Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion, also known as MegaBeast Investigator Juspion, and Space Wolf Juspion, is a Japanese tokusatsutelevision series and part of the Metal Hero Seriesfranchise. Produced by Toei Company, it was originally broadcast from 15 March 1985 to 24 March 1986, running for 46 episodes. The name "Juspion" is a portmanteau of "Justice" and "Champion". The series was aired in Brazil in 1988 and enjoyed unprecedent success in that country, eventually paving the way to other tokusatsu television series in Brazilian television. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Jaspion. In February 2018, it was announced that Jaspion would get a remake movie produced by Brazilian company Sato Company, with Toei's endorsement and approval. The movie's cast is expected to be announced in 2019, with the film set to be released in 2020.
Plot
While reading the Galaxy Bible, the space hermit Ejin learns of a shocking prophecy: When the dark god Satan Goth awakens, the universe will be ravaged by giant monsters filled with rage. After Satan Goth appears and the prophecy is set in motion, Ejin orders Juspion, who Ejin has been tutoring, to stop him and combat the corrupted Megabeasts. Juspion travels with his friends across the galaxy in the Daileon to battle Satan Goth and his army.
Characters
Heroes (Daileon crew)
Based from the silvery Ultra Planetary Battleship Daileon, Juspion travels across worlds to pursue Satan Goth. When facing a rampaging Megabeast, Juspion converts Daileon into Battle Giant Daileon to defeat Megabeasts with its Cosmic Crash double punches.
Juspion
The main hero of the series, Juspion is an orphan raised by Ejin, until he embarks on his quest to fight the Megabeasts and defeat Satan Goth. Juspion travels between planets to stop Satan Goth until he arrives on Earth. His Metal Tech Suit armor is made from the very rare galactic mineral Ejinium and grants superhuman capabilities to its owner.
Anri
A gynoid created by Ejin, she is Juspion's companion in his journey. Being a machine, Anri is immune to evil powers.
Cosmic Beast Miya
A baby alien creature found by Juspion and Anri on the jungle planet of Beezee when her parents were killed saving them from the Beezeeian hunters. Soon after, Juspion adopts Miya as pet. She is very friendly, intelligent, sociable and excellent cook. She originally doesn't speak, sometimes only repeating her name, until Anri teaches her to speak properly.
Vehicles
Iron Wolf
Juspion's silver motorcycle, a 'Super Planet Machine'.
Garbin
Juspion's silver tank, which splits into the Garbin Tank with twin drills and the Garbin Jet.
Allies
Ejin
A space hermit and scientist on the Planet of the same name, Ejin is the descendant of prophets who defended the Galaxy Bible for millennia. While raising Juspion, he serves as Juspion's spiritual guide and mentor. He sacrifices his own life at the end of the series by confronting Satan Goth alone to give Juspion the time he needed to find the "Tarzan of the Galaxy".
Boomerang
after his older brother, an Interpol investigator, was killed by Satan Goth's forces, this medical student vowed revenge and became a 'Federal Nations Sheriff', fighting with his twin boomerangs.
The Nanbara Family
Photographer Ken'ichiro Nanbara, his older daughter Kanoko Nanbara and his younger son Kenta Nanbara became closely linked with Juspion when Ken'ichirou took a photo of the Golden Bird. It turned out that Kanoko was one of the 5 children chosen by the Golden Bird to house its power until the time comes.
Carrie and Hanna
Juspion's biological parents, they zealed for the health of animals in several planets from Milky Way. Kerly was a forest guard while Hanna was a zoo logistic doctor. They were both killed when their wrecked spaceship, attacked by Zampa, fell on Ejin's planet. They both reappeared as spirits to help Juspion defeat Zampa.
The Golden Bird
The guardian phoenix god of the galaxy, a manifestation of the energies of righteousness. The bird scattered itself into five pieces that choose Kanoko, along with four other children to serve as its vessels until all five are brought together so that Golden Bird can leave their bodies and become whole again for the final battle with Satan Goth, turning itself into a golden sword used by Daileon to slay Satan Goth.
Tarzan of the Galaxy
A baby mentioned in a prophecy in the Galaxy Bible, he landed on Earth, sleeping in a life-preserving capsule, as the sole survivor of a spaceship attacked by space pirates. Juspion saw himself in the baby and named it the Tarzan of the Galaxy, adopting the child after Satan Goth's defeat.
Villains (Megabeast Empire)
Satan Goth
A being born of the negative energy of the Universe, the great-god-demon whose revival was foretold in the Galactic Bible with the power to enrage the creatures, turning then in vicious monsters. Satan Goth's objective is to create a Megabeast Empire in the Galaxy and rule it from the Earth, more specifically from Tokyo, Japan. Originally a giant resembling a cross between Darth Vader and Megatron, in the finale, Satan Goth reaches the peak of his power and discards his shell to become Great Satan Goth, possessing a Cthulhu-like appearance and the power to bend nature to his will, turning cities into forests overnight. He was defeated by Daileon branding a giant golden sword created by the Golden Bird in the final episode.
Mad Gallant Mad Gallant
The son of Satan Goth's and his heir to the Megabeast Empire. Juspion's antagonist throughout the series, he is capable of fighting him with his sword and with his black VTOL 6-legged insectoid walker/plane, the Juldbooma. He wears a reminiscent black Metal Tec Suit similar to Juspion's and can take on human form. Mad Gallant is destroyed once by Juspion in the episode 29, but is soon resurrected by Gilza; in the penultimate episode of the series he has a climatic final battle with Juspion. After being deadly damaged by Juspion in this battle and furious by refusing to admit that a "simple human" could be stronger than a mutant, he turns himself into a giant Satan Goth for a few moments, similar to his father's first form, and tries to attack the hero, but due to being previously wounded he returns to his original form and dies right after.
The 4 Deva Kings
The hirelings of Mad Gallant.
* Icki
The top-ranking ruthless bodyguard in the galaxy. Born in a planet located at the other extreme of the galaxy, he was the first enemy in the entire series to be killed via Juspion's fatal attack Cosmic Halley. His main weapon was a trident who could blow fire from its bottom tip, and he could also fire his own clenched fists like jet-propelled explosive projectiles.
* Zampa
Evil android who wrongly attributed to Kerly and Hanna the downfall of Machine Empire, which he wanted to rule. As a revenge, Zampa attacked Juspion's family's spaceship, forcing a disastrous crash land which killed them both, leaving only Juspion to survive. His main weapon was a kusarigama, and he transformed into his machine self with superior strength and endurance, and ability to fire concussive lasers from his eyes, but even so Juspion managed to destroy him, thus avenging his deceased family.
* Brima and Guilleau
The two women who became Mad Gallant's personal bodyguards after Icki's and Zampa's deaths by Juspion. Brima is a dark prophet with white clothing and a ball-shaped helmet, her main weapons were a crystal ball and occasional magic daggers; Guilleau is a spy and disguise master clad in basic red and black space armor, her main weapon was a combination of spear/flute/blowgun, not only could she shoot the blade on the end forward to explode against Juspion, but she could also play a tune on it to transform herself and others into different forms. She could also use the flute to control others' minds but as a result of Juspion's armor he was immune to her flute, however she could cause him to suffer vertigo so as to teleport herself and others to safety. In their final appearance their weapons were destroyed by Juspion, resulting in them magically combining themselves into a wolf-beast form to attack Juspion, who defeated the beast with his Cosmic Halley fatal attack, killing both.
Galactic Witch Gilza
An alien witch who was responsible of bringing Mad Gallant back to life when he was first defeated in battle by Juspion. Gilza is precisely an expert in curses and general dark arts. Gilza had successfully removed Juspion's soul but it was returned to him shortly after. She had with her an enchanted knife that was her focus in battle and trying to remove Juspion's soul which she kept trying to do until she was killed. Her knife was the only thing which could harm her and Juspion used to finally destroy Gilza with Cosmic Halley attack.
Gilmarza - Spectre Queen of the Dark Galaxy
Gilza's elder sister, debuting shortly after Gilza's death. In order to receive some of Satan Goth's evil power, Gilmaza infiltrated several planets across the Universe and slowly caused the extinctions of these civilizations through futile strategies - such as, in Planet Zobos, by preaching the worship of Satan Goth to young people and ruining them, drowning the planet in a wave of crimes; or, in Planet Sweet, by cleverly manipulating the leaders of East and West, leading them ultimately to war. She died with the Aliens, after Satan Goss was killed and the energy he released vaporized them all. She has the 5 Space Ninjas as her top soldiers.
The 5 Space Ninjas
Gilmarza's top soldiers created through her black magic, they wear suits of black armor differing only in the color of their forehead plates. They all have two "default attacks" and one peculiar fighting "special technique". They only revealed their true forms after having their heads split open by Juspion's sword.
* Ka
Apparently the group's leader. His "special technique" consists on him jumping above a jet of fire and then rushing into the enemy, strongly hitting him with an explosion; his true form is of a cannon which springs out from his neck, fueled by Fuu's meteor/comet.
* Fuu
His "special technique" is similar to Ka's but using wind instead of fire; his true form is of a massive meteor/comet which fuels Ka's cannon.
* Dou
His "special technique" has him burrowing deep into the earth to provoke massive earthquakes or ambush careless enemies; his true form is of a flying skeletal centipede-like demon that has powerful jaws, can project plasma discharges and create a holographic illusion of itself with double size, thus increasing attack power.
* Sui
Unlike the other 4 ninjas, he has no "special technique" of his own, thus being limited to default attacks; his true form is of a kind of spiked satellite/steel orb which shoots powerful electric discharges and sticks physically into any surface to drain energy through physical contact.
* Moku
His "special technique" allows him to fire green gravity beams from his fingertips; his true form is of a space fighter wearing white clothing with a horrible demonic mask and fighting with a naginata, in similarity with a kabuki artist.
Mega Beasts
Marigos of Beeze
This monster appeared in episode 1. Its powers include asexual reproduction, mouth energy balls, and mouth flames.
Hanedar of Beeze
This monster appeared in episode 1. Its powers include flight and talons.
Tetsugos of Peace
This monster appeared in episode 2. Its powers include burrowing, freezing mist from the mouth, eye energy blasts, and a whip tail.
Namagerath of Dodo
This monster appeared in episodes 3 and 25. Its powers include mouth flames and a forehead horn. It is the only Mega Beast spared by Juspion.
Gaios
This monster appeared in episode 4. Its powers include swimming, burrowing, mouth flames, a launch-able back shell with extendable spikes, and explosive mouth mist.
Giga
This monster appeared in episode 5. Its powers include dimensional traveling, a fanged trunk, and twin tusks.
Gelgon
This monster appeared in episode 6. Its powers include burrowing, mouth flames, and body sparks that grant flight.
Rock Gorilla
This monster appeared in episode 7. Its powers include internal tentacles, a rock body, and mouth mist.
Onideviler
This monster appeared in episode 8. Its powers include absorbing smaller lifeforms and twin head horns.
Kidama
This monster appeared in episode 9. Its powers include flight, intense cedar pollen from the mouth, burrowing by spinning, ensnaring roots, and explosive mouth spears.
Pirazar
This monster appeared in episode 10. Its powers include swimming, pressurized water from the top mouth, and reinforced scales.
Gamagorath
This monster appeared in episode 11. Its powers include hypnotic body oil, burrowing, a long tongue, mouth flames, and teleportation.
Kabegonta
This monster appeared in episode 13. Its powers include size changing, shape-shifting via sight, sand reducing touch, and teleportation.
Oceanking
This monster appeared in episode 14. Its powers include swimming, a high resistance to heat, a long tail for whipping and coiling, and absorbing and re-channeling fire via the mouth.
Portsanky
This monster appeared in episode 15. Its powers include burrowing and explosive mouth mist.
Dyna Seijin
This monster appears in episode 16. Its powers include extendable arms that read minds, antennae energy bolts, and holograms.
Head Dorimar
This monster appeared in episode 17. Its powers include invisibility, mouth suction, internal tentacles, burrowing, a detachable head on the tail, holograms, and growth by eating.
Seablur
This monster appeared in episode 19. Its powers include swimming, a howitzer cannon on each shoulder, and an anchor.
Headstone
This monster appeared in episode 20. Its powers include mouth flames and a pair of kamas.
Magnadar
This monster appeared in episode 21. Its powers include emitting electromagnetic waves, traveling via a guided asteroid, and a falcata.
Kumoda
This monster appeared in episode 22. Its powers include levitation, teleportation, mouth webs, spear legs, explosive eye flashes, and illusions.
Shishion
This monster appeared in episode 23. Its powers include high jumping, reinforced teeth, and mouth flames. Since it was a pacific beast, Juspion had to unwillingly kill it in a very heart-breaking scene due to Satan Goth's deep possession.
Moke
This monster appeared in episode 24. Its powers include eye electric bolts, burrowing, an extendable tongue, and arm whips.
Donges
This monster appeared in episode 25. Its powers include burrowing, pincer claw hands, psychic explosions, head mandibles that emit energy surges, and tail energy blasts.
Boga
This monster appeared in episode 26. Its powers include an extendable energy draining trunk and nose flames.
Sodomon
This monster appeared in episode 27. Its powers include burrowing, mouth mist, and creating illusions via body numbers.
Aiger
This robotic monster appeared in episode 28. Its powers include a launch-able circular saw for the right arm, burrowing, a torso drill, and replacing his left hand with a hammer or wrecking ball.
Gasler
This monster appeared in episode 29. Its powers include explosive toxic gas from body and mouth tubes and burrowing.
Balloom
This monster appeared in episode 30. Its powers include flight, spawning flying jawed creatures disguised as balloons, and a balled tail that emits explosive sparks.
Deathchillas
This monster appeared in episode 31. Its powers include swimming, depth charges from the mouth, self destructing, and fast burrowing.
Majin
This monster appeared in episode 33. Its powers include a red electrical shield, illusions of mega beasts that emit electric shocks, and mouth flames.
Phodon
This robotic monster appeared in episode 34. Its powers include a head cannon and a missile on each foot.
Jimushi
This monster appeared in episode 36. Its powers include fast burrowing and sharp claws.
Prawnzole
This monster appeared in episode 37. Its powers include disguising as Fake Miya, a right hand claw, and a left hand fork.
*Fake Miya/Ebizhol
This monster appeared in episode 37. Its powers include high jumping, reinforced teeth, and mouth flames.
Aqua Rocky
This monster appeared in episode 38. Its only known power is burrowing.
Diagorth
This monster appeared in episode 40. Its powers include creating fake diamonds from the skin, burrowing, and tail lasers.
Destran
This monster appeared in episode 41. Its powers include burrowing, tentacle hair, a knife for each hand, and eye energy bolts.
Phodon 2
This robotic tank monster appeared in episode 42. Its powers include a head canon, four wrecking balls in the top, and a drill in the head.
Badogres
This monster appeared in episode 44. Its powers include a mouth machine gun and mouth flames. It is the only Mega Beast destroyed by Juspion without piloting Daileon, as he was unable to call for its aid in the Satan Zone.
Episodes
On January 6, 1986 the show later aired on Mondays instead of Fridays.
The official Toei video releases in the '80s listed in English, below the title, "Space Wolf Juspion". This has created some confusion and has led some to believe that is the actual title of the series and translation of "Kyojuu Tokusou." The Space Wolf name is simply one of Juspion's nicknames much like the "Galactic Tarzan" in order for him to have a title to introduce himself by. During Otakon 2018, Discotek Media announced that they had licensed the show for a one-disc SD on BD release. The SD Blu-ray was released on August 27, 2019.
