Space Ironmen Kyodain (series)
宇宙鉄人キョーダイン- User score: 10
- Production country: Japan
- Creator: Shotaro Ishinomori , Tôru Hirayama
- Production companies: Toei Company
- Genre: Action & Adventure, Family, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Release date: 4/2/1976
- Release date of last episode: 3/11/1977
- Series status: Returning series
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 48
- Run time: 25 min.
Series description
Space Ironmen Kyodyne was a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction superhero television series. The show, like numerous others of its type and era, were produced as a joint effort between manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori and Toei Company producer Hirayama Tôru. It premiered in 1976 and ran for 48 episodes. The show is well known for its strange plot and costume design, rapid-fire and purposefully disorienting editing, and unique, sometimes surreal, atmosphere. The late Yūsuke Natsu and Takeshi Sasaki starred as Skyzel and Grounzel respectively.