Kamen Rider Drive is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series. It is the sixteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-fifth series overall. The series started on October 5, 2014, joining Ressha Sentai ToQger in the Super Hero Time line-up after the finale of Kamen Rider Gaim. Upon the conclusion of ToQger, the series will be joined in the Super Hero Time line-up with Shuriken Sentai Ninninger. Its series tagline is "Start Your Engine!"
Story
Shinnosuke Tomari is a former elite police officer in the Metropolitan Police who after an event that traumatized one of his colleagues has been "demoted" into the Special Investigations Division, a group that looks into the stranger happenings in the city, particularly the "Heavy Acceleration" events that leave people unable to move that the public have termed the "Heaviness". When he is chosen by the Drive Driver and Tridoron, Shinnosuke transforms into Kamen Rider Drive and is tasked with battling the Roidmudes who wish to take over the world by eliminating humanity.
Description
- Number : 25, 16 (Heisei)
- First episode : Why Did My Time Stop?
- Last episode : SURPRISE-DRIVE
- Original airing : October 5, 2014
- Producer : Toei Company
- Previous : Kamen Rider Gaim
- Next : TBA
| Kamen Rider Drive | Shinnosuke Tomari |
| Kamen Rider Mach | Go Shijima |
| Kamen Rider Proto Drive | Chase |
Movie-exclusive
| Kamen Rider Lupin | Zoruku Tojo |
Allies
| Drive Driver | Krim Steinbelt |
Special Investigation Unit
- Kiriko Shijima
- Jun Honganji
- Rinna Sawagami
- Kyu Saijo
- Genpachiro Otta
- Akira Hayase
- Eiji Kirihara
- Satsuki Yamabuki
- Nina Kisaragi
| Kamen Rider 1 | Takeshi Hongo | ||
| Kamen Rider 2 | Hayato Ichimonji | ||
| Kamen Rider V3 | Shiro Kazami | ||
| Riderman | Joji Yuki | ||
| Kamen Rider X | Keisuke Jin | ||
| Kamen Rider Amazon | Daisuke Yamamoto | ||
| Kamen Rider Stronger | Shigeru Jo | ||
| Kamen Rider Super‑1 | Kazuya Oki | ||
| Kamen Rider ZX | Ryo Murasame | ||
| Kamen Rider Black | Kotaro Minami | ||
| Kamen Rider Black RX | |||
| Kamen Rider Shin | Shin Kazamatsuri | ||
| Kamen Rider ZO | Masaru Aso | ||
| Kamen Rider Agito | Shouichi Tsugami | ||
| Kamen Rider Ryuki | Shinji Kido | ||
| Kamen Rider Faiz | Takumi Inui | ||
| Kamen Rider Blade | Kazuma Kenzaki | ||
| Kamen Rider Chalice | Hajime Aikawa | ||
| Kamen Rider Garren | Sakuya Tachibana | ||
| Kamen Rider Leangle | Mutsuki Kamijo | ||
| Kamen Rider Kabuto | Souji Tendo | ||
| Kamen Rider Den‑O | Momotaros | ||
| Kamen Rider Zeronos | Yuto Sakurai | ||
| Kamen Rider Kiva | Wataru Kurenai | ||
| Kamen Rider Decade | Tsukasa Kadoya | ||
| Philip/Shotaro Hidari | ||
| Kamen Rider OOO | Eiji Hino | ||
| Kamen Rider Wizard | Haruto Soma | ||
| Kamen Rider Gaim | Kouta Kazuraba | ||
| Kamen Rider Baron | Kaito Kumon | ||
| Kamen Rider Ryugen | Mitsuzane Kureshima | ||
| Kamen Rider Zangetsu | Takatora Kureshima | ||
| Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin | |||
| Kamen Rider 3 |
Villains
- Roidmudes
| Heart Roidmude | Heart |
| Brain Roidmude | Brain |
| Mashin Chaser | Chase |
| Medic Roidmude | Medic |
Others
| Kamen Rider Duke | Ryoma Sengoku |
- Megahex/ZZZ Megahex
- Shocker
The episode titles for this season are all in the form of a question.
- Why Did My Time Stop?
- What is a Kamen Rider?
- Who Stole the Woman's Smile?
- What is That Prideful Chaser Thinking?
- What Are the Steel Robbers After?
- Who Does the Warrior Fight For?
- How Was That Decisive Moment Captured?
- What is the Secret That Dwells in the Heart?
- How Can I Get Used to the Cool Body?
- What Is in the Belt's Past?
- Who Can Prevent the Dark Christmas Eve?
- Where Did That White Kamen Rider Come From?
- Why Won't My Little Brother Put On the Brakes?
- Who Is the Black Shadow Chasing Her?
- When Will These Feelings Reach You?
- Why is Rinna Sawagami Nervous?
- Who Will Control Deadheat?
- Why is Lt. Otta Following That Guy?
- What Can Judge the Police?
- Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Drive & Gaim : Movie War Full Throttle
- Super Hero Taisen GP : Kamen Rider 3
- Episode 0 : Countdown to Global Freeze
- Secret Mission Type TOKUJO
- Type TV-KUN : Hunter & Monster! Chase The Mystery of The Super Thief!
- Type HIGH SPEED! The True Power! Type High Speed is Born! (Type HIGH SPEED!
- Shinnosuke Tomari : Ryoma Takeuchi
- Kiriko Shijima : Rio Uchida
- Chase : Taiko Katono
- Go Shijima : Yuu Inaba
- Jun Honganji : Tsurutaro Kataoka
- Rinna Sawagami : Rei Yoshii
- Kyu Saijo : Kenta Hamano
- Genpachiro Otta : Taira Imata
- Akira Hayase : Yukihiro Takiguchi
- Krim Steinbelt/Drive Driver's voice, Narration : Chris Peppler
- Brain : Shota Matsushima
- Heart : Tomoya Warabino
- Medic : Fumika Baba
- Niina Kisaragi (2) : Hitomi Isaka
- Satsuki Yamabuki (2) : Mitsuki Endo
- Kazuhiro Asaya (3, 4) : Lou Oshiba
- Crush (4-6) : HIRO (of Yasuda Dai Circus)
- Roidmude #060 (5) : Danchō Yasuda
- Roidmude #074 (5, 6) : Kuro-chan
- Mitsuru Kuramochi (5, 6) : Tomonori Mizuno
- Yūzō Ichikawa (5, 6) : Kohei Yamamoto
- Kenta Takasugi (6-8) : Kenta Uchino
- Shunsuke Kusaka (6-8) : Takuya Nagaoka
- Koya Nishihori (11) : Toru Nomaguchi
- Gunman (12, 13): Bernard Ackah
- Kamen Rider Drive : Seiji Takaiwa
- Kamen Rider Mach : Jun Watanabe
- Mashin Chaser : Yasuhiko Imai
- Brain : Daisuke Satō
- Heart : Yohei Fujita
- This is the first Kamen Rider season to have an automobile motif, and the second series to have an element of detective story since Kamen Rider W. It is also the fifth Kamen Rider season to involve the police into matters, though with a heavier influence akin to Kamen Rider Kuuga and Kamen Rider Agito than Kamen Rider W and Kamen Rider Wizard.
- This is the first Neo-Heisei Kamen Rider series without a cameo appearance from any of its characters during either the previous Rider's summer movie or final episode.
- The producer of the show calls it a tribute to the 1982 American television series, Knight Rider, quoting it as "Kamen Rider meets Knight Rider".
- This is the first Kamen Rider season to have the opening theme be sung by a singer who has portrayed a Kamen Rider in the past. In this case, Mitsuru Matsuoka, who played Katsumi Daido (Kamen Rider Eternal).
- This is the first Kamen Rider season with a "monster of the fortnight" format to have a three-part episode plot that is not close to the final episode.
Related Post : Source : Wikipedia / kamenrider.wikia
