Just Watched Kaiju No Kami's "Janperson" Review

I love watching the reviews of Kaiju No Kami -- even when he gave some shows I like a low score. For instance, his Kosoku Sentai Turboranger highlighted some problems that I failed to look into. Yeah, I could agree that Rehda was indeed a waste of the late Masashi Ishibashi. Kaiju gave some shows I liked a 3/5 stars -- a score he also gave to Tokosou Robo Janperson. The guy has some strange humor that I appreciate -- even when it comes to his unfavorable reviews to shows I enjoyed! Hey, it's a free market!

I looked into the review and I was impressed by some things he pointed out. For instance, there were two cops and a reporter for the first few episodes. However, it's unknown why actors Naoto Tada and Junichiro Katagiri (Green Two and Yellow Turbo) left the show so soon. Were they just meant to be well... GUEST STARS? Was it because of real life issues? There were some things that could've been done with police drama. Instead, it seemed like a Real Life Writes Plot.

I was expecting some references to Robocop villains. Anybody who saw both Janperson and the first Robocop film may notice two villains that are similar yet different. Of course, we couldn't have Ryuzaburo Tatewaki play the shotgun game on a police officer now, can we? Janperson may be more violent than the Robocop cartoons that came before it. However, Janperson still had its limits despite the 1990s Toku having significantly more violence. Tatewaki was essentially the show's version of Clarence Boddicker -- both near-sighted, mentally unstable gang leaders! Tatewaki would later become the bio-cyborg Bill Goldy. 

I can respect Kaiju No Kami's dislike for Kaoru -- even if I thought she was fine. In fact, Kaoru's fooling Bill Goldy plan worked like a charm. I thought about how Kaoru was practically a reference to Marie Lazarus in Robocop 3 -- a film that came out on that same year! The way Kaoru redesigned Janperson to look like a purple Robocop is LMAO. The show doesn't seem to run out of Robocop references. 

The review itself was insightful. I can't blame Kaiju No Kami for actually thinking Gun Gibson gave more life to the show. He likes Kido Keiji Jiban over Janperson. Mine is the opposite. I like Janperson's more mature approach in writing. It's something that's barely done with Super Sentai these days. I don't think Kamen Rider these days can match that maturity -- even if they're written like a sci-fi TV drama these days. 

So far, regardless of what Kaiju No Kami thinks otherwise, he puts a huge effort to defend his views!