Kousei Amano

This article is about an actor in the Kamen Rider Series.

Kousei Amano
Born	April 9, 1978 Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Agency	LDH
Role(s)	Sakuya Tachibana Kouhei Hayami
Appearances	Kamen Rider Blade Kamen Rider Fourze
As Sakuya Tachibana in Kamen Rider Blade
As Kouhei Hayami in Kamen Rider Fourze

Hironari Hinagata (雛形 浩成, Hinagata Hironari) (nee: Yokozawa (横澤, Yokozawa), better known under his stage name Kousei Amano (天野 浩成, Amano Kosei) and previously Hironari Amano (天野 浩成, Amano Hironari), is a Japanese actor who portrayed Sakuya Tachibana/Kamen Rider Garren in Kamen Rider Blade and Kouhei Hayami/Libra Zodiarts in Kamen Rider Fourze, later reprising his role as Sakuya in Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3.

Personal Life

• Since 2013, he has been married to actress Akiko Hinagata, who portrayed Saki Aoi in Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai.

Filmography

Television

• Kamen Rider Blade (2004-2025) - Sakuya Tachibana/Kamen Rider Garren, Trial E
• Kamen Rider Fourze (2011-2012) - Kouhei Hayami/Libra Zodiarts

Film

• Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace (2004) - Sakuya Tachibana/Kamen Rider Garren
• Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Everyone, Space Is Here! (2012) as Kouhei Hayami/Libra Zodiarts
• Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3 (2015) - Sakuya Tachibana/Kamen Rider Garren

Video games

• Kamen Rider Blade as Kamen Rider Garren (2004)
• All Kamen Rider: Rider Generation 2 as Kamen Rider Garren (2012)
• Kamen Rider: Super Climax Heroes as Kamen Rider Garren (2012)
• Kamen Rider: Battride War as Kamen Rider Garren (2013)

Discography

• Kamen Rider Blade The Last Card Complete Deck (2005)
• Kamen Rider Blade Song Collection (2004)
• Rebirth (2004) - Kamen Rider Blade Theme Song

Gallery

Amano recording for Super Climax Heroes

Amano recording for Kamen Rider Battride War

Notes

• The fact that Kousei Amano has portrayed two main roles in two different Kamen Rider series has spawned several in-jokes in different forms of media:
  • In several Fourze cast talk shows, Kousei would enact Garren's transformation pose, only for the "Last One" sound effect to be played instead. The second time he enacts the transformation, the correct "Turn Up" sound effect is played.
  • In a certain episode of Kamen Rider Fourze the Net Edition: Everyone, Class is Here! where Fourze meets Garren, he mistakes Garren for principal Hayami after Tomoko shows him a video of Garren detransforming. Later, when Garren reveals his name to be Tachibana, Fourze mistakes him for another Tachibana.
  • In Ep. 3: A Challenge from the Horoscopes of Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taihen – Who’s the culprit?!, Principal Hayami remembers that he took part in a "Battle Fight" and that he was once Kamen Rider Garren. Along with this, Hayami even says one of Tachibana's infamous quotes in Blade.

External Links

• Kousei Amano at Wikipedia
• Kousei Amano at RangerWiki
• Kousei Amano's official twitter