'Super Sentai' Ends 50-Year Run as Toei Launches 'Project R.E.D.'
Toei retires its long-running tokusatsu staple and reboots Sunday mornings with ‘Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity.’
Summary
- Super Sentai is ending its 50-year TV run, making way for Toei’s new multi-series banner, Project R.E.D.
- Project R.E.D. is an MCU-style universe built around red-suited heroes with interconnected stories
- The first series is Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity, a revival of the 1982 Metal Hero franchise
Super Sentai, the Japanese tokusatsu institution that powered the original Power Rangers, is ending its uninterrupted 50-year TV run with current series No. 1 Sentai Gozyuger. TV Asahi’s president framed the finale as a “natural turning point” for creating new heroes.
In its sacred Sunday morning time slot, Toei is installing a new multi-series banner called Project R.E.D. (Records of Extraordinary Dimensions). The concept keeps the team-show DNA but shifts focus to interconnected stories built around striking red-suited heroes. The first entry under Project R.E.D. is Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity, a full-on revival of 1982 cult favorite Space Sheriff Gavan and the first proper TV return of Toei’s Metal Hero franchise in nearly two decades.
According to Toei’s official press materials, the new Gavan is a reimagining that channels the “original heart” of the classic series while rebuilding the world from zero with modern VFX, AI-age themes, and a sleek metallic red combat suit that hits the project’s red-hero brief.
Project R.E.D. is designed as a crossover-ready universe. Toei teases multiple upcoming broadcast series that will coexist and intersect, echoing an MCU-style structure but rooted in tokusatsu suit action and Sunday-morning kids’ TV tradition.
For global fans, this is both an ending and a reset. The Super Sentai pipeline that fed Power Rangers is effectively closing, while Toei simultaneously positions Project R.E.D. and Super Space Sheriff Gavan Infinity as a fresh, export-minded gateway for the next generation of toku obsessives.
