Kikaider or Kikaida (キカイダー) is a Japanese superhero created by Shotaro Ishinomori. The character has appeared in manga, live-action television, and anime.

Kikaider, the main character, is a humanoid robot, built by Dr. Komyoji to protect himself and his children from the DARK Android commanded by Professor Gil.

Cast

-Androids-

• Jiro/Kikaider: An android created by Dr. Komyoji to stop DARK. Unlike the other robots created before him, Jiro has emotions due to his GEMINI circuit, & he acts to protect Mitsuko and Masaru Komyoji. However, since GEMINI is incomplete, he can be taken over by Professor Gill's hypnotic flute until he was able to overpower it's influence. Jiro also has a guitar and motorcycle, which is called Sidemachine

• Ichiro/Kikaider-01: Jiro's "older brother", the first Kikaider built by Komonji in case of dire emergencies, named after the scientist's first son. Ichiro lacked a conscience circuit, thus lacks the same type of compassion Jiro has. Ichiro seemed to act like a little kid at first, with a passion for a good fight, but he matured eventually and decides to help Jiro in the fight against Shadow. His weapons are his machinegun arm & the sunlight beam. He plays a trumpet & rides the motorcycle and sidecar DoubleMachine.

• Rei/Kikaider-00: The youngest of the three Kikaiders, though Rei acts older than both of the other Kikaiders. He has blades in his hands and can "Grow Up" causing guns to pop out of parts of his body, and he also uses an attack were he says "Shoot All" bombarding the enemy with missiles. Unlike his brothers, he does not drive a motorcycle or has a musical instrument. He never appeared in the live-action series

• Saburo/Hakaider: Another android, consideed as Jiro's "younger brother" as he was also made by Dr. Komyoji. While Jiro was made by Dr. Komyoji voluntarily, Saburo was one of the Hakaider androids Komyoji was forced to make under the dominance of DARK to "correct" his mistake...by destroying Kikaider. Unlike the other Hakaiders made, Saburo is a cyborg. Since Gil had Dr. Komyoji's brain transplanted into the very android he created, it was Saburo's trump card against Jiro. Hakaider almost succeeded in killing Kikaider, when Komyoji's brain override Saburo's systems momentarily and helped get Kikaider and the others into DARK HQ. By the time Saburo resumed control, Gil no longer needed him & had the other Hakaiders blast the cyborg's head off. But Saburo, headless, was still active & grabbed Gil by the throat as DARK HQ exploded. Hakaider even got to star in his own movie as a anti-hero in the post-apocalypic world.

• ShadowKnight: A leader in SHADOW's ranks.

• Mariko/Bjinder: A agent of SHADOW, but joined up with the Kikaiders to fight at their side. She played a harp & rides the Bjinder Machine motorcycle.

• Waruder: A agent of SHADOW.

• Zaddam:

-Humans-

• Dr. Den Koumouji:

• Masaru Komyouji: The spunky younger brother of Mitsuko.

• Misuko Komyoji: The daughter of Dr. Komyoji, the scientist who created Jiro. She seemed to dispise robots since they caused her much suffering yet she develops feelings for Jiro. Felling guilty for driving him away, had to track a lost and confused Jiro all over town, with the help of Detective Hattori Hanpei & his assistant.

• Hattori Hanpei:

• Professor Gil: The leader of a terrorist organization called DARK. He once funded Dr. Komyoji's research, and he even introduced Mitsuko's and Massaru's Mom to Dr. Komyoji. Gil hates Kikaider, seeing him as an abombnation of robots due to his Gemini System, & wants to destroy him as a result. Gil used a flute that can control his Dark Androids. When DARK was desmolished, Gil was mortally injured & his brain was transferred into into the body of a restored Hakaider, minus Sanburo's AI. After that, Gil became the cyborg Gil-Hakaider, leader of the Hakaider Squad and the terrorist group Shadow, who must retrieve his son Akira, the core of the project he worked on before Kikaider destroyed DARK, the Armageddon Lord.

• Reiko
• Akira

Manga

The manga series was serialized in Shonen Sunday at the same time as the live action television series.

Live action

The live action series was broadcast on the NET network from July 8, 1972 to May 5, 1973. It was followed by a sequel, Kikaider 01.

• Hakaider: Shozo Iizuka{Voice}

Anime

The Anime followed more of the manga, with a darker nature of Jiro's reason o exist. It was followed by a 4-episode OVA finale.

Cast

• Jiro/Kikaider: Tomokazu Seki
• Ichiro/Kikaider-01: Shotaro Morikubo
• Rei/Kikaider-00: Kazuhiko Inoue
• Misuko Komyoji: Yui Horie
• Masaru Komyoji: Yumiko Kobayashi
• Dr. Den Komyoji: Shozo Iizuka
• Etsuko Sarutobi: Etsuko Kozakura
• Reiko: Sayaka Ohara
• Futen: Ichiro Nagai
• Saburo/Hakaider: Juurouta Kosugi
• Chigusa Sakamoto: Minami Takayama

Dub-Cast

• Ichiro/Kikaider-01: Derek Stephen Prince
• Saburo/Hakaider: David Lucas

Episodes

• Lonely Puppet (Originally Aired 6/9/2003)
• Mad Machine (Originally Aired 6/10/2003)
• Stray Sheep (Originally Aired 6/11/2003)
• Mirror (Originally Aired 6/12/2003)
• City Of Rain (Originally Aired 6/16/2003)
• Negative Fragments (Originally Aired 6/17/2003)
• Afterglow Of Regret (Originally Aired 6/18/2003)
• Blue Moon, Red Dreams (Originally Aired 6/19/2003)
• Friends (Originally Aired 6/23/2003)
• Frozen Bonds (Originally Aired 6/24/2003)
• Destroyer (Originally Aired 6/25/2003)
• Machine That Dreams (Originally Aired 6/26/2003)
• Jiro Meets Ichiro (Originally Aired 6/30/2003)
• Beautiful Enemy (Originally Aired 7/1/2003)
• Gil Rises Again (Originally Aired 7/2/2003)
• The Fate Of Pinocchio (Originally Aired 7/3/2003)

See also

• Bandai

External links

• Website for the series
• TVTome show details