New Kamen Rider Series On Its Way

Posted 6 hrs ago by Valerie D'Orazio in Manga, TV

It's difficult to overstate how much the Kamen Rider franchise has impacted Japanese pop-culture. Since the tokusatsu (a live-action superhero-based TV drama or movie with lots of special-effects) series debuted in 1971, the grasshopper-themed motorcycle-riding hero has spawned many TV series, movies, and manga. Even two minor planets were named in tribute to the character: 12408 Fujioka, after the actor, Hiroshi Fujioka, who played Kamen Rider #1, and 12796 Kamenrider.
Now an eagle-eyed fan has spotted that the name "Kamen Rider Fouze" has just been registered...meaning that it will become the 13th Heisei Kamen Rider series. The Heisei era of Kamen Rider began in 1993 and has lasted up to the present; it has been mostly defined by multiple Kamen Riders and a relationship with Honda for the motorcycles used in the series.
It was originally thought that the name of the next series was going to be "Kamen Rider Dragon," but this discovery puts an end to those rumors. It is believed that in the new series Ryuki Takahashi, a member of D-Boys (a young male actors group in Japan), will play a high school student who inherits the Kamen Rider Fouze Rider System from his father.