History Trivia / SpiderManJapan

* TroubledProduction: During a production break to refurbish the set, props, and costumes, the costume for the Leopardon HumongousMecha wound up either lost, stolen, or otherwise unusable. As a result, episodes from then on were forced to script and film new giant monster fights around the pre-existing Leopardon footage, as the crew didn't have the budget to replace the costume.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The actual Leopardon suit was stolen, so later battle scenes involving it had to be recycled from footage of earlier episodes.

** The original plan was for ''Battle Fever J'' to be broadcast on TV Tokyo as a follow-up to ''Spider-Man'', rather than ''Goranger'' and ''J.A.K.Q.'s'' home on TV Asahi (formerly NET) which ''Super Sentai'' holds to this day. Sticking to TV Asahi allowed ''Battle Fever'' to premiere over a month before ''Spider-Man'' itself concluded, whilst its place as follow-up to the latter was taken by the anime series ''Anime/MiraiRoboDaltanious''.

** Leopardon plays an important part in ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', where Wade/Parzival gets his hands on it after clearing the second gate. He uses it in the climax to travel to Chthonia, and take on Sorrento's Mechagodzilla, but the mech is destroyed in the battle.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://japanese-spiderman.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page The Spider-Man Wiki.]]

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The show had a DVD release in 2005. It soon went out of print, making it rare and expensive.

** Regarding its follow-ups. What was conceived as a Japanese Captain America became ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the revival of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. After ''Battle Fever J'', adaptations using the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and/or the ComicBook/SilverSurfer were considered but dropped in favor of continuing Sentai with ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman''. Rumors in Japan say that the Silver Surfer series eventually became ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The original plan was that it was going to be more true to the comics, but Bandai wanted him to be a HenshinHero complete with HumongousMecha because kids in Japan at the time love those things, right?
** As mentioned below, other Toei toku heroes would have appeared in episodes of the show, but the sponsors producing the series didn't like the idea.

* ReferencedBy: Leopardon plays an important part in ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'', where Wade/Parzival gets his hands on it after clearing the second gate. He uses it in the climax to travel to Chthonia, and take on Sorrento's Mechagodzilla, but the mech is destroyed in the battle.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Regarding its follow-ups. What was conceived as a Japanese Captain America became ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the revival of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. After ''Battle Fever J'', adaptations using the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and/or the ComicBook/SilverSurfer were considered but dropped in favor of continuing Sentai with ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman''. Rumors in Japan say that the Silver Surfer series eventually became ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan''.

** Guest heroes from Toei's other tokusatsu shows were meant to appear in early plans but the sponsors for the show axed the idea. Rumor has it that Go Tachibana played by Creator/HiroshiMiyauchi was originally written to be the titular character of ''Series/KaiketsuZubat''.

** Guest heroes from Toei's other tokusatsu shows were meant to appear in early plans but the sponsors for the show axed the idea. Rumor has it that Go Tachibana played by Creator/HiroshiMiyauchi was originally written to be the titular character of Series/KaiketsuZubat.

** Guest heroes from Toei's other tokusatsu shows were meant to appear in early plans but the sponsors for the show axed the idea. Rumor has it that Go Tachibana played by Creator/HiroshiMiyazuchi was originally written to be the titular character of Series/KaiketsuZubat.

* FanNickname:
** The series is commonly referred to as ''Supaidaman'' by English-speaking audiences, both to differentiate it from other Spider-Man projects and because it sounds cool.
** Meanwhile, this version of Spider-Man is occasionally referred to as "Toei Spider-Man" to differentiate him from other versions.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://japanese-spiderman.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page The Spider-Man Wiki]].

* BeamMeUpScotty: “The Emissary from Hell, Spider-Man!” is treated as if it’s this incarnation’s catchphrase, even though he only says it once, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the first episode]]. Takuya actually uses a variety of epithets, with the most frequent being “The Iron Cross [[GratuitousEnglish killer]], Spider-Man!”.

** The mainstream Marvel comic books has a ShowWithinAShow version of itself that publishes “true stories” of heroes with public identities within the Marvel universe itself. Since Peter Parker’s identity is secret they can’t fill in biographical information, only Spider-Man’s public appearances. When there are glimpses of the in-universe comics they generally appear to be references to this Japanese series, positing that Spider-Man is the exiled prince of Planet Spider.

* BeamMeUpScotty: “The Emissary from Hell, Spider-Man!” is treated as if it’s this incarnation’s catchphrase, even though he only says it once, [[EarlyInstalmentWierdness in the first episode]]. Takuya actually uses a variety of epithets, with the most frequent being “The Iron Cross [[GratuitousEnglish killer]], Spider-Man!”.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Regarding its follow-ups. What was conceived as a Japanese Captain America became ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the revival of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. After ''Battle Fever J'', adaptations using the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and/or the ComicBook/SilverSurfer were considered but dropped in favor of continuing Sentai with ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman''. Rumors in Japan say that the Silver Surfer series eventually became ''Series/SpaceSheriffGavan''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Regarding its follow-ups. What was conceived as a Japanese Captain America became ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', the revival of ''Franchise/SuperSentai''. After ''Battle Fever J'', adaptations using the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk and/or the ComicBook/SilverSurfer were considered but dropped in favor of continuing Sentai with ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman''.

* ActorAllusion: Episode 31 introduces Creator/HiroshiMiyauchi as a guitar-toting modern cowboy out for revenge against a giant evil organization, much like his character in ''Series/KaiketsuZubat''.

** The mainstream Marvel comic books has a ShowWithinAShow version of itself that publishes “true stories” of heroes with public identities within the Marvel universe itself. Since Peter Parker’s identity is secret they can’t fill in biographical information, only Spider-Man’s public appearances. When there are glimpses of the in-universe comics they generally appear to be references to the this Japanese series positing that Spider-Man is the exiled prince of Planet Spider.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The original plan was that it was going to be more true to the comics, but Bandai wanted him to be a HenshinHero complete with HumongousMecha because kids love those things, right?

* ShortLivedBigImpact: ''Spider-Man'' ran for one season (41 episodes and one movie) but introduced HumongousMecha into the tokusatsu genre, where they remain a franchise staple to this day.