preceded by the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078435/, according to some sources. Well, the series gets 5/10 (while the movie got 2/10 ) because it is all around better done, IN SPITE of huge shortcomings: * very low budget * scenes are mostly shot in caves, dumps, boiler rooms and absconded places. In one episode, you can clearly see 1970s Japanese homes and life going on in the background. * no more than 20-30 people altogether; they had no budget to hire extras and it shows. * SFX are laughable: laser rifles are 5yo kids' fire cracking rifles; apemen mostly look like idiots poorly wearing third hand carnival masks. Locations appear cartonboxed. * clicheed plots * mediocre acting and negligible character development.
Asians have colonized space, but alien invaders want to conquer the 15th solar system. A mysterious woman riding a spaceship shaped as a XVI century ship donates a space vehicle to three young pilots (Ayato joined later by Ryu and Siman ). The vehicle can turn into 3 separate ships. So they fight the invaders and their mysterious emperor Golem XIII, who is no other than the pretty Eolya's ( the mysterious woman in the French version ) twin sister. In the end Golem XIII is defeated using 3 powerful gems and Eolya's ultimate sacrifice is also required. Plot hole: they say Golem XIII had previously been defeated 500 years earlier, but then, how would she be back again, if she claims to be a renegade fleeing from her planet where her older sister Eolya was queen? During the fight, the two pilots turn into two masked heroes, Staros & Phantome ( very poor costumes...a camel rider's head scarf, a motorcyclist's glasses, tights... ) and fight mysterious space creatures (= a Japanese stand-in wearing poor costumes ).
Between the 2, i think Ryu was played much better than Ayato.
Asians have colonized space, but alien invaders want to conquer the 15th solar system. A mysterious woman riding a spaceship shaped as a XVI century ship donates a space vehicle to three young pilots (Ayato joined later by Ryu and Siman ). The vehicle can turn into 3 separate ships. So they fight the invaders and their mysterious emperor Golem XIII, who is no other than the pretty Eolya's ( the mysterious woman in the French version ) twin sister. In the end Golem XIII is defeated using 3 powerful gems and Eolya's ultimate sacrifice is also required. Plot hole: they say Golem XIII had previously been defeated 500 years earlier, but then, how would she be back again, if she claims to be a renegade fleeing from her planet where her older sister Eolya was queen? During the fight, the two pilots turn into two masked heroes, Staros & Phantome ( very poor costumes...a camel rider's head scarf, a motorcyclist's glasses, tights... ) and fight mysterious space creatures (= a Japanese stand-in wearing poor costumes ).
Between the 2, i think Ryu was played much better than Ayato.