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Originally Posted by Tokumonkey

This is a rare case in which which I actually like the SiC designs for something. Fortunately, I had a toku-veteran friend with me when I watched the Fourze/Wizard movie, so he made me aware that the Akumiazers were repurposed toku heroes. If I recall correctly, wasn't that the movie that gave us Poitrine? I got curious about that period when I made the connection between that and the villainous versions of Groundain and Skydain in the Fourze movie. (And as I was typing that, I remembered the Inazuman revival in another film.) Was Toei just spitballing potential hero revivals? And if so, why cast several of those older toku heroes as villains?

Is there a difference between the sabres for Zabitan and Ibiru? It looks like Zabitan's may be fractionally shorter, but otherwise, I can't spot a difference between them.

The year Fourze aired actually commemorated the 40th anniversary of Kamen Rider. So in honor of Ishinomori they started using a bunch of properties he worked on. Now I can't tell you why so many of them turned up as villains. The situation however is very similar to the tail end of OOO's run, when the Let's Go Kamen Riders movie came out. That film was also billed as a 40th anniversary tribute and featured Ishinomori's other creations: Kikaider, Kikaider 01, Zubat, & the original Inazuman. They were all of course portrayed heroically.

Thematically the following year I guess they wanted to mix things up so they went with villainous version of the Akumaizer 3 & Space Ironmen Kyodain. Poitrine remained heroic but turned out to be an illusion as well. The new Inazuman started off evil as Sanagiman before turning to help Gentaro later on. It's an interesting turn to take after the previous years' film and it's unashamed celebration of Ishinomori and his heroes. But that 12 month span of films really honored the history of Toei so much better than I think anything else has in recent memory.