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Heisei Phase 2 Riders

The primary riders of the Heisei Phase 2 period (as of Build).

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), also referred to by fans as the "Neo-Heisei" era, 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.

After the Decade series, Kamen Rider is the official term for Riders while pre-Decade Riders have been shown to use "Masked Rider" in official localization releases, merchandise such as the S.H. Figuarts toyline as well as in Kamen Rider 4.

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), Kamen Rider Gaim (October 2013 - September 2014), Kamen Rider Drive (October 2014 - September 2015), Kamen Rider Ghost (October 2015 - September 2016) and Kamen Rider Ex-Aid (October 2016 - August 2017). The current entry in the Kamen Rider Series is Kamen Rider Build, which premiered in September 2017.

On April 1, 2016, an original remake net series Kamen Rider Amazons was aired. It marks the Heisei Era's first time since Faiz that the franchise has gone back to a darker and more adult oriented style of storytelling, though this series is available only on Amazon Prime and rated R15+. A second season was made in 2017.

Heisei Phase 2 trends

  • Beside two main Riders, more Riders are introduced in the series since the appearance of Supporting Riders (Kamen Rider Proto-Birth) in Kamen Rider OOO.
  • Each series has a white-colored Rider (with the exception of Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, though Genm, referred as the Black Ex-Aid though he later assumes a form that is white in colour and plays a similar role), specially referred to as white.
  • Each series has a character who is the closest friend of the protagonist and a relative of the series' white Rider.
  • Each series has a mad and treacherous scientist who dedicated his life to research the series' monsters, and can transform into a Kamen Rider.
  • Each series has a short-tempered red-colored villain general who can use heat power and become stronger when defeated. Up to Drive, their role and importance gradually increase after each series.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: Phoenix (He was defeated by the main Rider's Super Form)
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Demushu (He was defeated by the main Rider's Final Form)
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Heart (He is the leading general and is stronger than the main Rider's Final Form)
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: While there is no recurring red villain general in the show, Gammaizer Fire does share some trends with this trope, as it has pyrokinesis and can resurrect itself after each defeat. Adel also stated in Episode 33 that the Gammaizers become more powerful after every defeat.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Initially, there was no recurring red villain general in the show. Graphite, however, later obtained a red form, making him fit for this trope. As well, he made a unique return from death prior to obtaining his red form, alluding to this trope's knack for becoming stronger when defeated.
  • Each series has a calm and calculative, but psychotic green-colored villain general. In contrast, their role and importance gradually decrease after each series up to Drive.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: Gremlin (He was the last monster)
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Redyue (She was the secondary boss)
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Brain (He is the comic relief)
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: While there is no recurring green villain general in the show, Alain, the regular villain general since the beginning, can transform into a Kamen Rider with a green default form. He has gradually changed from a calculative villain to a fully heroic Kamen Rider. In contrast, Adel has become the more psychotic and calculative villain general in Alain's place, although he does not wear green.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: While Graphite was initially green, he doesn't fit into this trope. Instead, this role is fulfilled by Masamune Dan, who can transform into a green Kamen Rider.
  • Each series' endgame has a character who defeats the main villain instead of the Primary Rider.
  • Between the Main Forms and the Super Form, all main Riders also have a set of forms that are upgraded from their base forms. 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.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Toucon Boost Damashii, which is an upgraded version of Ore Damashii. It can also don the Damashii mainly used in Ore base form.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: The Level 3 forms, which in theory can be used by any of the Gamer Driver riders, as well as the Level 5 form attained through the use of the Drago Knight Hunter Z Gashat.
  • Besides the normal humanoid monsters, the main Riders also occasionally have to fight against giant CGI monsters. This was first featured in Kamen Rider Hibiki.
  • Unlike the first three series in the Phase 2 era where the monster-of-the-week is directly created by the villain generals, the main villain groups since Wizard are loose and not well-organized.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: All Phantoms, including the generals, were created at the same time.
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Most Inves, including the generals, were randomly mutated from creatures eating the fruit of Helheim.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: All Roidmudes, including the generals, were created at the same time.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Most of the Gamma were randomly converted from humans whose souls were stolen into the Gamma world. It is later revealed that the Gamma were once humans from a village tribe in the past; the earliest Gamma (the Gamma royal family among others) being created at the same time.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: While all Bugsters are parts of the game Kamen Rider Chronicle, they don't have a real leader, and only act as how they were programmed.
  • Unlike Double and Fourze who don't have any weapons in their primary forms or OOO whose Medajalibur was received as a present by the Kougami Foundation, all of the main Riders have a default sidearm.
  • While some advanced weapons in the previous three series (Double's Prism Bicker, OOO's Taja Spinner, and Fourze's Cosmic Module Barizun Sword) can be loaded with different Collectible Devices to unleash different effects, the ability to use Collectible Devices together with the main Rider's primary weapon has become a standard since Wizard. Ghost is the only season to break this trend, although the series still has weapons that utilize collectible devices (Sunglasseslasher, Gan Gun Catcher).
  • Unlike Double, OOO, and Fourze whose default Main Forms consist of cold/neutral colors, all of the main Riders since Wizard have warm colors for their default Main Forms.
  • There are Rider Troops for each series.
  • Each series has a transformation belt that is utilized by at least two in-series Riders.
  • The series will usually take a secondary rider out of the action for various reasons and various lengths or even fights with the villains for multiple episodes.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: Nitoh's Beast Driver is destroyed near the end of Wizard, though he temporarily joined the villains for one episode.
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Takatora nearly gets killed by Ryoma and his Genesis Driver is taken from him by Mitsuzane. After hanging with Rosyuo for a bit, he comes back as Kamen Rider Zangetsu, but his Sengoku Driver is destroyed and is knocked into a coma by Mitsuzane until the end of the show. He was also an antagonist for the majority of the show.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Go feigns an alliance to the Roidmudes in order to get closer to them and retrieve Banno. By the end of the show, both Chase and Go are killed and incapacitated respectively in the final battle.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Makoto at one point is brainwashed by the Necrom Eyecon and in another point, his body is destroyed, leaving him out of the show for a couple of episodes.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Hiiro Kagami is briefly incapacitated due to strain placed on his body by his Level 50 form. He later briefly allies himself with Masamune Dan in a bid to restore his girlfriend, though he returns to the heroes' side after a while.
  • The leader of the main villain group is usually betrayed and (sometimes if not usually) killed by one of their subordinates.
  • The plot of each season's summer movie usually involves an alternate world or timeline being shown in contrast with the present world or timeline, somewhat harking back to the early Heisei Phase 1 summer movies of Ryuki, 555, Blade and Kabuto, which feature alternate endings to the main series storyline.
  • Each series includes a golden evil Kamen Rider:
  • With the exception of Gaim's Kiwami Arms and Ex-Aid's Muteki Gamer, all protagonist Riders lose their final form at the end of the series:
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: Haruto gave his Infinity Ring to his A.R. counterpart.
      • Compared to the others, however, he regains said form after obtaining another Infinity Ring, that being from his Bujin counterpart.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Mr. Belt locked himself and all Drive equipment underground.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: The Mugen Eyecon faded away after Takeru used it to defeat the giant Great Eyezer.
      • However, Takeru would somehow regain Mugen Damashii by the events of Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Rider.

  • The main Rider usually uses a disproportionately high number of collectible transformation devices as compared to the other Riders.
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Gaim has altogether used a total of 18 Lockseeds (counting borrowed, stageshow-exclusive and Legend Rider), as compared to the other Riders who at most, have not used more than 10 different Lockseeds.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Drive possesses a total of 31 Shift Cars in his arsenal (counting Tire Exchange Shift Cars which were not used in battle), as compared to the Signal Bikes' small number of 7.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Out of the 15 heroic Ghost Eyecons, Ghost has 10, while Specter has 3 and Necrom only has 2.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: In a slightly less extreme case, Ex-Aid makes use of a total of 15 Gashats across all episodes, movies, and specials, with Brave in second place at 8, and Snipe in third at 6 (7 counting his appearance as Cronus).
    • Kamen Rider Build: Currently, it is known that Build uses 21 Full Bottles, with no other Riders or psuedo-Riders known to use more than one.
  • Each season usually has the third main Rider originally start off as good during or before the start of the series, then become evil for a period of time before finally redeeming themselves and going on the side of good again. Their Rider forms usually have either purple or green accents (or both in Ryugen's case).
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Mitsuzane Kureshima, originally a friend of Kouta, later joins and eventually takes over Yggdrasill, betraying everyone around him. At the end of the series, he redeems himself for the sins he had committed.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Chase was originally Protodrive, the warrior who fought the Roidmudes during the Global Freeze, before being brainwashed into becoming Mashin Chaser. Later, he regains his memories and becomes Kamen Rider Chaser.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: It is not known if Alain was originally good at first, but he grew to believe that his world was perfect and that the human world was flawed. Later, after the death of his father Adonis, Alain finally accepts that his world is not perfect, and joins the side of good as Kamen Rider Necrom.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Taiga Hanaya was originally a kind doctor who was part of CR. However, the effects of the Proto Gashats had affected his mind and body, turning him into a somewhat anti-heroic Rider, though he later comes to respect the other Kamen Riders over the course of their fight against the Bugsters. This also applies to Kuroto Dan, who is first introduced as a villain for the first half of the season, until he joins with the heroes when his father took over Kamen Rider Chronicle.
  • The main villains usually possess an omnipotent object or entity of great power, which can possibly inflict mass destruction on the world.
  • A certain transformation device from each season has either a prototype or a mass produced version.
  • The main villains use a unique way of moving from one place to another in an instant.
  • Each season has a spring movie which focuses more heavily on the Kamen Riders rather than other tokusatsu seasons, as compared to the first two Super Hero Taisen films. Incidentally, Kamen Rider 1 plays a significant role in each of these films.
  • Each season has a spinoff side story focusing on one of the main characters apart from the primary Rider.
  • The secondary Riders' super/final forms are actually equivalent to the protagonist Riders' Upgrade Forms.
  • The primary Riders' final form no longer has its own designated weapon. Instead, it uses the weapon used by the upgrade/super form. However, rather than using the super form's collectible device, the weapon instead uses collectible devices from the Riders' regular forms to generate more powerful attacks.
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Gaim Kiwami Arms uses the DJ Gun, which is Kachidoki Arms' default weapon. While Gaim Kachidoki Arms uses the Kachidoki Lockseed in the DJ Gun to perform a Kachidoki Charge, Gaim Kiwami Arms instead uses normal Lockseeds to perform a Fruits Basket Charge.
    • Kamen Rider Drive: Drive Type Tridoron uses the Trailer-Hou, normally used by Drive Type Formula. While Drive Type Formula inserts Shift Formula into the Shift Landing Slot to perform the Trailer Impact, Drive Type Tridoron instead inserts a regular form Type Change Shift Car into the Shift Landing Slot to perform the Trailer Big Impact.
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: Ghost Mugen Damashii (final form), as well Grateful Damashii (super form), reuses the Sunglasseslasher from Toucon Boost Damashii.
    • Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Ex-Aid Maximum Gamer Level 99 (super form) and Muteki Gamer (final form) reuse the Gashacon Key Slasher from his Double Action Gamer Level XX form.
  • Legend Rider collectible items from Gaim onwards allow the users to transform into special forms that are themed after those legend Riders, unlike previous Legend Rider collectible items, which merely summoned the corresponding Riders.
  • With the exception of Drive, all series have at least one Rider having a music-related power/weapon:
  • Though the trend of Net Movies has stopped since Gaim, each season's summer movie now has tie-in episodes which now directly relate to the plot of the summer movie. This was originally preceded by Kamen Rider Blade: New Generation, a tie-in miniseries to Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid breaks this trend.

  • There is at least 1 sentient Rider Machine in each series:
  • There is at least 1 Rider who can combine with his Rider Machine to obtain a stronger form:
  • The Blu-ray releases of each season have a mini-series tied in, often as an additional side story within the series' narrative.
  • Each season's villain group has a monster who chooses to befriend humans rather than attack them. With the exception of the Gazai Gamma, the monster eventually gets killed by the main villain groups for their perceived betrayal.
  • Each season's spring movie has a web-exclusive miniseries accompanying their release.
  • Most of major villains at the start of the series would turn good at the end of it, and the last boss is usually another person (Tenjuro Banno, Gammaizers and Masamune Dan) appearing much later.
  • With the exception of Ghost, all series introduced an evil Rider-like character with a mysterious identity at the start of the series.

    • Kamen Rider in the Heisei Phase 2 era

    The crossover between a Kamen Riders from a different series was all started from the Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka in Phase 1, as a starter up for the next Rider crossover within Phase 2, starting from Movie War series.

    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. OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Rider was the first starter up of the Taisen movie series, which was included Super Sentai's Akaranger, Other heroes like Zuban, original Kikaiders and original Inazuman, resulting a development of the first Super Hero Taisen crossover film titled Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero TaisenIcon-crosswiki, which was released in 2012, featuring the main heroes from all Kamen Rider and Super Sentai series produced until then, then becomes expanded with the other heroes like Metal Heroes (particularly Space Sheriffs) and the other heroes like new Inazuman from Movie War Ultimatum, sans in Gaim and Drive's own spring movies, which focused on all Kamen Riders with less Super Sentai team that focused on the sophomore and the current ones.

    Number Theory?

    A fan theory about Phase 2 is series seems to follow an increasing numbered theme, although this gradually became less obvious with each season:

    • Kamen Rider Double: A Kamen Rider formed from TWO people.
    • Kamen Rider OOO: A Kamen Rider uses THREE Medals to transform.
    • Kamen Rider Fourze: A Kamen Rider with weapons on his FOUR limbs. Also, the forty anniversary of the series, with the word "FOUR" in its name.
    • Kamen Rider Wizard: A Kamen Rider uses magic via FIVE-fingered hand-shaped scanners.
    • Kamen Rider Gaim: Lockseeds are shaped like number "SIX".
    • Kamen Rider Drive: The shape of part of the Katagana ve (ブ, bu) of the title logo shaped like the number "SEVEN".
    • Kamen Rider Ghost: The Infinity symbol ∞, which looks like a horizontal number EIGHT, appears in many ways in the series (Sunglasseslasher/Deep Slasher's slots, Mugen Damashii, etc.)

    However, this theory was ended by Toei producer Takahito Omori until Kamen Rider Ex-Aid. According to Takahito, the key number of Ex-Aid is number TEN, which obviously in conflict with this theory. It marks the first time Toei response to a Phase 2 fan theory and kill it ruthlessly.[3]

    Heisei Phase 2 Rider productions

    At Super Hero Time:

    At late night:

  • 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: Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider 3
  • 2015: Kamen Rider Drive: Surprise Future
  • 2015: Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Ghost & Drive: Super Movie War Genesis
  • 2016: Kamen Rider 1
  • 2016: Kamen Rider Ghost: The 100 Eyecons and Ghost's Fateful Moment
  • 2016: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders
  • 2017: Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen
  • 2017: Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: True Ending

    • References

    1. ↑ http://news.tokunation.com/2017/08/01/bottle-change-rider-01-kamen-rider-build-rabbit-tank-form-official-image-44803
    2. ↑ http://www.heroshock.com/?p=29687
    3. ↑ http://www.toei.co.jp/tv/ex-aid/story/1208131_2606.html
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