Kamen Rider 555
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| Genre |
Tokusatsu Superhero fiction |
| Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
| Written by | Toshiki Inoue |
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| Starring | |
| Narrated by | Takehiko Kano |
| Opening theme | "Justiφ's" by ISSA |
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| Composer(s) | Hayato Matsuo |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 50 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 24-25 minutes (per episode) |
| Production company(s) | Toei Company |
| Distributor | Toei Company |
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| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | January 26, 2003 – January 18, 2004 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Kamen Rider Ryuki |
| Followed by | Kamen Rider Blade |
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Kamen Rider 555 (仮面ライダー555（ファイズ） Kamen Raidā Faizu?, officially Masked Rider Φ's, also read Kamen Rider Faiz or Phi's) 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 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.
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