History Trivia / ChoudenshiBioman

* TheCastShowoff: Jun Yabuki's actress Sumiko Tanaka is a professional stuntwoman. As such, the show goes out of its way to have her do her own stunts as often as possible, making her ''Bioman'''s undisputed badass.

* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: The death of Mika is a text-book example of this, due to the actress' sudden departure. No one knows what happened to her, which forced the production team to get Mayumi Tanaka to do ADR in Yajima's place from episodes 7 to 10 since (at the time) her voice was similar to her. Although in January 2013 in an episode from the TBS variety show ''Arita to Matsuko no Otoko to Onna'', there was an alleged report that Yuki Yajima was spotted somewhere in Tokyo.

* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: The death of Mika is a text-book example of this, due to the actress' sudden departure. No one knows what happened to her. Although in 2013, there was an alleged report that Yuki Yajima was spotted somewhere in Tokyo.

* ReferencedBy:
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYFEvcTv7U Power Ranger and Sentai reference]] uses the Bioman suits and [[TransformationTrinket Techno Braces]].
** ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'', particularly their Doctor Man {{Expy}}, Doctor Z. In Season 2, they also put in also references to the suit actor of Bio Hunter Silva as well as the use of Mecha Gigan [[MonsterSuit robot suits]] instead of CGI giant mecha as their MonsterOfTheWeek.
** Not only did the original ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' pitch use ''Bioman'' footage (the repurposed pitch replaced them with ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' footage). The fact that ''MMPR'' also uses a female Yellow Ranger can be considered a reference to ''Bioman'', which is the first sentai series to feature two female rangers instead of just [[TheSmurfettePrinciple one]].
*** Though it might be a coincidence, ''MMPR'' also named its female Pink Ranger as Kimberly, which is the Philippine English dub name of Hikaru Katsuragi/Pink Five.

** In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Gumball's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aYFEvcTv7U Power Ranger and Sentai reference]] uses the Bioman suits and [[TransformationTrinket bracelets]].

* ReferencedBy: ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'', particularly their Doctor Man {{Expy}}, Doctor Z. In Season 2, they also put in also references to the suit actor of Bio Hunter Silva as well as the use of Mecha Gigan [[MonsterSuit robot suits]] instead of CGI giant mecha as their MonsterOfTheWeek.

* ReferencedBy: ''Series/HikoninSentaiAkibaranger'', particularly their Doctor Man {{Expy}}, Doctor Z. In Season 2, they also put in also references to the suit actor of Bio Hunter Silva as well as the use of Mecha Gigans instead of CGI giant mecha as their MonsterOfTheWeek.

* TheWikiRule: Covered as part of [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/ RangerWiki]].

** Creator/SabanEntertainment's first attempt at adapting the ''Super Sentai'' franchise, [[http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-12/business/fi-18776_1_haim-saban way back in 1986]], was based on ''Choudenshi Bioman'', variously titled either ''Bio-Man'' or ''Galaxy Rangers''. Haim Saban had made a pilot with the ''Bioman'' footage and original footage, but it was rejected by television networks. When he went to pitch the idea again in the 90's as ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', he made a pilot with ''Zyuranger'' footage but kept the actor footage from the Bio-Man pilot. The names of the five main heroes and Alpha 5 (who was originally supposed to be Peebo rather than an American-original character) were left mostly the same for .

** [[http://articles.latimes.com/1986-08-12/business/fi-18776_1_haim-saban Was going to be]] the first ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' series. The names of the five main heroes and Alpha 5 (who was originally supposed to be Peebo rather than an American-original character) were left mostly the same for ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Haim Saban had made a pilot with the Bioman footage with original footage, but it was rejected by television networks. When he went to pitch the idea again in the 90's, he made a pilot with Zyuranger footage but kept the actor footage from the Bio-Man pilot.

* ThrowItIn: An early scene in episode 16 has the suit actress for [[NiceGirl Pink Fove]] [[OutOfCharacterMoment celebrate the destruction of a few Gear fighters]], before catching herself and reacting more in character to her previous outburst. Some ADR from the face actress was added in to salvage the scene and make it look intentional.

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** 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 ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''. Giving rise to homages like ''Kabayo Kids'' (kabayo meaning horse, and bayo is pronounced like bio) and ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164409/ Biokids]]''.
** And how about the cult following they have in France? It got to a point that, when ''[[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Maskman]]'' and ''[[Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman Liveman]]'' were ported there, they were respectively renamed ''Bioman 2'' and ''Bioman 3''. No wonder the idea of ''WebVideo/FranceFive'' worked out so well.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Other than the infamous replacing of Mika with Jun, this is also why Messerju and Aquaiger were killed off in episode 31. Toei had already decided on upgrading the members of Gear to prevent VillainDecay and make them more mechanical, but they could not figure out a way to upgrade those Beastnoids - the most organic looking of the five - without them heavily clashing with the rest of Gear.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Other than the infamous replacing of Mika with Jun, this is also why Messerju and Aquaiger were killed off in episode 30. Toei had already decided on upgrading the members of Gear to prevent VillainDecay and make them more mechanical, but they could not figure out a way to upgrade those Beastnoids - the most organic looking of the five - without them heavily clashing with the rest of Gear.

* ActorLeavesCharacterDies: The death of Mika is a text-book example of this, due to the actress' sudden departure. No one knows what happened to her. Although in 2013, there was an alledged report that Yuki Yajima was spotted somewhere in Tokyo.

** One concept had the protagonists be derived from fairy tales (Momotaro, Kintaro, Isshiki, Kaguya Hime). These characters would have met Bio Robo in the past before being flung to the present day and joining up with a contemporary female warrior. This was dropped for fears that the young audience would be too unfamiliar with these characters.

* NamesTheSame: Shingo Takasugi shares his full name with a character from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', who also happens to be a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]].

* {{McLeaned}}: The death of Mika is a text-book example of this, due to the actress' sudden departure. No one knows what happened to her. Although in 2013, there was an alledged report that Yuki Yajima was spotted somewhere in Tokyo.

* NamesTheSame: Shingo Takasugi shares his full name with a character from ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', who also happens to be a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]].

* TheWikiRule: Covered as part of [[http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/ RangerWiki]], and as an individual series on the [[http://bioman.wikia.com/wiki/ Bioman Wiki]].

* {{McLeaned}}: The death of Mika is a text-book example of this, due to the actress' sudden departure.