 This article is about a rider in Kamen Rider Stronger.
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- For the A.R. World version, see Yuriko Misaki (A.R. World).
Yuriko Misaki (岬 ユリ子, Misaki Yuriko) is the Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle (電波人間タックル, Denpa Ningen Takkuru, literally "Electromagnetic Wave Human Tackle"). She was portrayed by the late Kyoko Okada in Kamen Rider Stronger. Despite sharing many characteristics with the series' titular heroes, she was never officially branded a "Kamen Rider", a fact which was elaborated upon in the Kamen Rider Spirits manga.
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Biography
| "Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle!" |
| ―Tackle's roll call[src] |
A grief-stricken Shigeru Jo carries Yuriko's body
Yuriko Misaki was a newly finished cyborg ready to serve the evil Black Satan organization but she was still inactive. Everything changed as her soon-to-be best friend Shigeru Jo entered the room she was staying in trying to find a way out of Black Satan`s secret lair, found her on an operating table and awakens her. After some talk he convinced her to come with him and together with a good friend to many Kamen Riders, Tobei Tachibana they fought the Black Satan as Kamen Rider Stronger and the Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle for quite some time. Over time she fell in love with him. But sadly Yuriko gave her life to defeat the evil Dr. Kate in order to save Shigeru from being poisoned. This would forever haunt him and pushed him to undergo surgery in order attain the even more powerful (and dangerous) Charge Up form.
Kamen Rider Spirits
| "She fought more than enough. She'll never be called a Kamen Rider! She's now a normal human!" |
| ―Shigeru Jo to the Badan Cyborg 13's Leader[src] |
In Kamen Rider Spirits, Shigeru experiences flashbacks about Yuriko when he stumbles upon her shrine while escaping from the ZX Army. He recalls why she was never labeled a "Kamen Rider": she had desired to live a normal life, and through her sacrifice, she had gained her humanity.
Kamen Rider Decade
Net movies
In the net movie spin-offs of the Kamen Rider Decade movie, Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker, they have a different take on Shigeru`s feelings toward Yukiro being a Kamen Rider or not in the first webisode, Petition! Kamen Rider Tackle!!. Here, he meets with Tsukasa Kadoya and the other members of the Hikari Photo Studio, wanting to petition Toei to recognize Tackle as a Kamen Rider and asking for their support. When the group gets to Toei's offices, however, they're surprised to find that Tackle is herself the recruiting director who decides which characters are Riders and which aren't.
Chou Super Hero Taisen
Video game appearances
Pachinko Kamen Rider: Full Throttle
Tackle appears as an ally in Pachinko Kamen Rider: Full Throttle.
Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride
Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle card
Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle appears as a playable character in this video game Kamen Rider Battle Ganbaride.
Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle
Tackle's base form.
Other appearances
Kamen Rider SD
Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle in SD
In Kamen Rider SD, she was a contestant on a TV dating game show as a background character.
Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Otsu: Heroo! Answers
Tackle as seen in Super Hero Taisen Otsu.
In Shotaro's imagination, Tackle was married to Stronger. But in fact, she was cheating on her husband and having an affair with Alien Baltan
. 「Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Otsu: Heroo! Answers」
Vehicle
Tentoro
Tentoro
- Main article: Tentoro
Techniques
- Shockwave Toss (電波投げ, Denpa Nage): Tackle's commonly used non-physical technique, it can disorient a group of Black Satan Soldiers or an average Kikkaijin.
- Ultra Cyclone: A risky last resort attack, used to destroy Dr. Kate.
Homage
- Main article: Kamen Rider Lady
Behind the scenes
Portrayal
Yuriko Misaki was portrayed by the late Kyōko Okada (岡田 京子, Okada Kyōko). In Kamen Rider Decade: Final Chapter she was portrayed by Alice Hirose. In Super Hero Taisen Otsu, she was portrayed by Arisa Komiya (小宮 有紗, Komiya Arisa), who is better known as Yellow Buster Yoko Usami from Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.
Recognition
Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle is featured as #34 in the 1986 archive compilation video Toei 100 Great Heroes Super Fight.
Notes
- If one were to count her as a Kamen Rider, then she is the first Rider that was killed and not revived.
- While Tackle's death is a defining moment for Kamen Rider Stronger as a series, according to production notes from Toru Hirayama, there were concept plans to revive her and give her an upgrade form, after which she would have officially been titled a Kamen Rider. This had to be scrapped in order to accommodate the series' shorter 39 episode run. [1]
- Despite this, she is commonly viewed as the prototype by which later Female Kamen Riders would draw their basis from, similar to how Shadow Moon is the credited inspiration for the later introduction of Amoral, Antagonist and Evil Kamen Riders in the Heisei Kamen Rider series despite Officially not being one himself.
- Shotaro Ishinomori and Kamen Rider co-creator Toru Hirayama conceived the idea of Tackle after receiving fan letters from young girls who said they wanted a hero to pretend to be when playing Kamen Rider with other boys.[2]
- The second episode provides an easily overlooked explanation for why Tackle does not go by the title of Kamen Rider: Yuriko herself chose to name her hero persona Denpa Ningen Tackle after Shigeru named his Kamen Rider Stronger. Her role in Petition! Kamen Rider Tackle!! might be an intentional reference to this.
- Yuriko is the only female Showa character to be a heroine.
- Yuriko serves as the cheerleader for the Kamen Rider team, Typhoon Riders in Battle Baseball.
Appearances
- Main article: Yuriko Misaki/Appearances
Kamen Rider Stronger
- Episode 1: I am the Electric Human Stronger!!
- Episode 2: The Secret of Stronger and Tackle!
- Episode 3: The Thriller House Calls for Children!!
- Episode 4: The Demonic Motorbike Reckless Driving Operation!
- Episode 5: Black Satan's School Lunch!?
- Episode 6: The Jellyfish Kikkaijin Who Took the Form of a Teacher!
- Episode 7: Rider Great Reversal!!
- Episode 8: Don't Melt, Rider! The Final Blow, Electro Kick!!
- Episode 9: The Band of Demons Has Come!!
- Episode 10: The Frightful Gummer Bug! It Targets Humans!!
- Episode 11: Chameleorn! Demonic Film!?
- Episode 12: Duel! Stronger's Grave!?
- Episode 13: Hitotsume Titan! The Final Counter Attack!!
- Episode 14: The Appearance of Enigmatic Chief Executive Shadow!
- Episode 15: Shadow's Trump That Calls Death!!
- Episode 16: The Bloodsucking Bubunger's Demonic Present!
- Episode 17: Ghost Story, The Demonic Easter
- Episode 18: Ghost Story, The Bottomless Swamp
- Episode 19: Ghost Story: The Cursed Old Castle!
- Episode 20: The Great Scary Desert! Two Tobees?!
- Episode 21: Samegashima, Decisive Battle in the Sea!
- Episode 22: Rider Execution at 12:00!?
- Episode 23: The Devil of the Underground Kingdom!!
- Episode 24: Bizarre! The Unmanned Train Runs!!
- Episode 25: Don't Die!! Shigeru Jō in the Electric Chair
- Episode 26: Seen!! The Great Leader's True Identity!!
- Episode 27: Remodelled Majin! The Delzer Army Appears!!
- Episode 28: Oh! Stronger...into Small Pieces?!
- Episode 29:The Curse of Majin Kate's Blood!
- Episode 30: Goodbye, Tackle! Her Last Activity!! (Death)
- Kamen Rider Spirits
- Kamen Rider SD
- Kamen Rider 1 Through RX: Big Gathering (archive footage only)
- Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders Super Spin-off
- OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
- Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Otsu: Heroo! Answers
- Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen (Game World)
