Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (Legend of the Mystic Armor: Samurai Troopers --- Ronin Warriors) is a joint production of Sunrise Animation (formerly Nippon Sunrise) and Nagoya TV, an independent TV network. The first episode aired on April 30, 1988. Troopers was slotted at first for a 20-episode run, but proved so popular in the area where it was aired that the final episodes were pulled and re-written so the storyline could continue for a much longer run. In addition, Sony Video is releasing the series on pre-record video tape, five episodes to the volume, so viewers in areas not served by Nagoya can have a chance to see the show. The TV series ran to 39 episodes and has been followed by a number of OAVs.

About seven years later, in 1995, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers was brought to North America by GRAZ Entertainment. Using many famous Canadian voice- actors and actresses, they dubbed Samurai Troopers, naming it "Ronin Warriors". GRAZ also did not change the background sound effects or the background music, which is sometimes rare for companies that dub animes. Due to the existence of Power Rangers and Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad GRAZ could not name it "Samurai Troopers". It started airing in the summer on FOX or WARNER BROS. channels and instantly, action figures produced by PLAYMATES were released (they were selling as good as when Power Rangers was hot). Sometime in August and September, the series was canceled and some RW fans could not tape the rest of the series. In 1996, the SciFi Channel picked up the series and aired it many times, but unfortunately, due to the popularity of STAR WARS, RW was soon canceled and replaced by any existing STAR WARS cartoons.