Oh I bet it's done this way because none of the Ryuki line have the traditional shoulder pads and they wanted to keep the releases consistent.

Edit: actually I take that back. I just noticed that Kamen Rider Gai has shoulder pads attached at the arms.

Apparently they teased SHODO SUPER Gokaiger!

Fuck.

Now this is a release i cant miss. I already own all the DX mecha (sans goddamn FuraiMaru). With how poseable these are and pretty much the closest to scale poseable figs we will get of the gokaigers, its hard to not give in.

*Hears Wallet wale in pain*

Was there a reveal date given?

It was just a tease; all they said is that they've decided who the next SHODO SUPER is ~but they can't say yet~, and then at the end typed out a Gokaiger tune. I'm actually not sure which tune it was, but every Japanese poster was saying it's Gokaiger, so

Can you post the tune or link to said tune?

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テー↑レー↓レー↑レー♪ テレレ テレレ テレレテレレテレレレレン↑♪

It's definitely the music right after the OP's opening narration. The arrows even show the pitch shifts.

Yup literally the trumpet symphony section before the vocals at the beginning of the op. Literally written out like the "nana nana nana nana batman" with the arrows lol. Took me a sec to put together which section it was, and then saw your post right after. I really hope this set is worth the price. Literally after they did gaoranger, we get LC Wildforce. Dont want to invest in this and then get LC figures released the same price as these shodos, granted these are waaay nicer but still, molding on the helmets seem off for some.

I have to be honest - I absolutely hate(obviously it's still a great thing) how much SO-DO improves every year. I enjoyed Zero-One as a series more than Saber, yet I find myself playing with my SO-DO Saber figures wayyy more. It's just...a bunch of small details that really make them feel like better figures. Maybe I just liked Saber's designs that much.

Something that bothers me about SO-DO is how few figures come with closed fist hands. I'm glad that isn't really a problem for the Saber releases.

On another note, it recently occurred to me that we still don't have Solomon.

Yeah, there's still a couple Saber things for them to wrap up -- Solomon, Saber Ghost and Blades Specter. I imagine the Genomes are just taking up so much box space right now that we won't see them until later waves