Revisit a Classic Japanese Superhero In Our Look Inside Kamen Rider Kuuga’s Manga

Kamen Rider’s lengthy historical past on this planet of Japanese superheroes has a little bit of a spot—after exploding within the ‘80s, Kamen Rider largely vanished from screens outside of a few movies for nearly a decade, while its sibling superhero franchise Super Sentai resurged in popularity. That all changed with the dawn of the 21st century—and the arrival of a legendary new Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider Kuuga marked the franchise’s return to common TV screens in Japan in January 2000, the tenth Kamen Rider collection however the very first of the Heisei interval, a brand new, standalone collection that revitalized and re-imagined what Kamen Rider may very well be within the twenty first century. Clearly, it labored: 22 years later, Kamen Rider is greater than ever, and slowly however absolutely on the cusp of constructing inroads into official entry to its fandoms outdoors of Japan. Case in level, the long-awaited official launch of the 2014 Kuuga manga adaptation, now ultimately arriving in English from Titan Comics.

For our final little sneak preview of all issues Kamen Rider comics this week, io9 is worked up to present you a glance contained in the English-language launch of the primary two volumes of Kamen Rider Kuuga. Written by Toshiki Inoue and drawn by Hitotsu Yokoshima, the manga adapts the 49-episode TV collection with some modifications, not simply onboarding newcomers to the Kamen Rider franchise—in some ways simply as the unique present did in 2000—but in addition integrated characters and worldbuilding parts from the occasions of Kuuga’s successor collection, Kamen Rider Agito, which served as an oblique sequel.

The first two volumes of Kamen Rider Kuuga are set to hit cabinets this November. Click by to see unique pages from the first volume, in addition to a sneak-peek at volume two!