What is Kamen Rider Blade?
{{Infobox television | alt_name = Masked Rider ♠ | genre = [[Tokusatsu]]<br>Superhero fiction<br>Action<br>[[Fantasy]]<br>Thriller<br>[[Supernatural]] | runtime = 24–25 minutes | creator = Shotaro Ishinomori | developer = Ishimori Productions<br>[[Toei Company]] | writer = Shōji Imai<br>Sōkichi Imai<br>Junichi Miyashita<br>Toshiki Inoue<br>Sho Aikawa | director = Hidenori Ishida<br>Nobuhiro Suzumura<br>Takao Nagaishi<br>Satoshi Morota<br>Takemitsu Satō<br>Kunio Iki | starring = [[Takayuki Tsubaki]]<br>[[Ryoji Morimoto]]<br>[[Kousei Amano]]<br>[[Takahiro Hōjō]]<br>[[Yumi Egawa]]<br>[[Terunosuke Takezai]]<br>[[Kaori Yamaguchi]]<br>[[Hikari Kajiwara]] | narrated = Jūrōta Kosugi | composer = Kazunori Miyake | producer = Saeko Matsuda<br>Jun Hikasa<br>Naomi Takebe<br>Takaaki Utsunomiya | country = Japan | company = [[Toei Company]] | network = [[TV Asahi]] | first_aired = {{start date|2004|01|25}} | last_aired = {{end date|2005|01|23}} | num_episodes = 49 }} '''''Kamen Rider Blade''''' (''Masked Rider ♠ (Blade)''), is a [[Japan]]ese [[television program|television series]]. ==Production== It is the fourteenth installment in the Kamen Rider Series. It aired on [[TV Asahi]] from January 25, 2004 to January 23, 2005. It is a joint collaboration between Ishimori Productions and [[Toei Company|Toei]]. Along with the standard insect motif of the Kamen Rider Series, ''Kamen Rider Blade'' also uses a [[Playing card]] motif. Each Rider is assigned one of the suits from a deck of cards. It aired as a part of [[TV Asahi]]'s [[Super Hero Time]] block with ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]''. ==DVDs== ''Blade'' was later released on DVD by Toei. There were twelve volumes released with the first eleven having four episodes per DVD and the twelfth with five episodes. ==Story== ===Ancient battle=== Ten thousand years ago, a large battle known as th