The primary riders of the Heisei Phase 2 period (as of Drive).
Heisei Kamen Rider Series Phase 2 (平成仮面ライダーシリーズ第2期, Heisei Kamen Raidā Shirīzu Dai Ni-Ki), known in the Western fanbase as the "Neo-Heisei", is the current subsection of the second and current era of the Kamen Rider Series, the Heisei period.
The Heisei Phase 2 is specifically used to refer to the post-Decade era, with Kamen Rider Decade having been the 10th Anniversary Kamen Rider show of the Heisei period.
This change was a consensus that Toei had for billing issues and the next 5 years, Toei will use this Heisei Series Phase 2 Period to experiment, to see if the name will last the next 10 years. [1]
The Heisei Phase 2 started with Decade's successor, Kamen Rider W, which premiered in September 2009 and ended in August 2010. W was followed by Kamen Rider OOO (September 2010 - August 2011), then Kamen Rider Fourze (September 2011 - August 2012), Kamen Rider Wizard (September 2012 - September 2013), and Kamen Rider Gaim (October 2013 - September 2014). The current entry in the Kamen Rider Series is Kamen Rider Drive, which premiered in October 2014.
Heisei Phase 2 trends
- The Heisei Phase 2 era has a differing broadcast schedule for its shows with the schedule of the first half of the Heisei era. This change had been brought about by the shortened episode count of Kamen Rider Decade. The first series of the Heisei revival, Kamen Rider Kuuga premiered in January 2000, and ended in January 2001, being succeeded by Kamen Rider Agito the week after. From then on, every Heisei show until the start of the Heisei Phase 2 era started in late January (or in Ryuki's case, early February) and ended in January of the next year. However, Kamen Rider Decade, which premiered in January 2009, was slated as having only 30 episodes as stated by Masahiro Inoue in an interview in the March 2009 issue of Kindai Magazine. A subsequent interview in Otonafami magazine confirmed that only 30 episodes were filmed, with 31 episodes airing total. Thus, Decade ended in late August (the 30th) and W started in early September (the 6th), and Heisei Phase 2 shows then ended on the last Sunday of August and started on the first Sunday of September; though as of 2014, the last episode of one series is on the last Sunday of September and the first episode of the new series starts on the first Sunday in October.
- With this new broadcast schedule, the summer movie of every show now premieres during the final weeks of said show and only around a month before the arrival of the new series. Thus, from Kamen Rider Double's introduction in Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker (August 2009) to Kamen Rider Wizard's introduction in Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Everyone, Space is Here! (August 2012), the Rider of the upcoming show makes his "early-bird cameo". This introduction features the new Rider helping out the current (soon to depart) Rider.
- Even though Kamen Rider Decade is not a Phase 2 Rider and did not appear in the previous Rider's series, he is the first primary Heisei Rider to make an "early-bird cameo" in a special, which later foreshadows most of the primary Phase 2 Riders appearing in a summer movie.
- Kamen Rider Gaim's "early-bird cameo" is unique in that instead of making his debut in Wizard's summer movie, he appeared in his two-part epilogue special.
- Kamen Rider Drive is the first primary Phase 2 Rider, as well as the first primary Heisei Rider since Decade, who does not make a cameo appearance in his predecessor's series.
- All of the summer movies have the main Rider using all of their forms that debut in the television series, including a movie exclusive form that is introduced in the movie.
- Kamen Rider W: CycloneJokerGoldXtreme
- Kamen Rider OOO: Burakawani Combo
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Meteor Fusion States
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Infinity Dragon
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Black Jimber Arms
- Kamen Rider Drive: Type Special
- With the exception of Double, each Hyper Battle DVD also has the main Rider gaining access to a form that is only exclusive to said special.
- Kamen Rider OOO: Takagaruba, Takatoragaru, & Takatorazou
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Rocket Drill States
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Beast Mantle
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Fresh Orange Arms
- Kamen Rider Drive: Type High Speed, Type High Speed Vegas, & Type High Speed Flare
- Another result of the new broadcast schedule is that while the bulk of early Heisei series ran alongside one particular Super Sentai series, Heisei Phase 2 shows find themselves paired up with two Sentai shows across their run, the first half of the series airs alongside the second half of their first Sentai partner, while the second half of the series airs alongside the first half of their second partner.
- The official romanization of the Kamen Rider Series, as seen on the series' titles, was changed from "Masked Rider" (e.g. Masked Rider Decade) to "Kamen Rider" (e.g. Kamen Rider W).
- As started by Kamen Rider W, it is a recurring trend that only two Riders appear in the broadcast run: the Primary Rider and the Secondary Rider. Though, every series has had more new Riders appear through expanded universe material, particularly their own summer movies, which go on to appear again occasionally. The main series only deals with the Primary and Secondary Riders. This trend stopped in Kamen Rider Wizard, which introduced more Riders in the series since the appearance of Supporting Riders (Kamen Rider Proto-Birth) in Kamen Rider OOO. Movie exclusive Riders does not count.
- Kamen Rider W: Double & Accel (as well as Joker)
- Kamen Rider OOO: OOO & Birth (as well as Proto-Birth)
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Fourze & Meteor
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Aside from Wizard & Beast, there is also Wiseman & 3 different Kamen Rider Mages.
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Aside from Gaim & Baron, there is also Ryugen (Yomi), Zangetsu, Gridon, Kurokage, Bravo, Knuckle, Jam, the Kurokage Troopers, Zangetsu Shin, Duke, Sigurd, & Marika.
- Kamen Rider Drive: Aside from Drive & Mach, there is also Chaser.
- The transformation devices of Riders in the Heisei Phase 2 era are given consistent names, being referred to as "Drivers" (e.g. Double Driver, OOO Driver, Fourze Driver, WizarDriver, Sengoku Driver, Drive Driver). Driver was previously used to refer to the transformation gears of the Kamen Riders from Kamen Rider 555 and Kamen Rider Decade.
- The Mage's Belt in Kamen Rider Wizard is an anomalous break in this trend.
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series has its own set of Collectible Devices, first seen with the Advent Cards in Kamen Rider Ryuki, with the recent tradition being kicked off by the Rider Cards of Kamen Rider Decade, which were used by Decade to access the power of previous Kamen Riders. As with Decade, the Heisei Phase 2 Kamen Riders use their collectible devices for various purposes, such as changing into their various forms, using special attacks, and other techniques. These collectible devices also work very well with merchandise, each set of collectibles has had their own "Legend Rider" range featuring the likenesses of previous Kamen Riders, some of which appear in the arcade game Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbaride and Movie War crossovers.
- Kamen Rider W: Gaia Memories
- Kamen Rider OOO: O Medals (Cores for OOO & Cells for Birth)
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Astroswitches
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Wizard Rings
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Lockseeds
- Kamen Rider Drive: Shift Cars (Drive) & Signal Bikes (Mach & Chaser)
- With the exception of Double, each lead Rider has an Item Carrier for their Collectable Devices.
- With the exception of Gaim, each Heisei Phase 2 series also has a set of Support Robots, which initially appeared in the form of the Disk Animals from Kamen Rider Hibiki, but became prominent in the Heisei Phase 2 era.
- Kamen Rider W: Memory Gadgets
- Kamen Rider OOO: Candroids
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Foodroids
- Kamen Rider Wizard: PlaMonsters
- Kamen Rider Drive: Shift Cars (Drive) & Signal Bikes (Mach & Chaser)
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series has either the Primary or Secondary Rider utilizing some type of mecha as a part of their arsenal.
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series has a piece of arsenal that can assume at least three different modes.
- Kamen Rider W: The HardBoilder can also assume its HardTurbuler and HardSplasher modes, aside from its default motorcycle mode.
- Kamen Rider OOO: Aside from its Machine Vendor and Machine Bike modes, the Ridevendor also becomes the Toride Vendor when combined with the Tora Candroid.
- Kamen Rider Fourze: The Powerdizer, aside from its default robot mode, can also assume Vehicle Mode and Tower Mode.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Aside from its default Phantom form, WizarDragon can combine with the Machinewinger to form Winger WizarDragon. When the Kick Strike Ring is used, Winger WizarDragon becomes the Strike Phase.
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Suika Arms can interchange between its Yoroi, Odama, and Gyro modes.
- Kamen Rider Drive: Tridoron can change its form based on Drive's three main forms: Type Speed, Type Wild, and Type Technic.
- With the exception of OOO, each lead Rider has their own unique pre-battle catchphrase.
- Kamen Rider W: "Now, count up your sins!"
- Kamen Rider Fourze: "Space is here!!!! Kamen Rider Fourze! Let's settle this one-on-one!"
- Kamen Rider Wizard: "Now, it's showtime!"
- Kamen Rider Gaim: "This is my stage now!"
- Kamen Rider Drive: "Let's go for a ride!"
- With the exception of Baron, the Secondary Riders also have their own unique pre-battle catchphrase.
- Kamen Rider Accel: "Now, let's break through!"
- Kamen Rider Birth: "Now, time to cash in!" (Date only)
- Kamen Rider Meteor: "I will decide your fate!"
- Kamen Rider Beast: "Now, it's lunchtime!"
- Kamen Rider Mach: "Searching... destroying... both done, at mach speed! Kamen Rider... Mach!"
- The lead Rider usually has unique rules involving his forms:
- The second new form he obtains debuts in the first part of a two episode arc instead of the second (e.g. OOO's Latorartar Combo, Fourze's Fire States, Wizard's Hurricane Dragon, & Drive's Type Technic).
- The Super Form, or a version of the Super Form, first debuts in the Movie War film (with Fourze, Gaim, and Drive being the exceptions), and then usually appears around episode 20 of the series.
- The Final Form debuts in episode 32, except for Wizard whose Infinity Style debuted in episode 31.
- With the exception of Double, the lead Rider's forms have some sort of title.
- Kamen Rider OOO: Combos
- Kamen Rider Fourze: States
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Styles
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Arms
- Kamen Rider Drive: Types
- Each lead Rider has at least three Main Forms.
- Kamen Rider W: CycloneJoker, HeatMetal, & LunaTrigger
- Kamen Rider OOO: Tatoba Combo, Gatakiriba Combo, Latorartar Combo, Sagohzo Combo, & Shauta Combo
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Base States, Elek States, & Fire States
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Flame Style, Water Style, Hurricane Style, & Land Style
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Orange Arms, Pine Arms, & Ichigo Arms
- Kamen Rider Drive: Type Speed, Type Wild, & Type Technic
- Each lead Rider can use the power of the Secondary Rider in some way.
- Kamen Rider W: CycloneAccelXtreme (hypothetical form only)
- Kamen Rider OOO: Kamen Rider Birth (movie only), as well as the Ridevendor, Medajalibur, Taja Spinner, & Medagabryu
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Meteor Fusion States & Meteor Nadashiko Fusion States
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Falco Mantle & Beast Mantle
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Banana Arms, as well as the Banaspear & Mango Punisher via Kiwami Arms
- Kamen Rider Drive: Type Dead Heat
- In every Heisei Phase 2 series, the Riders have some sort of nickname for their finishing attacks, which are announced by their transformation devices and various weapons.
- Kamen Rider W: Maximum Drive
- Kamen Rider OOO: Scanning Charge/Giga Scan/Putotyranno Hissatsu (OOO) & Cell Burst (Birth)
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Limit Break
- Kamen Rider Wizard: (something) Strike
- Kamen Rider Gaim: (fruit) Squash/Au Lait/Sparking (Armored Riders), (fruit) Charge (Gaim & Zangetsu), (fruit) Squash/Sparking (New Generation Riders), & Sonic Volley (New Generation Riders)
- Kamen Rider Drive: Full Throttle
- In the Heisei Phase 2 shows, the lead Rider and the secondary Rider often have similar yet distinct power and abilities. This trend began with Kamen Rider Decade, where both Riders use Rider Cards, with the difference between them being that Decade has a smaller selection of cards, but can transform into them with full access to their powers, while Diend has access to more cards, but can only summon copies of them without their full range of powers. This continues in each of the following series.
- Having previously been the suit actor of the majority of primary riders in the early Heisei era (with the exception being Kuuga and Hibiki), Seiji Takaiwa has served as the suit actor for every Primary Rider in the Heisei Phase 2 era so far.
- Fighting alongside Takaiwa is Eitoku who, starting with Kamen Rider Diend in Decade, has gone on to be the suit actor for every secondary Heisei Phase 2 Rider, except for Kamen Riders Beast and Mach.
- A resurgence of crossovers, as the early Heisei era rarely featured crossovers between series (one rare example is the Hyper Battle DVD Kamen Rider Ryuki: Ryuki vs Kamen Rider Agito). Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka was the first Heisei crossover movie (April 2008), though that it was largely due to the popularity of Kamen Rider Den-O. Being an anniversary series, the very premise Kamen Rider Decade involved various elements of the Kamen Rider Series coming together.
- The Movie War series, starting with Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 (December 2009), each Heisei Phase 2 series has a Movie War crossover with the previous series, premiering in December, somewhere in between episodes 10 and 15 of the current series. Just as the summer movies introduce the primary Rider of the new series, the Movie War features an "early-bird cameo" by the Secondary Rider of the current series. As with the primary Rider's introduction in the summer movie, the new secondary Rider appears in costume only, not appearing in human form, but is voiced by his actor. Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core (December 2010) featured a crossover between Kamen Riders Double and OOO, the first two primary riders of the Heisei Phase 2 era, followed by Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max (December 2011), which also featured Double and the Seven Legendary Riders as well as Fourze and OOO, teaming the first three Heisei Phase 2 riders with the seven original Showa riders. This is set to be topped by the Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum (December 2012), which featured Kamen Rider Wizard teaming up with not just Fourze, but all three of the previous Heisei Phase 2 primary Riders and their secondary Riders as well.
- Other theatrical Heisei Phase 2 crossovers include the Kamen Rider Series 40th Anniversary movie, OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders, and the first crossover movie with Super Sentai, Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen.
- The Movie War series, starting with Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 (December 2009), each Heisei Phase 2 series has a Movie War crossover with the previous series, premiering in December, somewhere in between episodes 10 and 15 of the current series. Just as the summer movies introduce the primary Rider of the new series, the Movie War features an "early-bird cameo" by the Secondary Rider of the current series. As with the primary Rider's introduction in the summer movie, the new secondary Rider appears in costume only, not appearing in human form, but is voiced by his actor. Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core (December 2010) featured a crossover between Kamen Riders Double and OOO, the first two primary riders of the Heisei Phase 2 era, followed by Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max (December 2011), which also featured Double and the Seven Legendary Riders as well as Fourze and OOO, teaming the first three Heisei Phase 2 riders with the seven original Showa riders. This is set to be topped by the Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum (December 2012), which featured Kamen Rider Wizard teaming up with not just Fourze, but all three of the previous Heisei Phase 2 primary Riders and their secondary Riders as well.
- Foundation X, which was first introduced as the "evil organization" of Kamen Rider W, continues to have a (albeit reduced) presence in the other Heisei Phase 2 Kamen Rider shows, having appeared in episodes of Kamen Rider Fourze and as the villains of Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max. Their most recent appearence was in Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Everyone, Space is Here! (August 4th, 2012). This is reminiscent of the influence the Great Leader (originally the Great Leader of Shocker) had on later evil organizations in the Showa era. However, Foundation X had not made an appearance in Kamen Rider Wizard nor Kamen Rider Gaim, and it is currently unknown if they will appear in Kamen Rider Drive or not.
- Each Heisei Phase 2 era villain group has their own Henchmen squad.
- Kamen Rider W: Masquerade Dopants
- Kamen Rider OOO: Waste Yummies
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Stardust Ninja Dustards
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Ghouls
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Elementary Inves. Also the Kurokage Troopers, though they were not actual henchmen.
- Kamen Rider Drive: Low-Class Roidmudes
- Each series' monsters are either summoned or transformed by a Collectible Device, usually another version of the main hero's Collectible Devices. Wizard is an exception, as only the Ghouls are summoned by Magic Stones.
- Riders after Fourze and before Drive have their own title rather than Kamen Rider in their own universe or timeline. This first happened in Hibiki, where the Riders were being called Oni to match the heavy Japanese mythology-theme of the series.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Magicians
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Armored Riders & New Generation Riders
- With the exception of Gaim, the finale of each Heisei Phase 2 series contains a link to the next series.
- Kamen Rider W: In episode 48, The Abandoned U/Eternal Partners, which was technically the second-to-last episode but served as the finale (the true final episode took place one year in the future), Foundation X scraps research on the Gaia Memories and instead takes an interest in the O Medals.
- Kamen Rider OOO: In Finale: The Medals of Tomorrow, Underwear, and Arms Held, Kengo Utahoshi and Yuki Jojima appear with an Astroswitch. This is the first time characters from the next series are seen.
- Kamen Rider Fourze: In Final Episode: Youthful Galaxy, Kamen Rider Wizard himself, Haruto Soma, appears out of costume wearing his Flame Style Wizard Ring.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: The Kamen Rider Rings and Neverending Story is a two-part crossover with all fifteen Heisei/Heisei Phase 2 main Riders, including Gaim.
- Kamen Rider Drive: TBA
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series has had an update to the video game Kamen Rider: Climax Heroes, which was first released for Kamen Rider Decade and the 10th anniversary of the Heisei Kamen Rider Series. These initally had the title format of Kamen Rider Climax Heroes (show name), but Kamen Rider Wizard subverted that trend and Kamen Rider Gaim doesn't have its own Climax Heroes, as the fighting game series is replaced by a Dynasty Warriors like game called Kamen Rider Battride War after the last Climax Heroes since the appearance of Kamen Rider Wizard.
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series features a character with a mysterious past that is linked to the main villains of the show. They are all killed before their series ends, but come back to life some time later, with the exception of Ankh and Koyomi, as the latter was technically dead before the series started. There is a rare exception where Mai as Woman of the Beginning was not killed in the traditional sense.
- Each Heisei Phase 2 series has a Female Kamen Rider, starting with Decade's Kamen Rider Kiva-la.
- Kamen Rider W: Akiko Narumi (dream only)
- Kamen Rider OOO: Erika Satonaka (Net Movie only)
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Nadeshiko Misaki
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Mayu Inamori & Koyomi Fueki
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Yoko Minato
- Kamen Rider Drive: Kiriko Shijima (Special DVD only)
- Each Secondary Rider generally has a more major role in the series in the Heisei Phase 2 era than the previous Secondary Riders. Also, every Secondary Rider starts out as an Anti-Hero but then works together with the Primary Rider later on in the series.
- Only the Kamen Rider Birth suit started being worn by the Heroes in the TV Series since Akira Date's appearance, due to the fact that the complete version was worn by an Anti-Hero turned Villain in the movie.
- With the exception of Baron and Mach (who instead respectively receives a Super Form, Lemon Energy Arms, and a Upgraded Form, Deadheat Mach), the Secondary Rider's Final Form debuts before the lead Rider's Final form. Accel Trial appeared after Double CycloneJokerXtreme similar to the Heisei Phase 1 Riders, although Accel Booster is not exactly an Extra Final Form, but more along the lines of an Upgraded Form Change.
- Kamen Rider OOO: Birth Day debuted 6 episodes before OOO Putotyra Combo.
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Meteor Storm debuted 4 episodes before Fourze Cosmic States.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Beast Hyper debuted a mere 2 episodes before Wizard Infinity Style.
- With the exception of OOO (who instead evolves his default Main Form, Tatoba Combo, into his second Final Form, Super Tatoba Combo) and Gaim, each lead Rider evolves their Final Forms into Extra Final Forms in the Summer Movie, while Fourze and Wizard evolve their Extra Final Forms into Ultimate Forms in the Movie War films.
- Kamen Rider W: Double's CycloneJokerXtreme evolves into CycloneJokerGoldXtreme.
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Fourze's Cosmic States evolves into Meteor Fusion States by combining with Meteor, then into Meteor Nadeshiko Fusion States by combining with Nadeshiko.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Wizard's Infinity Style evolves into Infinity Dragon, then into Infinity Dragon Gold.
- Starting with Wizard, all main Riders also have a set of forms that are upgraded from their base forms. Except for Wizard, all Upgrade Forms appear in the 16th episode of the series. In the toylines, all of these forms have the ability to somewhat interchange.
- Kamen Rider Wizard: Dragon Styles. One WizarDragon part can be attached to each of the Dragon Styles.
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Jimber Arms. All of the Jimber Arms share the same Armor Parts, which have four sides. Each side represents a respective Energy Lockseed.
- Kamen Rider Drive: Type Dead Heat. Drive Type Dead Heat's helmet can actually be lifted down to become Deadheat Mach's helmet due to the way the suit is designed.
- Each show had lasted at least 47 episodes on average. Kamen Rider Wizard had 53, making this series the longest of all the Heisei Rider series. By contrast, Kamen Rider Gaim had exactly 47, making this series the shortest of all the Heisei Phase 2 Rider series, if only barely qualifying.
- Starting with the premiere of Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen
in 2012, the Rider series draw a greater connection with their rival franchise Super Sentai; furthered with the introduction of a TV special combining both franchises from Gaim. This was originally done prior with the World of Shinkenger cross-over during Kamen Rider Decade where the current Rider and Sentai squads encountered each other in a two-part story that primarily aired in KR but spilled over into several Sentai episodes around the same time. Each of these movies generally feature a combination between a Sentai mecha and a Rider's device.
- Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters: Rocket Drill Go-Buster Oh
- Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Kyoryuzin Miracle Combination
- Ressha Sentai ToQger
: ToQ-Oh Kyoryuzin feat. DenLiner - Shuriken Sentai Ninninger: Shurikenjin Tridoron
- Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters
Kamen Rider in the Heisei Phase 2 era
Advertisements throughout the months of May, June, and July 2009 built up to the debut of Kamen Rider W who was introduced as the eleventh addition of the Heisei Era, first appearing at the 10th Anniversary Project MASKED RIDER LIVE & SHOW event, and was featured in Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker. The title characters star as detectives investigating crime waves about kaijin known as Dopants in the fictional city of Futo. Like much of the previous entries of the Heisei Era, the titular Rider, Kamen Rider Double, can transform into multiple forms, using devices shaped like USB hard drives called Gaia Memories. The Dopants that they fight are really people that use unrefined Gaia Memories for their own purposes. Double is also the first Kamen Rider to transform from two people at once. This series is also the first instance where the show airs on the same day it's predecessor (in this case, Decade) airs it's finale. The series premiered on September 6, 2009. Continuing into 2010 with Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010, W ran for a full year from September 2009 to September 2010, instead of January to January. Also in 2010 were the second, third, and fourth films of the Cho-Den-O Series, collectively known as Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy. Along with Den-O and Kabuto, it became one of the most successful Heisei Kamen Rider series.
In late 2010, Kamen Rider OOO was introduced as the twelfth addition of the Heisei Era Kamen Rider Series. The title character is a world traveler that is pulled into a fight with kaijin called the Greeed that was resurrected from a 800-year sleep to find themselves incomplete by such a Greeed, reduced to the status of a forearm, who gives him the means to transform into Kamen Rider OOO. Like Kamen Riders BLACK RX to Agito, and Den-O to Double, Kamen Rider OOO can change forms, but unlike the others, OOO can transform using three Core Medals, special coin-based artifacts based on animals that make up a Greeed's ability to stay alive without falling apart. There are nine Core Medals for each set, three each designated for Head, Arms, or Legs. As so far, OOO has the most transformations in Kamen Rider history, having able to use a possible 126 different combinations of Core Medals.
The year 2011 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the franchise. The festivities included the Kamen Rider Girls idol group, the film OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Rider, released on April 1, 2011, and OOO's successor Kamen Rider Fourze, which references the previous heroes in its characters' names and within the plot. A special crossover film titled Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen was released in 2012, featuring the main heroes from all Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series produced until then.
Heisei Phase 2 Rider productions
TV series
- Kamen Rider W (仮面ライダーＷ（ダブル）, Kamen Raidā Daburu) (2009-2010)
- Kamen Rider OOO (仮面ライダーＯＯＯ（オーズ）, Kamen Raidā Ōzu) (2010-2011)
- Kamen Rider Fourze (仮面ライダーフォーゼ, Kamen Raidā Fōze) (2011-2012)
- Kamen Rider Wizard (仮面ライダーウィザード, Kamen Raidā Uizādo) (2012-2013)
- Kamen Rider Gaim (仮面ライダーガイム, Kamen Raidā Gaimu) (2013-2014)
- Kamen Rider Drive (仮面ライダードライブ, Kamen Raidā Doraibu) (2014-2015)
Theatrical releases
- 2009: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010
- Kamen Rider Decade: The Last Story
- Kamen Rider W: Begins Night
- Movie War 2010
- 2010: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy
- Episode Red: Zero no Star Twinkle
- Episode Blue: The Dispatched Imagin is Newtral
- Episode Yellow: Treasure de End Pirates
- 2010: Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate
- 2010: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider OOO & W Featuring Skull: Movie War Core
- Kamen Rider Skull: Message for Double
- Kamen Rider OOO: Nobunaga's Desire
- Movie War Core
- 2011: OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders
- 2011: Kamen Rider OOO WONDERFUL: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals
- 2011: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Fourze & OOO: Movie War Mega Max
- Beginning: Fight! The Legendary Seven Riders
- Kamen Rider OOO: Ankh's Resurrection, the Medals of the Future, and the Leading Hope
- Futo: The Conspiracy Advances: Gallant! Kamen Rider Joker
- Kamen Rider Fourze: Nadeshiko, Descend
- Movie War Mega Max: Gather! Warriors of Glory
- 2012: Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen
- 2012: Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: Everyone, Space Is Here!
- 2012: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie War Ultimatum
- Kamen Rider Fourze
- Kamen Rider Wizard
- Movie War Ultimatum
- 2013: Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Z
- 2013: Kamen Rider Wizard in Magic Land
- 2013: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Gaim & Wizard: The Fateful Sengoku Movie Battle
- Kamen Rider Wizard: The Promised Place
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Sengoku Battle Royale
- 2014: Heisei Rider vs. Showa Rider: Kamen Rider Taisen feat. Super Sentai
- 2014: Kamen Rider Gaim the Movie: The Great Soccer Match! The Golden Fruit Cup!
- 2014: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim: Movie War Full Throttle
- Kamen Rider Gaim: Advancing to the Last Stage
- Kamen Rider Drive: The Challenge from Lupin
- Movie War Full Throttle
- 2015: Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future