Trivia / Denkō Chōjin Gridman

• Show Accuracy/Toy Accuracy: Taken to ludicrous extremes in the Boys Invent Great Hero short, where a large screw is prominently visible on the back of God Zenon's head.
• Technology Marches On: Windows 95 and other 32-bit operating systems were barely in development by the time this came out (the general premise is similar to Mega Man Battle Network), and no-one could have predicted what the Internet looks like now.
• What Could Have Been: Plans were made for an arc in the show where Takeshi would steal the schematics of Gridman and use it to become his Evil Knockoff and The Dragon to Kahn Digifer before he would make a Heel–Face Turn and join the good guys instead, naming himself Grid Knight. The idea would be the basis for the unproduced Sigma follow-up and would later be transplanted into SSSS.GRIDMAN with the character Anti and his arc.
  • Gridman Sigma, a planned sequel would have followed a now fully re-formed Takashi who bonds with Gridman's younger brother to face off with Khan Digifer's own brother Neo. The plot was ready and a suit for Sigma was built but Tsuburaya's financial woes at the time (exacerbated by the Troubled Production and subsequent failure of Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero) meant the sequel had to be scrapped as a television show. What was developed instead got published as photo novel stories for Shogakukan Televi-Kun.
    • With Studio Trigger's boys invent great hero short being set after the ending of the series and ending with Takeshi transforming into Gridman Sigma to battle a new threat in the real world, it's probably the closest we'll get for this series being realized, as SSSS Gridman is a reboot/re-imagining/Stealth Sequel of it's own.
  • Then there's Gridman F, a separate scrapped sequel which would feature the return of Ippei and Gridman himself. Three new characters are Yuta Hibiki (the new host of Gridman), Akane Shinjo (Takeshi Todo's expy) and Alexis Kerib (Kahn Digifier's expy). Elements of this were transplanted into what ultimately became SSSS.GRIDMAN.
  • Producer Kazumitsu Akamatsu revealed on his blog that the show was only supposed to run for at the most 30 episodes, but the show became such a surprise hit with kids that more were put into production. That said, only 9 additional episodes were produced as a result due to various behind the scenes issues.
• Working Title: Bigman.

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