Kamen Rider Den-O

**Kamen Rider Den-O** is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history.

Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, Den-O had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run which grossed 730 million yen (approximately US$6.8 million) and a series of ten OVA shorts, both of which are firsts for any Kamen Rider. Continuing the trend, Kamen Rider Den-O also had a third film released in October 2008, the first for any Kamen Rider series and a second series of 12 OVA shorts was released in November 2008. Takeru Satoh claims that the reason that Den-O has amassed such popularity is because of its comedic timing. A fourth film was released on May 1, 2009, and three more released in the summer of 2010.

## Synopsis

Ryotaro Nogami is a young man with a lot of bad luck. One day, he finds a strange pass and things got stranger from a mysterious girl and a large time-traveling train to being possessed by an entity called an Imagin, beings from an alternate future whose kind are attempting to change the past. Though slightly confused about the nature of the crisis, Ryotaro, along with the aid of the hot-headed, violent Imagin, dubbed Momotaros, becomes Kamen Rider Den-O, traveling to different times on the DenLiner to battle the evil Imagin to prevent them from altering the past to affect the present and future. During his adventure, Ryotaro is joined by other Imagin who aid him as well; the lying, manipulating and womanizing Urataros, the herculean (and narcoleptic) Kintaros, and the childish yet powerful Ryutaros. He later meets the mysterious Yuto Sakurai and his bumbling Imagin partner Deneb. Yuto is not only Kamen Rider Zeronos but is the younger incarnation of Ryotaro's older sister Airi's fiancé, Sakurai, who mysteriously disappeared and is tied to the mysteries involving the Imagin and a person known as the Junction Point.

## Episodes

**Episode 01** *Here I Come! (01/28/2007)*

**Episode 02** *Ride on Time (02/04/2007)*

**Episode 03** *Outlaw Momotarō (02/11/2007)*

**Episode 04** *Get Out, Oni! I'm Serious (02/18/2007)*

**Episode 05** *Will You Let Me Fish You? (02/25/2007)*

**Episode 06** *A Swindler's Dignity (03/04/2007)*

**Episode 07** *Jealousy Bomber (03/11/2007)*

**Episode 08** *Sad Melody, Loving Memory (03/18/2007)*

**Episode 09** *You Wept Over My Strength (03/25/2007)*

**Episode 10** *Hana in a Stormy Singularity Point (04/01/2007)*

**Episode 11** *Madness, Delusion, Baby's Breath (04/08/2007)*

**Episode 12** *Run Taros! (04/15/2007)*

**Episode 13** *Okay? Your Answer Doesn't Matter (04/22/2007)*

**Episode 14** *Dance With Dragon (04/29/2007)*

**Episode 15** *Bath Jack Panic (05/06/2007)*

**Episode 16** *Star of Happiness, Criminal's Surrender (05/13/2007)*

**Episode 17** *That Guy Just Now! Already in the Past? (05/20/2007)*

**Episode 18** *A Clockwork Fiance (05/27/2007)*

**Episode 19** *That Man, Zero's Start (06/03/2007)*

**Episode 20** *Let Me Say This to Start (06/10/2007)*

**Episode 21** *Fighting Style (06/24/2007)*

**Episode 22** *An Unspeakable Future (07/01/2007)*

**Episode 23** *Enter the Prince, Kneel Down to Him! (07/08/2007)*

**Episode 24** *The Prince's Goodbye Lullaby (07/15/2007)*

**Episode 25** *Climax Double Jump (07/22/2007)*

**Episode 26** *The Ticket to God's Line (07/29/2007)*

**Episode 27** *Schedule-Disrupting Fang (08/05/2007)*

**Episode 28** *Too Lucky, Too Excited, Too Strange (08/12/2007)*

**Episode 29** *Lucky Horror Show (08/19/2007)*

**Episode 30** *Madam, How About the Fireworks? (08/26/2007)*

**Episode 31** *Ai Need Yu (09/02/2007)*

**Episode 32** *Last Train Card Zero (09/09/2007)*

**Episode 33** *Time Troubler Kohana (09/16/2007)*

**Episode 34** *The Time Interval Pianist (09/23/2007)*

**Episode 35** *Tragic Resurrection Card Zero (09/30/2007)*

**Episode 36** *No Possession, No Secession, Train Slash! (10/07/2007)*

**Episode 37** *I Have The Face For It, Don't I? (10/14/2007)*

**Episode 38** *The King Train Within the Train Terminal (10/21/2007)*

**Episode 39** *The Rider Disappears As Well (10/28/2007)*

**Episode 40** *Change Imagin World (11/11/2007)*

**Episode 41** *Candy Scandal (11/18/2007)*

**Episode 42** *Memory Update (11/25/2007)*

**Episode 43** *Something Missing (12/02/2007)*

**Episode 44** *Resolution of a Single-Action (12/09/2007)*

**Episode 45** *Reliving a Blank Day (12/16/2007)*

**Episode 46** *Now to Reveal Love and Truth (12/23/2007)*

**Episode 47** *You Wept Over My End (01/06/2008)*

**Episode 48** *Opposite Goodbyes... (01/13/2008)*

**Episode 49** *The Climax Goes on No Matter What (01/20/2008)*