ready when you are, dad. right! activating now. what the...?! ichiro! ichiro!!!
Android kikaider, my brother... android kikaiderthe animation the afterglow of regret excuse me.
doctor...doctor komyoji, right? who are you? forgive me.your late son ichiro and i... ...met more or less by chancewhile he was studying overseas. you knew ichiro...? gill helbert, sir.how do you do? ichiro wrote thisletter to you...? yes. i'd like to fulfill his request,assuming that wouldn't offend you.
the robot that you'recurrently constructing... sorry. android, i mean.i'd like to help fund it. i really appreciatethe offer, but... i just... i don't have the will tocarry on anymore. first my wife passed away,and now i've lost ichiro... i don't have anythingleft to live for... i understandhow you feel, sir. however, this is essentiallyichiro's last request.
are you really willingto let it die with him? i don't understand complicatedthings like this, but... but surely granting yourson's wish will be... ...the best memorial youcould ever give him, right? frau helbert... i'm not theprofessor's wife, sir. ah, yes.i forgot to introduce you. this is my private secretary. my name is chigusa sakamoto.
mother... what wereyou doing with gill...?! don't worry, kikaider. i'll do all i can to gently sendyou to your eternal rest. for only i can understandthe torment you feel... "i wonder just howfar i can trust gill." in return for the fundingcame order after order... ...for new androids. androids to be used as weapons. i wonder now just what gillintends to do with them.
last night, he cameyet again to check on... ...the production ofa bat-type robot. i have secretly installed intoit a conscience circuit. the gemini system which iam currently developing. i hope it will act as a brakeon any evil plans he may have. why do you hurt me,conscience circuit? are these pangs of guilt? ridiculous! it can't be... it can't be!
"i've been...i've been such a fool!" "even that accident was all gill's..." it can't be true... mother...! kikaider... your dear jiro... ...has died by my hand. i've been such a fool! even that accidentwas all gill's doing. he killed ichiro so that he'dbe able to get close to me. but that... that's not themost unbelievable thing.
my own wife turnedout to be gill's spy! i understand. give the messageto professor gill. mommy? who's gill? mommy! mommy!!! it's not true! it's not true... it can't be! it's not true... it's not... ji... ro...
mitsuko... so, you're awake. jiro... he's all right! he's either very luckyor very unlucky. it might have been easier for himto have just stayed buried. jiro! yes, kikaider... we can at least havesome fun, can't we?
we must all play our partsin this tragedy, after all... jiro! mitsuko! i'm surprised you were soeasily fooled by a simple hologram. so, you're so crazyabout this girl... ...that you lost all sense, eh? i had hopedthat a fellow robot... ...would have shown abit more intelligence. what requiem wouldyou like for him?
mozart? verdi, maybe? perhaps some faure,for an elegant touch? what are you talking about? a requiem forthis foolish robot. don't you want to send himoff with some beautiful music? stop that! don't be ridiculous! "ridiculous"...? i suppose i've no choice. against my better tastes,we'll keep this ceremony simple.
these are my beloved servants. of course, they'renot ordinary bats... they're robots, too?! cyborgs. just ordinary bats with theability to electrocute their prey. if that many attack him... ...even the mighty kikaiderwill prove to be no match. no... jiro! transform!
hurry and transform soyou can get out of there! no! i won't transform.not in front of you, mitsuko... jiro, why...?! what's so funny?! don't you understand?! he won't transform becausehe doesn't want you... ...to see him with thatugly body of his! you could sayhe'd sooner die... ...than let the one heloves see him like that.
please don't... don't look at me...! bravo! magnificent! kikaider, you're theworld's greatest clown! what a magnificenttragicomedy! shut up! jiro, there's no reason for youto be ashamed of how you look! the anguish you feelin fighting your brothers... the anguish of fightingevil in your heart...
it all comes down to yourhalf-completed body. but it's only proof that your heartis completely pure and honest! your transformed bodyis proof of your purity! that's why it's nothingto be ashamed of! jiro, why...? it's nearly timefor the curtain call. farewell, kikaider! now feel my servants'warm embrace! it would be quite perverseto keep watching that horror.
we know how this will end.let us wait for it. jiro...jiro isn't going to lose! i know he'll transformand then escape. impossible! in the end, you still cannotunderstand how he thinks! to live this absurd existence,neither human nor machine... ...is in itself absurd! that goes for bothmyself and kikaider! we hate ourselves forhaving a conscience...
...and hate our inability tolet our hearts embrace evil. and there is no onewho will ever love us! no one canever understand us... so, you... you think youcan understand my heart? you think that allhumans are happy? you think that all humans areborn with people who love them?! you aren't the only one who'sever felt they were all alone! i've had enough of your self-pity! you dare saysuch nonsense?!
nonsense? maybe it is. but, even so...jiro is still fighting! even though he's called a monster...even though everyone shuns him... he keeps fighting on, alone. i see now...this is father's old laboratory. this is wheremy brother died. if that hadn't occurred, we couldhave avoided so much grief... this meaningless battle wouldn'thave been necessary... "into this world, we areall born in tears," eh?
it's almost shakespearean... even so, i still doubt youhumans can ever understand. the day we can escape ourgrief will never, ever come. what's that noise?this frequency is... noise...? is he...?! amazing... he's sending out a jamming signalto disrupt the bats' sonar...? but how?
i see! he's using his internalsystems to modify... ...the vibration frequency ofthe strings he's plucking! well done, kikaider! let's finish this!i'll be waiting outside! you're serious about fightingme in that form, eh? well, then, i supposei've no choice. let's do it, kikaider!!! you fool!
you seem quite bent ondying in your human form! well, then, your wishis my command! that's the spirit. well, then...! farewell, kikaider!time for the finale! mitsuko!!! why did you save me? unfortunately, i allowedmy heart to sway me. when you told me that youshared the same grief that i had... just those words...
is this what it isto have a heart? it makes us do what cannotbe measured by reason...? it lets a machine know love... makes it ashamedof its own ugliness... what a truly strange thing it is... come to my home. if we hurry, we canrepair this wound! even perfect your geminiif we find the blueprints for it! don't bother...!
i have no desireto be manipulated... ...by my conscience circuitany more than this... all i want now is peace... but...! if i wanted it repaired,i could have done it long ago... the one whoknows more about... ...the conscience circuitthan anyone else... ...is with professor gill...! are you saying... are yousaying my father is still alive?!
who's there?! he said he wantedto die in peace. why not give himwhat he wants? who are you...?! wait! don't go! don't leave mealone anymore! fuan dake gauncertainty is the... wakariyasuku natte yuku...only clear reality.
yoru moeven on those nights... kokoro kasanete...our hearts join together... owaranai kuchizuke o...in an endless kiss. onaji yo na kanashimi niwrapped in the same sadness... tsutsumare umarete kita dakedo......the two of us were born... looking for destiny. hikari sagashitesearching for the light donna toki moany time kono mune no nakakeep on drifting towards...
afureru omoi e to...these overflowing feelings... tada zutto mukatte yuku...inside my heart. next episode one day, i awoke. the scent of the wind. the whisper of sunlightthrough the trees... the moon is beautiful.the rain is gentle. i've met many people,and some of them have left. i think ofthe ones i've left...
...and see them again onlyin my memories and dreams.
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