Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider echoes Marvel's Wonder Man — streaming on Crunchyroll

Published Feb 1, 2026: Polygon recommends the 2025 anime Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider on Crunchyroll for fans of Marvel’s new show Wonder Man, noting strong similarities in premise and tone. The first episode of Wonder Man opens with footage from a fictional in-universe Wonder Man movie that resembles 1970s tokusatsu like Kamen Rider: a jetpacked hero in a Super Sentai–style suit fighting Shocker-like alien enemies.

In the MCU series, Simon Williams (Yahya Abdul‑Mateen II) idolized that hero as a child and later hides real superpowers he can lose control of when anxious. Tojima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider follows a 40‑year‑old man who trained his mind, body, and soul to become Kamen Rider and as a result gained superhuman strength and durability.

When he encounters an actual Combatman and other characters who embody Riders — Yuriko (Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle), Ichiyo (Kamen Rider V3) and Mitsuba (Riderman) — it becomes clear his delusion has real consequence. Polygon draws parallels between the two protagonists’ motivations: both Simon and Tojima grew up idolizing pulp heroes as a refuge from difficult childhoods.

In Wonder Man, a trip to the cinema arranged by Simon’s father after bullying helped him find films that eased his isolation; Tojima was often left alone and bullied, which deepened his devotion to Kamen Rider. Other characters in the anime share similar origin points, like Yuriko being introduced to the series by her father.

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