the 70s saw the decrease of kaiju films and the uprising of tokusatsu and kyodai hero shows. tsuburaya productions rebooted the ultraman character with the return of ultraman. this reignited high interest with studios to produce their own tokusatsu shows. many of the tokusatsu shows from the 70s era mainly featured kyodai heroes such as godman and super robot red baron. by 1975, tokusatsu shows were highly popular in asia. toho studios even invented its own kyodai hero to fight alongside godzilla, jet jaguar in the film godzilla vs. megalon. in hong kong, shaw brothers studio produced its own henshin/kyodai hero as well with the super inframan. though stylistically more akin to kamen rider, inframan mixed kyodai hero elements into its formula, allowing the titular hero to grow to gigantic size.