Kamen Rider 555

Details

• Name: 仮面ライダー555
• Name (romaji): Kamen Rider 555
• Also known as: Masked Rider Faiz
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Tokusatsu
• Number of episodes: 50
• Broadcast network: TV Asahi
• Broadcast Period: 2003-Jan-26 to 2004-Jan-18
• Opening Theme: Justiφ's by ISSA

Details

The Smart Brain corporation, the world's most powerful corporation, is trying to take over the world using Orphnoch, the next stage in humanity's evolution, to covertly kill off the human population. In pursuit of this, they develop three suits of power armor, called Rider Gear (Delta, Faiz, and Kaixa), to find and protect the Orphnoch King, who can fix a defect within Orphnoch DNA which causes their genetic structure to break down, leading to death.

The Rider Gears are stolen by Hanagata former chief of Smart Brain. He sends them to his foster children (dubbed the Ryuseiji, after the school they attended) so they can stop the Orphnoch from achieving their goal. However, Rider Gears were designed to be worn by Orphnoch, and humans are unable to activate the systems without undergoing genetic modification.

A young loner, Inui Takumi, is unwittingly drawn into the conflict between the Orphnoch and humans, eventually becoming Kamen Rider Faiz to save the life of Sonoda Mari, one of the Ryuseiji. Smart Brain begins targeting him in an attempt to retrieve the Faiz Gear.

However, there is division amongst the Orphnoch. There are those who wish to co-exist with humans rather than kill them, where they begin resisting Smart Brain, who in turn targets them as well. Most of these "renegade" Orphnochs are either killed, remain in hiding, or begin siding with the Ryuseiji against the Smart Brain.

When the Tokyo police discover the Orphnoch are behind a series of bizarre murders, they begin operations to defeat the creatures, largely unaware of the various factions involved. They even begin performing experiments on captured Orphnoch in an attempt to find ways of destroying them, though this does not go well. Now, it is up to the holders of the Rider Gears to band together and fight for humanity's survival.

Cast

• Handa Kento as Inui Takumi/Kamen Rider 555
• Haga Yuria as Sonoda Mari
• Mizorogi Ken as Kikuchi Keitaro
• Izumi Masayuki as Kiba Yuji
• Karahashi Mitsuru as Kaido Naoya
• Murakami Kohei as Kusaka Masato/Kamen Rider Kaixa
• Harada Atsushi as Mihara Shuji/Kamen Rider Delta
• Ayano Go as Sawada Aki
• Watanabe Kayato as Suzuki Teruo
• Ishida Taro as Soeno Joji
• Yamasaki Jun as Takuma Itsuro
• Fujita Ray as Kitazaki
• Kurihara Hitomi as Smart Lady
• Murai Katsuyuki as Murakami Kyoji