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Originally Posted by Tiberius

Is it dubbed? I am one of those "gotta be dubbed" guys.

Kamen Rider Kabuto is, but as suggested, you may want to stick to subs.

Depends on what kind of series you prefer too. They have a tendency to progressively get more and more corny. Black and Black RX are 80s series and reflect the times, but are still decent and hold up.

Kuuga is interesting but kind of dated. It was the first of the revitalizing the brand for present day and probably had the smallest budget of the new series. (2000)

Agito many like, personally I had a hard time getting into it. It has some interesting concepts though like a prototype police suit, maintenance staff, and carrier wagon for it. The police technology side of the story on Agito did hook me, but it wasn't the focal point of the series. (2001)

Ryuuki is fun and presents interesting moral questions. (2002)

Faiz is awesome. But fair warning, the show has a lot of intentional misinformation that allows the bad guys to hype themselves up and it's never truly explained what they are. There are also other questions about the belt origins as whether they are ancient artifacts or new technology even though it's presented as technology. (2003)

Blade is epic. I made the mistake of watching episode 2 before episode 1 and it really hooked me that way creating an interesting Tarantino like vibe to the series as a whole. (2004)

Hibiki is fun, but they had a writer change in the middle of it which altered the direction, and then they switched back towards the end to keep the original foreshadowed conclusion. It's steeped more in Japanese folklore though and isn't your typical rider series. It's more experimental, but as a whole works well for it with the intended character growth of the audience entry-way into the series. (2005)

Kabuto is amazingly awesome too, but it gets kind of muddled towards the end with what it's trying to do. Still an amazing series though. (2006)

Den-O is fun, has some great moments and also a ton of light heartedness to balance the heaviness of other storylines within. (2007)

Kiva is amazing, but extremely convoluted and can get confusing with the era switching. Ixa's design is awesome though, and the fan edited version of the series that shifts the focus to Ixa and its progression to modern day is wonderful and less confusing. (2008)

Decade is amazing, but starts getting a bit lost towards the end. They also rewrote what was probably the most perfect Kamen Rider ending ever to make it fit to the movies. (2009)

W is a noir throwback mixed in with the more modern campyness they'd been using. (2009)

OOO is fun if a little bit silly. The designs rock. Especially Sahgozo. (2010)

Fourze is fun and space themed. (2011)

Wizard has some great designs, but I've yet to watch the series so can't comment. (2012)

Gaim I've yet to watch. So can't comment. (2013)

Drive starts airing this saturday. (2014)

There are also two non-series movies that are modern day retellings of the original riders(and looks to have had story potential for a third one to be made, and there were rumors of doing the same to the first sentai series Goranger too).
Kamen Rider: The First then the follow up movie Kamen Rider: The Next. And lastly, there's one film that's borderline Hulk influenced (Bill Bixby series) called Shin Kamen Rider from the 90s.

If you like Kamen Rider, I definitely suggest checking out Garo(adult oriented, it was a midnight show like Cutie Honey the Live which I also recommend if you want slapstick genre internally mocking fun). Super Sentai itself is a mixed bag, but if you want to dabble in that, I highly recommend the original Gekirangers series. Ultraman is another one that's fun to check out, but depends if you like serious or camp. If you want to see a serious take on it with more adult themes, check out Nexus and the movie Ultraman.(The serious originally non-series tied movie.) If you like the campiness, go towards Max and the Ultra brothers type series/movies like Mebius. the newer Ultra7X is also good if you want to see something more serious and darkly futuristic.

That's the fun thing with Toku. There's a series and flavor for just about anyone depending on your tastes. It's just a matter of finding which one fits what you like. One thing you need to keep in mind though with toku is the airtime. The later at night the series originally aired, the more adult oriented it is, but there are exceptions to that like Ultraman Nexus that was incredibly dark at spots with the themes it covered(and it had a children's show timeslot!).