Japanese Spider-Man Episode 11 Recap – A Bridge Too Far

Welcome back readers to my midweek recap series, chronicling the insanity that is the legendary Toei series Japanese Spider-Man! Or, Supaidāman, if you’re feeling phonetic.

This week starts off with a title card that really pumps up for a hell of a show ahead. Seriously, the name of this episode is Professor Monster’s Ultra Poison Assassination. This episode is promising us Ultra Poison people! Let’s see if it lives up to the hype!

Okay a little kid walking across a wood bridge. Not… not exactly the thrilling start I was hoping for.

Japanese Spider-Man Ep 3 Recap – Circus of Crime

Welcome back readers to my new recap series, chronicling the insanity that is the legendary Toei series Japanese Spider-Man! Or, Supaidāman, if you’re feeling phonetic.

We’re finally through all the setup with the first two episodes out of the way, and Spider-Man is now an established hero. But this week we’re going to be starting off by watching a different wall crawler. And I do mean crawler, as we watch a guy descend the side of a wall on a rope silently at an agonizingly slow pace before all of a sudden the title smacks us in the face.

Guys I’m going to guess that’s Phantom Thief 001. Call it a hunch.

Japanese Spider-Man Ep 2 Recap – Eulogy for a Spider

Welcome back readers to my new recap series, chronicling the insanity that is the legendary Toei series Japanese Spider-Man! Or, Supaidāman, if you’re feeling phonetic.

Last week things hit the ground running pretty quickly as we were already jumping headlong into two separate acts of revenge, so how is Japanese Spider-Man going to top that with their second go around? Well to start things off Tatsuya is awoken by his new psychic spider buddy Garia (who if you’ll remember was a full sized man until he sort of… died and turned into a spider that is now apparently living with Spider-Man) who tells him that the Iron Cross Army is on the loose again!

How is the world going to get any stranger than it was last week? Well we’re just going to have to find out!

Japanese Spider-Man Ep 1 Recap – Yeah yeah yeah, WOW!

Welcome to the start of my new Recap series for the legendary Tokusatsu show Japanese Spider-Man! Or Supaidāman, as he is often known. This being a recap series I’m going to try to avoid getting bogged down in going over the history of the show or how it came to be (though I might drop an interesting factoid here or there as I have been wont to do.) No instead let’s hit the ground running!

Actually… MINOR odd note before we hit the ground running. You’ll notice the subtitles do not put a hyphen in Spider-Mans name. For those of you who don’t know Spider-Man’s name is hyphenated and each word is capitalized. It’s kind of weird what with those being the official subs you’d think they would get it right huh. Weird. Also yes, OFFICIAL subs. They used to have them up on Marvel.com but no longer. I really have no idea why when they still have the pages for them.

Unlike a lot of modern shows there’s no pre-credits sequence so let’s get straight into a review of the opening. The opening theme is “Kakero! Spider-Man” and it follows the grand tradition of all Spider-Man TV show theme songs by being very catchy. It’s the kind of song you’ll find humming to yourself without even realizing it. It’s good it’s likable since you’ll be hearing it twice an episode, as it’s usually played behind the once an episode major fight scene.

But that’s enough prompting, now let’s do that thing I said I’d do two paragraphs ago and kick things off with the first episode!

First off we’re actually starting things off with REVENGE, which I don’t know isn’t that a pretty bold statement when Spider-Man doesn’t even exist yet and we don’t know who the Iron Cross Army are? And secondly come on subtitles, there are clearly two exclamation points there in the second line, stop short changing us the excitement!