List of Kamen Riders' Appearance in Variety Shows

As one of the most popular Tokusatsu series in Japan, Kamen Riders indeed have chances to shine in various Japanese variety shows, most of them is to promote the newest Kamen Rider release at the time. This is a list of the variety shows that Kamen Riders' suits which means the character in fiction officially appeared and even debut in.
Please note that referencing is not counted in this page. 
==Ameagari Kesshitai's Talk Show Ametalk!==
Ametalk! is a talk show host by Japanese comedy duo aired on TV Asahi since 2003.
Several Kamen Rider actors such as Takushi Tanaka, Hiroshi Tanahashi, and Akira Shinomiya are also regular guests of the show.
===Kamen Rider Artist===
Aired on Augest 4, 2016, the topic for the week's content is Kamen Rider. This topic was chosen by Takushi Tanaka on January 26, 2012. During the show, the Kamen Rider-loving guests talked about the history of Kamen Riders from Kamen Rider to Kamen Rider Ghost, plus Kamen Rider Amazons, the difference between Showa and Heisei Riders, and behind the scenes of Kamen Riders and some cheesy gags and moments of Riders, with the host and guest critically comment them in a taunting style. One of the guests was supposed to introduce the history of Kaijin as well but was shut down by the host and since the filming time wasn't enough, he told him to "do this next time".
At the final section of the show, the TV studio was attacked by three Shocker Combatmen and tickled Takushi Tanaka. This lead Kamen Rider 1, Kamen Rider V3, and Kamen Rider Ghost to appear at the studio to rescue the hosts and guests and stop the escaping Combatmen. Shun Nishime later revealed his face and broke the forth wall to promote the summer stage show performance of Kamen Rider Ghost and . 
The show ends with Shun Nishime introducing Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Level 1 to the public in performing a short burlesque. His design and action shocked the guests of the show. This chronologically marks Ex-Aid's first appearance on television. 
===Kamen Rider Artist 2===
Due to the popularity and success of the rating of the first Kamen Rider Artist, in return, TV Asahi decided to increase the budget and co-operated with Toei and Ishimori Productions to focus on this topic the second time.
Aired on November 27, 2016, the second Kamen Rider Artist let the hosts and guests watch a clip about the history of Kamen Rider again and comment on those cheesy moments in each series. Unlike the previous one, this time the section was divided to Showa and Heisei. They also continued the unfinished topic of Kaijin from the previous talk and noticed the Man Spider legacy. 
However, the show's rating goes down when it makes serious mistakes. Such as the editor and narrator credited and introduced Kamen Rider Necrom as the "Secondary Rider" of Ghost, ironically, they haven't realized that they credit put Kamen Rider Specter's image as "Secondary Rider" few seconds before introducing Necrom. Further more, the guests even had a discussion of the "Number Theory" of Heisei Phase 2 Kamen Riders and tried to convince the audience that it is true. These false information above were all debunked by Toei years later.
At the final section, the group of Shocker Combatmen appeared again and kidnapped Takushi Tanaka. They took him out of the studio and begun to torture him, thankfully, Kamen Rider Ghost and Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Level 2 heard Tanaka's voice and came to save his life. They even performed a parody on episode 18 and episode 25 of Kamen Rider in tribute. Finally, the two Riders destroyed the Shocker Combatmen by using their Rider Kick but the explosion accidentally hurt Takushi, and he returned to the studio with injury makeup.
The show ends with Hiroki Iijima revealed his face and broke the forth wall to promote .
===Kamen Rider Loving Artist===
This is the last Kamen Rider topic program in Ametalk. Aired on November 26, 2017. The hosts and guests mainly compare the total difference
between Showa Riders and Heisei Riders. Including filming, suit design, monster design, CGI, genre, finishers, actors, opening themes, bike and gags.
Hiroshi Tanahashi mentioned that he received the offer of Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legend Riders after the previous Kamen Rider Artist broadcast.
Then again, in the final section another group of Shocker Combatmen along with Space Man Spider and Space Ika Devil attacked the studio and kidnapped Takushi. This time was Kamen Rider Build RabbitTank Form and Kamen Rider Amazon came to save him. Space Man Spider was destroyed by Amazon's Great Slice and Build using the program host's Fullbottle and transformed into LionCleaner Form and used Vortex Finish cleaned up the Shocker Combatmen. 
Finally, Build RabbitTank Form used the Vortex Finish's white energy chart to finish Space Ika Devil, with Amazon also jumping on the chart and performed a Great Slice. Unfortunately, Takushi was also accidentally cut into four pieces by Amazon as a parody to episode 18 of Kamen Rider Amazon. Later, they fixed Takushi by putting him together as a tribute parody to episode 17 of Kamen Rider Black RX and he returned to the studio with surgical suture makeup.
The show ends with Atsuhiro Inukai revealed his face and broke the forth wall to promote Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Final: Build & Ex-Aid with Legend Riders.
==Jungle TV==
Jungle TV was a variety show host by Japanese television celebrity Tamori from 1994 to 2002. The show had an episode about ISSA wearing the mask of Kamen Rider 1 and the Typhoon to fight Shocker Combatmen, while other Showa Riders are all watching aside.
==Music Station==
Music Station is a Japanese music television program started since 1986. On January 29, 2016, to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary, Kishidan performed Warera Omou, Yue Ni Warera Ari on the stage, with Kamen Rider Ghost and Kamen Rider Specter standing alongside the band as the surprise guest. 
Then, on February 3, 2017, Daichi Miura came to the show and performed EXCITE with Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Level 2 fighting Bugster Virus at the background when he was singing and dancing.
Next on August 10, 2019 that DA PUMP performed P. A. R. T. Y. ~Universe Festival~ in the program. Before the song begun, ISSA performed his transformation pose and the footage of Kamen Rider Barlckxs' transformation from Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer was played. In the second part of the song, Kamen Rider Den-O, Kamen Rider Gaim, and Kamen Rider Zi-O jumped out of the stage and joined the dance. Gaim's suit actor twisted his ankle but continued until he finished the dance.
The recent one is on December 25, 2020, Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra and Yoohei Kawakami performed ALMIGHTY ~ Kamen no Yakusoku with Kamen Rider Saber, Kamen Rider Blades, and Kamen Rider Espada.
Rider in Music Station - Kishidan.jpg|Kishidan
Rider in Music Station - Daichi Miura.png|Daichi Miura
Rider in Music Station - DAPUMP.jpg|DA PUMP
Rider in Music Station - Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.jpg|Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra
==NHK Red and White Song Battle==
 is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK. 
During the 49th Battle (1998), with Hiroshi Fujioka portrayed , Ika Devil appeared and attacked with a group of Shocker Combatmen and Chaps. Segata revealed his true identity was actually Kamen Rider 1 to fight Ika Devil's forces alongside Kamen Rider 2, Kamen Rider V3 and Kamen Rider Black RX. 
On the 56th Battle (2005), Kamen Rider Hibiki, along with Kamen Rider Ibuki and Kamen Rider Todoroki, appeared as special guests. They fought against Bakeneko and Uwan when Akira Fuse was performing Shonen Yo. At the end of the song, Shigeki Hosokawa revealed his face and walked out.
However, post-Hibiki Kamen Riders' suits stopped appearing in this eve. For example, Daichi Miura sung EXCITE at the 68th Battle and DA PUMP sung P. A. R. T. Y. ~Universe Festival~ at the 70th Battle, but their song representative Riders (Ex-Aid or Zi-O etc.) are all absent.
==Osamu Hayashi's "Do It Now!" Lecture: Kamen Rider 2-hour Special==
Japanese lecturer is a famous television presenter. Aired On July 13, 2021, this special was aired to celebrate Kamen Rider's 50th Anniversary. Hosted by Tomonori Jinnai, the guest included Hiroshi Fujioka, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Takayuki Tsubaki, Hiroki Iijima, Ruka Matsuda, Syuichiro Naito, Fuku Suzuki, Takeshi Miyazaki, and Shin-ichiro Shirakura. Jun Kaname and Toru Okazaki also recorded footages for this special. The host and guests talked about the popularity of Kamen Rider Series, the formula of Kamen Riders' success, and interesting things from behind the scenes.
At the ending credit section, the broadcasting room was attacked by Shocker Combatmen but they are suddenly defeated by Kamen Rider Saber and , and ended with the two heroes promoting .
==Quiz, 100 People Asked==
Aired in summer 1992, the quiz show had a special themed after "Ultraman VS Kamen Rider, Dream Hero Deuling". Akiji Kobayashi, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Ryo Hayami, Shigeru Araki and Yoji Matsuda were get invited and teamed up as "Team Kamen Rider" in against "Team Ultraman" at the other side in this special. "Team Kamen Rider" eventually won the prize of traveling in Hawaii for all members at the end.
Kamen Rider 1 (and Ultraman at the other side) appeared respectively in the show without any talking.
==Shin Sekai Metaverse TV==
A -style talk show host by Tomokazu Seki. On December 11, 2022, the show held a special collaboration with Kamen Rider Geats, with the cast member Hideyoshi Kan, Ryuga Sato, Yuna Hoshino and Kazuto Mokudai joined as guests. At the beginning of the day's show, a Pawn Jyamato attacked the studio and was eliminated by Kamen Rider Geats. 
==There is such a place. Saturday Certain Dinner Party: Assembly of Past Kamen Riders==
Aired on August 5, 2017 and hosted by comedian and HKT48 member . Assembly of Past Kamen Riders invited Hiroki Iijima, Kento Handa, Shun Nishime, Tetsuo Kurata, Toru Okazaki and Hiroshi Fujioka to their show to talk about the behind the scenes of Kamen Rider. They also invited Koichi Sakamoto and Riku Sanjo as special guests. Toru Okazaki even wore the same clothes in the final episode of Kamen Rider Amazon.
The invitees watched a clip about history of Kamen Riders and asked the respective actors to talk about the things that happened during filming their series. There is also a discussion between actors about how to deal with children who acknowledge them in daily life. Satoshi Morota's partiality in water. Koichi Sakamoto's partiality in female characters' legs, and the actors who became extremely popular after performing main Heisei Riders such as Takeru Satoh, Masaki Suda, Sota Fukushi, and Ryoma Takeuchi.
A special section is the reveal of the filming of final episode, which included scenes of Kamen Rider Cronus holding Gamedeus' weapon in his Chronicle Gamer form.
At the end of the show, Kamen Rider Build officially debuted for the first time on television in this show. It ends with Hiroshi Fujioka questioning if the suit actor of Build could actually see through the helmet or not and made everyone laugh. https://nihonhero.weebly.com/home/pre-broadcast-report-kamen-riders-in-variety-show-aruaru-bansankai
==The World's Astonishing News==
Aired on Augest 29, 2007, the day's show invited Shigeki Hosokawa, Mayu Gamou and Rina Akiyama as special guest. After the show reviewed the history of Kamen Rider Series, Shocker Combatmen attacked the studio and Siomaneking kidnapped a kid. Soon actor Hiroshi Fujioka, Hiroshi Miyauchi and Ryo Hayami arrived at the studio and transformed into their roles respectively as Kamen Rider 1, V3 and X. After they defeated Shocker and saved the kid, the trio Showa Rider original casts joined the guest and talked about their past experiences.
==World Gymnastics Championships==
In the sports show World Gymnastics Championships, Kamen Rider Zero-One appeared as special guest to help the athletics brothers Wataru and Sho Tanigawa to fight the Trilobite Magia using their special gymnastics skills.
==Zenryoku-zaka==
 is a variety show produced by TV Asahi that features female celebrities running on a hill and talking about their feelings at the destination. In recent years, the show has gone on to include male celebrities as well, though young women continue to be the show's main focus.https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/saka/runner/
To promote various films in the Kamen Rider franchise, the show has featured guest cast and characters from the series.
*The 2587th and 2588th episodes featured Shieri Ohata and Kamen Rider Tsukuyomi in order to promote Kamen Rider: Reiwa The First Generation. 
*The 2906th episode featured Kamen Rider Saber running and handover to (which links to the 2907th episode) in order to promote .
*The 2991st and 3190th episodes featured Kamen Rider Revi, Kamen Rider Vice and Kamen Rider Geats in order to promote Kamen Rider Geats × Revice: Movie Battle Royale.
*The 3387th and 3388th episodes featured Kamen Rider Gotchard and Reiyo Matsumoto in order to promote Kamen Rider The Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation. 
ZenryokuZakaTsukuyomi.jpg|Tsukuyomi
ZenryokuZakaSaber.jpg|Saber
ZenryokuzakaGeatsRevice.jpg|Revi, Vice & Geats
ZenryokuzakaGotchard.jpg|Gotchard
==External links==
*Kamen Rider Artist 1 on Bilibili (Japanese)
* Kamen Rider Artist 2 on Bilibili (Japanese)
* Kamen Rider Artist 3 on Bilibili (Japanese)
*Konna Tokoro ni aruaru ga. Doyoubi aruaru Bansankai on Bilibili (Japanese)
*Shieri Ohata's Zenryokuzaka on YouTube
* Tsukuyomi's Zenryokuzaka on YouTube
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