Moonlight Mask would make a return to Japanese TV 13 years later when the Moonlight Mask anime began airing. Toei's movies would stop being shown in theaters some time around August 1959.
The Gekko Kamen television show was unfortunately cancelled after a boy in Japan jumped to his death while trying to imitate Moonlight Mask's dangerous stunts, leading the show to end on Jafter the ending of the fifth story arc, Don't Turn Your Hand to Revenge. Super Giant, who appeared one year before the Gekko Kamen TV show started airing, is considered to be Japan's first celluloid superhero, but he appeared in serial movies rather than on television. As mentioned above, Moonlight Mask is considered the first television Tokusatsu superhero, appearing 8 years before Ultraman and 13 years before Kamen Rider. In the 1972 anime, he also rides a motorcycle, similar to Kamen Rider, and has new weapons such as a bull-whip and the Luna-ring shurikens. He is an expert in both hand-to-combat and firearm-wielding. Moonlight Mask has no known superpowers, but is at peak physical condition and possesses a very sharp mind. To hide his face, Moonlight Mask wears a white pair of sunglasses and a mask over the lower half of his face, as well as a white turban with a crescent moon attached at the front. Moonlight Mask wears an all-white body suit, with a cape and scarf. In the movies adapted from the TV series, Juro Iwai was portrayed by Fumitake Omura. Ose would later be credited as both Moonlight Mask and Iwai. In accordance with his identity being kept secret, Moonlight Mask's actor is credited simply as "?". However, clever viewers who payed attention would notice that detective Juro Iwai would disappear whenever the titular hero would show up. His true identity is unknown, as one of the features of the show is that no one knows Moonlight Mask's true identity, not even the audience. 
He is credited with being the very first Tokusatsu superhero. Mysterious Vigilante Moonlight Mask, known as "Gekko Kamen" in the original Japanese, is the eponymous main protagonist of the 1958 Japanese Tokusatsu superhero show of the same name, as well as its 1972 anime adaptation.
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