Saturday, September 15, 2007

The Story

Centuries ago, a battle royale known as the Battle Fight was commenced to decide what species would rule the Earth. There were 52 undeads that represented 52 different species. The winner of that battle was the Human Undead (also known as Heart Category 2 or 2 of Hearts) and the world has been populated by humans ever since. In the present, human archaeologists discovered the sealed Undead and accidentally set them free. Thus, a new Battle Fight begins.

To counter this situation and seal all Undead again, BOARD created the Rider system which were based on Joker's ability. 2 young men were chosen as Masked Riders: Kazuma Kenzaki and Sakuya Tachibana fought together as Masked Riders Blade and Garren to protect humans from Undead and sealed them until Kenzaki encounters the mysterious Masked Rider Chalice whose purpose remains unknown appeared. Things get worst as a fourth rider, Leangle, emerges. The 4 Masked Riders who come from four paths of life fight against the Undead, as well as their own inner conflicts...

About Masked Rider Blade

Masked Rider Blade is the second rider to appear in the Masked Rider Blade series. However, he is the main Rider of the series. Kazuma Kenzaki is chosen by the B.O.A.R.D. organization to become Masked Rider Blade because of his intellect as well as his fighting skills. The role of Kazuma Kenzaki is played by Takayuki Tsubaki.

About Masked Rider Garren

Masked Rider Garren is the first rider to appear in the Masked Rider Blade series. Sakuya Tachibana was the second wearer chosen by the B.O.A.R.D. organization to use the Rider System which transforms him into Masked Rider Garren. The first was his sempai, Kiryu. Sakuya is played by Hironari Amano.

About Masked Rider Chalice

A Wild Card Rider who is actually the infamous Black Joker Undead, the most powerful of the Undeads; the 53rd Existence. The Undead whose victory in the Battle Fight would mark the end of all life on Earth.
He became a Masked Rider by using the power of Chalice the Legendary Mantis Undead, a CA Undead and the most well known Undead due to his fighting abilities, and began using the human form after sealing the Heart Category 2 Human Undead. During a battle with the Giraffa Undead, an innocent bystander witnessed the battle and was accidentally killed in the skirmish. The photographer handed him a photograph of his family and Joker decide to protect his family in which he did to atone for his death. The Joker Undead adopted the name Hajime Aikawa, a free lance photographer, after this incident. He's been targeted by many Royal Type/High Class Undead because they deemed him the most dangerous of all Undead because his powers are capable of destroying the world. However, Hajime soon realized that the humans were good beings and wished for himself to be human instead of being the Joker due to his interest of human emotion. Despite being cold to many people, he holds a heart for the young girl and the widow of the photographer that died, Kurihara Haruka and Amane. Haruka sees him as a brother figure to Amane, while Amane sees him as a father figure and close friend. Later on, he developed a respect for the other riders as well, including Leangle; who continuously attempted to seal him. It's unfortunate that the only way the High Class Undead, as well as the other Riders, have to use underhanded tactics to defeat him. In the end, Masked Rider Blade is the only one to combat him head on because it seems that Blade is the only one who can equal him in power.
Hajime Aikawa draws his power from the Human Undead and Chalice to suppress the powers of the Joker and prevent him from destroying everything. According to Hajime, the Human Undead's compassion for life and the Mantis' Undead's fighting spirit is strong enough together to suppress the evil of the Joker's power. Besides turning into a Masked Rider, he can adopt the forms and powers of other undead by swiping cards in his Chalice Rouse. However, he's not as strong as his "Rider" form according to him. Over the series, he became the Dragonfly Undead and Wolf Undead, when his change card was stolen by Spade's Category King and Jack. And when he eventually gains all 13 of his category heart cards, Hajime is able to take full control of himself...that is until...Griffa Undead was sealed, he begins to lose control and his impulse as Joker comes forth with the Stone of Sealing creating his army of DarkRoaches to eliminate all humans.

About Masked Rider Leangle

Masked Rider Leangle is the fourth and final Rider to appear in the Masked Rider Blade TV series. The Leangle system was developed through tricks and manipulation by Isaka, the Peacock Undead (otherwise known as the Category Jack of Diamonds). In his Ace form, Leangle is the strongest rider in the series. Although initially afraid of the dark when fighting the Mole Undead, Mutsuki overcame his fear when he saw the smiles on the peoples' faces he rescued.
Masked Rider Leangle is Mutsuki Kamijō, a troubled teenage highschool boy who was selected to become Leangle by the evil will of the Spider Undead (Category Ace of Clubs). He is played by Takahiro Hōjō.
Mutsuki's high-class Undead seem to be the kindest of all the high-class Royals. His Category King is a pacifist, his Category Queen has strong sense of honor and loyalty, and his Category Jack is really laid back, and sometimes lazy, only fighting to defend himself. All of them tend not to fight, unless it was necessary. And with the help of his Category King and Queen, only then he is able to suppress the power of the Spider Undead and properly seal him.
Some look at Mutsuki's transformation into the Tarantula Undead's form as his King form. Unlike Blade and Garren, he gets no Jack form, but unseals him to aid him in battle against the Keroberos Undead.

The Ending

It took Kenzaki to save him by sacrificing his humanity for Hajime. In the end, Hajime is allowed to keep his Human Spirit card to maintain his disguise and stays with the Kurihara family for the rest of his life; but still remembers what Kenzaki has done for him for if he and Kenzaki cross paths, fate will step in and force them to fight.