Ike! Godman

Country

Japan

How it feels

This is a Japanese TV series from the 1970s about a giant hero named Godman who fights monsters called kaiju. Each week, a new monster appears and Godman helps people by battling the creature over several short episodes, ending with Godman winning on Saturday.

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What happens

Go! Godman (行け！ゴッドマン, Ike Godoman) is a Japanese tokusatsu Kyodai Hero kaiju television series by Toho. It ran from October 5, 1972, to April 10, 1973. It was pulled from reruns on September 28, 1973, and it was replaced by Ike! Greenman. While on air Monday through Saturday, with only one or two episodes per week, each episode consisted of six (or three) parts and each part was five minutes long. The entire series ran for twenty-six episodes. On every Monday (or Thursday), the Kaiju for the particular set of episodes would appear, with the plot for the set advancing through each successive day of the week, with the battle ending on Saturday with Godman being victorious. Each set follows a similar structure, with people calling for Godman's aid and the hero coming to assist them. Aya Hirano, as Konata Izumi from the anime Lucky Star, sang this show's theme song on the Lucky Star music compilation CD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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