Kamen Rider where you don't expect him with Karn EX - Kamen Rider Refrences

What Kamen Rider refrences have I missed?

You couldn't have watched the Super Mario Bros CGI movie without jumping out of your seat when you see both Mario and Luigi jump to the air and perform A FRICKING DOUBLE RIDER KICK

As I recall, Fred in Big Hero Six has an entire room of hero memorabilia, including either helmets or masks very similar to both Super Sentai and Kamen Rider.

Fun fact: the actor for Woz from Kamen Rider Zi-O Keisuke Watanabe is the main character in the MV Jay Chou's song Won't Cry. The song also featured the main vocalist from Mayday. Fun fact about the band Mayday: they have a MV that heavily featured Ultraman Neos. There are alot of Taiwanese celebrities that are big fans for tokusatsu series. Haiyore Nyaruko-san have a lot of Kamen Rider references. There is an episode of Koreha Zombie desuka where Seraphim performed Burning Divide. I would also heavily debate that Digimon Frontier is heavily inspired by Sentai and Kamen Rider series.

Now we need a Precure inspired Disney Princess.

I think one of my favorite Kamen Rider inspired sets is the Masked Hero cards in Yu-Gi-Oh technically they were used by Jayden/Judai inthe manga but definitely one of my favorite Decks to use in the TCG

I know it's not from the Japanese version directly, but after Saban's Mask Rider failed to meet the success of Power Rangers after its first season, the music scores/background music in the show was recycled into the Digimon Dub. I think it's a cool connection to note considering they are both mentioned in this video :)

So happy you mentioned the Powerman 5000 album covers. I was afraid I was the only one who knew.

A show called Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go has a ton of references to all things by Ishinomori. Nova is seen doing Ichigo's pose at the end of the intro and even have a KR inspired team called The Sun Riders.

You can't talk about Kamen Rider references in anime without talking about THE loveletter (and studio swan song) to everything Tokusatsu, super-hero, comic books and everything in-between, Samurai Flamenco. Definitely one of my favorite anime of all time. There's too many Rider references in the show to name them all. Just believe me and watch it blind, you're in for a ride.

Okay. One more from me...Did you Know...in "Puffy AmiYumi". Yumi has a childhood friend called "Atchaman" (I think that was their name). The character wears this costume because they were motivated by their personal hero that was bug themed and Atchaman's costume, from my memory, looks too much like a nod to Kamen Rider V3

I'm pretty sure You already know, but there is a whole Yugioh archetype called "Masked Hero" where each individual monster is a nod to a specific Kamen rider. They where very meta back in the day.

There's a little known Australian parody series called 'Danger 5' which pays significant tribute to Kamen Rider and Tokusatsu in general. Check out the final battle.

10:30 I like how Ichigo is just chilling with Ultraseven. That was no coincidence.

If you’re looking for something in Disney category for Kamen Rider, a Disney animated series called Amphibia by Matt Braly, has a Kamen Rider reference in season three episode seven’s first half called “Spider-Sprig”. Originally I didn’t know it was a Kamen Rider reference until I read the Amphibia Wiki for the episode because Kamen Rider’s design reminded me of a fictional movie called “Tarantulad: The World I Call Home”. I then learned that it was a Kamen Rider reference. The creator Matt enjoys using media he grew up with and his own Thai culture to influence the making of his show. I am now currently watching Kamen Rider: Zero One and thoroughly enjoying it.

I have a video suggestion that you might find interesting. Whenever Kamen Rider/Ultraman is referenced in Japanese media, it's not really that surprising since both franchises are insanely popular in that country. I think Tokusatsu references in anime, J-drama, or Japanese games are pretty common. What I do think might be interesting is finding a Kamen Rider/Ultraman reference where you absolutely would not expect there to be one such as a Zetton figure appearing in Black Mirror or a parody of Kamen Rider V3 showing up on TV in an episode of Fairly Oddparents. The Kamen Rider wiki has quite a list of non-Japanese shows where Kamen Rider is referenced lol

10:06 That V3 transformer looks exactly like how someone would try to make a Kamen Rider out of a CAST (brain in a jar cyborg robot, the male ones usually resembling anime mecha) in PSO2

I like to think the ones in How I Met Your Mother and Liv and Maddie are just accidental references because the producers of those shows probably had no idea what those toys were, they just put them there at random lol. As for the rest of the references in this list, though, I'm sure the people who put those there are actual fans and wanted to give a shout out.

I’d honestly LOVE a Kingdom Hearts-inspired“key”-motif kamen rider!!!

Another anime with a big Kamen Rider reference is Crayon Shin Chan. Shin Chan's favorite tv show is Action Kamen, renamed Action Bastard for the US gag-dub. While not Kamen Rider, the cartoon series Amphibia does feature an out-of-nowhere tokusatsu reference. In the season 1 episode Snow Day, the entire town goes into hibernation, when the temperature drops. Anne declares she's the town protector, and strikes a Gavan pose. Considering the show also references G Gundam and Shin Getter Robo, it's highly unlikely to be a coincidence.