The BEST episodes of Kamen Rider season 23
Every episode of Kamen Rider season 23, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Kamen Rider season 23!
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 - A Fate of Wizardry
Season 23 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/30/2013
With Mayu joining the fight Kamen Rider Mage, she focuses her attention on her former sister Medusa, with Haruto asking her what her true goals are now that she is a witch. Meanwhile, Sylph continues its attack on Yuzuru, just as the White Wizard gains interest in him as well.
#2 - The Stolen Belt
Season 23 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/24/2013
Kousuke meets an archeologist who has discovered artifacts, one of which is a ring that looks like Chimera. However, the BeastDriver is suddenly stolen. To make things worse, Gremlin and a new Phantom appear to defeat the wizards.
#3 - Evolving Beast
Season 23 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/31/2013
Kousuke must find a way to retrieve his BeastDriver and Rings from Gremlin, but after he discovers the real location off his equipment, he finds himself too weak to fight. After trying to use the new ring in a last-ditch move, Chimera appears and tells him about the chance to eat the Phantom alive.
#4 - The Day the Magic Died
Season 23 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/7/2013
Gremlin unleashes a dangerous Phantom who assumes the form of a man called Naitou. But unlike the Phantoms Haruto and Kousuke had faced before, Naitou is attacking humans without discrimination. It’s when he attacks Haruto that the game changes for the ringed magician…
#5 - His Tears
Season 23 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/14/2013
With Legion too strong for even Kousuke to battle, Haruto must find a way to restore Dragon’s powers before Legion strikes again. However, when all appears lost, Haruto’s dedication to his friends unlocks his greatest power yet…
#6 - Part-Time Danger
Season 23 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/21/2013
Nitou’s high school friend Tsuchiya arrives in town, having discovered a job offer that will pay 1 million yen for a day’s work. Nitou joins him on the interview, but Haruto and Koyomi suspect something is off.
#7 - Things Money Can’t Buy
Season 23 - Episode 33 - Aired 4/28/2013
Haruto and Nitou must race to Tokyo to save Tsuchiya, who begins repeatedly experiencing extremely favorable luck, as well as the 5 other Gates, from falling victim to the Phantom Hobgoblin.
#8 - The Model’s Dark Side
Season 23 - Episode 34 - Aired 5/5/2013
While Haruto and Rinko are sent by Kizaki to investigate Gremlin’s human identity as Sora, Nitou and Shunpei help save a young woman attacked as a possible Gate, only to discover that she is their favorite fashion model Chiaki. Meanwhile, Gremlin is acting stranger than usual…
#9 - Another Side of Sora
Season 23 - Episode 35 - Aired 5/12/2013
With Chiaki revealed to be the Gate sought out by Argus, Nitou believes the source of her despair may be her loss of popularity. Elsewhere, Haruto has met with Sora, the Gremlin Phantom, and upon realizing that not is all it seems, asks Rinko and Section Zero to investigate, and they discover what exactly happened to Sora Takigawa, as Haruto suspects the Phantom still has his human mind.
#10 - The Myna Bird Speaks
Season 23 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/19/2013
With Sora’s words in mind, Haruto meets Wiseman to get answers. Meanwhile, Rinko investigates an arson case with Shunpei, only to discover that a man with a caged myna bird may be a Gate.
#11 - The Fugitive’s Despair
Season 23 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/26/2013
The group must protect Nemoto from both the Phantom Raum and the police who want to question him about several arson cases. But can they clear Rinko’s name before it’s too late?
#12 - Stolen Hope
Season 23 - Episode 38 - Aired 6/2/2013
When Haruto goes to save a soccer player from a Phantom, the man recognizes him, and Haruto’s former dreams of being a professional soccer player are revealed. Elsewhere, a well-dressed man enters Remnants and presents Wajima with another magic stone…
#13 - What He Forgot on the Field
Season 23 - Episode 39 - Aired 6/9/2013
With Kazuya in the hospital, Haruto must find a way to defeat the Phantom Bahamut, even though the Phantom is much too powerful for him as Kamen Rider Wizard. Meanwhile, the mysterious Fueki commissions a Wizard Ring from Wajima.
#14 - I Want to Ride a Bicycle
Season 23 - Episode 40 - Aired 6/23/2013
While Rinko tries to investigate Fueki, Nitou starts to teach a boy named Yuzuru to ride a bicycle after he watches Kamen Rider Beast battle a Phantom and his Ghouls with a mountain bike.
#15 - Sisters
Season 23 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/17/2013
When it is discovered that Mayu is the twin sister of Misa, the girl who has become Medusa, Mayu makes it her mission to seek out the one part of her sister that is still alive within Medusa, even though Haruto believes it is better to save Takako first.
#16 - The Ringed Novelist
Season 23 - Episode 42 - Aired 7/7/2013
Haruto is alarmed to find Kizaki has disappeared after he has been asked to search for Fueki, who kidnapped Yuzuru to seek out another person worthy of becoming a magician. After Kamen Rider Wizard saves Saionji, a novelist, Saionji reveals he is looking for a young woman who gave him the inspiration to write again ten years ago.
#17 - The White Wizard's Secret
Season 23 - Episode 43 - Aired 7/14/2013
Saionji reveals it is Koyomi who he has been looking for all this time, saying he met her once 10 years ago. Meanwhile, Sora warns Nitou about the White Wizard, resulting in Nitou facing him in battle.
#18 - Memento of My Son
Season 23 - Episode 44 - Aired 7/21/2013
Haruto discovers that Koyomi is the daughter of Fueki, but he keeps this to himself. Meanwhile, Haruto’s former elementary school teacher Yoshikazu Kumagai, who comes to Remnants to purchase an antique toy plane that once belonged to his late son, is discovered to be a Gate when he is attacked by the Phantom Siren.
#19 - A Smile in Your Heart
Season 23 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/28/2013
Haruto must split his attention on saving Kumagai from Siren while they try to find a toy for his son and revealing what he knows to Koyomi about her past. Meanwhile, a red crack appears on Koyomi’s hand. What does this mean? Meanwhile, Medusa and Mayu face each other again.
#20 - Cracked Memories
Season 23 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/4/2013
Mayu approaches the White Wizard asking to become stronger so she may defeat Medusa as Haruto and Nitou have trouble battling a fast-moving Phantom. Later, Sora approaches Haruto at Hungry Donuts, inquiring as to whether or not he has found out about Koyomi’s past.
#21 - Wiseman’s Revelations
Season 23 - Episode 47 - Aired 8/11/2013
Even though Haruto reveals that Koyomi is Fueki’s daughter, the group keeps their mission to save Yamamoto from Arachne, particularly when his pregnant wife Aya goes missing.
#22 - The Philosopher's Stone
Season 23 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/18/2013
With the knowledge that Fueki is not only the White Wizard, Koyomi’s father, and the Phantoms’ leader Wiseman, Haruto, Kosuke, and Mayu work together to try to discover his true plans.
#23 - The Sabbat Begins
Season 23 - Episode 49 - Aired 9/1/2013
With Yamamoto and Yuzuru both Kamen Rider Mages under the White Wizard’s thrall, Haruto and Koyomi are kidnapped to begin the new Sabbat. After Kousuke is approached by Beast Chimera in his dreams, he goes to assist Rinko and Shunpei to help save Haruto and Koyomi.
#24 - What Matters the Most
Season 23 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/8/2013
Haruto finds he must battle the White Wizard on his own for Koyomi’s sake after Kousuke used the last of his mana to disrupt the Sabbat. Elsewhere, Yuzuru and Yamamoto come to their senses and plan to fight alongside Mayu and Haruto for Kousuke.
#25 - The Last Hope
Season 23 - Episode 51 - Aired 9/15/2013
With Gremlin in possession of the Philosopher’s Stone, Koyomi dies. However, Fueki says that the light in Haruto’s heart is the true Philosopher’s Stone. Meanwhile, Gremlin, now evolved, goes on a rampage, and Kousuke cannot battle to save anyone or even himself from the monstrous Phantom…