Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain

Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain (特救指令ソルブレイン) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company. It ran for 53 episodes from 4 February, 1991 to 27 January, 1992 on TV Asahi. It is part of the Metal Hero Series franchise; a sequel to Tokkei Winspector, it is the second series to follow the Rescue Hero trilogy.

Plot
After the Winspector 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 returns to Japan and teams up with Solbrain for a three-part story (episodes 21, 22 and 23). From episode 34 on, Ryouma Kagawa, the protagonist from Winspector, returns as a member of Solbrain, wearing a solid suit dubbed the Knight Fire.

Other Members

 * Jun Masuda
 * Shunsuke Masaki
 * Kamekichi Togawa
 * Takeshi Yazawa
 * Midori Aikawa
 * Cross 8000

Allies

 * Bycle


 * Walter

Arsenal

 * Solid Suit (ソリッドスーツ): Daiki, Reiko and Ryōma's armor
 * SolGallop (ソルギャロップ): Daiki's car, based on the Toyota Sera
 * SolDrecker (ソルドレッカー): Reiko's car, sometimes also driven by Jun. Based on the Toyota Previa
 * Knight custom (ナイトカスタム): Ryōma's car, based on the Mazda RX-7
 * Solid States Ⅰ (ソリッドステイツI): the mothership (abbreviated S.S.-I (エスエスワン)). S.S.-I takes off from Solid Hanger (ソリッドハンガー) in one minute.
 * Cerberus Delta (ケルベロスΔ): SolBraver and Knight Fire's weapon. It has two operating modes: Shot Mode (ショットモード) (used as a ray gun) and Slash Mode (スラッシュモード) (used, as a sword, to break obstacles such as girders and fighting enemies armed with knives).
 * BosWinder (ボスワインダー): a tool which shoots a special carbon-fiber rope or a special bullet
 * SolIndicater (ソルインジケーター): Daiki and Reiko's police license
 * O2 Pack (O2パック): oxygen cylinder
 * Medical Pack (メディカルパック): emergency equipment used by SolJeanne
 * Cuffs Lock (カフスロック): handcuffs
 * GigaStreamer (ギガストリーマー): the only weapon Solbrain inherited from Winspector (see Tokkei Winspector for details).
 * Pile Tornado (パイルトルネード): SolBraver and Knight Fire's big gun, with three functions:
 * Super Discharger (スーパーディスチャージャー): shoots a fire-extinguishing beam
 * Caulking Puncher (コーキングパンチャー): shoots a special gelatinous, gluey, freezing bullet
 * Tornado Burst (トルネードバースト): a hail of 40 plasma-energy bullets per second, fired by Cerberus Delta. Its power is three 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).

Video Game
A video game version of Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain was released in 1991 for the Japanese company Family Computer, published by Angel and developed by Natsume. It is a modified version of Shatterhand, which was published by Jaleco for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe shortly after the Japanese release. The differences are mainly cosmetic (changing graphics and plot) 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

 * Daiki Nishio (西尾 大樹) - Kōichi Nakayama (中山 幸一)
 * Reiko Higuchi (樋口 玲子) - Mitsue Mori (森 みつえ)
 * SolDozer (ソルドーザー) - Seizō Katō (加藤 精三)(voice)
 * Shunsuke Masaki (正木 俊介) - Hiroshi Miyauchi (宮内 洋)
 * Jun Masuda (増田 純) - Hidenori Iura (井浦 秀智)
 * Kamekichi Togawa (戸川 亀吉) - Mitsuru Onodera (小野寺 充)
 * Ryōma Kagawa (香川 竜馬) - Masaru Yamashita (山下 優)
 * Takeshi Yazawa (矢沢 武) - Kaname Kawai (河合 要)
 * Midori Aikawa (相川 みどり) - Mayuko Irie (入江 まゆこ)
 * Norio Tsuruoka (鶴岡 則夫) - Mitsutaka Tachikawa (立川 三貴)
 * Hiroshi Tsuruoka (鶴岡 浩) - Kunihiro Tomita (富田 晋寛)
 * Cross 8000 (クロス8000)(voice)/Ryūichi Takaoka (高岡 隆一) - Masaki Terasoma (寺杣 昌紀)
 * Narrator (ナレーター) - Takeshi Kuwabara (桑原 たけし)

Crew

 * Original story by Saburo Yatsude
 * Screenplay by: Noboru Sugimura, Nobuo Ōgizawa, Takahiko Masuda, Jun'ichi Miyashita, Susumu Takahisa, 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: TV Asahi, ASATSU, Toei

Songs

 * Opening theme
 * "Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain" (特救指令ソルブレイン)
 * Lyrics: Akira Ōtsu (大津 あきら)
 * Composition: Kisaburō Suzuki (鈴木 キサブロー)
 * Arrangement: Tatsumi Yano (矢野 立美)
 * Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi (宮内 タカユキ)
 * Closing theme
 * "Ai ni Dakarete" (愛に抱かれて)
 * Lyrics: Akira Ōtsu
 * Composition: Kisaburō Suzuki
 * Arrangement: Tatsumi Yano
 * Artist: Takayuki Miyauchi