User blog comment:Crazybeard1234/Robot Girls Z/@comment-1060835-20140304120235

You act like this is unheard of. Toei is masters of making anime/toku shows. They distributed and funded the likes of Sailor Moon and it's live action series, Dragon Ball Z, and others. It's not uncommon for newer series to pay 'tribute' to older ones. Look at UltraGirls. It's a slightly perverted show about girls growing to Ultraman sizes and fighting monsters that look like familliar Ultraman kaiju and each represented a particular fetish in Japan.