[TheRaizin]

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Originally Posted by Agentjx

Yeah, Toei's afraid of making merch that acknowledges that girls also watch Kamen Rider most of the time, and the only other options I know of are to give her her own version of an existing rider form (IXA) or have her be a rider from the beginning (Valkyrie), and she hasn't been a rider from the beginning.

Precure has mostly handled the female toku audience for a while now, and even then, I don't think they've been doing well sales-wise? At least that's what I think. I've seen more precure stuff on clearance than rider stuff when I went on a trip to Japan.

Although, it if it means anything positive, it kinda seems like Toku is slowly but surely trying, at least, to push heroines/villainesses into the spotlight. Ultraman Z had a major character in Yoko being the sole mecha pilot, not sure about Kiramager but Yodonna is a major villain general(?) and I saw that one screenshot of three Kiramai greens for one episode. Zero-One starting with Valkyrie as the tertiary rider, Naki (technically? Kinda? Maybe?), one of the Abaddons, and one of the new villains for Zero-One's MBJR.net V-cinema.

Saber also teased a female swordsman during the trailers, and also have Sophia and Reika in very important roles.

If there's a future for heroines in tokusatsu, it'd likely be the P-Bandai market. Retail toys are mostly geared to kids, and if Bandai feels like they can't capture the girl demographic for it, then they'll relegate the heroine merch in the P-Bandai market where older audiences can obtain them and Bandai gets to take all the profits.