Kamen Rider Amazon


Kamen Rider Amazon is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The fourth installment to be produced as part of the Kamen Rider Series, the series aired in Japan from late 1974 to early 1975 on the NET and Mainichi Broadcasting System. It was the shortest Kamen Rider series ever, lasting only 24 episodes. While this was believed to be due to the show's heavy amounts of graphic violence, in reality this was due to a pre-planned changeover between networks airing the program, from NET to MBS/TBS, which requested a clean break in airing series, thus resulting in a pre-planned end at episode 24.

Plot summary

A plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving young Daisuke Yamamoto stranded without his parents. Soon adopted by an Incan tribe under the name "Amazon", he becomes a wild child, living off the land. However, his village is massacred by the Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos, who searches for the powerful GiGi Armlet in order to take over the world with it. The last Inca, Elder Bago, gives Daisuke the GiGi Armlet for safekeeping, and uses his knowledge of Incan science and magic to perform a mystic ritual on Daisuke and transform him into the powerful "Kamen Rider Amazon" before dying. Now in Japan, Daisuke battles the evil organization Geddon, unaware of why they pursue him. Befriending Professor Kousaka's nephew and niece, Daisuke learns of the GiGi Armlet's true nature and ultimately defeats Geddon, then the Garanda Empire.

Characters

Geddon is the evil organization based in the Amazon before moving to Japan, bent on world dominion and fueled by human blood.
The Garanda Empire makes its appearance prior to Gorgos' death, taking the GaGa Bracelet for their own use as they go on a campaign of terrorist attacks on Tokyo to make it into their seat of power before going after the rest of the world. Led by the mysterious "Ruler" and stationed underground in a trap-filled base, the Garanda Empire also uses Beastmen as their kaijin.
  1. Man or Beast? The Cool Guy Who Came From the Jungle!
  2. Ten-Faced Demon! God or Devil?
  3. The Strong, Naked, Fast Guy!
  4. Run! The Raging Jungler
  5. The Weirdo Who Came From Underground!!
  6. The Inca Rope-Pattern Writing Mystery!!
  7. Melt! Melt! The Terrifying Snake Beastman
  8. The Crocodile Beastman Who Attacked the School
  9. Go, Amazon! The Crab Beastman's Island!
  10. Black Cat Beastman Aiming at the Nursery School!
  11. The Golden Snail's the Reaper's Envoy!?
  12. Seen! Geddon's Beastman Modification Room
  13. Approaching! Ten-Faced Demon! Danger, Amazon!!
  14. The Ten-Faced Demon Dies! And a New Enemy?
  15. He Came Forth! The Terrible Great Emperor Zero
  16. Garanda's Tokyo Sea of Flames Operation!!
  17. Mt. Fuji's Big Explosion? Tokyo's Frying Pan Operation!
  18. Zero's Terror! The Massive Earthquake Operation!!
  19. Going into Action, The Garanda Youth Squad
  20. Mole Beastman's Last Activity!!
  21. Cannibal Beastman to Eat the Frozen Rider
  22. Inca Doll's Day to Annihilate Greater Tokyo
  23. Imitation Riders vs. Amazon Rider!
  24. You Did It, Amazon!! The End of Great Emperor Zero!!

    Movie

The Kamen Rider Amazon movie is a theatrical version of episode 16, depicting Gengoro Beastman's attempt to execute Garanda's Tokyo Sea of Flame plan.

S.I.C. Hero Saga

The S.I.C. Hero Saga story for Amazon as published in the May through July 2004 issues of Monthly Hobby Japan magazine is titled Masked Rider Amazon Edition: Pre-Stage. It serves as a prologue to the Amazon series, and features the original characters Pre-Amazon, the Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos, Kitty, and the Jungler.
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  1. Human-Faced Stone
  2. Meteorite
  3. Armlet

    ''Kamen Rider Amazons''

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series, Toei and Amazon.com collaborated on an original Amazon Video series titled, serving as a reimagining of Kamen Rider Amazon in a modern biopunk setting.

Cast

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