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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Hibiki
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10-09-2020, 01:47 PM
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And this episode also features the debut of Sabaki (I haven’t looked up what that means yet, I’ll get back to you on that one). As someone I follow on Twitter pointed out, he must’ve been someone on the crew’s favourite, since he appears in more episodes than the other non-regular Oni (even after the staff turnover mostly drops the minor Oni in favour of more focus on the main ones) he appears in the HBV and a post-show stage show. All he hasn’t received is an appearance in Decade and a Ridewatch in Zi-O’s toyline.
It probably helped that his suit looks like way more effort was put into it than Danki's. Danki just wore an Ibuki suit with a different chest piece, Sabaki was wholly unique. Plus he was a string user and you'd have to really try hard to make one of those terrible
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In retrospect from a merchandise perspective, Hibiki was lacking. The henshin belt that is meant to be the flagship merch was replaced with tuning forks, whistles, and a wristband, what came close to a belt was a loincloth with a drum for a buckle and two drumsticks, though the roleplay weapons department I will give credit. And the disk animals were heavily underutilized as gimmick items. Meanwhile, we got a 5 sibling sentai team that was Harry Potter-ing it up with a feature phone that doubles as a wand, kickass robots, and let us not forget a magic lamp with a cat genie inside that doubles as a gun and is voiced by the dude who is Trunks and MMPR Japanese dub's Billy/Blue Ranger. And the studio behind Godzilla was doing their own thing with a show about a trio of heroes who also ride giant robots, etc. TL;DR the show under Takatera was gorgeous but merch was lacking except for the roleplay weapon toys.
If I may add, there was also Nexus and Max, Sazer X, and Kamen Rider The First looking back.
I can't speak for Sazer X, but I'm not sure how merch-driven those other shows were. That said, I'd have bought the hell out of Nexus's multi-form separating jet/tank.
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