Ah, I see! Thanks for the correction, I never did pick up much from Zi-O, aside from like two DX items.

I'm... kind of amazed the props at least don't have both sides be good? I know that ideally you'd make it as toy-accurate as possible, but... I don't know.

Neither did I, the only Toku toys I've picked up in the oast three years are Sodos starting last year but somehow I clearly remember it being the daizer and expansion parts.

Weirdly, the whole "flipped good side" of the respective swords means that when Calibur transforms he does hold Kurayami with his thumb at the trigger, albeit upright, because while it normally faces inwards it needs to face outwards for the henshin to look any good!
As for the Booster, I'd assume it's a situation like the Assault Grip: one of Dragonic Knight and King Lion will come with the booster, and you can pick up an extra one separately if you need (the two pack would presumably have it too). If I could remember the prices of the listings that would all but confirm it, as the Grip last year went for very cheap having no electronics.

He went from a classy Tendou fighting style and pose to a brawler https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=znKJoFvv0Dg Aladdin

I doubt it since japanese merchants and message board forum would still be able to get a hand on it and its impossible toei or bandai wouldn't know toy scan for any anime or toku generally will get leak since the early 2000s.

I think we should be receiving 3rd quarter toy listing this month since the toys weren't push back. It probably won't be elaborate color prints, but we would be getting an idea on who's getting a upgrade. Kento will def get an upgrade perhaps he will dwarf blade and saber before getting dwarf again in their final forms. So far, kento feel more like the secondary rider than blade with his caliber complex . Blade got a thing for zoous, but it didnt go too far. There isn't much room for a character like him to grow as much as kento.

I'm curious how the show would do if the rest of the supporting riders didnt exist. Instead their weapons and books correlated to being trial forms or early elemental forms . It'll be like ghost and spectre using various eyecons and weapons. There's just way too many characters. We got 5 villains . 6 riders. Sophia. Southern base. The msuterious hooded man . Tassel and original caliber.

This will be the 2nd Quarter Catalogue.
1st Quarter is October-December, 2nd is December to March, 3rd is March to June, 4th is June to September.

Considering he is part of the main trio I expect his old teacher to be somehow alive and evil or something for the sake of drama.
If Daichi was Touma old teacher and Hayato was kento's, it would be like the 3 old teachers being evil somehow.

The three Swordriver riders are all gonna get their fair share of development. Rintaro is guaranteed too, since he's getting a super form. Maybe he'll have a rivalry of some sort in the Southern base.

The ones I could see not getting much development would be the non-seiken users. Ren and Daishinji especially.

Now that would be a cool plot twist! I'm not sure how that's possible though since Zooous seems pretty convinced he killed Kenshin and considering how he spared Rintarou as an insult, he doesn't kill just any swordsman, only those who earn his respect. It's interesting how the suit designs that use living thing books are least appealing to me compared to those that use legendary creature and story books and yet their corresponding characters, Rintarou and Zooous, are so far my favorite of their respective trios.

In Ryusoulger, the previous knight motif Tokusatsu, I was 99.9% sure that the Masters would revive somehow due to the pendant in Episode 9, their initial lack of characterization and the common trope of people miraculously coming back to life. But I was wrong! Only Master Black lived in the end. Green was an exception to the expectation since he only appeared as a silhouette in flashbacks and his backstory was told from a third person perspective.

Initial lack of characterization is also applicable to the mentors in Saber with justification that at least one of them was dead from the start but still appeared fully in flashbacks and spoke lines unlike Master Green. However, Saber derives a lot of themes and morals from faerie tales so even if Kenshin is dead, maybe him coming back to life is a possibility. I would really like to see him make a comeback possibly as a new Rider and his actor deserves to have a less posthumous role for once! This show is written by the same person who revives Takeru (wait, let me count) 5 times after all so I can hope.

Kento isn't a Calibur like his father was, so his mentor is probably someone else who used to be Espada unless Ikazuchi didn't exist 15 years ago and Kento only became Espada cause the Calibur Driver and Kurayami weren't available. I think the former is more likely and that all three Seiken Swords compatible with the Seiken SworDriver were made around the same time, after Kurayami, Gekido and Hayate and before Suzune.