History Series / SuperHeroTime

* LongRunner: The year 2020 marks 49 years of ''Kamen Rider'' (''Series/KamenRider'' premiered in 1971) and 45 years of ''Super Sentai'' (''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'' premiered in 1975[[note]]The 45th anniversary will be celebrated in 2021, as that will be the year of the 45th show's premiere[[/note]]). A ''Super Sentai'' show has consistently been on Japanese television for the past 41 years (1978 saw [[Series/SpiderManJapan Spider-Man and his giant robot Leopardon]] instead), while ''Kamen Rider'' has had several more, and much longer, gaps in its broadcast history (1976-1979, 1981-1987 if you ignore the TV special ''Film/BirthOfTheTenthGatherAllKamenRiders'' featuring Kamen Rider ZX in 1984, and 1989-2000 when instead the films ''Film/ShinKamenRiderPrologue'', ''Film/KamenRiderZO'', and ''Film/KamenRiderJ'' were released in this timeframe). It wasn't until the year 2000 with the premiere of ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'' that both shows have been consistently on Japanese TV with new heroes annually.

* 7:30 am: Franchise/SuperSentai
* 8 am: Franchise/KamenRider

** ''Series/KamenRiderGeats'' (September 2022 - Present)

From 2007 to 2012, Super Hero Time was branded as part of a larger "Nichi Asa Kids Time"[[note]]Translates to "Sunday Morning Kids Time" or "Sunday TV Asahi Kids Time"[[/note]] programming block which was on from 7 am to 9 am JST, with all shows generally sponsored (and merchandised) by [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai]]. Even before this branding, the general lineup of Sunday morning kids TV on TV Asahi was more or less formulaic, even sort of extending into 6:30 am starting in 2011:

** ''Series/OhsamaSentaiKingOhger'' (March 2023 - Present)

*** ''Series/MetalHeroes'' from ''Series/KidouKeijiJiban'' to ''Series/TetsuwanTanteiRobotack'' (April 1989 - January 1999)[[note]]Not ''Kamen Rider'' but another Toei toku production[[/note]]
*** ''Moero!! Robocon'' (January 1999 - January 2000)[[note]]Still not ''Kamen Rider'', but another Ishinomori toku creation[[/note]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz'' (January 2003 - January 2004)

** ''Series/AvataroSentaiDonbrothers'' (March 2022 - Present)

* FakeCrossover: Most ''Super Hero Time'' idents have the contemporary Riders and Sentai posing side-by-side, while recent years have the casts interacting in their resepective hide-outs, giving the impression that they are all good friends. Of course, this has no canonical bearing on their proper crossovers, if they have them.

* HenshinHero

From 2007 to 2012, Super Hero Time was branded as part of a larger "Nichi Asa Kids Time"[[note]]Translates to "Sunday Morning Kids Time" or "Sunday TV Asahi Kids Time"[[/note]] programming block which was on from 7 am to 9 am JST, with all shows generally sponsored (and merchandised) by Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment. Even before this branding, the general lineup of Sunday morning kids TV on TV Asahi was more or less formulaic, even sort of extending into 6:30 am starting in 2011:

** ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'' (March 2021 - present)

** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'' (September 2021 - Present)

** UpToEleven: ''Roleplay/SuperHeroTaisen'' was a {{Crossover}} between the two franchises that are used in ''Super Hero Time''. This later became a yearly tradition for a while; from 2011 to 2017, there was one film per year (except for 2016's ''Film/KamenRider1'', which didn't feature ''Super Sentai'' at all). After ''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiChouSuperHeroTaisen'', Toei [[http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2017/12/shinichiro-shirakura-announces-discontinuation-super-hero-taisen-films/ announced that they won't make any more]].

Super Hero Time is a programming block on the Japanese television network Creator/TVAsahi, featuring new episodes of [[{{Toku}} tokusatsu]] television series from the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and ''Franchise/KamenRider'' series. Both series have decades of history and have been intertwined in the public imagination for some time, not least of all because the driving creative force behind both was mangaka Creator/ShotaroIshinomori and they were both produced by the same production company, Toei Company. However, they did not air together until 2000 with ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'' and the last few episodes of ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV'', though at the time they were not acknowledged together; even before 2000, the slot ''Kamen Rider'' ended up in featured the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' and ''Robocon'' going back to 1989, while ''Super Sentai'' had only moved to Sunday mornings part-way through ''Series/DenjiSentaiMegaranger''.