is a Japanese

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television series produced by

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. It ran for 53 episodes from January 20, 1991 to January 26, 1992 on

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. It is part of the

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; a sequel to ''

Special Rescue Police Winspector is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series, part of the Metal Hero Series franchise and the first piece of the ''Rescue Police Series'' trilogy. The series follows the adventures and missions of a special "Rescue Police" team known as ''Special Police ...

'', it is the second series in the ''Rescue Police Series'' trilogy.

Plot

After the

Winspector is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series, part of the Metal Hero Series franchise and the first piece of the ''Rescue Police Series'' trilogy. The series follows the adventures and missions of a special "Rescue Police" team known as ''Special Police ...

police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot. Later in the series, the Winspector team returns to Japan and teams up with Solbrain for a three-part story (episodes 21-23). From episode 34 on, Ryouma, the protagonist from Winspector, returns as a member of Solbrain, wearing a suit dubbed the Knight Fire.

The team

*: Daiki is Ryoma's successor. He wears blue armor, and his primary vehicle is SolGallop. He only can wear his solid suit, and his transformation call is . He is armed with Cerberus Delta (a triangular gun), which can transform into a rod or a sword. *: Reiko is Junko's successor. She wears red armor, a black-and-white flameproof suit and a helmet without a mouthplate (so she can wear also an oxygen mask). Her primary vehicle is SolDrecker (exactly like

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and Iron Man), which also carries Dozer. Her transformation call is also , and her weapon is a small gun. *: Dozer is Bycle's and Walter's successor. He is a yellow heavy-duty robot (with design elements from a bulldozer, as the name implies) and can transform into a rescue machine.

Other members

*: A Solbrain member, unlike Daiki and Reiko he does not wear a solid suit; however, he is always in action. *: Chief of Solbrain. Compassionate and dedicated, he usually goes into the battlefield to help his subordinates. *: A machine expert, he is Nonoyama's successor. *: A pilot of the mothership Solid States-I, he leads the mothership's operating team and is senior to Daiki. *: Solbrain's Operation's team leader, she sees computer literacy as a main duty. *:

's former leader, he first reappears in episode 21 with the Winspector team (robots Walter and Bikel) chasing an android named Messiah. He later transformed into Fire and helped the team with Walter and Bikel. Later returns in episode 34 as Knight Fire, a new member of Solbrain, armed with Cerberus Delta and Pile Tornado. He is portrayed by

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, reprising his role from the previous Metal Hero series. *: Solbrain's supercomputer, and Madocks' successor.

Arsenal

*: Daiki, Reiko and Ryōma's armor. *Proto Suit ( プロトスーツ, Puroto Suutsu ? ) The prototype of SolBraver's Solid Suit, steals the armor to destroy SolBraver, but the armor had a timeout, similar to the Crush Tector's 5 minute time limit. Sasamoto was known as a psychotic person who had no qualifications to become the SolBraver. *: Daiki's car, based on the

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*: Reiko's car, sometimes also driven by Jun. Based on the

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*: Ryōma's car, based on the Mazda RX-7 FC *Masaki's undercover car: Chief Masaki's car. Initially, a Third-Generation Mazda Luce seen on Winspector, but in mid-series changed to a

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. *Ryuma's Car: In the episode 21, when Ryoma chases an android, he drives this car, a tenth generation

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with all the equipment and transformation mechanisms installed. *: the mothership (abbreviated ). S.S.-I takes off from in one minute. *: SolBraver and Knight Fire's weapon. It has two operating modes: (used as a ray gun) and (used, as a sword, to break obstacles such as girders and fighting enemies armed with knives). *: a tool which shoots a special carbon-fiber rope or a special bullet *: Daiki and Reiko's police license *: oxygen cylinder *: emergency equipment used by SolJeanne *: handcuffs *: the only weapon Solbrain inherited from Winspector (see

Tokkei Winspector is a Japanese tokusatsu TV series, part of the Metal Hero Series franchise and the first piece of the ''Rescue Police Series'' trilogy. The series follows the adventures and missions of a special "Rescue Police" team known as ''Special Police W ...

for details). *: SolBraver and Knight Fire's big gun, with three functions: **: shoots a fire-extinguishing beam **: shoots a special gelatinous, gluey, freezing bullet **: a hail of 40 plasma-energy bullets per second, fired by Cerberus Delta. Its power is two times that of GigaStreamer's maximum mode (when SolBraver and Knight Fire fire it at the same time, its power is four times GigaStreamer's).

Episodes

# : written by

Noboru Sugimura was a Japanese television and video game writer best known for his work on the ''Metal Hero'', ''Super Sentai'', ''Resident Evil'', ''Dino Crisis'', and ''Onimusha'' series. Career He had studied under Ei Ogawa, one of the main writers of the Jap ...

, directed by Masao Minowa # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Masao Minowa # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Takahiko Masuda, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Kyoko Sagiyama, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Takashi Yamada, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Junichi Miyashita, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Takahiko Masuda, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kiyoshi Arai # : written by Takashi Yamada, directed by Kiyoshi Arai # : written by Susumu Takaku, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Junichi Miyashita, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Kyoko Sagiyama, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Hidenori Ishida # : written by Takashi Yamada, directed by Hidenori Ishida # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Susumu Takaku, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Kyoko Sagiyama, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Takashi Yamada, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Susumu Takaku, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Junichi Miyashita, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Junichi Miyashita, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Susumu Takaku, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Kyoko Sagiyama, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Takahiko Masuda, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Junichi Miyashita and Yasuyuki Suzuki, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Junichi Miyashita and Yasuyuki Suzuki, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Nobuo Ogizawa, directed by Kaneharu Mitsumura # : written by Kyoko Sagiyama, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura and Akiko Asatsuke, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Mayumi Ishiyama and Junichi Miyashita, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Takeshi Ogasawara # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi # : written by Noboru Sugimura, directed by Michio Konishi

Video game

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for ''Tokkyū Shirei Solbrain'' was released in 1991 for the

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, published by Angel and developed by Natsume. It was localized into ''

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'', which was published by

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for the

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in North America and

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shortly after the Japanese release. The differences are mainly cosmetic (changing music and graphics) but there were also several substantial changes, such as which boss appeared in which area. In addition, the theme-park stage from the Famicom version was replaced with a nuclear-submarine stage in the NES version.

Cast

* - * - **Reiko Higuchi (child - ep. 11):

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* - (voice) * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * -

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, Emiko Takahashi and Kimiko Imai *(voice)/ - * -

Guest Stars

*Dr.Inagaki (1): Shinya Ono *Kazuo Inagaki (1): Hirofumi Taga *Simulated Brain A320 (1 - voice): Yoshio Kawai *Ryuzo Makimura (2):

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*Emi Makimura (2):

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*Rumi Makimura (2): Masami Hosoi *Yuka Mizusawa (2): Yoko Honna *Dr. Shibuzawa (3):

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*Hatta (3): Koji Takahashi *Jun Tashiro (3): Shiro Saito *Kenta Tashiro (3):

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*Yukio Sano (4): Ryosuke Kaizu *Sano's minion (4):

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*Aoyama Electric Officer (4):

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*Aoyama Electric Researcher (4):

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*Game Machime Monster (4 - voices):

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, Kaoru Shinoda *Koichi Ishikawa/Phanton Bond (5):

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*Yasuhiko Kujo (5): Maroshi Tamura *Naoto Yamaguchi (5): Shogo Kudo *Naoto's mother (5): Noriko Ikeda *Yumi Saiga (5):

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*Shinichiro Ishimaru/Kinta Kinentei (6): Kintoli Sanyutei *Shigeko Ishimaru (6):

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*Kumagai Family (6) **Hanji Kumagai:

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**Teruichi Kumagai:

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**Tokuko Kumagai:

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*Jingoro Makino (7):

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*Masaru Makino (7):

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*Kasai (7): Hironobu Kasahara *Saeki (7):

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*Katsuhiko Sakamoto/Proto Solbraver (8):

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*Mamoru Okayama (8):

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Suit Actors

* Solbraver:

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and Tokio Iwata * SolJeanne: Emiko Takahashi * Soldozer: Toshiyuki Kikuchi * Knight Fire:

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, Jiro Okamoto and Tokio Iwata

Crew

*Original story by

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*Screenplay by:

, Nobuo Ōgizawa, Takahiko Masuda, Junichi Miyashita, Susumu Takaku, Takashi Yamada, Kyōko Sagiyama, Mayumi Ishiyama, Akiko Asatsuke *Music: Kaoru Mizuki *Photography: Susumu Seo, Takakazu Koizumi *Assistant Director: Hidenori Ishida, Masashi Taniguchi *Action Directors: Junji Yamaoka, Jun Murakami *Special-Effects Director: Nobuo Yajima *Produced by: Kyōzō Utsunomiya, Atsushi Kaji (TV Asahi), Nagafumi Hori (Toei) *Directed by: Masao Minowa, Michio Konishi, Takeshi Ogasawara, Kaneharu Mitsumura, Kiyoshi Arai, Hidenori Ishida *Production:

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, Toei

Songs

;Opening theme * **Lyrics: **Composition: **Arrangement: **Artist: **Chorus: ;Closing theme * **Lyrics: Akira Ōtsu **Composition: Kisaburō Suzuki **Arrangement: Tatsumi Yano **Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi **Chorus: Morinoki Jidō Gasshōdan

References

External links

* {{Metal Hero Series Fictional police officers Japanese science fiction television series Metal Hero Series 1991 Japanese television series debuts 1992 Japanese television series endings Sequel television series TV Asahi original programming Television series set in 2000