The 13 Riders From left to right :
Odin, Tiger, Femme, Scissors, Ouja, Knight, Ryuki, Zolda, Raia, Gai, Ryuga, Imperer, Verde.
Odin, Tiger, Femme, Scissors, Ouja, Knight, Ryuki, Zolda, Raia, Gai, Ryuga, Imperer, Verde.
The 13 Kamen Riders are the central characters of Kamen Rider Ryuki. Thirteen Card Decks were created for thirteen Kamen Riders. They make Contracts with monsters from the mysterious Mirror World, a parallel dimension opposite to our own in which only the Kamen Riders can exist. The Riders draw on their monsters' strength in exchange for feeding them the life force of the creatures they destroy. The creator of the Advent Cards has only one rule: that there can be only one Kamen Rider. The others must be killed, and the sole victor will be granted a single wish, which leads to a conflict known as the Rider War.
The notion of 13 Riders is apparently a homage to the original Kamen Rider manga published in 1971, which contains a chapter called The 13 Kamen Riders. However, only 10 official Kamen Riders (discounting the artificial Alternatives) were featured in the TV series. Femme, Ryuga and Verde appeared exclusively in the movie Episode : Final and/or the TV special 13 Riders.
Despite the idea of 13 Kamen Riders facing each other, all 13 Kamen Riders never really faced each other in one huge battle. The most number of Kamen Riders in one battle is 6 (in the TV series, where Knight, Ryuki, Zolda, Ouja, Tiger, and Alternative fought each other, only to be interrupted by Imperer's advent monsters), and 11 (at the 13 Kamen Riders Special). Kamen Rider Raia was killed earlier by Kamen Rider Verde's Death Vanish Final Vent. Despite activating the Guard Vent, Kamen Rider Scissors was killed by Kamen Rider Ouja's Veno Crash Final Vent. The remaining 10 Kamen Riders fought on the final match of the special, with Kamen Rider Ryuki and Kamen Rider Knight facing off against the remaining 8, led by Kamen Rider Odin. Despite this the Kamen Riders revive later on and fight together against other enemies.
History
Shiro Kanzaki and his sister Yui lived a horrible life, locked up in the attic of their house by their parents. To console themselves, they drew pictures of them living happy lives together, protected by monster guardians. They were content in each others' company, and of the world they created.
Unfortunately, this barely happy life was destroyed when Yui died. Shiro thus replaced her with her Mirror World counterpart, but learned that this would last only until she 20 years old. He thus vowed to find a way to save her.
Shiro would spend his time in America as Shiro Takumi and later under his normal identity Kanzaki studying profusely and conducting experiments to open up the Mirror World and create Card Decks. He was successful, creating thirteen Decks. Twelve were to be given out to Riders for the Rider War, with the twelfth for his own puppet Odin. Should his plans fail, he would use the Time Vent card to go back to the past and try again.
Each and every time though, he would be unsuccessful in recruiting twelve Riders to be killed by his all-powerful servant, Odin and save Yui's life before her fated deadline due to one reason: Shinji Kido, Kamen Rider Ryuki, a dogged idealist who despite never being chosen by him would somehow become a Rider each and every time to try to stop the fighting between Riders, delaying the war long enough for Yui to die each time.
Finally, Kanzaki realizes that his efforts to save Yui are futile, and that he has to let go. He Time Vents one last time, erasing the Mirror World, the Mirror Monsters, The Rider War and the 13 Riders from history.
Later history
Although Shiro Kanzaki changed history, thus negating the Mirror World and Rider War, resulting in the 13 Kamen Rider powers never existing and their users never having participated in the Rider War as it never happened, the 13 Riders (primarily Ryuki) returned on several occasions years later to fight alongside other Kamen Riders. The Contract Monsters also returned to give the 13 Riders their strength, while other Mirror Monsters appeared as part of Dai-Shocker, an alliance of all evil organizations and monsters fought by the Kamen Riders, who have ambitions to conquer the multiverse.
Kamen Rider Decade
Ryuki was the third of the Nine Heisei Riders who, represented by their ninth member Wataru Kurenai (Kamen Rider Kiva), gave amnesiac Tsukasa Kadoya the mission of saving the multiverse by becoming the tenth Heisei Rider, Kamen Rider Decade. Rider War (episode). The first half of Decade's journey was visiting the Nine Worlds. One of which, the World of Ryuki, featured alternate versions of the 13 Riders, including Ryuki, who fought in a Kamen Rider Trial as opposed to the Rider War, as well as a fourteenth Rider, Abyss.
Let's Go Kamen Riders
Ryuki appeared fighting Mirror Monsters as one of the 22 main Riders who came to help Kamen Rider OOO, Den-O, New Den-O and the Double Riders fight Shocker in an alternate timeline unintentionally caused by the Greeed Ankh, where it had conquered the world and allied itself with all the evil organizations which fought the Kamen Riders. Though this change in the timeline seemingly erased the legacy of the Kamen Riders from history, as explained by the Owner of the Den-Liner, even though Rider history was changed, the people's memories hadn't changed.
Super Hero Taisen
Several of the 13 Riders were among the Kamen Riders who fought Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red, who had emerged as the Emperor of Dai-Zangyack, embarking on a crusade to hunt down and wipe out the Kamen Riders to ensure the survival of the Super Sentai as Decade became the Great Leader of Dai-Shocker again and hunted the Super Sentai teams.
13 Riders
- Rider : Kamen Rider Ryuki
- Host : Shinji Kido
- Potrayer : Takamasa Suga
- Rider : Kamen Rider Knight
- Host : Ren Akiyama
- Potrayer : Satoshi Matsuda
- Rider : Kamen Rider Scissors
- Host : Masashi Sudo
- Potrayer : Takeshi Kimura
- Rider : Kamen Rider Zolda
- Host : Shuichi Kitaoka
- Potrayer : Ryohei
- Rider : Kamen Rider Raia
- Host : Miyuki Tezuka
- Potrayer : Hassei Takano
- Rider : Kamen Rider Gai
- Host : Jun Shibaura
- Potrayer : Satoshi Ichijo
- Rider : Kamen Rider Ouja
- Host : Takeshi Asakura
- Potrayer : Takashi Hagino
- Rider : Kamen Rider Tiger
- Host : Satoru Tojo
- Potrayer : Jun Takatsuki
- Rider : Kamen Rider Imperer
- Host : Mitsuru Sano
- Potrayer : Takashi Hyuga
- Rider : Kamen Rider Femme
- Host : Miho Kirishima
- Potrayer : Natsuki Katō
- Rider : Kamen Rider Ryuga
- Host : Dark Shinji
- Potrayer : Takamasa Suga
- Rider : Kamen Rider Verde
- Host : Itsuro Takamizawa
- Potrayer : Arthur Kuroda
- Rider : Kamen Rider Odin
- Host : Shiro Kanzaki
- Potrayer : Tsuyoshi Koyama
AR Ryuki Riders
- Ryuki - Shinji Tatsumi
- Knight - Ren Akiyama
- Scissors - Masashi Sudo
- Zolda - Shuichi Kitaoka
- Raia - Miyuki Tezuka (summoned in the World of Decade)
- Gai - Jun Shibaura (summoned in the World of Decade)
- Ouja - Takeshi Asakura (only the original appears in Decade, outside of this world)
- Odin - Shiro Kanzaki
- Tiger - Satoru Tojo
- Imperer - Mitsuru Sano
- Femme - Miho Kirishima (summoned in the World of Black)
- Ryuga - Hirohiko Sato (native to the World of Negatives)
- Verde - Itsuro Takamizawa
- Abyss - Kamata (Abyss is exclusive to Kamen Rider Decade)
- Alternative - Tanaka (native to the World of Negatives)
- It is unknown how the Riders gained their names or how others automatically knew them.
- Except for Ren, all of the 13 Riders met ironic deaths either in the series or in the specials which they appeared in.
- Let's Go Kamen Riders is the only time where the 13 Riders have a plausible explanation for reappearing: Shinji Kido's last stand in episode 49 of Ryuki was the only time when the Riders revealed their existence, with Shinji and Ren transforming in front of people in order to fight Monsters invading the real world. Since the scenario of Let's Go Kamen Riders was created by a time paradox, and the other Riders only appear due to people remembering them as heroes, it is likely that Ryuki and Knight's heroic last stand was the only memory people had of the 13 riders. This also explains why Riders such as the bloodthirsty Asakura and the sadistic Scissors are willing to cooperate to defeat the Great Leader, since their personalities were rewritten by people's memories of them being heroes.