- Alternative Character Interpretation: While it's understandable they'd want to do something about the crime syndicate sending Bioweapon Beasts to attack people, the Central City police department can come off as very authoritarian if one examines the Anti-Bioron Law that Jiban operates under. It's terrifyingly broad — if Jiban comes to the conclusion that you are a Bioron agent, you get an Autoderringer shot to the face. It starts with "Jiban can arrest people without a warrant" and ends with "Jiban may exterminatenote anything that disrupts the peace of all life".
- Awesome Music: This is a Metal Heroes series, so Akira Kushida gets LOTS of work. The opening theme (Kidou Keiji Jiban
) and Perfect Jiban sum things up nicely. - Complete Monster: Doctor Giba is the cruel leader of Bioron who seeks to use biochemistry to conquer the world. Originally a being born from a chemical spill, Giba saw his nature as proof of humanity's evil and sought to subjugate them in return. To this end, Giba sent his Bioron agents to kidnap dozens of humans to experiment on, including Naoto's parents and little sister. When Jiban opposes him, Giba kidnaps his child companion Mayumi and turns her into an unwilling suicide bomber to kill Jiban. After his agents destroy Jiban, Giba wages an all-out attack on Japan, leveling entire city blocks and attacking people with killer bees carrying a Hate Plague. Giba is even cruel to his own minions, killing his assistants Marsha and Karsha in cold blood for failing to die against Jiban. In the finale, Giba uses Mayumi as a Human Shield against Jiban before attempting to bombard every country in the world with his missiles out of spite.
- Hilarious in Hindsight: Jiban, based off of RoboCop, gets a jetpack. Later, so does RoboCop in his third movie.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- Do you know the show was insanely popular on the 90s back in Panama? No? Well, now you do.
- Add Honduras too, the show was huge back in the 90s.
- And don't forget about Brazil. Jiban is right there with Juspion, Jiraiya, Changeman, Flashman, Maskman and the Cybercops.
- It's also very fondly remembered in Perú from its airing in Panamericana Televisión.
- The airing of this show on the former two countries is the reason why there's Spanish fansubs of it on Youtube. No really, all the episodes are subbed in Spanish!
- It's also very popular in Indonesia in the 90s.
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