Season 18
🎬 48 Episodes 📅 2008 ⏱ 24 min
Kamen Rider begins with Takeshi Hongo, a young man transformed into a cyborg by an evil organization that plans to use people as weapons. Before losing his will completely, Hongo escapes and chooses to use his new power to protect others instead of serving the organization. The series delivers classic Japanese tokusatsu adventure built around a masked hero, a motorcycle, weekly confrontations with strange enemies, and a clear message about willpower and responsibility. Its value today comes less from modern polish and more from being the starting point of one of Japan’s most iconic superhero franchises.
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2008
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24
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1
Fate: Wake Up!
An insular, agoraphobic boy named Wataru Kurenai begins his battle against the Fangire as Kamen Rider Kiva, a battle with connections to a conflict from 22 years in the past...
✍️ Toshiki Inoue
2
Suite: A Father and Son’s Violin
In 1986, Yuri is ordered to protect a violinist who is likely to be targeted by a Fangire and also happens to be a student of Wataru’s father Otoya. Meanwhile, in 2008, Wataru continues to try and figure out how to make a violin that will equal his father Otoya’s, as he finds himself repairing a vio…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
3
Heroic: The Perfect Hunter
In 1986, Oyoya flirts with several women before Yuri arrives and they are attacked by a Fangire, where Otoya shows prowess fighting back and generating interest in him by Yuri’s boss. In 2008, Wataru is approached by a lawyer who details accusations against his father and victims of his crimes, forc…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
4
Reverie: Wild Blue
As Yuri continues her investigation of Otoya in 1986, she reports back to Shima, who decides to pass on bringing Otoya into their group. In 2008, Wataru works to atone for his father’s crimes, but he discovers someone who refuses to ever forgive Otoya as she transforms into the Moth Fangire!
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
5
Duet: Stalker Panic
After a disastrous attempt to try to warm his neighbors up to him with a violin performance, Wataru pleads with Nago to help him become more confident. Nago tasks him to trail Megumi as her bodyguard, but he finds himself working with a strange man claiming to also be working for Nago!
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
6
Replay: Every Person Gives Off Music
As a bizarre Fangire attacks mother and daughter in both the past and present, both Otoya and Wataru must save their respective female targets before the Fangire is able to make them his bride!
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
7
Hymn: Three-Star Full Course of Darkness
In 1986, Otoya joins Yuri in tailing Jiro to investigate missing customers from Mal d’Amour, while in 2008, after leaving the hospital, Megumi invites Wataru on a date as cover while she investigates Maison Cercueil, but Nago interferes once again…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
8
Soul: The Angered Dragon Castle
Megumi attempts to force Wataru’s attention away from Nago to prevent him from being manipulated as the investigation into the French restaurant continues while in 1986, Otoya tries to solve the mystery of the cafe victims as Jiro continues his attacks.
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
9
Symphony: IXA, Fist On
Wataru gains the assistance of a violin maker in trying to create an instrument that fits who he is while in 1986, Yuri and Otoya try to decipher the curse of a violin and a monster attacking those who possess it. In both the present and the past, talk of the IXA System leads to the appearance of an…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
10
Sabre Dance: Glassy Melody
As Wataru learns of Oomura’s promise from 22 years ago and his history with Wataru’s father, back in 1986, Otoya confronts Jiro about the monstrous transformation he witnessed but while following him and Yuri, he ends up face to face with Oomura as the men discuss the craftsmanship of their violins…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
11
Rolling Stone: Door of Dreams
Wataru discovers rock music when he’s asked to help a musician with his band while in 1986, Yuri tries to position herself to become the first IXA in order to take revenge on the Fangire that took her mother.
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
12
First Gig: Golden Speed
As Yuri demands to know why Jiro was chosen for IXA over her, she learns of the cost of using the still-incomplete system while in 2008, Wataru is injured after the attack by Nago, causing him to struggle with his role in the band…
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
13
Unfinished: Daddy Fight
As Jiro vows to rebuild the Wolfen race, Otoya protects a woman and is severely beaten by him, but in the commotion, Jiro loses the IXA Knuckle, and Oyoya seizes the opportunity. Meanwhile, Wataru continues to help Kengo to achieve his dream while Nago struggles with his loss to Kiva…
🎬 Naoki Tamura ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
14
Pomp & Circumstance: The Shocking Purple Eye
After driving Jiro back, Otoya suffers from the side effects of the incomplete IXA System, but he puts on a front to deflect suspicions by Yuri. In 2008, Wataru pleads with Kengo to abandon the mysterious promoter, who he now suspects is a Fangire, but Kengo won’t listen…
🎬 Naoki Tamura ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
15
Resurrection: Checkmate Four
After Otoya is knocked out during his fight with Jiro, Yuri recovers the IXA Knuckle and plans to track down the man who murdered her mother. But when she faces the man, she is swiftly knocked out as Jiro arrives and also recognizes him… as the man who slaughtered the Wolfen race. He is Rook, of the…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
16
Player: The Rules of Cruelty
As Wataru and Shizuka try and help Rook, who they’ve nicknamed “Biggie”, recover his memories, he begins spending time with a young woman whose bike he helped fix. Their hope is this might jog his memory. Meanwhile, Jiro proposes an alliance with Otoya to take down Rook and protect Yuri, and Otoya t…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
17
Lesson: My Way
Otoya is tasked with helping a young girl pass an audition, being promised a date with Yuri in exchange. In 2008, Wataru meets an archer named Mami, who takes him under her wing, while Nago angrily pursues a criminal that is also the Seastar Fangire…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Shouji Yonemura
18
Quartet: Listen to the Voice in Your Heart
Convincing his student that her slump is due to her not playing from the heart, Otoya gives her the confidence she needs to not only pass the audition but to realize where her heart truly lies. In 2008, Wataru loses his resolve to fight, but when he discovers that Mami has been injured by the Fangir…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Shouji Yonemura
19
Fusion: Aura Storm
In 1986, Rook begins to target women getting married, and Yuri finds herself face to face with him when he shows up at a wedding she was attending. After his attack, she begs Jiro to let her use IXA, but he continues to refuse while Otoya creates a distraction and steals the IXA Knuckle. Meanwhile, …
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
20
Nocturne: The Messiah of Love
As the Ladybug Fangire escapes from the Otoya-possessed Wataru, it takes Kengo and Keisuke as hostages to force Megumi into a fight as IXA. As “Otoya” tries to teach her about the resolve needed to be a warrior, she refuses to listen, and time is running out for the hostages. Meanwhile, in 1986, the…
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
21
Rhapsody: The Fate of the Ring
After Yuri treats Otoya to a meal to thank him for what he did during the wedding incident, Jiro becomes angry at Otoya’s affection for Yuri, prompting Jiro to propose to her! Stunned, she isn’t sure whether to accept, but Shima thinks it’s a good idea. In her frustration, Yuri sets up a group date …
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
22
Overture: An Intersection of Fates
As Otoya works to help Yumi gather money, the Luxur store manager continues to attack patrons, until Shima explains what’s been going on and a trap is set to catch the Fangire. In 2008, Wataru learns the name of the awkward waitress he met before, and after running into her again, the pair hit it of…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
23
Variation: Fugitives Forever
In 1986, Ramon and Riki’s massage parlor is shut down for operating without a permit, so Jiro arranges for them to work at Mal d’Amour, leading Otoya to give Riki advice on love. Meanwhile, Maya is continuing to eliminate Fangires who have fallen in love with humans, but one Fangire named Shinji man…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
24
Emperor: Golden Fever
After Jiro’s attack, Otoya is rescued by Ryoko and Shinji, who nurses him back to health, and he inadvertently repays the favor when he interrupts Maya as she’s about to eliminate Shinji. At the same time, Jiro has taken Yuri hostage and loses control, madly declaring that she’ll be his forever, but…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
25
Fanfare: The Queen's Awakening
With Jiro’s disappearance, Yuri supports Otoya’s induction into the Wonderful Blue Sky Group as IXA’s official user. But when they plan to seek out her mother’s lost ring, Otoya finds himself suffering memory loss after a battle with Rook, when Maya, the Fangire Queen, arrives and claims to be Yuri!…
🎬 Shojiro Nakazawa ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
26
Metronome: Miraculous Memory
Continuing to take advantage of Otoya’s memory loss, Maya attempts to learn more about human love as Otoya searches for the lost ring. But when Yuri finds them, she may have to be the one to explain it to the Fangire Queen! In 2008, Wataru worries about Mio’s whereabouts as she hides from her duty a…
🎬 Shojiro Nakazawa ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
27
80's: Angry Rising Blue
Nago offers his resignation to Shima, but Shima refuses, granting him access to IXA’s Rising upgrade as he feels Nago has accepted his own weaknesses. However, the celebration is short-lived when Megumi and Shima are arrested. Nago is informed by the senior officer responsible that his former dealin…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
28
Request: Time-Altering Battle
Still in 1986, Nago tries to explain to Tanahashi that he’s from the future and trying to change history, but Tanahashi believes he’s lying. After Nago attempts to throw Otoya off by kidnapping Yuri, Maya saves him and asks about human love, and while Nago can’t explain it directly, he gives her the…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
29
When the Saints Go Marching In: I Am King
As Yuri cleans Otoya’s house, she worries about feeling happy when Rook is still on the loose, reaffirming her desire to defeat the powerful Fangire, but Jiro has his own revenge plans and enlists the help of Otoya to plan a four-way attack with Ramon and Riki while keeping Yuri in the dark. In 2008…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
30
Curtain Raising: Kiva's Identity
Having been attacked by Rook, Yuri is nearly killed before Jiro manages to intervene, landing her in the hospital. Jiro and Otoya visit her, telling her not to rush back into action, but she rushes out, falling for their diversion as they bait Rook once more. In 2008, Wataru’s relationships are incr…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
31
Applause: A Mother-Dedicated Transformation
In 1986, Rook enjoys his reward for beating IXA and the monsters as Yuri steals the IXA Knuckle and rushes to Rook, who steals the Knuckle and transforms into IXA! The monsters fight back, but Rook overpowers them easily as he runs wild. But when IXA overloads, Otoya and the others reveal their plan…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
32
New World: Another Kiva
In 1986, Yuri is happy after defeating Rook and suggests marriage to Otoya, who is taken aback. Soon after, he runs into Maya, who is playing the violin and poses a question to him about her playing before she leaves to visit her infant son. But when Riki attacks her as she visits Otoya to see if he…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
33
Supersonic: Saga of Battle
After Maya defeats Dogga, she is surprised that Otoya has remained in spite of her true identity as a Fangire. She asks him once more for the answer to her question as she offers to help him construct a violin able to bring out his true talent. As they work side by side, Yuri watches with a pained h…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
34
Noise: Melody of Destruction
Wataru celebrates his broken heart as he tries to move on from Mio, but it doesn’t seem like that will be easy as he still finds himself spending time with her and Taiga. While at an amusement park, an escaped prisoner takes a hostage and Nago attempt to defuse the situation but the newest member of…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
35
New Arrangement: Flying Rose
With the Bloody Rose complete, Otoya plays it for the first time for Maya, blessing it with a prayer to preserve music for all time. Yuri, fed up, runs off and encounters Jiro, who learns of the strange relationship between Otoya and Maya and confronts him about it. In 2008, with the Bloody Rose dam…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
36
Revolutionary: Sword Legend
Bishop begins the preparations for the wedding of Taiga and Mio, but Mio admits she is in love with someone else and can’t go forward, enraging Taiga. Not realizing it is Wataru she loves, Taiga enlists the help of Wataru, who is himself blind to Mio’s true feelings, to try and determine who she has…
🎬 Shojiro Nakazawa ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
37
Triangle: Behead the King
Mio reveals her feelings for Wataru as Taiga lurks nearby, discovering the truth for himself. As Wataru basks in his happiness, Taiga confronts Wataru and invites him to Mio and Taiga’s wedding, telling Wataru he’s always been weak. Jiro brings Wataru back to Castle Doran, suggesting he try once mor…
🎬 Shojiro Nakazawa ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
38
Erlking: A Mother-Son Reunion
Mio and Wataru discover one another’s identities, along with Taiga realizing that as Kiva, Wataru is his half-bother. In denial, Wataru runs off, collapsing in the woods. Taiga decides to go speak to Maya to demand answers, while Nago attempts to coach Keno in the use of the IXA System, but his effo…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
39
Shout: Targeted Brother
Jiro fights a losing battle with the Fangire King, who has also tracked down Ramon and Riki to eliminate them all Arms Monsters, but the trio narrowly escape and run into Maya and Yuri, demanding that Maya act as a shield for them, but she quickly dispatches them, revealing to Yuri that she is a Fan…
🎬 Ryuta Tasaki ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
40
Encore: Return of Nago’s IXA
Now aware that Maya is a Fangire, Yuri encounters her once more and intends to kill her, but Otoya stops her, suggesting a picnic, but she storms off. Maya takes her place, and afterward, Otoya passes the Fangire King, who tracks down the Arms Monsters and agrees to spare them if they’ll kill Otoya.…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
41
Lullaby: Release the Heart
The Arms Monsters attempt to eliminate Otoya in order to be spared by the King, but none of them can go through with it and the trio decides to split up and run, but they don’t get before the King uses his dark Kiva powers to seal them into the weapons Wataru will use in the future, imprisoning them…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
42
The Power of Love: The King's Rage
In 1986, Otoya battles Dark Kiva with IXA but is hopelessly outmatched and is taken prisoner by the King, intending to feed him to Castle Doran. Maya pretends not to care, but she seeks out Yuri and begs her to help rescue Otoya after she admits she is in love with him. Yuri agrees, and the two ente…
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
43
Wedding March: A Time of Parting
In search of Otoya, Yuri and Maya battle the Silkworm Fangire as Otoya’s life is drained into Castle Doran. As time is nearly up, he requests that the King allow him one final performance, playing a song to act as a beacon for Maya and Yuri. As they escape with him, Otoya dons IXA to defeat the Silk…
🎬 Kenzō Maihara ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
44
Punk: Back to Father
In the aftermath of Mio’s death, Wataru confronts Taiga until Jiro drags him to the Time Door, hoping that Wataru will regain his composure if he meets his father. But when Wataru returns to the past, he is hellbent on saving Mio by erasing his own existence and keeping his parents from getting toge…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
45
With You: The Last Transformation
After Wataru rescues Otoya, the King reveals his true Fangire form and attacks, but Otoya escapes and encounters Kivat-bat the 2nd, who tells him that Maya sends a message: they can never meet again. If they do, the King will kill Taiga, who he is holding hostage. Disgusted by his actions, Kivat-bat…
🎬 Takao Nagaishi ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
46
Full Stop: Goodbye, Otoya
Wataru battles the Bat Fangire after his father is injured, but he’s no match for the incredible power wielded by the King. Enraged, the injured Otoya switches to IXA, but the weaker prototype is easily dispatched by the King, as the IXA armor shatters. Despite knowing that using Dark Kiva again wil…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
47
Break the Chain: Obey Me!
Taiga and Wataru resume their fight after eliminating Bishop’s revived Fangires. With the embracing of his Fangire side, Wataru defeats Taiga and tells his brother he refuses to help him. While Bishop’s plans to revive the previous King continue on, Taiga visits Maya after she refuses to grant him t…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue
48
Finale: The Inheritors of Kiva
With Wataru as the self-proclaimed King of the Fangires, Taiga confronts him and claims to have killed Maya. The brothers begin to fight, but Bishop appears with his army of Fangires, so the two switch targets, with the Arms Monsters arriving to back them up. Nago, with the help of Megumi, engages B…
🎬 Hidenori Ishida ✍️ Toshiki Inoue