Oto Abe

Oto Abe's career got its clearest public foothold in 2023, when she appeared in a cluster of Japanese drama productions — *Cool Doji Danshi*, *Around 1/4*, and *Tenshoku no Mao-sama* — in guest or supporting roles (MyDramaList). Those weren't headline-grabbing credits, but they were the kind of consistent, working-actor output that tends to precede something bigger. That something bigger arrived with *Kamen Rider Gotchard*. The 2023–2024 Toei tokusatsu series cast her as Renge Icho (voiced in certain contexts as Kinkiravina), a role that placed her at the center of one of Japan's most enduring franchise properties (Kamen Rider Wiki, Wikipedia). The *Kamen Rider* universe doesn't just hand you one appearance and move on — it pulls you into an expanding constellation of theatrical releases and specials, and Abe's trajectory followed exactly that pattern. She appeared in the crossover winter theatrical film *Kamen Rider the Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation* in late 2023, then in *Kamen Rider Gotchard: The Future Daybreak* in 2024, a film that, if you watch Renge's scenes in the back half of the *Gotchard* TV run, feels like a natural emotional continuation of where that character was heading (IMDb). She also took part in the 2024 Blu-ray miniseries *We Are Class 3G*, a smaller-scale production that gave the *Gotchard* ensemble room to breathe outside the main series format. Her most recent listed credit — *Kamen Rider Gotchard: Graduations* (2025) — signals that the franchise hasn't let her go yet, and the 2026 special *Kamen Rider Eins with Girls Remix* suggests her association with the *Kamen Rider* world is extending well past the original series' run (IMDb). It's a career arc that's still very much in motion, built almost entirely on the strength of one franchise that clearly saw something worth holding onto.