Android Kikaider: The Animation
Android Kikaider: The Animation | |
(Jinzō Ningen Kikaidā The Animation) | |
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Genre | Sci-fi, mecha, drama |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Tensai Okamura |
Written by | Akemi Omode |
Music by | Akira Mitake |
Studio | Radix & Studio OX |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Kids Station |
English network | |
Original run | October 16, 2000 – January 8, 2001 |
Episodes | 13 |
Original video animation | |
Kikaider 01: The Animation | |
Directed by | Keitaro Motonaga |
Written by | Toshizo Nemoto Shinsuke Onishi |
Music by | Kaoru Wada |
Studio | Radix Ace & Studio OX |
Licensed by | |
Released | November 21, 2001 – March 20, 2002 |
Runtime | 24 minutes |
Episodes | 4 |
Original video animation | |
The Boy with the Guitar: Kikaider vs. Inazuman | |
Directed by | Naoyuki Konno |
Written by | Shinsuke Onishi |
Music by | Kaoru Wada |
Studio | Radix Ace & Studio OX |
Released | September 19, 2003 |
Runtime | 25 minutes |
Android Kikaider: The Animation (
It was followed by the OVA 4-episode sequel called. Kikaider 01: The Animation (キカイダー01 THE ANIMATION, Kikaidā Zero Wan Ji Animēshon).
An OVA special came with the Kikaider 01 DVD called The Boy with the Guitar: Kikaider vs. Inazuman (ギターを
An English dubbed version of the anime and OVA aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block in the United States, with the exception of episode 8, which was a recap episode. The final OVA special (Kikaider vs. Inazuman) was never dubbed or released outside of Japan.
Plot
[edit]Android Kikaider
[edit]Dr. Kohmyoji creates Jiro (Kikaider) but an explosion occurs. When Dr Kohmyoji's kids, Mitsuko and Masaru, their father was nowhere to be found, Jiro wandering aimlessly in a remote area eventually meets Mitsuko. Mitsuko teaches Jiro to go into his robot form and about the GEMINI system inside him. The two grow closer together but the relationship development halts when a mysterious flute playing causes Jiro to attack Mitsuko, which causes her to believe he is a mad machine. Jiro inevitably leaves Mitsuko and Masaru in fear of being destroyed. Mitsuko then hires Hanpei Hattori and his apprentice Etsuko Sarutobi to find Jiro and bring him home. Throughout the story, Jiro encounters robots and learns more about Professor Gill and the evil organization DARK. A reoccurring android named Hakaider causes Jiro out of control by whistling (similar to Gill's flute). The more Mitsuko encounters Jiro the more she falls in love with him. When Mitsuko and Jiro reunite, they search for Mistuko's mother who is revealed to be in love with Professor Gill but could not bare the pain of being away from her children and gives them the location to Professor Gill's headquarters right before she killed herself. After they discover the location, Jiro attempts to fight Hakaider alone and also discovers the brain inside Hakaider's head is that of Dr. Kohmyoji's. Dr. Kohmyoji overtakes Hakaider's body before Hakaider could destroy it and infiltrates the headquarters. Once Professor Gill discovers Dr. Kohmyoji is in control he sends his robots to attack them. Jiro was able to give the brain to Hanpei in order to put it back into Dr. Kohmyoji's body. Professor Gill attempts to control Jiro with his flute, but Jiro to is able to overcome it. Hakaider then attempts to kill Professor Gill for betraying him and destroys the place along with Gill. Hanpei, Mitsuko and Etsuko able to escape, but didn't see Jiro escape with them. In the end, Mitsuko has hope that Jiro will return to them.
Kikaider 01
[edit]These four OVAs directly follow the conclusion of the 13 episode TV series. Jiro is now battling to save Akira, the son of Professor Gill who survived and transplanted his brain into Hakaider. Gill-Hakaider, supported by the Hakaider Squad and later SHADOW, targets Akira to power his giant-robot Armageddon Lord. Jiro meets his two "older" brothers Ichiro (Kikaider 01) and Rei (Kikaider 00), who lack Jiro's GEMINI system, and are joined by a SHADOW gynoid Bjinder. In the end, Gill successfully captures Akira, and uses the Armageddon Lord to devastate the city from the previous series. Gill plants a submission chip inside Jiro and his android allies. But it unexpectedly subdues Jiro's GEMINI circuit rather than enslave him, making Jiro more human as he ends up destroying his brothers and kills Gill as the Armageddon Lord's generator explodes. Jiro leaves Akira in the hands of a monk scientist that raised Ichiro and reactivated Rei. Afterwards, Jiro then proclaims that having now committed such horrible acts that he is now human and that his heart will forever be in "eternal conflict" as he walks alone into the sunset.
The Boy Who Carried a Guitar: Kikaider vs. Inazuman
[edit]Set sometime after Kikaider 01, the cast of the Inazuman manga have a run-in with Jiro after one of their psychic adversaries possesses him in an attempt to murder Saburo, the protagonist of the Inazuman story. As the fight spirals out of control, Jiro's fight for inner peace comes to a head via Saburo's telepathy. The climax of the battle results in Jiro's definitive answers to the questions posed by his autonomy.
Voice Cast
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Japanese Cast[edit]
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English Cast[edit]
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Episodes
[edit]Android Kikaider: The Animation
[edit]English airdates are from its first English dub broadcast on Adult Swim in the United States.
No. | Title | Written by | Original air date | English airdate |
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1 | "Lonely Puppet" Transliteration: "Kodoku na Ningyō" (Japanese: | Akemi Omode | October 16, 2000 | June 9, 2003 |
2 | "Mad Machine" Transliteration: "Kurutta Kikai" (Japanese: | Shinsuke Onishi | October 23, 2000 | June 10, 2003 |
3 | "Stray Sheep" Transliteration: "Sutorei Shīpu" (Japanese: ストレイ・シープ) | Masashi Sogo | October 30, 2000 | June 11, 2003 |
4 | "Mirror" Transliteration: "Kagami" (Japanese: | Shinsuke Onishi | November 6, 2000 | June 12, 2003 |
5 | "City of Rain" Transliteration: "Ame no Machi" (Japanese: | Akemi Omode | November 13, 2000 | June 16, 2003 |
6 | "Negative Fragments" Transliteration: "Fu no Danpen" (Japanese: | Masashi Sogo | November 20, 2000 | June 17, 2003 |
7 | "Afterglow of Regret" Transliteration: "Hi no Zanshō" (Japanese: | Shinsuke Onishi | November 27, 2000 | June 18, 2003 |
8 | "Blue Moon, Red Dreams" Transliteration: "Aoi Tsuki, Akai Yume" (Japanese: | N/A | December 4, 2000 | N/A |
9 | "Friends" Transliteration: "Tomodachi" (Japanese: ともだち) | Akemi Omode | December 11, 2000 | June 19, 2003 |
10 | "Frozen Bonds" Transliteration: "Kōru Kizuna" (Japanese: | Masashi Sogo | December 18, 2000 | June 23, 2003 |
11 | "The Destroyer" Transliteration: "Hakaima" (Japanese: | Shinsuke Onishi | December 25, 2000 | June 24, 2003 |
12 | "The Machine That Dreams" Transliteration: "Yumemiru Kikai" (Japanese: | Akemi Omode | January 1, 2001 | June 25, 2003 |
13 | "The End of the Dream" Transliteration: "Yume no Matsuro" (Japanese: | Akemi Omode | January 8, 2001 | June 26, 2003 |
Kikaider 01: The Animation
[edit]No. | Title | Original air date | English airdate |
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1 | "Jiro Meets Ichiro" | November 21, 2001 | June 30, 2003 |
2 | "Beautiful Enemy" | December 19, 2001 | July 1, 2003 |
3 | "Gil Rises Again" | January 23, 2002 | July 2, 2003 |
4 | "The Fate Of Pinocchio" | March 20, 2002 | July 3, 2003 |
Bonus | "The Boy Who Carried a Guitar: Kikaider vs. Inazuman" Transliteration: "Gitā o motta shōnen - Kikaidā VS Inazuman -" (Japanese: ギターを | September 19, 2003 | N/A |
Media
[edit]Soundtrack
[edit]A soundtrack for the first animated series of Kikaider called Android Kikaider: The Animation Original Soundtrack (
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Theme of Gemini" (by Akita Mitake) | 1:35 |
2. | "Friends of Enemies" | 2:30 |
3. | "Past Tears" | 2:19 |
4. | "Devil's Flute" | 1:35 |
5. | "Dark" | 2:33 |
6. | "For the Destruction" | 0:52 |
7. | "Rejoice" | 1:47 |
8. | "Material World" | 1:32 |
9. | "Jiro's Guitar (part 1)" | 1:20 |
10. | "Coming Armegeddon" | 3:13 |
11. | "Wild Detectives" | 1:13 |
12. | "Song of a Street Musician" | 0:43 |
13. | "Waiting for the Dawn" | 2:53 |
14. | "Equinox" | 2:47 |
15. | "Beastly Puppets" | 2:20 |
16. | "Tempest" | 2:11 |
17. | "Between Brothers and Sisters" | 2:00 |
18. | "Jiro's Guitar (part 2)" | 1:26 |
19. | "Tearful Smile" | 2:09 |
20. | "Equinox (violin version)" | 2:28 |
21. | "Floating" | 3:45 |
22. | "Destiny" (by Yui Horie) | 4:17 |
Another Soundtrack called Kikaider 01: The Animation Original Soundtrack (キカイダー01 THE ANIMATION ― オリジナル・サウンドトラック, Jinzō ningen kikaidā― THE ANIMATION orijinaru saundotorakku) was released on March 6, 2003. Music was composed by Kaworu Wada and distributed by SME Visual Works.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Day of wrath - Main Theme" (メインテーマ~ | |
2. | "Title" (タイトル (Taitoru)) | |
3. | "Looming Threat" ( | |
4. | "Organization of the Shadow" ( | |
5. | "Kikaider, Change" (キカイダー、チェンジ (Kikaidā, Chenji)) | |
6. | "Revived Memories" ( | |
7. | "Seal - Main Theme" (メインテーマ~ | |
8. | "Kohmyoji and Vayu - Main Theme" (メインテーマ~ | |
9. | "Shadow Knight" (シャドウナイト (Shado Naito)) | |
10. | "Battle of Ichiro" (イチローの | |
11. | "Robot Without a Heart - Main Theme" (メインテーマ~ | |
12. | "Escape" ( | |
13. | "Hakaider Again" (ハカイダー | |
14. | "Hakaider Four Group" (ハカイダー | |
15. | "The Main Theme ~Vol.1 Ending~" (メインテーマ~Vol.1エンディング~ (Meintēma ~ Vol. 1 Endingu ~)) | |
16. | "Quicken the Dark" ( | |
17. | "My Name is Bijinder" ( | |
18. | "Thug Dancing Flowers" ( | |
19. | "Fate Met" ( | |
20. | "Dark Eyes" ( | |
21. | "Sweet Memories" ( | |
22. | "Battle of Bungalow" (バンガローの | |
23. | "Hakaider Plus Power" (ハカイダー・プラスパワー (Hakaidā Purasu Pawā)) | |
24. | "Determination" ( | |
25. | "Lurking in the Shadows" ( | |
26. | "And Pinocchio..." (そしてピノキオは… (Soshite Pinokio wa…)) | |
27. | "Memories of Rieko" ( | |
28. | "Trap" ( | |
29. | "Professor Gill" (プロフェッサー・ギル (Purofessā Giru)) | |
30. | "Fleetingly Sunset" ( | |
31. | "Surrounding Sorrow" ( | |
32. | "Feelings in my Heart" (この | |
33. | "Street Fighting" ( | |
34. | "Armageddongod Exercise - Main Theme" (メインテーマ~ | |
35. | "Ambition Awakening" ( | |
36. | "Dreaming Dolls" ( | |
37. | "Conclusion of Dreams" ( | |
38. | "Day of Tears Lacrimosa" ( |
Reception
[edit]On Anime News Network, Zac Bertschy gave the first DVD an overall grade of B.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Zac Bertschy (2 July 2003). "Kikaider DVD 1". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
External links
[edit]- Kikaider (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Jinzô ningen Kikaidâ: The Animation at IMDb
- TVTome show details
- http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Animation/Kikaider/