Kamen Rider Ex-Aid
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Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Medical drama |
| Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
| Written by | Yuya Takahashi |
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| Narrated by | Junichi Suwabe |
| Opening theme | "EXCITE" by Daichi Miura |
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| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
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| Running time | 24–25 min. (per episode) |
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| Distributor | Toei Company |
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| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | October 2, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Kamen Rider Amazons |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid (仮面ライダーエグゼイド Kamen Raidā Eguzeido?) is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series. It is the eighteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-seventh series overall. Toei registered the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid trademark on June 13th, 2016. The show premiered on October 2, 2016, one week after the finale of Kamen Rider Ghost, joining Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger and later, Uchu Sentai Kyuranger in the Super Hero Time line-up.
Emu Hōjō is an intern in the Pediatrics Department at Seito University Hospital and a genius video gamer who goes by the alias "M". Emu was inspired to practice medicine after a doctor, the future minister of health Kyotaro Hinata saved his life from illness when he was a child. Kyotaro also gave him a WonderSwan handheld video game console as a reward that ignited Emu's interest in video games. Recently, a video game company known as the Genm Corporation, or Genm Corp for short, has become aware of the existence of the Bugsters, a form of computer virus that spawns from their company's software bugs. Led by the mysterious Parad and his partner Graphite, the Bugster manifest themselves in the physical world by infecting humans that play Genm Corp's video games at a cellular level. Once a Bugster fully manifests, the human host gradually fades away as consequence due to stress experienced by the host.
Genm Corp counters the Bugster threat by developing the Gamer Driver belts and a series of transformation and summon type trinkets, the Rider Gashats, for doctors who undercome a special procedure to be allowed to use its powers. One of the chosen doctors is Emu himself, who transforms into Kamen Rider Ex-Aid to save his patients from the Bugster viruses. But Ex-Aid learns of other Doctors who are also Riders besides himself: elite surgeon Hiiro Kagami/Kamen Rider Brave, the unlicensed "dark doctor" Taiga Hanaya/Kamen Rider Snipe, a medical examiner who can transform into a Kamen Rider in a default motorcycle vehicle form Kiriya Kujō/Kamen Rider Lazer. Assisted by Poppy Pipopapo, a Bugster who joined their side under the name Asuna Karino, the four also face the opposition of Kamen Rider Genm, the prototype of Ex-Aid, who is actually Kuroto Dan, the CEO of Genm Corp and the creator of the Bugsters, who is conspiring with them to create what he calls "The Ultimate Game", an AR MMO called "Kamen Rider Chronicle", where everyone is given the power to become a Kamen Rider known as a Ride-Player in a fight for survival. During the fight, Kiriya is killed by Kuroto for trying to investigate further on Genm Corp, its involvement with the Bugster virus and the reason why Emu gained the power to become a Rider despite not passing by the compatibilty surgery. Later it is revealed that it was because Emu is actually the patient zero of the Bugster infection, gaining immunity to it in the occasion.
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