Kamen Rider Blade

Kamen Rider Blade (Masked Rider ♠ (Blade)), is a Japanese television series. 

Production
It is the fourteenth installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It aired on TV Asahi from January 25, 2004 to January 23, 2005. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. Along with the standard insect motif of the Kamen Rider Series, Kamen Rider Blade also uses a Playing card motif. Each Rider is assigned one of the suits from a deck of cards. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's Super Hero Time block with Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.
DVDs
Blade was later released on DVD by Toei. There were twelve volumes released with the first eleven having four episodes per DVD and the twelfth with five episodes.

Story
Ancient battle
Ten thousand years ago, a large battle known as the Battle Royal was fought by fifty-two Undead. Each side represented a species fighting for dominance. The winner was the Human Undead, known as Category Two of Hearts, giving dominion of the Earth to humanity. 
New Battle Royal
In the present day, archaeologists discover the sealed Undead. But unfortunately, they accidentally set them free. Thus, a new Battle Royal begins.
Rider system
Having developed the Rider System, based on the Joker's ability to copy sealed Undead, the organization BOARD (Board of Archaeologists Research Department) equips two young men, who become Kamen Riders: Kazuma Kenzaki and Sakuya Tachibana fight together as Kamen Rider Blade and Kamen Rider Garren to protect humans from Undead and seal them. Also fighting Undead is the mysterious Hajime Aikawa as Kamen Rider Chalice, whose purpose is unknown. In addition, young Mutsuji Kamijo fights to free himself from the control of the sealed Undead powering his own Undead-made Rider System. He fights as Kamen Rider Leangle.

Cast
 Kazuma Kenzaki / Kamen Rider Blade: Takayuki Tsubaki
 Sakuya Tachibana / Kamen Rider Garren: Kousei Amano (Played as "Hironari Amano")
 Hajime Aikawa / Kamen Rider Chalice, Ryo Mikami (29, 30): Ryoji Morimoto
 Mutsuji Kamijo / Kamen Rider Leangle: Takahiro Hōjō
 Shiori Hirose: Yumi Egawa
 Kotaro Shirai: Terunosuke Takezai
 Hikaru Kurihara: Kaori Yamaguchi
 Amane Kurihara, Young Amane: Hikari Kajiwara
 Nozomi Yamanaka: Arisa Miyazawa
 Kei Karasuma: Kazuhiro Yamaji
 Yoshito Hirose: Junichi Haruta
 Hiroshi Tennoji: Kohji Moritsugu
 Sayoko Fukasawa: Urara Awata
 Isaka: Yasukaze Motomiya
 Miyuki Yoshinaga: Mika Hijii
 Noboru Shima: Kazunari Aizawa
 King: Makoto Kajimo
 Kanai: Akira Kubodera
 Rouzer Voice: Takeshi Sasaki
 Rouzer Absorber Voice, King Rouzer Voice: Fumihiko Tachiki
 Narration: Jūrōta Kosugi

Missing Ace cast
 Junichi Shimura / Kamen Rider Glaive: Yuuki Kuroda
 Natsumi Miwa / Kamen Rider Larc: Yoko Mitsuya
 Shin Kagami / Kamen Rider Lance: Takao Sugiura
 Amane Kurihara: Miku Shida

Songs
 Opening themes
 "Round ZERO~BLADE BRAVE"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Katsuya Yoshida
 Arrangement: Akio Kondō
 Artist: Nanase Aikawa
 Episodes: 1 - 30
 "ELEMENTS"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Miki Fushisue
 Arrangement: RIDER CHIPS & Cher Watanabe
 Artist: RIDER CHIPS featuring Ricky
 Episodes: 31 - 49
After his performance in "ELEMENTS", Ricky was made RIDER CHIPS' permanent vocalist.
 Insect themes
 "Kakusei" ("Awakening")
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Cher Watanabe
 Arrangement: Akio Kondō
 Artist: Ricky
 Episodes: 2 - 23
 "Rebirth"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition: Yukari Aono
 Arrangement: Cher Watanabe
 Artist: Sakuya Tachibana (Kousei Amano)
 Episodes: 23 - 30, 47
 "Take it a Try"
 Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
 Composition & Arrangement: Cher Watanabe
 Artist: Hajime Aikawa (Ryoji Morimoto)
 Episodes: 31 - 49

Category:Japanese science fiction television series
Category:2000s Japanese television series
Category:2004 television series debuts
Category:2005 Japanese television series endings
Category:Japanese-language television programs