[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I think what really helped Showa Riders regain some popularity while the Heisei Riders were doing their thing on TV during the early 2000s was the manga title Kamen Rider Spirits. I lost track some time later but when I first encounted it, it was AMAZING. The art was beautiful and ZX finally was further fleshed out than that one-shot TV special, at least that is how I remember. Again, I lost track after some time so the details are fuzzy but I still do remember it really made ZX the most badass rider of all time.

You know, I'm a little amazed that (to my limited knowledge) there aren't a steady stream of Kamen Rider manga releases. Here in the US, any moderately successful sci-fi/fantasy/horror TV series can get at least a limited series, if not a raft of spinoffs. I mean, there's a currently-running Blade Runner comic. The idea that a 50-year franchise with dozens of potential characters to flesh out or revisit isn't constantly churning out material... I really don't get it.