This little bit of exposition serves to explain how he was chosen to become the next Kamen Rider, and we get a little bit of his intention to pay back Shocker for what they had done to him. We are then treated to a flashback of Hayato being readied for operation at a Shocker HQ.

After Kamen Rider causes the Shocker grunts to fall into the bombs, CactoGaron himself makes an appearance only to get thrashed around by Hayato before retreating. Kamen Rider manages to bust up on the Shocker Grunts, only to find that the battlefield is abound with the “Mexican Rose” bombs planted by CactoGaron.

The silver stripe motif is present throughout the uniform and it’s the new color for the mouthpiece, plus the suit now carries a shade of green that is much richer than the color Hongo’s suit faded into by Episode 13. Tachibana forms a Motorcycle Club which also changes the look of the Kamen Rider homebase from a cafe to more of a shop, Taki also continues his elevated role as the Shocker Grunt Kicker-Of-Posterior, and Ruriko dissappears and is replaced by the trio Mari, Yuri, and Michi, and there’s seems to be a sweet party underfoot!įrom the above pic, you can tell Toei made some changes to the suit to distinguish it from Hongo’s Kamen Rider. He even stealth enters Japan, tricks Taki in to driving him through the area before Taki catches on and throws him out. To begin with, CactoGaron decides to apply a plan that was successful in Mexico: To plant his “Mexican Roses” along Japan’s major dams to destroy them and cause overall chaos. These set of episodes bring a complete tonal shift from the stoicism of the previous 13 episodes and brings a much lighter tone to the proceedings as such, I felt it would be best to review these both together so one could get a sense of how things change. He does have a neat ability to pop up out of the ground and also has some neat “Mexican Roses”, but can be a bit gullible sometimes. The Kajin that you see here is CactoGaron, a Shocker cyborg from Mexico who tries to bring the same level of success that he had in his home country to Japan, only to be foiled by the new Kamen Rider Hayato Ichimonji.

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