YMMV / Space Sheriff Shaider

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The series is well known for having these frequently, particularly when the Strange Dimension is involved.
  • Episode 24, for some reason, offers some Ship Tease on the Poe/Annie front that's never referenced again.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Annie became MORE popular than Shaider, and pretty much most Uchuu Keiji fanfics center around her. Executive Meddling is partially responsible for this. The first two Space Sheriff shows featured leads played by JAC stuntmen (which was the entire selling point of the franchise) and female sidekicks who were just there for the eye candy. When Space Sheriff Sharivan's ratings tanked, the executives decided to cast a pretty boy (non-JAC, obviously) as Shaider's lead to boost ratings. To throw a bone to the fans who liked the first two shows for the out-of-suit fighting, they cast a JAC stuntwoman as the sidekick, Annie. In other words, Annie filled the same role in Shaider that the protagonists of the first two shows did in their shows. The plan to boost ratings didn't work — Shaider's ratings were even worse than Sharivan's. The only people who watched it were those who watched the first two shows for the out-of-suit action; in other words, they watched Shaider for Annie.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • This series is VERY popular in the Philippines due to a local dub airing in the late 80s-early 90s, the first Metal Heroes show and the only Space Sheriff show to get such treatment, a few years before the advent of Power Rangers caused a mini-boom of other Tokusatsu dubs to be aired locally. Other Metal Heroes like Jiban and Janperson made it, but oddly Sharivan didn't.
  • Meanwhile, the Tagalog dub of Space Sheriff Gavan or Shaider's predecessor was also shown in the Philippines, but it was ironically for the sake of cashing in on the popularity of Shaider. Locally, the lesser-known series was renamed Sky Ranger starring Sky Ranger Gavin.
  • It's so popular that the GMA-7 network wrangled a deal with Toei to make a spin-off series called Zaido: Pulis Pangkalawakan ("Zaido: Space Police"). Nobody, neither Toei nor the fans, really accepts it as canon.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • After Annie and the recurring panty shot turned into all most folks remember about Shaider, the direct-to-video sequel is instead selling Hiroaki Iwanaga's Shirtless Scene.
  • Mai Ooishi played Girl 2 for the middle portion of the show including episode 29 where she not only falls for Annie's Toku Heroine Master of Disguise trick, but actually has Annie steal her outfit and force her into Annie's own outfit at one point. 5 episodes later she would leave the show because she'd been cast in Dengeki Sentai Changeman, where she would play Change Phoenix and now as a Toku Heroine herself would get her own episode where she also uses the disguise trick.
  • The Fuma grunts are called "Miraculers", which also became a term to reference fans of Miraculous Ladybug.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Most of the older audience watched the series solely to see Annie get in a panty shot every episode or so.
• Memetic Mutation: This scene out of context.
• Narm: Some of the cult's plans were... strange.
• Nightmare Fuel: Imagine yourself as a Japanese kid watching Shaider during the Christmas holiday. Everything's jolly in the episode until the monster starts a cult society of brainwashed children that worships a crucified Santa. The Ominous Latin Chanting in that same scene doesn't help either.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Hiroshi Tsuburaya has made notable recurring roles in the Ultra Series during the Heisei era; due to the fact that he's the grandson of Eiji Tsuburaya, creator of the said franchise. He portrayed his own father, Hajime, in episode 49 of Ultraman Tiga. In Ultraman Dyna, he portrays Chief of Staff Seiji Miyata, and finally Kenji Tabata in Ultraman Gaia.
  • The new Horror Girl is MomoNinger!
• Special Effect Failure: Shaider fights what look like sharks that came straight out of Monty Python.
• Values Dissonance: One episode has the evil plan to be creating and distributing a new computer that gives people access to whatever they want and allow them to do social interactions from afar. While treated as a diabolically heinous crime that will render humanity slaves, it’s not too far off from the contemporary internet (aside from the fact you can’t take out a 200 year loan) today.

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