Awesome / Kamen Rider Kiva

TV Series

General

• Kivat often gets a few moments to emphasize the fact that he's not just a fancy belt buckle, but a supporting fighter in his own right. Catching a sword with his teeth stands out as an example.
• Every time Castle Doran shows up and eats a defeated Fangire's ball-shaped Life Energy while the sky temporarily turns night early on.

Episode 1: Fate: Wake Up!

• Kiva's debut and fight against the Horse Fangire.

Episode 3: Heroic: Perfect Hunter

• Nago's debut and Establishing Character Moment by taking down a criminal that was taking Shizuka hostage.

Episode 4: Reverie: Wild Blue

• Kiva Garulu Form's debut.

Episode 5: Duet: Stalker Panic

• Kido, the owner of Mal d'Amour gets one early on, during Jiro's debut. Claiming to be the ultimate coffee critic, Jiro challenges Kido to make him coffee that he'll consider worth paying for, and Kido steps up to the plate. His verdict?
  (plonks down his money) "Keep the change."
  • In particular, he paid 12.5 times the price for it.

Episode 6: Replay: Humans Are All Music

• Jiro/Garulu going up against Ryo in 1986.
• Kiva Basshaa Form's debut and defeating the Sheep Fangire.

Episode 8: Soul: Dragon Castle, Angered

• The defeat of the Sabbath with a Rider Kick where Kiva is propelled by Castle Dran's fire breath.

Episode 11: Rolling Stone: Door Of Dreams

• Shizuka's drum skills.

Episode 12: First Live: Golden Speed

• Though still injured, Kiva uses the Buroon Fuestle to summon Buroon, who combines with the Machine Kivaa to create Buroon Booster and battles Ixa along the highway, ending in Ixa's defeat.
• As he was hesitating during the live performance, Wataru eventually got the courage to start singing to "Destiny's Play".

Episode 13: Unfinished: Daddy Fight

• Nago stops a speeding car...with his foot.
• Otoya making Jiro let his guard down and had secretly lifted the Ixa Knuckle that Jiro dropped in the earlier beating while he was strangled by the Wolfen. This leads to Otoya's first transformation and fight as Ixa.

Episode 14: Pomp & Circumstance: Thunderstrike Purple Eye

• Kiva Dogga Form's debut and defeating the Rhinoceros Fangire who tried to use and break Kengo's dreams. The battle causes Kengo to be amazed at Kiva and consider him "rock-n-roll".

Episode 16: Player: The Rules Of Cruelty

• Powered Ixer's first debut in battle and finishing Rook's Six Pillars Sabbath.

Episode 18: Quartet: Listen To Your Heart's Voice

• Wataru gets over his depression and uses DoGaBaKi form to put a beating on the Seastar Fangire.

Episode 19: Fusion:Aura Storm

• Somehow Otoya possessing Wataru knows how to use Kivat's powers. Justified, he used Dark Kiva.

Episode 20: Nocturne: The Lovely Messiah

• Kiva and Ixa's Double Rider Kick.

Episode 21: Rhapsody: The Fate Of The Ring

• Nago repeating everyone's order at the dinner party after the waitress gets it wrong.
• Riki's first ever busting out of his Dogga form may not be the usual kind of CMoA, but the long wait for it and the Curb-Stomp Battle that followed qualify it as such.

Episode 24: Emperor: Golden Fever

• Emperor Form and Tatsulot's debut where they not only defeat the Grizzly Fangire but also make him reunite with his wife in death.

Episode 26: Metronome: Miraculous Memory

• Megumi tricking Ryo into giving up the Ixa gear and having it return to Nago.
• Kiva Emperor Form defeating Ryo around a watery area.
• Mio using her Fangire Queen status for the first time to finally finish off Ryo at long last.

Episode 28: Request: Time-Altering Battle

• IXA Rising Form's finishing of the Cicada Fangire. He uses the recoil from the huge blast from his gun to propel himself towards a wall. He then kicks off of the wall and uses the momentum to perform a Rider Kick and destroy the Cicada Fangire.

Episode 31: Applause: Motherly Dedicated Transformation

• Yuri and Megumi both getting a chance to become IXA and defeat Rook in their respective times. To wit:
  • In 1986, Otoya gives Yuri the IXA gear and has her deal a blow on Rook's weakpoint, which ended up being crucial to his eventual death in 2008.
  • In 2008, Nago gives Megumi the IXA gear as the latter then strikes Rook's weakpoint then finally finishing where her mother left off and ultimately destroying the first of the original Checkmate Four. Even Mitsuhide was happy at his sister's performace.
• Even after all that, there's also Wataru finishing off the Warthog Fangire in Emperor Form.

Episode 33: Supersonic: Saga's Fight

• The destruction of the Moose Fangire. Emperor Kiva uses Dogga Fever to crystallize it before calmly sauntering over to it and smashing it with his hammer.

Episode 35: New Arangement: Flying Rose

• Kaede/Horsefly Fangire pulling an Eviler than Thou on Dr. Kanda. Considering how much of a cruel madman Kanda was...
• Taiga summons Kukulcan, a snake-like monster, in order to test Kiva's power. It succeeds in knocking Wataru out, but Tatsulot brings the newly-repaired Bloody Rose to him and he begins to play it. Somehow understanding the prayer that his father put into it when he crafted it transforms him into a badass dragon creature that proceeds to blow up the snake creature after a short aerial battle.

Episode 37: Triangle: Behead The King

• Kiva Emperor Form using the Zanvat Sword for a Final Zanvat Slash against the Rat Fangires.

Episode 39: Shout: Targeted Brother

• Kiva's defeat of the Mantis Fangire. He throws the Zanbat Sword and impales it on his own coffin.

Episode 40: Encore: Nago Ixa Explosively Returns

• King waltzes by Otoya in an attempt to size him up after he discovers his identity. His footsteps leave marks in the ground and catch on fire.
• Wataru pulling a Big Damn Heroes and saving Kengo from Bishop before returning to his isolation.

Episode 41: Lullaby: Release The Heart

• In Nago's fight against Bishop he flips in the air and follows through with a sword slash for IXA-calibur. For some reason, a gigantic sun is behind him as he flies through the air.
• Wataru's destruction of the Sagarcs, giant ship-like enemies summoned by Taiga. After the smaller ones are destroyed he jumps into the air and slashes the larger one in half with the Zanbat sword. After landing he slowly brings the slider on the sword down before the ship finally explodes.

Episode 43: Wedding March: Time Of Parting

• Otoya as Ixa finishing off the Silkmoth Fangire even after how much of the life force was drained.

Episode 44: Punk: Back To Father

• Wataru and Otoya's combo slash against the Polar Bear Fangire.
• Nago's declaration that every cell in his body is "burning with justice".
  Nago: Ixa...explode!

Episode 45: With You: Final Transformation

• Castle Doran's been hijacked by a Sabbat forcefully clamping onto its back, taking it airborne - but Wataru as Emperor Kiva slips into Flight Form without a second thought, taking the battle to the enemy in a rare combination of Colossus Climb and Curb-Stomp Battle. And the whole thing is taking place in 1986, meaning that Wataru basically earned the use of Castle Dran in 2008 on his own merit.
• Otoya using Dark Kiva several times, even though it could potentially kill him.

Episode 46: Full Stop: Farewell, Otoya

• The father and son battle against King, climaxing with a double Wake Up Rider Kick.
• When King tries to kill Maya and Taiga after his defeat, baby Taiga uses a force field to turn his attack back with little effort.
• Wataru scares a Fangire away not by using Kiva but by punching it a few times then glaring at it.
  Shizuka: Hey, are you really Wataru?

Episode 47: Break The Chain: Obey Me!

• Wataru forcing the Arms Monsters to bow down to him being Fangire King when they start objecting.

Finale: The Inheritors Of Kiva

• Wataru declaring himself King after beating the crap out of Taiga.
• Even after being blind, with help from Megumi, Nago manages to finally thrash Bishop even if the latter ended up offering his life to revive King afterwards.
• Wataru and Taiga as Dark Kiva ultimately finishing off the berserk reborn King.
• Wataru and Taiga having one last fight under the claims that fighting would help them better undestand each other.
• The series ending with the Riders (plus Masao) and the Arms Monsters transforming right next to each other as they face off against the Neo-Fangires.

Others

Kamen Rider Kiva: You Can Also Be Kiva

• IXA-Cise! Enough said.
  • Also qualifies as a Funny Moment.

Kamen Rider Kiva: King Of The Castle In The Demon World

• The Aso girls both as Ixas finishing off the Medusa Legendorga.
• Nago ultimately defeating Shiramine in their climatic battle.
• Kiva always leaves a Kiva symbol imprint when using his Rider Kick (except in Emperor Form, where Rider Kick is less "kick" and more "repeated foot-blade hacking." Ow!) So in the movie, the fight between a giant-sized Arc and a giant-sized Kiva fused with Castle Doran ends with Kiva slamming the villain into the frigging moon, leaving a massive Kiva symbol imprint. The moon gets better, though.
  • Heck, the fight itself. After Kamen Rider Arc goes One-Winged Angel and becomes more or less a demon, Kiva assumes Flight Style and continues the fight, leading to a city spanning, dog fight between a dragon and a demon. There are few words than can describe the awesomeness of that fight.

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