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Kamen Rider Amazons

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WARNING: This series contains scenes of graphic violence, gun violence and gore. Viewer discretion is advised!

Kamen Rider Amazons (仮面ライダーアマゾンズ, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu) is a Japanese tokusatsu web-drama serving as a reboot of Kamen Rider Amazon as well as to commemorate the franchise's Super Hero Year (スーパーヒーローイヤー, Sūpā Hīrō Iyā) project. All 13 episodes of the first season were released on Amazon Prime Video on April 1, 2016, with an edited broadcast premiering weekly on BS Asahi and Tokyo MX starting that July. All 13 episodes of the second season were released on Prime on April 7, 2017. The series concluded with the sequel film Kamen Rider Amazons: The Last Judgement, which premiered in Japan on May 19, 2018.

The show was distributed internationally as Amazon Riders, with the first and second seasons being released on April 19, 2018 and September 21, 2018 respectively on each country's respective Prime libraries. Both seasons were removed from the American catalog on April 6, 2023, most likely due to an expired contract between Toei and Amazon with no word on any potential renewal of the license. Furthermore, The Last Judgement has yet to see an international release.

The tagline for the original Amazon Prime release of season 1 is "Open Your Amazons", while the television broadcast featured the tagline "The hunt begins." (狩り、開始。, Kari, kaishi). The tagline of season 2 is "Who are you?" (おまえは誰だ？, Omae wa dare da?).

Production[]

"Do you think the recent Kamen Riders are interesting? I don't think so! I hope with Amazons the toothless Kamen Riders can get their fangs back."
―Shin-ichiro Shirakura[src]

Following the Kamen Rider 1 movie, Amazons was announced in one of the 2016 March Televi-kun magazine pages and later confirmed on March 18, 2016. It changed most of the settings from the original Amazon and doesn't interfere or alter continuity with anything of the recently airing TV series. With the legendary staffs and strongest action teams who produced the Heisei Riders, Amazon is fully reborn in a modern, darker style.

Continuity and connection with franchise[]

The series takes place in its own standalone parallel world separate from the main prime universe.

Amazons Riders in Chou Super Hero Taisen

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid encounters Season 2 Riders in Game World

It is later retroactively established in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen that the show's universe is amongst the many worlds within the franchise's greater Rider multiverse, as seen when the Season 2 Riders face Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. [1] Additionally, a Bat Amazon appeared as a member of Shocker's Game World army.

Kamen Rider Majade with Girls Remix would later feature Nozomi Takai from Amazons appearing together with characters from the main television series, the first of such an instance that is not attributed to the involvement of the Game World.

Series Overview[]

Season 1: Awakening[]

The world is filled by thousands of monsters named Amazons, and the company of Nozama Pharmacy has hired a special team to hunt down and eliminate them. One day, the team were hunting down two Amazon riders, Amazon Riders Alpha and Omega, with their transformers being Jin and Haruka respectfully.

Haruka eventually joined the team to hunt down the Amazons. However, when they were trying to eliminate a group of Amazons that were hiding inside a restaurant, Haruka eventually divided his opinion with the group when he found out that those Amazons have no intention to harm humans. The restaurant has also changed Mamoru, one of the members in the team. He eventually started to have interests in eating human beings. After Jin and Haruka defeated Sigma, Nozama Pharmacy decided to launch a special plan named Tlaloc, a plan to kill all Amazons. Mamoru was in a struggle during Tlaloc because he previously ate one of his friends, Kazuya Mizaki's arm. Haruka eventually rescued him and both of them escaped.

Season 2: Reincarnation[]

In the past, a massive spill occurred at the Amazon experimental lab. Most of the survivors were destroyed, hot-blooded young men enjoyed hunting Amazons and the experiment seemed to be drawing to an end. Far than ending, however, it was entering a completely new phase. The number of cases of ordinary people turning into Amazon without warning was rising. The government formed a new extermination unit to assassinate people who had turned into Amazon secretly and struggled to hide the truth.

Chihiro/Kamen Rider Amazon Neo is a loner, a boy raised by Amazons who hates them but must suppress his cannibalistic urges. One day he meets Iyu, an Amazon girl who transforms into Crow Amazon and vanquishes Amazon enemies with her awesome fighting power. Chihiro is amazed at his first glance of Iyu, because she’s the first human he’s met without thinking, “I want to eat her.” She’s the first opponent he’s ever wanted to get close to, but Chihiro is unaware of her story. Iyu is a “Sigma Type Amazons” a biological weapon brought back to life after her parents turned to Amazons and killed her.

Characters[]

Kamen Riders[]

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Main Season 1 Riders (Alpha, Omega and Sigma)

Amazons Season 2 Riders

Main Season 2 Riders (New Omega, Neo and Alpha)

Kamen Rider Amazon Omega Haruka Mizusawa
Kamen Rider Amazon Alpha Jin Takayama
Kamen Rider Amazon Sigma Jun Maehara
Kamen Rider Amazon Neo Chihiro

Movie-exclusive[]

Kamen Rider Amazon Neo Alpha Einosuke Mido

Manga-exclusive[]

Kamen Rider Amazon Sigma Nozama's worker

Debatable Riders[]

Fake Amazon Omega Hanzaki

Supporting Characters[]

Jellyfish Amazon Nanaha Izumi
Mole Amazon Mamoru
Baboon Amazon Takumi Yamashita
Crow Amazon Iyu Hoshino
Squirrel Amazon Muku
Firefly Amazon Shou Sorimachi, Tsumugi Ishiba

Allies[]

Villains[]

Experiment Amazons

Dragonfly Amazon Ryusuke Otaki
Queen Ant Amazon Kukizono
Shrike Amazon 2 Hajime Koyama
Wasp Amazon Mika, Shimada
Soldier Ant Amazon Kaori
Rose Amazon Shuuya
Vulture Amazon Hajime Hoshino
Sea Snake Amazon Mina
Snapping Turtle Amazon Yoji
Tiger Amazon Sango

Episodes[]

Main article: Kamen Rider Amazons Episodes

The first letters of each episode title cycles though the English alphabet, with the title of Season 1's first episode starting with "A". The exception is Season 2's final episode, which shares the same name as the first and ends with "Z". All episodes are written in all-caps.

All episode titles are in English.

  1. AMAZONZ
  2. BEAST INSIDE
  3. COLONY OF ANTS
  4. DIE OR KILL
  5. EYES IN THE DARK
  6. FOR WHAT I FIGHT
  7. GAME OF THE BUTCHERS
  8. HERO OR NOT
  9. INTO THE CANNIBAL'S POT
  10. JUNGLE LAW
  11. KILLING DAY
  12. LOST IN THE FOG
  13. M

Episode titles are a mix of both English and Latin.

  1. NEO
  2. ORPHANS
  3. PERSONA NON GRATA
  4. QUO VADIS?
  5. RAMBLING ROSES
  6. SCHOOLDAYS
  7. THE THIRD DEGREE
  8. UNDER WRAPS
  9. VANISHING WINGS
  10. WAY TO NOWHERE
  11. XING THE RUBICON
  12. YELLOW BRICK ROAD
  13. AMAZONZ

Movies
  1. Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen (仮面ライダー×スーパー戦隊 超スーパーヒーロー大戦, Kamen Raidā × Supā Sentai: Chō Supā Hīrō Taisen) (cameo)
  2. Kamen Rider Amazons Season 1 the Movie: Awakening (劇場版 仮面ライダーアマゾンズ Season1 覚醒, Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Shīzun Wan: Kakusei)
  3. Kamen Rider Amazons Season 2 the Movie: Reincarnation (劇場版 仮面ライダーアマゾンズ Season2 輪廻, Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Shīzun Tsū: Rinne)
  4. Kamen Rider Amazons: The Last Judgement (仮面ライダーアマゾンズ THE MOVIE 最後ノ審判, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Za Mūbī: Saigo no Shinpan)
Stageshows
  1. Kamen Rider Amazons Special Event: A to M Open Your AMAZONS (仮面ライダーアマゾンズ スペシャルイベント: A to M Open Your AMAZONS, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Supesharu Ibento : Ei Tū Emu Ōpun Yua Amazonzu)
  2. Kamen Rider Amazons: The Last Judgement Special Event "A to Z AMAZONZ" (仮面ライダーアマゾンズ THE MOVIE 最後ノ審判 スペシャルイベント A to Z AMAZONZ, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Za Mūbī: Saigo no Shinpan Supesharu Ibento "Ei Tū Zetto Amazonzu")[2]


Other media[]

Manga[]

  1. Kamen Rider Amazons Gaiden: Light of Fireflies (仮面ライダーアマゾンズ外伝　蛍火, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Gaiden Hotarubi)

S.I.C. Hero Saga[]

  1. Kamen Rider Amazons: Beastman Syndrome (仮面ライダーアマゾン 獣人症候群, Kamen Raidā Amazonzu Kemonohito Shōkōgun)

Music[]

Season 1 Opening Song
Season 2 Opening Song

Cast[]

Season 2[]

Suit Actors[]

Notes[]

  • Next-episode previews for Season 1 are titled "NEXT HUNT", and "LAST HUNT" for final episodes. In Season 2, they are changed into "NEXT TARGET" and "LAST TARGET" respectively.
  • Due to its violence and dark premise, the show is targeted towards the adult demographic. Because the series is written by Yasuko Kobayashi, some fans view this series as an attempt by Toei to compete/capitalize on the recent return of the GARO franchise.
  • It is the only entry in the Kamen Rider franchise to get a second season of the same show with the same title.
  • The international release was announced to air in September 2016 as the first round of the exportation of the Amazon Prime Original Videos, but wasn't actually released until April 19, 2018.
  • The description for the international release of the series mistakenly calls this series "the fourth production in the Kamen Rider series" in their synopsis, presumably referring to 1974's Kamen Rider Amazon.
  • This is one of the few Heisei series to not have Kyoritz present to provide lighting equipment, due to the company already working on Kamen Rider Ghost at the time.

References[]

  1. ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbjEcEWVwAAi0sl.jpg
  2. ↑ https://www.amazon.co.jp/仮面ライダーアマゾンズ-MOVIE-最後ノ審判-スペシャルイベント-AMAZONZ/dp/B07HP95VL4

External Links[]

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