[Sh Ranger]

I just remembered, we had two blue Secondary Riders called Kagami and now we have two green Secondary Riders called Sakurai. What surname is going to repeat next?

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Originally Posted by Frontier

I'm surprised we're getting more female Riders than usual. I was thinking they'd use the whole violent and physical e-sports thing premise as an excuse to make Naago the token girl trying to play with the boys.

Naago being the token esports girl was a reasonable prediction for sure, but then I thought Merry's silhouette looked vaguely female. Didn't expect a third though! Not even Sentai gets that many girls. I hope this means there will be more chance of having a good female Rider. The last full-time female Rider I kind of liked was Valkyrie and even she stumbled in a few places.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Female riders are popular even if their toys don't sell very well. I think Toei tries to please all categories of fans and, if possible, attract new ones. Plus, I personally think they are slowly setting the stage for a female main rider.

I would've expected Bandai to sell the Bugle Driver Zwei with Poppy's Gasshat, so people would've had to purchase Cronus' Gasshat separately. I was definitely surprised by how much confidence they had in Poppy to not do that.

A female Primary Rider though? They haven't even done a female Secondary yet. I doubt they'd go for such an extreme jump. But if they did, I'd like someone with a good record for writing competent girls, like Komura or Fukuda. It has to be done right if it's going to stick.