Kamen Rider Ex-Aid is a Japanese tokusatsu drama in Toei Company's Kamen Rider Series. It is the eighteenth series in the Heisei period run the twenty-seventh series overall and commemorates the 45th anniversary of the franchise. Toei registered the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid trademark on June 13, 2016. The show premiered on October 2, 2016, one week after Kamen Rider Ghost's finale, joining Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger and later, Uchu Sentai Kyuranger in the Super Hero Time line-up. It's the first Kamen Rider series with a video game motif.