Do note that Touma also has the kanji for 'god' in his name (Touma Kamiyama) and also dresses in black. Also, Sophia hasn't really done so much aside from convenient exposition.

oh she is definitely going to "betray" and then realize the error of her ways and become good.

Sawa and Yua say hello.

I like the scale-like pattern on her coat.

A stretch but Ren and Kento also have "Kami" in their name. Akamichi and Fukamiya. To stretch it even further, Ryo Ogami, and Rintaro Shindo and Tetsuo Daishinji with "Shin" being similar to the chinese word of god.

Yup! All the Riders have 'Kami' in their name to some degree, which actually has some credible implications about this new lady.

Nice cameo from Oren and Jonouchi

Really hope that they update the trial form website at some point.

Is Onjuuken Suzune coming up this coming week?

Next time, yes, but that's in two weeks.

They did!

No Buster, Kenzan & Calibur yet?

I still really hope they add thee other henshin devices to this, or at least put out the concept art for them in some other way.

Where's the link to that website again? I can't find it.

Wow, some of these look really cool. Try out Espada Jaaku-Dragon Eagle Alangina
Thought of it because of Kento's relations to the owners of those, but it looks really cool!

Behold, horizontal TaToBa

Wouldn't this one be called DraHeJa?

I used the new updates to do a Land-Sea-Sky combo with Blades, a Father and Son combo with Espada, Lion Pegasus and putting the arm from the Giraffe book on Saber’s Dragon Eagle form.

I’m not including pictures because I don’t feel like going through the time and effort required to put them up.

The q u a l i t y on these layers continue to frustrate me. The kirin and sarutobi robes are a single part instead of a front and back, so it cuts into the leg parts of the middle books. The sarutobi arm in general is completely misaligned and does not actually fit or properly cover the base arms, and there's some weird stuff going on with Jaaku Dragon's bottom.

Wish they did weekly instead of what seem to be monthly updates too. The number of possible forms jumped by over 100 all at once! If they update next week with all the toy books, it'll be a jump of like 300+ Nutty.

Do you plan on updating your collection with the new books?

I have one word to say to that.

pain

I wonder what new items Saber will introduce? How would you theorize the next riders in the series?

Will the Alter Ride Books be used to synchronize with some Wonder Ride Books in a new system or a new item like say... scrolls?

I could imagine some doublewide Wonder Rider Books that take up two slots and fold down due to having to be rotated to fit. There'd only be two types since there are only two sets of adjacent slots. The types are Two Beasts (God beast and animal) and Beast with Hero (animal and hero story).

Wonder Ride Scrolls. It'd probably be just a cylinder thing with a pop-out panel for 'paper'.

Awesome work!

You are a hero

Anyone else find it odd that we don't know which Animal Wonder Ride Books go to Gekido, Hayate, or Suzune?

Hayate and Suzune don't have any mythical books either...

Buster: He doesn't have an animal & story
Kenzan: No mythical creature & animal
Slash: Same as Kenzan

Just wonder what "Best Matches" can be for them? Buster maybe Hercules & Paul Bunyan on the story side?

I think it’s because on the Swordriver swords are meant to have them, since their theme is volumes. Gekido’s theme is “reprints”, Hayate’s is “scrolls”, Kurayami’s is “translation” and Suzune’s is “movement”

Wait, were are we getting this?

Translations of the sword phrases.

Well, if Buster, Kenzan, Calibur, and Slash have their own Full Combo/Best Match formation, I think they also need SworDriver.

Hmmm...maybe Bandai will be released a grey, green, purple, and pink emblem for SworDriver....

Well, if Buster, Kenzan, Calibur, and Slash have their own Full Combo/Best Match formation, I think they also need SworDriver.

Hmmm...maybe Bandai will be released a grey, green, purple, and pink emblem for SworDriver....

My ideas about other WRB for them is:

- Buster: Earthquake Elephant and Youthful Giant
- Kenzan: Tornado Gryphon and Spinning Bee
- Calibur: Moonlight Owl and Shadow People
- Slash: Singing Siren and Echo Bat

I take it that SHT is returning next week?

Yeah, last weekend was just golf.

Nah, this time it was a college relay running championship thing called ekiden according to TV Asahi's website.

They might not need SworDrivers, since their form changes already remember the first Wonder Ride Book they use, who's to say it won't also remember the second, provided the third is of a different type?

And I would not be surprised if they made some sort of add-on expansion roleplay toy that is needed for a potential power-up.

I just noticed each of these also relates to the rider in some way: Gekido has reprints because Buster is a older rider, and reprinting is done for older books that are still in publication. Hayate is scroll-themed to go with Kenzan's ninja theme. Kurayami's theme is translation because translating a story is a way of changing it from one form to another, like Calibur's change from hero to villain (I've also heard Kurayami's theme translated as "decoding," not sure how accurate that is but it also fits with Calibur's mysterious-ness). And Suzune uses movements because "movement" is a part of a musical composition.

That would make sense for Saber, Blades & Espada to represent volumes of books.

For Kenzan representing scrolls, I was hoping that would be the next key item in Saber.

Maybe we’ll expect something in Saber for the next riders like Zangetsu and the others. What new books types to join in?