanese Spider-Man (Supaidāman) spin-off set in the Super Sentai/Power Ranger series that follows the life of Takuya Yamashiro and his mech, Leopardon.
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[@ComicDrake]

*F.A.Q.* • *Isn't this a tokusatsu series and not sentai?* - Correct. However, almost everyone outside of the niche tokusatsu fandom is not familiar with that term and it would be a dumb move to put that in the title because one, the length of the term, and two, sentai is a LOT more searchable. As a content creator, my job is try and get people on my content. While the terminology is slightly off, it still conveys the meaning to the largest amount of people. • *Was that cowboy Hiroshi Miyauchi, the actor for Shirou Kazami in Kamen Rider?* - Yes. *Corrections* • Although it was created by Toei, Supaidāman is NOT a part of the Super Sentai series. That was an error on my part since there is plenty of logged information about Supaidāman on Super Sentai fansites and communities.

[@belgiumcomics2537]

Comic Drake i have a question. I heard that Jared Leto tried multiple joker laughs and we all know that his joker laugh realy is different from anny we ever heard. And that got me thinking the jokers laugh is something that makes the joker iconic . So that makes me wondering before there were live action adaptations of the joker how did poeple imagined his laugh woud sound like while reading the comics ?

[@benjaminkellog7311]

Thanks for the clarification on the "tokusatsu/sentai" confusion, Drake, but I do feel a little more explanation might be in order for those jumping into this surprisingly sizable pool cold. For the record, "tokusatsu" refers to relying heavily on special effects; as one might expect, most toku tend to use genres that would warrant lots of fancy visuals, usually sci-fi and fantasy. (There's been a bit of an argument made that "Star Trek," "Star Wars," and other foreign properties in this regard could be considered toku as well, but I think only "domestic" product ought to hold this distinction, not that's it worth arguing about so long as the final show's good.) It's that "sentai" term that's throwing me for a loop, though: in the most commonly understood mode for the term (naturally, the one invoked by "Super Sentai" and its sister shows/copycats), it means "team" or "task force," as in a group of do-gooders banded together to stop a great evil (with martial arts and giant robots, the way nature intended). Our Japanese spider-friend may be a great hero working alongside a scientific task force, but strictly speaking, I'd say he's more of a one-man army when it comes to actual field work. If there were, say, five of him running around, then the "team" term might apply. I don't mean to sound pedantic here, but after Shout Factory did a crackerjack job drilling the meaning of "sentai" into my head over the past few years, I just want to make sure we're still using a reliable measuring stick.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

The series was up on Marvel's website back when they streamed old Marvel shows and it was put out on DVD in the states.

[@SciFiFan2012]

ShadowWing Tronix just once, and not going to be again, far as I can tell.

[@SciFiFan2012]

佐藤則夫 tokusatsu is a genre, not a specific franchise.

[@bmemorales31]

Stan Lee says this is his favorite live action Spider-Man Show, I can't blame him, this show is great.

[@seandiaz5504]

But now he's dead sooooo.....

[@wormychannel]

@@seandiaz5504 so what?

[@chendror872]

@@seandiaz5504 meaning what?

[@denbacoe6476]

How many other live action Spider Man shows are there?

[@cyberlifegames4710]

Denbacoe 1:The Amazing Spider-Man 2:SUPIDAMAN! 3:The Electric Company

[@Schubydoobert]

He explained in a documentary that the reason why his crying face was so good was because his father had recently passed when the episode was filmed and he was thinking about him.

[@anoydorang3863]

Dedicated Dedication righty right there 👍

[@Noodelousart123]

Aw

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

"Let's talk about plot." *Shows girls in bikinis I see what you did there.

[@ComicDrake]

Gotta give the fans what they want sometimes.

[@nick-playercharacter8583]

Comic Drake It's what we watch it for.

[@RazorEdge2006]

At which point does the fanservice appear?

[@ahmedhussain999]

@@ComicDrake surprised you never mentioned the Nicholas Hammond (one of the Von Trapp kids from the sound of music) spiderman movies from the late 70's. I got introduced to spiderman because of it in my childhood. Whatever people's views on them are I actually liked the 3 movies.

[@Me-wx1mt]

@@ComicDrake eyyyyy

[@t3hGawd]

Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a spider can, spins a web, any size, summons a giant mech, change Leopardon!

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

Look out he's strong as shit I mean spider man

[@thaddeuscheeleyjr.369]

I felt like this was going to be a rhyme til the end, lmao.

[@shockingnews_2023]

Look out! he has a fucking swooord...

[@tobykassulke2385]

Tony Stark better build Leopardon for spiderman in Infinity War or i'll be disappointed.

[@KilosFoxo]

thanos would die to sword vigor

[@xxedgy_outsiderxx9978]

That would be bad ass

[@Argenize1]

Toby Kassulke check out Marvel MegaMorph Tony Stark builds giant mechas for Spider-Man ghost rider hulk wolverine and Captain America and they fight other giant mechas

[@jakobdimauro9540]

Toby

[@Gundamseeddabest]

Nahh, Peter didn’t feel well enough to pilot it

[@Asyraaf1003]

Ability to talk to spider, spider sense can sense something 50 km away, can foresee the future, have bracelet that can act as a master key and a detector, and have a mech? Damn, Supaidaman is OP af.

[@irrespondible]

And the mech had officially only been beaten once, during the Spider-Verse event. It then returned with 2099 technology for Round 2.

[@tenderandmoist5011]

And Sword Vigor is a confirmed insta-kill move

[@McFazzer]

It would have made Ready Player One the movie so much more entertaining if the main character had just one shot all the enemies with Leopardon's sword at the end.

[@johnsquarez6806]

Right? fucking rights issues :c

[@s_u_wu]

Aaron Nicholls also could've paved the way for a marvelxdc movie

[@robertt9342]

John Squarez . You'd think recognizability would play a bigger role than licensing there.

[@crimsoncomet3756]

Leopardon vs MechaG....let that sink for a moment

[@StarMarine1084]

@@thecommenter6773 The w h a t

[@eddymadison9655]

I've said it so many times but Japanese Spiderman deserve a modern reboot and maybe Toei should own copyright to other Spiderman characters

[@mlmaronilla]

Would be great. Each monster of the week is based on a comic villain. The main villain would be doc ock.

[@ultimatespider-man5170]

No

[@ilikeyt414]

It’s legit nothing like spiderman and it doesn’t even make sense as an adaptation might as well be it’s own solo series unrelated to spiderman as a whole

[@xtremegamer96]

they should include him in spiderverse 2

[@minefromblackmonday]

@@ilikeyt414 yeah, so the multiverse is gonna laugh

[@scwhk1]

Leopardon being so OP was only due to the low budget so they try to keep the fight scene as short as possible. Early sentai series were all like this.

[@blackRXrider]

scwhk1 the suit was supposedly stolen so they just used stock footage.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

@@blackRXrider Had the suit not been stolen, we would get epic fight scenes from Leoparadon. Like some giant monsters will not be killed from just one strike of the Sword Vigor, and the final battle against Professor Monster will be longer and climatic. I IMAGINE the final battle would be like Takuya self-destruct Leoparadon as Leoparadon hug Professor Monster very tightly, and Takuya jump out of Leoparadon just in time before it explode. Professor Monster is finally killed, but Takuya lost Leoparadon forever.

[@wonkavite2727]

It's amazing how even through the most obscure adaptations of spider-man, his pain is always a driving emotional force. as is responsibility.

[@thenewcatgirl2727]

One fun game throughout any Spider-Man is trying to find the Uncle Ben moments. Sometimes, it's literally Uncle Ben, but sometimes it's an Uncle Aaron, or a father killed by an alien invasion force, or sometimes its a millionaire that gave you a suit and made you an Avenger on a flying donut.

[@MaybeNotARobot]

“They’ll make a return some time soon.” TOEI SPIDERMAN IS CONFIRMED FOR SPIDERVERSE 2, BABY!

[@ykomat6860]

As the great someone said he would return when he was needed the most

[@Juanhernandez-zx7kt]

I have two rule. All of his dialogue has to be in Japanese and Leopardon has to be there.

[@thaddeuscheeleyjr.369]

@@Juanhernandez-zx7kt I have a third to add to that. He has to strike random short cut poses and call himself an emissary from hell. that last part is 100% ABSOLUTELY required.

[@theidiotnamedjay5501]

@@deanneely3443 whatttt? What does the humans Can only learn one language

[@thenewcatgirl2727]

@@thaddeuscheeleyjr.369 If that's not how he enters the movie I would be extremely disappointed. Either he enters the movie with that line, or he doesn't enter at all.

[@samkeller5823]

The man at 9:20 is a legendary tokusatsu actor named Hiroshi Miyauchi. He played the very first blue ranger in Super Sentai in Goranger, the first white ranger as Big One in JAKQ, Kamen Rider V3 (the third Kamen Rider from 1973), Zubat in Kaiketsu Zubat (a toku superhero series from the 70s), and various other roles in Super Sentai and Metal Heroes across decades.

[@buletincuadelin5690]

holy shit he was v3

[@basementvibe2441]

He's the Tommy Oliver/Jason David Frank of Sentai lmao

[@GabrielCarvalho-zn7wj]

@@basementvibe2441 basically, but unlike Jason, he portrayed different characters.

[@exodyno]

@@basementvibe2441 for Showa Era of Japan, then yes. Entirety of Tokusatsu? Segata Sanshiro is the one. For the Heisei Era of Japan, you can give it to Masahiro Inoue.

[@firmanchristiansianturi4794]

V3?

[@Juanhernandez-zx7kt]

Takuya Yamashiro confirmed for Spiderverse 2. I have one rule, all of his dialogue has to be in Japanese and Leopardon has to be in it.

[@marcusanark2541]

That would be fucking legendary!

[@magnumbreakz]

He HAS TO introduce himself as the emissary of hell while jumpcut posing several times or we riot

[@Greyr4X]

Yeah Giant robot xD

[@n.a.a8340]

His original actor must come back to be his own voice actor.

[@ultimatespider-man5170]

And put subtitles when he speaks.

[@thoroughlyawesome]

Dear Japan, THIS NEEDS AN ANIME ADAPTAION!

[@whathell6t]

Aaron Flores How about letting Ufotable (the anime production studio responsible for adapting two of Kinoko Nasu’s Fate/Stay Night routes) do a Spiderman anime adaptation; and not Toei, Madhouse, Bones, Studio Deen, Studio Pierott, or any mainstream anime production studios.

[@anomalocaris2593]

Deadpool already quoted it in Marvel’s Avengers anime

[@sakaki_chrono]

@@whathell6t Fate is mainstream. Therefore, UFOTable is a mainstream studio. Besides I'm pretty sure the rights to Spuidaman are still Toei's.

[@whathell6t]

Sakaki Chrono And pretty sure those rights have expired and returned to Marvel Entertainment.

[@chaosred9376]

Anyone think Judge dredd would be great anime!

[@kierendale8659]

Good old kamen spider

[@crawlingboy]

I see you are a rider of culture

[@el_solo]

You have to admit THE OPENING IS AMAZING Kimi wa naze kimi wa naze Tatakai tsuzukeru no ka inochi wo kakete Hitosuji ni hitosuji ni Muteki no otoko Spiderman

[@stickizonline]

HiL It really is

[@CakeJerry]

It's a bop CHANGE LEOPARDON

[@swivelboiiguess6422]

@@CakeJerry that sounds more like a zecter from Kamen Rider Kabuto

[@untitleduck9623]

MCU spiderman: oops, looks like my mask fell off!! Japanese spiderman: I have 1000 masks behind my other 1000 masks, you'll never reveal my secret identity.

[@TheMangakid1995]

Minor correction for those not in the know: Spiderman is not considered part of the Super Sentai Series but it was an influence on it. Spiderman's robot Leopardon was the earliest example of Toei incorporating a giant fighting robot into their superhero shows but thats really the extent of the relationship. While Spiderman isn't a part of the Super Sentai series it would be fair to say that the series and its american counterpart Power Rangers wouldn't exist as we know it today if not for Marvel and by extension Spiderman, following the success of this show there were plans to produce another show alongside Marvel about a team of international heroes in the vein of Captain America that eventually evolved into the 3rd Super Sentai Series Battle Fever J after Marvel backed out of the project and it became a pure Toei property. Battle Fever was unsurprisingly also the first Sentai Series to feature giant fighting robot piloted by the heroes.

[@seraphiv3]

not sure how accurate this information is but i've see a few places mention that Battle Fever J is apart of the Marvel Multiverse, being Earth-79203. which is pretty neat if true and shows the connection between Marvel and Super Sentai becoming it's own thing.

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

Monster:grows Power rangers:oh shit what do we do *The end*

[@irrespondible]

Actually, Battle Fever J, Denziman and Sun Vulcan are all Marvel/Toei shows. This led to Power Rangers Megaforce having to remove any appearance of those rangers from their footage, not even being able to include them as New Powers.

[@TheMangakid1995]

@@irrespondible Those three shows we're co-productions with Marvel but that relationship shouldn't be assumed to be the reason they weren't including in Power Rangers Super Megaforce. By all accounts Toei is and has been the sole owner of the three properties for quite some time so the Marvel connection is unlikely to be a factor in the decision to leave them out.

[@irrespondible]

@@TheMangakid1995 not even the fact Marvel has their copyrights as well? Because they do.

[@figmenter]

So, Supaidaman is literally using the one-stab mech. (Parallel of one-punch man)

[@themostbritishpersonalive868]

B he's the original

[@deadby15]

The reason Leopardon used Sword Vigor almost exclusively (using the same footage) was that the leopardon suit was stolen by a fan, and they couldn’t shoot any new scenes with the giant robot.

[@NicoleAmalfi02]

8:57 that shoot is amazing along with leopardon on the background with other spiders who didn't had giant robot

[@SchwayGoose]

SUPAIDAMAN IS CONFIRMED FOR SPIDER-VERSE 2 BAYBEEEEEE

[@paochongloi596]

😭 He was not there

[@Zenotron]

That cowboy narcotics detective was an homage to another Toei tokusatsu show, "Kaiketsu Zubat". The actor for the narcotics officer, Hiroshi Miyauchi, also played the main hero in Zubat, who also happened to be a guitar playing cowboy detective. His character in Supaidaman was pretty much the exact same character from Zubat, just under a different name and missing the superhero costume.

[@Genesis4119]

American Spider-Man: "My spider sense is tingling!" Japanese Spider-Man: "Which one?"

[@arjunk.8447]

Also, the Spiderman that didn't do a deal with the Devil

[@Qwertyuiop-lg7ko]

Arjun Khanna That is because he was his herald

[@AquaFan1998]

He nevet fought Dai satan (get the reference)

[@sarafontanini7051]

he summoned his giant robot and blew him up with his sword we don't see it because it was stolen by japanese thanos

[@keelanbarron928]

...but he calls himself "an emissary from hell"?

[@amurokaiser5077]

@@keelanbarron928 because he literary throwing his trash to hell and let the devil to clean it for him

[@AyaC]

That Narcotic Detecive is the actor who played Kamen Rider V3 and Toei had an idea of Spiderman teaming up with Kamen Rider V3 in a crossover episode which sadly didn't happened. But promotional photos flowing in the internet showed the two heroes teaming up...pretty cool if it did happen...

[@ComicDrake]

Well that certainly explains why he is pretty enough to look like a J-pop star.

[@AyaC]

Comic Drake more like a Mr Dandy Like character

[@Argenize1]

Kragito Weibs when they were coming up with ideas for Spider-Man in the manga verse he was going to be based on kamen rider black but they ultimately settled for a ninja type Spider-Man

[@KajiRider1997]

You see him as V3. I saw him as Zubat.

[@whitewing2]

One Reviewer mixed the footage of SupaidaMan and Zubat, I though its real yet he sain "Naaah Im just Kidding" but with his attire, I really hope they did Cross over

[@Direk091]

Remember everyone. This is why we have Power Rangers and all those other super sentai shows.

[@Direk091]

So you're saying it was the origin of the tropes that make super sentai recognizable and all those other super sentai shows that took inspiration from it? But not super sentai itself. So, this show is why we got the Power Rangers and all those other super sentai shows, afterwards.

[@KajiRider1997]

Correction: This is why Super sentai had giant mecha. Goranger and JAKQ where already its own thing.

[@VikingSchism]

Technically correct, actually, Goranger and JAKQ were originally just called Sentai shows. It only became Super Sentai with the inclusion of the mech. Later on Goranger and JAKQ were retroactively included as Super Sentai despite the lack of mechs.

[@EpicFableBean]

Actually no its why we have a giant robot in those shows

[@charlesneely]

My good friend I heard rumors on the internet that they're going to put the Japanese Spider-Man in a Multiverse live-action reboot if they can find the original actor or make him do a cameo like the guy that did Batman on the Cartoon Series so he can pass on the torch to the Japanese Spider-Man but one thing's for sure do the Japanese Spider-Man TV series is far superior to any of the Marvel Sony crack you may not like what I just said but I think so none of that Peter Parker s*** know that I'm in love with Mary Jane crap the Japanese Spider-Man even has a forty-year-old show is far superior did anything they got on the market

[@BallinPlays]

I find it hilarious that Spider-Man (and by extension the marvel multiverse) is loosely connected to Super Sentai. If I'm not mistaken it's even still loosely in marvel multiverse continuity. What makes this more interesting is that the American Counterpart Power Rangers is loosely connected to DC. There was a Power Rangers and DC crossover comic, and the Power Rangers have crossed over with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The TMNT have crossed over with DC so again Power Rangers is loosely connected to DC. That's hilarious Marvel gets Super Sentai and DC gets Power Rangers.

[@LarryBonson]

BallinPlays What is also hilarious is Marvel gave Optimus Prime and Megatron their American names.

[@seraphiv3]

Battle Fever J was originally intended to be based on Captain America before Marvel pulled out of the deal in fact, so arguably it was an idea based on Cap that got reworked into Sentai

[@chaosred9376]

Dont forget campcom is connected to Marvel while Mortal Kombat is connected to DC

[@lokanantazain]

More like Marvel => Super Sentai => Power Ranger => DC

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Isn’t that funny? Even dr who is loosely connected to Marvel, so are the Toei Mechs, Mazinger Z and his gang included.

[@rezboy4231]

I must admit this spiderman is more powerful than I thought.

[@LieshaCichol]

Fun part on production side, the action scenes such as wall crawling were not pre-planned but figured out on the spot 7:50 "Leopardon suits being stolen." Taking look around in Jp site, I see that as ONE of theory, but also lack of replacement parts is seen as a reason. Two biggest issue with Leopardon were that it was very cumbersome to move and it lacked durability, which lead to shortening of screentime for the mech and ironically, lead to fan theory of Leopardon being the strongest. (defeated one enemy in under ten seconds of showing up in ep 18) Megazords in later sentai series in-cooperate that element into account up to Gaoranger where CGI took over most of suits actions.

[@paleokaiju1042]

Comic Drake + Tokusatsu= My Longest Yeah Boi Ever.

[@xxedgy_outsiderxx9978]

PaleoKaiju10 got that right HELL YEA

[@Awsomeisimo]

like a match of the best kind you could say yeah

[@tyrxian6452]

Awsomeisimo that is by far the best pun I've ever read

[@RamsTheNameCom]

You forgot to mention that the Japanese TV Company who made the live action Spider-man TV movie were deciding between three superheroes to purchase the license. It was either going to be Marvel's 3D Man, Moon Knight, or Spider-Man. Of course in the end though they went with Spider-man. I'm pretty sure they only wanted the rights to Moon Knight since they consider Moon Knight a "Gekko Kamen" ripoff in Japan. "Gekko Kamen" in English is "Moonlight Mask". A Moon themed vigilante who also hunts Vampires and uses a giant Crescent Boomerang.

[@balorethegiant4326]

I want a reboot of this where the Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Rhino, The Vulture and Venom are creatures created by Professor Monster.

[@maybetoby]

Currently working my way through the series and I love it. I even have the Soul of Chogokin Leopardon. Marvel brought him back for Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon (in which Sword Vigor's power was essential to their victory), give him his own comic already.

[@andyyang2360]

Other Spider-Men laughing until a giant mech gets summoned.

[@LUISPRIME]

I remember a reference to Leopardon appeared in Spider Man The Animated Series final episode. It was giant robot build by a Spider Man from another universe.

[@tigerfang2099]

LUISPRIME the rich spider-man that had everything (including uncle ben alive and his girlfriend was Gwen Stacy) but we did get to see the robot and it wasn't Leopardon it was a big red robot looking like spider-man

[@Thetazord]

I’m so happy you mentioned the Ready Player One inclusions of Leopardon. I wish so bad they would have used that instead.

[@yashaoftheflames8475]

*Watches episode one* girlfriend: Who are you? Me: An emissary from hell. Supaidaman!

[@samkeller5823]

Marvel's relationship with Super Sentai goes even deeper than that. After Sentai was cancelled after the second series, JAKQ, Spider-Man was produced. After the success of Spider-Man in Japan, Toei and Marvel worked on a Japanese version of Captain America, which evolved into reviving Sentai as Super Sentai and Battle Fever J was created in 1979. Battle Fever J was an international Super Sentai team (all played by Japanese actors, even for the African ranger), with it's leader being Battle Japan, the red ranger. They even adapted Marvel's Miss America character into the pink ranger, Miss America. Marvel and Toei would go on to collaborate for the next two Sentai series, but with little to no influence from Marvel. Stan Lee did try to adapt the 1981 series, Sun Vulcan, into America similar to Power Rangers, but TV executives rejected it and it would take a decade until Haim Saban successfully got the concept green-lit.

[@RainSennin_ismyAlt]

This guy is canonically one of the strongest versions of Spider-Man across the different incarnations of the characters.

[@combatking0]

This show is off the wall silly and that's why I love it. I also like how, coincidentally, the henchmen bear a slight resemblance to the Pokemon Nosepass.

[@stevele4877]

This show is sincere in what it’s doing.

[@heisenbooger]

I remember back in 2007 when they had episodes on youtube. Watched them all, knew the lyrics to theme. Thought I was one of the few that knew of this gem.. that was until liking superheros became more popular

[@wannabe_D7000]

This is crazy! Im in love with the Japanese Spiderman!

[@arjunk.8447]

The *ORIGINAL* Spiderman

[@Enshohma]

8:33 - I think it has to do less than with The Inheritors knowing of the Leopardon sword's great power than the American comic cliche of the comic writers disliking Godzilla-style monsters and robots and just disposing said giants as quickly as possible to return to regular comic book story characters.

[@elPacoPuente]

YEAH YEAH YEAH! WOW! Thanks for the great video Drake, I'm a huge fan of 70's tokusatsu and this made me so happy!! BTW, the guitar playing gunslinging cowboy narcotics detective is played by Hiroshi Miyauchi, who also played many of the most bad-ass japanese heroes ever, like Kamen Rider V3, Kaiketsu Zubat and the Blue Ranger in the very first Sentai series, Goranger.

[@superbrice23]

I was soooo waiting for some one to make a video of this lol I love everything bout supaidaman he does need to make a comeback ASAP

[@midgesdaddy]

Thanks man this was awesome

[@adriancastro3899]

It's April fool's day and I have no idea what to expect, I'm hoping it's just the regular Spider-Man Sentai thing because it's super interesting Edit: result Great interesting video, now I want to see some more of the Spider Sentai maybe a remake? Hell I think it would be funny if we could get a power rangers Esque thing going if they made a new Sentai about it

[@Masterreddodx6]

Adrian Castro fun fact: it's causes of this show massive success in Japan that we got super sentai (the original version of power rangers) and kamen rider

[@daitsu2758]

im a big fan

[@Qwertyuiop-lg7ko]

Masteredodx6 Exactly, spiderman is the father off all supersentai Maybe for that reason the leader is the red ranger

[@Argenize1]

1234567890 Qwertyuiop makes sense to me

[@Jolanos]

Supaidaman only helped the Giant Mech parts of Sentai. Sentai began 3 years earlier than Supaidaman.

[@xande5345]

I guess that my favourite "Sentai Spiderman" appearance was the one in the Spider-Verse Comic, EVEN LEOPARDON APPEARS, his interaction with the other "Japanese" Spidey's is incredible.

[@maingamer6846]

This is not a spin off of Super Sentai. It merely introduced the idea of Mecha which would be used in Super Sentai

[@josephl.2398]

Wow Drake, this was a really fun video!

[@darthva31]

Since Drake covered Takuya Yamashiro, perhaps he should try covering the other Japanese Spider-man, Yu Komori. But I doubt so since his story is quite depressing from what I read from the Marvel wiki. So depressing that he didn't appear in the Spiderverse event beyond a mention.

[@Tamashikiri]

I guess the Inheritors read all those memes about attacking henshin heroes during the drawn out transformation/finishing move scenes and really took the lesson to heart. ;)

[@invincibleimage3713]

I’m gonna need to finally watch this as well

[@Uncle-Jay]

This is amazing.

[@dank_smirk9971]

An emissary from hell. Spiderman!

[@fortkavanagh]

OMG, LOL, I'd LOVE to see a comic book series about this!

[@joejose8433]

How can anybody hate Spider-Man boogie I'll never understand but apparently Spider-Man do that's why he went up yet that robotic Android band and blue they ass up with the rocket launchers is f****** hilarious man just don't be singing Spider-Man Boogie around him he don't like that song

[@momoster69]

im really glad that you made a video about something so obscene, thank you seriously

[@stopperfrye286]

the opening theme is fire. i watched 1 episode and remember it already

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

It is confirmed that Supaidaaman will be included in the sequel to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

[@iwasanangryyoungman]

@@charlesneely even with the liberties they took with Spidey's origins? And no Aunt May to keep him grounded?

[@Justimight]

I feel like this could have been a really cool alternate version of spiderman if it had a comic series (if it does I did not know of it) Damn I didnt even know he was in the comics at all

[@adventarchivist5789]

Drake, you're the only youtuber I look foward to on April 1st

[@ameliadavidson360]

I cannot express how much this made me smile when I was stuck at the office tonight... Thank you.

[@ComicDrake]

No, thank you for being such a dedicated fan! I always love seeing your comments. :)

[@LieshaCichol]

9:32 "No idea how they did some of those wall crawling." And even more scary part is that they shot most of those stunts once a week, with no SFX (just rope work, trampoline and some reversed footage), and with no pre-shooting discussions (apparently the crews came up with more ingenious ideas when they had to do it on the fly)　If you doubt me, translate the following link yourself. togetter.com/li/1111634

[@saberwaspgg]

I somehow think that they hired spider-man to play spider-man.

[@sangeeth1083]

Same.. when watching this show i was like "how the hell are they doing it.. Even in 70's".

[@MysteriousTomJenkins]

Given that he is apparently slated to be in the second Spider-Verse movie, I hope that he both has a prominent role like Peni, Noir and Spider-Ham and I hope that this makes the character popular enough to where Marvel tries to do more with him. So far he only shows up in Spider-Verse crossovers and even then he only ever uses Leopardon which Leopardon is cool but its like they assume he's useless without it when he can fight on his own. I would really just like to see more done with him, he's a cool and unique version of Spider-Man and given that a comic or cartoon wouldn't have the same limitations as a live action series, you wouldn't have to reuse footage or use cheap props so we could see more impressive moves from Takuya and Leopardon could actually be challenged since he only one shot everyone because they didn't have the suit to film fight scenes. Hopefully his role in the next movie is great so people want to see more so Marvel is more inclined to do more.

[@reversezoom4285]

SO REALISTIC

[@WikiK1d]

Thank you, o master of comics, for this little gem that genuinely made me laugh today.

[@wilykat]

"Half-Assed Naruto running"... LMAO

[@ulty1472]

Yes, made by Toei who made Kamen Rider, Super Sentai (the reason power rangers even exist), and metal heroes

[@charlesneely]

This show was ahead of his time man and that's the only reason why those meccas and those zoids exist this show pretty much set the standard man for all these animated Japanese Sentai series that were to follow without this there wouldn't be no Power Ranger

[@karypotter3728]

Great video

[@j.vinton4039]

That late 60’s early 70’s Japanese humor is top notch. I watched a lot of showa era Godzilla movies, chalked full of 70’s Japanese humor.

[@tsunderefandomer3425]

Now I'm waiting for Elsagate Spider-Man's backstory and lore.

[@travus111]

TsundereFandomer brilliant idea

[@mike5seven391]

He's going to be in spiderverse 2

[@jamesjett8128]

My god, this video was phenomenal

[@fatpurp4041]

this is possibly the strongest spiderman out there

[@ganeshramcharran1255]

What if we see Japanese Sentai Spider-Man in Spider-Man PS4?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Oh really!? Either way, he could be drawn and animated in the style of Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru or Masato Hayase.

[@kevinkeene474]

Spectacular video, have you seen the new Marvel 616 documentary on Japanese Spider-Man? If you havent go watch it asap. It's superb, a real love letter to it and we get the official history about the making of the show. Also Japanese Spider-Man will be in Spiderverse 2, hopefully with Shinji Tōdō reprising his role.

[@FragItAll]

Thanks, now I have another oddball series to look for to add to my collections.

[@ride-playerbb2818]

Ahhhh now I want to see Spiderman/Sentai crossover!!!!!

[@dafafadila1729]

Hoping to see The Emissary of Hell himself in the next Into The Spiderverse

[@Reymax164]

Hope he's in Beyond The Spiderverse.

[@SQGReviewShow]

I've only seen the theme song on KZbin. It's amazing that something like this even exists XD

[@nateingie]

The Way Spider-Man Screams To Summon The Marveller every single time

[@ParzivalTheThird]

Where can I find full episodes/DVD’s of this show with English subs or dubs? (I’ll even take VHS)

[@Wolfbane420]

Still can't believe that Screen Rant called this an unofficial knock off.

[@atomic747]

Man fuck screen rant they dont know any of this stuff.

[@redflare6066]

All is true! Thank you for the video!

[@RafikHariri7]

Great topic and video

[@ComicDrake]

You haven't watched the full video so you don't know that.

[@RafikHariri7]

Comic Drake ya got me

[@travus111]

Oof

[@KamenDragon]

better than the other life action series from the 70's in the u.s. xD

[@WolfFistProductions]

Thanks for sharing the greatness that is Toei Spiderman. I have seen this whole series myself and I adore it. Adore it damn it!

[@Sable-Industries]

Gotta admit Drake. I didn't expect this. Great video!

[@ragzrocco8803]

Even havin slanty eyes on the mask is the best

[@lenardregencia]

The first Asian Live-Action Marvel superhero.

[@ecksofresh]

...So Kamen Rider but with Spider-Man....

[@xTravisMarx]

This better be a dlc suit in Spiderman ps4, with the music theme and all.

[@hydron3299]

Your videos are my favorite during April fool's

[@taepodon4]

スーパー戦隊シリーズの第一作目は1975年のゴレンジャー 東映スパイダーマンは1978年

[@Lemons28KZ]

Ready Player One is my favorite book of all time, but I haven't seen the movie yet. I was hoping this video would be a sort of tie-in to the RPO movie, because I really wanted to see Wade using Leopardon on the big screen. Now I'm pretty mad.

[@OrangeStar222]

Lemons Don't bother with the movie. It has almost nothing in common with the book.

[@TheNightSpy]

never let a book ruin a good movie

[@gamingcomics9711]

Now this is my favorite spider-man

[@namanhboi]

love you so muchhhh

[@theking-nz1ut]

I am on episode no.5 of Japanese spiderman. I love it I can't get enough of Japanese spiderman. You can tell where a lot of power Rangers ideas came from? Its a lot better then the American version of spiderman which came out the same time with Nicholas Hammond. The spiderman uniform looks better then the American version.