The BEST episodes of Kamen Rider season 2
Every episode of Kamen Rider season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kamen Rider season 2!
A motorcycle-riding hero of justice rises up to fight an evil force, stopping their evil deeds while using their own power against them.
#1 - Last Testament of the Double Riders
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/24/1973
Destron's Scissors-Jaguar separates V3 from the Double Riders to allow Turtle-Bazooka to vaporize Tokyo with the H-Bomb contained inside his body. Scissors-Jaguar decoys Kazami Shiro and keeps him away from Turtle-Bazooka. Can V3 warn Rider One and Two in time? Will V3 and the Double Riders stop the mutants before Tokyo is wiped off of the map?
#2 - Rider Number 3: His Name is V3!
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/17/1973
The hard-won peace obtained with the defeat of Gel-Shocker by Kamen Riders One and Two, is now shattered by a more powerful secret society known as Destron. Disposing of all those who witness their sinister movements, they target Kazami Shiro, a young motorcross racer. After Scissors-Jaguar murders his family, Shiro vows vengeance and becomes Kamen Rider V3.
#3 - Critical Moment! Baron Fang vs. Three Riders!!
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 10/6/1973
Baron Fang resurrects Smilodon the sorceress and ancient mother of the Tusk Tribe in order to destroy the Kamen Riders. Taking on the name Ayanokoji she delivers a voodoo doll that poisons Hongo Takeshi who is taken to a hospital. When Kazami Shiro rushes to the scene she attacks him as Primordial-Tiger, who manages to subdue V3 and locks him up with Hongo. She then targets Ichimonji Hayato… can Hayato free his comrades and best Smilodon?
#4 - Friend or Foe? The Mysterious Riderman
Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 12/8/1973
Ambitious Destron scientist Yuki Joji is condemned to death by Marshal Armor, who sees him as a threat to his position in the organization. Slowly Yuki is lowered into a pool of sulfuric acid, losing his right arm before being rescued by his fellow scientists, who make a daring escape. Hidden away, Katagiri contacts his sister, who is a nurse, to assist in Yuki's cybernetic operation. But Destron is watching and sends Sickleneck-Tortoise to kill them…
#5 - V3 vs. Riderman
Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 12/15/1973
V3 saves Riderman from Sickleneck-Tortoise's nerve gas in the nick of time. Regardless Riderman doesn't want to listen to V3's words against Destron – he only seeks revenge against Marshal Armor. Meanwhile, Marshal Armor begins his plan to spread the nerve gas and begins killing innocents throughout Tokyo, and while Kazami Shiro investigates with Yuki Joji right on his tail, Sickleneck-Tortoise stalks them both…
#6 - Destron's Christmas Present
Season 2 - Episode 45 - Aired 12/22/1973
Marshal Armor sends mutant Rhino-Tank, disguised as Santa Claus, to lure children into the House of Good Fortune, in order to train them as future Destron commandants. Yuki Joji finds this disturbing and "Black Santa" offers to release the children if Joji will defeat V3. In order to save the children, he decides to fight V3 with Rhino-Tank. After the Mach Kick and the Hurricane Dash fail to faze the mutant, an industrial bulldozer slowly crushes V3…
#7 - You Are Rider Number 4!!
Season 2 - Episode 51 - Aired 2/2/1974
Marshal Armor has developed a powerful Pluton Rocket that is more powerful than the H-Bomb and the Great Leader orders that it be aimed at Tokyo. Shiro and Joji become suspicious when a group of mountaineers are killed mysteriously in a remote valley. While investigating, they are attacked by mutant Crawganna who protects the Destron missile base. But, V3 and Riderman fail to stop Marshal Armor from starting the cataclysmic countdown…
#8 - V3 in Danger! Riders One and Two Return!!
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/29/1973
Dr. Samukawa and his daughter Yumiko are put under pain of death by Snow-Wolf to assist Destron to pervert his scientific discovery. Baron Fang places a lycanthropic curse on Yumiko, which transforms her into a werewolf if they do not obey his will. She drugs Junko, Shigeru and Tachibana who are taken prisoner, while Snow-Wolf defeats Kazami Shiro. Frozen in an ice chamber Shiro is unable to transform into V3… who will save them?
#9 - Enter, Hammer Jellyfish! V3 Unleash Your Killing Technique!!
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/24/1973
Mamoru clings to life in a hospital, while his sister blames Kazami Shiro and betrays him to Destron. Hammer-Jellyfish continues the interrogation of Nishizaki and resorts to forcing the information out of her by dangling Tsutomu off of a high-rise. Will Nishizaki give in to Hammer-Jellyfish for her son's life? Can V3 defeat the powerful mutant and save them?
#10 - V3's 26 Secrets!?
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/10/1973
Hypnotizing Tachibana Tobei, TV-Fly orders him to kill Kazami Shiro, while Tama Junko also falls into his trap. Can Shiro stop Destron's evil plan? Will V3 unlock the secret of his 26 hidden techniques, in order to rescue his comrades and defeat Destron's mutants?
#11 - Doktor G! The True Form of Evil is...?
Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/8/1973
The Destron Hunters discover that the microfilm gives the location of a manufacturing plant where Destron creates their mutants. While they succeed in sabotaging the plant, Doktor G arrives to exterminate them, except for Sakuma Ken, who is saved by V3. Doktor G implores the Great Leader to allow him to destroy V3 personally, and transforms into Crab-Laser. Will this be the end of Destron… or Kamen Rider V3?
#12 - Oh! People Are Melting! Enter, Marshal Armor
Season 2 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/24/1973
Summoned from Mongolia, Marshal Armor becomes the new commandant of Destron Japan and employs Nazi transplant technology to create the invulnerable Pumadillon. Marshal Armor releases a slave named Yamashita to contact Kazami Shiro to lure him into a trap. Kazami's old friend Takagi Yusuke work together to protect Yamashita and his family, but something is very wrong — Takagi begins to praise working for Destron…
#13 - A Gunshot Rings Out! Kazami Shiro Falls!!
Season 2 - Episode 49 - Aired 1/19/1974
Destron mutant Chameleon shoots Yuki Joji, but Kazami Shiro takes the bullet. Soon Shiro becomes unable to control his strength and becomes a menace. Meanwhile, Chameleon's human form uses a naive country girl to ensnare the vulnerable Shiro. In order to remove the Vatal Bullet from Shiro's skull, they must infiltrate Destron's Tokyo outpost. But, Marshal Armor and Chameleon are waiting to welcome them…
#14 - A Little Friendship
Season 2 - Episode 50 - Aired 1/26/1974
Mutant Chameleon is resurrected as Vampire-Chameleon and Marshal Armor sends him on a mission to collect the blood of innocent children. Kazami Shiro befriends young Kenichi, who is despondent because he believes that he has seen a mutant. When Vampire-Chameleon attacks Kenichi's grammar school, Shiro and Joji find themselves in a dilemma, when they face a horde of vampire children they cannot kill…
#15 - Snake-Man With a Machine Gun!
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/17/1973
An eminent biologist, Dr. Murayama, discovers a new clean energy source, and Destron's Machinegun-Snake is sent to seize the data. Failing to grab the doctor, he kidnaps assistant Nishizaki Michiko. When she refuses to talk, Machinegun-Snake targets Tsutomu, her son. Kazami Shiro is injured by the mutant! Can V3 protect Tsutomu, his friend Mamoru, and rescue his mother?
#16 - Riderman, Where Will You Go?
Season 2 - Episode 46 - Aired 12/29/1973
Pinned against a cliff by a bulldozer V3 uses his Reverse Double Typhoon to save himself and infiltrates the Destron outpost. He saves Yuki Joji who was trapped in an execution chamber, but Destron mercilessly pummels V3, who was injured in his battle with Rhino-Tank. Yuki finally sees Destron's cruelty, but will he rescue V3 or the kidnapped children? Which way will Riderman go…?
#17 - Terror of the Carnivorous Fauna Plantaingan!!
Season 2 - Episode 39 - Aired 11/10/1973
Archbishop Wing plans to use the poison of the inhuman Plantaingan, combined with 30,000 volts of electricity, to create miniaturized people preserved for use in creating cyborgs. The mutant kidnaps a young boy's sister and Kazami Shiro must fight in order to save her. Plantaingan attacks Rider Scouts HQ to liquidate a captured Destron Soldier and threatens Tachibana Tobei and Company. Can V3 liberate them from the tendrils of death?
#18 - Baron Fang's Final Transformation
Season 2 - Episode 35 - Aired 10/13/1973
A Destron fugitive calls Rider Scouts HQ to reveal a sinister plot, but the line goes dead. Discovering a locker key at the scene, Kazami Shiro is ambushed by Bloodthirsty-Mammoth, but escapes. Shiro retrieves photographs of three members of parliament whom Baron Fang plans to brainwash in order to conquer Japan. So he disguises himself as one of the men and is taken to Destron's outpost. Can V3 stop Baron Fang's diabolical plot?
#19 - Spectre of Onibi Swamp: Rider Scouts Annihilated!?
Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/22/1973
Given the task of destroying the Rider Scouts, Fireball-Walrus possesses Tachibana Tobei's old friend Ito, the manager of the mountain villa where the scouts go on retreat. When Junko discovers his true identity, she is also marked for death. When they are attacked, V3 comes to the rescue, but not only must he fight Fireball-Walrus, but he also comes face to face with Baron Fang. Who will triumph?
#20 - Zol, Death, Hell and Black Rise From the Grave
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/18/1973
Rider Scout Shotaro has discovered Shocker mutants entombed in a lakeside cave. When he arrives, the mutants are gone, but Kazami Shiro is ambushed by Destron's powerful Quoit-Beetle. Destron plots to destroy the whole of Japan by resurrecting former Shocker Commandants Colonel Zol, Doctor Death, Ambassador Hell and General Black, using a newly developed toxic gas called Girard Gamma. Suddenly, V3 is attacked by the revived Shocker mutants, led by Quit-Beetle!
#21 - The Claws of Evil Reach Out for V3!!
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/28/1973
Destron forces Marine biologist Dr. Nakatani to create a powerful aquatic mutant, Pickaxe-Shark. The doctor escapes, but his creation is sent to kill him. Meanwhile, a chinpira exposes Kazami Shiro's secret identity to Junko, but is captured and transformed into Drill-Mole. As V3 battles Pickaxe-Shark in the open sea, Drill-Mole abducts Junko to force her into an unholy union!
#22 - The Last Day of Destron
Season 2 - Episode 52 - Aired 2/9/1974
The Great Leader initiates "Operation: D", a final, all-out offensive to seize control of Japan. Destron revives Deadman-Bat, Fireball-Walrus and Plantaingan who attack Rider Scouts HQ and kidnap Junko and the Scouts. Meanwhile, Kazami Shiro has discovered Destron's headquarters where dwells the Great Leader, but the mutants bury him in a mound of dampening powder made from special alloys. Even if V3 escapes their trap, Crawganna awaits…
#23 - Look! The Face of the Destron Leader!!
Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 1/12/1974
The Great Leader, overlord of Destron, arrives in Japan. When V3 and Riderman go after him, they fall into a trap. Meanwhile, Destron mutant Thorned-Starfish puts into action his plan to annihilate Tokyo. In the grip of suffocation, V3 and Riderman are saved when Tachibana Tobei comes to their aid. V3 and Riderman fight Thorned-Starfish, but when V3 turns to take on the Destron Leader, Riderman suddenly takes a stand to defend him…
#24 - Ambush! The Destron Leader!!
Season 2 - Episode 47 - Aired 1/5/1974
A New Year's card from Marshal Armor arrives for Yuki Joji, so he and Kazami Shiro investigate the return address. When they split up and enter the manor, Coelacanth-Kid attacks V3 and Riderman falls into Marshal Armor's hands. The mutant takes on Joji's form, becoming "Destron Riderman" in order to wipe out Shiro and the Rider Scouts. Shiro is tricked by the fake Joji and is thrown off of a cliff! Then the evil imposter makes his way to Rider Scouts HQ…
#25 - Sudden Death! V3 Mach Kick!!
Season 2 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/17/1973
Destron mutant Deadman-Bat, employing a virus called the Himalayan Devil, turns the residents of apartment complexes in all the major cities into vampire slaves. When Rider Scout Kiyoshi discovers his older brother is one of the victims, he and Shigeru are attacked by the mutant. V3 challenges Deadman-Bat, but is tossed from the air and Kiyoshi is injured. Can V3 develop a new technique in order to defeat the true form of Archbishop Wing?