Kamen Rider Decade | |
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Tokusatsu Superhero fiction |
Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
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Narrated by | Eiichiro Suzuki |
Theme music composer | Shuhei Naruse |
Opening theme | "Journey Through the Decade" by Gackt |
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Composer(s) | Kōtarō Nakagawa |
Country of origin | Japan |
Original language(s) | Japanese |
No. of episodes | 31 (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 |
Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | January 25 | – August 30, 2009
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Kamen Rider Kiva |
Followed by | Kamen Rider W |
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Website | |
Production website |
Kamen Rider Decade (仮面ライダーディケイド Kamen Raidā Dikeido?, Masked Rider DCD, Masked Rider Decade) is the title of the first of the 2009 editions of the long-running Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu dramas. Decade, as its title suggests, is the tenth of the Heisei Rider Series, having begun with Kamen Rider Kuuga in 2000. It began broadcast the week following the finale of Kamen Rider Kiva and is featured in Super Hero Time alongside the 2009 edition of the Super Sentai Series, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. The series ties in with the arcade game Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride, with Kamen Riders Decade and Diend using cards resembling those used in the game to transform and access various weapons. Inspiration for this series was very likely to have been the fact that Toei had successfully ensured that the Kamen Rider series lasted a whole decade (2000-2009) without the show going into a period of hiatus which had always occurred since the franchise began in the 1970s. The series' English dub aired on October 20, 2012, 5:30 p.m. at Singapore's Okto Channel, Mediacorp.
Masahiro Inoue, who portrayed Keigo Atobe in the Prince of Tennis musicals, was cast in the lead role for Decade as Tsukasa Kadoya/Kamen Rider Decade. Also involved was Kanna Mori as Natsumi Hikari, and Renji Ishibashi as Natsumi's grandfather Eijiro Hikari. Another member of the cast was Tatsuhito Okuda as the mysterious Narutaki. The world of Kamen Rider Kuuga, as well as most of the other Rider Worlds, sport several characters that have been renamed and cast with different actors. Ryouta Murai was cast as Yusuke Onodera who is the series' version of Kuuga. Rounding up the cast was Kimito Totani who portrayed the thief Daiki Kaito/Kamen Rider Diend.