Kamen Rider Den-O

Kamen Rider Den-O (仮面ライダー電王) is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. It aired alongside  for Super Hero Time 2007. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history.

Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, Den-O had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run which grossed 730 million yen (approximately US$6.8 million) and a series of ten  shorts, both of which are firsts for any Kamen Rider. Continuing the trend, Kamen Rider Den-O also had a third film released in October 2008, the first for any Kamen Rider series and a second series of 12 OVA shorts was released in November 2008. Takeru Satoh claims that the reason that Den-O has amassed such popularity is because of its comedic timing. A fourth film was released on May 1, 2009, and three more released in the summer of 2010.

The catchphrases for the series are "Traveling through time, here I come!" (時を超えて 俺、参上!) and "The time train, DenLiner! Will its next stop be in the past or the future?" (時の列車デンライナー!次の駅は過去か?未来か?).

Story
"The train of time, Den-Liner. Would it be the next station is in the past or the future?"

- Owner

Ryotaro Nogami is a young man with a lot of bad luck. One day, he finds a strange pass and things got stranger from a mysterious girl and a large time-traveling train to being possessed by an entity called an Imagin, beings from an alternate future whose kind are attempting to change the past. Though slightly confused about the nature of the crisis, Ryotaro, along with the aid of the hot-headed, violent Imagin, dubbed Momotaros, becomes Kamen Rider Den-O, traveling to different times on the DenLiner to battle the evil Imagin to prevent them from altering the past to affect the present and future. During his adventure, Ryotaro is joined by other Imagin who aid him as well; the lying, manipulating and womanizing Urataros, the herculean (and ) Kintaros, and the childish yet powerful Ryutaros. He later meets the mysterious Yuto Sakurai and his bumbling Imagin partner Deneb. Yuto is not only Kamen Rider Zeronos but is the younger incarnation of Ryotaro's older sister Airi's fiancé, Sakurai, who mysteriously disappeared and is tied to the mysteries involving the Imagin and a person known as the Junction Point.

DenLiner Crew

 * Hana/Kohana
 * Naomi
 * Owner
 * Station Master

Milk Dipper

 * Airi Nogami
 * Seigi Ozaki
 * Isse Miura

Others

 * Past Man

Imagins

 * Kai
 * Bat Imagin
 * Chameleon Imagin
 * Crust Imagin
 * Crow Imagin
 * Rhino Imagin
 * Ivy Imagin
 * Owl Imagin
 * Whale Imagin
 * Wolf Imagin
 * Jelly Imagin
 * Tortoice Imagin
 * Scorpion Imagin
 * Spider Imagin
 * Bloodsucker Imagin
 * Molech Imagin
 * Cobra Imagin
 * Salamander Imagin
 * Gecko Imagin
 * Newt Imagin
 * Wasp Imagin
 * Bluebird Imagin
 * Rabbit Imagin
 * Anthopper Imagin
 * Kraken Imagin
 * Mole Imagin
 * Leo Imagin
 * Panda Rabbit Imagin
 * Snail Imagin
 * Oct Imagin
 * Armadillo Imagin
 * Albinoleo Imagin
 * Snowman Imagin
 * Death Imagin
 * Pink Rabbit Imagin
 * Clown Imagin
 * Ghost Imagin
 * Phantom Imagin
 * Shadow Imagin
 * Piggies Imagin
 * Mantis Imagin
 * Eve

Gigandeaths

 * Gigandeath Heaven
 * Gigandeath Hades
 * Gigandeath Hell

Cho-Den-O Series
Initially, a press release from Toei Company released on January 29, 2009, announced that there will be a fourth film for Kamen Rider Den-O. It was in production as of January 29, 2009, and was scheduled to be released in April 2009. On February 9, 2009, Toei revealed that this film was to be the first in the "Cho-Den-O" Series (「超・電王」シリーズ), a new multimedia franchise featuring the cast and characters of Kamen Rider Den-O and its films.

Manga

 * 1) Kamen Rider Den-O (manga) (仮面ライダー電王)
 * 2) Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka (manga) (仮面ライダー電王＆キバ　クライマックス刑事)
 * 3) Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown (manga) (劇場版 さらば仮面ライダー電王 ファイナル・カウントダウン)
 * 4) Den-O (manga) (電王)
 * 5) Cho Kamen Rider Den-O & Decade Neo Generations: The Onigashima Warship (manga) (劇場版 超・仮面ライダー電王＆ディケイド NEOジェネレーションズ 鬼ヶ島の戦艦)
 * 6) Momotaros' Roaring Laughs Theater Returns!! (モモタロス爆笑劇場リターンズ!!)
 * 7) Kamen Rider Den-O (comic) (幪面超人電王)

S.I.C. Hero Saga

 * 1) April 3, 1971 (1971年4月3日)

Novel

 * 1) Kamen Rider Den-O: The Demon Dog of Tokyo World Tower (小説 仮面ライダー電王 東京ワールドタワーの魔犬)

Momotaros's King of the Castle in Burning Red
As a tie in with Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World, the Tarōs starred in a series of four short episodes called Momotaros's King of the Castle in Burning Red (モモタロスのまっかっか城の王), where they get into another crazy adventure as they take the out for a spin. The first three episodes are one-minute-long, airing from July 20 to August 3 after Kamen Rider Kiva, depicting the Taros in reviewing the Go-onger and Kiva movies before Ryutaros is kidnapped by Kamen Rider Rey. The fourth two-minute-long episode showed in theaters after Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World and , with Ryutaros found by Momotaros as reenactments of the two movies by the Taros are played on the movie screen. Toshihiko Seki will reprise his role as the Imagin Momotaros and Kōji Yusa, Masaki Terasoma, and Kenichi Suzumura also reprise their roles as Urataros, Kintaros, and Ryutaros, respectively. There was a "Burning Red Ver." (まっかっかVer.) and a "Yellow Ver." (まっきっきVer.) of the short film, shown at specific theaters based on the announcement that Saraba Kamen Rider Den-O: Final Countdown would be playing at that theater.

Mini episodes

 * 1) The Castle in the Demon World Mystery is Solved! (魔界城の謎を解け！)
 * 2) Samurai World's Warriors (サムライワールドの戦士)
 * 3) Fight! Kaijin Army (戦え！怪人軍団)
 * 4) Momotaros's King of the Castle in Burning Red (モモタロスのまっかっか城の王)

"DenLiner, Into Space!"
"Kamen Rider Kiva & Den-O: DenLiner, Into Space!" (仮面ライダーキバ＆電王 デンライナー、宇宙へ！) is a planetarium show using the cast of Kiva and Den-O to teach children about the universe. It was shown at the Kagoshima Municipal Science Hall's planetarium between January 2 and March 30, 2009.

Cast

 * Ryotaro Nogami (野上 良太郎): Takeru Satoh (佐藤 健)
 * Hana (ハナ): Yuriko Shiratori (白鳥 百合子)
 * Kohana (コハナ): Tamaki Matsumoto (松元 環季)
 * Naomi (ナオミ): Rina Akiyama (秋山 莉奈)
 * Owner/Opening Narration, Station Master (オーナー／オープニングナレーション、駅長): Kenjirō Ishimaru (石丸 謙二郎)
 * Airi Nogami (野上 愛理): Wakana Matsumoto (松本 若菜)
 * Seigi Ozaki (尾崎 正義): Akira Nagata (永田 彬) of
 * Issē Miura (三浦 イッセー): Ryo Ueno (上野 亮)
 * Yuto Sakurai (桜井 侑斗): Yuichi Nakamura (中村 優一)
 * Past Man (過去の男): Tomonobu Okano (岡野 友信)
 * Kai (カイ): Hideo Ishiguro (石黒 英雄)

Voice actors
For the portrayals of the Tarōs by Toshihiko Seki, Kōji Yusa, Masaki Terasoma, and Kenichi Suzumura, Kamen Rider Den-O was given the Synergy Award at the second
 * Momotaros (モモタロス): Toshihiko Seki (関 俊彦)
 * Urataros (ウラタロス): Kōji Yusa (遊佐 浩二)
 * Kintaros (キンタロス): Masaki Terasoma (てらそま まさき)
 * Ryutaros (リュウタロス): Kenichi Suzumura (鈴村 健一)
 * Deneb (デネブ): Hōchū Ōtsuka (大塚 芳忠)
 * Sieg (ジーク): Shin-ichiro Miki (三木 眞一郎)

Suit actors

 * Kamen Rider Den-O/Momotaros: Seiji Takaiwa (高岩 成二), Motokuni Nakagawa (中川 素州)
 * Urataros: Eitoku (永徳)
 * Kintaros: Jirō Okamoto (岡元 次郎)
 * Ryutaros: Toshihiro Ogura (おぐら としひろ)
 * Kamen Rider Zeronos: Makoto Ito (伊藤 慎)
 * Deneb: Yoshifumi Oshikawa (押川 善文)
 * Sieg: Naoki Nagase (永瀬 尚希)

Guest actors

 * Yū Yamagoshi (山越 佑) (3 & 4): Kazuki Namioka (波岡 一喜)
 * Yumi Saitō (斉藤 優美) (7 & 8): Hitomi Kurihara (栗原 瞳)
 * Masaru Honjō (本条 勝) (9 & 10): Kenta Uchino (内野 謙太)
 * Shūji Toyama (戸山 秀二) (13 & 14): Shun Ueda (うえだ 峻)
 * Shūjirō Hakamada (袴田 秀次郎) (15 & 16): Hayato Ōshiba (大柴 隼人)
 * Yuka Sawada (沢田 由香) (17 & 18, 33): Hikari Mitsushima (満島 ひかり)
 * Gaoh (牙王) (25-28): Hiroyuki Watanabe (渡辺 裕之)
 * Masashi Aoki (青木 雅史) (25 & 26): Kōhei Yamamoto (山本 康平)
 * Machida (町田) (29): Takuma Sugawara (菅原 卓磨)
 * Tooru Terasaki (寺崎 トオル) (30): Tsuyoshi Hayashi (林 剛史)
 * Yamaguchi (山口) (35 & 36): Yōichi Furuya (古屋 暢一)

Guest voice actors

 * Bat Imagin (バットイマジン): Kiyoyuki Yanada (梁田 清之)
 * Crust Imagin (クラストイマジン): Kyousei Tsukui (津久井 教生)
 * Crow Imagin (クロウイマジン): Rintarō Nishi (西 凛太朗)
 * Rhino Imagin (ライノイマジン): Tsuyoshi Koyama (小山 剛志)
 * Owl Imagin (オウルイマジン), Albinoleo Imagin (アルビノレオイマジン): Takaya Kuroda (黒田 崇矢)
 * Wolf Imagin (ウルフイマジン): Nobuyuki Hiyama (檜山 修之)
 * Jelly Imagin (ジェリーイマジン): Ryūsei Nakao (中尾 隆聖)
 * Tortoice Imagin (トータスイマジン), Panda Rabbit Imagin (パンダラビットイマジン): Kōji Ochiai (落合 弘治)
 * Molech Imagin (モレクイマジン): Hidenori Tokuyama (徳山 秀典)
 * Kraken Imagin (クラーケンイマジン): Tetsu Inada (稲田 徹)
 * Leo Imagin (レオイマジン): Kazuhiro Yamaji (山路 和弘)
 * Death Imagin (デスイマジン): Hiroshi Yanaka (家中 宏)