Movies - Kikaida

	Movies - Kikaida

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

Paying tribute to Astro Boy, created by his mentor Osamu Tezuka, Ishinomori used the stories of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio (which was also the basis for Astro Boy) along with Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein as the basis for his science fiction action masterpiece hailed to this day by fans in Japan.

The tokusatsu series from 1972 has also become a phenomenon in Hawaii to this very day. The complete DVD series is available in the west with English subtitles through JN Productions.

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 Gill.

General Characters

Androids

Jiro/Kikaider: An android created by Dr. Komyoji to stop DARK. Unlike the first two Kikaider models (00 and 01) created before him, Jiro, the third model, has emotions due to his GEMINI Conscience 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 its influence (even rely on a high-pitched sound to drown it out). Jiro also has a guitar and motorcycle, which is called Sidemachine
*NOTE: Kikaider's name is a cross between kikai (Japanese for "machine") and the English word "rider" (for he rides a motorcycle). Hakaider, Bijinder, Waruder and Gattaider share the same name game (look in each character bio).
*"Jiro" - Japanese given name meaning "second son"
*The reason Kikaider is half-blue and half-red is due to his incomplete GEMINI Conscience Circuit (he would be blue if it were complete). Blue represents good and red represents evil. It is that latter side, the dark side, that Professor Gill tries to exploit in him.
*GEMINI is a reference to Jiminy Cricket
from Walt Disney
's version of Pinocchio.

Ichiro/Kikaider 01 ("Zero One"): Jiro's "older brother", the second Kikaider built by Komyoji in case of dire emergencies. Named after the scientist's late first son Taro (who was a fireman killed by a fire started by DARK). Ichiro/01 was solar-powered, and was weak in the dark. Ichiro also lacked a conscience circuit, thus lacks the same type of compassion Jiro has (a possible reason Komyoji instead strived to create the "perfected" Jiro). 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.
*NOTE: "Ichiro" - Japanese given name meaning "first son"

Rei/Kikaider 00 (pronounced "double-oh"): The very first (and failed) Kikaider prototype. Simply a machine, Rei/00 has no emotions. He has blades in his hands and can "Blow Up" causing guns to pop out of parts of his body (similar to another Ishinomori superhero, Robot Detective K from the series Robotto Keiji
), and he also uses an attack where he says "Shoot All" bombarding the enemy with missiles. Unlike his brothers, he neither drives a motorcycle nor has a musical instrument. He never appeared in the live-action series. (Although, in 1989, he did unofficially appear in a fan film video series produced by Nakajima Productions, entitled Android Double-O).
*NOTE: "Rei" - Japanese for "zero"

Saburo/Hakaider: Another android, considered as Jiro's "younger brother" as he was also made by Professor Komyoji . . . and, ironically, is Professor 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 Gill had Dr. Komyoji's brain transplanted into the very android he created, it was his 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 (Kikaider, however, saved Komyoji's brain for Mitsuko). But Saburo, headless, was still active & grabbed Gil by the throat as DARK HQ exploded.

However, later on, Professor Gill's own brain somehow wound up in Hakaider, thus known as Gill-Hakaider.

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