A parody of Showa Kamen Rider tropes, airing as a segment on the TV show "The Tunnel's Thanks To Everyone" which was hosted by the comedy duo "The Tunnels" who consist of Takaaki Ishibashi & Noritake Kinashi.
The show features Akiji Kobayashi returning as his Tobei Tachibana character, along with certain cameos. Pro-Wrestling fans will notice that Scott Charles "Bam Bam" Bigelow appears as a villian general in the first episode of V2.
The quality of the episodes is rough. The show was an unofficial parody that reportedly killed the image of Showa Kamen Rider in the Japanese public consciousness. Supposedly, Norida was doing better in the ratings than Toei's own Kamen Rider Black-RX.
Toei would acquire the copyright for the Kamen Norida name in 2013, and most famously, Noritake Kinaski would reprise his role as Takeshi Kinashi in the 2019 film Kamen Rider Zi-O: Over Quartzer.
Despite Toei's semi-acceptance of Norida, no DVD set of the show has ever been officially released. Every episode presented has been taken from off-air rips of various quality from the Japanese side of the internet. This torrent has all 71 episodes of Norida + it's 3 specials, along with all 9 episodes of Kamen Norida V2 & some extra goodies.
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