Kamen Rider Fourze (仮面ライダーフォーゼ Kamen Raidā Fōze?) is an upcoming Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series, being the thirteenth series in the Heisei period run and the twenty-second overall. It is scheduled to begin began airing on September 4, 2011, the week following the conclusion of Kamen Rider OOO. Trademarks on the title were filed by Toei in April 2011 The series is planned to commemorate both the Kamen Rider Series' 40th anniversary but also the 50th anniversary of spaceflight, which began with Yuri Gagarin's flight in 1961. The show's catchphrase is "Youth switches on into outer space!" (青春スイッチオンで宇宙キター！ Seishun suitchi on de uchū kitā!?), referencing the Fourze Driver (フォーゼドライバー Fōze Doraibā?) transformation belt which gets its various powers from devices called Astro Switches (アストロスイッチ Asutoro Suitchi?) to conjure attachments to Fourze's limbs. As with the two previous series, the protagonist of Fourze will make his debut in the annual summer film of the show's direct predecessor, appearing in Kamen Rider OOO Wonderful: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals.
Plot
The series will focus on Gentaro Kisaragi, a second-year student at Amanogawa Academy High School (天ノ川学園高校 Amanogawa Gakuen Kōkō?, "Amanogawa" translates as Milky Way) who has a bad-boy image but seeks to make friends with those he meets at the school by forming a Kamen Rider Club. He is joined in the club by Kengo Utahoshi, who has a strange switch-like device called an Astro Switch, along with access through his locker to a lunar base called the Rabbit Hutch (ラビットハッチ Rabitto Hatchi?) and the super-bike known as the Machine Masshigurar (マシンマッシグラー Mashin Masshigurā?), and Yuki Jojima, a self-professed space otaku who also knows of the Astro Switches and the lunar base. They are opposed by third-year student Miu Kazashiro, a cheerleader and the self-appointed queen of Amanogawa High; assisted by Shun Daimonji, third-year student captain of the school's American football team; Tomoko Nozama, a first-year student and Goth girl who always carries around her tablet computer; and JK, another first-year student who often trades secrets for favors. The second-year homeroom teacher and classic literature teacher is Sarina Sonoda, who all of her students trust, and Chuta Ohsugi serves as the school's geoscience teacher. There is also a mysterious red-eyed man who is seen around Amanogawa High with a mysterious item called the Zodiarts Switch (ゾディアーツスイッチ Zodiātsu Suitchi?)
