for someone whose rider form is literally just a palette swap, arkland is one of my favorite v-cinema villains ever. the man just exudes fun energy which is very welcomed considering the format of v-cinemas.

v-cinema villains have this problem where they basically aren't allowed to be hated too much nor loved too much. honestly arkland was a hilarious guy for what they have to work with. they knew damn well that this was a character that we'd see for 30 minutes at absolute most and they just had a blast with him.

I love Arkland. Jai West definitely had a lot of fun playing him, shouting all his english noises.

Ouh! Yeah! Great! Perfect! CMON BOYS! IS THAT ALL?! Ougghhh! Very good!"

He fills in Jin's backstory perfectly and lines up with Gai's plan of militarizing Kamen Riders and Raiders. He would have made a fine inclusion in the show proper.

Also love the little detail of the Ark eye present behind the visor. Which is also how ZAIA's eyes are red.

3. Knuckle Jimber Marron
2. Sin Spectre
1. Cross-Z Evolto

Will a Saber V-Cinema introduce to us a new Calibur and be it’s permanent user after Hayato? Sophia was one time. I don’t wanna see Kurayami return to Yuri’s hands. Either Mei, Luna or a new candidate to take Hayato‘s place.

Plus Calibur could use an upgrade. Either a King Lion Daisenki-based or Tategami Hyoujuu Senki-based.

Why don't you want Sophia to be the permanent user?

As much as I want to, depends if her actress could use more sword training and possibly a change of outfit as Daichi & Kento have.

So the Super Hero Taisen films were, nominally, crossovers between the concurrently running Kamen Rider and Sentai shows. While they made a comeback for Zenkaiger/Saber, I was wondering - what other couplets would you like to have seen that never quite made it?

In terms of older shows, Magiranger + Hibiki, and it would have been nice to see a better Kyuranger + Ex-Aid than we got.

Black and Liveman would have been everything, just to put that out there!

555 and Abaranger, meanwhile, would drive me absolutely nuts in the best of ways

Mentioning Showa put me onto a very cursed thought, and I had to check - it turns out Zyuranger's first episode aired the day after Kamen Rider Shin.

That's my new choice.

Kiva and Go-Onger teaming up would be hilarious. It'd just be poor shy quiet Wataru getting *completely* overwhelmed by the chaotic energy of this group of eccentric strangers the whole time. They'd out-crazy Nago! Castle Dran would combine with Engine-Oh to fight a giant monster because great justice... or something! Tie it all together with Wataru learning to take some inspiration from the team's boundless self-confidence and positive attitude, and you might even have a story to tell while you're at it!

...Then throw in a haphazard assortment of cameos from other actors, focus on completely different characters for the majority of the run-time, do nothing exciting with the action, and you have a properly underwhelming SHT film that practically writes itself! :p