Jirikiman

**Jirikiman**(ジリキマン *Jirikiman*) is a magnet-based BAD Robot that appeared in Episode 3 of Robot Detective.

He is voiced by **Ryusuke Shiomi**.

## Appearance

Jirikiman has a gray-colored body with gray-colored legs. He has red rings around his shoulders, thighs, and all over his forearms and has a spring in his torso. Has has no hands but instead has magnets with the right labeled “N” and the left labeled “S”. He also has a box-shaped head with six ridges running across his entire head, blank yellow eyes, and two magnet-like antennas with missiles pods in the tips on each side of his head. The BAD symbol is on his left breast.

## Biography

After a father, named Miyake, was checking out his son, Takeshi, whom was tinkering with a magnet within a tv set, he begins to drive off in his car. However, he realizes that his car isn’t moving when turned on and he finds out that a BAD Robot, named Jirikiman, is preventing him from leaving. Once Miyake comes out, Jirikiman gags him with a piece of metal and shoots an electrical beam at him from one of his arms. Takeshi witnesses this and checks on his father as Jirikiman uses his magnetism ability to steal the two pieces that Takeshi was tinkering with and then chases after him into a junkyard. Fortunately, Detective K comes across them and saves Takeshi from the BAD Robot. Jirikiman and Detective K start fighting each other until the BAD Robot uses Jiriki Missile and makes his escape. With Takeshi’s father hospitalized, Detective K lets Takeshi join him in finding Jirikiman and tells Detectives Shiba and Shinjo of what Jirikiman stole from him. Later at night, Jirikiman breaks into a clock shop and steals some clock parts before killing Mr. Ohura, the clocksmith, with his Killer Magnetic Beam. Afterwards, Shinjo confronts Jirikiman outside the shop and attempts to take him down. Detective K arrives as well and fights with Jirikiman for a little bit until it turns into a chase. Unfortunately, Jirikiman is able to make his escape by jumping on top of a passing car. Despite Jirikiman escaping, Detective K reveals to Takeshi that he placed a device on him that would allow his radar to detect him within one kilometer. Much later, it’s revealed that Jirikiman was hired by the president of the Azuma Information Company, President Kadoi, to take down Miyake and Ohura who both use to be the security of Orient Watch. President Kadoi’s company has been stealing data of Orient Watch’s new products for a certain country but Miyake and Ohura became suspicious of them after capturing Kadoi’s industrial spy. With assistance from BAD, President Kadoi agrees to split the money with the organization. With Jirikiman’s first task completed, he proceeds to perform his next task: destroying the Orient Factory. Later, as President Kadoi and Jirikiman make their way to the factory, Detective K’s radar detects the device he placed on Jirikiman and chases after their car with his Joker. In an attempt to stop him, Jirikiman jumps out of the car and uses a guardrail to block K’s path. Fortunately, K’s Joker flies over the guardrail and lands nearby, so Jirikiman uses his Magnetism to prevent it from chasing Kadoi’s car. Being unable to move, Detective K has his Joker fly up into the air, making Jirikiman hang on until he falls off. The police then put President Kadoi under arrest when Detective K discovers a BAD murder contract within his vault. Despite President Kadoi being discovered, Jirikiman makes it to the factory late at night. After knocking out all the guards, Jirikiman uses his Magnetism to blow up the clock products in one of the factory’s buildings. Before he could destroy anymore of the factory, Detective K arrives with his Joker and changes into his battle form to fight the BAD Robot. As they fight, they move into a nearby junkyard where Jirikiman uses his magnetism against Detective K’s iron body. Needing to fight back against the magnetism, K leaps forward at Jirikiman, tackling him, and uses his strength to damage the inner magnetic device within the BAD Robot’s body. With Jirikiman’s magnetism going haywire, his body starts pulling in the cars of the junkyard, trapping him in a large pile. With Jirikiman trapped, K summons his cannon from his right breast and fires at Jirikiman through the pile, blowing him up.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Magnetokinesis**: Jirikiman is able to pull any metal objects toward him with his arms.
	+ **Wall Crawling**: Jirikiman is able to use his magnetism to climb up onto large metal structures.
	+ **Repelling**: Jirikiman is able to use his magnetism to repel metal enemies.
	+ **Strong Attraction**: Jirikiman’s magnetism is strong enough to pull back a car.

* **Metal Gag**: Jirikiman can gag his victims by throwing a piece of metal into their mouths.

* **Electro-Magnetokinesis**:
	+ **Killer Magnetic Beam**: Jirikiman can shoot an electrical magnetobeam from his arm to shock his victims.

* **Jiriki Missiles**: Jirikiman can shoot out red missiles from the tips of his magnet antennas.

## Trivia

* Jirikiman’s name translates as “Magnetman”.