Kamen Rider Records

A wiki page for collecting miscellaneous Kamen Rider trivia, records, and noteworthy firsts.

Records

• Series with the most deaths in it - Kamen Rider Ryuki, with all 13 deaths including Femme in the movie Episode Final and Verde in TV special. However at the end of the series, all Riders were returned back to life and their memories as a Riders has been washed away, and they live just like a normal ordinary human being after that (except Femme and Verde).
• Series with the most falls into water in it -
• Most in-universe Riders - Kamen Rider Ryuki with 13. (15 if one would count the pseudo Riders Alternative and Alternative Zero among them, and 16 if one counts Kamen Rider Decade's Kamen Rider Abyss.)
• Most alternative endings - Kamen Rider Ryuki with 4 (TV ending, 2 for the special, movie ending).
• Rider designation with most users - Trooper-type Riders like Riotrooper from 555, Zectrooper from Kabuto, Mage from Wizard and Kurokage from Gaim. Kamen Rider Delta, from Kamen Rider 555, is the one main universe Rider with 9 people having transformed into it. Followed by Kamen Rider IXA, with 6 people having transformed into it (3 transformed in 1986 (prototype version), the other 3 in 2008 (stable version including the Rising Form)).
• Series with most movies for it - Kamen Rider Den-O, with 8.
• Series with the largest number of Riders appearing on it - Kamen Rider Decade, due to the cast travelling to different Rider universes and meeting a lot of resident Riders.
• Series with most female Riders - Kamen Rider Decade. In total, 3 female characters transformed into a Rider form: Akira from Hibiki's world turned into Amaki, Haruka Miwa from Diend's World turned into L'arc and Natsumi turned into Kamen Rider Kivaara.
• Rider with the largest number of forms - Kamen Rider OOO. Due to the nature of his Rider suit, he could transform himself into up to 128 different forms.
• Longest Kamen Rider Series - Kamen Rider (98 episodes).
• Shortest Kamen Rider Series - Kamen Rider Amazon (24 episodes). For Heisei-era, Kamen Rider Decade being the shortest, lasted for 31 episodes.
• Oldest Kamen Rider Actor - Watanabe Hiroyuki - Kamen Rider Gaoh (born December 9, 1955) was 52 years old when he acted for the role in 2007.
• Rider with most gadgets/equipments/weapons/gears -
• Rider with most vehicles -

Recurring Themes

• Riders with most main Riders are technologically modified - All Showa-era Kamen Riders except Amazon and Black, Kamen Rider Shin, Kamen Rider ZO, Kamen Rider J
• Riders with dragon-themed - Kamen Rider Agito, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Wizard
• Riders with insect-themed - All Showa-era Kamen Riders, Kamen Rider Kuuga, Kamen Rider Kabuto
• Riders with Western mythical themed - Kamen Rider Kuuga, Kamen Rider Kiva, Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider Wizard
• Riders with space-themed - Kamen Rider Super-1, Kamen Rider Fourze
• Riders with a beetle-theme - Kamen Rider Stronger, Kamen Rider Blade and Garren, Kamen Rider Kabuto and Gattack.
• Grasshoppers: Kamen Rider 1 and 2, Skyrider, Kamen Rider Black, Black RX, the Alternatives from Kamen Rider Ryuki and the Hoppers from Kamen Rider Kabuto are based on this insect. Kamen Rider OOO has legs with a grasshopper motive.
• Kamen Riders using cards: The Riders in Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider Blade and Kamen Rider Decade all utilized cards to initiate transformations, summon weapons or use special techniques.
• Multiform Kamen Riders: Kamen Rider Black RX, Kuuga, Agito, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Double, OOO, Wizard and Gaim are all capable of taking on forms that are not upgrades per se, but rather specialized forms useful in certain situations. Most of the time, these Riders have a balanced form, a strong but slow form and a weak but fast form.
• Riders directly gaining powers from their respective enemy races: All Showa-era Kamen Riders, Kamen Rider ZO, Kamen Rider J, Kamen Rider Ryuki, Kamen Rider 555, Kamen Rider Blade, Kamen Rider Kabuto, Kamen Rider OOO and Birth and Kamen Rider Wizard and Beast.
• Riders that can grow into a larger size: Kamen Rider J, Kamen Rider Core from Movie Wars Core.
• Riders accidentally getting their powers: Kamen Rider Ryuki and Gaim just stumble on their transformation devices without having any prior knowledge of the supernatural conflict going on or being forced to transform by other people.
• Members of an inhuman race gaining human emotions: Aikawa Hajime/Kamen Rider Chalice who is one of the Undead from Kamen Rider Blade and Ankh, a Greeed from Kamen Rider OOO both start out as ruthless and uncaring, but both end up realizing living as a human feels far better than living as their own race.
• Riders who turn into their respective enemy races: In a fun twist, both of the series mentioned in the previous record also featured Riders who lost their humanity. Kazuma Kenzaki/Kamen Rider Blade was turned into an undead, while Hino Eiji was changed into a Greeed. It could also be argued that the original Kamen Rider also uses this trope, since Shocker was planning on turning Hongo into a cyborg in the same way their monster army was.
  • Also, before the start of the Wizard series, Souma Haruto was nearly changed into an Phantom during the eclipse, but because of his determination of being the last hope of all humanity, he able to suppress the despair and chosen by White Wizard to don his responsibility as the Kamen Rider Wizard. The same thing also happened to Mayu, Yuuzuru and Masahiro as they nearly become Phantoms, but overcomes their despair and chosen by White Wizard to become Kamen Rider Mage (except Yuuzuru and Masahiro who was chosen by force, despite their refusal to become his apprentice. Mayu on the other hand accepts White Wizard's offer to become her apprentice in order to vengeance against her twin sister Misa/Medusa Phantom for killing her parents).
• Non-humans being Kamen Riders:
  • Inui Takumi and Yuji Kiba from Kamen Rider 555 were Orphenochs, but regularly donned Rider suits.
  • Aikawa Hajime, from Kamen Rider Blade, is an Undead, who is able to change into Kamen Rider Chalice.
  • Kamishiro Tsurugi/ Kamen Rider Sassword is revealed to be a Worm in Kamen Rider Kabuto. The character Tachikawa Daigo, who only appeared in one episode, is a Native worm and is able to turn into Drake and Sassword.
  • In Kamen Rider Kiva, Wataru is a half Fangire, while Nobori Taiga and his father the Fangire King are full Fangires, donning the Saga and Dark Kiva suits respectively.
  • In Kamen Rider W, Philip is a part of avatar in the Gaia Memory library. At first he was a human when he was a kid (his real name was Sonozaki Raito), but accidentally fallen himself into the pit of Gaia Memory when he followed Sonozaki family to discover the pit that stores the Earth's knowledge of Gaia Memory.
  • In Kamen Rider Wizard, Fueki is a Wiseman Phantom, and revealed that he donned his Rider suits as Kamen Rider Wiseman to revive his daughter Koyomi in any means necessary.
• Rider Systems developed and produced by secret society, corporations or organizations: MPD/SAUL (Agito), Smart Brain (555), BOARD (Blade), Takeshi (Hibiki), ZECT (Kabuto), Aozora Organization (Kiva), Kougami Foundation (OOO), OSTO (Fourze), Anti-Zodiarts Union (Fourze) and Yggdrasill (Gaim).
• Rider's key people in Rider System's development: Hojou Toru (Agito), Hanagata (555), Karasuma Kei (Blade), Takizawa Midori (Hibiki), Native Worms (Kabuto), Shroud (W), Dr. Maki Kiyoto (OOO), Utahoshi Rokuro (Fourze), Tachibana (Fourze) and Sengoku Ryouma (Gaim).

Firsts

Kamen Rider Ichigou

• First Kamen Rider.
• First Rider to have a crossover movie with another Tokusatsu Production House.

Kamen Rider Nigou

• First Rider to have a Henshin movement.

Riderman

• First Rider who died in series

Kamen Rider X

• First rider to fight using weapons.
• First rider to be able to breath and fight underwater.

Kamen Rider Amazon

• First Rider without Insect-Themed (Amazon based form piranha).
• First Rider who isn't a cyborg.
• First Rider who didn't use the Rider Kick as the usual finisher.
• First series with the shortest number of episodes.

Kamen Rider Stronger

• First Rider to be able to transform to an upgraded version of his Rider form.
• First Rider to feature a partner who's not a rider itself.

Kamen Rider Skyrider

• First series that considered as a reboot of the original Kamen Rider series.
• First Rider who could fly.

Kamen Rider Super-1

• First space-themed Rider series.
• First Rider Machine created by American motorcycle manufacturer, Harley-Davidson (V-Machine).

Kamen Rider ZX

• First Rider who didn't have their own TV series.
• First Rider to celebrate Kamen Rider anniversary series.

Kamen Rider Black

• First Rider without scarf.
• First Series has villain without foot-soldiers.

Kamen Rider Black RX

• First Rider of the Heisei period.
• First Rider to utilize a multiform system of specialized transformations.
• First Rider to own a specialized car.
• First Kamen Rider series to be adapted in the US.

Kamen Rider Shin

• First Rider that can mutated himself to transform.
• First Rider not to use a belt in any way.

Kamen Rider J

• First Rider to achieve giant size. (Unless one counts the Kamen Rider VS Ultraman special)

Kamen Rider Kuuga

• First Rider Series of the Heisei period.
• First multiform Rider to have upgrades for his base forms.

Kamen Rider Agito

• First series to use a dragon motive for one of the Kamen Riders. Agito is based on an eastern dragon.
• First series that has a connection with the previous series.
• First series that has a summer movie.
• First series in the Heisei era to feature multiple Riders.

Kamen Rider Ryuki

• First series not to have the Kamen Riders be clear cut allies of justice.
• First series to have truly villainous Kamen Riders.
• First series with Riders without the bug-eye visors.
• First series where the Riders do not have their own specialized motor cycles for most of the series.
• First Rider series to use bat, crab, snake, bull, rhino, tiger, swan, phoenix and manta ray motifs for Kamen Riders.
• First series to feature the first female Rider.
• First series that used device to activate and to announce attacks.
• First series since Masked Rider adapted in the US entitled Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.

Kamen Rider 555

• First series to feature a bike that can changed into mecha.
• First series to feature fully technological-equipped Rider.
• First series to feature Riders that are also Kaijin.
• First Rider who can manipulate time and space (Faiz Accel).

Kamen Rider Blade

• First series to use a playing card motif.
• First series to feature a completely inhuman rider, as the previous inhuman riders were once fully human. Hajime, on the other hand, is one of the immortal Undead, who are unrelated to the human race.
• First series to have a high school student becoming a Kamen Rider. Mutsuki Kamijou (Kamen Rider Leangle) was shown going to high school before the Spider Undead fully took control of him.

Kamen Rider Hibiki

• First series that does not use the bug-eye visor at all.
• First series in which the Riders do not use any specialized vehicles throughout the entire series.
• First series where the Riders do not shout Henshin upon transforming.
• First Heisei series in which the Riders do not use a variant of the traditional Rider Kick finisher.
• First series to have the main protagonist not to be a Rider himself.

Kamen Rider Kabuto

• First series in which the summer movie has direct ties to the series, instead of being a full alternate universe.
• First series to feature Tokyo Tower on the background.
• First series that most of the sub-plot involves....cooking.
• First Rider who can travel back in time.
• First Rider who can remove or reattach the armour during the battle (the bike Kabuto Extender also applies to this system).

Kamen Rider Den-O

• First series to feature train as the motif of this series.
• First series in which the summer movie takes place within the series itself.
• First Rider who has a finite amount of transformations to spend. (Zeronos)
• First Rider who possessed by a monster that can switch Rider's personality.
• First Rider who has form based from fruit (Den-O Sword Form - Peach).
• First series to use time travel as a recurring plot element.

Kamen Rider Kiva

• First vampire-themed Rider series.
• First Rider who their assistants are based on fictional mystic horror movies (Werewolf/Frankenstein/Swamp monster).
• First series to feature two story arcs separated in different times (1986/2008).
• First series to feature two words separated by music note symbol to form one episode, representing the current events happened in different times.
• First series to feature the recap that mostly involves the subject of art, music, philosophy and Western culture. At the half-episode of the series, the recap retold the events occurred in the last episode.

Kamen Rider Decade

• First Heisei-era anniversary series.
• First series with a cliffhanger at the end of the series.
• First series to feature magenta-coloured Rider.
• First series to ever team up with a Sentai team. (Samurai Sentai Shinkenger)
• First Rider that can travel to Alternate Rider World universe.
• First Rider that can transform into 9 previous Heisei-era Riders.

Kamen Rider G

• First ever rider to use a beverage to henshin.
• First unofficial Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider W

• First series to start in the summer, instead of winter.
• First series to feature two individuals can transform into Rider.
• First series set in fictional city instead of Tokyo itself.
• First series to feature a secondary Rider that can changed into a bike.
• First series to introduce crossover movies known as Movie Wars.

Kamen Rider OOO

• First series to feature dinosaur motif as the Rider's final form.
• First Rider who travels around the world to help poor people.
• First series to feature most of the Riders or an ally (Ankh/Gotou) used a same bike to travel.

Kamen Rider Fourze

• First series to feature the first Kamen Rider-inspired school club.
• First series to feature high-school life as the theme of this series.
• First series to feature secondary Rider is a Jeet Kune Do practitioner.

Kamen Rider Wizard

• First Rider to feature a main Rider wearing a trench-coat.
• First Rider who uses magic to fight a monster.
• First Rider who can summon all 4 Riders of his own for a limited time (Dragon Styles).

Kamen Rider Gaim

• First fruit-themed Rider series.
• First series since Den-O to break two-parter episodes arc.
• First Rider who can do a break-dance, since the actor was the winner of break dancing championships in real life.
• First Neo-Heisei Rider who didn't make debut in the previous summer movies.

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