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Chōjin Sentai Jetman

Japanese television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ1156870
Source-derived summary

Chojin Sentai Jetman (鳥人戦隊ジェットマン, Chōjin Sentai Jettoman; Birdman Squadron Jetman) is a Japanese television tokusatsu series broadcast by TV Asahi. The series is the fifteenth installment of Super Sentai. Directed by Keita Amemiya, Kiyoshi Arai, Shohei Tojo, Masao Minowa and Taro Sakamot, it stars Kōtarō Tanaka, Rika Kishida, Ikko Tadano, Sayuri Uchida, Toshihide Wakamatsu, Mikiko Miki, Masaki Tachi, Maho Maruyama, Miku Kuga and Yutaka Hirose. It aired from February 15, 1991, to February 14, 1992, replacing Chikyu Sentai Fiveman and was replaced by Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. The international English title is listed by Toei as simply Jetman.

Shout! Factory released this series in North America on September 25, 2018. This is the 10th incarnation of Super Sentai to be released in North America and was the first series released that did not have a Power Rangers counterpart.

Plot

This series takes place in 199X. On the Earth Ship, the command center of a defense agency called Sky Force, the guardians of peace on Earth, scientists have developed "Birdonic Waves", a newly developed technology that gives the subject superhuman abilities. Experiments called "J-Project" were successful.

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“Chōjin Sentai Jetman” enters the record as japanese television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chōjin, Sentai and Jetman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991, 1992, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Chōjin, Sentai and Jetman.
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“Chōjin Sentai Jetman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Chōjin, Sentai and Jetman provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1156870. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991, 1992 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Chōjin Sentai Jetman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.