Season Analysis

Kamen Rider

Season 22 Analysis

Season Woke Score

out of 10

Season Overview

Amanogawa High School is no stranger to high-school drama, but what happens when that drama involves monsters?! Enter yankee-styled transfer student Gentaro Kisaragi and the Kamen Rider Club, combatting the threat of the Zodiarts threatening their school days as Kamen Rider Fourze!

Season Review

Kamen Rider Fourze is a youth-centric, sci-fi school drama that is fundamentally defined by the theme of universal friendship (Kizuna). The show's narrative focuses entirely on the transfer student Gentaro Kisaragi's mission to befriend everyone in his school, including the monsters and their users, contrasting this radical optimism with the cynicism and misuse of power by the adult villains. The entire conflict is driven by individual character flaws like loneliness, jealousy, and ego, rather than any systemic or identity-based oppression. The high school setting is presented as a place of genuine connection worth protecting. Female characters are highly competent, intelligent, and possess significant authority within the social hierarchy of the school, but this is presented as earned merit and does not come at the expense of the male hero's vitality. The morality is overtly transcendent: true strength comes from selfless connection, and the destruction sought by the villains is unequivocally evil. There is no presence of modern social-political ideology within the season's 2011 framework, resulting in a very low 'woke' mind virus detection.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The core of the series is the protagonist's goal to make friends with every student regardless of their clique, social status, or personality. The narrative judges characters solely on their actions, particularly their willingness to form or accept 'Kizuna' (bonds of friendship). The conflicts are rooted in individual student issues like loneliness, vanity, or resentment, never on immutable characteristics or a lecture on social privilege. The cast is all Japanese high school students, making race or 'whiteness' dynamics irrelevant to the plot.

Oikophobia1/10

The main hero and the Kamen Rider Club dedicate their lives to protecting their home institution, Amanogawa High School, and the people within it from threats. The institution itself is viewed as the central pillar of the students' lives. The main antagonists are adults who use their positions of power within the school for selfish, often megalomaniacal, purposes related to space, which critiques individual corruption, not the national or cultural foundations of the setting.

Feminism3/10

Female characters are highly competent and essential to the team. Yuki Jojima is the co-founder, resident science expert, and technical support who is devoted to achieving her space dream through her intellect. Miu Kazashiro is explicitly referred to as the 'Queen' whose authority outranks her male counterpart 'King,' establishing a strong female power dynamic based on earned popularity. They show strength and vulnerability, but no male character is broadly emasculated, nor are the women presented as being flawless ‘Mary Sues.’ The primary focus is on friendship and career goals, making anti-natalist messaging irrelevant.

LGBTQ+1/10

The focus of the entire series is non-romantic, non-sexual friendship. The high school setting and early 2010s production era mean that sexual ideology, alternative sexualities, or gender theory are entirely absent. The primary relationship dynamic is that of wholesome, universal camaraderie.

Anti-Theism2/10

The show's philosophical core, Gentaro's ‘Friendship’ creed, functions as a clear, objective moral law where selfless connection is the ultimate good and source of strength. The villains' pursuit of power and willingness to destroy Earth for a self-serving, non-religious goal (to meet an alien intelligence) represents a clear, objective evil. The morality is transcendent, opposing moral relativism with a simple, universally applied virtue.