This work features the candy Kamen Rider, a first for the series! The story centers around Shouma, a young man who came from another world, and depicts his battles with Granute, a monster that attacks humans, and Stomach, a major candy company.
To commemorate the start of the series’ broadcast, Animate Times interviewed the main cast! We asked Hidekazu Chinen, who plays Shoma/Kamen Rider Gab, Yusuke Hino, who plays Kizuto Karasawa/Kamen Rider Valen, and Nozomi Miyabe, who plays Yukika Amane, about the highlights of the series and the noteworthy points of the characters they play.
–One of the themes of this work is “sweets.” What is your favorite sweet?
Hidekazu Chinen (hereafter, Chinen): I’m from Okinawa, and you can buy sata andagi cheaply there, so I’ve been eating it since I was little. I’d like to bring lots of sata andagi to the office one day, or to the filming location. I want to let everyone try the authentic taste.
Yusuke Hino (hereinafter referred to as Hino): My favorite thing is putting butter on salted popcorn. I always ask for butter on my salted popcorn at the movie theater, and I can’t stop (laughs). If I watch a movie in the evening, sometimes I can spend the whole day just eating popcorn.
Chinen: What size? How much do you eat?
Hino: I’ll buy a pair set for myself. It even comes with two drinks (laughs). That’s how much I love it!
Nozomi Miyabe (hereinafter, Miyabe): For me, it’s educational sweets. My late grandfather used to take me shopping every day, and he always bought at least one a day. I feel nostalgic for those days, so I still make them often. At that time, I would carefully make one and enjoy eating it. Since I became an adult, I’ve bought them all, saying, “I want to eat that one too! I want to eat that one too!” (laughs). When I make a lot of them at once, I sometimes feel a little sad, thinking, “I’ve become an adult too” (laughs).
— (laughs) Which Kamen Rider series did you watch as a child?
Chinen: For me, Kamen Rider W, Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider Fourze, and…
Hino: I feel like I’m going to say it all (laughs).
Chinen: (laughs). My favorite Kamen Rider is “Kamen Rider OOO”. I can still hum the opening theme song. At the time, it was impossible to buy a transformation belt, so my grandfather lined up at the store during the Christmas season and gave it to me as a present. It’s hard to choose a favorite, but in that sense, I think “OOO” is the one I’m most attached to.
Hino: I was part of the “Kamen Rider Den-O” generation. Also, influenced by my older brother, we had transformation belts from “Kamen Rider Kuuga” and other early Heisei Riders at home. I used to play with transformation belts that my older brother gave me. The first one I was given was a “Kamen Rider Kiva” belt. Seto Koji is a senior at my agency, and when he transforms into Kiva, a stained-glass pattern appears on his face. When I was little, I imagined that it was probably similar to the feeling you get when you get goosebumps. I felt like I could become Kiva, so I practiced getting goosebumps on myself (laughs).
Miyabe: I have a younger brother who is eight years younger than me, and we watched “Kamen Rider Drive” and “Kamen Rider Ghost” together. I was listening to the opening theme of “Drive” on the way to the audition. Rio Uchida, who played the heroine of “Drive”, had an image of a strong woman, so I hope to become a heroine like that.
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