I remember Bubblegum Crisis. I even own the Blu-Ray boxset and the 2040 series on DVD. A lot of these animes that people posted are Mecha and Magical Girl anime. I don't think most of them count.

Here is a list of anime & manga that are inspired by Toku superheros and kajiu series or feel close to being a Toku superhero or kajiu TV show or movie.

8 Man (Even got a Toku live action film. 8 Man is the first robot superhero coming nearly a decade before Kamen Rider)
Apocalypse Zero
Astro Fighter Sunred
Baoh
Borgman
Bubblegum Crisis
Casshern
Cybernetics Guardian
Dokkoida?!
Demon Lord Dante (Go Nagai mention that his love for Kajiu films help inspire him to create Demon Lord Dante from what I can recall)
Detonator Orgun
Devilman (At least the 1972 TV series)
Gatchaman
Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
Junk: Record of the Last Hero (manga only)
Karas
Hikaruon
MetalJack
Microman
Ratman (manga only)
Sadamitsu the Destroyer
Samurai Flamenco
Shinesman
SoulTaker
Takegami: Guardian of Darkness
Tekkaman
Tiger & Bunny
Wingman
Yatterman
Zetman

That's all I can find for now. People told me that both Active Raid and Concrete Revolutio are inspired by Toku superheroes or at least feel like it. I haven't watch them yet.

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I would say so. Sho Fukamachi can transform into a powerful bio armor being that has to fights a evil organization that creates grotesque experimental monsters similar to Kamen Rider with Shocker. I saw The Guyver long before I watch anything Kamen Rider related. Shocker did remind me of Chronos when I first became a fan of Kamen Rider.

The Guyver seems to be inspire by both Kamen Rider and the Devilman manga (Sho and Akira both have another life form fuse inside them, both kill various monster opponents that can morph into humans with similar levels of ultra violence and must keep their humanity intact to avoid becoming total monsters).

well there is that one OVA Campus Special Investigator Hikaruon and that anime short for gridman

Moldiver is another Toku superhero style type of anime. It deals with a female superhero who can henshin with the "Mol-Unit" device.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nasofB06is

I think I remember something about Moldiver yeeeeeeaaaaaaars ago. Isn't the female hero a bit of a ditz?

I know Digimon was brought up before but season 4 aka Frontier really is a Digimon flavored Sentai.

I dunno outside of one instance Miki's murder Akira never loses control and outside of the Amon OVA there's no struggle in Akira really.

Devilman Lady does a much better job of that even if I think it's mostly perverted garbage.

does samurai troopers aka ronin warriors count as a henshin hero?

Someone say-

*straightens tie*

Not quite in the same vein as say, Riders or Sentai, but yes. They fit the trope.