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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
Kamen Yaiba is a fictional character in the series and a superhero that often appears on TV as a kids' show. Many relics have been made about him as publicity and marketing, including trading cards, posters, DVDs, and figurines. He is most liked by elementary schoolers like [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]], and many movies of the franchise have been produced. The plot is about a hero wanting to save the world from the threat of Jocker, an evil organization of alien monsters, and to conquer a young lady who is his first love. On the way to defeat his arch-enemy, the Jocker's boss, Yaiba also has to fight other villains that come in the way.
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Kamen Yaiba is a fictional character in the series and a superhero that often appears on TV as a kids' show. Many relics have been made about him as publicity and marketing, including trading cards, posters, DVDs, and figurines. He is most liked by elementary schoolers like [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]] and the [[Detective Boys]], and many movies of the franchise have been produced. The plot is about a hero wanting to save the world from the threat of Jocker, an evil organization of alien monsters, and to conquer a young lady who is his first love. On the way to defeat his arch-enemy, the Jocker's boss very similar to shinigami who had skulls for faces and carried sickles, Yaiba also has to fight other villains that come in the way.
  
Kamen Yaiba is Satoshi<ref>Episode 281</ref>, a normal young and good looking person who's always in the park with his childhood friend Rei Natsume selling hot dogs. But if something happens, he immediately drives to the scene and begin to battle the evil people or aliens. But, Rei does not know that he really is Kamen Yaiba. She only knows that her boyfriend often finds excuses to stop work, and ride away somewhere on his motorcycle. But every time, Rei forgives Kamen Yaiba with forgiving eyes. Ran can kinda relate to how she feels, and according to Conan that's almost how it works between [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and him.
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Kamen Yaiba is Satoshi<ref>Episode 281</ref>, a normal young and good looking person who's always in the park with his childhood friend Rei Natsume selling hot dogs. But if something happens, he immediately drives to the scene and begin to battle the evil people or aliens. But, Rei does not know that he really is Kamen Yaiba. She only knows that her boyfriend often finds excuses to stop work, and ride away somewhere on his motorcycle. But every time, Rei forgives Kamen Yaiba with forgiving eyes. When the author was planning the story for Kamen Yaiba he made a scenario where his younger sister got killed. But, Kamen Yaiba doesn't fight for vengeance. He fights to maintain justice.<ref name=ep119>Episode 119</ref>
  
When the author was planning the story for Kamen Yaiba he made a scenario where his younger sister got killed. But, Kamen Yaiba doesn't fight for vengeance. He fights to maintain justice.<ref name=ep119>Episode 119</ref>
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The original Kamen Yaiba's arch-enemy was the Potato Baron, the fiends' leader under the Potato Queen.
 
 
The original Kamen Yaiba's arch-enemy was the Potato Baron.
 
  
 
== Production ==
 
== Production ==
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== Plot overview ==
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=== Code Sheet Case (Manga: [[Volume 4#File 036 - Code Sheet Obtained!!|036-039]], Anime: [[The Shinkansen's Bomb Case|005]]) ===
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Introduction to Kamen Yaiba through a special event at Tohto Tower. Conan begins to tell [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] who he is, but stops himself and announces his identity as Kamen Yaiba. The scene where Conan's identity was questioned was removed from the [[The Coded Map of the City Case|anime version]] and then added back in to episode 5.
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=== Magician's Suicide Case (Manga: [[Volume 14#Magician's Suicide Case|131]], Anime: [[The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases|096]]) ===
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=== Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: [[Volume 24#Innocent Suspect Case|231]]-[[Volume 25#Innocent Suspect Case|233]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 2|156-157]]) ===
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=== Red Horse Case (Manga: [[Volume 39#Red Horse Case|393-397]], Anime: [[The Red Horse within the Flames|325-327]]) ===
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A young boy helps to determine the time of an arson. The attack happened shortly after 19:30, when Kamen Yaiba's intro was on TV. The start time at 19:30 could be interpreted as an allusion to the ''Detective Conan'' anime.
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=== Dark and Clutered Room Case (Manga: [[Volume 41#Dark and Cluttered Room Case|417-419]], Anime: [[Secret of the Tohto Film Development Studio|335-336]]) ===
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[[Yukiko Kudo]] takes the Detective Boys to the studio where Kamen Yaiba is produced, Tohto Studio, for a sneak peak at Kamen Yaiba's second movie.
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=== Takagi's Last Case (Manga: [[Volume 44#Takagi's Last Case|450-452]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 6|390-391]]) ===
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The Detective Boys witness a suspicious man and the clues lead to [[Kazunobu Chiba|Chiba]]'s roommate. While in Chiba's apartment the Detective Boys watch the first six episodes of the original Kamen Yaiba. The fourth episode, "The Intrigues of Baron Potato!!", features him fighting his arch-enemy, the Potato Baron.
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=== Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: [[Volume 50#Group Date Kidnapping Case|511-514]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 7|431-432]]) ===
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A mysterious stranger gives a small kid a rare Kamen Yaiba battle card worth 3,000 yen, featuring a look at the cybernetics inside of Yaiba's head. During the case it is mentioned that one of the suspects bought two limited edition event Kamen Yabia battle card bags, and send one to a friend. Neither of the two got the legendary Potato Queen platinum card, who is the queen of the Potato Baron and his fiends. Seven cards come to a bag, and some of the cards are worth up to 800,000 yen.
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=== Mysterious Job Case (Manga: [[Volume 54#Mysterious Job Case|554]], Anime: [[The Shadow of the Black Organization|465]]) ===
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In a scene, when Kamen Yaiba was being chased, a Jocker's monster and two of those aliens were attacking him with grenades from a jeep while he was riding his bike, and his helmet fell off and almost gave away his identity.
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=== Onsen Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 69#Onsen Murder Case|722-724]], Anime: [[The Scenario of the Steaming Locked Room|597-598]]) ===
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The Detective Boys run into Mishio Natori, the actress who played the original Kamen Yaiba's love interest.
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=== The VHS Tape of Memories (Manga: [[Volume 71#The VHS of Memories|741-742]], Anime: [[A Video Letter of First Love|624]]) ===
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Chiba reveals that he made a knock-off Tokusatsu tape as a kid titled "Kamen Baiya" thirteenth years ago, due to him being a fan of Kamen Yaiba. Which means that Kamen Yaiba has existed for at least that long.
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=== A Missing Item Murder Case (Manga: [[Volume 82#A Missing Item|869-871]], Anime: [[Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story 9|748-749]]) ===
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A Kamen Yaiba movie was used as a trick to commit murder.
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=== The Old Warehouse of Teitan Elementary School (Manga: [[Volume 91#The Old Warehouse of Teitan Elementary School|966-968]], Anime: [[The New Teacher's Skeleton Case|889-890]]) ===
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Mitsuhiko mentions that the next episode of Kamen Yaiba will feature a mysterious woman-Yaiba.
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=== Interchanged Betting Ticket Case (Manga: [[Volume 92#Interchanged Betting Ticket Case|975-977]], Anime: [[The Tokyo-Style Detective Show Next Door|894-895]]) ===
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It is mentioned that an episode featuring the second-in-command of the enemy boss in the Yaiba tv show will air that night.
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=== Haibara's Lost Phone Charm (Manga: [[Volume 94#Haibara's Lost Phone Strap Case|997-999]], Anime: [[The Heartfelt Strap|925-926]]) ===
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A father described the length of travel time between two train stations as the same length as a Kamen Yaiba episode, 30 minutes.
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== Non-canon plot overview ==
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=== Hijacked Department Store Case (Anime: [[Hijacked Department Store Case|017]]) ===
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=== Monday Night 7:30 p.m. Murder Case (Anime: [[Monday Night 7:30 p.m. Murder Case|036]]) ===
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According to Genta, that night's Masked Yaiber was very interesting, and for Mitsuhiko especially the final fight with the green planet man Batora ("Butler"), a green alien.
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=== The Mysterious Mole Alien Case (Anime: [[The Mysterious Mole Alien Case|107-108]]) ===
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According to the Detective Boys, Masao Kouda, a [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro]]'s client, looks exactly like the mole alien, who shakes off his comrades and tricks Kamen Yaiba. Like a mole, he suddenly comes out of the earth.
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=== The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case (Anime: [[The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case|119]]) ===
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This is Kamen Yaiba TV show. Ran can kinda relate to how Rei feels, and according to Conan that's almost how it works between Ran and him.
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=== The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case (Anime: [[The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case|149]]) ===
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=== Moon, Star, and Sun Case (Anime: [[The Secret of the Moon, the Star, and the Sun|163-164]]) ===
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While this case is canon to the manga, it replaces the Voice-Changing Pen with a non-canon [[Kamen Yaiba Voice Changer]].
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=== The Small Eye-Witnesses (Anime: [[The Small Eye-Witnesses|281]]) ===
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That night airing "The End of the Fake Yaiba", the last episode of the Fake Yaiba series. The fake Yaiba is dangerously closing in on Shunsuke. The true name of Kamen Yaiba is Satoshi.
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=== The Car Stunt's Utmost Limit (Anime: [[The Car Stunt's Utmost Limit|440]]) ===
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During a stunt show, it's revealed Kamen Yaiba's actor face.
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=== The Alibi of the Fall (Anime: [[The Alibi of the Fall|596]]) ===
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A broadcast of the show of Kamen Yaiba was shown and we could see the hero fighting two ennemies as Kogoro, Ran, and Conan had to meet the organizer of the Kamen Yaiba programs for a case. The company called Orion Planning produced this show. Conan also remembers him and the Detective Boys seeing one of his live action shows. When Yaiba's ally, the laser police, fired his laser gun, the Jocker's monster with scales went "pushuu" and fell all flat.
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=== The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa (TV Special: [[The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa: The Worst Two Days in History|05]]) ===
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A Kamen Yaiba festival is used as a backdrop for an assassination plot. Statues of Kamen Yaiba are placed around and a theme tune plays in the background.
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=== The Disappeared Detective Boys (Anime: [[The Disappeared Detective Boys|922]]) ===
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Kamen Yaiba appear in the docks for a kids' show and jumps from a container to another before knocking out some Jocker's aliens and making his iconic pose. A lots of people attend the show, including the Detective Boys, and the Nichiuri TV animation director in charge of the direct filming is introduced.
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=== Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Anime: [[Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba|965-968]]) ===
  
 
== Gallery ==
 
== Gallery ==
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File:Original Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|200px|The original Kamen Yaiba (episode 390).
 
File:Original Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|200px|The original Kamen Yaiba (episode 390).
 
File:EP440-3.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kamen Yaiba's actor (episode 440).
 
File:EP440-3.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kamen Yaiba's actor (episode 440).
File:Yaiba Villian 24.jpg|Kamen Yaiba vs. the Jocker's boss and eight of his subordinates: mole, monkey mushroom, monster with scales, peghead, and other four aliens (episode 596).
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File:Yaiba Villian 24.jpg|Kamen Yaiba vs. the Jocker's boss and his subordinates: mole, monkey mushroom, monster with scales, peghead, and other aliens (episode 596).
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File:Original Kamen Yaibas love intrest.jpg|The original Kamen Yaiba's love interest (episode 597).
 
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[[File:Kamen Rider and Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kamen Yaiba is a parody of Kamen Rider.]]
 
[[File:Kamen Rider and Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Kamen Yaiba is a parody of Kamen Rider.]]
 
[[File:Yaiba Chapter 184 Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yaiba as "Kamen Yaiba".]]
 
[[File:Yaiba Chapter 184 Kamen Yaiba.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Yaiba as "Kamen Yaiba".]]
The name Kamen Yaiba is a combination of a parody of the Tokusatsu TV show ''[[Wikipedia: Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider]]'', as well as [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s previous manga and anime ''Yaiba'', referencing a moment from [[Yaiba Volume 18#The Secret Plan to Strike Back|chapter 184]], when [[Yaiba Kurogane]] put on [[Sayaka Mine]]'s underwear like a mask to protect himself from the attacks of the Cedar Pollen Soldier, resembling the Rider a bit and jokingly calling himself "Kamen Yaiba" because of this. That franchise itself has had screenplays done by [[Toshiki Inoue]]. Several ''Detective Conan'' actors have appeared on ''Kamen Rider'', including: [[Tori Matsuzaka]], [[Seizo Kato]], [[Rikiya Koyama]], and [[Takanori Jinnai]].
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The name Kamen Yaiba is a combination of a parody of the Tokusatsu TV show ''[[Wikipedia: Kamen Rider|Kamen Rider]]'', as well as [[Gosho Aoyama]]'s previous manga and anime ''[[Yaiba]]'', referencing a moment from [[Yaiba Volume 18#The Secret Plan to Strike Back|chapter 184]], when [[Yaiba Kurogane]] put on [[Sayaka Mine]]'s underwear like a mask to protect himself from the attacks of the Cedar Pollen Soldier, resembling the Rider a bit and jokingly calling himself "Kamen Yaiba" because of this. That franchise itself has had screenplays done by [[Toshiki Inoue]]. Several ''Detective Conan'' actors have appeared on ''Kamen Rider'', including: [[Tori Matsuzaka]], [[Seizo Kato]], [[Rikiya Koyama]], and [[Takanori Jinnai]].
  
 
== Trivia ==
 
== Trivia ==
 
* The characters in the series are often compared with those in ''Detective Conan'':
 
* The characters in the series are often compared with those in ''Detective Conan'':
** Kamen Yaiba: [[Shinichi Kudo]]/Conan Edogawa<ref name=ep119/><ref name=v23f10>Manga volume 23, file 10; anime episode 156.</ref>
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** Satoshi/Kamen Yaiba: [[Shinichi Kudo]]/Conan Edogawa<ref name=ep119/><ref name=v23f10>Manga volume 23, file 10; anime episode 156.</ref>
 
** Rei Natsume: Ran Mouri<ref name=ep119/>
 
** Rei Natsume: Ran Mouri<ref name=ep119/>
 
** The female spy who's betrayed Jocker and confessed her love to Kamen Yaiba: [[Shiho Miyano]]/[[Ai Haibara]]<ref name=v23f10/>
 
** The female spy who's betrayed Jocker and confessed her love to Kamen Yaiba: [[Shiho Miyano]]/[[Ai Haibara]]<ref name=v23f10/>
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** The Jocker's boss: [[The Boss]]<ref name=v92f7>Manga volume 92, file 7; anime episode 895.</ref>
 
** The Jocker's boss: [[The Boss]]<ref name=v92f7>Manga volume 92, file 7; anime episode 895.</ref>
 
** The second-in-command of the boss: [[Rum]]<ref name=v92f7/>
 
** The second-in-command of the boss: [[Rum]]<ref name=v92f7/>
** The mysterious woman-Yaiba: [[Rumi Wakasa]]<ref>Manga volume 91, file 9; anime episode 890.</ref>
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** Fuko, the mysterious woman-Yaiba: [[Rumi Wakasa]]<ref>Manga volume 91, file 9; anime episode 890.</ref>
* Kamen Yaiba is the cell phone background of Mitsuhiko's phone in [[Emergency Situation 252]].
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* Kamen Yaiba is the cell phone background of [[Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya|Mitsuhiko]]'s phone in [[Emergency Situation 252]].
 
* He's been referred to as [[Samurai Kid]] since around [[volume 30]] of the English translation, which is what the translation used to call Yaiba whenever elements of that series made a cameo. This is an obvious translation error: they have similar names.
 
* He's been referred to as [[Samurai Kid]] since around [[volume 30]] of the English translation, which is what the translation used to call Yaiba whenever elements of that series made a cameo. This is an obvious translation error: they have similar names.
  

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Kamen Yaiba

Kamen Yaiba profile.jpg

Profile
Japanese name: 仮面ヤイバー
(Kamen Yaibā)
English name: Masked Yaiba
Age: unknown
Gender: unknown
Statistics
First appearance: Manga: File 036
Anime: Episode 005
Appearances: Chapters: 18
Chapters: 2
Episodes: 47
Episodes: 1
Movies: 4
Specials: 2
Chapters: 1
Actors
Japanese voice: Isshin Chiba
Wataru Takagi

Kamen Yaiba (仮面ヤイバー Kamen Yaibā?, litt. "Masked Sword") is a children's television show inside the Detective Conan universe that falls into the genre of tokusatsu, live action special effects. It is a parody of the Kamen Rider franchise, created by Shotaro Ishinomori in the 1970s.

Contents

Background

Kamen Yaiba is a fictional character in the series and a superhero that often appears on TV as a kids' show. Many relics have been made about him as publicity and marketing, including trading cards, posters, DVDs, and figurines. He is most liked by elementary schoolers like Conan and the Detective Boys, and many movies of the franchise have been produced. The plot is about a hero wanting to save the world from the threat of Jocker, an evil organization of alien monsters, and to conquer a young lady who is his first love. On the way to defeat his arch-enemy, the Jocker's boss very similar to shinigami who had skulls for faces and carried sickles, Yaiba also has to fight other villains that come in the way.

Kamen Yaiba is Satoshi[1], a normal young and good looking person who's always in the park with his childhood friend Rei Natsume selling hot dogs. But if something happens, he immediately drives to the scene and begin to battle the evil people or aliens. But, Rei does not know that he really is Kamen Yaiba. She only knows that her boyfriend often finds excuses to stop work, and ride away somewhere on his motorcycle. But every time, Rei forgives Kamen Yaiba with forgiving eyes. When the author was planning the story for Kamen Yaiba he made a scenario where his younger sister got killed. But, Kamen Yaiba doesn't fight for vengeance. He fights to maintain justice.[2]

The original Kamen Yaiba's arch-enemy was the Potato Baron, the fiends' leader under the Potato Queen.

Production

Kamen Yaiba is one of the most viewed shows in Japan in the series world and is produced by Nichiuri TV, based in Tokyo. The show's episodes sytem is based on the series one with episodes and seasons. It has a wide range of TV producers and ADs having two main actors: the one acting Kamen Yaiba and the one acting as Yaiba's girlfriend. The costume designs company used is Kitagawa Costumes and Nakamura Clothing Store. The show disposes of a wide range of animated presentations to children, most often in parks and public areas like the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse. The lighting and illumination is done by Ken Abe, Eizo Mizuguchi, and Nao Omura. The recording staff team is made by Emiko Akahori and Kenji Matoyama. The visual effects team has only two members: Masahiko Abe and Masahiro Isobe. The show has also been cooperated with Tohto University's Tama Campus, a visual arts department of the fictitious university, Iwakuma Sightseeing, a tourism agency promoting the show, Koyama Buses, bus transports for the staff, and Nagasaka's Everyone Kindergarten, as a promoter for children's shows.[3] The show appears in a weekly basis and mainly targets a young audience range, although some fans are really older. TWO-MIX sang the theme song.

Appearance

Kamen Yaiba is a tall and handsome superhero, wearing a colored suit that distinguishes him from others when seen on TV. He has a helmet fully covering his head, which has green laser eyes and the Kamen Yaiba logo, a big yellow "Y". He has a red scarf and a metallic plastron with the big Y, white long gloves and a blue jumpsuit under, a belt with the same logo and white cowboy boots. He has a red motorcycle, that can overrun high obstacles, and a cape his scarf can become a cape separated into two red stripes.

The original Kamen Yaiba was more robotic and seemed like a strong boxer, with the abdominals visible and his metallic helmet. His powers gives him the ability to jump high and to avoid ennemies easily, and to shoot lasers on them.

The actor himself is not as powerful and strong as his character, since he is skinny, has black hair, and doesn't have any strength.

Appellations

Plot overview

Code Sheet Case (Manga: 036-039, Anime: 005)

Introduction to Kamen Yaiba through a special event at Tohto Tower. Conan begins to tell Ran who he is, but stops himself and announces his identity as Kamen Yaiba. The scene where Conan's identity was questioned was removed from the anime version and then added back in to episode 5.

Magician's Suicide Case (Manga: 131, Anime: 096)

Innocent Suspect Case (Manga: 231-233, Anime: 156-157)

Red Horse Case (Manga: 393-397, Anime: 325-327)

A young boy helps to determine the time of an arson. The attack happened shortly after 19:30, when Kamen Yaiba's intro was on TV. The start time at 19:30 could be interpreted as an allusion to the Detective Conan anime.

Dark and Clutered Room Case (Manga: 417-419, Anime: 335-336)

Yukiko Kudo takes the Detective Boys to the studio where Kamen Yaiba is produced, Tohto Studio, for a sneak peak at Kamen Yaiba's second movie.

Takagi's Last Case (Manga: 450-452, Anime: 390-391)

The Detective Boys witness a suspicious man and the clues lead to Chiba's roommate. While in Chiba's apartment the Detective Boys watch the first six episodes of the original Kamen Yaiba. The fourth episode, "The Intrigues of Baron Potato!!", features him fighting his arch-enemy, the Potato Baron.

Group Date Kidnapping Case (Manga: 511-514, Anime: 431-432)

A mysterious stranger gives a small kid a rare Kamen Yaiba battle card worth 3,000 yen, featuring a look at the cybernetics inside of Yaiba's head. During the case it is mentioned that one of the suspects bought two limited edition event Kamen Yabia battle card bags, and send one to a friend. Neither of the two got the legendary Potato Queen platinum card, who is the queen of the Potato Baron and his fiends. Seven cards come to a bag, and some of the cards are worth up to 800,000 yen.

Mysterious Job Case (Manga: 554, Anime: 465)

In a scene, when Kamen Yaiba was being chased, a Jocker's monster and two of those aliens were attacking him with grenades from a jeep while he was riding his bike, and his helmet fell off and almost gave away his identity.

Onsen Murder Case (Manga: 722-724, Anime: 597-598)

The Detective Boys run into Mishio Natori, the actress who played the original Kamen Yaiba's love interest.

The VHS Tape of Memories (Manga: 741-742, Anime: 624)

Chiba reveals that he made a knock-off Tokusatsu tape as a kid titled "Kamen Baiya" thirteenth years ago, due to him being a fan of Kamen Yaiba. Which means that Kamen Yaiba has existed for at least that long.

A Missing Item Murder Case (Manga: 869-871, Anime: 748-749)

A Kamen Yaiba movie was used as a trick to commit murder.

The Old Warehouse of Teitan Elementary School (Manga: 966-968, Anime: 889-890)

Mitsuhiko mentions that the next episode of Kamen Yaiba will feature a mysterious woman-Yaiba.

Interchanged Betting Ticket Case (Manga: 975-977, Anime: 894-895)

It is mentioned that an episode featuring the second-in-command of the enemy boss in the Yaiba tv show will air that night.

Haibara's Lost Phone Charm (Manga: 997-999, Anime: 925-926)

A father described the length of travel time between two train stations as the same length as a Kamen Yaiba episode, 30 minutes.

Non-canon plot overview

Hijacked Department Store Case (Anime: 017)

Monday Night 7:30 p.m. Murder Case (Anime: 036)

According to Genta, that night's Masked Yaiber was very interesting, and for Mitsuhiko especially the final fight with the green planet man Batora ("Butler"), a green alien.

The Mysterious Mole Alien Case (Anime: 107-108)

According to the Detective Boys, Masao Kouda, a Kogoro's client, looks exactly like the mole alien, who shakes off his comrades and tricks Kamen Yaiba. Like a mole, he suddenly comes out of the earth.

The Kamen Yaiba Murder Case (Anime: 119)

This is Kamen Yaiba TV show. Ran can kinda relate to how Rei feels, and according to Conan that's almost how it works between Ran and him.

The Amusement Park Bungee Jumping Case (Anime: 149)

Moon, Star, and Sun Case (Anime: 163-164)

While this case is canon to the manga, it replaces the Voice-Changing Pen with a non-canon Kamen Yaiba Voice Changer.

The Small Eye-Witnesses (Anime: 281)

That night airing "The End of the Fake Yaiba", the last episode of the Fake Yaiba series. The fake Yaiba is dangerously closing in on Shunsuke. The true name of Kamen Yaiba is Satoshi.

The Car Stunt's Utmost Limit (Anime: 440)

During a stunt show, it's revealed Kamen Yaiba's actor face.

The Alibi of the Fall (Anime: 596)

A broadcast of the show of Kamen Yaiba was shown and we could see the hero fighting two ennemies as Kogoro, Ran, and Conan had to meet the organizer of the Kamen Yaiba programs for a case. The company called Orion Planning produced this show. Conan also remembers him and the Detective Boys seeing one of his live action shows. When Yaiba's ally, the laser police, fired his laser gun, the Jocker's monster with scales went "pushuu" and fell all flat.

The Disappearance of Conan Edogawa (TV Special: 05)

A Kamen Yaiba festival is used as a backdrop for an assassination plot. Statues of Kamen Yaiba are placed around and a theme tune plays in the background.

The Disappeared Detective Boys (Anime: 922)

Kamen Yaiba appear in the docks for a kids' show and jumps from a container to another before knocking out some Jocker's aliens and making his iconic pose. A lots of people attend the show, including the Detective Boys, and the Nichiuri TV animation director in charge of the direct filming is introduced.

Kaiju Gomera vs. Kamen Yaiba (Anime: 965-968)

Gallery

Name origin

Kamen Yaiba is a parody of Kamen Rider.
Yaiba as "Kamen Yaiba".

The name Kamen Yaiba is a combination of a parody of the Tokusatsu TV show Kamen Rider, as well as Gosho Aoyama's previous manga and anime Yaiba, referencing a moment from chapter 184, when Yaiba Kurogane put on Sayaka Mine's underwear like a mask to protect himself from the attacks of the Cedar Pollen Soldier, resembling the Rider a bit and jokingly calling himself "Kamen Yaiba" because of this. That franchise itself has had screenplays done by Toshiki Inoue. Several Detective Conan actors have appeared on Kamen Rider, including: Tori Matsuzaka, Seizo Kato, Rikiya Koyama, and Takanori Jinnai.

Trivia

In other languages

Language Given Name Family Name
Flag of Japan Japanese 仮面 Kamen ヤイバー Yaibā
Flag of US English Masked Yaiba

References

  1. ^ Episode 281
  2. ^ a b c d Episode 119
  3. ^ Semi credits on a TV series in episode 391.
  4. ^ a b c Manga volume 23, file 10; anime episode 156.
  5. ^ a b Manga volume 92, file 7; anime episode 895.
  6. ^ Manga volume 91, file 9; anime episode 890.

See also

Main Characters
Protagonists Shinichi KudoConan EdogawaRan MouriKogoro Mouri
Detective Boys Ai HaibaraAyumi YoshidaMitsuhiko TsuburayaGenta Kojima
Family & Friends Hiroshi AgasaSonoko SuzukiEri KisakiYusaku KudoYukiko KudoHeiji HattoriKazuha ToyamaYoko OkinoSumiko KobayashiTomoaki AraideMakoto KyogokuShizuka HattoriJirokichi SuzukiEisuke HondouAzusa EnomotoSubaru OkiyaMasumi SeraShukichi HanedaSakurako YoneharaRumi WakasaMomiji OokaMuga Iori
Tokyo Metropolitan Police District Juzo MegureWataru TakagiMiwako SatoNinzaburo ShiratoriYumi MiyamotoKazunobu ChibaNaeko MiikeKiyonaga MatsumotoInspector YuminagaShintaro ChakiHyoue KurodaKenji HagiwaraJinpei MatsudaWataru Date
Osaka Police District Heizo HattoriGinshiro ToyamaGoro Otaki
Nagano Police District Kansuke YamatoYui UeharaTaka'aki Morofushi
Other police districts Sango YokomizoMisao YamamuraJugo YokomizoFumimaro Ayanokoji
NPA and Public Security Bureau Rei Furuya (Bourbon)Hiromitsu MorofushiYuya Kazami
FBI Shuichi AkaiJodie StarlingJames BlackAndre Camel
CIA Hidemi Hondou (Kir)Ethan Hondou
MI6 Mary SeraTsutomu Akai
Black Organization The BossRumGinVodkaVermouthChiantiKornShiho MiyanoAkemi MiyanoElena MiyanoAtsushi MiyanoTequilaPiscoCalvadosRikumichi KusudaKi'ichiro Numabuchi
Magic Kaito Kaito KurobaKaitou KidAoko NakamoriGinzo NakamoriToichi KurobaChikage KurobaKonosuke JiiKeiko MomoiAkako KoizumiSaguru HakubaSnakeRose (OVA only) • Saguru's HousekeeperSpider (TV special only)
Others "The Criminal"Hideo AkagiRyusuke HigoTakahiro SanadaScar AkaiKohji HanedaKamen YaibaAmanda Hughes