Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight
| Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight | |
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| Genre |
Action/Adventure Superhero |
| Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
| Developed by | Steve Wang |
| Starring |
Stephen Lunsford Matt Mullins Aria Alistar |
| Opening theme | "Kamen Rider Dragon Knight" by Cage9 "DIVE INTO THE MIRROR" by Defspiral (Japanese version) |
| Ending theme | "ANOTHER WORLD" by Kit×Len (Tatsuhisa Suzuki & Satoshi Matsuda) (Japanese version) |
| Composer(s) | Tony Phillips |
| Country of origin | United States Japan |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 40(list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Yasuo Matsuo Fumio Sebata Aki Komine |
| Producer(s) | Steve Wang Mike Wang Roy McAree |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Adness Entertainment Toei Company |
| Distributor | MarVista Entertainment |
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| Original network | The CW (The CW4Kids) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | December 13, 2008 – December 18, 2009 |
| Developer(s) |
Natsume (Nintendo DS) Eighting (Wii) |
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| Publisher(s) | D3 Publisher |
| Distributor(s) | Bandai Namco Games |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS Wii |
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| Genre(s) | Fighting |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer (Wii only) |
Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight is an American Independent television show starring Stephen Lunsford and Matt Mullins that originally aired on The CW during its CW4Kids programming block from December 13, 2008 to December 26, 2009. It is an adaptation of the Japanese tokusatsu show Kamen Rider Ryuki and is the second Kamen Rider show to be adapted and completely produced by an American TV production company, the first being Saban's Masked Rider. 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, 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. 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.
In 2010, Dragon Knight was nominated for and won the Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Stunt Coordination", a category introduced to the Daytime Emmys that year.
While searching for his missing father, Kit Taylor finds an Advent Deck—a special card deck that allows the carrier to transform into a Kamen Rider and utilize unique weapons and powers—and uses it to become Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. He butts heads with Len, who serves as Kamen Rider Wing Knight, but the pair join forces after Kit learns that an alien warlord named General Xaviax is responsible for his father's disappearance and intends on abducting him and the entire human race to gain power and rebuild Xaviax's homeworld. Xaviax tricks people on Earth into working for him by promising them whatever they want, or in some cases, by exploiting their fears and desperation. Kit wonders why Xaviax has to trick them and why he doesn't just find bad guys to do the work for him. Len tells Kit that the decks were only made for one person, and that only a person with an exact DNA match to the original Ventaran rider could use it. This is why Kit is able to use the Dragon Knight Deck: he is the exact Mirror Twin of Adam, the original Dragon Knight, who betrayed the original team. One of the new Earth Riders, Chris Ramirez (serving as Kamen Rider Sting and tricked by Xaviax into believing he is working in a special ops government program to fight alien invaders), joins forces with Kit and Len when he discovers he has been deceived, but is Vented—a process which traps defeated Riders in the "Advent Void" between dimensions forever and removes their Advent Decks—along the way. Kit vents Albert Cho, brother of Danny Cho, in retaliation. This leads to a personal hatred between Danny and Kit, as Danny seeks to avenge his brother against Xaviax's orders.
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