Kamen rider Gatchard! new series

The latest "Kamen rider" film, "Kamen rider Gatchard," will begin airing on September 3, 2012. The motif of this fifth "Kamen rider Gatchard" is "cards" and "alchemy," and an "alchemist" Kamen rider who can manipulate "cards" in a variety of ways is born.

Alchemy" refers to the art of creating "gold" through different combinations. One of its mysterious researches included an attempt to artificially create "living things. In this film, the story unfolds in the present day, when these experiments have succeeded unnoticed.
The new Kamen rider is a figure that attracts a great deal of attention, and Gatchard features a bright, shining blue body clad in a black suit. When illuminated by the brilliant sunlight, it sparkles dazzlingly and seems to embody the bright and energetic personality of the main character, Houtarou. Another attractive feature is the mask's compound eyes, which resemble two arrows facing each other, expressing the alchemist's ability to combine two powers to create twice as much power.

Houtarou selects two Ride Chemistry cards and transforms into Kamen rider Gatchard by alchemizing them with the Gatchard Driver. The key visual released this time depicts "Kamen rider Gatchard Steam Hopper" in his transformed form, which is a combination of "Hopper 1 (One)," a grasshopper kemie, and "Steam Liner," an SL (steam locomotive) kemie. The number of Ride Chemie cards is 101. The possibilities are endless as to what form Gatchard will take in the future, depending on the strangeness of the combination.