# Tojima Tanzaburo Wants to Be a Masked Rider (2025)

> A forty-year-old fan dreams of becoming a Kamen Rider until a string of Shocker-style robberies pulls him into real masked heroics.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/191567

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 24
- Episode runtime: 23 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, action, comedy
- Network: Gunma TV, TOKYO MX, BS11, Tochigi TV
- Cast: Katsuyuki Konishi, Ai Kayano, Kenichi Suzumura, Soma Saito, Fairouz Ai, Hiroshi Fujioka, Go Fujii, Shunto Abe
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37532319/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: absurdist, earnest, comedic, playful

## Synopsis

Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider (2025-2026) is a Japanese seinen animated comedy series created from a manga by Shibata Yokusaru, the author of Air Master and 81 Diver, and broadcast on Gunma TV and TOKYO MX. Tojima Tanzaburo (voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi) is a man who turns forty still sincerely longing to become a Kamen Rider, the masked hero of tokusatsu television. His ordinary life offers no route to that dream until he is swept into a run of robberies inspired by the Shocker organization from the classic show. Around him, principal voice cast members Ai Kayano as Yuriko Okada, Kenichi Suzumura as Ichiyo Shimamura, Soma Saito as Mitsuba Shimamura and Fairouz Ai as Yukarisu anchor a set of adults who love the genre a little too much and start playing pretend for real. Each episode of this single 24-episode season mixes slapstick, deadpan fan earnestness and sudden bursts of action in a contemporary Japanese city. The show plays out like a parody with a sincere heart, and it will appeal to fans of Kamen Rider, Air Master and Tiger and Bunny who enjoy grown-up absurdity wrapped around heroic fantasy. Its tone stays cheerful and comic while the stakes of real vigilante violence rise.

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