Kamen Rider Kabuto
Kamen Rider Kabuto is a
Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the sixteenth installment in the popular
Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between
Ishimori Productions and
Toei. The series was broadcast on
TV Asahi.
The first episode aired on January 29, 2006, and with the final episode
airing on January 21, 2007, completing the series with 49 episodes. The
series represents the 35th
anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series, as indicated by a notice at the beginning of the
pilot episode reading, in
Japanese, "Kamen Rider 35th Anniversary Production."
Kamen Rider Kabuto is the first Kamen Rider Series to be broadcast in
high-definition format. Seven years prior to the series, a meteorite struck in the
Shibuya district, the
Worms
emerges from the meteorite and became a threat to humanity. Souji
Tendou has trained seven years while waiting for the Kabuto Zecter so
that he may properly take up the name of
Kamen Rider Kabuto.
Making many enemies while at the same time meeting other Riders with
mysterious origins of how they got there, Tendou attempts to accomplish
his goal at all costs: destroying all Worms that otherwise threaten
humanity. He meets Arata Kagami, who later becomes
Kamen Rider Gatack,
the two work together to save humanity from the alien Worms before the
hidden conspiracies within the ZECT organization and the Natives species
came to light.
Kamen Rider Faiz
Kamen Rider 555 is a
Japanese tokusatsu television series. It is the 13th installment in the
Kamen Rider Series. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and
Toei, and was broadcast on
TV Asahi from January 26, 2003 to January 18, 2004. And it was the first series to use
TV Asahi's current logo. The catchphrase for the series is "Racing Instinct.
The Smart Brain corporation, the world's most powerful corporation, is trying to take over the world using
Orphnoch,
the "next stage in humanity's evolution", to covertly kill off the
human population. In pursuit of this, they develop three suits of power
armor, called Rider Gears (each for
Delta,
Faiz, and
Kaixa),
to find and protect the Orphnoch King, who can fix a defect within
Orphnoch DNA which causes their genetic structure to break down, leading
to death.
The Rider Gears are stolen by Hanagata, the Goat Orphnoch and former
chief of Smart Brain. He sends them to his foster children (dubbed the
"Ryuseiji", after the school they attended) so they can stop the
Orphnoch from achieving their goal. However, Rider Gears were designed
to be worn by Orphnoch, and humans are unable to activate the systems
without undergoing genetic modification.
A young loner, Takumi Inui, is unwittingly drawn into the conflict between the Orphnoch and humans and becomes
Kamen Rider Faiz to save the life of Mari Sonoda, one of the Ryuseiji. Smart Brain begins targeting him in an attempt to retrieve the
Faiz Gear.
However, there is division amongst the Orphnoch, as those who wish to
co-exist with humans rather than kill them, begin resisting the Smart
Brain, who in turn targets them as well. Most of these "renegade"
Orphnochs are either killed, remain neutral or begin siding with the
Ryuseiji against the Smart Brain.
When the
Tokyo
police discover the Orphnoch are behind a series of bizarre murders,
they begin operations to defeat the creatures, largely unaware of the
various factions involved. They even begin performing experiments on
captured Orphnoch in an attempt to find ways of destroying them, though
this does not go well.
The Orphnoch King eventually awakens within a young boy named Teruo
Suzuki, whom Naoya Kaido and Keitaro Kikuchi saved and befriended. Now,
it is up to the holders of the Rider Gears to band together and fight
for humanity's survival.
Kamen Rider Kiva
Kamen Rider Kiva is the title of the 2008
Kamen Rider Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by
Toei Company and
Ishimori Productions. It premiered on January 27, 2008, following the finale of
Kamen Rider Den-O. It aired as a part of
TV Asahi's 2008
Super Hero Time block with
Engine Sentai Go-onger. Advertisements showed a
horror film theme to the series, with the motif for Kamen Rider Kiva as a
vampire. The advertising slogan for the series is "Wake up! Break the chains of destiny!!"
. The first episode began with a commemoration of the series in honor of the seventieth anniversary of
Shotaro Ishinomori's birthday
Twenty-two years after the disappearance of his father, Wataru
Kurenai lives in an infamous "haunted house" where he is destined as
Kamen Rider Kiva
to fight life-draining monsters called Fangires, the very race his
father fought years ago before his disappearance. Wataru must also deal
with
Kamen Rider Ixa who is part of an organization seeking to destroy the Fangire menace, as well as the Fangires' own Rider,
Kamen Rider Saga.
The story is split between the actions of Wataru in the present
(2008-09) and his father Otoya in the past (1986-87), slowly revealing
the link between the Fangire Race and Kiva.
The characters of
Kamen Rider Kiva are spread throughout two
time periods, each related to one another. There are the actions of
Otoya Kurenai and the Fangire Hunter Yuri Aso with the Wolfen Jiro in
the year 1986 with the first Ixa Ver.I that result in the various
Fangires that persist to the current day, in 2008, with Otoya's son
Wataru (as Kamen Rider Kiva) along and Keisuke Nago (as Kamen Rider Ixa
Ver.X) and Yuri's daughter Megumi (also a Fangire Hunter), dealing with
the Fangires to prevent deaths.
Kamen Rider Kuuga
Kamen Rider Kuuga is a
Japanese tokusatsu television series. It is the tenth installment of the popular
Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu shows and the first of the series to air entirely in the
Heisei period. It was a joint collaboration between
Ishimori Productions and
Toei, and was shown on
TV Asahi from January 30, 2000 to January 21, 2001.
Kamen Rider Kuuga is the first Kamen Rider Series to be broadcast in
widescreen presented in a
letterbox format..ong ago, the
Gurongi Tribe terrorized the Linto
until a warrior named
Kuuga appeared and defeated the Gurongi, sealing their leader within a cave. In present day, a multi-talented man named
Yusuke Godai
finds himself linked to the mysterious stoned belt that was found
within the excavated cave as the Gurongi are resurrected and resume
their murderous game on the descendants of the Linto, humanity itself.
It is up to Yusuke, along with the assembled Science Police, to use the
various powers of Kuuga in order to stop and defeat the Gurongi
Tribesmen from their continuous killing and ensure the happiness of
others. However, as endgame draws near, Yusuke learns that there is a
horrible revelation behind Kuuga and the
Gurongis' leader.
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is the
Daytime Emmy Award-winning
[4] American adaptation of the Japanese
tokusatsu series
Kamen Rider Ryuki, the twelfth installment of the
Kamen Rider Series. It was brought to television by
Steve and Michael Wang and produced by Jimmy Sprague through
Adness Entertainment. The series had a sneak premiere on December 13, 2008 and began official broadcasting on January 3, 2009,
[5] then continued throughout the year. Adness chose to adapt
Ryuki over the other Heisei Rider shows as it has a large number of characters (
Ryuki had 13 Riders in total) as well as a female Rider.
[6] It is also the first tokusatsu adaptation of a Kamen Rider Series since
Saban's Masked Rider, which was adapted from
Kamen Rider Black RX. The show first aired in the United States on
The CW Television Network during its
CW4Kids programming block.
[3] Statements by director Steve Wang and lead Stephen Lunsford show that
The CW had dropped
Dragon Knight at the end of the year before its final two episodes aired in the US.
The final episodes were uploaded to the
4Kids TV website on December 18, 2009. In 2012, all of the episodes were removed from the 4Kids TV website.
Kamen Rider Agito
Kamen Rider Agito is the eleventh installment in the popular
Kamen Rider tokusatsu
franchise. The series represented the 30th Anniversary of the Kamen
Rider Series. The series was also a joint collaboration between
Ishimori Productions and
Toei and was shown on
TV Asahi from January 28, 2001 to January 27, 2002. The series served as an indirect sequel to
Kamen Rider Kuuga.A man named Shouichi Tsugami has lost his memories. He doesn't know who
he is, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar
circumstances. Tsugami, seemingly for no reason, transforms into a
powerful superhuman,
Kamen Rider Agito, whenever in the presence of the beings referred by the police as the "
Unknown",
a race of powerful monsters that have been causing murders around
Tokyo, targeting certain people as their prey. In response, the police
department unleash their newest weapon: the
Kamen Rider G3 powersuit, originally developed to fight against the "Unidentified Lifeforms", the enemies of No.4 (
Kamen Rider Kuuga).
G3 and Agito don't know whether they should join up and defeat the
Unknowns, their common enemy, or to combat each other, keeping the
mysteries that entwine them separate. Ultimately, even more mysteries
unfold, with the appearance of
Kamen Rider Gills,
who is on a search to uncover why his father committed suicide. These
mysteries and others collide, as the true nature of Agito would
ultimately determine the fate of humanity.
Kamen RiderWizard
Kamen Rider Wizard is a Japanese
tokusatsu drama in
Toei Company's
Kamen Rider Series, being the fourteenth series in the
Heisei period
run and the twenty-third overall. Trademarks on the title were filed by
Toei in June 21, 2012, and it was officially revealed on June 27, 2012.
It began airing on
TV Asahi on September 2, 2012, joining
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and then
Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger in the
Super Hero Time lineup.
Tsuyoshi Kida is the series' main screenwriter. The catchphrase of the series is "Now, it's showtime!"
.Six months prior to the start of the series, a mysterious ritual held on
the day of the solar eclipse took place. Its purpose was to give birth
to a group of magical creatures called
Phantoms
through humans with magical potential called "Gates", by forcibly
subjecting them to immense despair. Haruto Soma and Koyomi, the
survivors of the ritual, are tasked by the mysterious
Shiroi Mahoutsukai to fight the Phantoms. Haruto is also given the Wizardriver to become
Kamen Rider Wizard
in order to prevent the Phantoms from transforming other Gates into
Phantoms themselves. Later on, a man named Kosuke Nito appears as the
ancient wizard
Kamen Rider Beast to feed on the Phantom's magical power to survive and becomes rivals with Haruto.