After tons of rumors and sneak peeks on the internet, the official site for Kamen Rider W is up and confirms that the show will start airing on 6 Sept 2009, following after the finale of Kamen Rider Decade on the same day.
The series’ main writer is Riku Sanjo and the main director is Ryuta Tasaki. The theme song titled “W-B-X~W boiled extreme~” is to be performed by Aya Kamiki with former JUDY AND MARY guitarist TAKUYA.
The 2 main protagonist will be newcomer Masaki Suda who will play Phillip, and drama actor Renn Kiriyamawho will be Shotaro Hidari. Here’s the synopsis of the show from wikipedia:
In the ecologically-minded city of Fūto (風都), there are many windmills and the people live in harmony. However, mysterious monsters called the Dopant (ドーパント) use mysterious USB memory sticks called Gaia Memories (ガイアメモリ) to cause many crimes leaving the police force powerless. The hardboiled (or rather half-boiled) detective Shotaro Hidari comes across the mysterious Phillip who posesses the true Gaia Memory (地球の記憶), and together with their Joker (ジョーカー) and Cyclone (サイクロン) Gaia Memories and the Double Driver (ダブルドライバー) belt, they combine into Kamen Rider Double to fight the Dopant menace.
Here’s a youtube clip of the press conference announcing the show and its cast:
Somehow I feel that the two protagonist are abit too girly, especially one still has hair clip in his hair. o_o
Even Less 10x likely to reach local shores ):
I know a few comrades who would want to watch this!
USB drives? I smell an aggressive merchandising campaign…
hope they wont screw this up like hibiki
I want to hate on the suit, but everyone hated Decade’s suit, but we still love the damn series.
Hey!!! Hibiki was hard to get into, but it ended great. Hibiki was more like the old Kamen Rider, with relationships and personality…not this we got 58 riders…..and all of them have 89 forms!
I really hop Shadowmoon is a badass role through the entire series.