Details
Title: 仮面ライダーカブト
Title (romaji): Kamen Rider Kabuto
Also known as: Masked Rider Kabuto
Format: Renzoku
Genre: Tokusatsu
Episodes: 49 + Special
Broadcast network: TV Asahi
Broadcast period: 2006-Jan-29 – 2007-Jan-21
Theme songs:
- Opening theme: NEXT LEVEL by YU-KI
- Ending theme #1 (ep 1-32): FULL FORCE by RIDER CHIPS
- Ending theme #2 (ep 33-49): LORD OF THE SPEED by RIDER CHIPS featuring Kagami Arata (Sato Yuki)
Kamen Rider Kabuto is the sixteenth installment of the Kamen Rider series of tokusatsu shows. Along with other Riders with mysterious origins, Tendo Soji under his Kamen Rider Kabuto identity tries to protect the girl Kusakabe Hiyori and the whole world from the Worms that came from a meteorite seven years ago. In the way of saving the world, Tendo meets Kagami Arata. Soon they find a good friend on each other, and when Kagami becomes Kamen Rider Gatack, both guys start to work together in protecting Hiyori and the whole humanity.
Cast
Mizushima Hiro as Tendo Soji / Kamen Rider Kabuto / Kamen Rider Dark Kabuto
Sato Yuki as Kagami Arata / Kamen Rider Gatack
Tokuyama Hidenori as Yagurama So / Kamen Rider Kick Hopper / Kamen Rider TheBee 1
Uchiyama Masato (内山眞人) as Kageyama Shun / Kamen Rider Punch Hopper / Kamen Rider TheBee 2
Kato Kazuki as Kazama Daisuke / Kamen Rider Kick Drake
Yamamoto Yusuke as Kamishiro Tsurugi / Kamen Rider Sasword
Satonaka Yui (里中唯) as Kusakabe Hiyori
Teshima Yuka (手嶋ゆか) as Takatori Renge
Okumura Natsumi (奥村夏未) as Tendo Jyuka
Yamaguchi Yoshiyuki (山口祥行) as Tadokoro Shuichi
Nagata Anna (永田杏奈) as Yuzuki Misaki
Kanzaki Airu (神崎愛瑠) as Gon
Umeno Yasukiyo (梅野泰靖) as Jiiya
Miwa Hitomi (三輪ひとみ) as Mamiya Rena
Sakaguchi Taku as Nogi Reiji
Kobayashi Masahiro as Negishi
Suzuki Kasumi
Hosono Yumiko
Erena
Guests
Murakami Kohei (ep3)
Moro Morooka (ep15)
Kodama Takashi (ep47)
Production Credits
Original writing: Ishinomori Shotaro (石ノ森章太郎)
Screenwriters: Yonemura Shoji (米村正二), Inoue Toshiki (井上敏樹)
Producers: Kaji Atsushi (梶淳), Shirakura Shinichiro (白倉伸一郎), Takebe Naomi (武部直美)
Directors: Ishida Hidenori (石田秀範), Tamura Naomi (田村直己), Nagaishi Takao (長石多可男), Tasaki Ryuta (田﨑竜太), Suzumura Nobuhiro (鈴村展弘), Shibasaki Takayuki (柴崎貴行)
Special effects director: Futsuda Hiroshi (佛田洋)
Music: Haishima Kuniaki (蓜島邦明)