Kamen Rider Wizard Cast and Story Details Revealed

A press conference in Japan introduced the cast of Kamen Rider Wizard ahead of its September 2012 premiere. Shunya Shiraishi took the lead role of Souma Haruto, a survivor of a mysterious solar-eclipse ritual who receives a belt from the enigmatic “White Wizard,” allowing him to transform and fight the demons the ritual spawned. As Wizard, Haruto commands four elemental forms (Flame, Water, Hurricane, and Land) while presenting an outwardly frivolous persona that masks how little he shows his real feelings.

Rounding out the announced cast: Makoto Okunaka as Koyomi, a fellow ritual survivor of uncertain human or demonic origin who works as a fortune teller; Junki Tozuka as Shunpei Nara, an aspiring wizard eager to apprentice under Haruto; Yuuko Takayama as Rinko Daimon, a rookie police officer drawn into the demonic activity she’s meant to investigate; and Hisahiro Oguro as Shigeru Wajima, the antique-shop owner who crafted Haruto’s transformation rings without fully understanding the magic sealed inside them. Tsuyoshi Kida was set to write the series, with Shoujiro Nakazawa directing.