"Ah, who were you in Ex-Aid?"

"I was a chonky purple thing"

He was Ex-Aid level 1 too! He truly had the most important role out of anyone (at least in my heart...).

According to this source, Blades suit actor is going to be Kenji Tominaga
https://www.ladyeve.net/archives/068677

The official site for the suit actors says it’s Asai. You want to argue with the official website? https://japanactionenterprise.com/news/0362/

I mean if it's counting off who's listed as suit actors in the episode well.

It doesn't look like Blades is going to make an immediate appearance in Episode 1, so Kenji Tominaga might be Calibur given that's the only other suit we see in preview images for Episode 1.

Asai being Saber is correct. I was saying that Blades is being played by Tominaga, not Eitoku. Though as Enchilada said, it may be possible that Blades isn't appearing in episode 1, so Tominaga may be playing someone else.

Kousuke Asai being Saber is legitimately crazy exciting news. Lupin Red was one of the rare Sentai characters who consistently struck me as having a lot of personality in his body language, and guys like ToQ #6 and Akaninger aren't far behind.

I know it depends as much on the director and camera crew as the suit actors, but if he can bring as much stylishness to Saber's fighting as he did to the Lupinrangers, this is gonna be a treat to watch!

Huh, I guess JAE is not gonna have one person primarily play the titular rider like they used to with Takaiwa cause when Zero-One was starting they sounded like Yuya Nawata was gonna be the person who will play titular riders for at least the next decade. Change of plans I guess?

I figure that they want to do a revolving door of sorts, who knows we could get Nawata back in the main slot for the next Rider. Or maybe we'll have another new one.

I think they want to try and ease up on the stress the main suit role has given well, as cool that it was that Takaiwa went straight in the main rider role for as long as he did, he really started to show his age later on even if his mannerisms were still pretty great.

Yeah, and early on in this thing we call a new era/phase of the franchise is the perfect time to do that I think. Great chance for new talents to strut their stuff as well.

Changing up the suit actors sounds healthier for everyone involved TBH, I'm amazed that Takaiwa was able to keep giving such great performances year after year for as long as he did.

Sure is. If 70s and 80s toku fans had Kazuo Niibori the 90~2010s toku fans got Seiji Takaiwa and Hirofumi Fukuzawa.

Kamen Rider Saber Dragon Lion :D

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...1&d=1599122451

Hmm...if Needle Hedgehog are used by Blades, I think Blades will be become a Kamen Rider Blades Needle Hedgehog and this form are fully yellow form.

So the book location also gives additional details to the helmet. Right affects lower right face, middle affects too, and left affects lower left. This makes me very curious/excited to see “best matches” where their face and body are all the same color. I can already see Blades Peter having a more symmetrical head design, though I don’t know if that’s his “best match”.

Correction and mistake on my part, Blades suit actor is in fact Eitoku
https://news.mynavi.jp/article/20200902-1265202/2

I wonder how the gimmick figures are going to work.

Gimmick Figures aren't really a thing anymore as of now. Since the end of Zi-O, we've only had the RKF line. The only gimmick figures were the Ark-Zero/One figure set and the upcoming Buster Genbu Shinwa/Genbu Jackun Set (and I use gimmick loosely in the latter's case since Buster's "form changes" are just one gauntlet change)

Ooooh I hope we see a suit with 3 animal heads on it. I am very into chimeras.

The Left-Hand side WRB basically are change the left arm and left side helmet. So this is are just same type with Fourze's Modules and Drive's Tire Koukan. If used by Espada, The Left-Hand side WRB are become fully form changing for him.

The Middle side WRB are for extra armor for chest, legs, and new decorations for upper part in helmet. If used by Blades, Middle side WRB are become fully form changing for him.

The Right-Hand side WRB more likely are for fully form changing for Saber. Probably the Tri-Cerberus WRB are for a new Saber's form.

Both Lion Senki and Peter Fantasista are water Wonder Ride Books.

Yeah, I remember there was a single Hybrid Rise set released for Zero-One which could swap parts to switch between Hopper, Falcon, Shark, Tiger, and Bear, but I don't think there was ever a follow-up with more forms. (A shame, cause I loved how all the forms made use of the same re-arranged Hopper armour pieces! Then again, I suppose those five are the main "regular provide key" forms that showed up in-show...)
Seems very unlikely we'll get a form changing figure this year, at least not for the swordriver riders whose form changes are pretty involved. SO-DO's got the "every possible form" front covered these days it seems!

Oh, that's too bad, I kinda liked seeing the engineering that went into making the form changes work with a physical toy, even if some of the results turned out unwieldy.

But I guess abandoning the gimmick line has its perks too, for starters it gives the suit designs more freedom since they don't have to worry about the form changes being physically possible in toy form.

This is probably a stupid question, but where do I go to watch subtitled episodes at reasonable paces. I wanna stay more on top of Saber than I did Zero One.

Genm-Corp had some some of their subs available to stream on Sundays, while Over-Time had people post direct download links on their page. These were the two I used but it doesn't seem like these groups have confirmed they'll be doing Saber just yet

So I remember the press release saying the show could have up to 10 potential Riders. But how many would you want/expect Saber to have when the show is all said & done?

While I would be happy if they keep the 6 that we have now & didn't add to it, I can't help but feel they'll add atleast 2 extra ones before the show is over.

What do you think?

I sure would like just two Riders, or hell even just one.

Ideally I would like to see us go back to a handful of riders like Zi-O; or at least have a slightly larger cast dripfed to us like Build. After a series that literally had 13 belts I would just... really, really like to return to a simpler number and seeing that many riders in Saber already just exhausted me immediately out of the gate.

But if we must have many riders, yes, 6 is a decent cap.

Fifty.

With the mention of Touma inheriting the title from the previous Saber and Ryo/Buster having a son he's training as a successor, I'm kinda hoping we stick with a small number of Rider identities but see them shared by a larger number of characters.

I just hope Rintaro trains Touma to be the next Saber and to join the Sword of Logos against the Megiddo in order to free our world.

They better also introduce a female rider in this series, just to make up for Valkyrie's lack of development. Female riders need love!

They better introduce a female rider... or what? You're going to stop watching? I just hope they can handle fleshing out ten riders without shafting a few of them. We barely got any story behind the people in Zero-One, especially Ikazuchi and Naki.

The thing that hurts most is that in the end even Naki got more backstory and development than Yaiba.

But I think we won't have to worry about female development in Saber (well I want the female characters to be developped but I mean like I feel the show won't make us hope too much like zero one did).
Only two are announced so far. Mei feels more like an Akiko (W) interacting with the main character, or maybe she will be a Mai (Gaim) and have some plot revolving around her but not a Rider.
I guess Sophia could be, because she created SoL so why not. But I don't see it being the case (secretely I hope she is the final vilain. A woman as main antagonist would be nice).

And I don't expect Saber to introduce a new female that can be a rider later on. Maybe a Megiddo member like Drive did with Medic, but a rider I don't think so (would be glad if I was wrong though).

At least my hopes can't get crushed if they're not raised to begin with...

You know what they say though: when you hit rock bottom someone hands you a shovel.

Sophia is a mystic though. With the concept of books & fairy tales, there's bound to be an "evil queen/witch" as the antagonist. An "evil stepmother" altogether.

Op and Ed tv size
https://youtu.be/-8cSGcIXbGg
https://youtu.be/qkuBjsNt0eY

Looks like you guessed it right, Kenji Tominaga is in fact Calibur's suit actor
https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/saber/2

I love ALMIGHTY! My favorite OP of Reiwa so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C03HwXzUgzg

I have to agree that it's way more up my alley than REALxEYEZ was (even though I liked that song too). I think I just really like ska? Makes sense considering OOO was my first Rider show. But like, the beat's great, and I like the lyrics. That's all I can want out of a theme song. Can't wait for the full version!

ALMIGHTY is... ok.

It doesn't have the usual energy that OPs do, so it's not really something I would listen to to hype myself up for a round of gimmicks and crazy fights.