Well, not everyone speaks Japanese, so...

Man, wait until I tell you about Faiz's theme, "Justifaiz" :lol

They'd looked it up enough to think it meant "Strawberry".

Also, just because I finally watched his debut episode of Blade today - Leangle has a spider design on his face. The gold lines make up the legs.

It seems Leangle's helmet also have crown design (similar to Blade King Form helmet) so Leangle have king motif because his helmet design and his gold color.

This really interesting because Leangle didn't have King Form in the show but he have king motif in his Ace Form.....

Ah yes, the difference between "ichigo" and "ichigou."

To add to the ichigo/ichigou talk, the reason that extra u is added when we write Kamen Rider Ichigou is that 'ichigo' the Japanese word for strawberry is written as "いちご" while Ichigou which means no. 1 is written as "いちごう". And as much as I can be guilty of it too sometimes out of laziness, if we consider how the word is originally written in Japanese, ignoring the 'u' would be like writing the word snooze as "snooz". :lolol
Again, I tend to drop the u sometimes too out of laziness in my case but yep, just wanted to share that tidbit.

Yeah, I generally avoid truncating my u's when writing Japanese names specifically to avoid this kind of confusion. It's a fairly minor phonetic difference, but it's the difference between Kaitou, the morally ambiguous secondary Rider from Decade, and Kaito, the morally ambiguous secondary Rider from Gaim.

It's worth noting that Japan themselves generally don't romanize things like that, but of course, they also have little reason to transliterate things in a way that prioritizes reflecting their own language with maximum technical accuracy.

I feel so stupid for just realising this now, but the Titan Megazord/Magi King has an 'M' on the wizard hat. You know, 'M' for 'Magiranger'.

And yes, I was already aware of the blatant 'M's that were littered over the chest and body.

I just realised that Kamen Rider Sorceror has a mustache.
And it it just me, or is there a face on his hat? O_O

Me again, sorry for spamming this thread.
Was re-watching Kamen Rider Wizard and it hit me:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190911112446
You know how he uses rings to transform?
His entire helmet (the grey parts) and mask is literally a ring.

EDIT: While I'm on the subject of Wizard, can someone please tell me why he seems to never actually punch his enemies?

It's the mark of Kuuga!!

https://i.imgur.com/lEkB3wZ.png

If you had your magic transformation devices right there on your hands, would you run the risk of shattering them by punching someone? (Or possibly just hurting your own fingers in the process.)

It's a factor of two things. First is that he's a showman. Open hands in order to show you're not hiding anything. When it comes to sleight of hand tricks, part of a good palming technique is to rarely have your hand clenched into a fist. Otherwise, it's a dead giveaway that you're hiding something.

Second, I don't think they wanted to make 10 rings per fight scene since I'm sure a punch would probably break them :lol

Ahahaha yeah it would totally suck for the Wizard Rings to suddenly break in the middle of a scene. :lol

I just realized that Zero-One yellow parts on the helmet looked like a mask, this is quite possibly the first time it's a literal Kamen Rider

Sorta? I'd argue the Ghost Personas are pretty mask-like, all things considered. Den-O and Zeronos also had their faces formed by different masks. There's probably others I'm not thinking of, it's still pretty rare.

Now that I think of it, the very first Kamen Rider, Ichigou, didn't even have a mask. It's a whole helmet! Wonder why Ishinomori named them 'Kamen Rider'.

Yeah Den-O is another case, and the eyes are literally naned DenKamen. And Ryuki actually wears a mask as well, huh!

I guess Helmet Rider doesn't sound good. And back then when people think of superheroes, they think of people wearing masks. Also probably helps that kids could easily draw the Riders on a paper and cuts them to wear as a makeshift mask.

Helmet Rider still sounds interesting to me. :D

If Kamen Riders mostly have bikes, I think all of Helmet Riders are have cars :D

Because the work "kamen" is NOT exactly the same was the English word mask. It's its closest equivilant, but like other similar works across languages, is not exactly the same.

From some research I just did, I found that while the word is usually translated "mask" it is sometimes translated "disguise." Someone who actually speaks Japanese can correct me, but it seems to be a much broader term than the English term and indicates anything used to cover the face as a disguise, which would include a helmet, if used in such a manner.

Thus he's a kamen rider, but not truly a masked one.

I mean, if you break down the word 仮面 into its components, it more or less means "assumed face", so I don't think it matters at all how much more of the head beyond that is being covered.

What I'm more confused about here is the idea that the English word "mask" doesn't work like that? Like, it can be used a verb (unlike kamen, which is specifically a noun) that just means to disguise or conceal something, so I'm not really seeing how it's any less broad.

I'm not some language expert, granted, but I'm pretty sure both of these words actually do work almost exactly the same way.

You are correct that it can be used in a similar broad sense, but it also refers to very specific type of face covering and that is what people seem to be getting hung up on instead of excepting that it just means mask in a very broad sense.

So apparently the grunts in Zero One are called "Trilobite Magia", and then I realised its because they have a trilobite on their face. That's awesome.

Huh, the mask is layered like trilobites come to think of it.

This might be bending the rules a little bit, but this is a REALISATION thread, and unless there's a specific thread for this I'm going to put this here (sorry in advance).

Kamen Rider Zi-O's Decade Form gives Zi-O the power of other Riders' upgrade forms right? What if Zi-O got his hands on a second Zi-O Ridewatch and inserted it into the Decade Ridewatch? There won't be any physical changes to the suit, right?

Just something I realised, and I said this might be bending the rules a bit because it's pretty much unconfirmed in the show itself.

The rule... kind of seems to be "most powerful pre-final form, unless there's issues". I can see reasons they wouldn't have gone with Mighty Maximum X and Rabbitrabbit/TankTank, but not much of a reason that was preventing them from going with Toucon over Grateful; so I'm going with that.

In which case, they'd probably go with Trinity, which is a weird thing to think about.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I think there's, like, a molded jaw/mouth line on Kamen Rider Amazon Neo's head. Can't exactly confirm this by myself. Those red lines are disorienting me. Can someone please take a closer look?

EDIT: Also, just realised that Amazon Neo has a human-like six pack!

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190723131936

It's definitely there. If I remember correctly, he opens his mouth when he goes into his true amazon form

That's a mouth yes, because Neo is basically a blue Amazon Alpha wearing armor. You can even see the red compound eyes underneath the visor.

Agito is a season of Demons vs. Angels. The angels being the lords and the demons being the Agitos and Gill.

Piggybacking off the Amazons discussion earlier in this thread. Spoilers for Amazons S2

The under suits of Amazon Neo and Alpha aren't 1:1 palette swaps of each other:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20171001172815
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20190723131936

The green marks on Alpha are jagged and mostly short, resembling scars Jin gets in battle. In comparison, the red marks on Neo are longer and thinner because they're supposed to resemble black veins humans get once they're infected with the Lysogenic Amazon Cells: https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20170819034703 This is because Chihiro is actually one of the origin points of the Lysogenic Amazon Cells.

Okay cool. Thanks guys/gals, it was bugging me way too much.

I didn't even see that! That's so cool! Thanks.

I haven't watched Agito yet, but this just put it on top of my 'to watch' list. I heard that Kuuga is linked to Agito somehow, so should I watch Kuuga first before watching Agito?

It's definitely not required. Agito has a couple of things, largely early on, that vaguely imply it takes place in the same "world" as Kuuga, but it's mostly down to them probably not having totally decided how Heisei Rider was going to handle continuity yet. Arguably they never did decide. :lol

At any rate, Kuuga and Agito have no direct connection and are pretty completely their own shows. There's no continued plot points or returning characters or anything like that, if that's what you're concerned about.

Agito just has a few cute nods to Kuuga that imply some sort of shared universe really, but it's extremely vague and nothing more than a couple of name drops and references.

What is interesting though is that thematically they're very similar, and their setting and base idea is very similar too. They definitely parallel each other and I highly recommend watching one close to the other, but honestly; Agito before Kuuga is fine. It's what I did, and I turned out... mostly okay!

As I recall, the original idea was for Agito to be a direct sequel, and eventually include returning characters from Kuuga...however, Kuuga’s staff nixed the idea, and so those references are all that remain.

The most direct reference/relation is that G3 is based off of Kuuga and Hikawa mentions Kuuga by his police moniker Unidentified Lifeform no. 4 early on in the show during a briefing in regards to the Unknown and Agito if I remember correctly. It was after episode 1 for sure but I can't remember exactly which episode. Either 2 or 3. Also the Guard Chaser's ignition mechanism is the same as Kuuga's Try Chaser and Beat Chaser.

I was looking through Kamen Rider Ghost stuff ("what? Kamen Rider Ghost? BLASPHEMY!" Okay! Put down the torches!) and I noticed something peculiar about Tutankhamun Damashii:

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...X856SZQcVkd2q0
(From DeviantAt, artist: malecoc)

I was like, "man, those are some weird-ass shoulders" and then I realised that they are hands. Like, the way pharaohs have their arms over their shoulders when they die. That is amazing.

Kamen Rider Ghost may not have the best story, but you gotta love their designs!

P.S. I don't know if it's just me, but I think Tutankhamun Damashii's horns are smaller compare to the rest of the Damashiis. It it is, it's a nice little nod at how young that guy died.

Once you point it out, it’s really obvious but man I hadn’t noticed. Love this kind of stuff though. It doesn’t get a lot of recognition but I think the designs in Ghost are great, and it’s neat and clever design details like that that really makes them stand out to me (I brought it up in this thread long ago when I first watched its movie but, Tenkatoitsu is still cool as hell for this very reason).

I remember seeing that. That realisation blew me away and gave me a deeper appreciation for Ghost.

Also, this is the (Ganbarising exclusive) Da Vinci Damashii:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20170115182919

I remember looking at this a few years back and I was like, "oh man what a great design! The shoulders have paint palettes on them!"

Looking at it now, I realise two things:
-That thing on its head? That's Leonardo da Vinci's design for a tank (search 'da vinci tank' on Google or Bing or whatever browser you use).
-The white and brown segments on the torso? That's an easel with a canvas on it.

EDIT:
Kamen Rider Necrom Grimm Damashii:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20160329034410

I could be wrong, but I thing those things on the top front is meant to be two halves of a book or something. There's lines on it which i think is supposed to represent text? All I know is that the shoulders are old fountain pen nibs dipped in an ink jar.