10 Facts About Kamen Rider

Kamen Rider Series, known as Masked Rider Series, is a Japanese superhero media franchise consisting of tokusatsu television programs, films, manga, and anime, created by manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori.

Similar to its counterpart, each series focuses on a different Rider, a new set of characters and a different story set in its own universe, though there been multiple instances of past characters from previous Kamen Rider series crossing over to team up against a common foe.

Kamen Rider, known as simply Rider, is a collective name referring to the eponymous heroes and numerous individuals of the series.

Kamen Rider Black premiered in 1987, the first series not hinting at a relationship to its predecessors.

The staff of W said that they planned to make 10 more years of Kamen Rider, differentiating subsequent series from the Kuuga through Decade period.

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The hero of Kamen Rider W is the first Kamen Rider to transform from two people at once, and the series premiered on September 6,2009.

In 2016 the Kamen Rider series celebrated its 45th anniversary, and Toei released the film Kamen Rider 1 on March 26,2016.

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid was introduced in 2016 and was the first Rider series to have a character, Kiriya Kujo, portray the main Rider's motorcycle.

In 1975, Chaiyo Productions made an unofficial Kamen Rider movie entitled Hanuman and the Five Riders, which used original footage of Chaiyo's Hanuman character, spliced with footage from the "Five Riders Vs King Dark" movie.

In One Punch Man, the C Class Hero Mumen Kamen Rider is a parody, being an ordinary man in a world of superhuman beings, riding a bicycle rather than a motorcycle.