That’s... really shocking. Why is THIS guy retail instead of Ixa??? Like, cool, but... huh?

Dark Kiva looks beautiful.

Welp, there you go.

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

Dark Kiva is as beautiful as I've been hoping, but I'm not sure I'm too happy about him being a retail release for once? He's one I absolutely have to have, so fighting to order him versus having a guaranteed painless order for an exclusive is going to be a chore..

This straight up looks like something from LVUR...

https://i.imgur.com/qpITBlT.png

Guess I'm ordering some bottles of metallic red and blue then. Or maybe clear red and blue. Once I'm out of this place that's quarantining me, that is.

Damn retail that's gonna be a crazy preorder to get in. And hear I though it would be webshop oh well hopefully Kiva final form is webshop when bandai release it.

Dark Kiva retail? I'd be surprised if the preorder window could last more more than 30 seconds.

On one hand, he's not a main rider... on the other hand, he's a Seihou. Could go either way

Wait, what? Dark Kiva is retail? That would be the first secondary Seihou Rider at retail since like what, Skull from 2017? Ignoring things like Momotaros or Ankh. Or Rider 2 for that matter.

Anyways, this seems weird. Especially since I would assume characters like Zeronos or IXA are way more important and popular.

Like, this will sell out, but you can't tell me that people go crazy over Dark Kiva the same way as Kamen Rider Black or Ultraman Tiga.

At this point I assume that they simply forgot to put the P-Bandai logo on the picture or something.

EDIT: No, they did tweet this out and it reads a release at "General Stores", Dark Kiva is indeed a retail release. WTF.