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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I recently heard an explanation for why there are so few female Riders and it made the whole thing click with me, to the point where I doubt we'll ever see one as a regular on a show. Kamen Rider is, first and foremost, a merchandise-driven show for little boys. One of the biggest aspects of the merchandising is the roleplay belts and weapons. How many little boys in Japan are going to buy a roleplay belt that would turn them into a girl character?

Yeah. If you ignore the existence of the Blue Dolphin slip for the Twin Brace, the V-Changer Compact, Ptera Ranger's Dino Buckler coin, Ninja White's Doron Changer coin, the pink light on the Accelchanger, the pink button on the Gingabrace, Gao White's tiger attachment for the G Phone, Hurricane Blue's disk for the Hurricane Gyro, Abare Yellow's plate for the Dino Buckler, Magi Pink and Blue's cut outs for the Magiphone, the pink and yellow buttons on the Shodophone, the Gosei cards for Gosei Pink and Yellow(not to mention all the Dice-O cards for female senshi), and EVERY FEMALE SENSHI IN THE FORM OF A RANGER KEY, then we never get toys that change Japanese boys into girl characters! Oh wait. We still do, since those are just in Sentai... >_<

I know Kamen Rider is supposedly more popular than Super Sentai, but if this business model was so atrociously non-lucrative, then I think Toei/Bandai would've done a 360, oh I don't know... almost 25 years ago?