Kamen Rider Kiva (仮面ライダーキバ, Kamen Raidā Kiba?, Masked Rider Kiva) is the title of the 2008 Kamen Rider Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions. It premiered on January 27, 2008, following the finale of Kamen Rider Den-O. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2008 Super Hero Time block with Engine Sentai Go-onger. Advertisements showed a horror film theme to the series, with the motif for Kamen Rider Kiva as a vampire. The advertising slogan for the series is "Wake up! Break the chains of destiny." (Wake up！宿命（さだめ）の鎖を解き放て, Ueiku appu! Sadame no kusari o tokihanate?). The first episode began with a commemoration of the series in honor of the seventieth anniversary of Shotaro Ishinomori's birthday.
Synopsis
Twenty-two years after the disappearance of his father, Wataru Kurenai (portrayed by Koji Seto) lives in an infamous "haunted house" where he is destined as Kamen Rider Kiva to fight life-draining monsters called Fangires, the very race his father fought years ago before his disappearance. Wataru must also deal with Kamen Rider Ixa who is part of an organization seeking to destroy the Fangire menace, as well as the Fangires' own Rider, Kamen Rider Saga. The story is split between the actions of Wataru in the present (2008) and his father Otoya in the past (1986), slowly revealing the link between the Fangire Race and Kiva.
Fangire
The Fangires (ファンガイア, Fangaia?) are stained glass-based vampires who feed off of the Life Energy (ライフエナジー, Raifu Enajī?) of humans to survive, with which they can disguise themselves as humans. Because of this, aware humans have formed a group to hunt the Fangires. Though Kiva usually captures a Fangire's soul to feed to Castle Doran, Fangires can be completely destroyed when shattered as seen by Ixa and stronger Fangires.
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External links
- Kamen Rider Kiva at TV Asahi (Japanese)
- Kamen Rider Kiva at Toei (Japanese)
- Kamen Rider Kiva at Avex Trax (Japanese)
- Den-Kiva.jp - Official website for Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka (Japanese)
- Kiva-Go.jp - Official movie website hub (Japanese)
- Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World - Official movie website (Japanese)