Mecha and Monsters from The Kagestar

The following is a list of the various mecha and monsters from the 1976 tokusatsu series *The Kagestar*.

## Kagestar and Bellestar

After an accident where a salaryman named Kageo Sugata and the daughter of his boss, Suzuko Kazemura, get electrocuted while escaping from some kidnappers, they both gain the ability to merge with their shadows, becoming Kagestar and Bellestar.

### Kagestar

The materialized shadow of Kageo who wears a red costume complete with a cloak.

#### Abilities

* **Kage Wheel**: Kagestar rotates around with his cape to create strong winds that prevent or blow away enemy attacks.
* **Kage Hammer**: Shadow binding.
* **Kage Rope**: A long black rope Kagestar can summon.
* **Kagestar Hopper**: Disk-shaped weapons that Kagestar takes out from the spiral patterns on his head and can throw them.
* **Kage Kick**: One of Kagestar’s finishing moves, a special move that give momentum from the air.
* **Meteor Kick**: Another one of Kagestar’s finishing moves.
* **Kage Tomahawk**: A tomahawk used only in episode 32.
* **Kagestar Sand Hiding**: A fast burrowing technique used only in episode 23.

### Bellestar

The materialized shadow of Suzuko Kazemura who wears a white costume and a cloak. Unlike Kagestar’s costume, the mouth area is exposed.

#### Abilities

* **Bell Wheel**: The same technique as the Kage Wheel.
* **Bell Kick**: A technique similar to Kage Kick.

### Common/Combined Techniques

* **Star Shoot**: A star-shaped shuriken taken out of the cloak.
* **Double Wheels**: A special move where Kagestar and Bellestar both rotate their cloaks to throw the enemy up in the air.
* **Starcross**: Kagestar and Bellestar’s after battle pose.
* **Kagerobee**: A shadow with a will of it’s own who can talk that Kagestar and Bellestar can emerge from their own shadows. Mainly used to capture distant enemies, even ones riding in a vehicle. When Kagestar removes the spiral patterns on his head and throw it, he can use the technique of five-stage alter ego that summons five Kagerobees who will attack the enemy.

### Equipment

* **Flasher**: Flashlight guns carried by Kagestar and Bellestar that can be used to summon the Kagero Car, Bell Car, and Kageboushy.
* **Kagero Car**: Kagestar’s exclusive bike.
* **Bell Car**: Bellestar’s exclusive bike.
* **Kageboushy**: A flight fortress operated by Kagestar and Bellestar. It stores the Kagero Car and Belle Car and is active in the search of enemies from the sky.

## Costumed Criminals

Comic book-styled villains who wear costumes and lead their organizations. Each of them come with their very own combatants.

* **White Wax Majin**: Appears in episode 1. Powers include communicating through dolls and materializing photos, a gun, can turn himself into flying snow in order to retreat called Magic Snow Storm, can launch out spikes from the bottom tip of his cane, and is equipped with twin daggers. He was played by Yousuke Naka
* **Golden Majin**: Appears in episode 2. Powers include sliding up walls, a human disguise, a pet snake that can constrict and bite, a whip, a handgun, and a snake helmet that explodes upon impact. He was played by Yusuke Nagumo.
* **Crimson Gecko**: Appears in episode 3. Powers include unleashing swarms of energy-absorbing geckos called Gecko Hell, hanging onto ceilings like a gecko, a human disguise, a wooden staff that can create explosions, can create duplicate decoys of himself, a machine gun, and burrowing. He was played by Kenichiro Kawamura.
* **Spider Man** : Appears in episode 4 and the movie. Powers include spider manipulation, a mind-controlling radio device, a whip made out of spider webs, high jumping, agility, a doctor disguise, a dagger, a hand gun, and a stick of dynamite. He was played by Hisaya Ito.
* **Kaeru Kaijin** : Appears in episode 5. Powers include shooting bubble foam from the palm of her hands called Bubble Hell, high jumping, agility, a frog statue that can expel yellow smoke, a staff, a jeep for getaways, and explosive pearls stored on her necklace that explode upon impact. She was played by Terue Nunami.
* **Nezumi Kaijin** : Appears in episode 6. Powers include freeze gas development, a human disguise, and a knife. He was played by Shohei Yamamoto.
	+ **Mohawk**: He was only equipped with a spray can that can shoot out a freezing mist.
* **Bat Man** : Appears in episode 7 and the movie. Powers include a human disguise, a machete, agility, controlling vampire bats that suck blood and can turn people into vampires, a whipping stick, high jumping, teleporting, and can set off small explosions with his machete called Electronic Lightning Strike. He was played by Kentaro Kaji while voiced by Mahito Tsujimura.
	+ **Gorillaman**: Powers include a halberd axe that can chop down anything called Gorilla Chop, high jumping called Gorilla Jump, and super strength called Gorilla Power.
* **Chameleon Man** : Appears in episode 8. Powers include a blowdart with an extendable cord for strangling called Chameleon Shibari, human mimicry, camouflage called Chameleon Hiding, extendable knives from chameleon buckle, agility, a handgun, a bomb, and can summon a flaming torch and spit out flammable liquid through it called Flame Hell. He was played by Koichi Uenoyama while voiced by Shun Yashiro.
* **Kaijin Poison Ageha** : Appears in episode 9. Powers include butterfly manipulation, mouth silver butterflies that can numb victims called Ageha Hell, can perform magic, a trumpet blowdart, high jumping, dual rapiers, can create Illusions of himself, explosive butterflies, metal gloves with sharp claws, a paper butterfly for messages, can transform people into butterflies, an old lady disguise, incense sticks that can emit knockout gas upon being lit, dual bombs that explode upon impact, and can disguise himself and a combatant as an ordinary butterfly called Ageha Camouflage. He was played by Shoji Oki.
* **Fukurou Kaijin** : Appears in episode 10. Powers includes a supply of snakes, poison-tipped feather darts, sharp claws, sky darkening, eye lightning bolts, and a Policeman disguise. He was played by Jyunichi Takagi.
* **Okami Kaijin** : Appears in episode 11. Powers include a Japanese wolf equipped with an ultrasound amplifier that can create terrible headaches whenever it howls, can run as fast a wolf, swimming, super strength, agility, and high jumping. He was played by Hiroshi Serikawa.
* **Leopard Woman** : Appears in episode 12 and the movie. Powers include enhanced leaping, claws on her hands that she can launch off her fingers, a whip, and a car equipped with a smokescreen for getaways. She was played by Junko Yashiro.

## Satan Empire

By the events of episode 13 a new empire appeared who send out mutants to fight against Kagestar and Bellestar.

* **Doctor Satan**: The leader of the Satan Empire. A former Nazi scientist who produces monsters to reach his goal of world domination. He is always wearing a mask and his true face was never revealed.
* **Satan Empire Combatants**: The foot soldiers of the Satan Empire. Powers include human disguises, short swords, machine guns, a hand gun, and a bazooka.

### Satan Empire Kaijin

* **Kiba Inoshishi**: Appears in episode 13 and the movie. A wild boar-based Kaijin. Powers include sharp tusks that are strong enough to fling his enemies up, super strength, and can shoot explosive ammunition from his nostrils called Snout Fire.
* **Kabutogiller** : Appears in the movie. A rhinoceros beetle-based Kaijin. Powers include a crescent blade spear and teleporting.
* **Kamakiller** : Appears in episode 14. A mantis-based Kaijin. Powers include a Scythe Arm that can shoot out gas that can turn humans into living mannequins with super strength that he can control, a human disguise, teleporting himself and his enemies, and able to leap off high structures and land safely.
* **Zariganian** : Appears in episode 15. A crayfish-based Kaijin. Powers include a human disguise, mind-controlling crayfish, teleporting, a crayfish claw for the right arm, and high jumping.
* **Mukaderiya** : Appears in episode 16. A centipede-based Kaijin. Powers include producing a body fluids that can turn water into sand, teleporting, a cross-shaped spear, a human disguise, throwing needles he can pull out of his mouth, and high jumping.
* **Haedobler** : Appears in episode 17. A bank robber who got mutated into a fly-based Kaijin. Powers include a large fly form, mouth gas that can blind anyone, acid breath, throwing knives, teleporting, and arm blades.
* **Arijigoku** : Appears in episode 18. An antlion-based Kaijin. Powers include burrowing, creating giant sand pits and fissures in the ground, a scythe, mind-controlling gas from the shoulders, a switch, teleporting, and can put himself back together after surviving dismemberment.
* **Sangoras** : Appears in episode 19. A coral-based Kaijin. Powers include a petrifying gas that can turn people into statues, a coral club, a human disguise, and high jumping.
* **Bearkong** : Appears in episode 20. A human clone who got mutated into a black bear-based Kaijin. Powers include super strength and double-sided chain mace.
* **Gorioliver** : Appears in episode 21. A wrestler who got mutated into a gorilla-based Kaijin. Powers include a human disguise, an infectious bite, super strength, teleporting, and a spiked club.
* **Kinokonga** : Appears in episodes 22 and 23. A scientist who mutated into a mushroom-based Kaijin. Powers include poison body gas, human disguises, a spore staff that can shoot out yellow liquid and a gas that turn humans into giant mushrooms from the top, teleporting, can summon giant mushrooms that can spread out poison spores, high jumping, small bombs for quick getaways, and a removable mushroom hat that can slice off anything it hits when thrown.
* **Kanigabler** : Appears in episodes 22 and 23. A crab-based Kaijin. Powers include burrowing, mouth foam that can encase his enemies in a glass ball, a pair of crab sickle arms that he can cross together to snip at his enemies, can summon crab arms from the ground to hold his enemies in place, adapted swimming, a human disguise, launchable crab arms that can blow up upon impact, a crab claw bomb, and high jumping.
* **Baracular** : Appears in episode 24. A rose-based Kaijin. Powers include levitating roses in the air, roses that can expel a deadly red gas that can melt human bodies into foam, a human disguise, a vine whip covered with thorns, and can throw roses like throwing knives to stab her enemies with the end of the stem.
* **Dokugalder** : Appears in episode 25. A moth-based Kaijin. Powers include controlling a swarm of poison moths that can reduced humans to bones upon touch, a crossbow that can launch explosive darts, flight, and can throw bombs.
* **Yamaarashisu** : Appears in episode 26. A porcupine-based Kaijin. Powers include a spiked ball form, teleporting, back spikes he can pull off, and a human disguise.
* **Tonbogiller** : Appears in episode 27. A dragonfly-based Kaijin. Powers include paper fliers that emit a deadly poisonous gas, a two-pointed trident, high jumping, agility, can shoot out paralyzing fluids from the mouth, flight, teleporting, can create hurricane winds with his wings called Dragonfly Typhoon, and bombs.
* **Namekujiiger** : Appears in episode 28. A slug-based Kaijin. Powers include a left arm shower nozzle that can rapidly shoot ammunition and spray a mind-controlling orange liquid called Slug Shower, a dome head that can emit radio waves to control his victims, teleporting, and scythe summoning.
* **Karasugar** : Appears in episode 29. A crow-based Kaijin. Powers include a human disguise, a spear, an ordinary crow form, high jumping, teleporting, launchable abdomen talons to grab his enemies, and pecking
* **Buffalogyu** : Appears in episode 30. A buffalo-based Kaijin. Powers include horns, teleporting, and a kusari-fundo. He is later given stronger horns that can break through steel.
* **Kamikiller** : Appears in episode 31. A longhorn beetle-based Kaijin. Powers include a scissor-like pincer claw arm, fire breath, teleporting, and high jumping.
* **Kazuragon** : Appears in episode 32. A pitcher plant-based Kaijin. Powers include turning into a pile of vines in order to sneak up on his victims or to make getaways, fan controls vines, teleporting captured victims, a vine whip, can unleash a long vine from the top of his pitcher plant head when the flap opens up, can unleash swarms of leaves from his head to make a retreat, a dagger, and can summon a big pitcher plant for the left arm that can unleash two vines to ensnare his enemies.
* **Oumurahda** : Appears in episode 33. A cockatoo-based Kaijin. Powers include shooting an infectious green liquid from the mouth that can infect humans with a deadly illness when injected and can also blow up when hitting a structure, a green parrot disguise where he can perform hypnosis, high jumping, a spear that can blow up upon impact when thrown, a throwing kunai called the Parrot Shuriken, and levitation.
* **Todogiras** : Appears in episode 34. A sea lion-based Kaijin. Powers include a trident arm that can shoot out a snow cannon from the tip of the middle to freeze his victims in place and can change his trident arm for a giant knife arm that he can use for combat.