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8->''"Change, Switch On! 1,2,3!!!"''
9-->--'''Jiro''' saying his famous transformation call
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11''Series/AndroidKikaider'' (人造人間キカイダー, ''Jinzō Ningen Kikaider'') was originally a 1972 Japanese {{tokusatsu}} live-action series that aired alongside a tie-in manga version, both created by Creator/ShotaroIshinomori. The tokusatsu was a huge hit and a classic among superhero media.
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13The basic story follows Jiro, a robot who was built by Doctor Komyoji in order to stop DARK and Professor Gill from achieving world domination. What will enable Jiro to do so is GEMINI, a special [[MoralityChip conscience circuit]] designed to help Jiro distinguish between good and bad and thus ignore the evil orders of Professor Gill. However, GEMINI was left incomplete due to Professor Gill catching wind of Doctor Komyoji's intentions and taking him prisoner. Jiro meets the doctor's daughter, and the two of them, along with a private detective, his assistant, and Mitsuko's little brother, set out to find the Doc and attempt to fix Jiro's broken conscience circuit. Professor Gill sends out his robot minions to try and thwart them, but Jiro is able to change into his high-powered alter-ego Kikaider and stop them.
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15The tokusatsu series was followed by ''Series/Kikaider01'', which focuses on a new Kikaider model of the same name who goes under the civilian identity of Ichiro. An [[Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation animated version]] was produced in 2000 in a rather retro art style quite similar to that of the manga. The overall plot of the animation was also much closer to that of the manga than the plot of the live-action series was, which took many liberties with the story and was slightly more MonsterOfTheWeek type story. An {{OVA}} version of ''Kikaider 01'' was also produced which serves as a sequel to the first anime series, but despite the title, focuses more on Jiro than Ichiro. A spinoff movie titled ''Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider'' was made, which recasts Kikaider's rival as an AntiHero. The DarkerAndEdgier ''Kikaider Code 02'' manga began publishing in 2000.
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17A film remake, ''Film/KikaiderREBOOT'', was released in May 2014. Similar to [[Series/SpaceSheriffGavan Gavan]] and [[Series/TokumeiSentaiGobusters Go-Busters]], Kikaider had a crossover with [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Gaim]] to promote the movie.
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19The TV anime series and the OVA aired on Creator/AdultSwim in 2003.
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21Now it has a [[Characters/{{Kikaider}} character sheet]] under construction.
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24!!This show provides examples of:
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26* AdaptedOut: Big Shadow and Waruder doesn't appear in the ''Kikaider 01'' anime.
27* AllYourPowersCombined: Gattaider, the merged form of the Hakaider Force.
28* TheAllegedCar: Hattori's car is constantly breaking down.
29* AlternateContinuity: The original toku series, the manga/anime adaptations, the ''Mechanical Violator Hakaider'' movie, and the ''Film/KikaiderREBOOT'' movie takes place in their own continuities.
30* ARealManIsAKiller: A variant occurs at the end of the first anime. Jiro, who has spent most of the series longing to be human, realizes as he [[spoiler:kills Gill]] that humans are flawed creatures who have the potential for both good ''and'' evil. However good Jiro might have been, he needed the capacity to be evil in order to become human.
31%% [[spoiler: AnyoneCanDie]]
32* ArtifactTitle: The OVA series being entitled "Kikaider 01" as it was based on the series starring Ichiro. Even though he isn't the star in this adaptation, Jiro is.
33* AfterTheEnd: The ''Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider'' spin-off movie is set after an unknown apocalyptic event took place.
34* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Is that a good order, or a bad order?"
35* BackForTheFinale: Dr. Komyoji returns in the final episode of ''Kikaider 01'' after not making any appearances throughout the series.
36* BarbieDollAnatomy: Despite frequent nudity, the DarkerAndEdgier ''Kikaider Code 02'' manga had no genitals or nipples. Except for [[FanDisservice a blacked-out outline of Professor Gill's penis.]]
37* BecomeARealBoy: The general premise, aside from saving people from killer robots, is of Jiro learning and adapting his conscience from the positive and negative experiences and thus grow more human.
38* BigBad: Professor Gill, leader of DARK.
39** ''Kikaider 01'' starts off with [[DragonAscendant Hakaider]], though he gets DemotedToDragon by Big Shadow.
40* BrainInAJar: Hakaider carries the brain of [[spoiler:Dr. Komyoji]] in his head; it usually doesn't have any role in Hakaider's personality or actions. [[spoiler:Professor Gill later has his brain transplanted into Hakaider's body following his demise.]]
41* BrownNote: Gill's flute, which controls all of DARK's robots and can drive Jiro BrainwashedAndCrazy.
42** Saburo's whistling can do the same thing.
43* CanonCharacterAllAlong: ''Mechanical Violator Hakaider'' features the seemingly new character Michael who rules over Jesus Town alongside Gurjev. [[spoiler: The climax of the film ultimately reveals him to be a heavily modified Kikaider, implied to have been reprogrammed by Gurjev to obediently enforce his twisted justice.]]
44* CompositeCharacter: Professor Gill's children, Akira and Hiroshi, were reduced to just one character in the OVA.
45** Hakaider in the {{crossover}} with ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' [[spoiler:is Hakaider's body with Sengoku Ryoma's brain.]] In ''Film/KikaiderREBOOT'' itself, he's [[spoiler:Gilbert Kanzaki with his brain in the body.]]
46* ContinuityNod: In the anime, one episode had Mitsuko's little brother befriend some people who turn out to be the MonsterOfTheWeek. An episode or two later it shows him hiding and secretly still mourning their deaths.
47* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The DARK androids all have a theming that goes "[color] [animal]. The Hakaider Force in ''Kikaider 01'' continue this theming.
48* {{Crossover}}: The 2003 had an OVA episode where Jiro met another Ishinomori hero, Inazuman; this episode wasn't included in the US release presumably because the character isn't well-known outside of Japan.
49** The 2014 reboot was kicked off with an appearance from Jiro in an episode of ''Series/KamenRiderGaim''.
50* CulturalCrossReference: The fact that the conscience circuit has a name resembling that of [[WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} a certain cricket]] is not a coincidence.
51* DarkerAndEdgier: The anime and the original manga are this compared to the tokusatsu version from the 1970's.
52** And the OVA manages to be Darker and Edgier than that.
53** The Kikaider Code 02 manga has a considerably darker atmosphere.
54** The spinoff film ''Mechanical Violator Hakaider'' runs on BlackAndGreyMorality.
55* DualityMotif: The Kikaider series of androids had sports of blue (which signifies their altruistic impulses) and red (which signifies their capacity to do evil and harm that lies underneath) on their body designs. Notably, the "red" side is also the side that has [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul part of Kikaider's robot brain exposed]].
56* TheDulcineaEffect: When asked in the OVA why Jiro is bent on protecting Rieko, whose backstory is pretty suspiciously vague, Jiro just says it's the right thing to do.
57* EvenEvilHasStandards:
58** Disregarding Jiro/Kikaider, Saburo dislikes cruelty in general, and will not harm a human so long as they do not impede him.
59* EverybodyDiesEnding: In the manga and OVA, [[spoiler: Every single android, good or evil, is annihilated by Jiro's hands, as the city lies in complete destruction with only a handful of survivors.]]
60* EvilCounterpart: Hakaider/Saburo.
61* EvilInc: Notably, DARK averts having OffscreenVillainDarkMatter and several episodes see them marketing their robots to investors in an effort to gain more finances.
62* EvilPlan: Gill, leader of DARK, wants to take over the world with robots.
63* FairytaleMotifs: The story of Literature/{{Pinocchio}} is referenced throughout the manga numerous times. The plot parallels are fairly obvious.
64* FemBot: Bijinder's actual robot form is more this trope, rather than her RobotGirl casual appearance. Complete with two giant yellow cones jutting out of her chest so we know she's female.
65* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Both Jiro and Ichiro love doing this to the monsters of the week in the toku.
66* HenshinHero: One of the pioneers of the genre, alongside ''Series/KamenRider''. Whenever Jiro wants to transform, he shouts "Switch On" and clicks the buttons on his shoudlers to become Kikaider.
67* HighHeelFaceTurn: Bijinder is the only female (well, {{fembot}}) member of SHADOW and the only one to turn good.
68* HumongousMecha: The Giant Devil, a massive robot devised by Professor Gill.
69* JourneyToFindOneself
70* LargeHam: Being a {{Toku}}, ''Android Kikaider'' has all its villains be hammy and melodramatic.
71* LaserGuidedTykebomb: Hakaider, who was purposed by DARK specifically to kill Kikaider.
72* LawOfInverseRecoil: in the spin-off movie "Film/MechanicalViolatorHakaider".
73* LighterAndSofter: The 1970's toku compared to ''Series/KamenRider'', due to a more comedic tone and the Destructoids having a more cartoony design compared to Shocker's kaijin.
74* MadeOfExplodium: When a robot is defeated they ''always'' explode.
75* MechaMooks: All of the monsters Jiro fights are only robots. Though he still has trouble finding it morally acceptable to fight them, as he considers them to be his family.
76* MilkingTheGiantCow: As they're all robots with expressionless faces (or PeopleInRubberSuits in real life), Kikaider, Kikaider 01 and the various monsters of the week use body movements to convey their expressions. Subverted in one case, where Jiro sheds tears after forced to defeat Gold Wolf.
77* MonsterOfTheWeek: DARK's Destructoids, which are all [[ColorCodedCharacters differently colored]] animal robots, and are sent out each week to go after Jiro or just cause general mischief.
78** SHADOW has their Deathbots, though they had considerably more variety than the Destructoids before them. They could be anything from a {{Youkai}} to a five-man team of {{ronin}} robots.
79* NebulousEvilOrganisation:
80** DARK, a shady underworld organisation with an ObviouslyEvil name that produces {{killer robot}}s for [[ArmsDealer black market]] or [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] purposes.
81** Followed in ''01'' by "World Crime Organization" SHADOW, whose goal is to exterminate the human population for vague reasons.
82* NobleDemon:
83** The Gold Wolf robot had a prototype Conscience Circuit implanted inside. Thus, he remains benevolent unless struck by moonlight.
84** Saburo has shades of this. His goal to destroy Kikaider but only Kikaider, and he would rather not harm anyone else.
85** Waruder, who is a FriendToAllChildren.
86* OncePerEpisode: In ''Android Kikaider'', after Jiro destroys a Destructoid the scene always cuts to a bunch of metal junk being thrown into the ground.
87* PeopleInRubberSuits: The 1970's series.
88* PhlebotinumRebel:
89** Kikaider was deliberately programmed by Dr. Komyoji to be this, as he intended to use him to protect his children from DARK's androids
90* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Akira and the doomsday device.
91* {{Precap}}: Each episode of the toku starts with a brief clip show of the episode.
92* PunBasedTitle: The name "Kikaider" is pronounced in Japanese like the phrase "''kikai da''" or "it's a machine".
93* PutOnABus: In the OVA series the Komyoji's home is completely empty, because they apparently went overseas for their father's recovery. This very quick offhand mention is all we ever see of them.
94** This is actually foreshadowed at the end of the first series when Hattori and Etsuko visit Mitsuko she mentions that her father's doctor suggests going overseas for his rehab.
95* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Jiro's appearances in ''Kikaider 01'' became more sporadic as his actor Daisuke Ban had been cast as Goro Watari, the eponymous hero in ''Series/{{Inazuman}}''.
96* RedEyesTakeWarning: A lot of evil robot has red eyes. In the anime, Jiro's eyes turn red whenever Gill uses his flute.
97* ReplacementGoldfish: Jiro is alluded to have been built by Dr. Komyoji as a semi-replacement for his own lost son Taro.
98* RememberTheNewGuy: In the OVA There is Ichiro and Rei, Ichiro is an Android Created right before Jiro and Rei was an Incomplete android which was Komiyoji's last creation before getting kidnapped. Non of them are eluded to in the Previous series.
99* RestrainingBolt: Jiro and his brothers are unique in not having these.
100* RivalFinalBoss: Averted at the end of ''Android Kikaider''. [[spoiler:Before Kikaider and Hakaider can have a proper final duel, Gill sends his final and most powerful Destructoid, White Bone Flying Squirrel, to take out both of them. After Hakaider is fatally damaged, he laments that he couldn't die to Kikaider instead.]]
101* RoboFamily: The three androids built by Komyoji, as is evidenced by the names of their human forms. Ichiro ("first son"), Jiro (literally "next son") and Saburo ("third son").
102* RobotGirl: Bijinder, a {{Fembot}} built by SHADOW to lure 01 into a trap. Before her, it would be revealed [[spoiler: Rieko is one too in the form of a robot wearing a HumanDisguise.]]
103* RoboticReveal: [[spoiler:Rieko is revealed midway through ''01'' to be a robot, right before she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to save Akira and Hiroshi.]]
104* RobotSuperhero: While not the first Japanese media to feature android superheroes, ''Kikaider'' is the first in the tokusatsu genre, spawning many influences to other franchises as well.
105* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The officially licensed subtitled [=DVDs=] of the tokusatsu version by Hawaiian-based JN Productions calls the show ''Kikaida''
106* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/ChoujinkiMetalder'' is pretty much the '80s' version of ''Kikaider''.
107* StealthPun: Gemini Circuit = Jiminy Cricket
108* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In the OVA series Rieko and Akira have an uncanny resemblance to Mitsuko and Masaru. Dr. Gill in one instance slightly lampshades this by mentioning their resemblance may have been what attracted Jiro to them.
109** Then in the OVA there is the evil organization SHADOW. In no way related to DARK.
110* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Saburo/Hakaider's one given objective was to destroy Kikaider, and he's determined to not let anyone get in the way of him doing so.
111** In ''Kikaider 01'', the newly rebuilt "Gill" Hakaider quickly develops this attitude towards 01.
112* TheStoic: Kikaider 00, who spends his time in the OVA leaning angstily, and discussing how love and feelings are dumb.
113* TokenMinority: The black android toting a lovely afro in the fourth episode of the anime is one of the few black people seen in anime these days.
114* {{Toku}}: ''Android Kikaider'' is one of the most well known classic Toku shows.
115* TorpedoTits: Bijinder, who can fire lasers out of her boobs.
116* TragicMonster: Gold Wolf, Violet Turbin, Black Spiny Anteater and his ''daughter'' tiny spiny anteater, and eventually Saburo/Hakaider.
117* TransformationSequence
118* TransformationTrinket: Jiro must push the two switches in his shoulders to transform.
119* TroubledButCute: Akira has been described as tragically huggable.
120* TwelveEpisodeAnime: Quite literally.
121** Although the DVD adds one episode that is nothing but clip shows and filler.
122* MonsterOfTheWeek: For quite a large part of the anime it had this format.
123** Played straight in the 1970's series.
124* VillainousCrush: Waruder towards Bijinder in the live action show.
125* VillainSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPWL2ULTty8 Hakaida No Uta(Hakaider's Song)]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2coteA8apr0 Gill Hakase No Uta]].
126* WasItReallyWorthIt: The ending of the OVA poses this question of [[spoiler: Jiro's quest to BecomeARealBoy. He's truly gained the spectrum of emotions necessary, but he's tormented by the fact that he had to kill Gill. Because this question is posed at the very end, we never get an answer.]]
127* WhatHaveIDone: Jiro in the second episode, after being controlled by Gil's flute
128** And in the first episode when he accidentally breaks a bunch of eggs in a birds nest.
129* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the 1970's series a lot of victims of the week would disappear midway through without explanation.
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