Kamen Rider Gotchard

is a Japanese Tokusatsu drama, the 34th entry of Toei Company's Kamen Rider metaseries, and the fifth series to debut during the Reiwa period. The series debuted on September 3, 2023, joining Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger in the Super Hero Time lineup after the finale of Kamen Rider Geats. Plot Hotaro Ichinose is a student at Furasu High School who stumbles into a secret school for apprentice alchemists beneath his school called the Alchemy Academy. He receives the GotcharDriver from an alchemist named Fuga Kudo, who entrusts the youth to become Kamen Rider Gotchard and retrieve the Chemies, artificial lifeforms that were released a decade ago and could fuse with a maliced humans into humanoid monsters known as Malgams. Assisting Hotaro in his task to retrieve the Chemies is Fuga's daughter Rinne, a student at the Alchemy Academy. Supana Kurogane, a graduate from the academy who views the Chemies as nothing more than tools and transforms into the warrior Valvarad, was also tasked with retrieving the Chemies and is a rival to Hotaro, who wants to befriend them. They are opposed by the Three Dark Sisters: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis, who intend to use the Chemies for their own purposes.