Kamen Rider Decade

Did You Know?

• The trademark for Kamen Rider Decade was registered by Toei on July 29, 2008.
• Masahiro Inoue, who portrayed Keigo Atobe in the Prince of Tennis musicals, was cast as Tsukasa Kadoya.
• The Super Adventure DVD Kamen Rider Decade: Protect! The World of Televikun is a 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style story.

Synopsis

Tsukasa Kadoya, a photographer with no memory, lives in the World of Natsumi. When a horde of Kaijin from across Heisei Kamen Rider history attacks, he transforms into Kamen Rider Decade. His mission becomes clear: save his world by journeying through nine AR worlds, alternate realities known as Another Rider's worlds. He sets off with his friend Natsumi and her grandfather, later joined by Yusuke Onodera from the World of Kuuga, Kiva-la from the World of Kiva, and Daiki Kaito, who becomes Kamen Rider Diend. On their travels, they meet Narutaki, who calls Tsukasa the destroyer of worlds, and clash with Dai-Shocker, a coalition of terrorist groups from multiple worlds. The main Riders follow the CMYK color model: Decade is magenta, Diend is cyan, and Kuuga's Rising Ultimate Form is black and yellow. In the Cho-Den-O Trilogy film Episode Yellow, Diend takes center stage, highlighting his yellow accents and enhanced card. The Rider War, first seen in Natsumi's dream, is a destined battle where Decade defeats a Rider Army, though Kuuga survives in Ultimate Form and the two seemingly annihilate each other. Narutaki explains this dream foretells Decade destroying all worlds.

Films

Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations the Movie: The Onigashima Warship was released on May 1, 2009, taking place between episodes 15 and 16 of Decade and primarily featuring characters from Kamen Rider Den-O. Kamen Rider Decade the Movie: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker opened on August 8, 2009, double-booked with Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fateful War. It features twenty-six Kamen Riders, including the original ten Showa Riders, Black, Black RX, Shin, ZO, J, the previous nine Heisei Riders, Decade, and Diend, and marks the first on-screen appearance of Kamen Rider W. The film sheds light on Tsukasa's past and Decade's relation with Dai-Shocker, and its events take place between episodes 29 and 30. Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story, part of the Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 triple feature, tells the story following the television series' cliffhanger finale and was released on December 12, 2009. Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen features a crossover between Kamen Rider and Super Sentai characters, including the protagonists of Decade and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, with Masahiro Inoue and Kimito Totani reprising their roles.

Kamen Rider G

Kamen Rider G is a special production for SMAP's SmaSTATION talk show, premiering on January 31, 2009, created in collaboration with TV Asahi and Ishimori Productions to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TV Asahi broadcasting. The special features several actors from previous Kamen Rider programs in cameo roles, including Kohei Murakami, Mitsuru Karahashi, and Kenji Matsuda. The original characters are all wine-themed: the titular character's transformation requires a bottle of wine inserted into a belt that acts as a wine opener, and he is armed with a corkscrew-like sword and a sommelier knife. His Rider Kick finisher is called the Swirling Rider Kick. The letter 'G' in the title is taken to mean either 'Good', referring to actor Goro Inagaki, or as an onomatopoeia of wine being poured. The antagonist is a Worm called the Phylloxera Worm, a grapevine pest, which later appears as the antagonist in the Kamen Rider Kabuto episodes of Decade.

Songs

The opening theme is 'Journey Through the Decade', performed by Gackt, with lyrics by Shoko Fujibayashi and composition by Ryo. It reached number 2 on the Oricon Weekly Charts, selling approximately 51,666 records in its first week. Insert themes include 'Ride the Wind', performed by Tsukasa Kadoya (Masahiro Inoue) for episodes 10–22 and 28, and 'Treasure Sniper', performed by Daiki Kaito (Kimito Totani) for episodes 23–27 and 29–31. 'Treasure Sniper' was later released as the B-side to the single 'Climax-Action ~The Den-O History~', the theme song for the Cho-Den-O Trilogy film in which Kamen Rider Diend is the main character.