Naruto and Kamen rider
Both are stuff that I love to watch and rewatch, Naruto since childhood, and Kamen rider in my teens, but there was one thing that bothered and interest me, and that was fanfictions about the two, everyone knows that Naruto can be close to a planet or a planet buster, consider what he did to his moon, and of course, there were questionable stuff the writers put down that I have to say didn't really fulfill my expectations, especially when it came to Bourto for some time, but it always became a thing I wonder which Kamen riders would fit with Naruto as a character, his world, and if possible, would make great story ideas, I'm going to separate this into three eras, Showa, Heisei, and Revie, sorry if I spelled it wrong.
Showa-
Now admittedly I only know more about the riders at the end of this era, that being J, Zo, Black, and Shin, so I can't really give a full opinion on this, but bear with me.
But I can say that for the ones I do know, Shin would be a no go, since, well his appearance explains it, it was always a strange thing that people would write Naturo changing species or something, but Shin wouldn't be a rider Naruto would be since unless it was a transformation it wouldn't work, mainly because of Kurama, the guy may have been an A-hole at the beginning, but he knew better than letting experiments affect Naruto, which I guess is why The Snake Sannin didn't do anything.
ZO and J are actually similar, they are good, but nothing that would make me think it was a good idea, cause the problems they fight more than likely wouldn't exist, so that is another thing crossed off the list.
Black, well, I actually think out of all the Showa riders, besides one of them this wouldn't be such a bad one to make a crossover about with Naruto, but nothing that would make me giddy, just saying.
The other Showa riders have other things that would make me say from the appearance and attacks, or from some way or origin that they wouldn't fix, cause that would mean that they would all have to exist since they literally at least for the first three riders fought Shocker, and unless someone makes something like that happen, then there is a lot of blanks to fill, but out of all of them, have to say that Ichigo might be the best rider Naruto could be.
Revie
Now for The most recent, since it will be easy to explain.
Zero one- No to this one, why well it is more of a modern, future like the world, so unless you can make the world of Naruto modern, and have characters fit in certain roles so that they could actually make the story work, then good, but I just don't see this one working, mainly cause I don't see anything from the core of this rider representing Naruto, besides the obvious fighting for someone's rights, but yea Zero one unless it is a multi crossover, or making the world of Naruto modern it just won't work.
Saber- Not a bad one, but I just don't fully see it, but I can see that someone could make it better, especially the final form, cause while cool at the first appearance, it lost that awe close to the end of the series, but it is one I could say would work, the drivers I don't see a problem with, but the thing I would worry about is who would be who and why.
Revice- Have to say out of every rider from this era so far, this would be the one that I would support the most, even though I didn't see the full season I can say it has a nice tough, only thing I can say us the time period, and storyline, cause that means Naruto's partner would be Kurama or his Yami self, so yea, a plus, but I don't think its the perfect rider but an optional one at best.
Now for the most well-known era Heisei, for this one, I am going to put it into categories
Now here I would have to say Faiz, Kabuto, Fourze, Drive, Ex-aid, and Build would be in a category where I would say it wouldn't work out, now why? Either cause their tech and stuff is way too advanced, handmade, or was in need of something to be there to access certain abilities, Faiz well it is weapons, and gear that can't be made in Naruto, even if you stretch a storyline into it, same could be said for Drive, cause he has a car, Fourze hand made driver, Ex-aid and Build, I don't think I need to explain the obvious, now Kabuto could work, but still, it is more of character motivation, and self character is put into the equation as well, the last four on the list can work, they have traits that Naruto can follow, and such, especially Build, the first two...I think you know where I am going with this, the only way I can see this working is if you make it more modern era, or you multi-crossover a story with one of these 6.
Now this will be the maybe's but still not very high up there in a good Naruto & Kamen rider crossover, but they are better than the previous group, and they are Blade, Den-O, and W, why these three? Well, one is mainly how their power work, Den-O is about body possessing, something Kurma will try to force out, W cause the tech is still advanced but can be worked into a degree, another thing, is how their stories work, mainly W and Blade, cause of obvious reasons, but they have better chances of being in a crossover than the other 6, just need some work, and maybe a modern time era for it to work.
Now we are talking about the riders that would work very well but are not perfect, and they are Agito, Ryuki, Hibiki, Kiva, OOO, Wizard, and Ghost, now why? to put it simply Agito, Ryuki, Kiva, OOO, and Ghost are a bit better with the least likely to need much work on, or to be changed to a modern time period, or to be crossed over with something else, but of course, there are problems, like the enemies/masterminds, and something that they all share, could you add other riders, that is something else that needs to be considered, now why did I exclude Wizard, answer, because of magic, that makes the thing difficult, that and this one has more lea way, since you can make Naruto into a completely new rider, since I doubt Kurama will allow a dragon to live in Naruto.
The final four, Kuuga, Decade, Gaim, and Zi-O, now Kuuga, well I don't really need to explain the power is passed on, it requires less tech than one would think, and the form changes the gear into what the form needs by just holding it, nothing else really needs to be explained, the only problem I see is that when talking about Kuuga is when you are talking about his Super and Ultimate forms, as well as his extra forms, I have theories of his powers and such, but when you reach that level of power that almost nothing can stop a Naruto Kuuga, especially if you add Shinobi abilities, so all I have to say is that I'm afraid that other character might not be as important if Naruto can get to the level of planet buster.
Decade we will talk about after this, but we are going into Gaim, now this one can ignore the problems from previous stuff since Kouta can just either adopt Naruto and Naruto can become the next Gaim, and gain the abilities he has, and the other riders adopt or have children that would be the next Riders as well, can be taken to a different dimension and become Gaim, there are many things that can be worked into here, the only true problem I see is that you need to have to figure out a way to make the advance drivers, also Orange, it's naruto favorite color and no one did anything about it.
Decade, Kamen rider Decade, now this one is by far is difficult to say, It is very high up there when it comes to best character to use, especially considering that Naruto can be a very adaptable character, now there are many things that can cause this one thing to happen, but it all comes to either someone gives him the power of Decade, which I can think of only four people that would give him the power of Decade, that's not the man himself, or he adopts Naruto after visiting Naruto's world, leading to Naruto either getting the power by Tsukasa's death, or being out of his prime, and just wanting to rest, I believe death, but that's my opinion, The only thing that can be said about this is Naruto refusing to use his power to destroy worlds when necessary, other than that only minor stuff.
And finally Zi-O, The king of all riders, the strongest rider, Now I believe that Naruto can be Zi-O out of all of the riders, due to what the core of these characters represent, Naruto is someone trying to prove that he is not this being that everyone believes he is, Zi-O is trying to prove that he won't become this demon king that will rule over everything in the future, they have this darkness that they have to accept that they might have to accept the power that comes with them being feared, hated, or to them the power that scares them, they both become god-like at the end of their series, Zi-O with when in Ohma, not counting Grand Zi-O, or Ohma form, and Naruto with Six paths, Baryon, and so on, they actually have very similar stiff to them that makes them pretty identical in most outlooks, even their goals, becoming a King, becoming a Kage, they are very similar, it's only their powers and abilities that are different, and considering that loosing people close to them can make them a living time bomb, makes more sense, now is there a flaw to this, yes, The ride watches that belongs to the other riders, and the team Zi-O, there are multiple ways to do this, but it comes back with one problem, who will the other Heisei riders be? I came to a conclusion that you could make multiple worlds around Naruto being every rider, but I don't like that idea very much, but I came up with a better idea, other anime characters from different shows being those riders, and for team Zi-O it can be flexible, but you also have to consider who will play who, then the question is who will be the enemy and such like I said there are up's and downs.
Now with that rant over with, onto the next thing, Bikes, A big problem without it being a small device that he can receive or something of the sort, makes it a really big problem, but yea hope that my Rant was worth something in the end, till next time,
