[Layton13]

Personally speaking, I prefer Kamen Rider now.

While not as overtly dark as in the 2000s, it still has a lot of dark subject matter, just tackled better than a lot of murder and violence for seeming shock value, and that coming from someone who loved Faiz.

We have monsters that are allegories for depression and drug use, eldritch abominations from a different planet that try to consume everything, a virus that can erase you from existence, take your face and walk around with it all while you can't do anything to stop it, human experimentation, comatose people so you can more or less harvest their organs, being drowned out of the blue, suffocate in your car thanks to dirt falling attop of you.

Kamen Rider has still a lot of dark tones, they are just, in my opinion, handled better than just senseless violence and murder. I'd argue, with them pushing these themes more into the background they can do far more with them.