History YMMV / SpiderManJapan

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oey8s7eteqk The opening theme, "Kakero! Spiderman" by Yuki Hide.]]
** The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVQKiUS3qg "Chikai no Ballad"]] also by Yuki Hide.

* ColbertBump: Most comic book readers are aware of this series because the character appears in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' (and, in-story, a Spider-Man with a giant mecha provides an edge that most Spider people lack). Other people may had become aware of its thanks to the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' video (and the usual PanderingToTheBase section came empty, they admited that nobody really asked for that video, but they rather made it by their own initiative).

** "The emissary of Hell, Spider-Man!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Takuya's CatchPhrase, usually used to highlight just how ''different'' the series is from the mainline title.[[/labelnote]]
*** "The man who (insert activity here), Spider-Man!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Takuya's [[MadLibsCatchPhrase more variable catchphrase]], which can be snowcloned.[[/labelnote]]
** ''[[MoodWhiplash CHANGE LEOPARDON]]'' [[labelnote:Explanation]]The show's opening makes it seem like a Showa-era Japanese take of the original comics right up until the halfway point where this line hits and it's revealed that this Spider-Man has a giant robot, something that tends to throw those not expecting it for a loop.[[/labelnote]]
** The [[Franchise/{{PowerRangers}} Megazord]] exists because of Spider-Man. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to Leopardon's popularity with audiences, when Toei created ''Series/BattleFeverJ'', they decided to give the team a giant robot of their own. This trend would continue on for the rest of the franchise, with western audiences getting exposed to it when ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' debuted. Many discovering [[invoked]][[FanNickname "Supaidaman"]] for the first time are surprised to learn the trend started there.[[/labelnote]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oey8s7eteqk The opening theme, "Kakero! Spiderman" by Yuki Hide]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Some have cited Toei not using any established villains from the comics as wasted potential, especially since several of them (like Lizard, Rhino and Green Goblin) shouldn't be too hard to retool into monsters of the week.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** In one episode, Spider-Man has to give a kid a blood transfusion. The kid does ''not'' gain superpowers.
** Some have cited Toei not using any established villains from the comics as wasted potential as well.

* DancingBear: Most comic book readers are aware of this series because the character appears in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' (and, in-story, a Spider-Man with a giant mecha provides an edge that most Spider people lack). Other people may had become aware of its thanks to the ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' video (and the usual PanderingToTheBase section came empty, they admited that nobody really asked for that video, but they rather made it by their own initiative).

** The [[AmbitionIsEvil Amazoness]] is the savage [[TheDragon right hand]] of Professor Monster and a brutal, unforgiving woman who embodies a ChildHater killer. [[TheHeavy Carrying out]] Professor Monster's wicked demands, Amazoness leads attacks to kill countless civilians and murder the innocent while setting up a cult to sacrifice others to Professor Monster. When Takuya begins getting involved with helping children, Amazoness is always there to [[WouldHurtAChild try to murder them]], starting with her attempt to gouge out a little girl's eyes, attempting to use nerve gas on a little boy after practicing its use on adults, trying to burn a child alive, and trying to blow up a packed amusement park and leading terrorist attacks through Tokyo while gloating one targeted building has eight thousand people in it. Amazoness is also fond of torture on captives, while later capturing martial artists to fight death matches to determine who will be turned into Professor Monster's machine slaves, with her greatest ambition being to assist in utterly annihilating humanity for the Iron Cross army to rule the remainder.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While it does work almost note-for-note like a typical tokusatsu series, ''Spider-Man'' contains some rather impressive violence for its time. There's blatant murder in the show (see CryingWolf on the main page), shots of civilians being killed on-screen are commonplace, and one particular scene (used in the ''official Website/YouTube trailer by MARVEL'', no less) where a cat gets sliced in half with a katana. While it is true that there is [[BloodlessCarnage very little or no blood in the show to speak of,]] the amount of violence in the show would be rather unsettling for modern child and pre-teen viewers. However, the way they show the cat (which was, to be fair, a murderous cat demon) being sliced in half is by [[SpecialEffectFailure freezing the frame on the cat and having the image split apart on screen]]. Also notable is the fact that about halfway through, the [[ReTool episodes get noticeably]] [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and focus more on Spider-Man helping out kids and less on the somewhat unnerving brutality of the earlier episodes.

** The aforementioned [[AmbitionIsEvil Amazoness]] is the savage [[TheDragon right hand]] of Professor Monster and a brutal, unforgiving woman who embodies a ChildHater killer. [[TheHeavy Carrying out]] Professor Monster's wicked demands, Amazoness leads attacks to kill countless civilians and murder the innocent while setting up a cult to sacrifice others to Professor Monster. When Takuya begins getting involved with helping children, Amazoness is always there to [[WouldHurtAChild try to murder them]], starting with her attempt to gouge out a little girl's eyes, attempting to use nerve gas on a little boy after practicing its use on adults, trying to burn a child alive, and trying to blow up a packed amusement park and leading terrorist attacks through Tokyo while gloating one targeted building has eight thousand people in it. Amazoness is also fond of torture on captives, while later capturing martial artists to fight death matches to determine who will be turned into Professor Monster's machine slaves, with her greatest ambition being to assist in utterly annihilating humanity for the Iron Cross army to rule the remainder.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oey8s7eteqk The opening theme, Kakero! Spiderman by Yuki Hide]].
** The ending theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVQKiUS3qg Chikai no Ballad]] also by Yuki Hide.

** He introduces himself as "The emissary of Hell, Spider-Man!". This was over 25 years before ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.

* DancingBear: Most comic book readers are aware of this series because the character appears in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' and ''ComicBook/SpiderGeddon'' (and, in-story, a Spider-Man with a giant mecha provides an edge that most Spider people lack). Other people may had become aware of its thanks to the WebVideo/HonestTrailers video (and the usual PanderingToTheBase section came empty, they admited that nobody really asked for that video, but they rather made it by their own initiative).
* HilariousInHindsight: Episode 5 has [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 a plot point of Spider-Man performing a blood transfusion to save someone's life]].

* MemeticMutation: "The emissary of Hell, Spider-Man!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Takuya's CatchPhrase, usually used to highlight just how ''different'' the series is from the mainline title.[[/labelnote]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: In one episode, Spider-Man has to give a kid a blood transfusion. The kid does ''not'' gain superpowers.

* MemeticMutation: "The emissary of Hell, Spider-Man!"

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While it does work almost note-for-note like a typical tokusatsu series, ''Spider-Man'' contains some rather impressive violence for its time. There's blatant murder in the show (see CryingWolf on the main page), shots of civilians being killed on-screen are commonplace, and one particular scene (used in the ''official Website/YouTube trailer by MARVEL'', no less) where a cat gets sliced in half with a katana. While it is true that there is [[BloodlessCarnage very little or no blood in the show to speak of,]] the amount of violence in the show would be rather unsettling for modern child and pre-teen viewers. However, the way they show the cat (which was, to be fair, a murderous cat demon) being sliced in half is by [[SpecialEffectsFailure freezing the frame on the cat and having the image split apart on screen]]. Also notable is the fact that about halfway through, the [[ReTool episodes get noticeably]] [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and focus more on Spider-Man helping out kids and less on the somewhat unnerving brutality of the earlier episodes.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Yes, there's a lot of cheese, but the Spider-Man suit is pretty good, especially when you consider how bad the suit in ''Series/TheAmazingSpiderMan1978'' looked.

* DancingBear: Most people are aware of this series because Spider-Man now is a HenshinHero who has a GiantMecha.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: While it does work almost note-for-note like a typical tokusatsu series, ''Spider-Man'' contains some rather impressive violence for its time. There's blatant murder in the show (see CryingWolf on the main page), shots of civilians being killed on-screen are commonplace, and one particular scene (used in the ''official Website/YouTube trailer by MARVEL'', no less) where a cat gets sliced in half with a katana. While it is true that there is [[BloodlessCarnage very little or no blood in the show to speak of,]] the amount of violence in the show would be rather unsettling for modern child and pre-teen viewers. However, the way they show the cat (which was, to be fair, a murderous cat demon) being sliced in half is by freezing the frame on the cat and having the image split apart on screen. Also notable is the fact that about halfway through, the [[ReTool episodes get noticeably]] [[LighterAndSofter lighter]] and focus more on Spider-Man helping out kids and less on the somewhat unnerving brutality of the earlier episodes.

* EarWorm:
** The opening, dear god the opening.
---> "Yeah yeah yeah, wow!"
** The "Spider-Man Boogie" from the seventh episode is also extremely catchy.

** The effort the camera team and Spider-Man's stunt actor go to to replicate the hero's abilities should also be praised, in particular numerous scenes where he climbs up walls, something that's commonplace in movies nowadays but couldn't have been easy back in the Seventies.

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** He introduces himself as "The messenger from Hell, Spider-Man!". This was over 25 years before ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''.