1. The Horrible Grey
Rhino King Is Hell's Messenger
A truck is attacked by
a strange creature, the driver is killed.
Two men working on a
damn enter the office to find everyone inside dead. Before they can
call the police a monster, Gray Rhino
King, bursts into the room, and kills one of them. The other
is asked where the control center is. When he refuses to answer, Grey
Rhino King threatens to break his arm. Suddenly a guitar
melody is heard. A young man standing on the damn announces he has come
to stop the plans of the Dark Destruction Corps. The man, whos name
turns out to be Jiro, jumps off the damn. Gray Rhino King lefts his
head to hit Jiro with his horn. Jiro goes flying back into the air.
While this is going on the Rhino's prisoner has escaped.
Chasing after their
prisoner the Gray Rhino King and his android assistants are confronted
again by Jiro. Gray Rhino King charges. There is an explosion. Jiro is
assumed to have been killed. However, as the smoke clears, the guitar
is heard again. Standing there is a blue and red robot, with a minature
speaker in its head, out of which comes the guitar music. The robot
indentifies itself as Kikaida. There is a brief battle between Kikaida
and the androids and Gray Rhino King. Then Kikaida drives off on a
motorcycle with sidecar, the Sidemachine.
Gray Rhino
King runs after Kikaida. When he catches up to where Kikaida should be,
no one is there, but Gray Rhino King recognises that this is the
location of the Dark secret base. Entering the hidden base, Gray Rhino
King tells his master, Professor Gill, that their is an intruder, who
is some kind of android.
Professor
Gill informs Dr. Komyoji, a robotics expert he has forced to work for
him, that there is an android intruder in the base. Dr. Komyoji says he
would like to see this android. Dr. Komyoji then takes his daughter,
Mistuko, into a secret hidden labortery where he has hidden Jiro. Jiro
it turns out is a jinzo ningen (artificial human) the doctor had made
to defeat the Dark Destruction Corps. Jiro is eager to fight. The
doctor and his daughter think they are save in this hidden lab because
the doctor has disabled Professor Gill's monitoring devices, however,
when the doctor returns to his regular lab the professor is there
waiting for him. Androids decend into the secret lab to get Jiro. Jiro
fights them. One android is thrown into the electrical system causing a
fire. In the confusion Dr. Komyoji orders Jiro to escape, in order to
defeat the Dark. Reluctantly Jiro leaves the DCC base, taking the
doctor's daughter with him.
As Jiro is driving his
motorcycle, a strange sound is heard. It is professor Gill's flute, which drives Dark
Destruction Corps robots mad, because Jiro's conscience circuit is
incomplete the flute effects him. Though he has to strugle against the
effects of the flute, Jiro is stil able to drive his motorcyle through
the barricade placed in his way.
Professor Gill orders
the destruction of Jiro and introduces the audience to the Dark
Destruction Corps (we see only their shadows): Gray Rhino King, Green
Mantis, Orange Ant, Blue Buffalo, Yellow Jaguar, Black Horse, Golden
Bat, Carmine Spider, Scorpion White, Red Snake, Scarlet Dog, Silver Cat
and Pink Tiger. (These monster appear in the series in this order
except that Blue Bulldog appears after Black Horse instead of Golden
Bat [Golden Bat shows up in episode 15], then Red Condor instead of
Scorpion White and Scorpion Brown instead of Red Snake. Scarlet Dog is
replaced by Gold Wolf, who is followed by Silver Cat and then Pink
Tiger.)
Meanwhile,
Gray Rhino King disguised as Dr. Komyoji abducts the doctor's youngest
child, his second son, Masaru. Masaru is used as bait to attract Jiro.
Gray Rhino King lets Jiro know where Masaru is. When Jiro finds Masaru
tied to a bridge and begins to untie him, the bridge explodes. Jiro and
Masaru are thrown into the air. Jiro transforms into Kikaida, and
catching Masaru, uses the rockets in his feet to fly to safety. Once
Masaru is save, Kikaida battles Gray Rhino King.
Kikaida uses his three
trademark comabt techniques on Gray Rhino King, "Double Chop", "Giant
Swing Throw" and the final blow "Electromagnetic End." Although the
Japanese for Electromagnetic End is Denji Endo, in this episode Kikaida
can be clearly heard to say "The End". Starting with the next episode
however, he says "Denji Endo". When Kikaida crosses his arms and shouts
"The End", Gray Rhino King explodes, the pieces that are left over hit
the ground.
Mitsuko and Masaru
look for Jiro. As they watch Jiro rides away on his motorcycle.
"Kikaida, the
mechanical man, was created to destroy the evil of the Dark Destruction
Corps. The days of battle begin today... Fight Kikaida... Fight
Jiro..."
To be
continued.
