Trivia / Choujin Sentai Jetman

• Bonus Episode: Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia Vol. 2: Choujin Sentai Jetman is a direct-to-video Recap Episode^note Named Vol. 2 since it followed one for Kamen Rider BLACK. which was released during the run of Gosei Sentai Dairanger in October 1993, notable for its Framing Device which saw Ryu and Kaori happily married with a baby son named Gai. Was later included as Bonus Material for the DVD release.
• Bonus Material: Before Toei TV Hero Encyclopedia above, there was a Jetman exercise video presented by Rika Kishida (Kaori).
• Creator Backlash: It's not an exaggeration to say Masaki Tachi, the actor for Radiguet, hated playing him because of how nasty he was as a character, and even attempted to quit the show after reading the script for episode 18 (in which Radiguet kills Saki). For a time he didn't even let his own son know that he appeared in Jetman because of this.
• The Danza: Kaori's prehistoric counterpart in episode 26 is called Rika, just like the actress playing her.
• The Other Darrin: Tsutomu Tareki succeeded Eiichi Onoda as the show's narrator.
• Inspiration for the Work: Page 201 of Tadao Nagahama: Robot Romance Animation Chronicle Infobook contains an interview with Takeyuki Suzuki. He mentions that he was inspired by the romance subplot in Daimos to make romance a central focus of Choujin Sentai Jetman.
• Prop Recycling: In addition to the familiar "blue neon orb" prop appearing in the back of Veronica's cockpit, parts of the cockpit clearly originate from previous Sentai cockpits; further, the device Radiguet plants to sabotage Veronica and Tranza is one half of the Twin Brace from Choujuu Sentai Liveman.
• Real-Life Relative: Twin brothers Yuichi and Shoji Hachisuka served as the main suit actors for White Swan and Blue Swallow, respectively.
• Wag the Director: Kotaro Tanaka and Toshihide Wakamatsu, the actors playing Ryu and Gai respectively, insisted to director Keita Amemiya and main writter Toshiki Inoue on having more untransformed action scenes and having the characters referred to by names rather than designations. It worked!
• What Could Have Been:
  • A Super Sentai art book showed that they were gonna have a giant, heavily armed fortress robot, like in Turboranger and Fiveman, but didn't go through with it (from the sketches, it would've been a retooled version of the Turborangers' Turbobuilder), possibly because of how badly the previous fortress robot, Max Magma from Fiveman, had sold (there were reports of toy stores having shelves of unsold Max Magma toys).
  • Like Sun Vulcan, Bioman, and Turboranger, this series was originally going to be the first Power Rangers series. However, Saban passed on this series in favor of the next one.
  • Due to how much Fiveman flopped (as noted on the trivia page for that series), Toei originally had intended for this to be the last Sentai series. Fortunately, this series ended up saving the franchise.
  • Tranza was originally intended to die, before his actor Yutaka Hirose proposed he be tortured into a catatonic state instead. It's said that the production team almost didn't want to film it because of horrifying it was, until Inoue pushed them to.
• Working Title: Evidently, this show had at least a couple; director Keita Amemiya gave the tentative title of "Jumpman" in a magazine before the premiere, while Toshihide Wakamatsu (Gai Yuki) would recall that it was originally "Birdman".

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