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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hakaider Squad's appearance in the ''Kikaider 01'' OVA mostly amounts to showing up in the second episode, transforming into Gattaider, fighting Kikaider and 01 and getting destroyed, leaving little consequence on the plot. The fact that they're destroyed the episode before Rei/Kikaider 00 was introduced, it feels like a huge missed opportunity to have a four-on-four fight between the Kikaiders (plus Bijinder) and the Hakaider Squad.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hakaider Squad's appearance in the ''Kikaider 01'' OVA mostly amounts to showing up in the second episode, transforming into Gattaider, fighting Kikaider and 01 and getting destroyed, leaving little consequence on the plot. The fact that they're destroyed the episode before Rei/Kikaider 00 was introduced, it feels like a huge missed opportunity to have a four-on-four fight between the Kikaiders (plus Bijinder) and the Hakaider Squad.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hakaider Squad's appearance in the ''Kikaider 01'' OVA mostly amounts to showing up in the second episode, transforming into Gattaider, fighting Kikaider and 01 and getting destroyed, leaving little consequence on the plot. The fact that they're destroyed the episode before Rei/Kikaider 00 was introduced feels like a huge missed opportunity to have a four-on-four fight between the Kikaiders (plus Bijinder) and the Hakaider Squad.

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* CompleteMonster:
** [[AdaptationalVillainy Saburo/Hakaider]], lacking any of the [[NobleDemon redeeming qualities]] of his original counterpart, is instead concerned solely with fighting his "brother" Kikaider and having fun while doing so. Created by Dr. Komyoji and repurposed by [[BigBad Professor Gill]], Saburo's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduction]] sees him murdering a fellow android who showed mercy to Jiro and Mitsuko. He later takes control of Jiro and forces him to commit a series of obscene acts to break him so he'll show his true power, starting with stopping Jiro from saving Mitsuko's mother from committing suicide. Saburo then forces Jiro go on a rampage through the city, [[CopKiller killing a police officer]] in the process. When all that doesn't work, Saburo makes Jiro strangle Mitsuko. When Jiro defeats Saburo but refuses to kill him, Saburo attempts to shoot Dr. Komyoji's brain out of spite.

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CompleteMonster: [[AdaptationalVillainy Saburo/Hakaider]], lacking any of the [[NobleDemon redeeming qualities]] of his original counterpart, is instead concerned solely with fighting his "brother" Kikaider and having fun while doing so. Created by Dr. Komyoji and repurposed by [[BigBad Professor Gill]], Saburo's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduction]] sees him murdering a fellow android who showed mercy to Jiro and Mitsuko. He later takes control of Jiro and forces him to commit a series of obscene acts to break him so he'll show his true power, starting with stopping Jiro from saving Mitsuko's mother from committing suicide. Saburo then forces Jiro go on a rampage through the city, [[CopKiller killing a police officer]] in the process. When all that doesn't work, Saburo makes Jiro strangle Mitsuko. When Jiro defeats Saburo but refuses to kill him, Saburo attempts to shoot Dr. Komyoji's brain out of spite.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hakaider Squad's appearance in the ''Kikaider 01'' OVA mostly amounts to showing up in the second episode, transforming into Gattaider, fighting Kikaider and 01 and getting destroyed, leaving little consequence on the plot. The fact that they're destroyed the episode before Rei/Kikaider 00 was introduced feels like a huge missed opportunity to have a four-on-four fight between the Kikaiders (plus Bijinder) and the Hakaider Squad.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The anime adaptation in spades. Don't let the colorful robots and silly characters fool you, there is a lot of murder, blood, and suicide in this series. This is Inverted in Japan, however, where it is in fact aimed for kids, and actually aired on the Japanese television channel, Kids Station.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The anime adaptation in spades. Don't let the colorful robots and silly characters fool you, there is a lot of murder, blood, and suicide in this series. This is Inverted in Japan, however, where it is in fact aimed for kids, and actually aired on the Japanese television channel, Kids Station.Station.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: The anime seems unsure of who their target audience is, and it sort of scares away most people. The dark premise, violence, and sexual implications keep it away from kids, the very cartoony style, "wacky" characters, and bright colored animal robots seem too childish for more adult people to get into.



* UncannyValley: Kikaider's large, emotionless yellow eyes. A brief shot at the end of the OVA even has an un-transformed Jiro sporting them. And then the Code 02 Manga ups the ante by giving him a GlasgowGrin and decidedly skull-like head.

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* UncannyValley: Kikaider's large, emotionless yellow eyes. A brief shot at UncertainAudience: The anime seems unsure of who their target audience is, and it sort of scares away most people. The dark premise, violence, and sexual implications keep it away from kids, the end of the OVA even has an un-transformed Jiro sporting them. And then the Code 02 Manga ups the ante by giving him a GlasgowGrin very cartoony style, "wacky" characters, and decidedly skull-like head.bright colored animal robots seem too childish for adults to get into.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Zig-zagged in a rather odd example. In Hawaii, people are more familiar with the 70's show than the original manga and the anime, while in the rest of the USA most people are gonna be more familiar with the anime than the 70's show.
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* AnimationAgeGhetto: The anime seems unsure of who their target audience is, and it sort of scares away most people. The dark premise, violence, and sexual implications keep it away from kids, the very cartoony style, "wacky" characters, and bright colored animal robots seem too childish for more adult people to get into.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The anime has a number of cool songs that fans have really enjoyed.
** Theme of the Gemini which most feel is perfect for the more sombre tone of the series. Listen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEKNFJWqDk&list=PL6C095629D8CC9807&index=1 here.]]
** The battle theme friends or enemies when Jero is forced into combat. Listen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fiost0PBAFU&list=PL6C095629D8CC9807&index=2 here.]]
** The appropriately named Devil's Flute that plays when Gill is playing his flute to try to control Kikaider. Listen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzthN8el--c&list=PL6C095629D8CC9807&index=4 here.]]
** The classic theme is no slouch either, especially [[https://youtu.be/qYaT7iT3Onk the cover version for the reboot movie]].
* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler:Gill-Hakaider]] in the OVA goes down pretty quick once Jiro's [[spoiler:submission circuit]] is activated and he confronts him.
* CompleteMonster:
** [[AdaptationalVillainy Saburo/Hakaider]], lacking any of the [[NobleDemon redeeming qualities]] of his original counterpart, is instead concerned solely with fighting his "brother" Kikaider and having fun while doing so. Created by Dr. Komyoji and repurposed by [[BigBad Professor Gill]], Saburo's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduction]] sees him murdering a fellow android who showed mercy to Jiro and Mitsuko. He later takes control of Jiro and forces him to commit a series of obscene acts to break him so he'll show his true power, starting with stopping Jiro from saving Mitsuko's mother from committing suicide. Saburo then forces Jiro go on a rampage through the city, [[CopKiller killing a police officer]] in the process. When all that doesn't work, Saburo makes Jiro strangle Mitsuko. When Jiro defeats Saburo but refuses to kill him, Saburo attempts to shoot Dr. Komyoji's brain out of spite.
* FridgeBrilliance: When Jiro sheds a tear late in the show, Gill looks terrified as he considers how Jiro's Gemini Circuit could be changing. While it took Gil's submission circuit in the OVA to finish the job, he likely realized that if Jiro developed enough, he would be beyond any means of human control. While Inazuman would get Jiro back to his senses, Jiro is still under his own control.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** [[AdaptationalVillainy Anime Saburo]] crosses it when he starts forcing Jiro to go on rampages, even attempting to make him strangle Mitsuko at one point, all in order to get him to unleash his full power.
** While he guilty of plenty beforehand, Professor Gill really steps over the line in the OVA when he uses Akira, his own son, to power his Giant Devil robot without caring about any harm that might come to him from it.
* {{Narm}}: The anime has a few, especially in the English dub.
** "Is that a good order... or a ''bad'' order?... Either way, I'm not taking any orders, because I'm just a ''[[IronicEcho mad machine]].''" -- Jiro, after Mitsuko tries to order him to come with her after the second MonsterOfTheWeek's attack.
** Also, when Jiro yells ''just a MACHIIIIIIINE!!!''
* OneSceneWonder: Considering the OVA only has four episodes, and Rei/00 is introduced in the third episode, we don't really get a lot of time to actually know much about him at all. Another example would be the golden bat vampire robot, who is [[LargeHam amazing.]]
* TheScrappy: Ichiro/01's anime incarnation, who's bratty, annoying and even sounds a bit like Scrappy. His counterpart in the live action show on the other hand is a lot more well-liked.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the OVA it's pretty obvious in one episode that instead of animating the androids and objects falling, they simply moved a still image of them across the screen to appear as if it's animated.
* SpiritualAdaptation: The anime and [=OVA=] is basically Pinocchio, as written by Isaac Asimov.
* UncannyValley: Kikaider's large, emotionless yellow eyes. A brief shot at the end of the OVA even has an un-transformed Jiro sporting them. And then the Code 02 Manga ups the ante by giving him a GlasgowGrin and decidedly skull-like head.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Hakaider Squad's appearance in the ''Kikaider 01'' OVA mostly amounts to showing up in the second episode, transforming into Gattaider, fighting Kikaider and 01 and getting destroyed, leaving little consequence on the plot. The fact that they're destroyed the episode before Rei/Kikaider 00 was introduced, it feels like a huge missed opportunity to have a four-on-four fight between the Kikaiders (plus Bijinder) and the Hakaider Squad.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The anime adaptation in spades. Don't let the colorful robots and silly characters fool you, there is a lot of murder, blood, and suicide in this series. This is Inverted in Japan, however, where it is in fact aimed for kids, and actually aired on the Japanese television channel, Kids Station.

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