Anime Like Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider

Tanzaburo Tojima has spent his life chasing an impossible dream: to become a Kamen Rider. This isn’t TV or anime, though. This is real life where Kamen Rider and his nemesis Shocker don’t exist, but despite pushing 40 years old, Tojima still can’t quite let his childhood fantasy go.

Until one day he ends up caught in a crime wave chasing a fake Shocker only to discover other Kamen hero dreamers and real Kamen villains!

Fueled by hero tales, the legend of his own grandfather, and an enduring sense of justice, the superstar model Masayoshi Hazama turns into the Samurai Flamenco by night.

Featuring a cheesy handmade costume, he tries to foil crime with his nonexistent fighting skills.

In a world where most of the world is born with a supernatural power called a Quirk, student Kouichi Haimawari’s dream is to be a hero just like the ones he admires. Unfortunately, with a weak sliding Qurik that gives him the max speed of a bicycle, there isn’t much use for it in the competitive world of heroing.

In a chance encounter, Kouichi meets two misfits that are living out his dream, despite having weak or no Quirks. With a Quirk-enhancing drug turning normal people into villains, Kouichi teams up with them to put a stop to it.

Humanity has advanced to the point where mechs called Titatonostriders are used for combat in warfare. In a joint training exercise, soldiers from around the world have gathered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu to put their Titatonostriders to the test in combat exercises. Ao Isami from the Japanese Self-Defense Force and Lewis Smith from the United States Marine Corps are two participants that cross paths during a battle.

However, the training exercise is disrupted when an unknown alien enemy starts decimating the surrounding area. With Titatonostrider weaponry proving majorly ineffective, hope seems lost until a giant robot proclaiming himself as Bravern swoops in and tells Isami that he is to be his pilot.

Amnesiac Yuta Hibiki one day encounters Hyper Agent Gridman inside an old computer. Gridman tells him that he needs to fulfill his mission.

While sorting out what that all means, a giant monster attacks his city. Yuta then discovers he can merge with Gridman to fight the monster, but once it is done, everyone’s memories reset and the dead are forgotten.

In the final battle against the Exterminators, Tougo Asagaki, the red ranger of his Super Sentai group, traded his life in order to take out the enemy.

However, instead of dying, Tougo found himself transported to another world, one of swords, monsters, and sorcery. After transforming into Kizuna Red and defeating a powerful monster, he ends up teaming up with a young wizard named Idola to become an adventurer to save people in trouble.

Over a decade ago, the Nefarious Monster Army invaded Earth. However, they were thwarted by the great protectors of humanity, the Dragon Keepers, who wiped out the army’s powerful generals in just under a year.

Now, the foot soldiers of the monster army are forced to put on a show every Sunday where they fight the Dragon Keepers and are killed for the entertainment of the unsuspecting public who don’t know that the war is long over.

Determined to put an end to their cruel farce, a foot soldier monster simply known as D infiltrates the Ranger Force of the Dragon Keepers in an attempt to get their powerful divine artifacts and take out the leaders.

In the city of Kawasaki, the villainous General Vamp is constantly creating schemes for world domination with his minions only to be foiled by Sunred, the stalwart ally of justice that protects the city.

However, in reality, the heroic Sunred is a bit of a jerk. He is rude, violent, and mooches money off his girlfriend to play pachinko all day. Meanwhile, General Vamp and his (mostly harmless) minions are polite and conscientious.