Gourd

It is incredibly good that Gill-Hakaider, a pathetic bully who after his early defeats solely picks on people weaker than him (random humans, injured heroes) with craven schemes and sneak attacks (and flees at any real opposition) is eventually taken out by a random human victim of him who's parents he killed stealing his gun and shooting him with it.

That said, I am kinda sad we never got Saburo (the original Hakaider personality from the original show) coming back and fighting Gill-Hakaider for control of the body.

(Also, Hakaider is killed off in the episode where he's going around monopolizing Japan's orange supply in an attempt to get kids to fight over the remaining oranges and become selfish people. I love 70's tokusatsu.  )

#tokusatsu #kikaider #kikaider01

Apr 9 at 11:23amWeb
Show threadsebulba pogchampApr 9
@gourd god i gotta watch this show
Show threadGourdApr 9

@vortiwife The first fifteen episodes are just extremely hilariously a mess, the next are more coherent nonsense, then the last third (which I've seen all but the last two) are just the greatest shit I've ever seen in 70's Toku and way ahead of its time.

Also Mari/Bijinder despite looking like that when transformed may be the best Toei has ever treated a Rider (effectively) heroine? It's wild.

Show threadGourdApr 9

@vortiwife I could also talk for an hour+ solely about Waruder, the robot samurai assassin hired to kill 01 who has no conscience circuit and claims to be unable to understand right from wrong and be evil but is still trying to be a better person in his own kinda confused and half-understood way. He's beloved as a friend to children at this point!

Plus you have the truly incredible beat of when Gill-Hakaider has a machine that makes morality flipped robot copies of people Waruder standing up to his bullshit by threatening to make a good robot copy of himself that will beat up Gill-Hakaider... and instead getting a copy that doesn't understand the difference between right and wrong but doesn't care and just picks fights with everyone who annoys him.

This of course, still includes Gill-Hakaider.   This still just kind of gives Waruder an existential crisis.