YMMV / Choudenshi Bioman

• Awesome Music:
  • The intro song. An epic, orchestra-like opening with a few brief switches to a an equally great rocking guitar. The lyrics are also greatly catchy and are sure to get fans pumped up with their chants of Bioman.
  • The memorable ending theme "Bionic Soldier" features a catchy, happy song and comes with a similarly memorable end credits to boot, showcasing the Biomen cleaning up their Humongous Mecha.^note This is quite the feat considering all the damage and dirt it gets from being regularly used in battle!
  • "Shirogane no Karibito" (The Silver Hunter) is Bio Hunter Silva's theme music. It has the same feel as "The Temple of Fiends" theme in the first Final Fantasy. It conveys finality and menace, thus framing Silva as a serious foe.
• Common Knowledge: Magne Warrior being the actual first Sixth Ranger. While his episodes did play with the trope, he doesn't truly fit the billing due to using a different power source than the Biomen (the Magne meteorites as opposed to the Bio Particles) and never actually joins the team with his transformed state.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Bio Hunter Silva. Often praised as one of the most badass Sentai villain ever despite his short screentime, most probably by being a genuine threat to the Bioman instilling that they could die by his hands (like Mika did). His reappearance in the Kamen Rider X Super Sentai Superhero Taisen was met with much praise.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • It has a cult following in the Philippines since they made their own English dub of it (which had the characters' names anglicized) long before Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Giving rise to homages like Kabayo Kids (kabayo meaning horse, and bayo is pronounced like bio) and Biokids.
  • And how about the cult following they have in France? It got to a point that, when Maskman and Liveman were ported there, they were respectively renamed Bioman 2 and Bioman 3. No wonder the idea of France Five worked out so well.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The team has a hard time convincing Mika to join them. She finally accepts, only to be killed eight episodes later. As it turns out, the team would have been better off leaving Mika alone and looking for somebody else in the first place. The first mecha battle even has Ryuta ask Mika "You don't want to die young, do you?"
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Filipino English dub named Hikaru Kimberly, the same name as the first Pink Power Ranger (both for the unaired Bioman Pilot and for the aired Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers version).
  • Ryūta was named Franky, the same name his immediate blue predecessor Yousuke had in the parody dub of ''Dynaman''.
  • Shingo shares the same name as Shingo Tsukino, the little brother of the titular Sailor Moon. The funny part though is that they also share the same name in their respective English dubs (The original dub in the case of Sailor Moon), Sammy.
  • The title of an upcoming 2024 film starring The Rock is Red One.
• Les Yay: To some out there, the protective big sister Mika and the ingenue Hikaru. Jun and Hikaru have some moments too.
• It Was His Sled: Mika dies in episode 10 and gets replaced by Jun.
• Magnificent Bastard: Bio Hunter Silva is a Bio Particle exterminator created by the Anti-Bio Union and by far the toughest opponent the Biomen faced. Coming to Earth after causing the destruction of Bio Star, Silva easily outmatches the Biomen while outmaneuvering the Neo Empire Gear's attempts to capture him. When the Gear steal his Balzion mecha and Farrah pilots it against the Biomen, Silva remotely holds it in place, allowing the Biomen to kill Farrah, before using a clone of Prince to break into Neograd and kill Mason. Silva then enters Balzion and pilots it to eliminate the Biomen and the last of the Bio Particles. Even when Balzion is destroyed, Silva attempts to fight the Biomen on his own, still trying to complete his mission in his final moments.
• Moral Event Horizon: Dr. Man does this when he brainwashes Mason, Farah, and Monster, so that he can erase their memories of finding out his true identity as a former human.
• Narm: Bio Big Arrow enlarges Jun's Yellow Arrow for one big finisher! What was shot was... a tiny yellow beam. (it's still pretty effective, but visually, it just left so much that can be done)
• Older Than They Think: While Sentai fans will either point to X1 Mask or DragonRanger as the first Sixth Ranger, Magne Warrior from this series was the first time the conflict was played with, although he ultimately ends up being a subversion who never actually joins the team.
• Parody Displacement: Mention Bioman in France, and chances are high the show's parody by Les Inconnus (when it was broadcast in the Club Dorothée show in the early '90s) will be brought up first in the conversation.

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