He's a fine guy and loves returning to the role, which is always great.
But Tsukasa was written and handled so poorly that I would be fine if the character never reappeared again.

How would they make Tsukasa/Decade a cool character instead of being claimed as a "Destroyer of Worlds"?

I dunno. He's slowly began to step out of Tendou's shadow of "Too cool for all of this" style with his more recent cameos, which is a nice start.

I liked how he was handled in the Showa vs. Heisei movie. In that film he was kind of the de facto leader of the Heisei era Riders. I like the idea of Decade being the guy who goes around gathering everyone together when something bad is going down, even if that means that it's basically his job to herd all the cats.

I'm not sure if this question should go here or not, but I was wondering when the second sales quarter for Kamen Rider begins?

How's the ratings for Ghost so far? Both on TV and DVR?

The second quarter starts around December/January.

Too early for that right now.

What if Toei did Pre-Series Cameo Debuts before 2009? For example, Decade makes a cameo in Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World or Hibiki makes a cameo in Kamen Rider Blade: Missing Ace.

I really don't think that would have worked given how divorced most of the movies were from their respective series back then.

keep thye destroyer of worlds thing, but have it where he and Diend came from the same world, and Diend is actually the hero of the world they come from, and Tsukasa was the villain.

make their belts have a thing where they can take the powers from riders they defeat (that way it would make sense why Decade has good guy riders and Diend has evil riders)

and make it where Tsukasa's amnesia came from Diend shooting him in the head and surviving.

I want a SHF Ichijou before SHF Kiva. Why haven't they made one, yet?

Because fuck doing human/civilian form toku characters?

I wish they did do civilian ones, there's a good number I would buy in a heartbeat.

SHF Gentaro, SHF Tsukasa, SHF Marvelous, SHF Kaito, SHF Gou, and I could go on for another seven pages.

The difference is that Ichijou isn't a rider. He's just a really proactive guy who was basically the lead in Kuuga.
He deserves a figuart.

I won't mind figuarts of human characters from Kamen Rider shows if they don't give them a anime/manga look to them. I would have no idea if SHF Hana was Hana from Den-O if I didn't see the box for the figure. The figuart of her looks like she can from a typical anime show.

I like the anime figuart aesthetic.

If they were to make more civilians, I'd much prefer a more realistic approach like the SHF Bruce Lee.

"Curiosity mode engaged"

.....What do you know there is actually a figuarts for Bruce Lee, the more you know.

No worries. There's a reason why they always pick men like that now.

Hey, Chase's actor won an award in a women's magazine for being too damn hot. I wonder if that has anything to do with how many people like him...

No, not at all. I watch it for the cute guys too. *drools over Takatora and nosebleeds over Kouta*

Have you watched Kiva yet? The main character spends a substantial amount of time brooding in a bathtub.

Hey, in one episode of Gaim, we see Takatora in the shower... How they got that past the censors, I'll never know and I'm thankful for it :)

It's Japan, they see "being naked in water" being as mundane and family-friendly as "sitting on a couch."

To be fair, it literally is that mundane. You know, hopefully.

Not that I think that assessment is necessarily correct. Bathing scenes are played for fanservice in Japanese media so often that it's obvious they know what they're doing. On the other hand, it's much more likely to find fanservice in Japanese media in general, even that aimed at younger people (ie, shounen jump, for one).

Of course it's kinda odd with KR because it's mostly dudes and it's aimed at boys, but eh, not complaining. Hot melon is hot melon. Guess they are aiming at that mom demographic anyway.

Dont necessarily care about it. I've seen Wataru, didn't catch my attention.
Just watched a performance of "Ranbu Escalation" on YouTube. Kouta and Kaito, performing. At the very end Gaku took off his jacket and shirt..... then did some backhand springs topless. He has a tattoo on his chest. And I think he has some knuckle tats on his left hand. Needless to say, hot.

Psycho, those weren't tattoos. Gaku Sano and Yutaka Kobayashi just love to paint their skin for stage shows, they've done that pretty often in the past. Tattoos are something that is still rejected in Japanese culture as it's heavily associated with the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia.

As for the bathing and shower scenes: It really is not that much of a "getting past censors" thing, because especially bathing is an important part of everyday life in Japan. Families usually have a bath together, so for a kid it's no big deal to just see someone else in a bathtub. And before you bathe in Japan, you have to shower to not get the water dirty (because everyone may have a bath whenever he/she wants). As for the fanservice aspect: Yes, of course those scenes play with the fact that the character is nude, but they never show too much(- because it would have to be pixeled out even in porn :lol).

As for the ikemen aka pretty boy casting: it was originally a thing to appeal housewives and yes, there is still many moms who join their kids for that reason. But these days, Kamen Rider has an impressive young female demographic, from teens to young adults. Just to give you an idea, on both days I was at Kamen Rider the Diner, about 90% percent were young females around my age. At the Drive live viewing of Drive's final stage it was pretty much the same, with a tad more kids mixed into the audience. This female audience is who all the magazines with model photos are aimed at, the actor calenders etc. And many girls watch it because of those ikemen actors. That's why a relatively unimportant sidekick like Zack/ Kamen Rider Knuckle got his own movie, you know.

Also, can't deny this is part of why I watch those shows as well. I do own several photobooks of the actors, including three signed copies of Inaba Yu's (Gou/ Kamen Rider Mach).

Iirc, that's why they cast Hibiki, right?

I always thought it started with Ryuki. I understand it was a big part of why Asakura stuck around for the whole series.

I wonder what the Showa series would be like if those Riders we ikemen pretty boys.

Nothing about their personality changes, they just look like attractive early-twenties young men.

Pretty much all of them already were attractive early-to-mid twenties young men. They were attractive and fashionable, but obviously by the standards of their time.

While attractive is subjective, I don't think that's the right way to describe them. They all seemed more appealing to boys in that they were more 'rough' looking men, not exactly rugged, but clearly not 70's era pretty boys. I really feel the first "Pretty boy" Rider was Black.

Well, I certainly can't say I don't find several of the Kamen Rider leads attractive. ^_^

OOO alone has a pretty cute lead.

I'd probably give that to title to Hiroshi, personally.

Cute KR people, and how are we not talking about Gou.