Okay, cool! Thanks!

I did laugh a little that, for clearly budgetary reasons, the cards that Leangle unsealed from Blade were mostly (entirely?) ones that already had suits made for the monsters. Certainly a lucky break for the producers!

Looking back now I think would make one helluva blooper if Kotaro accidentally hit the Blue Spader(Blade's bike) with his Range Rover and it fell to the ground in episode 15. :lolol
Speaking of which, here are the names of the bikes for each rider:
Blade is Blue Spader
Garren is Red Rhombus
Chalice is Shadow Chaser
Leangle is Green Clover

I knew all the others, but I actually didn't know the Shadow Chaser was called that. Suitably edgy!

Oh, and this is just more pointless trivia, but those sodas Kenzaki was framed for stealing were specifically Oronamin C, an extremely popular brand that Kamen Rider has a history of doing tie-in ads for (as well as occasional product placement, natch) that continues to this day, and goes all the way back to... well, Blade, funnily enough. I couldn't actually find the Blade ad for the life of me, so please make due with the one for Ex-Aid instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjYepP4Z6zk

It's all in that passive personality of his. He's the only one consistently calm enough to make sure he gets all his syllables out individually. :lol

I don't even know if I'll disagree with whatever it is you'll have to say, but any excuse to talk about my boy Mukki is one I'm happy to take. I mean now that he's here it's like who even cares about the other characters? This thread should just be all Leangle, all the time from now on.

Die, you know I've always respected your steadfast commitment to using only the most academic terminology when discussing Kamen Rider, but this is just way off-base. I would never do anything to disrespect Mukki!

Hey, remember in Faiz when Yuuji says that Takumi worrying so much about losing his humanity just proves how human he is? Anytime you feel like you aren't writing enough about an episode of Kamen Rider, just think back to when you had to immediately change your gimmick for the thread on that show because it was holding you back from having enough paragraphs. You don't have to be so hard on yourself!

To be fair to you, that prop absolutely looks some cheap thing that either a prop team in the 70's or a crazed vigilante in 2004 would be able to slap together on no budget.

To be fair to the Showa era, I have no idea what more that box needs to do than A) exist, and B) have a single button, both features it's completely nailing.

It's 1AM, I'm enjoying a nice late-night drink while getting some payments done and browsing some forums; and this 20-second ad has got me choking on my water. Thank you

One button is better than 90% of Showa Belts, so it's doing pretty good on that aesthetic!

If I may add, Oronamin C's schtick is that it is a small dosage carbonated drink that is pumped with vitamin C, hence the C in the name. I had a chance to drink it a few times long ago and it's nothing fancy really, just a mild energy drink that supposedly has vitamins inside to get you going throughout the day type of drink. I remember it not being as fizzy as the typical soda despite being carbonated. At least that is how I remember it. And here's the trivia, Blade happens to be the first rider show to collaborate with Oronamin C it seems.

I like how three of the four Riders have a Their Color/Their Shape naming system for their bikes, and Chalice's is slightly different. Because of course it is. He can't even name his bike with other people!

Yeah, he's too cool for that. :lolol

Can I just add that I love how nonsense it is that Chalice's powers, whatever they may be, can magically transform a motorbike into an Undead-powered motorbike. Like, presumably Board engineers spent who knows how long building that into Blade and Garren's bikes, and Leangle's is totally not industrial theft of that, but Hajime can just do it.