KAMEN RIDER FOURZE 2012

This article is about the television series. For the series' main character, Fourze, see Gentaro Kisaragi.

Kamen Rider Fourze (仮面ライダーフォーゼ Kamen Raidā Fōze^?)is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series, being the thirteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-second overall. It began airing on September 4, 2011, the week following the conclusion of Kamen Rider OOO, joiningKaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, later Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters, in theSuper Hero Time lineup. Trademarks on the title were filed by Toei in April 2011. The series commemorates not only the Kamen Rider Series' 40th anniversary but also the 50th anniversary of spaceflight, which began with Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight in 1961. The show's catchphrase is "Switch on youth 'cause space is here!" (青春スイッチオンで宇宙キター！ Seishun suitchi on de uchū kitā!^?), referencing the Fourze Driver (フォーゼドライバー Fōze Doraibā^?) transformation belt which gets its various powers from devices called Astroswitches (アストロスイッチ Asutorosuitchi^?) to conjure attachments to Fourze's limbs. As with the two previous series, the protagonist of Fourze made his debut in the annual summer film of the show's direct predecessor, appearing inKamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals.

"Space is here!!!! Kamen Rider Fourze! Let's settle this man-to-man!"

―pre-battle catchphrase^[src]

Kamen Rider Fourze (仮面ライダーフォーゼ Kamen Raidā Fōze^?)is the main protagonist in the series of Kamen Rider Fourze. His name roughly says Forty, as well as a combination of "Four" and "Zero", an indication of the Kamen Rider Series' 40th Anniversary and the forty different powers and weapons he can access with theAstroswitches.