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 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 Hojo
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: Jurota 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 Kondo
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 Kondo
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
Japanese science fiction television series
2004 television series debuts
2005 television series endings