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So it’s worth mentioning that one advantage of the Fuuto PI sage being in illustrated form means they don’t have to design the Dopants with the intent of making them into a suit for an actor to wear. And Road is a very good intro to that, with his detailed multi-piece transformation (the closest I’ve seen to that in a live action show is a taxi cab mutating into a spiky monster via CGI) and the fact he has a moving mouth and a deployable tongue (an actual suit would have only one of those)

Also, our OP and ED debut. Not much to say about the former, but I remember thinking the latter’s associated dance was slightly creepy (until someone replaced the Eternal/Skull duet with Ocean Man), but don’t remember how much it kind of gives away that Tokime will not only be a major part of the Narumi Detective Agency, but get a pink version of their phones.

And now, for the casting stuff.

Rider-Lert!

Aside from the return of the Smilodon Dopant VA as Mick, Akira’s girlfriend is played by Tomo Jiena Sumi, the Kamen Rider Girl representing Gaim in the group. She’s had two onscreen appearances in the series she represents, in the main show as a dancer from a rival team and in the Gridon vs Bravo special as the villain Masako Suzuka/Kamen Rider Sylphi (one of my fanfics used this by having it revealed that Sylphi is the alternate universe doppelg?nger to the dancer, who upon ending up in the world of Gaim, kills her to assume her identity by disposing of the corpse in the trash). She also did a solo cover of the insert for the Jimba Arms which I used the (sadly, now privated) video for in my Zi-O feature’s entry for Gaim.