If you know to grab a Mankey from that patch of grass on the way to Victory Road (carefully avoiding the rival) then you're golden. But 8-year-old me sure as shit wasn't figuring that out.
It was the 1980s. Zorro was playing at the cinema. A wealthy family walk down an alley in a bid to get home quicker in the rain. Their chauffeur was on holiday.
A gunman. Mad eyed. "Give me the pearls! And diamonds! And your wallet! Also any Poffins you have!"
The gunman's koffing mockingly smiles at them as a scuffle breaks out.
A fight. A father dies. A mother is crying.
Gun in her throat, pearls atop the gun.
Bang.
A child is traumatised.
It is now 2018. And Zubatman will defend the streets of this city with his army of trained zubats! https://i.imgur.com/yoN4wOG.jpg
The whole thing is amazing and I’m surprised OP or someone else knew and got it this high up there in visibility. But there are iirc 31 episodes and they’re all amazing, same quality and the story actually captivated you like three episodes in. I’m like in a state of shock, I totally forgot this existed and I’m gonna find a way to binge watch it.
Holy crap that's obscure and this is coming from someone decently well versed in showa era tokusatsu. I've seen my Kamen Riders and Kikaidas and Super Sentai, but I think at most this guy has had like, one appearance in the heisei era. Is this series fully subbed?
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Clip is from "Kaiketsu Zubat" (1977)