Kamen Rider Agito


Kamen Rider Agito is the eleventh installment in the popular Kamen Rider tokusatsu franchise. The series represented the 30th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series.
The series was also a joint collaboration between Asatsu-DK and Toei and was shown on TV Asahi from January 28, 2001, to January 27, 2002. The series served as an indirect sequel to Kamen Rider Kuuga, which this show is set in the same universe as the previous show, and the first Kamen Rider series to not have an ending sequence. The series aired along with Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger. The series is airing on Toku after being added to the network in November 2020.

Story

Two years have passed since the Unidentified Lifeform case concluded, a series of mysterious and impossible murders are taking place across the city carried out by unknown beings. A man named Shouichi Tsugami has no memory of who he was, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar circumstances to transform into a powerful superhuman, Kamen Rider Agito, whenever in the presence of the beings referred to by the police as the "Unknown". Known as the Lords, these powerful monsters perceived themselves as humanity's defenders and kill certain people in a series of murders that force the police department to make Makoto Hikawa the user of the Kamen Rider G3 powersuit which was modeled after Kamen Rider Kuuga. Shouichi and Makoto, both initially hesitant of the other at first, are joined by Ryō Ashihara, who becomes a pre-Agito known as Kamen Rider Gills and seeks the truth behind his father's suicide. These mysteries and many others collide as the true nature of Agito would ultimately determine the fate of humanity.

Movies and specials

  • TV Special: A New Transformation
  • Kamen Rider Agito the Movie: Project G4
  • Kamen Rider Agito: Three Great Riders
  • ''Agito: Supernatural Power War''

Production

The Kamen Rider Agito trademark was registered by Toei on October 16, 2000.

Video games

  • A video game based on the series, developed by KAZe and published by Bandai, was released in Japan on November 29, 2001, for the PlayStation. It is a fighting game.
  • ''Kamen Rider: Seigi no Keifu''

S.I.C. Hero Saga

Agito featured two S.I.C. Hero Saga side stories published in Monthly Hobby Japan magazine. The first was titled Masked Rider ΑGITΩ: Heaven's Door and featured a crossover with Kamen Rider 555. It introduces the new characters Mirage Agito and the Dog Orphnoch. The story was published from October 2003 to March 2004. Later, in the S.I.C. Hero Saga Vol. 2 book, the elements of 555 were removed from the story and the Dog Orphnoch was changed to the Dog Load.
The second S.I.C. Hero Saga story titled Masked Rider ΑGITΩ: Project G1 expands on the story told in Project G4 in showing the G-Series suits Generation 1, Kamen Rider G4-X, Generation 2, and the Road Chaser vehicle. It also features the Hydrozoa Lord Hydrozoa Tegula. The story was published from October 2007 to January 2008.
;Heaven's Door chapter titles
  1. Outset
  2. ΑgitΩ
  3. Operation
  4. Conceit
  5. Psychic
  6. The Alpha and the Omega
;Project G1 chapter titles
  1. GENERATION 1
  2. G4-X
  3. V1
  4. ΑGITΩ

Novel

Novel: Kamen Rider Agito, written by Naohiro Okamura and supervised by Toshiki Inoue, is part of a series of spin-off novel adaptions of the Heisei Era Kamen Riders. The novel was released on January 31, 2013.

Cast

  • Shouichi Tsugami: Toshiki Kashu
  • Makoto Hikawa: Jun Kaname
  • Ryō Ashihara: Yūsuke Tomoi
  • Mana Kazaya: Rina Akiyama
  • Yoshihiko Misugi: Takeshi Masu
  • Taichi Misugi: Tokimasa Tanabe
  • Kaoru Kino: Takanori Kikuchi
  • Sumiko Ozawa, Corvus Canosus: Toko Fujita
  • Tōru Hōjō: Jun Yamasaki
  • Takahiro Omuro: Akiyoshi Shibata
  • Nobuyuki Kazaya: Tōru Nakane
  • Yukina Sawaki: Ayumi Kasama
  • Tetsuya Sawaki: Atsushi Ogawa
  • Mysterious youth: Rei Haneo
  • Kōji Kōno: Kazumasa Taguchi
  • Sakiko Mikumo: Ryoko Takizawa
  • Senior police officers: Kentarō Kaji, Ken Kano, Masahiro Noguchi
  • Ramen cart owner: Taro Suwa
  • Automobile repair shop owner: Tetsuya Nakayashiki
  • Aki Sakaki: Masako Sakuma
  • Kōji Majima: Yoshikazu Kotani
  • Katsuhiko Sagara: Takahiko Tatsuke
  • Masumi Sekiya: Kami Hiraiwa
  • Kana Okamura: Eriko Moriwaki
  • Risa Mizuhara: Mina Mizuki
  • El of the Water: Kiyoyuki Yanada
  • El of the Wind: Kujira
  • El of the Ground: Kenta Miyake
  • Narration: Eiichiro Suzuki

Guest cast

''A New Transformation''-exclusive cast

''Project G4''-exclusive cast

Songs

;Opening themes
  • "Kamen Rider AGITO"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
  • *Chorus: Lisa Ooki
  • *Artist: Shinichi Ishihara
  • *Episodes: 2-35
  • :Episode 1 does not feature the show's opening sequence, and it is used as an ending song in episode 51.
  • "Kamen Rider AGITO ~24.7 version~"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
  • *Remix: Kazunori Miyake, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Takashi Sasaki
  • *Chorus: Lisa Ooki
  • *Artist: Shinichi Ishihara
  • *Episodes: 36-50, TV Special
  • :Used as an insert song in the movie.
;Insert themes
  • "BELIEVE YOURSELF"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
  • *Artist: Naoto Fuuga
  • *Episodes: 1-8, 10-13, 15-29, 51, TV Special
  • "stranger in the dark"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Toshihiko Sahashi
  • *Artist: Norio Sakai
  • *Episodes: 9
  • "MACHINE TORNADER"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Kazunori Miyake
  • *Artist: Shinichi Ishihara
  • *Episodes: 14, 31, 40
  • "DEEP BREATH"
  • *Lyrics: Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition: Yoshio Nomura
  • *Arrangement: RIDER CHIPS
  • *Artist: RIDER CHIPS Featuring ROLLY
  • *Episodes: 26-39, 41, 43-48
  • "Mō Hitotsu no Kamen no Gikyoku"
  • *Lyrics : Shoko Fujibayashi
  • *Composition & Arrangement: Toshihiko Sahashi
  • *Artist: Tamami Shiraishi
  • *Episodes: 40, 42, 45, 46, 51, Movie
;Movie theme

Broadcasts, Home Video, and Video Streaming

  • In its home country of Japan, the series originally aired on Sunday Mornings at 8:00AM EST on TV Asahi and other ANN affiliates from January 28, 2001 to January 27, 2002, concluding at 51 episodes. Starting on December 7, 2001 until November 21, 2002, during the near end of the original run, Toei Video started releasing all 51 episodes of the series on retailer VHS and DVD. Although, rentals first began prior on October 21, 2001. There are 12 volumes in total, and the content is the same as the DVD version. Each volume for both releases each hold four episodes, with the last three volume holding five episodes. The previous series Kamen Rider Kuuga was still being released on both VHS and DVD at the time of this series' being released. The first episode was included as a limited edition video bonus in the "Shotaro Ishinomori 70th Anniversary DVD Box" released on July 21, 2008, and in the first production run of "Kamen Rider Decade Vol. 5" released on November 21, 2009. The series was later released on Blu-Ray in three volume boxsets starting on September 14, 2016 up until January 11, 2017. The first boxset contains the TV special, Kamen Rider Agito: Three Great Riders.
  • In Southeast Asia, an English dub was produced in Hong Kong by Omni Productions and was aired on Television and released on home video during 2002, under the title: Masked Rider Agito.
  • In the Philippines, it was aired on ABS-CBN from 2003 to 2004 with a Tagalog dub, under the title of Masked Rider Agito.
  • In Indonesia, the series on Indosiar with an Indonesian dub from January 30, 2005 to January 29, 2006. All 51 episodes were covered.
  • In the United States, the series aired in its original Japanese audio with English subtitles on the Toku TV channel and streaming service in November 2020. A new English dub would be made for FreeTV in 2024 by Olympusat, but it was actually based off the Latin Spanish dub prior from 2021.
  • Two decades later, Toei commissioned a Latin-Spanish dub in 2021, produced by Olympusat with dubbing work by Mexican studio, Meliorem for digital streaming. This was dubbed remotely online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It was licensed and released in Latin America on April 24, 2021, on and May 23, 2023, in North America on FreeTV respectively, and DistroTV for Latin American users in March 2023.