GourdAndroid Kikaider 01: howling with laughter in disbelief that Bijinder's greatest weakness is that if you get to second base with her, she explodes 
The thing about the Android Kikaider 01 tokusatsu, is that as an immediate sequel to the original Kikaider they latched onto Hakaider, the rival, being really popular. So they made the initial villains of 01 four Hakaiders. This is both hilarious and a really bad idea in execution because:
- The classic Hakaider design'd one isn't Saburo (the original Hakaider), but Professor Gill, the villain of the original Kikaider, having put his brain in Hakaider's body. So you don't have any of the style or characterization like the original Hakider. He's just a facist vibes dick, which is just... not Hakaider's vibes at all.
- he doesn't act like Professor Gill either or have that voice actor, so we're not drawing in kids like that
- All four Hakaider Force members (operating out of multiple Hakaider Bases that get blown up each episode seriously) fight Kikaider 01 four at a time... and do so badly they come off as incredibly pathetic compared to the original one.
The show has a similar problem in that Ichiro (01)'s backstory is given entirely in twenty seconds of narration and at least in the first few episodes he doesn't have any equivalent of the same about his robotic existence and flawed design the original Kikaider has, and they didn't give him anything else either.
The show is just largely running on vibes of "you wanted more Kikaider" without any depth to it.
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AftermathMy First Anime, Which I Thought I'd Lost Forever, Still Hits
Alex_Jetblack📀 Ressortie au 🇯🇵 chez #ToeiVideo de la série #Tokusatsu de 1972, #AndroidKikaider avec son ennemi emblématique #Hakaider, crée par le mangaka de génie #ShotaroIshinomori, et produite par #ToeiCompany.
Le 43 épisodes seront disponible en deux coffret Blu-ray le 8 Mars 2023. 📀
