O Fantástico Jaspion

Curator's note

Juspion, created by Saburo Yatsude and developed by Shozo Uehara for Toei's Metal Hero Series, airing in Japan from 1985 to 1986. An orphan raised by the space hermit Edjinn, he battles Satan Goth and the MegaBeasts in armor forged from the rare mineral Edjinium. Retitled 'O Fantástico Jaspion' for its 1988 premiere on Rede Manchete, it became the first Metal Heroes series broadcast in Brazil and a defining phenomenon of Brazilian '80s television, later the subject of this Iron Studios Art Scale statue.