Kamen Rider SD


Kamen Rider SD is the collective title for a series of media released in the 1990s that are based on Toei's popular Kamen Rider Series. It features super deformed versions of the various Kamen Riders featured from Kamen Rider through Black RX placed in a cartoonish world, where each enemy of the Riders has banded together under the command of the "Great Leader" under the name "Gran Shocker".

Manga

The first Kamen Rider SD manga was Kamen Rider SD: Mighty Riders written by Kei Aoki and published in Comic BonBons DX BonBon imprint. The next edition was Kamen Rider SD: Hurricane Legend written by Hiroshi Katō and was published in CoroCoro Comic from January 1992 through April 1993. Takeshi Tamai's Kamen Rider SD: Wild Running Smile School was published in Shogakukan's family comic magazines. Minoru Nonaka's Kamen Rider SD was published in Telebi Land from October 1993 to February 1997. Kamen Rider SD: Bottakun by Yūji Hosoi has been published in Televi-Kun since December 1999.

Video games

The first video game released under the Kamen Rider SD name was Kamen Rider SD: The Ambition of Gran Shocker for the Famicom on January 22, 1993. Kamen Rider SD: Sortie!! Rider Machines was released for the Super Famicom on July 9, 1993. The final video game released with the Kamen Rider SD characters was Kamen Rider SD: Run! Mighty Riders for the Game Boy on August 20, 1993.

Animation

January 23, 1993, saw the release of an original video animation edition of Kamen Rider SD titled Kamen Rider SD: Strange!? Kumo Otoko. The cast was based on the characters from the Hurricane Legend manga, with the main character being Black RX.
The titular theme song was performed by TOM of Tom Cat fame and the ending theme "Wasurekaketa Fairy Tale" was performed by Hironobu Kageyama.