Kamen Rider W (仮面ライダーW(ダブル)

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Kamen Rider W (仮面ライダーW(ダブル)

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A 2009-2010 Japanese tokusatsu drama, the eleventh series in the Heisei period run of the Kamen Rider Series
Original run September 6, 2009 – August 29, 2010
49 Episodes

Catchphrase
“ 俺たちは/僕たちは、二人で一人の仮面ライダーさ”
“Ore-tachi wa/Boku-tachi wa, futari de hitori no Kamen Raidā sa”
"We are the two-in-one Kamen Rider"

“これで決まりだ !”
“Kore de kimari da!”
"This clinches it!"

“さあ、お前の罪を数えろ!”
“Saa, omae no tsumi o kazoero!”
“Now, count up your sins!”

Story
In the ecologically-minded city of Futo, there are many windmills and the people live in harmony. However, the Sonozaki Family sell mysterious USB memory sticks called Gaia Memories to criminals who use them to become monsters called Dopants, committing crimes with the police force powerless to stop them.
The hardboiled (or rather half-boiled) detective Shotaro Hidari works with the mysterious Philip who possesses the true Gaia Memory. Using their own Gaia Memories, Shotaro and Philip use the Double Driver belts to transform and combine into Kamen Rider Double to fight the Dopant menace.

Protagonist

Hidari Shotaro
Left side of Kamen Rider W
A self-proclaimed "hardboiled detective", though considered "halfboiled" by all others around him to his chagrin. He dresses in the style from the 1940s and wears a black fedora/trilby made by the Windscale design house. He has a sharp intuition and may even figure out the culprit behind a crime before having Philip confirm his or her identity. Vowing to ensure that no one ever feels sad, Shotaro took on the job as the protege of Futo's private investigator Sokichi Narumi after admiring his work as a child.

Philip
Right side of Kamen Rider W
A mysterious young man and Shotaro’s partner who is in-tuned with the true Gaia Memory, referred to as the "Chosen Child" whose powers were used to create the Gaia Memories and whoever possesses him would rule the world. He investigates Dopant activity through his ability to access the Gaia Library and its Infinite Archive.

Terui Ryu
Kamen Rider Accel
A Superintendent appointed to the Futo Police Department's Paranormal Crime Investigation Division. Though he and Shotaro Hidari clash at first, Ryu becomes an ally to the Narumi Detective Agency when it comes to investigating the Dopant crime wave, as well as picking up some of Shotaro's habits in dealing with Dopants even after losing it upon finally finding his family's killer.

Narumi Akiko
She is Shotaro's boss and landlord at the Narumi Detective Agency. Because of her young appearance and attitude, Shotaro refers to her as "Middleschool Girl" and sees her as a threat to his public image. She has come to Futo from Osaka to find his father and reclaim the agency's building, initially unaware that her father had died and was a Kamen Rider until the events of the Begins Night film. She serves as a personal assistant as well as the boss of the place while on the job as well as keeping Shotaro on the right track by slapping him with a green sandal; she has also used this tactic on other characters, including Dopants.

Narumi Sokichi
Kamen Rider Skull
He is Shotaro's mentor (whom he refers to as "boss"), Akiko's father, and founder of the Narumi Detective Agency in the fictional Futo City. While working as a private investigator, he was partnered with a man similar to his protege Shotaro Hidari's partner, Philip named Seiichiro Matsui and had the personal policy of never getting clients in danger.

Antagonist

Dopants
Dopants are normal humans who use Gaia Memories. The Gaia Memories are aspects of the true Gaia Memory, the knowledge of everything on the Earth. These were originally accessed due to Philip's link to the Gaia Memory by means of the Gaia Library. But after he was taken from them, the Sonozaki Family uses a strange temple underneath their mansion to access the Gaia Memory. They then sell these to the highest bidder or to common criminals, both types used as guinea pigs to study the Gaia Memories as part of the Gaia Impact project.

Devices

Gaia Memory & Driver
A Gaia Memory is the main object to transform for the protagonists and the antagonists. Each Gaia Memory has different ability and it is believed that there is 26 Gaia Memory sorted by their alphabetical wise. Some of them use a driver, a driver used to utilize the Gaia Memory itself and it is also to help the user to control the power instead of them being controlled by the Gaia Memory.

Kamen Rider W Forms

From Left to Right
Cyclone-Joker | Heat-Metal | Luna-Trigger | Fang-Joker | Cyclone-Joker-Xtreme | Cyclone-Joker-Gold-Xtreme

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Cyclone-Metal | Cyclone-Trigger | Heat-Joker | Heat-Trigger | Luna-Joker | Luna-Metal

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Kamen Rider Accel Forms

From Left to Right
Accel | Accel Trial | Accel Booster

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Kamen Rider Skull Forms

From Left to Right
Skull Incomplete | Skull Complete

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Reasons to watch
- A new fresh start of Heisei rider series after Kuuga – Decade and bringing in the new producer and writer.
- The themes are fresh from alphabetical, detective and etc.
- Pretty much there were no plot holes.
- It’s a well paced series and the ending was not rushed.
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