Kamen Rider Drive

is the twenty-sixth entry of the Kamen Rider Series. Riku Sanjo returns to serve as Drive's lead screenwriter, with Ryuta Tasaki as director.
It premiered on TV Asahi and affiliate stations throughout Japan on October 5, 2014, the week following the finale of its preceding series Kamen Rider Gaim, and joining then in the Super Hero Time programming block.
Drive is peculiar among the heroes in the Kamen Rider franchise, as his motif and main mode of transportation is a car, rather than the signature motorcycles used by his predecessors.
==Production==
The series marks the first time that a Kamen Rider's main vehicle is a car rather than a motorcycle, which has been remarked upon by entertainment news as a shock and a major change from previous Kamen Rider television series.
==Plot==
Shinnosuke Tomari is a former elite police officer in the Metropolitan Police, who, after an event that traumatized one of his colleagues, has been "demoted" into the Special Investigations Division. This division looks into the stranger happenings in the city, particularly the recent "Heavy Acceleration" events. These events, termed "Heaviness" by the public, leave people unable to move. When he is chosen by the Drive Driver and Tridoron, Shinnosuke transforms into Kamen Rider Drive and is tasked with battling the Roidmudes who plan to rise against humanity and take over the world.
He is aided by Kiriko Shijima and her brother Go, who transforms into Kamen Rider Mach. Chase, a special Roidmude with a strange past who then known as Protodrive and later became an evil warrior known as Mashin Chaser, also reassumes his Rider identity and reclaims his 'justice' to protect humanity as he transforms into Kamen Rider Chaser. However, a greater threat later appears in the form of Kiriko and Go's father, the scientist who created the Roidmudes, who despite having long lost his human body, revives in the form of the evil Kamen Rider Gold Drive, intending to make use of the remaining Roidmudes in his own plan to bring down the whole world at his mercy.
==Characters==
===Kamen Riders===
Kamen Rider Drive 	Shinnosuke Tomari
Kamen Rider Mach 	Go Shijima
Kamen Rider Protodrive 	Chase
Kamen Rider Chaser 	Chase
Kamen Rider Gold Drive 	Tenjuro Banno
Mass Production Model Mach	Jun Honganji (Other Users)
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Kamen Rider Lupin 	Zoruku Tojo
Kamen Rider 3 	Kyoichiro Kuroi
Kamen Rider 4  	Kamen Rider 4
Kamen Rider (Dark) Drive	Eiji Tomari ► Paradox
Kamen Rider Zero Drive 	Shinnosuke Tomari http://www.cinematoday.jp/page/N0077325
===Allies===
Drive Driver	Krim Steinbelt
====Special Investigation Unit====
*Jun Honganji
*Genpachiro Otta
*Kiriko Shijima
*Rinna Sawagami
*Kyu Saijo
====Other Allies====
*Akira Hayase
*Harley Hendrickson
*Deneb
*Mai Takatsukasa as a Woman of the Beginning
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*Naoya Kaido
*Yukari Karasawa
*Eisuke Tomari
*Shinji Koba
*Mirai Hanasaki
*Truckers
*Manager of Idol
*Businessman
*Mitsuharu Kineta
*Misuzu Hatori
*Koichi Kano
*Yurusen
*Kamen Riders
Kamen Rider 1 	Takeshi Hongo
Kamen Rider 2 	Hayato Ichimonji
Kamen Rider V3 	Shiro Kazami
Kamen Rider Black 	Kotaro Minami
Kamen Rider Black RX 	Kotaro Minami
Kamen Rider Faiz 	Takumi Inui
Kamen Rider Blade 	Kazuma Kenzaki
Kamen Rider Chalice 	Hajime Aikawa
Kamen Rider Garren 	Sakuya Tachibana
Kamen Rider Leangle 	Mutsuki Kamijo
Kamen Rider Zeronos 	Yuto Sakurai
Kamen Rider Gaim 	Kouta Kazuraba
Kamen Rider Baron 	Kaito Kumon
Kamen Rider Ryugen 	Mitsuzane Kureshima
Kamen Rider Zangetsu 	Takatora Kureshima
Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin	Takatora Kureshima
Kamen Rider Ghost 	Takeru Tenkuji
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===Villains===
====Roidmudes====
*Commanders and Major Roidmudes
Heart Roidmude 	Heart
Brain Roidmude 	Brain
Mashin Chaser 	Chase
Medic Roidmude 	Medic
Freeze Roidmude 	Freeze
Tornado Roidmude	Tornado
Paradox Roidmude	Paradox
Sigma Circular 	Sigma Circular
*Roidmude 006
*Roidmude 004
====Other Villains====
*Eiji Kirihara
Thief Roidmude 	Mitsuhide Nira
Kamen Rider Ouja 	Takeshi Asakura
Kamen Rider Sasword 	Tsurugi Kamishiro
Kamen Rider Dark Kiva	King
*Mechanical Life Form
Megahex 	Megahex
ZZZ Megahex	Megahex
*Shocker
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*National Bureau of Defense
*Neo-Shade
**Keisuke Okamura
*Ganma
==Episodes==
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===Suit actors===
*Kamen Rider Drive: Uchusen, Vol. 146
*Kamen Rider Mach: 
*Mashin Chaser, Kamen Rider Protodrive, Kamen Rider Chaser: 
*Kamen Rider Chaser (Episode 38~Episode 42): 
*Brain Roidmude: 
*Heart Roidmude: 
*Medic Roidmude: 
*Freeze Roidmude: 
*Kamen Rider Gold Drive: 
==Songs==
;Opening theme
*"SURPRISE-DRIVE"
**Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
**Composition & Arrangement: tatsuo (of everset)
**Artist: Mitsuru Matsuoka EARNEST DRIVE
;Ending theme
*"Full throttle"
**Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
**Composition & Arrangement: tatsuo (of everset)
**Artist: S.S.P.D. ~Steel Sound Police Dept~
**Episodes: 13, 14, 16, 17, 19, 24, 46
*"Don't lose your mind"
**Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
**Composition & Arrangement: tatsuo (of everset)
**Artist: S.S.P.D. ~Steel Sound Police Dept~
**Episodes: 15, 16, 18, 30
*"UNLIMITED DRIVE"
**Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
**Composition: DJ Hurrykenn
**Arrangement: Ryo (of defspiral)
**Artist: Kamen Rider Girls
**Episodes: 33, 34
*"Spinning Wheel"
**Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
**Composition & Arrangement: Shuhei Naruse
**Artist: Shinnosuke Tomari, Go Shijima, & Chase (Ryoma Takeuchi, Yu Inaba, & Taiko Katono)
**Episodes: 36, 38, 40, 45
==References==
==External links==
* at 
*Official website at TV Asahi
*Official website at Toei Company
*Special Mission website
*Drive Saga website
Category:Kamen Rider Series
Category:Heisei Era