[Sunred]

Mr. Momotaros himself, Toshihiko Seki, will return to the genre as the voice of Gavarion Trigger and Cosmo Gavarion.

[Blade Fang]

DX Gavarion Trigger

Other DX Cosmo Gavarion images with alternate formations.

[Frontier]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

The Luminous girls do give off Ein and Zwein vibes when together, so I suppose so.
This tweet's hilarious.

They reminded me of Yoko and Yuka from Ultraman Z.

[FairyKing]

Hmm... I do love the concept of the hero's weapon, changer, robot and vehicle/base all in one, among other things it's great play value for a single toy, and I actually think it looks pretty good in gun mode! But the robot and spaceship modes are currently the weakest part of the whole Gavan Infinity package in my opinion. Maybe they'll grow on me as I watch the show?

[DKVikeStrike]

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Originally Posted by Blade Fang

Other DX Cosmo Gavarion images with alternate formations.

I'm... very mixed on this mecha system. On the one hand, Gavarion's robot mode, the individual vehicles and some of the ship mode combos look neat, but I really do think they're limiting themselves by making every single one double as a roleplay weapon. The satellite looking one is probably the worst with that massive trigger sticking out the bottom.

The combinations with Gavarion are so close to looking cool, but the arm attachments look far too big. I personally think some more partsforming could have helped them - I'd even take a Shinkenger-tier backpack if it made the arm look better.

At least I know they'll probably look way better in the show if nothing else.

[Sh Ranger]

I was hoping for a more substantial trailer with dialogue and exposition. It shows the characters from 3 Cosmo Layers, but it's a shame I had to read the bios to find out anything about them, whereas I'd usually read the bios to find out extra details.

A silver hero with an interest in emotions.... Naga Ray, is that you?!

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Originally Posted by Paladin

Luminous is female AND apparently a two-in-one hero a la Double.

Kiki is Luminous. Kotobuki is her partner.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I'm not loving the robot and the dude pulling the exaggerated comic relief face, but I'm not probably the target audience for this show.

Patrun may look like a robot, but he's actually a mechanical alien lifeform. Based on their bios, it kind of sounds like we're not supposed to love them anyway.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Looks like a big-budget Super Sentai knockoff, if that was their intention then congratulations on succeeding I guess.

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Originally Posted by DaikaijuSokogeki01

Yeah, this just looks like Sentai with a new coat of paint. Keeping everything that was still somewhat successful (Red, Silver, and Gold being the only heroes, giant robots) but mashing it together with stuff from modern Kamen Rider (collectible transformation devices) and the basic aesthetics of the Space Sheriff trilogy.

It certainly looks slick, but nothing about this feels new.

Not sure why this is a bad thing? I mean, people wanting more Sentai get something Sentai-adjacent, while Metal Hero fans get Metal Heroes. And for the giant robots, like, that was part of Metal Heroes since the start, so it's too late to claim that's a rip-off of Sentai now. Even Sentai got it from Spider-Man.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Did they really need to keep the giant robots though? Are kids still interested in those things?

Huh! How could kids not be interested in giant robots? That's what got me in to Power Rangers and Tokusatsu in the first place!

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Looks cool! I'm glad they're still saying "Electroplate!"

Now that I think about it, maybe the "jo" part has a double meaning as emotion.

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Originally Posted by DKVikeStrike

I'm... very mixed on this mecha system. On the one hand, Gavarion's robot mode, the individual vehicles and some of the ship mode combos look neat, but I really do think they're limiting themselves by making every single one double as a roleplay weapon. The satellite looking one is probably the worst with that massive trigger sticking out the bottom.

The combinations with Gavarion are so close to looking cool, but the arm attachments look far too big. I personally think some more partsforming could have helped them - I'd even take a Shinkenger-tier backpack if it made the arm look better.

At least I know they'll probably look way better in the show if nothing else.

Pretty cool how Gavarion's chest LED changes depending on the Gattai. The names for the Gattais are dumb though, like, "&C" doesn't tell me anything about what it does. I guess I'm just going to call them Cosmo Gavarion [insert weapon here] which is easier to remember.

Cosmo Gavarion Saber reminds me of Sasword and Lazer reminds me of Kiramazin. Those are probably my favorites so far. Drill looks good as well. Not a fan of Crane though, the red/green contrast is too much.

[DaikaijuSokogeki01]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Not sure why this is a bad thing? I mean, people wanting more Sentai get something Sentai-adjacent, while Metal Hero fans get Metal Heroes. And for the giant robots, like, that was part of Metal Heroes since the start, so it's too late to claim that's a rip-off of Sentai now. Even Sentai got it from Spider-Man.

My point is this doesn't really look like the brand new leap forward for tokusatsu that Shirakura wants to claim it is. He has said he wants to compete on the global stage with the MCU and Demon Slayer, but instead this just looks like a hodgepodge of what Toei was already producing. And yes, Metal Heroes had giant robots but Gavan had a cool freaking dragon whereas Gavan Infinity has a robot that would not look out of place from a standard Super Sentai.

[Enchilada645]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Pretty cool how Gavarion's chest LED changes depending on the Gattai. The names for the Gattais are dumb though, like, "&C" doesn't tell me anything about what it does. I guess I'm just going to call them Cosmo Gavarion [insert weapon here] which is easier to remember.

Okay so here's the fun part. It's a lot of puns and wordplay. Because Japan loves that kind of stuff.

https://x.com/ZangBerries/status/201...880080009?s=20

Here's a twitter thread that explains em.

[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by DaikaijuSokogeki01

My point is this doesn't really look like the brand new leap forward for tokusatsu that Shirakura wants to claim it is. He has said he wants to compete on the global stage with the MCU and Demon Slayer, but instead this just looks like a hodgepodge of what Toei was already producing. And yes, Metal Heroes had giant robots but Gavan had a cool freaking dragon whereas Gavan Infinity has a robot that would not look out of place from a standard Super Sentai.

Well, Shirakura also said that the ambition of RED would become clearer in the second and third installments. Gavan Infinity seems like it's designed to acclimatize Sentai fans to the new franchise, rather than scare them off by being too different too quickly. Hence why a legendary title from another franchise was chosen to launch it.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Okay so here's the fun part. It's a lot of puns and wordplay. Because Japan loves that kind of stuff.

https://x.com/ZangBerries/status/201...880080009?s=20

Here's a twitter thread that explains em.

Interesting. That's still a little dumb, but in a creative way I can respect. I'll try and memorize them.

[GoldenXtreme]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Well, Shirakura also said that the ambition of RED would become clearer in the second and third installments. Gavan Infinity seems like it's designed to acclimatize Sentai fans to the new franchise, rather than scare them off by being too different too quickly. Hence why a legendary title from another franchise was chosen to launch it.

This. I think it's important to keep in mind that financially it would be for the best if they could get as many existing Sentai fans on-board with the new series as possible, so I think GI specifically will indeed be playing it relatively safe before they shake things up more. Even Kuuga and Agito were modernizations of classical Showa Rider narratives before things started getting more experimental with Ryuki. So a more gradual change is within expectations given everything we know.