History Series / Kikaider

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* WorldMadeOfCardboardSpeech: In the end when Jiro is partially corrupted by Gill (he still has good inside but now has evil inside to). Gill, throughout the series tells Kikaider that he isn't human and will never be human. Ironically, because of Gill, Kikaider is now capable of cruelty, anger, and deceit. This culminates with Jiro stating to Gill that he is at last human [[spoiler: and then holding gill's brain jar in his hands and crushing it saying "with this act I am at last human".]]

* OnlySixFaces: Bijinder seems to be Mitsuko in a different outfit, and Reiko looks and dresses exactly like Mitsuko only with long hair.

* FiveBadBand:

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: After the company that supported the English dub dropped the series, it's getting harder to get a hold of some of the [=DVDs=].

* [[AnimeFirst Live Action Show First]]: While the manga was made alongside the live action series, it first started being published in August 1972, while the toku first aired during July of the same year, thus predating the manga by two months.

** [[spoiler:Hakaider]] in the {{crossover}} with ''KamenRiderGaim'' [[spoiler:is Hakaider's body with Sengoku Ryoma's brain.]]

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''Android Kikaider'' (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 ShotaroIshinomori. The tokusatsu was a huge hit and a classic among superhero media. An animated version was produced in 2001 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.

* {{Adorkable}}: played UpToEleven with Hattori Hanpei in the 70's show, epsecially when he tries to repair his car with ninja techniques or by ''licking the steering wheel''.

** Saburo in the live action. While his animated counterpart is a total JerkAss, he avoids killing innocent people and he revolted against Gill when he [[DisneyDeath momentanealy destroyed]] Kikaider with dirty methods.

** The SHADOW organisation in the live action series:

* NoNameGiven: A lot of the monsters of the week weren't given real names, or atleast weren't clear about them. Such as giant mantis, robot black ant guy, golden bat vampire dude, and that one leopard robot, and the flying turtle that shoots rocks.

* OncePerEpisode: In the 1970's series, after Jiro destroys a destructoid the scene always cuts to a bunch of metal junk being thrown into the ground.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Jiro (literally "next son") was modoled after the likeness of his creator's dead son Ichiro ("first son"). Hakaider's human name, Saburo ("third son") continues the theme.

* RoboFamily: All androids refer to eachother as siblings.

* StealthPun: Gemini Circuit = Jimminy Cricket

* TokenMinority: The black android toting a lovely afro in the fourth episode of the anime is one of the few black people seen in animes these days.

** Although the DVD adds one episode that is nothing but clipshows and filler.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After [[spoiler: Dr. Komiyoji takes over his body]], we never see Saburo/Hakkaider again for the rest of the series, and was never given a suitable defeat as once he returns he is then immediately killed by Gill and thus never got a proper final fight with Kikaider. In the OVA Gill returns in a Hakkaider-style body, but that's not quite the same.

* BecomeARealBoy

* WorldMadeOfCardboardSpeech: In the end when Jiro is partially corrupted by Gill (he still has good inside but now has evil inside to). Gill, throughout the series tells Kikaider that he isn't human and will never be human. Ironically, because of gill, Kikaider is now capable of cruelty, anger, and deceit. This culminates with Jiro stating to Gill that he is at last human [[spoiler: and then holding gill's brain jar in his hands and crushing it saying "with this act I am at last human".]]

* LargeHam: The golden bat robot guy, who seems to be as melodramatic as it gets.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The anime is this compared to the tokusatsu version from the 1970's.

--->--'''Mitsuko Komyoji''', in ''Android Kikaider: The Animation'' in ''every single episode''.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Bijinder joins their team, oddly, she decides to join them after ''her'' side pummels ''them''.

** Gill-Hakaider: BigBad and EvilGenius.
** Silver Hakaider: TheDragon.
** Blue Hakaider: TheBrute.
** Red Hakaider: DarkChick.

** Big Shadow: Big Bad.
** Shadow Knight: The Dragon.
** Waruder: The Brute.
** Gill-Hakaider: Evil Genius.
** Bijinder: Dark Chick(before her HeelFaceTurn).

* HighHeelFaceTurn: Bijinder

The tokusatsu series was followed by ''Kikaider 01'', which focuses on a new Kikaider model of the same name who goes under the civilian identity of Ichiro. 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 ''Mechanical Violator Hakaider'' was made, which recasts Kikaider's rival as an AntiHero.

->''"I was right. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman You're nothing more than]] [[AIIsACrapshoot some mad machine]]."''

* TheAlleggedCar: Hattori's car.

* TheAleggedCar: Hattori's car.