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Bandai releasing the DX Henshin Belt Gavv toy tomorrow, right on the day of the premiere of KR Gotchard's summer film makes me think that KR Gavv would very likely make a proper appearance with the civilian actor performing the henshin pose, not a mere suit/voice-only cameo. This could be Bandai's new sales strategy that would be applied to future KR series.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

So from what I'm gathering, they were put on some sort of some of chinese video hosting service and the only reason the thumbnails were the only thing people could see was because they still had administrator only permissions so no one could actually see anything other than the auto-generated thumbnail.

Said person who put them on there was the one who mentioned Junko Komura under the title of "Auntie Komura" lol

Not posting any actual anything on it other than what I can make out because I'm not about to do anything insanely risky online about Gavv. Toei's already started hitting people who even have the thumbnails. All I can say is go onto twitter and try and seek out the information that's still there.

I'm still skeptical about this. I've also read many similar posts in several forums, and so far, all those posts were just reposts of the original thumbnails accompanied by sentences in the vein of "I've read/heard from someone who read/heard that the original poster wrote/said that the writer is Junko Komura". None of those posts included the source link of the original post, let alone the link of the directory/videos in the thumbnails. Even if the original post was deleted by the site's copyright strike system, at least the link would still provide an evidence of deletion of the post or suspension of the original poster's account. Without any mention of the source link of the original post, it's basically a hearsay/gossip.

I suspect that the original poster never actually had complete access to the videos, which was rumored to be hosted on iQiyi. The original poster very likely only had access to the folder/directory of the videos, but not the videos, which were locked behind passwords. That's why the original poster was only able to copy the thumbnails. If the original poster (or another person) had had access to the videos, then he would've likely downloaded it and distributed it via video sharing sites, file sharing sites, or the most often used: torrent sites. The videos would've then spread like a wild fire. My conclusion is that the original poster very likely only posted the thumbnails, and the mention of Junko Komura's name was added later by reposter(s), likely as a mere hypothesis or rumor but misconstrued as fact and nevertheless insinuated in several forums, and snowballed and spread into the whole fandom.

Even if someone posted the thumbnails in this forum, there's very little information that can be gained from it. There are only 3 thumbnails and 1 screenshot: 2 of them show the protagonist(?) wearing a light blue hoodie with a dark khaki stripe on the chest, a dark khaki baggy pants, and colorful shoes, walking behind a child around 12 years of age; 1 of them shows the protagonist(?) doing some kind of Tiktok dance(?) during the OP scene(?) in a colorful kitchen/pantry-like studio, 1 of them shows the protagonist(?) in a close-up scene wearing a white/dark khaki/red hoodie, holding something that looks like a colorful candy packaging; and a screenshot of the thumbnail, title, duration, and upload date of the videos. Even gossip forums are still unsure who the actor(s) in the thumbnails is/are.

TLDR:
I think Toei's top secret is still safe, so the producers can sleep well at night, at least for now. Haha.

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Originally Posted by LevisNox

If we get female rider as badly done as Rinne then please just leave it alone and stop

I concur. The worst part of Rinne as a Rider was her debut in the Gotchard-Geats collab film. That film violated several fundamental, crucial elements of Gotchard's internal logic. Making the debut of a main character in a collab/crossover film (which are notorious for their messy and convoluted internal logic) is just a bad move by the writers and producers.

Rinne was meant to be the heroine, not a Rider, let alone the second Rider. A heroine has a very important role that can't be replaced by making her a Rider: Providing emotional support to the protagonist(s). Let a heroine be a heroine, not a Rider. A Rider heroine = A bad heroine.