What I said was I don't remember seeing RG's being created during Gavv's cameo scene. You said you were told by your friend that RG's were created by Shouma eating real candies/foods and then the belt buckle produced RG's based on those foods. I said that that wasn't the case because Shouma didn't eat nor produced anything during his scene. Unless the info your friend gave to you was his hypothesis that you misconstrued as fact.

Maybe it's not me who isn't reading?:confused:

dude the trinkets were most likely created before shoma apprance in film most likely they were created in the series

I KEEP TELLING YOU THAT

ONCE MORE

SHOMA MOST LIKELY MADE THE RGS IN THE TV SERIES NOT THE FILM CAUSE THE FILM WOULD BE WHEN HES ALREADY A KAMEN RIDER WHILE IN THE TV SERIES HIS FIRST TRUE TRANSFORMION is in the series

Like when ghost first appear HE WAS ALREADY GHOST

OR WHEN GEATS FIRST APPEAR HE WAS ALREADY GEATS

OR HOW REVI AND VICE WERE ALREADY RIDERS BEFORE APPEARING IN SABER

ITS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

Hell your mindset and how you writing makes it seem

Well ghost first transform in drive ok BUT WHY DOESNT HE REMEMBER TRANSFORMING IN THE FIRST EP OF GHOST OH YEAH CAUSE IT DIDNT HAPPEN YET

Then it's clear that the info you received from your friend was indeed his hypothesis.

and I'm telling if he did make the RGS then he did it during the series not the film

Being a 2005 birth, I never felt the experience of having a main rider's actor being younger than me. Even those that are born in 2000s are usually born in 2001, 2002 for example, still older than me. But then we got Shouma's actor being born in 2005 March (mines is in 2005 January) so I now get to feel having a main rider younger than me, damn...

The first time is always the weirdest. For me, it was Nishime Shun.

Since we're on the subject, for me it's Masaki Suda.

So the bike is going to be totally CG?

Last I heard? Honestly, they should just rebrand as Kamen Fighter at this point when the bikes hardly appear as the shows go on. :lolol

the press conference for Gavv will be held 8/11.

A new preview & poster gives us our first look at the series & secondary rider, Kamen Rider Valen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN8nVz_bqKE

Love that the kaijin also have mouths on their abdomen

Curious if gochizo only come from shouma making them or if they also just exist generally? Maybe thr kaijin can make them as well? I wonder where Valen will get gochizo from specifically tho...

The vibe in the trailer looks great all around imo, I'm feeling pretty hyped ngl

I told you guys it was going to premiere on September 1st.

I like how the second rider is just a mix of white and normal milk chocolate. I wonder what that has to do with Gavv?s Chocodon form.

My guess is either it's going to be a Flying Falcon situation or they both have a Chocodan gochizou but Valen just likes using it as their default.

Can't wait for a vilain general to be diamond themed and called Dia-Beats

The teaser is cool and confirms the rumor that Shoma is an alien, as he tries to eat the towel. Regarding Valen, I don’t see either Chokodon or the previously often mentioned Galen in him. For him, it's more like Kamen Rider Drive with a chocolate shift car. Overall, I feel like the designers put all their creativity into the Chip Samurai and the Marshmallow Wrestler, and didn't have enough imagination for the basic rider shapes.

I'm leaning towards the second option, or even a variation on the chocolate gochizo theme. Simply because, since he is on the poster, he should appear in the very first episodes, and taking away a toy from the MC at the very beginning is somehow not very nice. And the comparison with Faiz is not the topic here, because Takumi initially stated that he did not need the belt.

Gavv uses the milk Chocodan, while Valen uses the white Chocodon. Both Gochizous can be seen in the poster. I hope dark gets some representation as well.

Valen doesn't have the belt organ or talons either, so I think he might be a human using an artificial Rider System, like the IXA to Gavv's Kiva. Regarding the design, I'll paraphrase what I said about Gavv, it's neither the best nor the worst of Reiwa. However, I do like the show's aesthetic more now that I understand some of the choices thematically.

Valen's name also contains a ヴ like Gavv, making him easier to distinguish from Balon, a fellow food-themed red Rider. I wonder if this will be consistent for Riders in this show, like how ド was consistent for Alchemy Riders.

Tbh, while I think Valen looks really cool I'm honestly not vibing with his changer like at all?

Maybe this is a me problem, but I feel like I just do not get what they're going for with it?

Like I get that it is gun and chocolate themed.... but like.... the chocolate detailing is barely there at all, and honestly outside of the handle it barely even it looks like a gun? It just kind of looks like randomly shaped plastic to me, and so much of it is just unpainted/uncoloured? It just kind or scans as noise to me

I'm genuinely curious is there something specific it's supposed to resemble? It has a lot of shaping that feels so intentional, but just doesn't resembled anything to me? I don't hate it, but i just kind of feel nothing about it... So, I feel like I really just don't get it lol

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The changer reminds me more of the Ultraman gadgets. Regarding the minimum of chocolate parts, I think this was done because they will be replaced when Valen receives an upgrade.

Yeah the "that sure is a shape" vibe definitely reminded me a bit of my initial reaction to the Arc Ariser so that's a good comparison I think

Would be cool to see the changer get some aesthetic changes for different upgrades

I mean, I like it a lot. Reminds me a bit of like, the alien weapons in Halo and similar stuff in terms of shape, and considering that Gavv is supposed to be an alien, maybe Valen's gun is stolen alien tech?

I like this idea ^^

If this is actually the case in the show that would increase my appreciation of it's design for sure

So Valen to me is so good looking and i heard and saw a picture that one of Valen's future forms will be a chocolate donut

This will be a Rider show for foodies.

I'm already loving the Kaijin design and the general vibe.

Valen's design...I think I'll need to see it in action more. I don't think it works as well as Gavv's chocolate form.

Or, conversely, tokusatsu fast food.

It's a mouth.

Just like Gavv's belt, except seen from the side instead of the front and long and narrow instead of wide. The "chocolate bar" details pull double-duty as teeth, and the lighter blue patch on top is an eye (which gives me a hunch that the gun will be a separate "living" creature, unlike Gavv's belt which is part of him). Looking closely, you'll see a seam between the top and bottom rows of chocolate "teeth" in the front, and round hinges where the gray barrels connect to the blue handle, so it seems like the gun will open up to "eat" Gochizous! The weird sticking-out bit on the front of the top barrel/jaw is probably a handle to open it up with.

I see, thought it was a typo but that explains it. :lolol
Loving Valen's design. Color scheme is nice too.

Looking forward to how many riders in this season! All these snacks I crave!

Gavv: Gummies, milk chocolates, chips, marshmallows & lollipops!
Valen: White chocolate

Now that you say this I can definitely see it

KR Valen doesn't look as good as I expected. Like the So-Do action figure, he doesn't have a belt Driver, only a generic-looking chocolate-shaped belt buckle. It seems like his weapon (Valen Buster?) is his Driver, similar to KR Diend or several Riders in KR Saber who had hybrid weapon/transformation devices. And, since several rumors mentioned KR Gavv's upgrade form will use a cake-based form, could it mean that advanced and final forms will be powered by bigger/heavier foods like bread, burger, hot dog, etc, or even proper meals like salads, pasta, ramen/noodle, curry rice, etc? Snack/candy/cookie-based forms are for basic forms, bread/cake-based forms are for upgrade/intermediate forms, and heavy meal-based forms are for final forms and or berserker forms.

I have a feeling that the heroine could be portrayed by an actor that has previously appeared in a side content in this franchise. My personal guess is that the actor could be Rumika Fukuda who portrayed Rena Kurumi/KR Muez in KR Faiz 20th: Paradise Regained several months ago. Kanon Matsuzawa who portrayed Kei/Kuina Orphnoch in KR Faiz 20th: Paradise Regained appeared in KR Gotchard episodes 30-31 as Seina Tsukumo (aka Neon Kuruma's twin sister, haha), so this could be possible. To me, Rumika Fukuda looks like the ideal KR heroine. She checks all the criteria for a KR heroine's actor, so promoting her from a side content to a main series should be the right move by Toei, and also by her agency to advance her career.

Tamashii Nation will hold a promotional event for the new SHF SS KR Gaim line on September 4th. The event being held close to KR Gavv's premiere, combined with Toei's obvious secretive marketing strategy to build up the hype around the announcement of the writer(s) makes me more and more suspect that these are deliberate moves by Toei/Bandai to signal Gen Urobuchi's return to this franchise. Well, maybe my speculation about Urobuchi's return is just the result of my imagination running too wild. At least, I can only hope. Tonight I'll be sleeping with all fingers on my hands and feet crossed, haha.
https://i.imgur.com/DoAFDVt.jpg

Oh, and here's the link to KR Gavv's press conference event from TV Asahi's Super Hero Time's Youtube channel. 10 AM JST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZPZZD05XoU

Off topic, having seen him do Gaim I do think what a Beyblade anime by him would be like especially now that they have a new generation of it.

Junko Komura has been confirmed to be the head writer.

https://x.com/orangekirar/status/182...379479/photo/1

And these are the villains for the series!

Stomach family? What a name. :lolol

Since the press conference is region-locked, anyone with access please tell us what Gavv's story will be about and everything else relevant that just got released?

You can browse Gavv's pages on KR Official site (https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/gavv/ and https://www.kamen-rider-official.com/gavv/teaser01/) from Google Chrome. Simply right click on the pages and choose "translate to English" and Chrome will automatically translate all texts.

Synopsis:
"忍び寄るモンスターの脅威異世界のモンスター、グラニュート。
人間たちは知らない。奴らが密かに人間界にやって来ていることを。人間たちは知らない。奴らが人間を襲い、攫っていることを。
人間を守るため、一人の青年が立ち上がる！
食べることが大好きな青年・ショウマ。ショウマはお菓子を食べることで眷属となる存在「ゴチゾウ」を生み出し、仮面ライダーへと変身する力を手に入れる。
グラニュートから人々の幸せを守るために戦うショウマの物語が今始まる！"
"The creeping threat of Granute, monsters from another world.
Little do humans know that they've secretly invaded the human world. Little do humans know that that they are attacking and kidnapping humans.
A young man is stepping up to protect humans!
Shouma is a young man who loves to eat. By eating sweets, Shoma creates a being called "Gochizou" that becomes his retainers, and gains the power to transform into Kamen Rider.
The story of Shouma who fights to protect people's happiness from Granute, begins now!"

Villains:
"グラニュート界の大手お菓子会社・ストマック社。その経営を務めるのはストマック5兄弟です。"
"Stomach is a major confectionery company in the Granute confectionery world. It is run by the five Stomach siblings."

The Gochizous are indeed Shouma's minions that he creates. With 3 protagonists, 5(!) siblings as starter villains, and transformation trinkets that act like actual creatures, Gavv feels more and more like Gotchard v2.0. And the writer is indeed Junko Komura. Why did Toei bother to build up hype when it's finally revealed that the writer is an average one? This gotta be one of the weirdest (if not the weirdest) marketing tactic I've seen. Sooooooo underwhelming.

You're right. I'm interested to see his take on the sport anime genre. Urobuchi would likely turn Beyblade into a fiercely competitive bloodsport.

So the big baddie is Willy Wonka gone full heel, and I love both Gavv and Valen's design. Here's hoping we get a wagashi form or rider by next January. Theme is decent, very Persona-esque. Show overall feels like a mix of Amazon, W, and Build.

I get the vibe this show is going to be much darker than it's initial gimmick implies.

Also seems like there's a normal purple bike on top of the big CG one.

The Kaijin and the generals look great.

Gaav and Valen look like they've got a nice guy/tough guy dynamic.