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'Ninja Captor' is a special effects television drama produced by Toei that aired for a total of 43 episodes between April 1976 and January 1977. It is the first ensemble hero work by Saburo Yatsude yet it is not considered part of the 'Super Sentai' series because it was broadcast on a different network

Misao Nukata (1919-97) better known as Takashi Minamimura was a Japanese writer, storyteller and illustrator famous for his Kaiju (giant monsters)