The BEST episodes of Kamen Rider season 8
Every episode of Kamen Rider season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kamen Rider season 8!
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 - BLACK!! Henshin
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1987
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.
#2 - Death of Flower Mutant Bishium
Season 8 - Episode 45 - Aired 8/21/1988
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.
#3 - Rider Dies!
Season 8 - Episode 47 - Aired 9/4/1988
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...
#4 - A Bouquet of Reminiscence to the Sea
Season 8 - Episode 48 - Aired 9/11/1988
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...
#5 - What is the Creation King's True Form?
Season 8 - Episode 50 - Aired 10/2/1988
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.
#6 - Gorgom's Last Day
Season 8 - Episode 51 - Aired 10/9/1988
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.
#7 - The War Declaration of Love and Death
Season 8 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/19/1988
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.
#8 - Fierce Battle! Death of Darom
Season 8 - Episode 49 - Aired 9/18/1988
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.
#9 - Fight! The Two Princes
Season 8 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/12/1988
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.
#10 - Revival? The Prince of Hell
Season 8 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/5/1988
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.
#11 - Sword Saint Birugenia!!
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1988
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.
#12 - The Fire Breathing Danger Road
Season 8 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/17/1988
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.
#13 - Clash! Super Machines
Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1988
Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.
#14 - The Scarab Beetle's Invitation to Hell
Season 8 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/24/1988
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.
#15 - The Targeted Death Mask
Season 8 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/1/1988
Kotaro must rescue four Japanese astronauts when they're abducted and replaced with doll-like clones controlled by a Golgom Mutant.
#16 - Aloha to the Assassin!
Season 8 - Episode 30 - Aired 5/8/1988
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.
#17 - Dream Girl Yuki
Season 8 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/22/1988
#18 - Father, Son, and the River of Love
Season 8 - Episode 33 - Aired 5/29/1988
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.
#19 - Memories in the Yubari Sky
Season 8 - Episode 37 - Aired 6/26/1988
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.
#20 - Mystery? EP-Party Boy Squad
Season 8 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/3/1988
When Golgom creates a new political party claiming they'll bring about peace, Kotaro investigates and discovers a nefarious plot using this guise.
#21 - The Idol's Evil Power
Season 8 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/10/1988
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.
#22 - The Karate Master's Secret
Season 8 - Episode 40 - Aired 7/17/1988
In pursuit of a destructive Salamander Mutant, Kotaro encounters a peculiar karate master in the woods training a boy to be a fighter.
#23 - The Dangerous Time Thief
Season 8 - Episode 41 - Aired 7/24/1988
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.
#24 - Tokyo Mutant Gathering
Season 8 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/31/1988
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?
#25 - The Mutant Farm Battle
Season 8 - Episode 43 - Aired 8/7/1988
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!