A new visual for the ongoing Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime series has been unveiled, highlighting a showdown between Tojima and a Shocker monster. The anime premiered in Japan on October 4, 2025 is broadcasting for two consecutive cours.
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The visual is drawn by series character designer Cindy H. Yamauchi (Divine Gate).
Takahiro Ikezoe (SHOW BY ROCK!!) is directing the anime series, with Toko Machida (7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!) as series composer and TeddyLoid (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt) as music composer. LIDENFILMS is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast stars:
- • Katsuyuki Konishi as Tanzaburo Tojima
- • Ai Kayano as Yuriko Okada
- • Kenichi Suzumura as Ichiyo Shimamura
- • Soma Saito as Mitsuha Shimamura
- • Fairouz Ai as Yukarisu
The anime is based on the tokusatsu manga series by Yokusaru Shibata. It was first launched in Hero’s Inc.’s Monthly Hero’s magazine on May 1, 2018, before being moved to the Comiplex website on November 27, 2020. Seventeen tankobon volumes have been released as of December 2025. Titan Manga licensed the manga for English release.
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Crunchyroll is streaming Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider in select countries and territories worldwide, describing the series as:
Even after turning 40 years old, Tojima Tanzaburo still seriously wants to be a Kamen Rider. Just when it seems like his dream may never come true, he gets caught up in a series of infamous Shocker-inspired robberies… Shibata Yokusaru, the author of Air Master and 81 Diver, presents a story about adults who love Kamen Rider a little too much, and start playing pretend… for real!
Sources: Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider Official Twitter, Crunchyroll News
