The first batch of magazine scans or images for the Kamen Rider Wizard TV series have finally been released! Here's a good look on what we should expect to see in the first few episodes of the 14th Heisei Kamen Rider series.
Probably Kamen Rider Wizard's first public appearance, he will have a small part in the upcoming “Kamen Rider Fourze the Movie: It's Space Time, Everyone!” this August.
Kamen Rider Fourze and Meteor is having a hard time taking out the Horoscopes when Kamen Rider Wizard appeared and says “Leave the rest to me!” Using his WizarSwordGun, he tries to take down Virgo.
Kamen Rider Wizard is Souma Haruto (played by Shunya Shiraishi). After surviving the incident during an ancient solar eclipse ceremony, a mysterious white magician entrusted him with the WizarDriver to defeat the enemies, the Phantoms.
By scanning the Wizard Rings on the WizarDriver, Souma is able to transform into Kamen Rider Wizard. His primary weapon is the WizarSwordGun.
Kamen Rider Wizard's initial form is called Flame Style. Its finishing move is called “Kick Strike!” Also seen in the image are two Phantoms.
Seen in the image below is Kamen Rider Wizard's trusty motorcycle, the Machine Winger, and two Phantoms in human form, Yuugo (Atsumi Kanno) and Misa (Erina Nakayama).
Apart from the transformation belt, he was also entrusted the Wizard Rings. Seen in the image above is the transformation rings: Flame Ring, Land Ring, Hurricane Ring, and Water Ring; and, ability rings such as Big Ring, Copy Ring, Connect Ring and "Rider Kick" Ring.
Kamen Rider Wizard's main weapon is the WizarSwordGun. Obviously, as the name suggests, it can transform to both a sword and a gun. Unlike other tokusatsu wherein the weapons almost came out of nowhere, it has been revealed (lower right of the image) that Wizard acquires the WizarSwordGun via the Connect Ring.
Kamen Rider Wizard's form change is called “Styles,” which represents the element it manipulates. His four main styles are as follows: Flame Style, Land Style, Hurricane Style, and Water Style. The element they each controls doesn't need anymore elaboration.
Here's another image featuring the different Kamen Rider Wizard Styles, fighting the Phantoms.
Here's another look at Kamen Rider Wizard's Machine Winger.
Shojiro Nakazawa (Magiranger, Gekiranger, Shinkenger, Gokaiger) will be directing Kamen Rider Wizard, with Kida Tsuyoshi (first half of Kamen Rider Hibiki) on the scripts. And the producer is Taakaki Utsunomiya (Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger).
Kamen Rider Wizard fights enemies which are born on an ancient solar eclipse ceremony. These enemies are called "Phantoms". Haruto (Shunya Shiraishi) and Koyomi (Okunaka Makoto) survived the incident. Meanwhile, Haruto disguises himself as Kamen Rider Wizard with the transformation device given to him by a mysterious white magician.
Kamen Rider Wizard premieres September 2nd.
Scans courtesy of alternate-zer0