The catchphrases for the series are "It's a Rider Sengoku era." (ライダー戦国時代。,Raidā Sengoku Jidai) and "How would you use your power?" (キミはこの力どう使う?,Kimi wa kono chikara dō tsukau).
Gaim is the first series since Kabuto to have multiple Riders from the start, as recent series as kept to at most, two active Riders on screen. To differentiate from the previous series Wizard, several different design motifs such as fruits and heavy armor inspired by both Western and Chinese cultures were added. The orange was chosen to be Gaim's default form due to the fruit's popularity with children, and its color to differentiate from Wizard's red.
Series writer Gen Urobuchi was asked to revisit the darker elements of past series, and introduced the idea of Beat Riders as a scapegoat to distract viewers from the themes shown in the show's latter half. Furthermore, the Forbidden Fruit drew inspiration from the fruit as written in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. Urobuchi was also fascinated with the idea of Cross of Fire and ensured that both Kouta and Kaito would be the final contenders but still suffer from the consequences of eating the fruit regardless of the winner, while drawing elements from the Kamen Rider Black manga series.
Story[]
Because of the large company, Yggdrasill Corporation setting up shop in the once bustling city of Zawame (沢芽市,Zawame-shi); the community started to become more like a jōkamachi (城下町,castle town). To escape the feeling of being under castle authority, dance crews were formed by young people to bring joy back to the public. Along with this is a popular game that uses the mysterious Lockseeds that contain mysterious monsters called Inves that are said to come from another dimension.
As the game becomes more popular, tears in reality begin to open that bring the Inves from their home dimension to Earth. Kouta Kazuraba, a young man who recently quit his dance crew Team Gaim (to help his sister Akira Kazuraba), finds a special Lockseed and the Sengoku Driver to become an Armored Rider, named Armored Rider Gaim. He must fight the sudden appearance of the Inves, but also against other the armored-Kamen Riders known as Armored Riders, effectively becoming a Sengoku period-like conflict for only one victor to prove themselves that they have the right to possess the power of the Helheim Forest, the proverbial forbidden fruit. But while adamant to obtain the Golden Fruit to save the world, Kouta's goal involves him having a predestined confrontation with Kaito who desires the fruit's power to shatter the status quo of the world.
Episode 24-32 - Story Arc: The Ruler of the Forest! Over Lord (「森の支配者!オーバーロード」編,Mori no Shihai-sha! Ōbārōdo Hen)
Episode 33-43 - Story Arc: Invasion of Helheim! The Golden Fruit (「ヘルヘイム侵攻!黄金の果実」編,Heruheimu Shinkō! Kogane no Kajitsu Hen)
Episode 44-47 - Story Arc: Advent! The Man of Beginning (「降臨!始まりの男」編,Kōrin! Hajimari no Otoko Hen)
The episodes in this Kamen Rider Series incorporate the name of fruit somewhere early on in the series, as well as 2 exclamation points in the title also early on, one for the exclamation, and the other for the other half of the episode title. Episode 30 takes place between Episode 28 and Episode 29, serving as a promotional episode.
Kamen Rider Gaim premiered in Japan on October 6, 2013 on TV Asahi. Each episode aired Sunday mornings on 8:00 AM JST as part of the Super Hero Time program block.
An Indonesian dub premiered on RTV on May 24, 2021 [11]. The dub was made available on YouTube in the same year. Broadcasted episodes cut out many scenes with Oren on the screen, but the YouTube version was uncensored. The show received an English-style logo for the ads.
Indonesian ad with the logo
Notes[]
Gaim was originally meant to premiere in September 2013, however it was delayed to October as head writer Gen Urobochi was unfamiliar with the toy schedules.[12]
This is the first series to feature power-sets that are inter-changable between Riders in a manner much more freely than Kamen Rider Decade, as the Gaim Riders only need the Lockseed and appropriate Driver, if not already in their possession. This practice would later be similarly continued with series such as Kamen Rider Ghost and forward.
This installment celebrates the 15th anniversary of the HeiseiRider Series.
This is the first Kamen Rider series since Kamen Rider Kiva whose title is not an English word nor based on an English word.
Interestingly, to contrast Kiva's movie which have a net movie, they stopped the net movie trend since then.
This is the first series to start a Legend Rider form trend, every series after Gaim would continue this trend (except Drive and Zero-One).
This series is the first Heisei entry to not strictly follow the two-episode story arc structure that has been a staple of the Kamen Rider franchise since at least Kuuga.
While the Gaim Riders' motif is fruit, it is not the first series to have a Rider with a fruit motif. The first one is Kamen Rider Den-O, with the peach-themed Sword Form, a motif later shared by Kamen Rider Marika.
With a total of 20 Riders plus the Kurokage Troopers, Gaim not only has more Riders than any Neo-Heisei series, but has beat Ryuki (which had a total of 13 Riders, along with the 2 Alternatives), Kabuto (which had 11 Riders, not counting ZECTroopers), and Hibiki (which had 19 Riders, more if you count the novel and S.I.C. saga), which makes Gaim the series with the most Riders seen on screen, with 21 Riders, before Gaim beat it out with 32 total on-screen Riders.
Excluding stage show exclusive and A.R. World Riders and counting based on on-screen appearance, Gaim held the record for the most Riders to appear at 24, one more than Hibiki and 9 more than Ryuki before Gaim' 11 additional Riders totaling to 32.
In addition to Gen Urobuchi serving as head writer, several of his coworkers from the company nitro+ were involved in the production of the season. Although Gaim-related material does not officially bear the company’s name, nitro+ has acknowledged it as one of their coproductions[13] in events such as convention panels[14].