Henshin Ninja Arashi is a 1972 jidaigeki/superhero television series created by Shotaro Ishinomori and produced by Toru Hirayama.
Henshin Ninja Arashi
In the Edo period, a time of relative peace and prosperity, a shadowy evil group of ninja known as the Blood Wheel Clan plot to destroy the peace of Japan and create chaos using an ancient art of transformation.
Henshin Ninja Arashi 1972
This power gives the Clan’s warriors the ability to become half human and half animal monsters and overpower all who oppose them. One of their followers plots against them by teaching his son Hayate this art so that his body can take on the form of a birdman named Arashi to fight them.
Henshin Ninja Arashi English sub
Upon learning of this betrayal, Hayate’s father is murdered and young Hayate vows revenge against the evil clan he once served under, waging war against them as the Transforming Ninja, Arashi.