This series marked the first Kamen Rider series since the passing of the Original Creator, Shotaro Ishinomori, in 1998.
Originally, Shingo Katsurayama had been cast as main character Yusuke Godai but upon reading the script he grew fondness for Kaoru Ichijo and requested that he was put in that role instead.
This show is the very first Kamen Rider series to be shot in 1080i.
Not only is Kuuga the first Kamen Rider of the Heisei Era, but he is also the first Kamen Rider to have a stag beetle motif, followed by Kamen Rider G3, Garren, Gatack, and OOO's Gatakiriba Combo.
At Japan World Heroes 2017, Noboru Kaneko revealed at a panel that before getting the role as GaoRed, he auditioned to be Kuuga in 1999, but was not picked in the final round of auditions and Joe Odagiri got the part instead.