Kamen Rider Series - Season 8
Season 8
Kamen Rider Black
After being kidnapped by the cult Gorgom on the night of their 19th birthday, stepbrothers Kotaro Minami and Nobuhiko Akizuki are submitted to a mutant surgery with the purpose of becoming the candidates to be the next Creation King. Kotaro escapes before the brainwashing, with help from his foster father, and turned against Gorgom. He soon finds out the horrific truth from his stepfather: Gorgom originally killed his true parents. Later on, Kamen Rider Black must battle with his brother, who has become the trump card of Gorgom, Shadow Moon.
Network
Episodes51
DatesOct 4, 1987 - Oct 9, 1988
Episodes
Season 8Episode 130 min
BLACK!! Henshin
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.
Oct 4, 1987
Season 8Episode 230 min
The Mutant Party
Kotaro looks for his step-brother Nobuhiko Akizuki and plans to track down Golgom's headquarters.
Oct 11, 1987
Season 8Episode 330 min
Strange? Strange Cyborg
Kotaro investigates a bizarre string of abductions in conjunction with a scheme by Bishium to bring him down.
Oct 18, 1987
Season 8Episode 430 min
The Devil's Laboratory
A cycling friend of Kotaro becomes the subject of Golgom's mad doctor experimenting to find a weakness to their escaped subject.
Oct 25, 1987
Season 8Episode 530 min
Run Through the Maze, Kotaro
Kotaro investigates a town being brainwashed by a Goat kaijin, hoping to control it for Golgom to ruin an international peace conference.
Nov 1, 1987
Season 8Episode 630 min
Riddle of the Secret ESPers
Kotaro must rescue two artists abducted by Golgom to become psychic spies in order to ruin the development of technology for civilization's collapse.
Nov 8, 1987
Season 8Episode 730 min
The Regenerating Machine
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.
Nov 15, 1987
Season 8Episode 830 min
The Devil's Trill
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.
Nov 22, 1987
Season 8Episode 930 min
Bishum's Red Lips
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.
Nov 29, 1987
Season 8Episode 1030 min
Where's Nobuhiko?
Kotaro investigates suspicious auto accidents leading to the victims being used for Golgom's army for causing chaos throughout the world.
Dec 6, 1987
Season 8Episode 1130 min
The Starving Mutants
The Gorgom's plan to grow fruit for their mutants causes plants to sprout on people all over the city.
Dec 13, 1987
Season 8Episode 1230 min
Birth of the Super Machine Legend
Kotaro discovers the whereabouts of a missing biker, who is raising his son to ride and protect the ultimate bike devised by his father.
Dec 20, 1987
Season 8Episode 1330 min
My Mom is a Mutant Nanny
Gorgom kidnaps mothers to nurture its army of mutants, and BLACK finds himself facing an implacable enemy.
Dec 27, 1987
Season 8Episode 1430 min
The Last Day of Tuna
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.
Jan 10, 1988
Season 8Episode 1530 min
The Targeted Ghoul School
Keisuke tries to stop a Golgom scheme of using schools to mold children into model students to assist in their control of Earth.
Jan 17, 1988
Season 8Episode 1630 min
My Friend! Go Beyond the Sea
Kotaro attempts to find the source of powerful earthquakes after meeting a mysterious man.
Jan 24, 1988
Season 8Episode 1730 min
Kyoko's Mysterious Dream!
Golgom manipulate the dreams of Nobuhiko's sister Kyoko in order to use her life energy to save an ailing Shadow Moon.
Jan 31, 1988
Season 8Episode 1830 min
Sword Saint Birugenia!!
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.
Feb 7, 1988
Season 8Episode 1930 min
The Suffocating Trap of Hell
Bilgenia takes the guise of the doomed Professor Kuromatsu in order to lead Kotaro into a trap for his defeat.
Feb 14, 1988
Season 8Episode 2030 min
Rider's Grave
Feb 21, 1988
Season 8Episode 2130 min
Clash! Super Machines
Bishium uses a Mutant to infect Battle Hopper with insects that make it run wild and ignore Kotaro's commands.
Feb 28, 1988
Season 8Episode 2230 min
The Shadow That Stalks Dad
A boy with psychic powers becomes forewarned into thinking that Kotaro is going to harm his father even as Golgom is secretly using him.
Mar 6, 1988
Season 8Episode 2330 min
Marmo's Magical Powers
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.
Mar 13, 1988
Season 8Episode 2430 min
The Female College Student's Nightmare
Kotaro must save Katsumi and other college girls from a professor turned Golgom Mutant hoping to add more females to the mutant army.
Mar 20, 1988
Season 8Episode 2530 min
The Roaring Armed Machine
Apr 3, 1988
Season 8Episode 2630 min
Rescue the ESPer Girl
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.
Apr 10, 1988
Season 8Episode 2730 min
The Fire Breathing Danger Road
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.
Apr 17, 1988
Season 8Episode 2830 min
The Scarab Beetle's Invitation to Hell
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.
Apr 24, 1988
Season 8Episode 2930 min
The Targeted Death Mask
Kotaro must rescue four Japanese astronauts when they're abducted and replaced with doll-like clones controlled by a Golgom Mutant.
May 1, 1988
Season 8Episode 3030 min
Aloha to the Assassin!
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.
May 8, 1988
Season 8Episode 3130 min
Burn! Boy Warriors
The Golgom Boy Warriors reunite with Kotaro to help save children being abducted by Golgom to create a new, stronger generation of child warriors.
May 15, 1988
Season 8Episode 3230 min
Dream Girl Yuki
May 22, 1988
Season 8Episode 3330 min
Father, Son, and the River of Love
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.
May 29, 1988
Season 8Episode 3430 min
Revival? The Prince of Hell
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.
Jun 5, 1988
Season 8Episode 3530 min
Fight! The Two Princes
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.
Jun 12, 1988
Season 8Episode 3630 min
The War Declaration of Love and Death
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.
Jun 19, 1988
Season 8Episode 3730 min
Memories in the Yubari Sky
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.
Jun 26, 1988
Season 8Episode 3830 min
Mystery? EP-Party Boy Squad
When Golgom creates a new political party claiming they'll bring about peace, Kotaro investigates and discovers a nefarious plot using this guise.
Jul 3, 1988
Season 8Episode 3930 min
The Idol's Evil Power
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.
Jul 10, 1988
Season 8Episode 4030 min
The Karate Master's Secret
In pursuit of a destructive Salamander Mutant, Kotaro encounters a peculiar karate master in the woods training a boy to be a fighter.
Jul 17, 1988
Season 8Episode 4130 min
The Dangerous Time Thief
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.
Jul 24, 1988
Season 8Episode 4230 min
Tokyo Mutant Gathering
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?
Jul 31, 1988
Season 8Episode 4330 min
The Mutant Farm Battle
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!
Aug 7, 1988
Season 8Episode 4430 min
An Ocean Inside the Closet
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.
Aug 14, 1988
Season 8Episode 4530 min
Death of Flower Mutant Bishium
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.
Aug 21, 1988
Season 8Episode 4630 min
Fierce Death of Baraom
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!
Aug 28, 1988
Season 8Episode 4730 min
Rider Dies!
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...
Sep 4, 1988
Season 8Episode 4830 min
A Bouquet of Reminiscence to the Sea
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...
Sep 11, 1988
Season 8Episode 4930 min
Fierce Battle! Death of Darom
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.
Sep 18, 1988
Season 8Episode 5030 min
What is the Creation King's True Form?
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.
Oct 2, 1988
Season 8Episode 5130 min
Gorgom's Last Day
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.
Oct 9, 1988
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