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Armored Police Metal Jack

1991 • Sunrise

Format
TV
Aired
1991
Episodes
37
Status
Finished
Studio
Sunrise
Genres
Action · Mecha
5,131anime in the catalog
0copies listed for sale
Synopsis

Twenty years into the future, a city now called "Tokyo" has developed into one of the few world-class high-tech centers, "Tokyo City". The main character, Ken Kanzaki, is a young investigator assigned to the criminal investigation section of the Metropolital Police. He is one of the finest sharp shooters in the Police.One day, Ken is ordered to provide security for a party held by for "Zaizen Konzern", a world-class plutocracy.

All of a sudden, spector robots appear and distrupt the party. Zaizen, a commander-in-chief, is killed and both Ken and Jun. Zaizen's son,are fatally injured by the robots. Two of the party's guests, an auto-racer, Ryo Aguri,and a wresler, Go Goda, also receive serious injuries. Three severely injured young men are operated upon by scientists from the Metropolitan Police. Several days later, a robot corp led by a mysterious organization called "Ido" appears in the floating-town of the Tokyo Bay. But the Police and the Army have no effective strategies to contain them.

At that moment, three young men attired in mechanical suits enter. They are the very three young men, Ken, Ryo and Go, who have been turned into the cyborg investigators through the operation. They call themselves "Armored Police Metal Jacks". "Metal Jacks", dazzlingly switching from "Jack Suits" to "Jack Armors", completely demolish the robot corp and achieve victory, thus signals the beginning of the battle between the high-tech criminals and "Metal Jacks"with a futuristic "Tokyo City" in the background.

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Armored Police Metal Jack was produced by the animation studio Sunrise and aired in 1991, emerging during a period when the Japanese toy and media industries were heavily focused on the synergy between action figure lines and television programming. As a successor to the trends established by series like Cyber Cop, the show featured a premise centered on a special police unit using high-tech powered armor to combat supernatural threats. It was designed to appeal to younger audiences through its blend of police procedural elements and futuristic heroics, typical of the early nineties Saturday morning anime aesthetic.

The character and mechanical designs were created to facilitate the development of die-cast metal toy figures, which served as the primary marketing vehicle for the series. While Sunrise is renowned for more seminal works in the mecha genre, Metal Jack reflected the studio's attempt to capture the market for transformable, armored character figures. The series was met with moderate interest during its initial run but remains a niche nostalgic touchstone for collectors of the late Showa and early Heisei era toy-tie-in genre.

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