If I remember right years ago I heard that villains do not sell well in japan so that is why villain toys are usually premium, this even affected Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds with changing one of the main characters who was going to turn out to be the leader of the villains because his deck sold well

basically what I am saying is that its very weird that Type Asshole is getting retail release

maybe its suppose to be some kind of joke because of the character

I still believe Banno is super popular in Japan and we just don’t know about it.

I mean they like Onari. Compare that to Banno: One is a merciless machine who stops at nothing to play his disgusting, merciless games with his surroundings, the other one is a crazy Professor.

Absurdly, I have gotten used to the yellow they use in Storm Heroes and now the gold looks weird to me. I'm not sure yet if I'm going to grab this one or not.

Was using "merciless" twice really necessary?

We're talking about Onari here, of course it was necessary.

And I thought retail Abyss and Kivala were surprising :lol. In any case, Banno being retail isn't a bad thing in my book. It shows that Bandai might be willing to release more recently ended Rider show while the new show is still ongoing.

Just don't get it anymore.

Cool it's getting released at all I guess.

Little odd he's retail, but cool nonetheless. Not getting him though.

... Huh. Weird. Interesting choice, but I kinda wish we were getting Type Tridoron instead. When are we going to get that? Still, of all character to get as a normal retail, it's Gold Drive. I wonder if this means we should be on our toes about what will get a retail release and what will get an Exclusive release.

I just noticed that the red on gold makes him look like a fruit fly.