Android Kikaider

Android Kikaider
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Japanese name
Kanji人造人間キカイダー
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnJinzō Ningen Kikaidā
GenreAction
Adventure
Superhero fiction
Based onKikaider manga
by Shotaro Ishinomori
Developed byMasaru Igami
Screenplay byMasaru Igami
Shūkei Nagasaka
Shoji Shimazu
Masayuki Shimada
Directed byHidetoshi Kitamura
StarringDaisuke Ban
Hajime Izu
Jun Mizunoe
Masahiro Kamiya
Shun Ueda
Narrated byMasaaki Okabe
Opening theme"Go, Go, Kikaider!"
by Yuki Hide
Ending theme"Tatakae, Jinzō Ningen"
by Yuki Hide
ComposerMichiaki Watanabe
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
No. of episodes43 (+1 special)
Production
ProducerTōru Hirayama
Production companiesToei Company
Ishimori Productions
Original release
NetworkTV Asahi
Release8 July 1972 (1972-07-08) –
5 May 1973 (1973-05-05)
Related
Kikaider 01 (1973)
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Android Kikaider (人造人間キカイダー, Jinzō Ningen Kikaidā) is a tokusatsu television series based on the superhero manga Kikaider by Shotaro Ishinomori. The show was produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions, and was broadcast in Japan on NET (now TV Asahi) from July 8, 1972, to May 5, 1973, with a total of 43 episodes.

This series was also one of the first tokusatsus to air in the United States (notably Hawaii), as Kikaida: Android of Justice, on KIKU-TV.


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