A Very Special Rescue: The Exceedraft Review
It's late 1991. Your big trilogy of Metal Hero Rescue shows for the kids is starting to dwindle in terms of ratings and toy sales. Your attempts at leaning into drama and moral conflicts didn't exactly hit it off and your budget is being dialed back substantially. You might as well wrap things up with one last shot to your franchise before changing gears again. And to top things off, the man who handled your last two shows, Noboru Sugimura, is going over to do the Super Sentai entry about guys in dinosaur costumes (one that surely would just be another entry in the franchise and not the start to a worldwide 90's phenomenon). What do you do? For Junichi Miyashita and the team working on 1992's Special Rescue Exceedraft , the answer was "make it exciting." They just didn't worry about how the plot would unfold in order to make the thrills happen. Boy did they whip something up.