I'm pretty certain Ghost's first two HBVs were in 2015... thank you on OOO!

According to a generally more helpful wiki with information about Kamen Rider, Ghost's Hyper Battle Videos were released on:

- November 28, 2015 for the first half of the Ikkyu thing
- December 26, 2015 for the second
- October 1, 2016 for the surprisingly awesome post-series one.

(I think technically those dates for the last two are just for the issues of Televi-Kun you would have to like, mail a form in for from there or something, but you probably shouldn't sweat it that much.)

I heard that Ghost suffered from executive meddling, but can someone point out exactly what are those meddlings? Other than budget issues (I think) since apparently they had to divide between Ghost and Amazons.

That never happened! That's just people ragging on Ghost and repeated it enough until it started to sound like fact.

Yah, despite years of asking "So what kind of executive meddling?", no-one can ever provide me anything concrete. I'm even doubtful of the so-called budget issues - why would Toei split money from their big seasonal Rider show to their experimental Amazon Prime to the detriment of the one they were expecting to make money from? It's like saying Kabuto must have has budget issues because they were throwing money at Kamen Rider The First.

I think people like to say "Well Ghost had people messing with it, that's why it's bad!" as a kind of proof they can hold up and act like that factaully makes it worse than other Rider series, rather than it being a show they didn't like because it was just some natural writing element they didn't vibe with. And there's nothing wrong with liking or not liking Ghost, (inb4 this board's resident Ghost supporter comes up and kills me, giving me 99 days to find the 15 Eyecons to come back to life), but just admit you don't like Ghost because of the choices it made, not because of some imaginary version that might have existed if not for that evil Toei.

Only thing set in stone was that Fukuda left in the middle of Ghost's run, right?

That being said... You can just as well say that all Rider seasons, especially as of late, suffer from executive meddling, what with the ever-growing deluge of merchandise introduced into the shows.

If anything I think late-game executive meddling started with Ex-Aid, from just how much we know of things being changed late in development (Humagears were never meant to be a big part of Zero-One after the first arc, Woz was meant to be Zi-O's final boss, Kuroto and Kiriya came back due to high popularity), and how, like, none of Ex-Aid's lategame decisions match up with what was established early on. The only things I can recall happening to that extent before are Ankh not being OOO's final boss, and of course everything that happened with Hibiki.

Ghost, though? Not a trace. In particular that thing about "budget was moved to Amazons" is I think something that was stated as true... for the Figuarts, nothing to do with the show.

It wouldn't surprise me if there was some degree of the writer changing bits of the plot as audience reception happens throughout the entire series (I rememebr seeing someone comment that Skyrider was effectively retrofitted into an anniversary celebration halfway through), but everyone always acts like Ghost's entire plot was derailed becaus... reasons? Like, don't get me wrong, there are certainly places in Ghost's plot where you can scratch your head and ask 'Why?', but nowhere do I feel like it was because some higher up at Toei wrenched control from them and told them they had to include something.

Actually I have something to say about Ghost. Since Episode 39 of the show in the credits they list something called "chief producer" that was never thing prior to Ghost but ever since this episode all Kamen Rider shows have this position.


https://i.imgur.com/XmDYJeA.jpg

That producer found their infinite potential and it was worth giving a new title!

It looks like they've just renamed the guy working at TV Asahi, but still, interesting.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...760&height=427
Although, as of at least the latest episode of Saber, it looks like we're back to just having producers.

It's not that he left, it's more that he checked out for long periods of time. He only wrote eight episodes after the show's halfway mark and most of those were the finale.

I'm sorry, what??

So I'm assuming you haven't heard the story about how Kiriya's death on christmas resulted in a lot of kids crying, desperately wanting him to come back and parents phoning into Toei complaining about having to explain to their kids the concept of death on December 25th?

I--

No, I infact have not!

Well, it happened! There's a story as well of this one particular kid who took his DX Gashapon Sparrow and said he was gonna kill Genm to get Kiriya back. Hope that kid's having a good day

To add on to this. It also didn't help that almost immediately after Kiriya was killed, Toei in all their "infinite wisdom" decided to give japanese kids the good'ol one-two punch (as Liam of Rider Club Radio called it) of:

Releasing THIS for those in the Toei Tokusatsu Fanclub to buy:
https://i0.wp.com/tokusatsunetwork.c...pg?w=600&ssl=1 (Source: https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2016/12...r-new-t-shirt/)


As well as making a tweet saying: “なんできりやすぐ死んでしまうん” / “Why does Kiriya die so soon” Which is a reference to a line from Grave of the Fireflies.

Obviously the tweet was then deleted and Toei apologized for it (Source: https://tokusatsunetwork.com/2016/12...-ex-aid-tweet/)

Oh my god.

That's so bad, but I couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Oh I didn't know about that one, I do vaguely remember a story from later on in the show where some kids apparently mailed in their Mighty Action X gashats because they wanted to cheer up Emu after seeing him go through some event (I forget which exact one, since Emu had gone through a lot by the later eps).

...

Children are too pure for this world.

I've been so focused on Die's Hibiki thread that I got really, really confused for a minute here.

Oh many if it were Hibiki's' Kiriya I'd be even more confused.

Hey, they did bring Kiriya in the end for Zi-O!

You forgot my favorite part: The kids who weren’t crying wanted to go out and hunt down Genm with their DX Gashacon Sparrow toys to avenge Lazer.

hmu if you want to hang out and go kill Genm sometime. (It's fine, he never stays down for long anyway)

Imo, Ryuki could had been another KR using mythical animals/monsters through cards like a Pokemon.

They never did show the fabled "Presenter" in Fourze or in any follow-up, did they?

Feels like a cheat.

Not really, that's kind of the point -- it's one of the mysteries of space still out there to discover with our bonds. Not everything is meant to be seen.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually feel the same about Ankh's revival -- I kind of hope we never see it, outside of one-off fake-outs like Heigen final? We know Eiji's going to be successful thanks to future Ankh, so I really don't need to see it; his determination is more than enough for me

Yeah, until the year 2051 (40 years after Movie War Mega Max) when Ankh is definitely revived and then everybody's gonna demand an explanation as to how Ankh got revived.

Of course, people might forget by the time 2051 ever arrives, but as proven by the GS Ball in Pokemon, there will always be people who remember.

This leads me to the sobering realisation that Ankh is most likely going to outlive Eiji considering how Ankh isn't human and Eiji will be really old when he gets revived. That's really heartbreaking for me.

My issue with that is that his revival keeps getting yanked away over and over again to the point that it gets annoying. Much as I love Ankh, it almost makes me want him to not show up at all the next time OOO is in something, just so I don't have to deal with "Hey he's back--haa just kidding" for the like 10th time.

From what I can tell, the reason they keep pulling them is because the actor is hesitant to end up typecast in Tokusatsu. He only did Heisei Gen Final as a favour to the guy playing Eiji.

I complained about the W Futo Detectives manga recently, but I was wondering if anyone actually likes it, or has even actually read a substantial amount of it. I remember reading a little of it and just dropping it quickly because I found it so unappealing. It ran for quite a while, so SOMEONE must enjoy it, right?

I found it weird, but generally enjoyable. And then nobody kept translating it after six issues.

I know what the differences are for Progrise Keys; but how do the electronics differ from the DX in the GP and SG versions of...

- Lockseeds
- Gashats
- Ridewatches
- Ridebooks?

Lockseeds (and Ridewatches too I think) work off a cycle. It's a single button that does all the sounds instead of three buttons. No sounds for weapons, only henshin, 3 attacks, and a bonus sound in the Gashapon ones.

Gashats don't light up, don't have the inserty noise, and I think the attacks are different somehow? Can't remember that last point, and don't have any to hand to check.

Sorry if this has been brought up before but I haven't been as active on this forum the past year:

I've been re watching Kamen Rider OOO and I remember reading maybe 8 years ago on another forum that Kobayashi had a different ending for the series. Does anyone have any information about this or did I just imagine it?

Ankh was originally meant to be the final boss

Is there any more information on this or a summary? I tried searching but couldn't find anything.