![Japanese Spider-Man Title](https://kamenriderrecap.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/japanese-spider-man-title.jpg?w=625&h=416)
Welcome back readers to my midweek recap series, chronicling the insanity that is the legendary Toei series Japanese Spider-Man! Or, Supaidāman, if you’re feeling phonetic.
This weeks episode kicks off at the secluded Kitazawa meteor research lab sitting on Mt. Hakuja. It’s a dark and stormy night and three toughs in Hawaiian shirts decide they’re too scared of the fog to risk the dangerous mountain drive, so they opt to break into the place to hold up for the night. So they’re oddly safety conscious burglars. They’re further prompted to complete their B and E when they learn the house houses a lone beautiful woman, who they decide to force their amorous advances upon, as toughs are wont to do.
But the moment they try to grab onto her she turns back and transforms into… a Snake Woman!
![A little long in the tooth snake woman](https://kamenriderrecap.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/a-little-long-in-the-tooth-snake-woman.jpg?w=625&h=415)
Or a Walrus woman maybe. Oh wait actually that isn’t the full of her transformation, it’s not even her final form!
![Snake Woman got some tooth work done](https://kamenriderrecap.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/snake-woman-got-some-tooth-work-done.jpg?w=625&h=415)
I have to wonder why the heck they gave the actress super long teeth in the middle transformation step only for her to, you know, NOT have giant teeth in her Machine Bem form? Come on, that should have taken like just a minute to check with the prop department! Also after just recapping an episode of Agito with a very brand conscious Scorpion Kaijin I have to say I jumped the gun since Snake Woman here is all about letting you know how much of a Snake she is. Not only does she have a snake face and individual Snake Medusa style hair, but her left hand is a whole separate snake all its own!
The Snake Woman then lightly shoves the three men to the ground as they do nothing to resist her, which of course means they’re all dead. And after dumping their bodies back in their car she props the gas and launches it off a nearby cliff to condemn the toughs to a fiery death while she grins over the title card.
![Very smile like hell tears](https://kamenriderrecap.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/very-smile-like-hell-tears.jpg?w=625&h=416)
Two things here. One is that Japanese Spider-Man continues to deliver the greatest episode titles known to man. And two is that perhaps ‘the Tears of the Snake Woman’ is an odd phrase to put over a picture of a woman who is obviously clearly enjoying how good she is at murdering some dudes.
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