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Choushinsei Flashman

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1986 | 1 seasons | 20 min | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Action & Adventure, Kids

Weeknight Watchearly rating

Why it’s a Weeknight Watch

With a short run with a modest audience and little lasting buzz, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for sci-fi fans, action fans and families. If you loved Ben 10, start here.
The mood
Feel-good.
The pace
1 season: a few weeks of evenings, short, snackable episodes, about 17 hours in all.
What might put you off
  • Rated TV-PG. Worth a look first if you have very young kids.
  • It's in Japanese, so expect subtitles (or a dub).

In 1966, five infant children were kidnapped by an alien group known as the Alien Hunters for the Reconstructive Experiment Empire Mess, who wanted samples of humans from Earth to experiment on. The children were rescued by Mess' arch enemy, the Flash alien race, which took each one to a different planet of the Flash solar system for training. Each child was trained separately in a range of superpowers that will allow them to fight Mess, their bodies also adapted to the atmosphere of the Flash Solar System making them gain special abilities. When they finally return to Earth in 1986 to combat Mess, who is now trying to invade it, they use the opportunity to search for their birth parents.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesSolid

    7.6 out of 10

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerBelow par

    Ran for 1 season and reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release

  • Buzz & cultural impactBelow par

    About 19K people sought it out in the past year

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Cast & crew

  • Touta TarumiJin
  • Kihachirō UemuraDai
  • Tsutomu KitagawaBun
  • Mayumi YoshidaLou
  • Youko NakamuraSara
  • Akira IshihamaDoctor Tokimura
  • Hiroko MaruyamaMag (voice)
  • Eiichi OnodaNarrator