Genre:
Action + Sci-Fi

Synopsis:
Reiko Kazemura, daughter of the President of the Kazemura Conglomerate is abducted in an extortion plan by a gang of criminals. Sugata Kageoh, a Kazemura Company Employee attempts to rescue Reiko from the criminals. During their escape they inadvertently get caught in some high voltage wires. The electric shock is so great that they literally are “merged” with their shadows. Surviving this ordeal they discover that they now have the ability to manipulate their shadows in a variety of ways. Using their new found powers they vow to fight crime as KageStar and Belle Star.
(from japanhero.com)

This show's first season was quite different from the usual Japanese Super Hero as the villians were not robots or monsters, but rather petty criminals who wears a helmet or headgear that had a animal design, which gave them that animals powers, and comitted just petty crimes. They were just career criminals, who in the end gets arrest, just like the super criminal types found in American comic book hero comics ala SPIDERMAN, BATMAN etc (like Dr Octopus, Black Manta, Scorpion, etc). Villians range from purse snatchers like OWL THE THIEF to blackmailers like RAT MAN and his mohawked sidekick MOHICAN, and espionage spy LAVENDER NEWT to gold thief BIG GOLD WARLOCK (who uses his pet snake and even slithered like a snake)

Casts:
Tachibana Naoki ... Sugata Kageoh / Kage Star
Hayakawa Emi ... Kazemura Reiko / Belle Star
Koumatsu Masao ... Section Head Shinjo
Amaku Sashiro ... CEO Kazemura
Hanada Yuko ... Kazemura Masako
Sho Sumio ... Detective Kiyohei
Sano Nobuyasu ... Takeshi
Kobayashi Shoji ... Inspector Tomita
Naya Goro ... Dr. Satan

Runtime:
30 min (34 episodes)

Also Known As:
Za Kagesutaa (Japan)

Country:
Japan

Superheroes:
Kagestar
Bellestar

Villains:
Doctor Satan

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