You think Gord Drive is bad, What about Kamen Rider Amazon Alfa? :lolol

All of this is making me feel pretty pretty good about making up names for characters that haven't been identified -slash- I don't care about. It's a free-for-all! Words are a prison! Names are bondage! BECOME THE RULING BODY!

My Figuarts OOO came with a first release bonus floating arm and labelled stand for beloved supporting character Unkh.

FANTASTIC. All I want to hear about is this stuff. Two months of talking about Faiz was just forgettable preamble to bring me to this moment.

Well, while we're on the topic of Faiz...


Is it Axel form or Accel form?

Let me add to that the following things I never asked about:

Orphnoch or Orphenoch?

Kaido or Kaidou?

Keitaro or Keitarou?

Jet Sliger or Jet Slider?

(Also, Gremlin calls it Accel Form and that's more than good enough for me:

https://kamenriderdie.com/images/kr/exaid/misa11.png)

In order:

-It's apparently a mashup of "Orpheus" and "Enoch", so either works, but I've always preferred the latter.

- Both are equally correct, with the former being how the name would generally be written in English, and the latter being a more direct romanization of the kana. The latter is more convenient for me to remember, so that's what I stick with, and TV-Nihon are them, so of course they also go with the more direct approach. This applies to pretty much any similar name. For example, Kouta from Gaim could just as easily be written as Kota, and even was onscreen on a file Takatora looked at early in the series! Which I vividly remember for some reason!

- See above.

- Jet Sliger... unfortunately.

- Gremlin knows what he's talking about.

Another case closed by Translation Cop! So community-minded!

(thaaaaaannnks yourethebest)

Is it Kamen Rider Taiga or Tiger (Ryuki)
Impaler or Emperor (Ryuki) or maybe Imperer?
W or Double?

Hell, I've got a tattoo that accidentally says Dei-Kei-Do instead of Di-Kei-Do (as it was later explained to me at least).

The moral is, Kamen Rider is complicated folks.

I genuinely wonder what Toei/Bandai/the guy who played Chase on Drive think about English-speaking Kamen Rider fans. Do they think it's cool and super-passionate? Do they think it's really weird? Do they think we're clowns? I don't, like, care what they think of me, as a non-Japanese fan. (Well, Chase.) It wouldn't change my interest in the franchise. But I wonder if they have feelings about boards like this, fans like us. I'd be interested to know how we're perceived.