For the 55th birthday of Kamen Rider, Toei and Ishimori Productions are expanding the franchise’s past and future in big ways.
During a Friday event celebrating the tokusatsu series, the two companies revealed a relaunched YouTube that’ll begin streaming legacy series for the first time starting next Saturday, April 11. On that, the third episodes for Kamen Rider Agito and Kabuto will premiere on the channel, folled by two episodes a piece premiering each week with a limited four-week window and English subtitles. The first two episodes for both shows are already available, and the series both have significant milestones this year: as of this past January, Agito is 25 and Kabuto is 20.
As for what comes next, there’s already another show on the horizon after the currently airing Kamen Rider Zeztz, and that’d be Kamen Rider MY-TH. While details on that are nonexistent, we did learn Toei’s changing things up on the Rider films. Going forward, there’ll be three individual divisions: “Chronicle,” which takes after earlier entries and already has a new Den-O movie in production; “Animated,” whose first project is a collaboration with Aniplex telling new and continuing stories in the series; and “Premium,” whose projects will aim for broad appeal with a focus on “globally oriented blockbuster entertainment.”
Like with MY-TH, more details on these new Kamen Rider projects will arrive over time. But it goes without saying that Ishinori and Toei have big plans for the series to keep going and going, and we’ll see how those efforts fare in the next few years.
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