List of Kamen Rider Kiva episodes

In 1986, at a funeral, a recently deceased man wakes up from his coffin and transforms into a monster known as a Fangire. After attacking a young woman, draining her of her Life Energy and leaving a glass-like husk behind, the newly-awakened Spider Fangire is confronted by a woman named Yuri Aso, who attempts to destroy him before he escapes. Later, at the Café mald'amour, Yuri's employer Mamoru Shima tells her to target a young businessman named Kaoru Tsugami, who actually is the Horse Fangire. She finds Tsugami as he is about to eat his sixth secretary, but he calls his bodyguards to hold her off. Though she manages to give them the slip, she is too late to save the woman as she fights the Horse Fangire. However, before the fight could go any further, she is stopped by the man she met while escaping Tsugami's bodyguards: Otoya Kurenai. This little distraction allowed Tsugami to escape.

In 1986, Yuri finds Otoya while he is flirting with a young lady, intent to get her weapon back from him. Suddenly, the Moth Fangire attacks Otoya until Yuri regained her weapon, forcing the Fangire to retreat. After reporting to Shima at the Café mald'amour, Yuri is told to investigate Otoya in order to see if he is an ideal candidate to join the Fangire Hunters. Following him, Yuri sees Otoya ruin the lives of two men, leaving them bankrupt.

In 1986, Otoya stalks Yuri, following her to Café mald'amour, attempting to woo her until a mysterious man, Jiro, tosses him out before having coffee. The next day, Otoya arrives at the café as Yuri comes out, intent on fighting Jiro as they duke it out in a fist fight with Yuri leaving in a huff. By the time they stop fighting, Yuri is captured by the Spider Fangire.

In 2008, after using egg shells in another varnish experiment, Wataru tries to hold a mini-concert and play his violin to his neighbors so he can stop being a recluse. However, it ends horribly with Wataru's nervousness effecting his playing, scaring everyone away. Needing to build up his confidence, Wataru finds Keisuke, who is using his position as Megumi's bodyguard, much to her annoyance, to find Kiva. Hearing Wataru's pleas, Keisuke accepts, having Wataru follow Megumi in his stead. When he starts to follow Megumi, Wataru meets another man named Noboru, an obsessive fan who lies that Keisuke also gave him orders to follow her. Following her to the Make R modeling studio, Noboru has Wataru enter Megumi's dressing room and go into her purse just as Megumi finds him. At the Café, Megumi gives Keisuke a piece of her mind as Wataru learns the truth behind Noboru. The next day, Megumi is later encountered by Noboru, who asks for Megumi's autograph and then her, revealing himself as the Sheep Fangire.

In 1986, after attempting to know Jiro, Yuri receives orders from Shima to investigate mysterious disappearances of regulars customers of the Café mald'amour, believing it to be a Fangire's doing. To help her, Shima allows Otoya to assist her, giving the young man another chance to join Aozora if he helps. After Otoya tells Shima that Jiro helped him saving Yuri from Ryo, Shima offers Jiro a place in Aozora as well. Though he promises to catch the culprit, Jiro turns out to be responsible for the attacks. Meanwhile, the Count Inukai, the Prawn Fangire, grows fearful for his brethren dying and decides to do something about it..

In 1986, for saving Yuri's life a second time, Shima makes Jiro an official Fangire Hunter much to Otoya's dismay. The next day, Shima tells Otoya of a mysterious killer targeting violinists playing the Black Star violin that may be a Fangire. He assigns Yuri and Jiro to get the violin at an auction, finding Otoya attempting to get the Black Star himself until Jiro knocks him out so Yuri can bid for it. After winning the auction at a much higher price than she expected to pay for it, Yuri horribly plays the Black Star to Otoya's dismay. Yuri faces the mysterious killer, the Frog Fangire, who wants his violin back as Jiro arrives. During the fight, Otoya witnesses Jiro assume his true form as Garulu, who engages in battle with the Frog Fangire. After the Fangire escapes, Ramon chides Jiro for choosing to live alongside humans, arriving with another mysterious man: Riki. But the two soon understand Jiro's intent--to use humans to get revenge on the Fangires.

In 1986, Yuri is visiting the grave site of her mother Akane when Shima arrives to tell her that Ixa System, which Akane created, is completed. Yuri pleads to use it so she can finally avenge her mother, who was murdered by a Fangire with a rook tattoo on his hand two years prior. Yuri's intent is intensified while she saves a young woman from the Earwig Fangire, only to be manhandled by him. Later, Yuri is accompanied by Otoya as they are ambushed by the Earwig Fangire in a garage, with Otoya knocked unconscious. But at the last second, Ixa arrives and destroys the Earwig Fangire as Yuri is confused to see Ixa to be Jiro.

In 1986, after visiting Ramon and Riki to discuss their current issues as the last members of their respective kinds, Jiro tells them not to compare himself to them as he vows to restore the Wolfen Race to its former glory and rule the world. The next day, he is about to attack a young lady for nourishment when Otoya interferes, provoking Jiro to beat him to a bloody pulp before he witnesses Garulu devour the woman. Jiro laughs Otoya's insults off and reveals himself as the last of the Wolfen and his plans to make Yuri his mate to repopulate the world with his kind, infuriating Otoya. Otoya is nearly strangled by Jiro but reveals he had secretly lifted the Ixa Knuckle that Jiro dropped in the earlier beating. Transforming into Ixa in front of the shocked and angry Wolfen, Otoya vows that he will never let Jiro near Yuri again as he calmly beats a fighting-mad Garulu into submission; launching the Ixa Knuckle's Broken Fang attack at him.

In 1986, when Otoya is rendered unconscious from the Ixa System's strain, Garulu is about to kill him when Yuri runs in, resuming his guise while claiming that Otoya may have been attacked by a Fangire before taking the Ixa Knuckle back. While Yuri stays with Otoya at the hospital to understand how he could use the Ixa System for that long with suffering its side effects, enduring his advances on her, Jiro thanks Ramon for his aid. But when Ramon and Riki tell him to get them involved because of their endangered status, Jiro thinks back to his Race's slaughter and his intent to kill the one responsible: the mysterious the Rook of the Checkmate Four, the elite branch of the Fangire Race. Jiro gets his chance when the Rook arrived to the city, feeding during his Time Play hunt for people in pink. When he starts a new Time Play to go after Lottery winners, he encounters Yuri, recognizing him as the one who murdered her mother. Seeking vengeance, Yuri attacks him, provoking him as he knocked her unconscious as Jiro arrives. Recognizing each other, Jiro assumes his true form to battle the Rook when he becomes the Lion Fangire. However, Garulu is powerless against the stronger monster, being forced to use the Ixa System to attempt to turn the tables.

In 1986, Otoya was playing his violin when Yuri comes looking for him, asking him to take on a girl named Mami Kurasawa as his violin student to have her overcome her slump and pass the audition. Though he refused at first, he accepts under the condition that Yuri goes on with him on a date. After reasoning with the spoiled girl over the fact they both have a lot to gain, Otoya treats her to the Café mald'amour, having the girl scrub toilets to pay for both their meal and his overdue tabs. When Jiro arrives, Otoya demands the Ixa system back from him, with the two deciding to settle the Ixa matter once and for all in a game of pool with Mami as their witness.

In 1986, after attacking a woman for being rude to him, the Rook decides to target brides in their wedding dresses as part of his Time Play. However, Yuri was attending a wedding at time as the Rook crashes it, attempting to take her revenge as the Fangire spares her and simply walks off to Yuri's dismay. Later at the cafe, Yuri begs Jiro to give her the Ixa Knuckle to get her revenge, with Jiro refusing to her request as he wishes to kill the Rook himself. However, Otoya manages to dupe Jiro out of the Ixa Knuckle with a fake Susan Kumiko autograph. After giving the item to Yuri out of sympathy, she slugged him to keep him from interfering. Though she finds Rook, Yuri could not bring herself to use the Ixa System as the Rook simply walks past her again without a second glance.

In 1986, Yuri treats Otoya to a ramen shack after the Lion Fangire wedding incident to Jiro's dismay as Ramon and Riki become worried about him. The next day, Jiro takes Yuri to the park and offers his hand to her in marriage, leaving her with the engagement ring. With Shima's hands tied and Otoya stating his annoyance at Jiro's dirty trick, Yuri sets up a gōkon with Otoya, Jiro, Riki and two girls, Ayumi and Kumi. It is then that Otoya meets his old childhood sweetheart Kumi from kindergarten. After secretly feeding on Ayumi for refusing to bear his children, Riki takes his leave from the mixer finding the Chameleon Fangire as he is about to feed. Riki fights him in his true form as Dogga of the Franken Race before feeding on the escaping Fangire's victim.

In 1986, finding Ramon and Riki's massage parlor closed down for lacking a permit, Jiro gets Ramon and Riki jobs at the Café mald'amour to the surprise of Otoya. The next day, Otoya provides Riki with his advice on love. While this occurs, Shinji Takeuchi saves the relationship with his wife Ryōko, and later is followed by Maya, who recognizes him as another traitor Fangire trying to live with humans. Before she can kill anyone, she encounters Otoya, whose interference allows Shinji and Ryōko to escape as she runs off to find them. When Jiro feels that Otoya is once more getting too close to Yuri, he assumes his true form and beats Otoya unconscious. Garulu throws Otoya's body into a river, asserting that Yuri is his to take as his mate.

In 1986, after giving Otoya a wrist watch to thank him, Yuri learns that Jiro has disappeared since revealing his true nature and has mailed the Ixa Knuckle back to Shima. Shima decides to induct Otoya into the Wonderful Blue Sky Organization as the Ixa System's official user with Yuri warmly welcoming it though a bit worried before Otoya promises to help Yuri find her mother's ring. After killing another Fangire traitor, Maya encounters Otoya as the Rook has a new Time Play, attacking Otoya because of the flower on his person. Otoya grabs Maya and tries to give the Rook the slip before looking for an escape route. Once the Rook recognizes Maya, she admits that she is curious as to why Fangires are attracted to humans and allows the Rook to continue his game to understand humans as Otoya returns and becomes Ixa to battle the Lion Fangire. Otoya is no match for the stronger opponent as the Ixa System overloads. When Maya checks to see if he is alright, Otoya wakes up with no memory of who he is, only knowing that he loves someone named Yuri, with Maya taking advantage by claiming herself to be "Yuri."

In 2008, Keisuke receives the upgraded Ixa Knuckle and the Ixariser while working out. Later, Megumi is arrested on suspicion of armed robbery while Shima has been arrested on suspicion of murder. With only Keisuke free, he recruits Kengo to help him investigate the meaning behind the arrests before the Crab Fangire appears, having Ixa use Ixariser to become Rising Ixa. However, the new form proved too powerful to handle as the Fangire escapes. After almost being arrested by the police, losing the Ixa Knuckle in the ensuing escape, Keisuke encounters the man responsible for the framings, a former painter named Tanahashi. At his former studio, Tanahashi reveals that use his position as chief of police to set up the framings to get back at the Blue Sky Organization for Ixa ruining his life in the past when a Fangire attack that ends up with him being coma for a year with his model, Maya, nowhere to be found. After revealing what occurred to Wataru and Kengo, Keisuke is forced to run until he has a chance encounter with Jiro, who offers the means to stop these current events: Castle Doran's Time Door. While this occurred, after remembering his first friend, Taiga, Wataru goes to Kengo's aid when he is attacked by the Crab Fangire while looking for Keisuke.

In 1986, as Yuri cleans Otoya's home, she admits she still desires to get revenge on the Rook and questions if it is alright to be happy at the present time. While having a Time Play to target sunglasses-wearing people, the Rook is confronted by Jiro, with the Wolfen wanting to end his affairs with the Fangire. After losing the fight and his sunglasses to Rook, Jiro enlists Otoya's aid along with Ramon and Riki as they reveal their true identities, with Otoya agreeing on the condition that Yuri is left in the dark about their plan. Jiro and Otoya until the Rook arrives with to continue the Time Play. Otoya assumes Ixa to battle the Lion Fangire and loses to him as Yuri arrives and attempts to get her revenge.

In 1986, as the Rook enjoys his award for beating Otoya and company, the guys mope until Yuri steals the Ixa Knuckle. As Otoya and Jiro run after her, she finds Rook, showing the "awesome item" as he takes the Ixa Knuckle instead and uses it to battle Otoya and Jiro. Ramon and Riki arrive, but the three (Arms Monsters, Otoya, and Yuri) are not a match for Rook. Fortunately, Ixa's side-effects manage to weaken the Rook as Yuri intended. The Lion Fangire snaps into a berserker rage as Otoya increases his power by wearing Ixa suit,^{[clarification needed]}. In the middle of the fight, Otoya gives Yuri the Ixa Knuckle to finish the job, allowing her to fulfill her desire to defeat the Rook with the Ixa Knuckle at the right shoulder. But though she was still unable to kill him, she could finally put the past behind her as the Rook fades away to rest until he reawakens to start a new game.

In 1986, after defeating Dogga for attacking her, Maya is surprised to see Otoya remaining in spite of knows her true identity as a Fangire. Walking with her, rather than fight her, Otoya asks Maya for the answer Maya asked him. Revealing that it is the violin meant for the violinist that brings out the talent, Otoya remembers his encounter with Ōmura and his Black Star, as Maya offers to teach him the violin-making arts before leaving to see Taiga with Kurosawa worried about his mistress' interest in humans. Maya then heads to Otoya's house as they begin their work on the "ultimate violin", with Yuri looking on with a broken heart before walking off.

In 1986, as Otoya makes the finishing touches on the "Ultimate Violin", Yuri runs off into Jiro, who learns of the man's relation to Maya and sees him, only to be shut out by him. Once he gives it a first play for Maya, after giving it his deepest desire to preserve all music for all time, Otoya christens his creation the Bloody Rose.

In 1986, Yuri manages to find the Rat Fangire and takes the Ixa Knuckle from Otoya to slay the monster. However, even as Ixa, Yuri is no match for the Fangire as she succumbs to the side-effects. But at the last second, Maya arrives to save the unconscious Yuri for her own reasons to the Rat Fangire's shock as he vows to make her regret it. Later, the King learns of Maya's affairs with Otoya, jams his sword into the wall of Castle Doran in act of expressing his inability to love her.

In 1986, Garulu manages to escape Dark Kiva after being brutally manhandled by the Fangire King, who then finds Ramon and Riki and attempts to kill them. But even with Jiro's aid, the Arm Monsters were powerless against the King and barely escaped with their lives. Elsewhere, Yuri manages to find Maya, despite Otoya's attempts to stop the confrontation. Once she finds Maya, Yuri questions Maya's relation to him as the Arms Monsters arrive with intent to capture Maya to use her as a hostage to keep the King away from them. Maya reveals herself as a Fangire in front of Yuri as she easily defeats the trio. When Otoya admits that he knew Maya's identity the entire time, Yuri slaps him and leaves.

In 1986, in order to save themselves, the Arms Monsters make their attempt to kill Otoya. However, the trio are unable to actually do it to Jiro's shock and decide to leave town and run as fast as they can by taking different paths. However, the King manages to catch up to Ramon and Riki, sealing the two into the Basshaa Magnum and Dogga Hammer so they would serve as decorations in Castle Doran. Later, Yuri attempts to play the Bloody Rose as Maya arrives to tell her not to play, resulting in Yuri using the violin to force Maya to fight her as Ixa. But in Yuri's losing battle with the Pearlshell Fangire is interrupted by the King as Otoya arrives. After Otoya admits that he loves Maya regardless that she's a Fangire, hearing the music of each other's her souls, the King attacks Otoya mercilessly after realizing that Maya had chosen a human over him. But just as the King was about to kill them when Maya ran to Otoya's side, Jiro intervened and the King transforms into Dark Kiva to seal Garulu into the Garulu Saber. Angered to see Jiro sealed, Otoya transforms into Ixa against a tearful Maya's wishes and runs at Dark Kiva with intent to fight him to the death.

In 1986, after Yuri loses to the godly Silkworm Fangire, Maya forces the forest guardian back into her stone form with Yuri annoyed about being saved by a Fangire. The two women resume their search for Otoya, whose Life Energy is being sucked out of him with Kivat-bat the 2nd keeping an eye on him. Otoya pleads with Kivat-bat the 2nd, making his final request to play his violin one last time. Using the violin music as a beacon, Maya and Yuri manage to make it in time as Maya and the King fight each other. While the escaping Otoya and Yuri are encountered by the Silkworm Fangire which Otoya destroys with the Ixa system, Dark Kiva defeats the Pearlshell Fangire as she finally admits that she does love Otoya, forcing the King to strip Maya of her Fangire title and powers as punishment for her betrayal.

In 1986, during their brief encounter with Dark Kiva, Otoya is rescued by Wataru from the grips of King, only to invoke his wrath and reveal his true form as the Bat Fangire. Escaping the monster and later Wataru, Otoya encounters Kivat-bat the 2nd who delivers a message from Maya telling them they cannot meet again. She reveals that the King is using their son Taiga as leverage against her, vowing to kill the baby if she ever comes in contact with Otoya again. In light of his nemesis' cruel methods, Otoya offers to rescue Taiga; an equally disgusted Kivat-bat the 2nd proposes to enter a pact with him that would allow Otoya to use the power of Kiva, even though it would endanger the man's life. Wataru, who overhears the discussion, is requested by Maya to save Taiga; however, Otoya refuses to let Wataru something he wants to do. Overwhelmed by the situation, Wataru excuses himself only to encounter King, escalating into full-blown combat between the two Kivas, until Otoya arrives. The situation soon turns dire as Wataru is injured intercepting an attack meant for his father. Facing imminent danger, Otoya enters the pact with Kivat-bat the 2nd and becomes Dark Kiva and forces the King to retreat. With the Bat Fangire gone, Otoya is left to brave the pains of his pact, knocking Wataru unconscious. Found by Yuri, she offers advice to Wataru not to continue his plan as it would mean Mio would never know him. Finding Maya, Wataru learns that Otoya is making a rescue attempt to Castle Doran to save the Arms Monsters and Taiga. Once inside Castle Doran, Otoya manages to free the Arms Monsters, but he is discovered by King. Narrowly escaping, Wataru meets with Otoya in the manor's halls and is told the only way to honor Mio is to live a strong life for her. When the King finds them, Otoya covers for Wataru to find Taiga as he transforms into Dark Kiva to fight the Bat Fangire, freeing the Arms Monsters in the process. The Bat Fangire summons a red Sabbat to control Castle Doran, but Wataru assumes Emperor Form to free the dragon from the creature. Meanwhile, the battle between Otoya and the Bat Fangire reaches its climax as Otoya collapses from the strain of Kiva's power.