Kamen Rider Blade

Kamen Rider Blade
Genre	Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Action Fantasy
Based on	Kamen Rider concept by Shotaro Ishinomori
Developed by	Ishimori Productions Toei Company
Written by	Shōji Imai Sho Aikawa
Directed by	Hidenori Ishida
Starring	Takayuki Tsubaki Ryoji Morimoto Kousei Amano Takahiro Hōjō Yumi Egawa Terunosuke Takezai Kaori Yamaguchi Hikari Kajiwara
Narrated by	Jūrōta Kosugi
Opening theme	"Round ZERO~BLADE BRAVE" by Nanase Aikawa "ELEMENTS" by Rider Chips featuring Ricky
Composer	Kazunori Miyake
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	49 (list of episodes)
Production
Producers	Saeko Matsuda (TV Asahi) Jun Hikasa (Toei) Naomi Takebe (Toei) Takaaki Utsunomiya (Toei)
Running time	24-25 minutes (per episode)
Production companies	Ishimori Productions Toei Company
Original release
Network	TV Asahi
Release	January 25, 2004 (2004-01-25) – January 23, 2005 (2005-01-23)
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Kamen Rider 555 Kamen Rider Hibiki
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Kamen Rider Blade (仮面ライダー剣(ブレイド), Kamen Raidā Bureido, stylized in English as Masked Rider Blade or Masked Rider ♠) is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the fourteenth installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It aired on TV Asahi from January 25, 2004 to January 23, 2005. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. Along with the standard insect motif of the Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider Blade also uses a playing card motif. Each Rider is assigned one of the suits from a deck of cards. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2004 Super Hero Time block with Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger.

Blade was later released on DVD by Toei. There were twelve volumes released with the first eleven having four episodes per DVD and the twelfth volume with five episodes.^[1]