Season 1 • Episode 53
LatestAfter the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.
Practical Effects
SolDozer is literally a bulldozer with a face. Practical effects supremacy.
Costume
The Plus Up suits walk the line between Power Rangers and industrial safety gear.
Acting
Hiroshi Miyauchi's Chief Masaki brings gravitas to a show with a robot bulldozer.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Solbrain is the third entry in the Metal Hero Series' 'Rescue Police' trilogy, bridging Winspector and Exceedraft. Hiroshi Miyauchi played Akarenger in the original Sentai and appears here as the connecting authority figure across all three shows.
The 1990-1992 Rescue Police trilogy aired during Japan's economic bubble collapse, making its earnest techno-optimism about institutional problem-solving oddly poignant retro-futurism.
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