The latest visual has been revealed for the ongoing Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider TV anime series, which spotlights the show’s upcoming “Tournament Arc” storyline that will begin with the eighth episode on November 22, 2025. The anime will begin broadcasting in Japan on October 4, 2025.
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, Cindy H. Yamauchi (Divine Gate) as character designer, and TeddyLoid (Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt) as music composer. LIDENFILMS is handling the animation production.
Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes:
- • 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 published by Hero’s Inc.’s Monthly Hero’s magazine on May 1, 2018, before moving to the Comiplex website on November 27, 2020. Sixteen tankobon volumes have been released as of April 2025.
Crunchyroll is streaming the Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider anime series in select countries and territories worldwide, describing the main synopsis 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