[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Aoi Kurenai

Looking through some dictionaries, these are some of the words kyuu could stand for:

Nine
Urgent
Class
Sphere
Palace

Personally, I think it's going to be a nine/sphere double play.

I just did a few dictionary dives as well. Turns out, Kyuu can also mean...

Emergency/Crisis
Bow (as in, "bow and arrow")
Ex-/Former/Old

Then, for shits & giggles, I looked up "kyuurei" (maybe this won't be a strict return to the full 'ranger' suffix) and found...

Tradition/Old Custom

THEN that got me thinking, maybe I should look up "rei" as well, and I found...

Bow (and arrow, again!)
Soul
Ritual
Command/Order
Reward

Those are some pretty loaded translations!

For now, I'm guessing the show will capitalize on the emergency/sphere/nine puns... and I have a feeling that these guys will have bows as their standard sidearm (if Ninninger and every Kamen Rider for the last three years are to be believed, bows are hot role play items for Japanese kids).

I'm also thinking it's possible there will be an element of "ancient civilization," if you give "kyuurei"/tradition translation any weight.

Additionally, "kyuu + rei" could mean "nine souls." Or, the "rei" part could be a transliteration of the English "ray," and maybe it's "nine rays."

Or, and this is a suuuuuuuuuper longshot, maybe we go with kyuu = ex/former, and this is a team composed of former senshi! (yeah, i know, never gonna happen. haha)

I think my point is, I can't think of the last time it was so difficult to determine a trademark translation! It makes predicting kinda fun.