| abstract | - The Heisei Phase 2 is specifically used to refer to the post-Decade era, with Kamen Rider Decade having been the 10th Anniversary Kamen Rider show of the Heisei period. After the Decade series, Kamen Rider is the official term for Riders while pre-Decade Riders have been shown to use "Masked Rider" in official localization releases and in Kamen Rider 4. The Heisei Phase 2 started with Decade's successor, Kamen Rider W, which premiered in September 2009 and ended in August 2010. W was followed by Kamen Rider OOO (September 2010 - August 2011), then Kamen Rider Fourze (September 2011 - August 2012), Kamen Rider Wizard (September 2012 - September 2013), Kamen Rider Gaim (October 2013 - September 2014), Kamen Rider Drive (October 2014 - September 2015) and Kamen Rider Ghost (October 2015 - September 2016). The current entry in the Kamen Rider Series is Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, which premiered in October 2016. On April 1, 2016, an original remake net series Kamen Rider Amazons was aired. It marks the Heisei Era's first time since Faiz that the franchise has gone back to a darker and more adult oriented style of storytelling, though this series is available only on Amazon Prime and rated R15+.
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