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The Best Episodes of Kamen Rider Season 8

Every episode of Kamen Rider Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Kamen Rider Season 8!

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

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Season 8 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "Kamen Rider" season 8 is "BLACK!! Transform", rated 5/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by Yoshiaki Kobayashi and written by Shozo Uehara. "BLACK!! Transform" aired on 10/4/1987 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Monster Party".

  • BLACK!! Transform
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #1 - BLACK!! Transform

    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.

    Director: Yoshiaki Kobayashi

    Writer: Shozo Uehara

  • The Monster Party
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #2 - The Monster 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.

    Director: Makoto Tsuji

    Writer: Shozo Uehara

  • Mysterious Cyborg Mystery
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #3 - Mysterious Cyborg Mystery

    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.

    Director: Makoto Tsuji

    Writer: Shozo Uehara

  • The Devil's Laboratory
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #4 - The Devil's Laboratory

    Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1987

    A cycling friend of Kotaro becomes the subject of Golgom's mad doctor experimenting to find a weakness to their escaped subject.

    Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto

    Writer: Shozo Uehara

  • Kotaro in a Maze!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #5 - Kotaro in a Maze!

    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.

    Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto

    Writer: Junichi Miyashita

  • The Secret Sight Enigma
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #6 - The Secret Sight Enigma

    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.

    Director: Makoto Tsuji

    Writer: Makoto Naito

  • The Living Machine Restored
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #7 - The Living Machine Restored

    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.

    Director: Makoto Tsuji

    Writer: Takashi Yamada

  • The Devil's Trill Sonata
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #8 - The Devil's Trill Sonata

    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.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama

  • The Crimson Lips of Bishum
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #9 - The Crimson Lips of Bishum

    Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1987

    When a girl makes a deal with Bishium to distribute strange pendants in order to help Golgom conquer the city, Kotaro tries to put a stop to this deception.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Junichi Miyashita

  • Where is Nobuhiko?
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #10 - Where is 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.

    Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto

    Writer: Makoto Naito

  • The Hungry Monsters
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #11 - The Hungry Monsters

    Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1987

    The Gorgom's plan to grow fruit for their mutants causes plants to sprout on people all over the city.

    Director: Hiroshi Kitamoto

    Writer: Takashi Yamada

  • A Super-Bike Legend Is Born!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #12 - A Super-Bike Legend Is Born!

    Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1987

    Kotaro discovers the whereabouts of a missing biker, who is raising his son to ride and protect the ultimate bike devised by his father.

    Director: Michio Konishi

    Writer: Shozo Uehara

  • Mama Raises Monster Babies!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #13 - Mama Raises Monster Babies!

    Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1987

    Gorgom kidnaps mothers to nurture its army of mutants, and BLACK finds himself facing an implacable enemy.

    Director: Michio Konishi

    Writer: Noboru Sugimura

  • The Day All Tuna Vanished
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #14 - The Day All Tuna Vanished

    Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1988

    Kotaro fights to stop the abduction of tuna by Professor Kuromatsu in order to gain an extract to improve the power of the Golgom mutants.

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi

  • Assault on a Haunted School
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #15 - Assault on a Haunted School

    Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1988

    Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Junichi Miyashita

  • Friend From Across the Sea!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #16 - Friend From Across the Sea!

    Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1988

    Kotaro attempts to find the source of powerful earthquakes after meeting a mysterious man.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama

  • Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #17 - Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!

    Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1988

    Golgom manipulate the dreams of Nobuhiko's sister Kyoko in order to use her life energy to save an ailing Shadow Moon.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama

  • Sword Saint Birugenia!!
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #18 - Sword Saint Birugenia!!

    Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1988

    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.

    Director: Michio Konishi

    Writer: Takashi Yamada

  • The Suffocating Trap of Hell
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #19 - The Suffocating Trap of Hell

    Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1988

    Bilgenia takes the guise of the doomed Professor Kuromatsu in order to lead Kotaro into a trap for his defeat.

    Director: Michio Konishi

    Writer: Takashi Yamada

  • Rider's Grave
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #20 - Rider's Grave

    Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1988

    No description available

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Noboru Sugimura, Kenichi Araki

  • Clash! Super Machines
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #21 - Clash! Super Machines

    Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1988

    Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Noboru Sugimura, Kenichi Araki

  • The Shadow That Stalks Dad
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #22 - The Shadow That Stalks Dad

    Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1988

    A boy with psychic powers becomes forewarned into thinking that Kotaro is going to harm his father even as Golgom is secretly using him.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Junichi Miyashita

  • Marmo's Magical Powers
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #23 - Marmo's Magical Powers

    Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1988

    When a head of a two-headed ammonite Mutant becomes detached by Kamen Rider Black, it ends up with a kid where it becomes his new pet.

    Director: Junmochi Tsutabayashi

    Writer: Kyōko Sagiyama

  • The Female College Student's Nightmare
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #24 - The Female College Student's Nightmare

    Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1988

    Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Ryu Yamaguchi

  • The Roaring Armed Machine
    5.0/10 1 votes

    #25 - The Roaring Armed Machine

    Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1988

    No description available

    Director: Takeshi Ogasawara

    Writer: Katsuhiko Taguchi