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: 10/11/2024Network: TV AsahiStatus: Continuing
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#1 - Riddle of the Secret ESPers

Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1987

Kotaro must rescue two artists abducted by Golgom to become psychic spies in order to ruin the development of technology for civilization's collapse.

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#2 - 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.

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#3 - Run Through the Maze, Kotaro

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1987

Kotaro investigates a town being brainwashed by a Goat kaijin, hoping to control it for Golgom to ruin an international peace conference.

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#4 - The Regenerating Machine

Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1987

A man who hates rampaging gangs is seduced by Golgom to gain the power to eliminate them, forcing Kotaro to rescue him for the sake of his sister.

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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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.

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#9 - 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.

Directors: Masao Minowa
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#10 - The Devil's Trill

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1987

Kotaro must save a musician girl whose feelings of failure lead to her becoming a member of Golgom's plot to control the world through music.

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#11 - Where's Nobuhiko?

Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1987

Kotaro investigates suspicious auto accidents leading to the victims being used for Golgom's army for causing chaos throughout the world.

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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - 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.

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#16 - 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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#17 - The Mutant Party

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1987

Kotaro looks for his step-brother Nobuhiko Akizuki and plans to track down Golgom's headquarters.

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#18 - Strange? Strange Cyborg

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1987

Kotaro investigates a bizarre string of abductions in conjunction with a scheme by Bishium to bring him down.

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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - Dream Girl Yuki

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

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#22 - 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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#23 - 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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#24 - 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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#25 - 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.