Kamen Rider Amazons

The first season of Amazon is all about two Kamen Riders who were created by human experiments and become part of a kaijin hunting group. Honestly pretty gritty and dark stuff. And then of course the focus on the bromance was a plus for me at least.

Katsumi Daido/Kamen Rider Eternal stars in his own movie, Kamen Rider Eternal, as part of Kamen Rider W Returns which was released on July 21, 2011. In the film, unable to properly synch with a normal version of the Eternal Memory, Jun Kazu assumes a weaker form of Eternal called Red Flare.

College student and motorcycle enthusiast Takeshi Hongo is abducted by the evil organization Sustainable Happiness Organization with Computational Knowledge Embedded Remodeling, otherwise known as "Shocker", and converted into Batta Augment-01 as part of their plans for world domination. Before they can brainwash him to do their bidding, he escapes and uses his new enhanced abilities, renaming himself Kamen Rider, to wage a one-man war against Shocker.

New Ultraman, Shinji Kaminaga, a man who could transform into a building-sized hero when various creatures threatened his city.

25 years before Ikki, Daiji, and Sakura were born, a dying and critically injured man was brought into Noah, a scientific research organization. That man, Junpei Shiranami, was given a heart transplant by Masumi Karizaki and recovered. He is then given the Vail Driver and forced to become a powerful demon hunter. Junpei, whose parents were killed by demons, becomes Kamen Rider Vail with revenge in his heart that drives him to fight...

"Tradition. History. Pride. Struggle. Reflection. Courage. Beyond that, there is innovation. Don't lose your dream.

Wake up."

In a world shaped by the dreams we see in our sleep, ZEZTZ enters people’s dreams as an agent on a mission. Equipped with a cutting-edge Rider belt worn across the chest, ZEZTZ brings a bold new form to the battle.

Both shows have Yasuko Kobayashi on the writing staff (she was a sub-writer on GoGoFive and wrote every single episode of both seasons of Amazons), Masashi Taniguchi among the main cast (Go Blue in GoGoFive and Amazon Alpha in Amazons), and put a focus on family dynamics.

Both are not kid friendly tokusatsu shows, with Amazons going more into morally grey and some gruesome visuals, while Garo has some monsters with creepy undertones and some guest characters will show an occasional boob.

The universe is not just one. Within the overlapping layers of the multiverse, there exists another Earth that looks exactly like Earth. In "MultiEarth ?0073", which has entered an era of cosmic coexistence, crimes involving the exploitation of energy-based lifeforms known as "Emorgy" are breaking out one after another. Reiji Doki, an investigator for the Galaxy Federal Police, is Gavan Infinity, the only person in the universe permitted to claim the title of "Space Sheriff Gavan". However, he is stationed in the backwater Archives Department. His true objective is to investigate Emorgy crimes across dimensions. Chasing these inter-dimensional threats, Reiji leaps through space-time, encountering the Gavans of various dimensions and joining forces to bring justice to the multiverse. "Jo-Chaku!" The Space Sheriffs Gavan transcend the boundaries of the universe to strike down evil!

Hidari Shotaro is a detective working in his beloved town Futo. But something is threatening the peace in the town - Gaia's memories, which turn people into monsters. Shotaro has a secret partner, and together they protect Futo.