Kamen Rider Season 8

Synopsis

After being kidnapped by the cult Gorgom on the night of their 19th birthday, stepbrothers Kotaro Minami and Nobuhiko Akizuki are submitted to a mutant surgery with the purpose of becoming the candidates to be the next Creation King. Kotaro escapes before the brainwashing, with help from his foster father, and turned against Gorgom. He soon finds out the horrific truth from his stepfather: Gorgom originally killed his true parents. Later on, Kamen Rider Black must battle with his brother, who has become the trump card of Gorgom, Shadow Moon.

Main Cast

Tetsuo Kurata

Kohtaro Minami / Kamen Rider Black

Age : N/A | Popularity : 10%

Masaki Terasoma

Shadow Moon (voice)

Age : 61 | Popularity : 3%

Akemi Inoue

Kyoko Akizuki

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Ayumi Taguchi

Katsumi Kida

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Hitomi Yoshii

High Priestess Bishium

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Shozo Iizuka

High Priest Darom (voice)

Age : 90 | Popularity : 4%

Toshimichi Takahashi

High Priest Baraom (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Jun Yoshida

Kensei Bilgenia

Age : 62 | Popularity : 0%

Episodes

Episode 1

04 October 1987 - Black!! Transformation

Kotaro Minami, a youth on the run from the mysterious organization known as Golgom, begins to awaken into a horrifying new form granted to them due to their greater plans for him; making him choose to use it instead to fight them as Kamen Rider Black.

Episode 2

11 October 1987 - The Mutant Party

Kotaro looks for his step-brother Nobuhiko Akizuki and plans to track down Golgom's headquarters.

Episode 3

18 October 1987 - Strange? Strange Cyborg

Kotaro investigates a bizarre string of abductions in conjunction with a scheme by Bishium to bring him down.

Episode 4

25 October 1987 - The Devil's Laboratory

A cycling friend of Kotaro becomes the subject of Golgom's mad doctor experimenting to find a weakness to their escaped subject.

Episode 5

01 November 1987 - Run Through the Maze, Kotaro

Kotaro investigates a town being brainwashed by a Goat kaijin, hoping to control it for Golgom to ruin an international peace conference.

Episode 6

08 November 1987 - Riddle of the Secret ESPers

Kotaro must rescue two artists abducted by Golgom to become psychic spies in order to ruin the development of technology for civilization's collapse.

Episode 7

15 November 1987 - The Regenerating Machine

A man who hates rampaging gangs is seduced by Golgom to gain the power to eliminate them, forcing Kotaro to rescue him for the sake of his sister.

Episode 8

22 November 1987 - The Devil's Trill

Kotaro must save a musician girl whose feelings of failure lead to her becoming a member of Golgom's plot to control the world through music.

Episode 9

29 November 1987 - Bishum's Red Lips

When a girl makes a deal with Bishium to distribute strange pendants in order to help Golgom conquer the city, Kotaro tries to put a stop to this deception.

Episode 10

06 December 1987 - Where's Nobuhiko?

Kotaro investigates suspicious auto accidents leading to the victims being used for Golgom's army for causing chaos throughout the world.

Episode 11

13 December 1987 - The Starving Mutants

The Gorgom's plan to grow fruit for their mutants causes plants to sprout on people all over the city.

Episode 12

20 December 1987 - Birth of the Super Machine Legend

Kotaro discovers the whereabouts of a missing biker, who is raising his son to ride and protect the ultimate bike devised by his father.

Episode 13

27 December 1987 - My Mom is a Mutant Nanny

Gorgom kidnaps mothers to nurture its army of mutants, and BLACK finds himself facing an implacable enemy.

Episode 14

03 January 1988 - The Last Day of Tuna

Kotaro fights to stop the abduction of tuna by Professor Kuromatsu in order to gain an extract to improve the power of the Golgom mutants.

Episode 15

10 January 1988 - The Targeted Ghoul School

Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.

Episode 16

17 January 1988 - My Friend! Go Beyond the Sea

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 17

24 January 1988 - Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!

Golgom manipulate the dreams of Nobuhiko's sister Kyoko in order to use her life energy to save an ailing Shadow Moon.

Episode 18

31 January 1988 - Sword Saint Birugenia!!

Golgom's Creation King forces the release of a powerful yet rebellious swordsman, who decides to try and take down Kotaro on his own terms.

Episode 19

07 February 1988 - The Suffocating Trap of Hell

Bilgenia takes the guise of the doomed Professor Kuromatsu in order to lead Kotaro into a trap for his defeat.

Episode 20

14 February 1988 - Rider's Grave

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 21

21 February 1988 - Clash! Super Machines

Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.

Episode 22

28 February 1988 - The Shadow That Stalks Dad

A boy with psychic powers becomes forewarned into thinking that Kotaro is going to harm his father even as Golgom is secretly using him.

Episode 23

06 March 1988 - Marmo's Magical Powers

When a head of a two-headed ammonite Mutant becomes detached by Kamen Rider Black, it ends up with a kid where it becomes his new pet.

Episode 24

13 March 1988 - The Female College Student's Nightmare

Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.

Episode 25

20 March 1988 - The Roaring Armed Machine

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 26

27 March 1988 - Rescue the ESPer Girl

A Golgom Mutant takes advantage of a girl's obsession to become strong to give her super-strength but ultimately takes control of her forcing Kotaro to save her.

Episode 27

03 April 1988 - The Fire Breathing Danger Road

Kotaro must avoid the dangers of the Golgom priests and an electricity controlling Mutant in order to restore power for a kid who needs vital surgery.

Episode 28

10 April 1988 - The Scarab Beetle's Invitation to Hell

Bilgenia uses a scarab beetle Mutant to create a craze for its minions, forcing Kotaro into a corner in trying to stem this greedy obsession.

Episode 29

17 April 1988 - The Targeted Death Mask

Kotaro must rescue four Japanese astronauts when they're abducted and replaced with doll-like clones controlled by a Golgom Mutant.

Episode 30

24 April 1988 - Aloha to the Assassin!

When a special female assassin is created by Golgom in Hawaii and sent to Japan to go after Kotaro, Kazuya Taki returns to help deal with protecting them.

Episode 31

01 May 1988 - Burn! Boy Warriors

The Golgom Boy Warriors reunite with Kotaro to help save children being abducted by Golgom to create a new, stronger generation of child warriors.

Episode 32

08 May 1988 - Dream Girl Yuki

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 33

15 May 1988 - Father, Son, and the River of Love

Kotaro must help a boy realize he can walk again even while trying to stop a Golgom plot of manipulating a river to cause chaos.

Episode 34

22 May 1988 - Revival? The Prince of Hell

When the Golgom Priests abduct Kyoko to speed up the revival of Shadow Moon, Bilgenia decides to take the weapon of the Century King to prove superiority and to defeat Kamen Rider Black before his rival can be born.

Episode 35

29 May 1988 - Fight! The Two Princes

With Kotaro barely escaping from Bilgenia, the Golgom swordsman rampages to force Black into a final showdown, hoping to stop him even as Shadow Moon finally awakens.

Episode 36

05 June 1988 - The War Declaration of Love and Death

As Kotaro and Kyoko cope with Nobuhiko's transformation into Shadow Moon, the new Golgom leader transforms his commanders to declare the start of Golgom's conquest of Earth.

Episode 37

12 June 1988 - Memories in the Yubari Sky

A Mutant attack on a friend's wedding in Hokkaido leads to Katsumi becoming Golgom's tool, forcing Kotaro to pursue them in order to save her from their grasp.

Episode 38

19 June 1988 - Mystery? EP-Party Boy Squad

When Golgom creates a new political party claiming they'll bring about peace, Kotaro investigates and discovers a nefarious plot using this guise.

Episode 39

26 June 1988 - The Idol's Evil Power

Bishium uses the identity of a girl to turn a mutant into an idol hypnotizing her fans into Golgom's mentality while tricking Kotaro into believing she is still innocent.

Episode 40

03 July 1988 - The Karate Master's Secret

In pursuit of a destructive Salamander Mutant, Kotaro encounters a peculiar karate master in the woods training a boy to be a fighter.

Episode 41

10 July 1988 - The Dangerous Time Thief

A boy brooding over his father's murder by Golgom becomes abducted by two samurai thrown out of time by a Mutant's magic time-controlling box.

Episode 42

17 July 1988 - Tokyo Mutant Gathering

Kotaro meets two brothers, Makoto and Yuki who has psychic powers which Yuki gets kidnap by Fly Mutant to bring the Phantom Mutants to life and begins a invasion of Tokyo. Kotaro tries to fight back and only to find the Phantom Monsters tuern themselves incorporeal to avoid his attacks! Will Kotaro find a way of how to end this madness, once and for all?

Episode 43

24 July 1988 - The Mutant Farm Battle

Kotaro investigates the claim of a child that something strange is happening at his apartment, leading to a discovery of its inhabitants being used to create new mutants for Golgom!

Episode 44

31 July 1988 - An Ocean Inside the Closet

A boy accidentally intercepts a signal associated with Baraom's warp device, forcing Kotaro to protect him and stop Golgom's plan to use it to sink Japan.

Episode 45

07 August 1988 - Death of Flower Mutant Bishium

Bishium uses a plot to turn women against their nurturing nature to lure Kotaro into a trap where he must face her in a final showdown where allegiances are tested.

Episode 46

14 August 1988 - Fierce Death of Baraom

With the death of Biishum, Baraom decides to battle Kotaro one last time in vengeance, while the beginning of an unnatural phenomenon forces Shadow Moon to make his move towards Black's King Stone!

Episode 47

21 August 1988 - Rider Dies!

With a limited time before the end of the Creation King, Kotaro and Shadow Moon are forced to finally have their ultimate showdown, where only one will be victorious...

Episode 48

28 August 1988 - A Bouquet of Reminiscence to the Sea

With Kotaro dead and Golgom standing victorious over a burning Japan, Kyoko and Katsumi try to survive until they escape their home, even as a miraculous event is occurring within the ocean...

Episode 49

04 September 1988 - Fierce Battle! Death of Darom

Reviving from his defeat against Shadow Moon, Kotaro discovers the current state of Japan since Golgom's victory as Darom targets his elimination to complete Shadow Moon's final ascension.

Episode 50

11 September 1988 - What is the Creation King's True Form?

Finally reaching Golgom's headquarters, Kotaro confronts Shadow Moon a final time as the Creation King forces the former brothers to complete their final showdown.

Episode 51

18 September 1988 - Gorgom's Last Day

The final battle between Black Sun and Shadow Moon comes to a bittersweet end as the final fate of Kotaro, Nobuhiko, and the Creation King is finally determined.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Theme Song Performance	Tetsuo Kurata
Department	Role	Name

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