American comics have a variety of superhero team alliances, after live-action filmization, so that do not watch the American comics of the global fans can know, such as DC's Justice League and Marvel's Avengers, Japanese comics also have a variety of super power roles, but can not unify the world view, so it is difficult to do the American comics' battle alliance, however, there are still Kamen Rider series, super team series and Ultraman series in the close-up of various linkages, but the number of times is small, the influence is limited.
In recent days, Japan has a plan to create a league of heroes - the new Japanese hero universe, by Toho, Toei, Marutani and Khara jointly launched the new Godzilla, new Century Evangelion, new Ultraman and the new Kamen Rider cooperation, although it is the IP of four different universes, but the core character of the project is Hideaki Anno, because these four works are related to him, some netizens jokingly called it "Anno Hideaki Universe". You should know that Hideaki Anno is the animation director of "Evangelion", from the 1995 TV animation broadcast to the 2021 theatrical version of the final chapter, with 26 years to prove the influence of EVA, as for the three feature IP mentioned above, he is also involved in the production team.
Hideaki Anno served as the director and screenwriter of "New Godzilla" in 2016, the director and screenwriter of "New Kamen Rider" and the screenwriter of "New Ultraman", the last two works will be released in 2022 and 2023, and everyone finally understands that he is preparing for the planning of the four IP linkages. The linkage drawing and emblem of the official website is the assembly of the first generation, the three special camera protagonists plus the animation protagonists, it is reasonable to say that if the film and television works are launched, it is also the EVA initial machine to follow them into the special film, this should be the linkage that everyone can imagine, so is Kamen Rider under pressure? Behind him was all giant level. In fact, the original Kamen Rider and Ultraman once carried out a huge linkage, so there is no pressure.
The official announcement of the project has a wide range of cooperation projects, such as activities and peripheral commercial projects, as for film and television, it is estimated that it will not wait until "New Kamen Rider" and "New Ultraman" are released.