Thursday, July 31, 2008

Heroine Profile: Helen Lady (Spielban)

To prove I will not only be covering Sentai, but other Tokusatsu.

I always wondered this and I got my answer last year when researching to do TokuCentral.com VR Troopers got its footage from the now-defunct Metal Heroes series of Toei, in fact three series. The series Jikuu Senshi Spielban (Spacetime Warrior Spielban) was where the footage of the transformed JB and Kaitlin came from. Kaitlin's counterpart was Diana Lady (above) but I heard Spielban's sister who was bad, became good and was a hero too. Her name was Helen Lady but wondered how she looked like.

Actually Helen Lady had the same costume as Diana Lady. I thought the costume would at least had a difference but none at all. So instead of having a new girl play her in VR Troopers, they made up ' VR Kaitlin Double Team'---which was that Kaitlin had a mirror twin that was bad but then became good and she could call her when it battle. In Speilban, his older sister was actually the evil Helen/Hellvira who was raised that way and then wet to their side. The armored footage of Hallvira was used for a two-parter where a girl was brainwashed to become 'Red Python.'

So basically Speilban was the only Tokusatsu series (so far) to have one male hero and two female teammates. Most tokusatsu series have two male and one female.

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