[Librarian]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

You're exactly right. If a woman is the main Rider, I don't expect the toyline to suffer at all. If anything, marketing to girls in addition to boys will probably increase sales.

BUT, and again this is if the main rider is a girl, I do suspect that the toy line will be more anchored around this "Zi-Q" character, even if the show focuses squarely on a female Zi-O as the main protagonist. Because, while I do think that Toei likes to experiment with content, I also think that Bandai is extremely conservative and married to their formulas.

Obviously, this is all speculation, and I'm still very skeptical (though increasingly hopeful) that we'll get a girl in the lead role. But if we do, it probably wouldn't negatively impact toy sales too much.

The toys are nearly all sold armored except for the collector market. The device looks to be the same with the addons/gimmick piece dictating additional functions.

So I don't see why this will limit sales in any fashion whatsoever. Same amount of figures of both as normal. Same amount of Roleplay gear. If it's cool, it's cool. Sales numbers will be the same to higher. Doubt it'd have any negative effects whatsoever, and instead will likely cause a sales spike.

So I doubt bandai will limit it at all or act conservative. BoJ isn't as limited as BoA on views. If this were BoA then I might agree and worry. But even they used to cater to wider and this limited view is more of a recent thing.

Having the male background character overshadow a female lead rider in her own show on the toys is also instant bad press. So that'd be a really dumb thing to do.