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Originally Posted by prfctcellrulz

And they actually recognized it was adapted by calling it Masked Rider.

Nah that’s not why they’re calling it that.
Why they’re doing it is actually kinda interesting though. Basically U
up until Decade, or maybe W I can’t remember which, Toei used Masked Rider as their official Romanization because that’s the most literal translation, W onwards used Kamen Rider because they started treating that more like a proper noun which didn’t need to be translated. To keep things consistent, i guess, Toei and Bandai use both phrases to describe different “phases” of the franchise.