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| Kamen Rider Kabuto | |
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| Genre | Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Science fiction Action Biopunk |
| Created by | Shotaro Ishinomori |
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| Narrated by | Eiichiro Suzuki |
| Opening theme | "NEXT LEVEL" by YU-KI |
| Composer | Kuniaki Haishima |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 49 (list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 24–25 minutes (per episode) |
| Production companies | TV Asahi Asatsu-DK Toei Company |
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| Network | ANN (TV Asahi) |
| Release | January 29, 2006 – January 21, 2007 |
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Kamen Rider Kabuto (仮面ライダーカブト, Kamen Raidā Kabuto, lit. Masked Rider Beetle), stylized in English as Masked Rider Kabuto, is a Japanese tokusatsu superhero television series. It is the sixteenth installment in the popular Kamen Rider Series of tokusatsu programs. It is a joint collaboration between Asatsu-DK and Toei. The series was broadcast on TV Asahi. The first episode aired on January 29, 2006, and with the final episode airing on January 21, 2007, completing the series with 49 episodes. It aired as a part of the Super Hero Time slot alongside GoGo Sentai Boukenger. It is the first series to debut an insect/cybernetics motif.
The series represents the 35th anniversary of the Kamen Rider Series, as indicated by a notice at the beginning of the pilot episode reading, in Japanese, "Kamen Rider 35th Anniversary Production."