The Ganma will be designed by manga illustrator Kazuhiko Shimamoto, whose resume includes "Kamen Rider ZO" and "Mobile Fighter G Gundam."

So much for the Crow concept. Will it be something as cool as Blade & OOO?

Well I enjoyed to ZO designs, especially Dora's and the other two, but these might not be as good because there's a lot more suits to make for a 50~ish episode show.

... This has the potential to be hilariously awesome.

I am going to be so bummed if there's no transforming windmill Ganma.

Oh boy G Gundam?

WIth Ghost travelling the world this could turn out absolutely hilarious :lol

Very low-res but here's the first TV spot from the press conference.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=900349016686392

HD ver here.

Couldn't really get a good look at the mosters. Look interesting though, I guess.

Takeru Tenjuuki- Kamen Rider version of Right from ToQger with badass quality

Akari Tsukimura- Only one who doesn't understand Supernatural

Makoto Fukami- Generic Rival who is Chase 2.0

Onari- Bald monk who is playing comic relief role

Mysterious Man- Supposedly Main Villain and have somewhat connection to Ganma

Alan- A man with American Name who is align with Mysterious Man but doesn't work for him

Hermit- a wise hermit who claim to be Takeru's "Uncle"

Seem almost most of characters have different personality from last show except Makoto

If it's any consolation I liked Kiva until Mio showed up.

After she showed up things got bad Real Bad fast the only good thing was Nago getting an assload of positive character development.

Wat. How did you gather most of this from the information we were given? There you go, making assumptions again.

The series sounds like it's gonna be pretty awesome.

I'm sorry but that's almost entirely pure conjecture with no basis in any of the information give.

Too early to judge on how these characters will be like. I hope we get something a bit different then normally.

Color me unimpressed with the cast. I'm getting freaking tired of every set of heroes being bishounen. When are we going to start getting some normal looking heroes again? Or give me a main hero that looks like Pierre from Gaim for a change.

You have to remember that these shows are intended for a Japanese audience and that's what they want to see from their heroes on shows like this.

And what is "normal" looking?

lol

An average Joe that actually looks like an every day person you would see on the street. Not someone who looks like he just walked out of a 6 hour make up session and barely eats. Or hell, maybe someone that looks like he could actually be a super hero for a change. How about having a Steve Rogers instead of a Peter Parker? A 30-ish year old hero instead of someone who is barely legal?

Normally I don't care about bishounen, but we haven't had someone that felt like the average person in years. It would be nice to see a change from the norm every once in awhile instead of this safe zone. Hell, Ghost is having a new production team, they should have also gotten a new look for their cast in the process.

Except most of the actors they get for these shows are actually in fairly good shape. They're just lean, which isn't particularly uncommon for athletic Japanese men and considering how agile some of these Riders are suppose to be, it makes sense. Also, the audience that this show primarily targets prefers younger superheroes.

And Peter Parker IS a superhero, so I don't see where you're getting this whole "looks like a superhero" thing from. Peter Parker just has more speed, agility and flexibility than raw strength (even though he is strong). That doesn't make him less of a superhero.

You also have to keep in mind that all of these Riders have the same suit actors so the body types have to match up at least somewhat.

Wait I don't get it, you want an average joe but you want him to look like an american super hero ala Captain America who was a genetically engineered SUPER SOLDIER??

I also don't get this bishounen thing, Kouta and Shinnouske both look like normal people. Also Kouta doesn't look like a weakling as he showed several times that he is in particularly good physical shape. Both didn't even dress flamboyantly, Shinnosuke has been just been wearing suits because of his job.

In fact the only main Riders who dressed even remotely flamboyantly to me were Philip, Eiji and Haruto.

Yeah, I was about to say, are actors like Sano Gaku and Takeuchi Ryoma really considered so abnormally bishie? Sure they're handsome, but they're not really what I would consider particularly bishounen. It's television, and they have to consider marketing, so the fact that the protagonists are handsome is only logical. I guess I could understand the complaint if every Rider we got was a Katono Taiko, but they're...not.

Also I don't ever see anyone complain about the fact that all the heroines in KR are pretty. Where my average looking women advocates at, yo.

I won't go as far as Dr. Kain, but I do prefer the way Shinnosuke looks as the hero over the so called pretty boys that we have seen in the past. Honestly, it's moreso that trendy haircut that most toku actors have nowadays that I'm not a fan of. Doesn't mean much in terms of the show quality, but it does bug me a little.

The fact that you want someone to look like Steve Rogers, who literally, was made to be the AMERICAN ideal hero of his time, to play the main for a TV show whose central demographic is a JAPANESE child/pre-teen audience, is completely ridiculous. Your ideas of them casting an average person is also ludicrous considering what would be an average look to some people is different to others. Having lived in Japan for 6 years during my childhood, I can assure you that the physical builds of the Japanese people that lived outside of the military base I lived on differed from the non-military citizens on the base.

Also looks also aren't everything when casting is being made. The actor must be able to convey the necessary emotions and have some likability to even be considered.

Also why would our Riders need to look super muscular anyway? It makes sense that Oren would look a bit bulkier since he was a soldier in the French army, but for the most part, our riders are just the average Japanese teenager/young adult that happened to come across superpowers. And they wouldn't need to be exceptionally muscular considering they're wearing armor that augments their physical capabilities.

^THIS. This is exactly what people need to remember.

I think what Kain means is:
Steve Rodgers- Takeshi Hongo
Peter Parker- Most modern prettyboy Riders like Shinnosuke, Wataru or Haruto.

But yeah, yours and Asakura's points are valid. Most Japanese kids would prefer youthful, fashionable, light-hearted 20-somethings as heroes than tough, utilitarian badass 30-somethings.

Yeah but he has to keep in mind that Takeshi Hongo was created in the 70s where he better reflected the culture of that time.

And even the original Riders weren't that old. Takeshi's actor was 25, and Hayato's 24, when they started their roles. Most Riders have been around that age from what I've seen. Shinnosuke's and several other more recent actors have only been a few years younger than that. Actors in their teens like Takeru's are a lot rarer.

(i also laugh at the insinuation that the older riders didn't dress super fashionably, for their time. seriously, have you seen hayato.)

The whole pretty-boy discussion feels rather weird if you consider that you can't even appear in the background of Marvel-movies if you're not a supermodel, bodybuilder or Stan Lee. These movies push a ridiculous image of how people should look, not Kamen Rider.

And honestly, with Kamen Rider you at least get normal looking humans in support roles. Like with the SPU in Drive, besides Shinnosuke and Kiriko the whole group looks average to normal, or rather not like dolls.

You'll always have the "problem" with actors needing to look pretty because their faces end up on the poster and the merchandise.

Having been to japan just two years ago I gotta say Rider ARE the average joe you want them to be. Just not the average Joe you see in america. Thats what japanese Men in there early to mid 20s.

And the term Bishounen isnt correct when you use it that way. Its meant to describe males in anime and manga. For actual persons you say Ikemen just so you know ;)

^What Convoy said.

The Ikemen casting isn't even a recent thing anyway. The Showa Kamen Riders mostly were the Ikemen of their time. Most of them were super-attractive when they were cast in their own shows (X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, to name a handful I found really good-looking in their younger years) and they were around the same age and had the same built as most Riders today.

Also all of this:

I said average joe OR give me someone that looks like a super hero.

You are right about Kouta, but everyone else, especially the other three main riders to Gaim.


You guys have completely missed my point.

I get your point; it just doesn't make any sense to me. You say you want your character to look like the average joe and what you see in Riders pretty much IS the average joe in Japan and it makes sense given most of them have the background of just being a normal teenager or young adult, not a soldier like Bravo. You present Steve Rogers as an alternative to that, but Captain America is strictly an Americanized ideal for a superhero that doesn't apply to a Japanese audience. You're not considering cultural context here, you're just looking at things strictly from the standpoint of an American.

I mean on the flip side of that, have you noticed that basically every American superhero has roughly the same build?

And you completely glazed over mine.

I don't mind what the main heroes look like too much. They go with younger looking actors since it's a series for kids 4-12 and they want someone who looks young for them to relate too. It's no different here in the US with live action shows for kids with actors who are 16-25 looking.

Ok, If this is true then I love the design of Ghost even more. The horn is a horn but isn't a horn. Sounds weird, but here is a quote from the person behind the Ghostly News site, the site I've gotten most of the new shots of Ghost from. The owner of the site was asked if there was a reason behind the horn, and this is the answer.

"There’s speculation that its supposed to be the tail of a hitodama rather than a horn. Basically Ghost’s head is a giant hitodama."

Which kind of makes sense...

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zhGtK2eKsS...ter+humano.jpg

Now this is all speculation, but it fits the look and motif.

Japanese ghosts look like glowing spermatozoa? Huh.

But yeah, it fits with the "I'm a ghost Kamen Rider!" theme.

So does anyone know when the shift NEXT drive toy set with Eyecon is going to be shipping out?

August 29th.

Here's something cool by way of JeFusion: http://www.jefusion.com/2015/08/kame...ime-video.html

Video of our soon to be young hero: Shun Nishime who will play Takeru Tenkuuji/Kamen Rider Ghost. Have to say I like him and at 17 he has to one of the youngest actors to lead a rider series.