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.

Last Updated: 6/16/2026Network: TV AsahiStatus: Continuing
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#1 - 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.

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#2 - 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.

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#3 - 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.

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#4 - 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.

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#5 - 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.

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#6 - Burn! Boy Warriors

Season 8 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/15/1988

The Golgom Boy Warriors reunite with Kotaro to help save children being abducted by Golgom to create a new, stronger generation of child warriors.

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#7 - Dream Girl Yuki

Season 8 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/22/1988

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#8 - 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.

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#9 - 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.

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#10 - 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.

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#11 - 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.

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#12 - 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.

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#13 - 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.

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#14 - Rescue the ESPer Girl

Season 8 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/10/1988

A Golgom Mutant takes advantage of a girl's obsession to become strong to give her super-strength but ultimately takes control of her forcing Kotaro to save her.

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#15 - 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.

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#16 - 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.

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#17 - 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?

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#18 - 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!

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#19 - An Ocean Inside the Closet

Season 8 - Episode 44 - Aired 8/14/1988

A boy accidentally intercepts a signal associated with Baraom's warp device, forcing Kotaro to protect him and stop Golgom's plan to use it to sink Japan.

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#20 - 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.

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#21 - Fierce Death of Baraom

Season 8 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/28/1988

With the death of Biishum, Baraom decides to battle Kotaro one last time in vengeance, while the beginning of an unnatural phenomenon forces Shadow Moon to make his move towards Black's King Stone!

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#22 - 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...

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#23 - 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...

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#24 - 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.

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#25 - 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.