Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
The series will start January 3, 2009 and play throughout the year, with a wide-release theatrical film expected to release the following year. Adness Entertainment chose to adapt Ryuki over the other Heisei Rider shows as it has a large number of characters (Ryuki had 13 Riders in total) as well as a female Rider. It is also the first tokusatsu adaptation of a Kamen Rider series since Saban's Masked Rider, which was adapted from Kamen Rider BLACK RX. Dragon Knight is to be shown on The CW Television Network during its The CW4Kids programming block, airing a sneak preview of the series on December 13, 2008.
Plot
The backstory of the show revolves around a group of twelve called the Kamen Riders, who are the protectors of Ventara, a mirror world opposite to our own.
In battle against the wicked General Xaviax, the Riders were defeated and ten of them were stripped of their Advent Decks, special card decks that allow whoever wields them to transform into Kamen Riders and utilize unique weapons and powers. While searching for his missing father, Kit Taylor finds an Advent Deck that allows him to become Kamen Rider Dragon Knight.
He eventually meets Len, who serves as Kamen Rider Wing Knight, and the pair join forces after Kit learns that General Xaviax has imprisoned his father in Ventara and is using him and the other humans that his monsters abduct to gain power and rebuild his homeworld. Furthermore, Xaviax begins using his shape-shifting powers to recruit corrupt humans to become Dark Kamen Riders and aid him in his goal by destroying the Kamen Riders interfering in it.
Characters
Kit Taylor/Kamen Rider Dragon Knight: The main protagonist who lost his father at a young age, placed in a foster home until age eighteen where he leaves and make his way to the apartment he spend his childhood in and found an Advent Deck that opened his senses to the presence of the monsters aducting people.
Meeting Len, he agrees to help him fight Xaiviax's monsters in hopes of finding his father.
Len/Kamen Rider Wing Knight: A mysterious figure who is fighting Xaviax's monsters, fighting with a Bat Advent Deck.
Maya Young: A young woman who is investigating the mysterious disappearences, getting caught up in the Kamen Rider battle.
Lacey: Maya's friend who works at a clothing store.
Kamen Rider Siren: A Kamen Rider armed with a Swan Advent Deck who also fights Xaiviax's monsters
Xaviax: The villain who defeated the Kamen Riders to conquer Ventara, now desiring to counter Earth with his monster gathering humans. It featured Matt Smith in the lead role of Kit Taylor and Kandis Erickson as Maya Young. These roles were later recast to Stephen Lunsford and Aria Alistar, respectively.
Cast
Stephen Lunsford as Kit Taylor/Kamen Rider Dragon Knight
Matt Mullins as Len/Kamen Rider Wing Knight
Aria Alstair as Maya Young
William O'Leary as Xaviax
Marisa Lauren as Lacey
Taylor Emerson as Trent
Kathy Christopherson as Michelle Walsh
Colette De la Croix as Mrs.
Mowry
Jeff Davis as Frank Taylor
Reuben Langdon as Minion #1
Tadahiro Nakamura as Minion #2
Aaron Toney as Minion #3
Tony Sano
Guest star
Kathleen Gati
Carrie Reichenbach
Victoria Jackson as Aunt Grace
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