Q 01/05

Which manga artist, also the creator of Cyborg 009, dreamed up the bug-eyed hero Kamen Rider?

A) Osamu Tezuka

B) Fujiko F. Fujio

C) Shotaro Ishinomori

D) Mitsuteru Yokoyama

Answer · why

C) Shotaro Ishinomori

Shotaro Ishinomori holds the Guinness World Record for most comics published by one author, more than 128,000 pages. A producer asked him to design a ...

Q 02/05

Takeshi Hongo, the original Kamen Rider who debuted in 1971, has a helmet modelled on which insect?

A) A praying mantis

B) A grasshopper

C) A dragonfly

D) A cicada

Answer · why

B) A grasshopper

A grasshopper became the motif when the hero was redesigned in planning. The show had started out as an adaptation of an earlier manga called Skull Ma...

Q 03/05

Which evil organisation kidnaps student Takeshi Hongo and rebuilds him as the first Kamen Rider?

A) Gorgom

B) Destron

C) Dogma

D) Shocker

Answer · why

D) Shocker

Shocker meant to brainwash Hongo as well, but he escaped just before that final step and turned his new strength against his makers.

Q 04/05

Which word do Kamen Rider heroes shout while striking a pose to trigger their transformation belts?

A) Henshin

B) Gattai

C) Bankai

D) Jouchaku

Answer · why

A) Henshin

Henshin means 'transformation', and the first show's popularity set off what Japan called the Henshin Boom of superhero television in the early 1970s.

Q 05/05

Which Neon Genesis Evangelion creator wrote and directed the 2023 reboot film Shin Kamen Rider?

A) Hideaki Anno

B) Shinji Higuchi

C) Mamoru Oshii

D) Makoto Shinkai

Answer · why

A) Hideaki Anno

Hideaki Anno made it his third reimagining of a classic Japanese screen hero, after Shin Godzilla and Shin Ultraman, to mark the franchise's 50th anni...