Kamen Rider studio Toei is making backgrounds with AI under rules it has not published
Toei's CEO says the studio wrote generative AI rules and began using AI in film and video this year, starting with backgrounds. The rules are not public and no production has been named.
Toei, the studio behind Kamen Rider and the Super Sentai shows that became Power Rangers, says it has written rules for generative AI and is already using it to make backgrounds for film and video. Nobody outside the company has seen those rules, and they matter most to the artists whose work they cover.
CEO Fumio Yoshimura said so in a keynote at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest in Taipei, reported by Variety on Nov 6 and Deadline on Nov 7. A dedicated team tests practical uses every day, Toei is building a tool to help junior producers estimate budgets, and back-office staff already use AI for routine work. He called AI a tool that expands what people can make rather than one that takes jobs, and said human creativity remains the core.
He named no titles. Posts on X have since tied the news to Kamen Rider, but in both outlets' accounts he did not single out any show. Toei has not said which productions used AI backgrounds, or whether the rules reach Toei Animation, a separate company in which it is a major shareholder.
Background painting is skilled work with its own artists on every production. Whether the rules require disclosure, credit or consent is what would show if the promise about jobs holds.
Our take: rules nobody can read protect the studio more than its artists. If AI backgrounds pass Toei's own test, publishing the rules and naming the work would prove it.
Source: Variety, Nov 6, 2026; Deadline, Nov 7, 2026.
