Dragonball son goku=monkey king. As well as first to adapt Jttw as a live action and in weird japan fashion the monk is played by a sexy c young gal. Not to mention fire starter pokemons in last few gen and necrom sanzo form.

I usually try to buy at least one gimmick device from each Kamen Rider season even if I don't particularly like the season/gimmicks. Right now my pick is the Journey to the West wonder ride book, because I too am a fan.

That or maybe just the Kabuto legend rider book.

And Saiyuki which has Den-O's Momotaros as Sanzang/Sanzo the monk, Kiva's Tatsulot as Zhu Bajie/Hakkai the pig, Akibaranger's Deluknight as Sha Wujing/Gojyo the monster, and Go-Onger's Birca as Sun Wukong/Goku the monkey king.

According to RiderWiki, Espada's sword is pronounced Kikaminari instead of Ikazuchi. However, the Wiki is sometimes incredulous so it could go either way. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in this case, until proven otherwise.

Yep that is dead wrong. Toei clearly stated his sword name is Raimeiken Ikazuchi in their site. Case closed.

Exactly. The only reason Kikaminari is up there is because of the kanji used in Espada's sword's name.

In case people are curious what each sword's name is and means:

Kaenken Rekka > Kaen means flame, ken is sword, Rekka commonly translates to wildfire.

Suiseiken Nagare > Suisei means water potential, ken is sword, and Nagare in this case means waterflow, typically the word nagare just means flow but in this case they used the characters for water and flow specifically, thus why it is waterflow.

Raimeiken Ikazuchi > Because the mei in this case is the character for "cry(鳴)" and not "bright(明)" Raimei means thunderclap, ken means sword, and Ikazuchi means lightning.

Fusouken Hayate > Fu is wind, souken means pair of swords/dual swords, and while Hayate commonly means gale, the Hayate in this case uses the kanji 翠風 instead of the common 疾風, making the translation green wind. The character 翠 is described to be a variant of the commonly known character for green 緑, usually a green hue with a slight bluish tint, and also depending on its usage can be used for the bird kingfisher.

Haha, I guess the joke's on me! I'm not surprised, just disappointed, about all the errors on the Wiki.

I think Tri-Cerberus Wonder Ride Book and Tenkuu no Pegasus Wonder Ride Book are used by Saber. I pretty sure Saber have other mythical animal forms beside dragon.

Oh wow :lolol

I am Espada. Are you Espada? No, you are not!

It also matches Wizard's four styles, and you could match Buster to Beast with his black-and-gold colors. The five of them also match the colors of OOO's normal combos, plus Calibur as PuToTyra. There's obvious parallels to other Kamen Rider color arrangements too, though none of them match quite so exactly.

Wow, it's almost like giving each suit a different primary color is a popular trope in Kamen Rider! Maybe because it makes it easy to tell which is which when they still have a similar aesthetic otherwise?

Which nameless Rider? We got names for all known Riders now and an extra name, do you mean Kamen Rider Buster?

Yeah, I meant Buster. For a while we knew the names for Saber, Blades, Espada, and Kenzan but not him, so I didn't realize his name had been revealed. Oops!

Color coordinated teams will never go out of style!

I just realised that Saber Episode 1 is airing on the exact date of OOO's 10th anniversary -- September 5th.

I don't think this is gonna mean anything, just found it interesting

Saber airs the day after the 5th.

Wait, Rider's on Sunday now??

Always has been.

The joke's probably been made but seriously, Toei will probably make a special where Kamen Rider Blade fights Blades huh? They love that kind of fanservice.

I feel Fourze aiming his Hee-Hackgun at my back...

Well, September 6th Japanese Standard Time to be exact. And episode 2 will be on Kaixa day this year.

Do the new items act like Core Medals?

Yeah, the way the Driver works more or less is that the sword acts like an OOO scanner. It's a pretty clever way of doing it, gotta admit!

Except oops does a better job showing the gimmick while i wish this hide the gimmick.
However, the sword as the main toy is dinky even if Its 2 in 1. The books looks so awkward . I can see them having a lot of ng with the books flipping out. Imagine fighting the motw with three open flapp

Kind of want the books to disappears or fade away when they're not in used. It just doesn't look uniform or cohesive to the whole suit design package. Ever since the ghost dupe, they're trying to doubling and tripling the gimmick for more combos aside from 01 which is back to stable sleek form of early Heisei era.

I've been juggling with some thoughts in my head about this Driver for a bit now, so basically my positives are:-

- The Driver essentially being a disguised OOO scanner is a very clever and very neat way of going about it! We haven't really seen a 'scanner' type thing in a while as the main gimmick, and I think it's pulled off pretty well here.
- The sword being included with the belt is... great! It makes it feel a LOT more like part of Saber, Blades etc.'s kit without feeling like a forced prerequisite as many Rider swords do especially recently, and as a toy you're just getting a lot more out of this as a product. I'm also not sure we've seen anything like this before? We've seen weapons as drivers to be sure, stuff like the Shotriser was awesome; but I don't think we've seen a weapon and a belt working in tandem outside of some upgrades. I really like this, stands out a lot!
- The sword itself looks pretty nice! Bit dinky? Well... yeah, but this is a DX Rider toy. I've kinda made peace with that for a good while now and for what it is it looks very nice, and I like what they seem to be doing with different books giving different blade light colours to differentiate each Rider's sword.
- The way three books line up with each other is a really nice way of creating a picture! I've mostly seen it so far with the Zero-One 'books' but it's VERY cool overall and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it.


But that's unfortunately where the positives end for me -- much as I like the sword, the driver itself is VERY bland, and is only worse when the sword is pulled out of it (so all the time after transforming). I wish they'd gone for some sort of more interesting shape or colour or design to it but as-is it just looks like a chunk of black plastic... which, admittedly, is not easy to work around with the gimmick item. Much as I like how the completed picture looks, the books themselves feel like a very awkward idea for a gimmick item and unless there's a lot of them, they just don't look great in the driver.
I'm also not a fan of the VERY long jingles; I'm into the sillier side of singing drivers, I like me some Ghost rapping and I LOVE me some Grand Zi-O; but if every jingle's gonna be a giant speech, I'm gonna get tired of it very quickly. Remember when after the first few henshins they started cutting down Grand Zi-O's jingle a lot at the end of Zi-O? Remember how awkward that was? Be prepared for that in, like, all but three episodes of this season.

Much as this is a silly but of fun, it does highlight how the slot for the blade goes all the way through the belt. I feel like that might not be accidental; maybe we'll get an upgrade down the line that makes use of it? Either by going all the way through, or slotting in from the other side, or maybe something bizarre Ike two daggers that fit into each side. With how the gimmick works, they could easily sell an alternate sword that fit in the same buckle but had different sounds programmed in (almost like the white wizardriver, but backwards).

Wonder how Saber’s gimmick will feel like OOO and Build? After seeing the books of Zero-One, there must be a “Best Match” somewhere in the books.

What would connect to Saber’s dragon and Blades’ lion?

There are "best matches" when the elements match. For example, the first review of the Swordriver shows that if you use Lion Senki and Peter Fantasista (which are both water based WRBs), you actually get a special announcement that's specifically for them.

So basically, at least Saber, Blades, and Espada have "best matches"

Saber/Fire: Brave Dragon, Storm Eagle, and Saiyuu Journey.

Blades/Water: Tenkuu no Pegasus, Lion Senki, and Peter Fantasista.

Espada/Thunder: Tri Cerberus, Needle Hedgehog, and Lamp Do Alngina.

Also, another thing is that matching element WRBs actually share the same instrumentals with different words over them.

In the same review mentioned earlier, if you listen to Lion Senki and Peter Fantasista's standalone announcements, they do have the EXACT same instrumental behind them.

In other words, this show is what happens when Toei fuses Blade, OOO, Wizard, Ghost, and Build via Unite Vent card. :lolol

Don’t forget Kenzan. There’s the Sarutobi Sasuke story and possibly the Jack and the Beanstalk. So they’re a good Best Match. Just need an animal to fit.

No. They’re both stories. They’d each need an animal and a mythical creature and would be two separate Best Matches.

It would actually need both a regular animal and a mythical one since Im assuming a match doesn't include two story WRBs.

Yeah you're right. What would fit Sasuke's story?

the Sixth Rider is "Kamen Rider Buster."

he wields' the mighty Dogouken Gekidou.

real name "Ryo Onoue," he is a described as a patient man raising his son Sora to fight with the next generation of swordsmen. Buster was once Calibers' best friend and returns to find out the secret of his betrayal.

https://twitter.com/eiga_natalie/sta...30240906133504

Something something Inoue joke.

So, he's a father and he was best friends with Caliber.

I feel like he's gonna die and his son will take up the mantle of Buster later in the series.

I can't put my finger on it, but Buster's design reminds me of Ultraman Geed...