I mean, considering that big would on his chest during that and the fact he's currently immortal...

Blade should return and seal him XD

Would that even work? Genn's already such a card. :lolol

Considering Proto Gashats were pretty damaging to the human body...This means Genm had to have at least thought "ORE NO KARADA BOROBORO DAAAAAA"

yeah after Kiria died that said he's not turning good

Asakura, Banno, and Tennoji all beg to differ.

Gonna also throw this theory out, but maybe Dan blows up Poppy, absorbs her through the Bugvisor, and uses her as a test subject for the Tokimeki Crisis Gashat with the Buggle Driver II (he'll make a second one for himself later), brainwashing her until she breaks out of it and uses it against him. Seems likely to me.

But...None of those became good, they were arseholes all together, so why did you lump my quote?

I was just responding to the ones that I felt were relevant to that sort of topic, and I included yours to show that I was on your side. I guess that didn't carry through.

Sorry, This happened twice today

Thank God? Come on now. I'm way behind on Ex-Aid, so not sure how much story sense it makes, but every time there is even so much as a hint of a possible female rider people always get like that and its just laughable. If it works and makes sense, cool. But making a female rider just to make a female rider is pandering.

Pandering is okay, Kiwami's acting like that because he's sick of female Riders being useless, hell, Necrom P appeared for like 20 seconds. Not to mention the fact we're getting a major female character become a Rider is pretty big. It's like if Akiko became Accel instead of Terui, it's new. Not to mention KR is almost men exclusive and that gets boring after a while for some people

Don't take this the wrong way, but my word, what a stiff perspective. A lot of things happen in shows like these "just because." You think they gave Ex-Aid a burger form because they were concerned with its story significance? Doesn't mean they didn't make it work, but there was clearly no bigger thought behind doing something like that. They did it cause they thought it'd be fun.

KR shows aren't exactly high art, and after 45 years sometimes we just want to see something new. It doesn't matter if you want to label it pandering, there is nothing wrong with wanting more female Riders. Wanting a more diverse group of Rider characters (not even in a social representation sense, just diverse in the types of characters there are in general) is just natural.

Plus the whole idea that you're not allowed to make female characters if it's a conscious, deliberate choice is frankly ridiculous.

Eh... I think it's more the idea that it's such a travesty that there isn't more female riders. Or female characters in general.

It's less an issue of not wanting female characters, it's just, at least in my case, a distaste for the melodrama and the accusations that surround it.

Of course, I often find the same people demanding "diversity" also bitching about "tokens", so...

Although, I kind of have to wonder what the female suit actor field looks like as a whole. I mean, they obviously exist, but I'm not really aware of any of particular note outside of Malika's actress.

im guessing there's going to be shipping of emu/poppi/asuna, it's not like it's a surprise anyway, i saw this coming from the first episode.

it's always been them two together for 17 episodes, something between them two is going to eventually happen at some point.

Chronicle looks like an Xbox

Muteki looks perfect I love what I seeing with ex-aid final form. All that gold is just so nice and shiny.

I was hoping that ex-aid would get a gold form and he did which made me very happy to see. Can't wait to see it in the show gonna be golden lol.

The other stuff is boring I don't care for it.

What melodrama though? None of that was going on here. All Kiwami said was he was happy there was a female Rider, and that was that until NGW had to pipe in with the helpful opinion that wanting female Riders is "laughable" or whatever.

Honestly, the people who like to complain about the type of people you're talking about are often just as likely to start these pointless arguments.

...but they really are super pointless, so I guess I'll just shut up. It doesn't really matter.

As for female suit actors, I do know that a lot of female characters tend to have male suit actors, although the girls in Sentai at least lately do usually get female suit actors, far as I know. Rider has had less opportunity to have them for...well, obvious reasons, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Thoughts, now that we've seen the stuff:

-The Muteki gashat is interesting, especially how the star thing on the side can be used in the level 3 slot. The picture shows it being used with Taddle Quest, so maybe it'll be the gashat for Brave and Snipe's final forms as well? I dunno, just seems weird to me that Para-Dx gets a final form but they don't seem to yet.

-Speaking of which, Perfect Knockout Gamer looks really cool. I wish he had a little more of the "nerdy" design of Puzzle Gamer, but the Chinese design is solid. The Parabolagun, on the other hand, might be the ugliest weapon in Ex-Aid. The handle is just too long for how small the axe and gun are. Otherwise it would be ok.

-I agree Chronos is a little underwhelming. On the other hand, the fact that his design seems to be only green and black might look really unique on an actual suit...I don't feel like I can judge him just yet. I do like how the Bugvisor 2 seems to be able to be used as a weapon even when being used as a driver, since the original doesn't seem to be able to do that.

-And the biggest surprise, Kamen Rider Poppy is actually happening! And with a new dating sim gashat, rather than her version of the Doremifa Beat one! She looks great and I love that she uses the Buggle Driver 2, though I feel like her chestplate is a little bland and kind of wish she had a rider gauge or something similar.

On the topic of female riders, I think the main issue is not the amount of them, but the treatment of them. They're infamous for almost always dying, even when it's pretty unnecessary (I maintain Marika's death was incredibly pointless). It's kind of crazy actually how just seeing Poppy become a rider is both exciting and worrying. Hopefully she'll be a little more Kivala and pre-death Marika, and a little less Femme and Dark Necrom P.

Speaking of Kivala, won't this be the first time since Decade where the female rider is actually the lead female?

It's more, you should be excited about a new rider period, or that a character is becoming a rider more than the girl part.

Uhh not sure because I think the cop woman from Wizard became a rider mage in the Wizard movie. But Kivala was a movie rider so if Poppy is in the show it will be more amazing than Kivala. As for Poppy being a rider . . . yeah we all should wish her luck. Since she was revealed to be a good bugster she pretty much given a 1/3 chance of dying in the show. Now that she is a rider its at least 2/3 chance of dying. And if she does die I am going to guess its a mercy kill from Emu probably because of something our game master with a god complex did to her.

Also does anyone think Dan wil get even more crazy when he gets Chronicle or will it be the gashat taking over him?

If we had enough female Riders then yeah, I wouldn't have to be excited for one to show up. But considering the joke that was Dark Necrom P and that Drive had no female Rider at all (like many shows before it by the way) it is enough of a rare event for me to be excited about.

And I have no idea why that seems so wrong to you.

Also you may have ignored it, but I'm actually excited that it's Poppy. I like her. So I'm happy that she as a character becomes a Rider as well.

That actually looks really awesome. Can't wait for Kamen Rider Poppy, even though she's gonna annoy the shit out of me.

So what are the chances of Poppy kicking the can? lol

I'd say 75% chance

Considering how fast she snaps between personalities I wouldn't be surprised if she's a no-nonsense badass once she transforms :lol

Too high. On the other hand, they could have the drama and then just let her re-spawn immediately.

if Poppy does kick the can...
makes me think Toei loves to kill their main heroines as of late xD

I wish Poppy used the Gamer Driver so she could get a Level 3 form with the pink DoReMiFa Beat gashat.

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the chance is over 90%

until june we dont have news about Brave and Snipe
where are they??? looking for more ex-aid silly episodes that ended with tragedy LOL

Man, everyone is so sure that Poppy's gonna kick the bucket when she becomes Kamen Rider Poppy. It's like killing any excitement I'm having for her to be a Kamen Rider and instead filling me with dread that she'll die. So I'm just gonna wait and see how this plays out, since it'll be months before we see anymore about Kamen Rider Poppy.

Well, the mortality rate for female riders has not been great since Stronger so... yeah it can't be helped though I hope she survives.

I know, which is why it's disheartening that people are just so sure that she's gonna die. Again, I'll just wait this one out and see how this will all go down.

I'm just mentally preparing myself for the worst case; I don't want her to die either :(

I'm more scared by how she and Chronos debut in the same month, meaning she's gonna be evil Q.Q It'll be a popipapopanic!

Kivala, Amaki, sorta Nadeshiko, Mage. Dark Necrom P didn't die either, though she might as well have. There's some hope. "Killing off the girl" is a truly unfortunate tradition, maybe the Ex-Aid writers will realize that?

Mage didn't die but more of a "well we didn't use her a lot".

Kamen Rider Poppy was something I really hoped would happen, though I doubted it would, pretty glad to be wrong honestly. Everything else continues to look great, though I'm not sold on Cronus, it just seems like such a step down from Zombie.

I hope the writer will not used "hero must die and then revived before obtain final form" story concept in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid.....

if emu does die he can't very well say he didn't use any continues

There's a few slightly clearer pictures of this stuff coming out. There's a box with information on Chronos, and while I can't really make out much of it (still very blurry and my kanji reading is shit) the kanji for Kuroto's name is literally the first thing in it, so I think he is indeed Chronos. Which is unsurprising, but you know.

There's also a clearer image of half of Poppy's box, but all it says is that she uses the same belt as Chronos, which...we could tell. Hopefully the full thing goes online at some point. I would hope that would tell us if she's evil or what.