Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yokusaru Shibata, with cooperation by Toei Company and Ishimori Productions. A spinoff of the Kamen Rider franchise, it began serialization in Hero's Inc.'s manga magazine Monthly Hero's in May 2018. After the magazine's disbandment in October 2020, it was transferred to the Comiplex website in November of the same year. An anime television series adaptation produced by Liden Films premiered in October 2025.
Plot
As a child, Tanzaburo Tojima was an ardent fan of the Kamen Rider show and aspired to not just emulate Kamen Rider, but to actually become one. Despite realizing the show is fictional and that Kamen Rider and the villain organization Shocker doesn't exist, Tojima continues his physical training in seclusion, but ends up as single, 40 year old construction worker. However, Tojima learns of a recent crime wave where criminals are acting like Shocker, once more reviving his desire to become Kamen Rider.Characters
;Tanzaburo Tojima / "Kamen Rider";Yuriko Okada / "Electro-Wave Human Tackle"
;Ichiyo Shimamura / "Kamen Rider V3"
;Mitsuba Shimamura / "Riderman"
;Yukarisu
;Futaba Shimamura
;Hachirō Nakao
;Satoshi Itō
;Fukushi Ishige
;Daisuke Sato
;Kumota /"Spider Man"
;Maki Aikawa / "Tiger Master"
;Sena Seta / "Heavy Chop"
Media
Manga
Written and illustrated by Yokusaru Shibata, Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider began serialization in Hero's Inc.'s manga magazine Monthly Hero's on May 1, 2018. After the final issue of the Monthly Hero's was published on October 30, 2020, the series was transferred to the Comiplex website on November 27 the same year. The series' chapters have been collected into seventeen volumes as of December 2025. The series is licensed in English by Titan Comics.Anime
An anime adaptation produced by Aniplex was announced on March 7, 2025, which was later revealed to be a television series that is animated by Liden Films and directed by Takahiro Ikezoe, with series composition by Touko Machida, characters designed by Cindy H. Yamauchi, and music composed by TeddyLoid. The series premiered on October 5, 2025, on Tokyo MX and other networks. The show will have a second cour that will air in January 2026.The opening theme song is "Wanna be", performed by TeddyLoid featuring Shigeru Matsuzaki and of, while the ending theme song is "One More Time!", performed by TeddyLoid featuring Ryoji Tokito. Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia, and streams it along with an English dub two weeks thereafter. Medialink licensed the series in Southeast Asia.
On September 26, 2025, it was announced that Hiroshi Fujioka would reprise his role as Takashi Hongo a.k.a Kamen Rider 1 in the anime.
To commemorate the broadcast of the second episode, the 30th episode of Kamen Rider Stronger was made available online until noon of October 27, 2025.