Kankiri Mask

## Can Opener Mask

**Kankiri Mask**(カンキリ仮面 *Kankiri Kamen*) is a can opener/drum barrel-based Kamen Kaijin from Episode 67 of Himitsu Sentai Goranger. He is the very first Super Sentai Kaijin to have permanently killed one of the main heroes.

## Personality

Kankiri Mask is a prideful but loyal Kamen Kaijin of the Black Cross Army who is shown to despise his enemies a lot. He is also shown to be a little murderous and a little sadistic when killing his enemies.

## Appearance

Kankiri Mask has a dark green-colored steel drum barrel for the torso where it holds a black cross in the middle with decorative yellow eyes holding red pupils and four, different-colored, lights aligned on the front waist. He has black limbs where he’s wearing dark grey-colored boos and opened-up can lids on the back of his hands. He also has a large metal head with four horns on his forehead, two larger horns sticking out the middle of his face, two tusks sticking out around his mouth area, two orange can openers on each side of his head, bolts all over his face, and two big blank red eyes. He also has a large, opened-up can lid behind his head and a wearing a black/red cape.

## Biography

Asuka, Peggy, and Daigoro are guarding EAGLE’s secret research lab where the scientists are experimenting on creating a new kind of mold called Kabika X that they can use against the Black Cross Army. When Kabika X is mixed with oil, it can dissolve metals with toxins.

However, the alarm at the lab goes off and Asuka, Peggy, and Daigoro are ambushed in different areas by the Black Cross Army’s Ninja Corps, who have infiltrated into the base within oil drums transported there. As Daigoro fights them off in his area, a dark green drum barrel suddenly rolls in and reveals itself to be another of the Black Cross Army’s Kamen Kaijin, Kankiri Mask. The Ninja Corps keep Daigoro occupied as Kankiri Mask heads to the lab where he kills the scientists and steals the Kabika X.

As the Gorengers try to locate Kankiri Mask’s base, the Black Cross Army starts spreading the mold all over the city where it causes trains and cars to crash. They then start sending out their Battlers and their Condors to attack the city in order to draw the Gorenger’s Varidreen out so the Black Cross Army can use the Kabika X against it. However, the Gorengers were able to catch on to their goal and have yet to head out within Varidreen. During the crisis, their child friend, Tarou, gets hit by a car affected by the Kabika X and is then placed in a hospital, enraging Daigoro.

Kankiri Mask starts attacking buildings on the ground along with the Zolders and they head to their base to get a bomb filled with the Kabika X to spread it all over Japan. Daigoro, feeling responsible for the Kabika X getting into the enemy’s hands, sneaks on to their truck and finds all of the Kabika X they’re transporting with their truck.

As Kankiri Mask and the Zolders head to the Black Cross Castle with the truck and their jeep, Daigoro blocks their path and transforms into Kiranger. The Zolders shoot at him with their bazookas but Kiranger was able to push their jeep back and knock them and Kankiri Mask down.

Kiranger takes the Kabika X bombs out of the truck and disposes them by throwing them to the ground where they safely explode. Before he could dispose of the last two off a dirt hill, Kankiri Mask uses his Kankiri Cutter to launch a blade at Kiranger, stabbing him in the stomach and knocking him down the hill. With the last of his strength, Kiranger holds up one of the last Kabika bombs as the Zolders shoot at him and manages to throw it where it explodes upon impact, causing Kanriki Mask and the Zolders to run off. The rest of the Gorengers arrive where they witness Kiranger collapsing. Once his friends gathering around him, they tell Daigoro that Tarou has regained consciousness and he gives them the last Kabika X bomb. In his dying breath, Daigoro tells them to use the bomb on the Black Cross Castle and after he says he won’t be careless from now on, he suddenly dies from his wounds, much to the sorrow of his friends.

As Aoranger uses the Varidreen to throw the last Kabika X bomb at the Black Cross Castle, Akaranger, Momoranger, and Midoranger find Kankiri Mask at a rock quarry where the Zolders fire their bazookas at them. Once Aoranger arrives, Kankiri Mask points out to them that they can’t use Gorenger Hurricane with just four people. The Zolders continue firing at the four Gorengers until the Varitank suddenly appears and reveals it was driven by Yoko and Oiwa, who has arrived after hearing his friends were in trouble.

Kankiri Mask throws his Kankiri Cutter at them, but they were able to dodge the blades and Oiwa throws two of them back. Oiwa transforms into Kiranger once again and rejoins the Gorengers where they fight off the Zolders and Ninja Corps.

They then face against Kankiri Mask where they team up against him until he rolls at them as a steel drum. Upon Akaranger’s command, Yoko uses the Ten Fingers on Varitank to grab Kankiri Mask and fling him away. The Gorengers then perform Gorenger Hurricane where once Akaranger kicks it at Kankiri Mask, it transforms into a large can. Upon catching it, Kankiri Mask, thinking it’s canned food, is compelled to open it until Akaranger tells him that it’s really a canned bomb. Just then, the canned bomb starts shooting sparks, shocking Kankiri Mask, and it blows him up, avenging Daigoro’s death.

## Powers/Abilities

**Drum Attack**: Kankiri Mask can pull his limbs and head into his drum barrel body so he can roll on the ground at his enemies.

**Can Opener Staff**: Kankiri Mask Carrie’s around a staff with can opener blades covering the head. However, this was hardly used in combat.

**Spike Arm**: Kankiri Mask can summon a corkscrew-like spike in place for his right arm that he launch at his victims to stab them with.

**Kankiri Cutter**: Kankiri Mask can launch out one of his two large blades from his head to stab his enemies with it. This was used to kill Daigoro.

## Trivia

* Kankiri Mask’s name can translate as “Can Opener Mask”.