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ANDROID

Switch on! 1-2-3!

Electric sparks rush through his body

Jiro, change! Become Kikaider!

Stand against the robots of DARK!

Android Kikaider!

Change, change!

Go, go, go, go!

Go, go, go!

A Curse! Orange Ant's Challenge to the Death

Honey, wake up!

What is it?

It's too late for this!

I hear the strangest sound... like a giant insect.

A what?

You're right. I'll have a look.

Who's there?!

A monstrous ant!

I'm DARK's most violent Destructoid, Orange Ant.

What are you...

I've chosen this lighthouse to test my power.

Watch me destroy it!

Stop that!

Passing fishing boats need this lighthouse, and so does our town!

Your town is also part of my test.

Stop it!

Damn you...

Fool!

Tokie! Get away!

Warn the town!

Orange Ant's power is quite satisfactory.

That power will be put to full use helping DARK accomplish its goals!

Caught one!

Jiro!

Jiro!

That's so awesome. He didn't even need a spear!

Come and join us!

It's a big one.

It sure is!

Sure smells good.

Want some, Jiro?

Masaru!

I didn't mean it that way. Sorry.

How inconvenient. Humans need food to survive.

Us androids are lucky. This is all we need.

Let me wipe your back.

You're always extra nice to Jiro, Sis!

Oh, Masaru!

I can't watch!

Eat more slowly.

He's right.

It's a dead body!

What?

Jiro!

Hang in there.

She's still alive.

Wake up! Speak to us!

Wake up, lady!

Please, wake up!

Where am 1?

You were unconscious in the water.

Tell us what happened.

My husband was killed by a frightening monster.

He said to go to the town beyond the cape... and tell them to run!

A monster?!

A DARK Destructoid, I bet!

I agree... Jiro!

Jiro!

Jiro?

Jiro?!

What's the meaning of this?!

Calm down.

We're taking all of you to DARK Base.

You'll be guinea pigs to test our new androids' capabilities!

What gives you the right to take away our freedom?!

- Yeah! - Silence!

DARK is all-powerful.

DARK needs only the smartest and strongest humans.

Everyone else will be killed. Got that?

No! I don't want to die!

Fool!

Yota! Yota! Where are you, Yota?!

That's what'll happen if you try to escape.

Behave, and you'll live a bit longer.

There're still people left! Go! Find them!

Achoo!

It's just a mannequin.

Let's go.

Stay back! Don't touch me!

I'm the 16th generation descendant of the Iga ninja master, Hanzo Hattori,

Hanpei Hattori!

I'll expose your evil plot to the press!

Hi, kid!

There's a boy, too!

Stop it!

Let go of me!

Stay quiet!

Let go!

Get off! Let go of me!

Up there!

Kikaider!

When DARK threatens, justice will prevail!

Save us!

DARK drones! Let those two go and get lost!

Dummy! Dummy!

- Where are the townspeople? - At the beach!

You okay, son?

Save my mom!

I will. Just wait here.

What's wrong?

Those born of DARK must return to DARK!

I won't give in!

Do your job, conscience circuit!

Hey, are you okay?

Don't come near me!

I-l don't have to take this!

Jiro, like the androids of DARK, led by Professor Gill,

becomes violent at the sound of his flute.

But Dr. Komyoji secretly installed a conscience circuit which,

though incomplete, gives Jiro the power to resist evil.

Professor Gill amplified his flute by a power of ten!

This is the end of Komyoji's android!

You tricked me!

I played dead to make the flute stop!

Professor Gill! Play your flute again!

Change!

Switch On!

1-2-3!

Kikaider!

DARK Destructoid Orange Ant will destroy you!

As long as DARK's destruction and mayhem continue,

I will fight!

That is the mission Dr. Komyoji entrusted to me!

Die!

Die!

Die!

Double Chop!

Kikaider, I'll be back!

Wait, Orange Ant!

Orange Ant!

Sis, do you really have to open Jiro up?

Jiro is missing one final circuit.

Once that's installed, Jiro will be complete.

With Father missing, I'm the only one who can do it.

I don't like this! I don't want to look!

Jiro's a person... Not a machine!

I feel the same way.

But this is something I have to do.

Jiro...

I'm happy just as I am. I don't need this.

Don't stop me! This was Father's wish.

Dr. Komyoji's conscience circuit may be incomplete.

But I can compensate with my will.

I'll be fine.

Jiro, I want you to be complete.

Your incomplete circuit costs you valuable energy.

Please let me do this... Be complete!

No, not even for you, Mitsuko.

Why not? I'm sure Father would have wanted this!

Dr. Komyoji would? Why do you say that?

Do you know why he named you Jiro?

No.

We had an elder brother. His name was Taro.

I see. So that's why I'm Jiro, the "second son."

Father built you to carry on

my late brother's strong sense of justice and love for peace.

Taro died?

He headed an environmental protection team.

He died saving a village from a wildfire.

DARK set the fire.

Please, Jiro. Let me install the final part of the conscience circuit.

I've always thought of myself as a man.

A fellow human being.

But inside, I have a motor for a heart,

and a computer for a brain.

I know what I am, but I don't want you to see me like that.

Jiro...

Purple liquid...

Formic acid from Orange Ant's body!

He was here, all right!

How long are you going to hide?

I wanted to help you feel better.

You can't fool me, Masaru.

You're thinking when I find Orange Ant, I'll find Dr. Komyoji.

You're right... So take me with you.

I dream about Dad every night.

Well, I can't send you back by yourself...

Okay, you can come.

How much further?

It leads into this forest.

Let's go! We can't turn back now!

Okay, but stay close.

Just birds.

Careful. Orange Ant is nearby.

Really?

Come out, Orange Ant! You can't get away!

Fools!

You're the ones who are trapped, Jiro!

What?!

I left a trail of formic acid to lure you here!

Look out!

Show yourself, Orange Ant!

Go for the kid first, then stop Jiro!

Get away, Masaru!

Ouch! I twisted my ankle!

It hurts!

It hurts!

It really hurts!

Change!

Switch on! 1-2-3! Change!

Switch on! 1-2-3!

Switch on! 1-2-3! It hurts! It hurts!

It hurts! It hurts!

Electric sparks rush through his body

Electric sparks rush through his body Hang on.

Electric sparks rush through his body

Jiro, change! Become Kikaider!

Stand against the robots of DARK!

Android Kikaider!

Change, change!

Change, change! Go! After them!

Change, change!

Change, change! Go after them!

Go after them!

I'm sorry. I never should have come.

Forget it. Does it hurt?

I'm all right.

Don't overdo it. You should get some rest.

But won't DARK find us?

You'll be safe with me.

They're in that shack. Attack!

Curse you! I'll smoke you out!

What's this?

Who did it?!

They're coming through the roof.

They don't give up.

Hanpei Hattori, at your service!

You again?

Yes, sir!

Can you watch Masaru?

I don't come cheap. Can you pay?

Worry about surviving first.

Jiro, the man with the guitar...

He's our friend, a kind and powerful robot

Every day he does battle with evil

Defeating them with hits from his guitar

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

The Sidemachine is the vehicle of the future

It tears through the wind as it races along

It can even survive in the water

Racing forward at mach speeds

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

Jiro, the man with the guitar...

He's our friend, a kind and powerful robot

Every day he does battle with evil

Every day he does battle with evil Die!

Every day he does battle with evil

Defeating them with hits from his guitar

Defeating them with hits from his guitar Die!

Go! Beat those DARK robots! Die!

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

Go! Beat those DARK robots! Die!

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

The Sidemachine is the vehicle of the future

It tears through the wind as it races along

It can even survive in the water

Racing forward at mach speeds

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

Kikaider is an android

Kikaider is an android Double Chop!

He flies through the sky as fast as a jet Double Chop!

He flies through the sky as fast as a jet

He flies through the sky as fast as a jet Giant Swing!

He flies through the sky as fast as a jet

His finishing move is the Giant Swing

He sends enemies flying with the Double Chop

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

Go! Beat those DARK robots! Deniji End!

Go! Beat those DARK robots!

Mom!

Yota!

Yota!

That's so good to see!

I'm so glad you're all right!

So glad! Aren't you glad, Yota?

Everything worked out.

Wait up! Give me a lift!

Kikaider defeated DARK Destructoid Orange Ant.

But where is Dr. Komyoji?

When would they all find happiness?

Jiro continues on his endless quest.

To be continued

The next devil sent by DARK is Blue Buffalo.

Blue Buffalo's abilities are put to the test for the highest bidder.

Meanwhile, programmer Yukiko Togawa is pursued by DARK androids,

and Jiro comes to her rescue.

Masaru and Mitsuko continue their search for their father,

but the Destructoid relentlessly pursues Kikaider!

Transform, Kikaider! Ride out on your Sidemachine!

Next time: "Blue Buffalo's Fiendish Deathtrap."

Jiro, the man with the guitar...

He's our friend, a kind and powerful robot

Every day he does battle with evil

Defeating them with hits from his guitar

Go! Beat those DARK robots!