I enjoyed all of those works you just mentioned. :lol

Wow, really?! It's an installment in the Persona anime game series. I haven't played it, but its popularity on social media hasn't eluded me. Honestly, I'm surprised to hear that you don't even know what it is! I assume you don't spend that much time on the web?

Yeah, there's a special crossover gattai between Juran and Don Momotarou's hoverbike.

Manhole Kiva FTW!

Yeah, you heard right. A male pink Rider and a male pink Ranger are going to share Super Hero Time next year!

Welcome to Super Sentai! You've sure chosen a weird one to start with.

There's at least 8 of us on this forum who have declared to be fans of Ghost, myself included. Welcome to the club!

The way I see it, if I'm a fan of a show, then I feel like I should show my appreciation for some of the staff behind it. Likewise, for a show I have problems with, I want to know which cook spoiled the broth. It's convenient to remember a writer's portfolio, since it gives me some kind of idea about the quality I can expect, by recalling their previous works and my opinion about them.

That's one of the first things I pointed out here upon seeing the suits.

I think Jin is more iconic in his red Burning Falcon form though, since Flying Falcon doesn't even belong to him. Kijibrother reminds me more of a mix of Aquila Pink, Revi Eagle Genome and Slenderman.

I can feel the Inoue-level cool bad boy energy from them, especially Don Momotarou and Inubrother. That team pose really screams, "Don't mess with us!", don't you think?

Good work on those translations! BTW, the question mark is also part of Inubrother's description.

Here are my predictions for the non-CGI Rangers' suit actors:

Ito Shigeki as Don Momotarou
Gomi Ryoko as Onisister
Okamoto Jirou as Sarubrother

Does that sound plausible?

So my brother (who is a freelance translator for Japanese video games) came to the realization that the name 'Donbrothers' might actually be a reference to the word 'donburiko' in the Momotaro poem/song.

Oh whoa this seems pretty likely, found one person's definition of the word online (assuming this is the word you mean, it's spelled a bit differently)

Like it seems to be a word solely associated with Momotaro

Also I saw people predicting red will get thrown into a river because of Inoue tropes, but I totally forgot Momotaro was found in a river! So some river time would actually be thematic :lol

inu looks like a sonic the hedgehog character.

I noticed their d-pad boots right away, but I actually didn't notice their gloves have face buttons too until looking at Don Momotaro this image a bit more

I do. I mean, I know what Persona 5 is in that it's a game. But beyond that, I don't know anything about it. Don't know the art, the characters, what have you.

Just not at thing in my circles i guess, which is primarily older 80's franchises and Kamen Rider.

now i see the Avataro gear.

Maybe the heroic tale of Momotarou inspired Inoue when he was a kid?

Leaving the buttons blank is a smart move, since they can appeal to both PS and Xbox users.

Fair enough.

My bad, thanks for pointing that out. And if Okamoto plays Saru Brother it will be his second blue gorilla ranger since Ginga Blue and his third blue gorilla role since Gorisaki. :lolol
Personally I'm curious who will voice Kiji Brother now knowing he's gonna be the nice kid of the group. Kinda wanna see Ryosuke Takahashi try after Ultraman Trigger is over. He's been killing it with toku-related voice work since Gridman. Or maybe Natsuki Hanae.

Just as I feared it would the CGI Ranger "suits" look terrible Donmomataro/Onisister/Blue look good, oh and we're incoporating the Zenkaioh stuff into the Mecha (Which is a design I'm not a fan of) hoooo boy.My question is why the heck are you letting Inoue anywhere near anything trying to be Den-O (or anything toku related after 2001 for that matter admittedly his Sentai shows are MUCH better than his stints with Kamen Rider but again those were in the 90ies/before he embraced his "everything has to be dark and depressing, no one is allowed to have any happy thoughts, everyone has to be an asshole" reputation)

We~ll seeing how Shirakura got his groove back this year with Zenkaiger I say give Inoue the benefit of the doubt and see if it applies to him as well next year. Maybe riders were just not their cup of tea and sentai is where it's at for them. And this is from someone who DETESTS POST-AGITO INOUE STUFF.

Okay, I knew Kijibrother was slender and lanky, but good golly he looks nuts! And Inubrother 1000% looks like a Sonic Character (I can tell he's going to be pretty popular...). I'm really curious on how they'll look in action, because Toei seems set on these all CG characters, which may or may not stick the landing. But other than that, the cast have some pretty good aesthetics going on.

yeah true

DX DonZenKaiOh

Even more pics!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHWxsyTa...jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHWxuDxa...jpg&name=small

loving the absolute eldritch abomination that is KijiBrother :D

It's Jack Skellington as a Ranger.

The 'frown' on Don Momotaro's face plate greatly.amuses me for whatever reason lol

I feel the same way, he looks so disgruntled :lol

It looks like it's from an Iron Man helmet to me.

DonBrothers toy video from Bandai
https://youtu.be/zC5dFribSTQ

If you use the regular link, it shows as an embed in the forums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC5dFribSTQ

Also, when's the last time the toys got officially "leaked" and reviewed before the series even came out?

Never but then again he's showing up next week on Zenkaiger. You see one of the toys in the preview.

2 weeks actually.

wow i'm ready.

ngl even if I'm not a fan of the Zenkaioh aesthetics I do like how it works with the Zenkaiger mechs

I really hope donbrothers doesnt mess up any of the pre-existing zenkaiger characters, cause that would suck butts.

Fully agree. That's honestly probabaly my number one worry about DonBrothers rn

Hmm...about DonBrothers Alter Modes, I think their Alter Mode is really similar to Zord Armor toys from Bandai America.

Maybe the DonBrothers Change Hero Series have a Megazord parts as armor.

Turning the Rangers into previous Megazords in DonBrother series is really cool idea :D

https://i.ibb.co/dpxL8k2/prrpm-toy52.jpg

yeah that's a super cool one.

Same. I absolutely adore Zenkaiger and it's cast, so I hope they're handled well. It would be like if Z and Haruki didn't have their charm and dorkiness in the Trigger X Z episodes.

I think it'll come down to how much the Zenkaiger cast is actually involved, if they just have occasional cameos I think it's less likely to get too out of hand, but if they're around all the time I could see there being some large out of character moments

Ideally what I'd like is for them to have Junko Komura at least skim the scripts with the Zenkaigers in it and let her make small changes, that would be nice (but also won't happen and is totally wishful thinking)

While maybe it's better in other shows hes secondary written, I'm a big fan of Kamen Rider Ryuki, but in that show it was always super apparent whenever Inoue was writing an episode, because the cast would often act differently, sometimes they'd be just a bit off, but other times they'd be wildly out of character, at least from my perspective, I would almost always ID an Inoue episode in the first five minutes without ever checking the wiki first

So that doesn't fill me with confidence that he can keep them in character effectively, but idk maybe he's better at that than he was nearly 20 years ago lol

As a fun anecdote, when I showd my wife Ryuki for the first time occasionally she'd go "wow, this person is really out of character" or "omg this is so sexist", and without fail every single time she'd say smth like that it was an inoue episode. I think there were only like 2 inoue episodes where that didn't happen :lol

Inoue is definitely the writer where it feels most apparent to me that the characters are not being written by the same guy. Some of the most obvious examples are Ryuki and Hibiki, but in stuff like Kamen Rider 1 and Rider Time he really just turned the casts of Ghost and Zi-O into something completely different. Even when he's writing something that's good and I love it, like his legendary Taiyaki Master episodes in Blade; the feel of the characters is still very off. I feel this might be a consequence of his being a writer who can get out scripts very fast (it's one of the reasons Toei hired him so much in the 2000s, and infamously it's down to his fast script writing that Kuuga even exists), so he probably doesn't sit down to understand the others' characters that well.

Thaaat said, if my theory there holds up? If he's being tasked with writing an entire season that has very specific ties to the previous one, rather than a quick gig like half a movie or a couple episodes or a TTFC special? I could see him being made to be more familiar with Zenkaiger's cast, or at least have close supervision by Komura and/or Shirakura.

Yeah, supervision from Komura is smth I am hoping for, but i dont know how likely it is to expect, does stuff like that happen much? I know old writers sometimes supervise movies and specials and such, but a whole show feels different, is there any precendant for that? I'm curious now lol

Shirakura staying on as a producer for DonBrothers gives me some hope, but I also don't get the impression that Shirakura ever reined in Inoue all that much so I'm not really sure (like he also produced Ryuki and Hibiki, and seemingly just let Inoue do it his own way whenever he had the reigns). I guess it might depend on how much of the Zenkaiger cast's personality came from Shirakura, if he helped with their characterization a lot I could see him fighting to keep them in character, but if that was mostly Komura then idk

Fingers crossed in any case

From what we know, the Zenkaigers' appearance in Donbrothers does seem to border cameos -- I get the feeling it's similar to Geed in Z, or at best Decade in Zi-O. It'll just be a handful of episodes so I can easily see supervision in those ones.

And we know Shirakura is producing this season just like he did with Zenkaiger, so no matter how large the Zenkaigers' involvement; I'm sure he would do some supervision too

This isn't the first sequel to be written by Inoue. His first Rider show was Agito, which was technically a sequel to Kuuga, which was written by Arakawa, who was Komura's mentor, so this kind of goes around in a circle. Of course, this sequel is going to be a lot more connected to its predecessor, even more than Sun Vulcan was to Denjiman with Queen Hedrian, since Zenkaizer Black and Juran are apparently going to be recurring characters for a while and the Avatarou Gears are a permanent reminder of their connection.

While I will admit that Inoue can sometimes, usually for the sake of landing a joke, bend a character in to doing something they generally wouldn't, I think he has a lot more self-control than Sanjo, who can't even write his own characters consistently. Furthermore, I think Inoue has learned that his habit of taking liberties with the characters can actually be used as an asset, like all those different Sougos from Zi-O VS Decade and Akari referring to Mayu as both "Tachibana-san" and "Mayu-chan" in Kamen Rider 1, after she hypocritically berated Takeru for using "chan". With Zenkaiger having a lot of focus on alternate worlds, I wonder if this Zenkaizer Black is even the same Kaito, or rather Inoue's Kaito.

Anyway, something else I noticed in the picture with Don Momotarou, Zenkaizer and Don Zenkai Oh is that Zenkaizer is spelled as "Zenkaiser" like how Over-Time does it, despite being romanized as Zenkaizer literally everywhere else. I guess Toei wants to encourage people to make their own choice like they did for Balon/"Baron", instead of declaring only one official. Not like most people have been paying attention to official romanizations though. It's especially humorous when Hakaizer debuts with HAKAIZER written in the background while the subs are all like: Hakaiser! :lol

This might sound dumb, but who else thinks Stacey is gonna become Zenkaiser Black? He certainly likes Kaito's home life, likely preferring it to his own with Tojitendo, and it was also mildly foreshadowed when he did Zenkaiser's pose outside of the body swap episode.

I just now realized we're more than likely going to have our first male pink ranger (you can come back to laugh at me when the cast announcement comes and it's revealed Pink's a girl)

They already revealed the Oni is a girl and the rest are men

This also lets Inoue change Zyuran's character, since Zyuran Black could be summoned by Stacey.

Donbrother Gold Ranger??
 

Saw this on DeviantArt. Maybe the Gold Ranger is Kintaro?