Jan.25th 2009 was the 71st birthday of Shotaro Ishinomori, and also the birthday of "Isaac Gilmore" a scientist who led the "Cyborg009" like a father, and starting date for the latest Kamen Rider series, "Masked Rider Decade" (or "Kamen Rider Decade").
Masked Rider Decade will travel thru all nine of the world from Masked Rider Kuga(2001) to Masked Rider Kiva(2008).
The Japanese "Kamen" means mask, so we called the Kamen Rider, Masked Rider, but now that we on-air "Kamen Rider Dragon Knight" in the U.S., it looks like the hero has two names.
Shotaro Ishinomori being the Guinness World Record holder to write more than 770 titles of comic books (manga), he was also a TV planner, character designer, director, father and husband.
His works on the TV industry includes the following titles starting from 1960s.
(We are checking the English titles for these programs, some of them were not seen overseas, so it is not so easy to name it afterwards.)
Harimau
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider)
Metamorphosis Ninja Arashi
Kikaider
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) V3
Robot Detective
Kikaider 01
Inazuman
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) X
Inazuman F (Flash)
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Amazon
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Stronger
Gorenger
Akumaizer 3
Space Ironman Kyodain
Superhuman Bibyun
Kaiketsu Zubat
Daitetsujin 17
J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
Message From Space
Great Galaxy War +
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) (Skyrider)
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Super-1
Nebula Masked Machineman
Brother Ken Bikerosser
Genesis of the 10th Masked Rider! Come on all Masked Riders!!
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Black
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Black RX
Voicelugger
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Kuga
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Agito
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Ryuki
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) 555
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Blade
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Hibiki
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Kabuto
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Den-O
The Skull Man, Prologue of Darkness
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Kiva
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (remake from Masked Rider Kyuki)
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) Dacade
Masked Rider (Kamen Rider) G
This is only part of his legend so those of you who would want to explore, go see our web site page as below.
http://en.ishimoripro.com/database/index.html
For "Cyborg009" please also visit,
http://009ing.com
it is the "Cyborg009 Year" and this is the new "Cyyborg009" web site.
The original story with "Cyborg009" starting in 1964, is that the ordinary person gets abducted and by an evil surgical operation, he or she is changed into a "weapon". The hero reminds that he or she is a human being and fights back against the evil entity who wishes to invade and control the human society. This whole plot is almost identical to the original Kamen Rider (Masked Rider) series.
We all miss the great old man, but his legend lives forever.
