The BEST episodes of Kamen Rider season 15
Every episode of Kamen Rider season 15, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kamen Rider season 15!
A motorcycle-riding hero of justice rises up to fight an evil force, stopping their evil deeds while using their own power against them.
#1 - Roaring Oni
Season 15 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/15/2005
Zanki and Todoyama come to Sabaki’s rescue after being captured by the Yamaarashi, but Zanki begins to weaken and proves unable to defeat it. Todoyama takes Zanki’s place and destroys his first giant-type Makamou. As Zanki retires, Todoyama refuses to take his name, instead wanting to make a name for himself, as Zanki dubs him Todoroki, the Roaring Oni.
#2 - Unrelenting Hurricane
Season 15 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/29/2005
Akira makes her way towards the ever-changing location of the Oonamazu but as she heads towards the battle, a puppet-type Makamou causes her to collapse under a bridge. Meanwhile, Asumu heads to Tachibana’s to drop off his notes and ends up helping Hinaka deal with the influx of customers. Finally, having tracked down the Oonamazu, Ibuki proceeds underground into the sewers to fight it for the final time…
#3 - Strumming Warrior
Season 15 - Episode 19 - Aired 6/5/2005
Asumu begins his first day at Tachibana’s and discovers that Todoroki and Hitomi are related. Todoroki continues to fight the Bakegani as Kasumi notices something is wrong with him, while Zanki later arrives after he is called by Ichiro to examine a recording of Todoroki’s peculiar fighting style. Meanwhile, Hibiki practices on a dirtbike while waiting on standby…
#4 - Purifying Sound
Season 15 - Episode 20 - Aired 6/12/2005
Zanki visits Todoroki on the battlefield to question about his style of fighting while Asumu begins to have troubles at Tachibana’s and is then pulled into a conversation with Ichiro about the Oni. Hibiki later joins Todoroki in a fight against an Amikiri as Zanki makes a decision about his and Todoroki’s future.
#5 - Premonition of Training
Season 15 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/4/2005
A new boy has transferred to Asumu and Hitomi’s school, Kiriya Kyousuke, and the new boy seems to be good at everything from language to sports and makes Asumu feel boring. Meanwhile, The Man creates a new Makamou that does not have a Douji and Hime and unleashes it in the busy metropolis.
#6 - Howling Wind
Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/20/2005
Lost in the forest, Asumu stumbles onto Ibuki’s camp where an irritated Akira tells Asumu that he will only hinder Hibiki if he continues following him around and that it would be best for him to leave. Asumu wonders just how true her words are and asks Hibiki himself how he feels about it after he arrives at the camp. Ibuki then defeats the Ittan-momen and Akira and Asumu make amends with each other.
#7 - Passing Days
Season 15 - Episode 26 - Aired 8/7/2005
Everybody is out, either enjoying their day off or hunting down Makamou, leaving Asumu and Akira to tend to the sweet shop. Ibuki crosses paths with a strange couple that are dressed in full kimonos in a busy city while Hibiki and Todoroki track down a Bakeneko group hidden deep within a mountain forest.
#8 - Bursting With Song
Season 15 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/18/2005
Kogure Kounosuke, a strong-willed weapons designer for Takeshi, comes bearing a gift for the Oni who work at the Tachibana Sweet Shop: the Armed Saber. Unfortunately, the weapon is too powerful for a normal Oni and the repercussions for trying to use it is losing the ability to transform. But when a new Douji and Hime appear more powerful than any before, the Oni may have no choice but to risk using it in battle…
#9 - Passing Down the Bond
Season 15 - Episode 27 - Aired 8/14/2005
Zanki is attacked by a white Puppet, and the damaged disks lead Hibiki and Todoroki to track down the group of Bakeneko hiding in the forest shrine. Back at Tachibana’s, Tsutomu reveals his relationship to the Oni world to Asumu and asks what he wants to do in the future.
#10 - Unending Malice
Season 15 - Episode 28 - Aired 8/21/2005
After being beaten up for revenge by the shoplifter he stopped several months ago, Asumu loses his normal cheerfulness. Hibiki sees this and decides to take Asumu for a forest hike while fixing his damaged drumstick. Meanwhile, Eiki is defeated by an armored Douji and Hime, so Ibuki and Todoroki are called in to avenge their fellow Oni.
#11 - Shining Boy
Season 15 - Episode 29 - Aired 8/28/2005
After his fall where he loses his phone, Asumu blames himself and Hibiki confronts the boy about being too negative and self-conscious. Meanwhile, Ibuki and Todoroki combine their efforts and battle Douji and Hime, with Eiki joining them in the battle against the Makamou, but it escapes and makes its way toward Hibiki and Asumu’s campsite…
#12 - Armored Blade
Season 15 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/25/2005
After losing the Armed Saber to the Super Douji and Hime, Hibiki and Todoroki lose the ability to transform. They find out that they will regain the ability to transform in one month, but that is too long with a Makamou running amok. Kogure suggests that the two Oni undergo a special training, under his guidance, to regain their powers.
#13 - Approaching Orochi
Season 15 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/20/2005
A mysterious forest appears out of nowhere, causing the Oni to worry about what it could mean, and the mysterious Man and Woman also seem to be concerned with the new development. Meanwhile, Asumu believes he’s ready to become Hibiki’s apprentice while Kyousuke continues to beg Hibiki for the same thing, but both boys may be disappointed in his answer…
#14 - Awakening of Teacher and Student
Season 15 - Episode 41 - Aired 11/27/2005
After Akira’s attempt at transforming, the Oni return to Tachibana’s where Asumu and Kyousuke are scolded for their attempts to become Akira’s apprentices. However, the boys are firm in their resolve to begin their Oni training, troubling Hibiki. Meanwhile, Ichirou meets with the mysterious Man and Woman, who warn him of the destruction to come…
#15 - Raging Monsters
Season 15 - Episode 42 - Aired 12/4/2005
With Orochi approaching, the number of Makamou has risen sharply, straining the Oni and their ability to handle it. With Hibiki taking Asumu and Kyousuke as his apprentices, the Oni are down even more, but even amidst the training, Hibiki rushes into battle, while Todoroki is gravely injured as he and Ibuki are overwhelmed…
#16 - Hidden Prohibition
Season 15 - Episode 44 - Aired 12/18/2005
Despite earlier warnings about transforming again, Zanki steps up and rejoins the fight against the growing hordes of Makamou, but it takes an extreme toll on him, but he intends to help Todoroki regain his strength no matter the cost…
#17 - Zanki’s Glorious Death
Season 15 - Episode 45 - Aired 12/25/2005
Despite seeing him fall in battle, Ibuki is shocked to see Zanki appear in Todoroki’s room, but when Hibiki and Ibuki reveal Zanki’s fate, Todoroki angrily refuses to believe his mentor could be dead. As Kyousuke follows one of the boys that bullied him with Asumu on his trail, the approach of Orochi continues…
#18 - Mastering the Oni Way
Season 15 - Episode 46 - Aired 1/8/2006
Leading the Oni to a stone with ancient Oni script on it, the Man and Woman make their next move towards preventing Orochi, but the cost of stopping it may be too much for Ibuki to bear. Meanwhile, Kyousuke becomes increasingly obsessed with becoming an Oni, with his focus on his training consuming him, while Asumu questions what it means to put your life on the line to protect others…
#19 - Words to Follow
Season 15 - Episode 47 - Aired 1/15/2006
Coming to terms with what dying without regrets means to him, Asumu decides to walk away from his Oni training, leaving Hibiki seemingly disappointed, but with Orochi imminent, there’s no time to swell on it. Hibiki, Ibuki, and Todoroki set out to complete the ceremony, but Hibiki tricks the other Oni and escapes with his drumsticks, setting out for the purification site as the final battle begins…
#20 - A Dream of Tomorrow
Season 15 - Episode 48 - Aired 1/22/2006
Leading the Oni, Hibiki brings Orochi to a halt and purifies the earth as the ancient writings described. One year later, Asumu has moved on from Takeshi and the Oni and now interns at a hospital in his quest to find his own path to helping people. But when Mochida is captured by the Man and Woman as a new specimen for their experiments, Asumu’s path leads him back to Hibiki, Kyousuke, and the other Oni once again!
#21 - Burning Crimson
Season 15 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/17/2005
Discovering the self-multiplying Dorotabou, the Oni realize they will have to unify their powers using taiko to defeat the Makamou. As Hibiki trains harder to unleash his Crimson form, Todoroki struggles with his lack of drumming skill, but a pep talk from Hinaka might just be what he needs…
#22 - Summer of Training
Season 15 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/10/2005
Hibiki takes Todoroki to his mountain training temple to teach him how to play the taiko so that the Oni are better prepared to deal with the summer Makamou, which are resistant to stringed instruments. Unfortunately, the training seems to be too intense for Todoroki, who loses faith. Meanwhile, Asumu is assigned the whistle in his high school’s brass band and is not too pleased with not having the chance to play the drums.
#23 - Transforming Cocoon
Season 15 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/3/2005
As Asumu and Mochi wait for Hibiki to return with the doctor, Akira is injured as Ibuki and Todoroki combine their strength to defeat the pair of Douji and Hime, but the Ubume and Yamaarashi are nowhere to be found. What they do find is a new, disturbing hybrid of the two Makamou and despite their best efforts, they can’t defeat it alone. Just then, Hibiki arrives as backup…
#24 - Evil Spirits Gathered Together
Season 15 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/26/2005
While Hibiki enjoys a day off of fighting to run errands with Asumu, Ibuki and Todoroki are separately following two groups of Makamou that are heading towards Mount Asama. The Oni find it strange that the Makamou don’t want to fight nor do they attack humans, so just what is at the top of the mountain that draws them?
#25 - Targeted Town
Season 15 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/22/2005
Kasumi and Ibuki go clothes-shopping on their day off. After shopping and during their meal, Ibuki sees a Douji and Hime pair in the city and begins his pursuit. Elsewhere, Hitomi is having mixed feelings about Asumu and Akira spending so much time together. After defeating the Douji/Hime pair, Ibuki is attacked by a Makamou that eats his disk animals as he waits for Akira to arrive with his Reppu!