jiro the hero.

Jiro is a young guitar-playin’ man driving a sidecar-equipped motorcycle, who is, in reality, a crazy-looking robot android, Kikaida. With a bizarre half-semi-translucent head with pupil-less baby-doll eyes, rocket feet and super-strength, he battles the varied creatures/robots of the Dark Destruction Corps using space age weaponry and fancy karate techniques. (toestubber)

Kikaider, Android of Justice, otherwise known as Jinzō Ningen Kikaidā, a 1970s Japanese guitar hero with ultra special super powers (electro end). Kikaider fights robots and androids courtesy of the DARK. the episode list of the single season lasting show reads more like Les Rallizes Dénudés song titles than anything else, for example: The Cutthroat is the Mysterious Green Mantis (e. 2), Death Challenge of Accursed Orange Ant (e. 3), Black Horse Waits for the Place of Execution (e. 6), Death Agony! Bewitching Bird Red Condor (e. 9).

The guitared Jiro, our hero
He’s a gentle and strong robot
Battling with evil once again today
With a guitar punch, strikes them down
Finish off the Dark Robots

Side Machine, car of the future
Tearing up the atmosphere, it runs
Even in water it floats
At mach speed it flies off
Finish off the Dark Robots

Kikaida is an android
Like a jet, he flies in the air
The sure-death move is the Giant Swing
With the Double Chop he smashes
Finish off the Dark Robots

(kikaider theme song)

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