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Was the 1960s Batman show popular in Japan?

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>>14909632

Presumably, if they're making references to it in the early 80's.

>>14909632
Tokufags will get pissy but
Kamen Rider wouldn't exist without 60s Batman. This is a fact, nerds

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>>14909622
Is this the comfiest shows of the 80's? I could pop on an episode any time and feel like I'm 7 again.

>>14914341
Don't fear that dangerous path

>>14914332
Kind of? I know there's masked hero shows going back to the fifties but for most of the 60s Ultraman and kaiju and giant robot shows were in vogue until Rider kickstarted a whole new boom in masked superheores. I could definitely see '66 Batman as an influence on that, but I couldn't guess at exactly how much. It had to have aired there, it was shown pretty much everywhere in the world with televisions outside of the Iron Curtain.

I don't think it had as big an impact on toku shows as Bewitched had on the magical girl genre but I wouldn't have any problems believing in that influence. Both the manga and the TV series have a Bat Man and a Spider Man as the first monsters Rider 1 kills, Ishinomori had to be making some kind of statement with that.

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>>14909632
I'm not sure.
Glancing online for easy answers I see that Batman (the Adam West show) apparently doesn't have a wikipedia article in Japanese, but Gilligan's Island does.
So it seems to not have been as big as Gilligan's Island?

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>>14914397
Not quite, Trider, Daiohja and Galatt probably got that distinction, although they're still unsubbed.

>>14915323
For what it's worth, Janperson had Officer Komori refer to himself as the "Batman" of the Metropolitan police, and that show is somewhat similar to '66 Batman in nature, so it couldn't have been a coincidence.

Also, Shun Sugata rivals Frank Gorshin's Riddler in terms of delivering ham to the screen.

>>14915375
Just look at Bat Manga! or the Japanese dub of that Hannnah Barbera Batman cartoon. Japan was definitely familiar with Batman in that period, I'm just not sure how much of a direct influence it was on subsequent toku hero shows. It's one thing to say Super Sentai wouldn't be around today if it wasn't for Spider-Man, that statement you can backc up with decisive proof.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3#.E3.83.86.E3.83.AC.E3.83.93.E3.83.89.E3.83.A9.E3.83.9E
>コメディ的側面の強い作品。バットマンやロビンが悪人をパンチすると原作コミックのような擬音が画面に合成されるのが特徴的。日本では1966年から1967年にフジテレビで放送された。フジテレビ版とWOWOW版は内容が異なっており、フジテレビ版にはバットガールは登場しない(WOWOW版は第3シーズン)。WOWOW版のプロデューサーは秋原正俊、ディレクターは佐藤太。
>broadcast in Japan from 1966 to 1967
Looks like it ran on Fuji TV

>>14909622
>You like Giant Gorg, right?
I really like what little I saw of it. Sencho is fantastic.