BIMA Satria Garuda


BIMA Satria Garuda is an Indonesian tokusatsu and comic series, the result of cooperation between MNC Media with Ishimori Productions, creator of the Japanese Kamen Rider Series. Starring Christian Loho, Rayhan Febrian, Stella Cornelia, Adhitya Alkatiri, and Sutan Simatupang, BIMA Satria Garuda premiered on RCTI on 30 June 2013.
Following the success of the series, a 50 episodes Second Season series titled Satria Garuda BIMA-X premièred RCTI on Sunday, September 7, 2014, at 08.30 pm, with the title of Satria Garuda BIMA-X: New Beginning. The series announced its first theatrical film, titled Satria Heroes Bima X: Revenge of Darkness and scheduled to release in the first quarter of 2017.

Production

BIMA Satria Garuda is a superhero series inspired by Kamen Rider Black and Kamen Rider Black RX, collectively known in Indonesia as "Ksatria Baja Hitam". BIMA Satria Garuda features Indonesian values and culture to become a new Indonesian super hero. The series films in Greater Jakarta. According to Reino Barack, Senior Vice President of PT. Global Mediacom as well as Executive Producer of the series, BIMA Satria Garuda is also intended to be a new business model in the world of entertainment in Indonesia that offer services in the form of a new product campaign in licensing, sponsorship, built in advertising and merchandising. MNC Media in cooperation with Itochu will be the main licensee for BIMA Satria Garuda in building licensing business in Indonesia. Itochu is one of Japan's largest conglomerates in the licensing business in the world, as well as investing in Ishimori Productions since 2007. MNC Media has also worked with Bandai to produce "BIMA Satria Garuda" merchandise toys which was released in Indonesia since the series premiered on June 30, 2013.

Story

The story of BIMA Satria Garuda begins in the Dunia Paralel, a world which is ruled by VUDO Empire and is on the verge of collapse. The Parallel World is a world that lives in perpetual darkness, where nature has no source of life because of VUDO's ambitions for power. Rasputin is the evil and cruel lord of VUDO. He wants to find another world, to seize its natural resources to revive the Parallel World and expand VUDO's powers. Two scientists on Earth manages to create a portal that connects the Earth and other galaxies, which on VUDO's advantage finally reveal a target world that can be seized.
Ray Bramasakti is given the Power Stone Merah from a mysterious young man named Mikhail to stop Rasputin and VUDO's evil attempts to take over Earth. By possessing the Power Stone Merah, Ray has the power to transform into BIMA, the Garuda Knight. Randy Iskandar and his sister Rena are Ray's foster family who become involved in Ray's fight against malicious activities of Rasputin and VUDO.

Comic

, executive producer and co-creator of BIMA Satria Garuda announced via his Twitter account that a series of comics which is based on the story of BIMA Satria Garuda will be published on 24 November 2013. The comic is illustrated by duo comic artist Ockto Baringbing and Hendry Zero. The comic is published by cooperation of RCTI and Ishimori Productions and distributed through Alfamart outlets in the scope of the Greater Jakarta.

Characters

Main characters

VUDO's monsters are VUDO combatant officers that gains power from absorbing the soul of humans.
The Shadow Crisis Ultimate Four quartet is a group of elite VUDO officers with the sole mission to kill BIMA and retrieve the stolen Power Stones back to activate Grand Gator machine. They do not need to absorb human soul because of their innate strength from VUDO's Power Stones. Shadow Crisis appears from Episode 18.

Second season

In June 2014, MNC announced that they will be back in collaboration with their two Japanese partner companies, Ishimori Productions and Itochu to produce the Second Season of the series. The Second Season will feature 50 episodes, doubling the number of episodes of its First Season. With a slight change in the title from the First Season, Satria Garuda BIMA-X series will start in a special premiere on RCTI on Sunday, September 7, 2014, at 08.30 am, with the title of Satria Garuda BIMA-X: New Beginning. The premiere episode will air with a duration of 90 minutes, and will be re-aired again on September 13, 2014 at 15.30 pm, then continued by weekly 30-minute show from September 14, 2014.

Songs

;Opening and Ending theme
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