I watched the video review of AC Gridon, & ended less than impressed...
Gridon being the less interesting character of the show, not visually as cool as the others, + the fact that he's coming with his ride making him more expensive... I think I'm going to pass & wait for Shin Zangetsu to be my first AC.

He's basically Kamen Rider Scissors.

My first Gaim goods arrived today and I am not disappointed!

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Can't wait to get the Sengoku Driver as it is sitting in my Private Warehouse at HLJ!

I'm still a bit confused as to why he seems to be called Ornac on the show, whereas everything else has called him Gridon >_>

His literal actual name is Gridon. Aesir thought it would make more sense to try and back translate the joke of his name. Gridon gets his powers from a Dunguri lockseed, Donguri in English is Acorn. So since his seed is Donguri Hasse thought it would be funny to go with calling him Gridon which is Donguri more or less backwards.

Ornac is an attempt to make that joke more literal in English. Acorn - Ornac.

That's something I would expect from a Viz Manga or a videogame not subtitles. Its annoying when it pops up like that.

Ah I see. Yeah, I got the Ornac-Acorn bit, and part of me thought it may have had something to do with Aesir's subbing, didn't realize it was just Americanizing the Japanese pun.

Just a quick question for those with the different types of lock seeds, is it just me or are the Gashapon Lock Seeds louder than the Candy Toy/Bandage ones? Just curious cause I just got my lock seeds today and my banana gashapon one seems louder and clearer than my melon (bandage) and budou (candy).

And rather poorly, I might add, since they neglected to translate the entire joke that Kurokage translates to Blackshadow.

Basically the joke is Kurokage gave himself an awesome name and Gridon a shitty one, but Aesir didn't catch that. A TV-Nihon-style screen note would've been better. "Ornac" sounds awful.

The name is suppose to sound stupid. Gridon does not sound that stupid in English, Onarc does sound just as stupid as it's suppose to sound.