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  • Summary of every episode of the 1977 Japanese TV show Kaiketsu Zubat

SOME PEOPLE SOMEWHERE IN JAPAN: Oh no! We’re being menaced by a small CRIME SYNDICATE! Here come some GOONS, the leader of CRIME SYNDICATE SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK and his BODYGUARD

SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK: Mwahahaha

WANDERING GUITAR PLAYING DRIFTER KEN HAYAKAWA: Appears on screen strumming his guitar

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BODYGUARD: Does some NICHE THING really well

KEN HAYAKAWA: I’ve heard of you, BODYGUARD, in fact, I’d say you’re the second best in Japan at NICHE THING

BODYGUARD does NICHE THING really well but then KEN HAYAKAWA does some galaxy brain Chuck Norris meme bullshit to do NICHE THING even better

CRIME SYNDICATE is scared away

SOME PEOPLE SOMEWHERE IN JAPAN: CRIME SYNDICATE has a nefarious plan, can it be stopped?

SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK: I will do my nefarious plan!

KEN HAYAKAWA: I will stop his nefarious plan!

BOSS L, A MAN WHO LOOKS LIKE DIME STORE RHINO FROM SPIDER-MAN: appears on screen glowering at his desk
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BOSS L: You’ve been a valuable member of THE CONSORTIUM OF EVIL: DAKKAR, SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK but make sure to do your nefarious plan using your CRIME SYNDICATE a subsidiary of THE CONSORTIUM OF EVIL: DAKKAR

GOONS: Begin nefarious plans and beat the shit out of KEN HAYAKAWA in the process

SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK: Now no one can stop my nefarious plan!

The masked vigilante ZUBAT appears, in his silly looking outfit and silly looking supercar

ZUBAT: I will now summarize all the bad things you did over the course of this episode

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ZUBAT stops the nefarious plan and then beats the shit out of GOONS and then BODYGUARD with his whip

ZUBAT WHILE WHIPPING SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK: I know you killed my best friend GORO ASUKA!

SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK: I didn’t!

ZUBAT: I don’t believe you!

ZUBAT beats SOME GUY IN AN UGLY MASK unconscious with his whip and then his helmet opens revealing he was really KEN HAYAKAWA

KEN HAYAKAWA: Wow I guess he didn’t kill my best friend GORO ASUKA

ZUBAT ties up the bad guys and leaves a calling card with a Z on it detailing every crime they committed over the course of the episode

THE COPS: He’s done it again… the masked vigilante WONDERFUL ZUBAT

SOME PEOPLE SOMEWHERE IN JAPAN: Who was that masked man? And where’s KEN HAYAKAWA?

KEN HAYAKAWA rides into the sunset on the horse he now has

Imipolex_G it wouldn’t surprise me, the creator of Pokémon is a big tokusatsu fan, the Poké Balls are based on the Capsule Monsters in Ultraman and the Team Rocket outfits were based on one of the outfits Shocker used in the original Kamen Rider