Kamen Rider Spirits

Kamen Rider SPIRITS
Cover of Volume 1 by Kodansha
仮面ライダーSPIRITS (Kamen Raidā Supirittsu)
Genre	Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction
Manga
Written by	Kenichi Muraeda Shotaro Ishinomori (Original Story)
Illustrated by	Kenichi Muraeda
Published by	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Magazine Z
Original run	2001 – 2009
Volumes	16
Manga
Shin Kamen Rider Spirits
Written by	Kenichi Muraeda Shotaro Ishinomori (Original Story)
Illustrated by	Kenichi Muraeda
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Monthly Shōnen Magazine
Original run	2009 – present
Volumes	14

Kamen Rider SPIRITS (仮面ライダーSPIRITS^?, Kamen Raidā Supirittsu, trans. Masked Rider Spirits) is an ongoing manga adaptation of the popular Kamen Rider franchise by Kenichi Muraeda. The focus of the story is on the original ten Kamen Riders with shifting focus on main characters. The original series ended when Magazine Z ceased publication and was then revived in Monthly Shōnen Magazine under the title Shin Kamen Rider SPIRITS (新・仮面ライダーSPIRITS^?, Shin Kamen Raidā Supirittsu, New Masked Rider SPIRITS).

Taking place after the end of the Kamen Rider Super-1 television series, Kamen Rider Spirits begins by following the lives of the original Kamen Riders in various stand-alone stories. The manga then introduces the tenth Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider ZX, ignoring the events of the Birth of the 10th! Kamen Riders All Together!! television special and providing an alternate origin story. The manga also ties up loose story ends from the various TV series, such as how Riderman survived the Pluton Rocket Explosion and why Stronger's partner, Tackle, was never acknowledged as a Kamen Rider.

Kamen Rider Spirits is composed of three different arcs, each focusing on different Kamen Riders. The first arc is composed of several stand alone stories that focus on the original nine Kamen Riders who, no longer a team, have all gone their separate ways. After discovering suspicious activity going on all over the world, the Kamen Riders realize that a new evil is rising.

The second arc of the manga, known as Kamen Rider ZX: Forget Memories, focuses on the new Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider ZX, and gives the character an alternate story, ignoring his origin in the Birth of the 10th! Kamen Riders All Together!! TV special. The second arc also introduces the Badan Empire, the story's main villains.