Save the world old-school style with the Kamen Rider Manga Omnibus, a collection of the Kamen Rider Classic manga that will soon be available collected and in English.
Licensed by Seven Seas, Kamen Rider The Classic Manga Collection compiles all four volumes of the classic Kamen Rider manga and will be available in hardcover later this December. This omnibus is 800 pages long, encompassing the manga’s four-volume run. with all the goodness of the Kamen Rider manga you remember growing up, or for the fan just getting into one of the most persistent superheroes in pop culture.
Seven Seas describes the manga as follows:
Fans the world over have long been enthralled by tales of Kamen Rider, the masked, motorcycle-riding superhero who protects the world from injustice. Kidnapped and experimented upon by the evil terrorist organization known as Shocker, Takeshi Hongo manages to escape their clutches and use his newfound strength to fight against their schemes. The adventures of Kamen Rider span dozens of television series and films, but in these pages are collected his very first adventures in manga print, drawn and written by original creator and manga superstar Shotaro Ishinomori. This beautiful hardcover edition, over 800 pages long, contains the entirety of Volumes 1-4 of Kamen Rider in an all-new translation.
Seven Seas has published many English adaptations of manga, including the popular Himouto Umaru-Chan, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid as well as the anime-upcoming High Rise Invasion.
Kamen Rider is one of the most prominent series of the Tokusatsu genre, featuring masked heroes in latex suits doing fancy acrobatics and stunts with largely practical effects. The franchise has had many series, all with their own Riders at the helm and reflecting the eras from which they were made.