[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

Glad they scaled back the henshin jingles. I guess Saber was a serious wake-up call for them.

I can agree that there is a lot to process for the WRB jingles but at the same time it's the lovely voice of Akio Otsuka narrating, so I would be in quite the dilemma if someone asked me do you like it or hate it.

[Daikaijuman54]

Been meaning to discuss Gavv, and now here we are much later!

First off, "Gavv." Coming off Geats, Gotchard, now Gavv, three "Gs" in a row, when can we expect Kamen Rider G to become the new Decade?

Jokes over (for now), since the driver matches that leaked image from months ago, I just want to say, when I first saw it, I thought it looked like the Fanton Seijin from Ultraman, which I found kind of funny. As for Gavv himself, he looks so... generic? I know there were a lot of rumors saying he looked like Zero-One, which he does, but even looking him over, his overall silhouette and details just feel a little underwhelming after every Reiwa Main Rider thus far. It's not a bad thing, mind you, just wasn't expecting something this simple. Though, the gummy Rider Kick Boot is a cute touch.

The snack monsters are interesting, to say the least. They remind me of the goofy aesthetic of the Monster Buckle from Geats or one of those weird squishy capsule critter toys from the early 2010s. I think the chip monster is my favorite. As for the forms, I'm probably a bigger fan of them more than the main form? For one, they almost look like whole new Riders rather than alternate forms, which is neat! And yes, obligatory Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man joke.

Overall, it's curious. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

As for Gotchard, I've been enjoying it so far, probably not going to overthrow Geats or Saber, but it's been fun (I'll discuss the show more when I can, been very busy lately)!

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

First off, "Gavv." Coming off Geats, Gotchard, now Gavv, three "Gs" in a row, when can we expect Kamen Rider G to become the new Decade?

Honestly, it seems to me that Toei is planning a 5G (or even 6G) crossover. In any case, I think this tautology will still play a role.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Honestly, it seems to me that Toei is planning a 5G (or even 6G) crossover. In any case, I think this tautology will still play a role.

Kamen Rider Golf for next rider.

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

Kamen Rider Golf for next rider.

This topic opens up the variety of toys Bandai needs so much.

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

This topic opens up the variety of toys Bandai needs so much.

Complete with golf cart and form change golf balls.

[bretLinkol]

lol ive had to watch the washing machine many times as a kid...

[Zolda]

Bandai releasing the DX Henshin Belt Gavv toy tomorrow, right on the day of the premiere of KR Gotchard's summer film makes me think that KR Gavv would very likely make a proper appearance with the civilian actor performing the henshin pose, not a mere suit/voice-only cameo. This could be Bandai's new sales strategy that would be applied to future KR series.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

So from what I'm gathering, they were put on some sort of some of chinese video hosting service and the only reason the thumbnails were the only thing people could see was because they still had administrator only permissions so no one could actually see anything other than the auto-generated thumbnail.

Said person who put them on there was the one who mentioned Junko Komura under the title of "Auntie Komura" lol

Not posting any actual anything on it other than what I can make out because I'm not about to do anything insanely risky online about Gavv. Toei's already started hitting people who even have the thumbnails. All I can say is go onto twitter and try and seek out the information that's still there.

I'm still skeptical about this. I've also read many similar posts in several forums, and so far, all those posts were just reposts of the original thumbnails accompanied by sentences in the vein of "I've read/heard from someone who read/heard that the original poster wrote/said that the writer is Junko Komura". None of those posts included the source link of the original post, let alone the link of the directory/videos in the thumbnails. Even if the original post was deleted by the site's copyright strike system, at least the link would still provide an evidence of deletion of the post or suspension of the original poster's account. Without any mention of the source link of the original post, it's basically a hearsay/gossip.

I suspect that the original poster never actually had complete access to the videos, which was rumored to be hosted on iQiyi. The original poster very likely only had access to the folder/directory of the videos, but not the videos, which were locked behind passwords. That's why the original poster was only able to copy the thumbnails. If the original poster (or another person) had had access to the videos, then he would've likely downloaded it and distributed it via video sharing sites, file sharing sites, or the most often used: torrent sites. The videos would've then spread like a wild fire. My conclusion is that the original poster very likely only posted the thumbnails, and the mention of Junko Komura's name was added later by reposter(s), likely as a mere hypothesis or rumor but misconstrued as fact and nevertheless insinuated in several forums, and snowballed and spread into the whole fandom.

Even if someone posted the thumbnails in this forum, there's very little information that can be gained from it. There are only 3 thumbnails and 1 screenshot: 2 of them show the protagonist(?) wearing a light blue hoodie with a dark khaki stripe on the chest, a dark khaki baggy pants, and colorful shoes, walking behind a child around 12 years of age; 1 of them shows the protagonist(?) doing some kind of Tiktok dance(?) during the OP scene(?) in a colorful kitchen/pantry-like studio, 1 of them shows the protagonist(?) in a close-up scene wearing a white/dark khaki/red hoodie, holding something that looks like a colorful candy packaging; and a screenshot of the thumbnail, title, duration, and upload date of the videos. Even gossip forums are still unsure who the actor(s) in the thumbnails is/are.

TLDR:
I think Toei's top secret is still safe, so the producers can sleep well at night, at least for now. Haha.

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Originally Posted by LevisNox

If we get female rider as badly done as Rinne then please just leave it alone and stop

I concur. The worst part of Rinne as a Rider was her debut in the Gotchard-Geats collab film. That film violated several fundamental, crucial elements of Gotchard's internal logic. Making the debut of a main character in a collab/crossover film (which are notorious for their messy and convoluted internal logic) is just a bad move by the writers and producers.

Rinne was meant to be the heroine, not a Rider, let alone the second Rider. A heroine has a very important role that can't be replaced by making her a Rider: Providing emotional support to the protagonist(s). Let a heroine be a heroine, not a Rider. A Rider heroine = A bad heroine.

[ZeroWolf]

Not to be rude but nothing in the definition of Heroine matches what "providing emotional support to the protagonist". The literal definition is as follows:
"a woman who is admired for having done something very brave or having achieved something great"
The second definition matches Rinne even better:
"the main female character in a book or film, who is usually good"

So I don't quite understand why making Rinne a rider (which I liked) makes her a bad Heroine.

[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Rinne was meant to be the heroine, not a Rider, let alone the second Rider. A heroine has a very important role that can't be replaced by making her a Rider: Providing emotional support to the protagonist(s). Let a heroine be a heroine, not a Rider. A Rider heroine = A bad heroine.

Rinne was never meant to be the heroine, so you're judging her by the wrong standard. I recall Minato the producer was clear from the start that Rinne is the second protagonist and we can see in Episode 4 and 38 that she's the one receiving emotional support. Rinne is an alchemist and in this show, alchemists are sometimes Riders. She's the Dragon to Houtarou's Rabbit, hence why their names add up to 10.