Well, Shadow Moon was also counted as a Rider in the recent NHK poll. Seems like this is now Toei's definitive stance.

While Tackle is always going to be a Rider in my eyes, Toei seems set on her not getting that title.
Meanwhile, they've always waffled on whether or not Shadow Moon was a Rider. Honestly, whenever Toei staff talks about Shadow Moon, you can flip a coin as to whether they consider him a rider or a rider-style villain :lol

Honestly, it just hit me that Black is a bug monster under the suit. By the power of the sun he becomes regular black and you know gets the suit. Then he further evolved to RX with the power of the sun and the kingstone acting as a conduit. Black Sun is like a perversion of the power that the sun bestows on kotaro, removing the cover that hides his monstrous form and evolving him into a shin like creature. At least thats my guess.

Also wonder what shadow moon will look like.

This is going to be amazing!

What is Stop Kaijin Hate? Just the other day I heard about about "Stop Kaiju Hate" but couldn't could get much of info of both when I did some searches.

It's anti-Redman and also Golgom propaganda, don't bother :lol

Hey I know this is old news by now but it's really only just now hitting me. Am I the only one who thinks those shirts with the stop kaijin hate slogan are really bad and distasteful? Like they're taking imagery from real-world movements and making it into a goofy merch???

I've heard a few arguments about it being misguided as Black had the whole Whale Mutant thing or how it's something Golgom would realistically do, but yeah it's pretty fucking distasteful even if there's good intentions behind it

Black Sun & ShadowMoon.

Huh, not quite sure how to feel about that design