Dykirai

**Dykirai**(ダイキライ *Daikirai*) is a naval mine-based Dadaroid from Episode 4, 5, and 6 of Space Ironmen Kyodyne.

He is voiced by **Eiji Maruyama**.

## Appearance

Dykirai has a gray body with red armor covered with bolts all over. He has a mine-shaped head covered with big spikes and has a gray face that holds a circular mouth plate and two periscope-like eyes. He also has gray, steel-plated feet, a blade in place for his left arm, and a naval mine in place for his right hand.

## Biography

### Solve It! The Great Persimmon And Pumpkin Mission

When the Earth Defense Force discover a man who looks a lot like Doctor Kaido, they trail him until Skyzel and Grounzel meet him at his lab. After they told him about the Flower Blooming Song that needs to be decoded, the lab suddenly gets attacked by a Dada spaceship. Grounzel and Skyzel manage to escape safely with Doctor Kaido before the lab blew up but they come across a Dadaroid, who reveals himself as a Dadanian Invasion Robot named Dykirai. Dykirai summons the Robo Soldiers but the Kyodyne manage to fight them off. Just as they continue on their escape, Doctor Kaido ends up stepping a mine placed in the ground and gets injured. Dykirai reveals to the duo that the man they have with them is not the real Doctor Kaido, but an innocent man he used to lure them into a trap. With an injured man, Grounzel changes into his Groundcar form and the duo retreat to take the man to safety, much to Dykirai’s outrage. Later, as the Earth Defense Force try to decode the song themselves, Dykirai infiltrates the base and eavesdrops on their conversation. Hearing that they’re not making any progress, Dykirai reveals himself in the room and demands to know what secrets the song holds. Gonbesu goes to get Kyodyne, who are with their brother during a physical, so Captain Marui and Sgt. Hosoda try to fend themselves and Etsuko by shocking Dykirai with electric cables. However, once they strike Dykirai with the cables, the electricity instead ends up shocking them as well as Etsuko, knocking them out. The Robo Soldiers prepare to finish them but Dykirai stops them, saying they could use them. Dragging them by chain around their wrists while driving on a Jeep, Dykirai thinks that the key from the song might be at the botanical gardens, since it includes flowers in the lyrics. However, when he makes the three solve the puzzle, Etsuko suggest the tropical gardens instead. So once they arrive at the tropical gardens, Dykirai is informed about Kyodyne coming to their location. As the Kyodyne make their way, Dykirai places mines in their paths to blow them up but they manage to dodge all of them. After the Kyodyne fight off the Robo Soldiers, while Gonbesu rescues Etsuko and the others, Dykirai tries to blow them up with his Big Mines. When the Big Mines failed, Dykirai changes into his giant vehicle form. The vehicle Dykirai starts shooting at the Kyodyne with his Body Cannons. The Kyodyne try to run and hide but the vehicle Dykirai starts attacking the area to find them. In order to fight back, Skyzel and Grounzel change into their own vehicle forms, Sky Jet and Ground Missile. They begin fighting each other until Grounzel catches Dykirai’s Front Wheel Mace and starts swinging the Dadaroid around in the air. After swinging him around, Grounzel throws Dykirai into the mountains where he blows up upon contact. However, as his body parts lay around the tropical garden, another Dadaroid, named Gatlingar appears and has the Robo Soldiers gather them up.

### Crush It! The Immortal Dada Army

As Kyodyne and the Earth Defense Force are looking for Gatlingar’s secret base in a junkyard, Gatlingar heads out to attack the base of the Earth Defense Force while the newly repaired Dykirai stays behind to turn the troops in the junkyard into modified cyborgs. After the Kyodyne leave the junkyard to handle Gatlingar, Dykirai reveals himself to the troops in the junkyard and gets the Robo Soldiers to attack them. Gonbesu tries to defend Etsuko, Sgt Hosoda, and Colonel Marui by fighting against Dykirai but the Dadaroid overpowers him and scares him off, allowing the Robo Soliders to take the three into the base. Inside the base, Dykirai reveals to the three about their plan to modify humans into cyborgs and gets Etsuko prepared to be modified into one while Colonel Marui and Sgt Hosoda are placed in a freezing chamber. Fortunately, Gonbesu reaches Grounzel and Skyzel, after Gatlingar retreated away, and warns them about Etsuko and the others, so they head their way back to the base and discover the entrance. As soon as Gatlingar arrives back at the base, they start modifying Etsuko where she sings the Flower Blooming Song. Annoyed by the song, the Dadaroids instead decide to have her burn to death. Fortunately, Kyodyne manage to break through into the base and rescue Etsuko before she could get burned and free Colonel Marui and Sgt Hosoda. The then fight the two Dadaroids where they get heads knocked off. The two brothers then trick them to get them inside the freezing chambers. Before Gatlingar and Dykirai could get frozen, the summons the modified Earth Defense Force troops and order them to blow Kyodyne up. The cyborgs also manage to free Gatlingar and Dykirai from the freezing chambers as Kyodyne dodge the self-destructing cyborgs. Dykirai then uses the chain of his Mine Mace Arm to tie up Skyzel and Grounzel in order to keep them in one place, allowing four of the cyborgs to blow them up at once.

### Did You See! Kyodyne’s New Finishing Move

After the four cyborgs blow up the Kyodyne, Grounzel ends up losing his arm so Dykirai and Gatling decide to finish them off. Dykirai swings his Mine Mace Arm while Gatlingar shoots at the brothers until they discover a secret passageway and make their escape outside. The two Dadaroids chase the two outside with the cyborgs. Being surrounded, Skyzel changes into Skyjet, shoots at the cyborgs with his missiles, and retreats with Grounzel. Later, after Grounzel gets his arm repaired, the Earth Defense Force received a call from the real Doctor Kaido. Hearing an airplane and train during the phone call, Grounzel and Skyzel visit 400 possible locations to search for clues. Meanwhile, at their base, Dykirai asks Gatlingar what they’re going to do to take down Kyodyne and Gatlingar plans to attack Tokyo in order to lure them out. After attacking the city and turning the citizens into golden statues, the Earth Defense Force try to fight them off until the Kyodyne manage to arrive. The two Dadaroids face them and unleash the Cyborgs on the two brothers to blow them up but they manage to dodge them. Kyodyne then perform Sky-Ground Attack where Skyzel attack Gatlingar and Grounzel attacks Dykirai. Grounzel fights with Dykirai and manages to beat him while Skyzel fights with Grounzel. After the two Dadaroids get beaten by the Kyodyne, they change into their vehicle forms. In their vehicle forms, Dykirai and Gatlingar start shooting at the two brothers until they change into Sky Jet and Ground Missile. Grounzel attacks the Dadaroids from under the ground while Skyzel attacks from the sky with his missiles. Grounzel then grabs onto Dykirai’s Big Mine, lifts him up in the sky, and drops him onto Gatlingar, blowing him up the process.

## Powers/abilities

* Dadaroid Form
* Vehicle Form
**Dadaroid Form**

Powers/Abilities
**Mine Mace Arm**: In place for his right hand, Dykirai has a mine attached to a chain that allows him to swing it around at his opponents.

**Detachable Head**: Dykirai can detach his own head from his body to have it ran at his opponents.

**Ground Mines**: Dykirai can place mines in the ground for unsuspecting victims to step on and get blown up or hit by shrapnel.

**Launchable Arm Blade**: Dykirai is able to launch out his left arm blade like a rocket.

**Ear Tube**: Dykirai can extend his ear out to listen closely when eavesdropping.

**Big Mine**: Dykirai can reveal a big black mine that he can roll into his opponents. The Big Mines can explode into bigger explosions.

**Vehicle Form**

Powers/Abilities
**Body Cannons**: In his vehicle form, Dykirai can shoot explosive ammunition from the tips of his body spikes like cannons.

**Big Mine**: When he lifts his front body up, Dykirai can launch his front wheel out with a cable attached to knock down structures.

**Kirianium Body**: Dykirai’s body is made out of a special alloy that is able to withstand against most attacks.

**Burrowing**: Dykirai is able to burrow into the ground.
## Trivia

* Dykirai constantly says “I hate you” or “I hate them”.
	+ This is based on how the Japanese pronunciation for “Big Naval Mine” and the phrase “I hate you” are the same.