Kamen Rider Agito (仮面ライダーアギト Kamen Raidā Agito?, Masked Rider ΑGITΩ), is the eleventh installment in the popular
Kamen Rider tokusatsu
franchise. The series represented the
30th Anniversary of the Kamen
Rider Series. The series was also a joint collaboration between
Ishimori Productions and
Toei and was shown on
TV Asahi from January 28, 2001 to January 27, 2002. The catchphrase for the series is "Awaken
the soul"
(目覚めろ、その魂 Mezamero, sono tamashii).
A man named Shouichi Tsugami has lost his memories. He doesn't know who
he is, where he came from, or how he came upon his peculiar
circumstances. Tsugami, seemingly for no reason, transforms into a
powerful superhuman,
Agito,
whenever in the presence of the beings referred by the police as the
"Unknown", a race of powerful monsters
that have been causing murders
around Tokyo, targeting certain people as their prey. In response, the
police
department unleash their newest
weapon: the G3 powersuit,
originally developed to fight against the "Unidentified Lifeforms", the
enemies of No.4 (
Kamen Rider Kuuga).
G3 and Agito don't know whether they should join up and defeat the
Unknowns, their common enemy, or to combat each other, keeping the
mysteries that entwine them separate. Ultimately, even more mysteries
unfold, with the appearance of Kamen Rider Gills, who is on a search to
uncover why his father committed suicide. These mysteries and others
collide, as the true nature of Agito would ultimately determine the fate
of humanity.
