Let's not forget about Hibiki's Armed Saber. It was literally a megaphone he would shout through.

But I am hoping for a gunblade.

I'm thinking the swordsmith guy might be Slash, or a potential Rider in the future.
EDIT: I'll never understand this obsession with people wanting the new riders be female, we know time and time again, they don't have the best track record when it comes to Rider in general.

That would be Daishinji, the guy I mentioned as probably being Slash on the previous page, so same!
As for people wanting female riders...I can’t speak for others, but as a woman myself, I just like seeing other girls getting to henshin and stuff. That’s not to say I’m not annoyed when, like Yaiba or Tsukuyomi, they have little-to-no consistency or are frequently damselled or whatever, but I still like to see them regardless

To be honest. I absolutely hope Daishinji doesn't become a rider. Like in a Rider centric series like this I'd love a decent sized side cast that aren't riders. I'll never understand peoples obsession with wanting every single person in the cast to transform into rider. Or valuing only those who become Riders and thinking that that's the best route for side characters.

Perhaps I don't speak for everyone, I don't think every character needs to be a Rider, but if I know/expect a new Rider to show up soon, I usually prefer them to be established characters vs newly introduced ones, especially with a cast as big as this one.

I didn't like how Faiz had several established characters that could have been the primary user of Delta and with valid reasons for becoming a Rider, but they make Delta an underdeveloped new character that doesn't get time to shine because of the already established Takumi/Kusaka/Yuji dynamic.

When does Fuusoken Hayate be released?

It’s out tomorrow, with everyone who preordered from Bandai getting it yesterday.

Pretty much sengoku driver gang with ooo combos except later we might go with crazier books. I'm curious if there's one book that utilize all three slots. Scroll

Found it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii0vSABIbrE
Wonder when KR Calibur's henshin device will be released?

October 17th according to Bandai's official website

Pre-established characters becoming Riders has been a thing now since Gaim. I think we're now past the days of the new Rider debuting the same time as the user.

I mean, it's not as if it doesn't still happen. You mention Gaim as the turning point, but then right after came Drive, where Gou is introduced right around the Second Quarter. Build does the same with Kazumin, where he debuts as a Rider right as the Second Quarter takes off. Even Zi-O does it, in a fashion, by introducing a New Woz, when we were all expecting it to be old Woz ala Ghost. I think it's become a little less easy to pick out because Toei's started introducing multiple Riders into series pretty early these days, but I can believe we'll get an entirely new character with their own belt sometime in January.

Well I hope Luna becomes Slash in November! She deserves this!

I doubt she’s Slash, but I hope she does become a Rider later on.

You mean that character we know nothing about, and has as far as we know done nothing?

Yeah she REALLY deserves to be a Rider for no reason.


Mind you most Riders don't deserve to be a Rider, the only two I can think of are Ichijou and Banjou. It's up to Bandai whether we're getting a female Rider with any extra attention.

Yeah, I want more female riders as much as anyone (probably more than a lot of people, honestly), but none of the women in Saber really seem like they should be Riders yet.

Luna has been lost in who-knows-where, probably some part of the Wonder World, and we really do know nothing about her. If she were to show up in the present as a Rider, the show would have a lot of explaining to do about where she was and how she became one. Which could be really satisfying, the writers are foreshadowing Touma rescuing her, so it would be a great twist if by the time he met her again, she had grown up fighting for her life against Wonder World monsters and mastered a Seiken just to survive. Especially if she held a grudge against him for failing to keep his promise for so long. But there's no indication that the writers will do that, it's just me making things up.

Mei would have to get way less panicky and more competent. Which could also be really satisfying, she has shown that she wants to help, and if it was done well having her become actually useful could go a long way towards making her a more likable character. But it's not the kind of thing that could just happen in one episode, and if the writers tried to rush that it would probably just fall flat.

Sophia is the leader figure to the Sword of Logos so she clearly is supernatural in some way, and I wouldn't be surprised if she has some kind of power, which could even include a Rider form. But since she hasn't shown anything like that yet or gone into battle, that means that if she does have that kind of power, she must be saving it for when it's really needed. Even if she does reveal that she's a Rider, she'll probably have some reason for almost never transforming.

That only leaves Buff Tinkerbell. And let's be honest, calling her a character at all is a stretch, she's really just a finisher special effect that happens to be portrayed by a live actress. Plus, she can beat up monsters just fine without being a Rider. So as hilarious as it would be to see her become a proper character and get a Rider form of her own, I highly doubt that will happen.

Episode 6 revealed that there was a previous Blades and that it was this guy.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ka...20201011023420

I think I'll just sit Saber out until there's more about Luna we haven't heard AND if she'll ever be a rider.

as much as I find nice having female riders, you're kinda becoming toxic about it really...

It’s not even female riders he’s obsessed with. It’s just Luna. And I’ve no idea why.

I'm sorry.

Part of me just feels lonely and since we're in a book/fairy tale theme, I wanted a love story.

I'm desperate for romantic love. I mean look at G Gundam with Domon & Rain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAf-...onFan%27nKamen

DON'T YOU LAUGH AT THIS AND WHAT I FEEL!!!!!

Kamen Rider isn't exactly known for its romantic stories (correct me if I'm wrong) so you're out of luck. Though If anything I can kinda see Blades and Mei becoming a thing because they've been hanging out recently and that secondary riders tend to get the girl

So we've got a bunch of knights and one ninja among them. I'm gonna call it for now that we're still due for one more 'outlier' rider later on, like a gladiator or something. Alternatively, the next new belt next year will just be a gun and the rider is a cowboy. (Kenzan becomes Starninger...)

So here's a thing I think I'm literally the only one to care enough about.

Saber's Riders are all named after swords, and I appreciate them sticking to a theme for all them a fuck ton.

It kinda annoys me when we get a Rider like Ex-Aid but then the only other Rider to follow that naming convention is Para-DX.

The leads in wizard and gaim started out as platonic brotherly and sisterly, but ending implies otherwise. There's accel. Phillip almost x his sister in w. kiva was a love fest between introverts. Kaixa got his obnoxious obsessions. Even Kagami and Tendou started a love triangle with hiyori until one of the many writers change the script to make them siblings like luke/leia. There's a lot of romance at least in early years or at lesst in movies. RyukiXFemme. Even greaseXmisora.

From passing the torch special, the actress did ask if izu actress envy yaiba actress. Izu actress said she did hope to at least henshin once, but accept her role as just the lead heroine secretary later on as the story progresses. Mei is the akiko of the series. If she's becoming a rider, then they Prob need tone her down and flesh her out more. Maybe she'll be a one shot rider like tsukiyomi and koyomi reserve for movies and endings. She doesn't even have special powers or alter ego like mai/poppy as a gimmick. She's the comedy relief here. Might combine her and sophia since there's like 5 generals for the villain factions and 6 rides including slash for the heroes. Sophia isn't helping out as the "mentor". We're going everyone can be a rider route like gaim first quarter except with more drivers and gimmicks .

They don’t need to tone her down all that much. Look at Poppy.

The only Main Riders to actually get some at the end of the show is Drive and *maybe* Gaim, though I find Gaim a bit questionable.

Funny enough in Build, all the riders actually hook up with someone, except Sento.

EDIT: My mistake, I just remembered Fourze, though more of a long distance relationship kind.

There are...
- Accel & Akiko
- OOO & Hina
- Meteor & Tomoko
- Gaim & Mai
- Drive & Kiriko
- Grease & Misora and Rogue & Sawa

Eiji and Hina are never, at any point, stated or implied to be together.
They’re a cute ship, mind, but they’re not canon. Haruto and Koyomi are another one like that.

Unrelated to the romance and which ships are or aren't canon, something just occurred to me: We thought Tetsuo Daishinji would be the Swordsman of Metal because the kanji of his name talk about metal, right? "I believe in metal" or something like that, IIRC. So him as Slash being the Swordsman of Sound seems to come out of nowhere...

Unless the "metal" in his name isn't talking about literal metal, but a pun on heavy metal music.

Yeah, I appreciate that too. It's a small detail, but a consistent naming scheme really helps solidify the idea of the riders being all part of an organization. Plus it's just cool.

Sento's katsuragi counterpart keeps his parents. He's just a loner now without banjo 24/7. Now even little sister misora chose grease over him. He have to stick with his cup noodles now. No more free meals deliveries.

DX Bremen no Rock Band Wonder Ride Book

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...1&d=1602724794

Calibur's belt this week?

Oh wait it is!

Anyway, I’m disappointed no henshin background for Kenzan yet. Wonder when.

If they don't give him one in future episodes I am afraid of the possibility he is gonna get Lazer'd.

Kamen Rider Slash

That, is one heck of a suit!
So since all the other riders visors reflect how they slash in the transformation, this means that Slash shoots in his.

If you look at the top of the box you can see the gun mode of Slash's dagger.

Okay.... I think I'm impressed! Hope Daishinji can get out of those blacksmith rags and back into battle. Imagine Touma and him teaming up!