| Kamen Rider Den-O | |
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| Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
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| Theme music composer | Shuhei Naruse |
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| Composer | Toshihiko Sahashi |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 49 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 24–25 minutes (per episode) |
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| Network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
| Release | January 28, 2007 – January 20, 2008 |
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Kamen Rider Den-O (仮面ライダー電王, Kamen Raidā Den'ō, lit. 'Masked Rider Electro-King'), stylized in English as Masked Rider Den-O, is the seventeenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei. It premiered January 28, 2007 on TV Asahi, and concluded airing on January 20, 2008. Its lead actor Takeru Satoh is the first Kamen Rider Series lead born in the Heisei period of Japanese history. It aired on the Super Hero Time slot alongside Juken Sentai Gekiranger. It is the first series marked the debut of a mythical creatures/trains motif.
Along with the usual film adaptation that Heisei Kamen Rider series have released during the late summer of their broadcast run, Den-O had a second film released in the spring following its broadcast run which grossed 730 million yen (approximately US$6.8 million)[1] and a series of ten OVA shorts, both of which are firsts for any Kamen Rider. Continuing the trend, Kamen Rider Den-O also had a third film released in October 2008, the first for any Kamen Rider series[1][2] and a second series of 12 OVA shorts was released in November 2008. Takeru Satoh claims that the reason that Den-O has amassed such popularity is because of its comedic timing.[2] A fourth film was released on May 1, 2009,[3] and three more released in the summer of 2010.
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- ^ a b 佐藤健、「仮面ライダー電王」人気の秘密は... - 芸能 - SANSPO.COM (in Japanese). Archived from the original on September 29, 2008. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
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