He escaped from a villain's secret hideout with the Gaia Memories, and is usually found in a garage, keeping to himself, as a "desk detective." His brain has the ability to access the Gaia Library, which can access relative information on the current crime. Philip: Mysterious, and genius, young man. Together with Philip, he transforms into Kamen Rider W to fight them. Has a great deal of anger towards the Dopant, who attacks the people of his city.
He has an affinity for 70's clothing and culture. Hidari Shotaro: An active private detective, who considers himself "Hard-Boiled", even though it's more like he's "Half-Boiled".
Using their own GaiaMemories, Shotaro and Philip use the Double Driver belts to transform and combine into Kamen Rider Double to fight the Dopant menace. To make matters worse, the GaiaMemories they use cause them to crave more power that the devices give them, up to the point where they could die from the life-threatening devices.Īfter the death of his boss, the hard-boiled (or rather half-boiled) detective Shotaro Hidari works with the mysterious Philip, who possesses the true GaiaMemory: Cyclone, Heat, and Luna for Phillip, and Joker, Metal, and Trigger for Shotaro. However, the Sonozaki Family sell mysterious devices resembling USB flash drives called Gaia Memories to criminals and other interested parties who use them to become monsters called Dopants, committing crimes with the police force powerless to stop them. In the ecologically-minded city of Futo (風都 aka "Windy City"), there are many windmills and the people live in harmony. “Shirashi doesn’t want characters who are pure CG creations.Kamen Rider W/Double is the new start 10th year period until 2019 Kamen Rider, but still under 10th Anniversary Heisei Kamen Rider. I’m sure ‘Kamen Rider’ as viewed by Shiraishi will also be something completely different since he’s directing all the episodes.” The show will use CG not possible when “Kamen Rider Black” was first broadcast in the 1980s, but the foundation of the show, says Shirakura, “will be the performances of its human cast.” “We then layer stunts and CG onto the human performances,” he adds. It’s like Christopher Nolan with ‘The Dark Knight’ - he could make a Batman film that way because he’s Christopher Nolan. It will be a new type of superhero show that adults can watch with a straight face. Toei, says Shirakura, does not expect Shiraishi to turn in a typical tokusatsu show: “Since he’s Shiraishi Kazuya, I expect that it will have the flavor of the sort of films he makes.
The new series will be directed by Shiraishi Kazuya for a summer 2022 start. “The show is targeting older teenagers and young adults.” The third part of the project is “Kamen Rider Black Sun,” a reboot of the hit “Kamen Rider Black” series originally broadcast in 1987-’88.
“We’re not aiming at children,” Shirakura says. Sony-owed streamer Funimation will distribute the show in North America. The international rollout is scheduled to start in the summer of the same year.
The one exception is “Fuuto PI,” Toei’s first Kamen Rider animated TV series, which is set for a spring 2022 bow in Japan, with franchise veteran Tsukada Hideaki serving as producer. And like the Power Rangers shows in the past we are doing it mostly with live-action contents,” Shirakura says. “We are trying to sell ‘Kamen Rider’ to not only the United States but also to the world. Also, “Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight,” an adaptation of the “Kamen Rider Ryuki” series (2002-’03) developed in partnership with Adness Entertainment, aired on the CW Network from 2008 to 2009. In 1995, Toei again joined forces with Saban to launch “Masked Rider,” an American version of the 1988 “Kamen Rider Black RX” TV series.