Kamen Rider Series: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The Kamen Rider is a metaseries of manga and tokusatsu television programs and films created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. The various Kamen Rider media generally feature a motorcycle-riding superhero with an insect motif who fights supervillains often referred to as kaijin. The franchise began in 1971 with the Kamen Rider television series which followed college student Takeshi Hongo and his quest to defeat the world-conquering Shocker organization. Over the years, the popularity of the franchise has grown and the original series has spawned many television and theatrical sequels, and launched the "Second Kaiju Boom" or "Henshin Boom" on Japanese television in the early 1970s, greatly impacting the superhero and action-adventure genre in Japan.

Series details

• Title: Kamen Rider Series
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Action, Adventure, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 1971-04-03
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Asahi
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6/10
• TVMaze ID: 10848
• TVDB ID: 74096

Cast and credited roles

• Hiroshi Fujioka — Hongo Takeshi/Kamen Rider 1
• Hiroshi Miyauchi — Shiro Kazami/Kamen Rider V3
• Hideyoshi Kan — Ace Ukiyo
• Junsei Motojima — Houtarou Ichinose
• Ryutaro Imai — Baku Yorozu
• Takeshi Sasaki — Ichimonji Hayato/Kamen Rider 2
• Ryo Hayami — Keisuke Jin/Kamen Rider X
• Kentaro Maeda — Ikki Igarashi
• Subaru Kimura — Vice
• Noritaka Hamao — George Karizaki
• Wataru Hyuga — Daiji Igarashi
• Ayaka Imoto — Sakura Igarashi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1971-04-03; final listed air date 1973-02-10; episode order: 98.
• Season 2: premiered 1973-02-17; final listed air date 1974-02-09; episode order: 52.
• Season 3: premiered 1974-02-16; final listed air date 1974-10-12; episode order: 35.
• Season 4: premiered 1974-10-19; final listed air date 1975-03-29; episode order: 24.
• Season 5: premiered 1975-04-05; final listed air date 1975-12-27; episode order: 39.
• Season 6: premiered 1979-10-05; final listed air date 1980-10-10; episode order: 54.
• Season 7: premiered 1980-10-17; final listed air date 1981-10-03; episode order: 48.
• Season 8: premiered 1987-10-04; final listed air date 1988-10-09; episode order: 51.
• Season 9: premiered 1988-10-23; final listed air date 1989-09-24; episode order: 47.
• Season 10: premiered 2000-01-30; final listed air date 2001-01-21; episode order: 49.
• Season 11: premiered 2001-01-28; final listed air date 2002-01-27; episode order: 51.
• Season 12: premiered 2002-02-03; final listed air date 2003-01-19; episode order: 50.
• Season 13: premiered 2003-01-26; final listed air date 2004-01-18; episode order: 50.
• Season 14: premiered 2004-01-25; final listed air date 2005-01-23; episode order: 49.
• Season 15: premiered 2005-01-30; final listed air date 2006-01-22.
• Season 16: premiered 2006-01-29; final listed air date 2007-01-21; episode order: 49.
• Season 17: premiered 2007-01-28; final listed air date 2008-01-20.
• Season 18: premiered 2008-01-27; final listed air date 2009-01-18.
• Season 19: premiered 2009-01-25; final listed air date 2009-08-30.
• Season 20: premiered 2009-09-06; final listed air date 2010-08-29.
• Season 21: premiered 2010-09-05; final listed air date 2011-08-28.
• Season 22: premiered 2011-09-04; final listed air date 2012-08-26.
• Season 23: premiered 2012-09-02; final listed air date 2013-09-29.
• Season 24: premiered 2013-10-06; final listed air date 2014-09-28; episode order: 47.
• Season 25: premiered 2014-10-05; final listed air date 2015-09-27.
• Season 26: premiered 2015-10-04; final listed air date 2016-09-25; episode order: 50.
• Season 27: premiered 2016-10-02; final listed air date 2017-08-27; episode order: 45.
• Season 28: premiered 2017-09-03; final listed air date 2018-08-26; episode order: 49.
• Season 29: premiered 2018-09-02; final listed air date 2019-08-25; episode order: 49.
• Season 30: premiered 2019-09-01; final listed air date 2020-08-30; episode order: 45.

Source and licence

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