Kamen Rider Decade

Kamen Rider Decade
Original Title	Masked Rider DCD (仮面ライダーカブト, Kamen Raidā Kabuto)
Original Language	Japanese
Dubbing Studio	Omni Productions
Translation & Adaptation	Bernard Lee
Recorded	2012
Dub Country	Hong Kong
Original Country	Japan
Episodes	31
Year	2009

Masked Rider DCD, known in Japan as Kamen Rider Decade (仮面ライダーカブト, Kamen Raidā Decade), is the 19th installment in the Kamen Rider metaseries. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and Toei Company. In Japan, it has aired for 31 episodes on TV Asahi from January 25, 2009 and finished August 30, 2009.

This is the first installment of the 2009 editions of the long-running series. As the title suggests, Decade is the tenth of the Heisei Rider special anniversary Series, that started off with Kamen Rider Kuuga and it's also the last installment towards the first phase of the Heisei era of the franchise.

This series made its' debut after the 18th series Kamen Rider Kiva, which was seemingly skipped from being dubbed in English, due to the vampire motif.

Synopsis Natsumi Hikari has repeatedly been having dreams of the Rider War, where every single Rider from the Heisei-era attack one being, a warrior known as "Decade." In reality, she lives with Tsukasa Kadoya, a young man who doesn't seem to be able to call Hikari Studio home. One day, monsters from different dimensions begin to attack people, with the world starting to fall in chaos. Tsukasa, who had been separated from Natsumi, meets the mysterious Wataru Kurenai, who informs Tsukasa about his title as Kamen Rider Decade, the Destroyer of Worlds. Discovering that the nine universes of the Kamen Riders from the Heisei-era are merging into one, which would result in the collapse of multiverse, Tsukasa inherits the mission of traveling across these worlds to eliminate the anomaly in each, while embarking on a journey to find one world where he can call home.

Dubbing History

The series was given an English dub produced in Hong Kong and aired on Okto in Singapore in 2012. According to information, about only a total of seven different voice actors were used for the English dub, so all actors with the exception of Dave Bridges, voiced multiple characters.

Cast

Main Cast

Image	Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor
	Narration	Eiichiro Suzuki	David Lee McKinney
	Tsukasa Kadoya	Masahiro Inoue	Dave Bridges
	Natsumi Hikari	Kanna Mori	Gloria Ansell
	Yusuke Onodera	Ryota Murai	Michael C. Pizzuto
	Daiki Kaito	Kimito Totani	Victor Lee
	Narutaki	Tatsuhito Okuda	Michael C. Pizzuto
	Guy	Kazuhisa Kawahara	David Lee McKinney
	Eijiro Hikari	Renji Ishibashi	Richard Magarey
	Kivala (voice)	Miyuki Sawashiro	Sarah Hauser
	DecaDriver (voice)	Mark Okita	?

Guest Cast

Image	Character	Original Actor	Dub Actor	Episodes
	Wataru Kurenai	Kōji Seto	?	1, 31
	Kamen Rider KickHopper (Masked Rider KickHopper)	Hidenori Tokuyama	?	2-3
	Mayu	Rio Kanno	Sarah Hauser	16-17
	Hibiki	David Ito Keikō Sakai (voice of Giyuki)	David Lee McKinney	18-19
	Takeru Shiba/Shinken Red	Tori Matsuzaka	Victor Lee	24-25
	Ryonusuke Ikenami/Shinken Blue	Hiroki Aiba	David Lee McKinney
	Chiaki Tani/Shinken Green	Shogo Suzuki	Richard Magarey
	Takeru Shiba/Shinken Yellow	Suzuka Morita	Gloria Ansell
	Takeru Shiba/Shinken Pink	Rin Takanashi	Sarah Hauser
	Genta Umemori/Shinken Gold	Keisuke Sohma	Michael C. Pizzuto

Trivia

• Samurai Sentai Shinkenger by itself, was not dubbed in English, as most countries outside of Asia showed its' adaptation being Power Rangers Samurai. However, the crossover episodes that involved the team, were dubbed in English, making it the very first time that Kamen Rider teamed up with its' sister franchise Super Sentai. In addition, it's the first time that a Super Sentai team post-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, appeared in English dubbed media.

External Links

• Kamen Rider Decade on the Internet Movie Database
• Kamen Rider Decade at the Anime News Network's encyclopedia