Barom-1

Barom-1 is a Japanese manga series written by Takao Saito. The original story was serialized for about a year from 1970 in Kodansha's. It was available online in English through JManga.
In 1972, the manga was adapted into a TV tokusatsu series titled Chōjin Barom-1 by Toei, and broadcast by Yomiuri TV every Sunday 19:30–20:00 from April 2 to November 26. In this TV series, the original story and character designs by Saito were widely changed.
During the airing seasons of the tokusatsu series; due to the naming of the villain character Doruge, a German child studying in Japan with a similarly sounding surname was bullied by native schoolmates - which was led to be mentioned in the newspaper in August 25 and also led the series to be aired further with the notice; "The fictional character Doruge has no relation with living people."
An anime version was created and broadcast from December 2002 to March 2003 by AT-X. In this version the plot and story were also changed from its original version.

Plot

One night, a monster comes out from a lake and starts attacking Takeshi Kido and Kentaro Shiratori, childhood friends who were born on the same day. When the monster is about to kill both of them, a being called Kopu calls and tells them that they are the chosen ones to protect the world from the evil creature Doruge. Kopu gives a radar to Kentaro and Takeshi and the ability to transform into the powerful monster Barom-1 by joining their hands. Now both boys must destroy the monsters possessed by Doruge.