Kamen Rider Kiva (Series)

Kamen Rider Kiva (仮面ライダーキバ, Kamen Raidā Kiba, Masked Rider Kiva) is a Japanese tokusatsu television series produced by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions as part of the Kamen Rider Series. It premiered on January 27, 2008, following the finale of Kamen Rider Den-O. It aired as a part of TV Asahi's 2008 Super Hero Time block with Juken Sentai Gekiranger for a brief period before joining with Engine Sentai Go-Onger. Advertisements showed a horror film theme to the series, with the motif for Kamen Rider Kiva as a vampire. The tagline for the series is "Wake up! Break the chains of destiny" (Wake up！運命の鎖を解き放て, Weiku appu! Sadame no kusari o tokihanate). The first episode began with a commemoration of the series in honor of the seventieth anniversary of Shotaro Ishinomori's birthday. The average rating of the series was 6.2%[1]