I use buyee but thanks to it not being in English its hard to find things (got a little bit better thanks to its Auto translate) but its still difficult to find a massive bulk sale or something.

what do you guys search to find stuff.

I was thinking of doing Ichigo's pose, but I can't get it right. I though about using Nigo, but I don't "feel it" when I seed pictures or watch clips. I though about Kabuto, but if I look at the camera it won't be a full fledged Kabuto's pose and if I don't look at the camera, the graduation photo won't be good. Kuuga's thumbs up is a bit too simplistic.

I've also haven't finished Saber or watched any Kamen Rider installment from Revice onward, so I don't know any of their poses.

It's been a while since I saw Revice but it got me thinking that I can't quite recall what are the downsides of Sakura forming a contract to Lovekov? Like if you look at it morbidly, Ikki got dementia, Daiji has a split personality, Genta loses control of himself, even Hiromi was getting torn physically. So what gives for Jeanne?

Honestly can see myself enjoying this as i went in open-minded, was ment to start the series a year ago maybe but the timing now feels just right. Also as someone that grew up on Power Rangers (not comparing but feels eerily similar) did anyone have a similar experience ? It’s already interesting and cool as fuck lmao

I’ve also already done Agito and decade if anyone wants to see that.

TL;DR: Bandai doesn’t want to sell female rider toys in the retail market because they have PreCure doing it.

So months ago, I posted a discussion post about whether female rider belts can be sold at retail or not and there’s a interesting theory someone made in the comments that I have never thought about before.

That being if female rider belts were released at a retail price, it could possibly affect the toy sales for PreCure (a series whose toys are also made from Bandai and owned by Toei) and possibly leading to directly competing each other, something Bandai does NOT want to have and could lose money in the process.

Now yes, Kamen Rider (at least from a toy perspective) is mostly primarily targeted towards boys so maybe a toy that is a marketed for a girl may not sell as much nor is as profitable as the PreCure toys but I do feel like there are consumers out there who are willing to buy a female rider toy for their daughter ‘cause she’s also a fan of watching Kamen Rider.

And same could be said for female rider upgrades because so far as the time I am typing this, they felt like strange afterthoughts to me (Valkyrie’s upgrade was planned to be in the show at some point but was scrapped because of COVID so it got replaced by Orthros Vulcan and her upgrade got moved to a V-Cinext, Jeanne’s upgrade showed up rather late in the show so she barely get to used it, and Na-Go’s is just half a form which is also my kind of pet peeve for Geats like why is no one wearing pants?!).

So it led me to believe that if whenever someone at Toei pitch a female rider upgrade, then Bandai is most likely the one being rather iffy about female rider upgrades because they can’t sell it at the retail market as it might somehow gobble up PreCure’s sales so they simply become against this or retooled a already existing mold and cram it into P-Bandai territory when the demand starts getting high since P-Bandai is the only thing Bandai believes they can get away with selling a toy like that without being sold at retail stores (same goes for female rider belts in general like the Libra Driver).

So if we’re gonna have more female rider toys be sold at retail, my best solution for this would be…

1. For belts, have a toy tied with a male rider, they did released stuff involving shared belts that even female users can wear (Sengoku Driver, Shotriser, Desire Driver, etc.) so Bandai can sell drivers used by both a male and a female user at retail without worrying about releasing a belt that is restricted for a female rider if said belt is now targeted also towards boys. Now they did try doing driver units like the Zero-One Driver & Gotchardriver but stuff like the Alchemisdriver Unit would still skewed towards girls simply because the design stills screams “girl belt” regardless if it’s a belt attachment hence why it probably got made into a exclusive so I prefer stuff like the ID cores, the faces plates from Gaim, or trinkets that creates certain riders when inserted into certain drivers so that way, Bandai can sell a driver at retail that is skewed towards both boys and girls and one that doesn’t scream “only a girl belt” without having to create sales problems with other lines like PreCure (the Super Sentai changers being a notable example).
2. For upgrades, again have it be tied to a male rider with stuff like the Assault Grip and the Feverslot and Command Buckles that are tied to multiple riders. Sure, this seems annoying since that would led to female riders not having their own upgrades but I feel like that’s the only way to go like let’s say we get another female secondary rider like Majade who her first upgrade is also used by the main rider of said show and I could see Bandai releasing a item like that at retail especially since Kamen Rider did do dual upgrades before and some of them are sold at a retail price, so it’s either this or have it be a afterthought form or some movie form where the item is sold at a very expensive price in a exclusive online store.

Now yes, I could be spitballing here but this is could be the only way to get female rider upgrades at retail and female rider toys in general (yeah, it’s also annoying if female riders can’t also have their own belt without being sent to P-Bandai but again, this seems to be the only way to go) since Bandai can’t seem to release a toy for girls in a line mostly for boys at a retail store where you have another line like PreCure that is mostly for girls and is being sold at the same toy shelves as them.

Anyway, what are your two cents on how female rider toys should be sold in general?

Model by Gunoiejapan ;)

The update you've been waiting for!

These should be in two sets.

The first will have Shin, Zo, J, and World, with a targeted summer release date. Subtitled only; no dubs. Transfers are done for the movies (waiting for Toei to deliver those assets), but a new transfer has to be done for World. With as long as this has taken already, they're not looking to track down dubs, Sega CD assets, etc. The price point hasn't been pinned down yet. If they do individual releases down the road, they won't include World, which will be a box set exclusive.

The second will have First and Next, and that should be out closer to the end of the year.

Got into Kamen Rider through heisei and specifically, i'm a big fan of phase one but the very first riders I ever watched was ZO and J which are part of the showa era. I realized I've never watched any showa series except for a couple of episodes of the original '71 show. I don't really mind dated effects, lack of cgi, less flashiness. I just want a good story and good characters. Is V3 a good place start? I've seen a lot of people reccomend Black but i'm trying to see if I have a wider range of options here.

Imagine that Girori/Chirami were fired and Niramu asked you to host the game in their place. What kind of Desire Grand Prix would you create?

I personally thought it could be fun to have a team dynamic going in the game, with Riders being sorted into teams of 3 and all of them being granted the title of Deza Shin (should their desires be compatible). Eliminations would happen but not as often in the original game, and some challenges might only have a few team members competing (I had one idea for a round where one team member gets kidnapped by the Jyamato and the other two must retrieve them).

Its just a really cool setting aesthetic wise and as for themes, id do obvious Samurai them with the 2nd theme being based around Chinese Zodiac animals. feel like they could make some sick design out of it.

As for villains, obviously ninjas with mythological monsters and demons from around the world as a base

theres so much that could be done with this idea honestly

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Looking for the vid of behind the scenes of Heisei Generations forever where Takeru Satoh meet with the other actors and compares henshin transformations.

Each monster at this point has at least a 35 to 1 kd minimum.They really be just mercilessly slaughtering them civilian no hesitation I'm like 1/4 through loving the journey. Since this my second Kamen rider the amount of death and emotional depth surprised me. Hope I have a few more in this era I start kuuga cause it's during 2000. I felt that was far back enough to get as many in the year row. but not the really old ones