Takuya Yamashiro<br />Supaidāman

Takuya Yamashiro Supaidāman
Toei's Spider-Man character
First appearance	"The Time of Revenge Has Come! Beat Down Iron Cross Group!!" May 17, 1978
Based on	Spider-Man by Stan Lee Steve Ditko
Adapted by	Shozo Uehara Susumu Takaku
Portrayed by	Shinji Todō
Information
Alias	Spider-Man
Nicknames	Supaidāman Japanese Spider-Man Iron Cross Killer
Species	Human mutate
Gender	Male
Occupation	Motocross competitor Photography Vigilante
Affiliation	International Criminal Police Organization Spider-Army/Web-Warriors
Family	Dr. Hiroshi Yamashiro (father) † Shinko Yamashiro (sister) Takuji Yamashiro (brother)
Significant other	Hitomi Sakuma
Nationality	Japan

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Takuya Yamashiro (山城拓也, Yamashiro Takuya), also known as Spider-Man (Japanese: スパイダーマン, Hepburn: Supaidāman), is a fictional character portrayed by Shinji Todō that is based on the comic book character of the same name. He is the protagonist of Toei's Spider-Man television series in 1978 series.

Character development and execution

The character had nothing to do with the Spider-Man comics from Marvel in terms of story. All that was taken over were Spider-Man's name, costume, and his best-known superpowers. Strangely enough, the series also had nothing to do with the Spider-Man manga that was being released in Japan at the time. The series had a huge influence on later Tokusatsu series and anime series. Thus, in this series, the concept of a superhero who had a huge robot at his disposal to fight the same enemy twice was introduced. Series about heroes with a huge robot have been around for a while, but never before have these been combined with a superhero who also fights enemies himself. Thanks in part to the success of the series, this has now become a permanent part of all Super Sentai series.

Fictional character biography

Takuya Yamashiro was a motocross driver, son of the astrophysicist Dr. Hiroshi Yamashiro, and the man who would become his reality's Spider-Man. Whilst practicing on his motorbike, Takuya began to receive telepathic messages from Garia calling out to him. His sister, Shinko and Hitomi Sakuma asked for his assistance in investigating the crashed Leopardon but Takuya refused as he had a race to compete in. His father accepted this and set out with Shinko and Hitomi. Later, before leaving for the contest, Takuya received more messages from Garia and went to investigate. In the mountains he found Hitomi and Shinko who told Takuya their father had been attacked. Takuya found his dying father who asked him to continue his work into discovering what alien invaders were trying to conquer Earth. After his father died, Takuya was attacked by the Iron Cross Army and gravely injured and he fell into the cave where Garia was imprisoned. Garia saved his life by giving him the Spider Bracelet and Spider Extract and informed Takuya of the invasion of Professor Monster, as well as his personal history.

Back at his house, Garia told Takuya of his new costume and abilities and tested them out, before discovering the Iron Cross Army had kidnapped Professor Fujita. Spider-Man set out to confront the group and freed the Professor. He was then attacked by his first Machine Bem monster Boukunryu and found himself unable to defeat the monster, until he summoned Leopardon and unleashed its sword vigor and destroyed Boukunryu, vowing to defeat the rest of the Iron Cross Army.

Comic appearances

Spider-Verse and Spider-Geddon

Takuya was brought into the war against the Inheritors by Earth-616's Spider-Man and Spider-Girl, as well as Earth-65's Spider-Woman. As soon as the group arrived in their former safe zone, Earth-13, Takuya, who was already piloting the Leopardon, faced off against Solus, but the villain made quick work of the giant robot. Luckily, Takuya managed to escape the confrontation alive and join the rest of the spiders.

Yamashiro stayed with the group of Spiders and during the final battle in Loomworld, he was reunited with Leopardon. Spider-Man 2099 and Lady Spider managed to fix the robot with "some future tech and some steam-power". After the Inheritors' defeat, Takuya safely returned to his world.

Yamashiro remained on Planet Spider, where he had lived in a traditional Japanese house, and allowed Spider-Zero to stay with him until Miles came. Soon after, Spider-Zero and Miles began their journey to repair the multiverse.

The Machine Bem Monsters that were created to stop Takuya attacked the new team of Spider-Men, and Takuya came through a portal from Planet Spider along with Leopardon. He was a major fighter in the final battle, and was sent back to his home universe by Spiderling.

In other media

Takuya Yamashiro and Leopardon will appear in the upcoming film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One).

See also

Spider-Man in television

External links

• Takuya Yamashiro (Earth-51778) on Marvel Database, a Marvel Comics wiki
• Takuya Yamashiro at Tokusatou wiki

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