Chikyu Sentai Fiveman (1990)

Original title

地球戦隊ファイブマン

Genre

tokusatsu

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 48 episodes

Rated

A

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five siblings in schoolteacher jobs become the Fiveman to fight an alien threat. They pilot a giant robot and defend Earth using teamwork.

action-packedcolorfulnostalgiclightheartedwhimsicalenergeticcampy

What happens

Chikyu Sentai Fiveman (地球戦隊ファイブマン, Chikyū Sentai Faibuman; Earth Squadron Fiveman) is a Japanese Tokusatsu television series. It was Toei Company's fourteenth installment of the Super Sentai metaseries. It aired on TV Asahi from March 2, 1990, to February 8, 1991, with a total of 48 episodes replacing Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and was replaced by Chōjin Sentai Jetman. The names given by Toei for international distribution are Fiveman or Sky Rangers. It was released by Shout! Factory on Region 1 DVD on September 6, 2022, as part of Shout! Factory's new partnership with Hasbro. It originally was teased to be released in 2019. This is the second Super Sentai series to be officially released in North America that does not have a Power Rangers counterpart. The first one released was Chōjin Sentai Jetman, which was the series that came out the year following Fiveman. Jetman was released in the region on September 25, 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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