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Kamen Rider Ryuki (2002)

Kamen Rider Ryuki poster
Original title
仮面ライダー龍騎
Cast
Suga Takamasa, Matsuda Satoshi, Odai Ryohei, Yuge Tomohisa, Hagino Takashi, Kikuchi Kenzaburo, Sugiyama Ayano, Tsunogae Kazue
Genre
tokusatsu
Country
Japan
Length
1 season, 50 episodes
Rated
12
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Thirteen warriors with monster-like suits and powers battle each other in a secret tournament. Each rider fights to protect their own wish, but only one can survive.

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What happens

Kamen Rider Ryuki (仮面ライダー龍騎, Kamen Raidā Ryūki) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series. The twelfth installment in the Kamen Rider Series, it was a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei, and it was shown on TV Asahi from February 3, 2002 to January 19, 2003. The series marked the franchise's switch from Columbia Music Entertainment to Avex Group, which continues to produce music for the series today. The series aired along with Ninpu Sentai Hurricanger. It is the first series that debuted an animal, knights, cards, and battle royal motif. In 2008, Ryuki was adapted into the American television series Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, the second American adaptation of a Kamen Rider series after Saban's Masked Rider (1995). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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