[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Gavv Time

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Originally Posted by Paladin

Behold the Henshin Belt Gavv; fueled by Poppin Gummy!

I like the color scheme. Purple-yellow are one of the best complementary color pairs, besides red-green and blue-orange. The combination of purple and yellow is what made KR Horobi's design so awesome. Shape-wise, from the teaser poster the armors seem to need a bit more sharpness and details to give it more oomph and a sense of aggression. I'll wait until a full body photo is revealed before making a conclusion. Speaking of purple and yellow, KR Gavv would look great with Bun Violet and Byun Diesel, haha.

The Driver, however, looks ugly. This could be the ugliest-looking Driver/buckle since Build Driver and Seiken Swordriver. It even has a similar crank lever like the one on Build Driver. The yellow teeth are the ugliest part. The pink part right under the Poppin Gummy trinket is actually a tongue. Perhaps that's where the "nutrients" from the Poppin Gummy trinket are absorbed by the Driver. The Driver looks like a creature, and it's munching another creature (the trinket)? So, the leaked photo several weeks ago was actually 80-85% accurate. It was probably an early design draft. And is Henshin Belt Gavv the actual name of the Driver, not a tentative name? It's a very generic-sounding name. I prefer a goofy-sounding name like Chompdriver or Munchdriver, haha. My 4 year-old self imagined what a KR with food motif would've looked like. Here it is, 20 years later.

Power-wise, I think KR Gavv's base form will be similar to KR Gotchard Steamhopper form, where the bouncy, gummy-based power will grant KR Gavv with speed, flexibility and superior jump height. The finisher could be a new variant of Rider Kick where KR Gavv initially do a regular Rider Kick, and then rebound (due to the bouncy gummy power), and then the right leg (the giant orange boot) opens and forms giant jaws that munch the enemy several times until it's completely pulverized. It'd make a cool-looking Rider Kick.

All main staff members have been revealed, with the exception of the writers. KR Gotchard's first look was revealed in the last week of June, teaser video and main staff members (including writers) were revealed in the third week of July, and press conference was held in the first week of August. I think KR Gavv's writers will likely be revealed on the same day with the teaser video. I've got a feeling that the main writer (or maybe even the writer) of this show could be a famous/star writer. The producers seem like deliberately delaying the reveal to build up hype and momentum. I'm crossing all fingers on my hands and feet that the writer would be Gen frakkin' Urobuchi.

My outlandish speculation (not hypothesis):
The Poppin Gummy trinket and other Rider Candies(?)/Sweets(?)/Snacks(?) are containers that store the souls of demons (Gochizu) that have the powers to possess humans and corrupt their souls. Or maybe they're gods? Gummy = Kami/gods(?).

[Frontier]

I wonder if this is going to be one of those "premise and gimmick are really goofy but the show gets surprisingly serious" things.

[Sh Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Zolda

The pink part right under the Poppin Gummy trinket is actually a tongue. Perhaps that's where the "nutrients" from the Poppin Gummy trinket are absorbed by the Driver.

For what's supposed to be a biting gimmick, squeezing the Gochizou between the upper teeth and the tongue seems impractical. But that's what it looks like.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

And is Henshin Belt Gavv the actual name of the Driver, not a tentative name? It's a very generic-sounding name. I prefer a goofy-sounding name like Chompdriver or Munchdriver, haha. My 4 year-old self imagined what a KR with food motif would've looked like. Here it is, 20 years later.

Yeah, it's the actual name. I agree that it sounds generic, but I imagine there must be some in-universe reason to not call it a Driver, like with Kivat being a living organism.

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Originally Posted by Zolda

The producers seem like deliberately delaying the reveal to build up hype and momentum. I'm crossing all fingers on my hands and feet that the writer would be Gen frakkin' Urobuchi.

Hmm, the last time Takebe collaborated with Urobuchi, they made my least favorite Heisei Rider and second least favorite Rider before Revice. So I hope it's somebody else instead, like Muto.

[henshinzero]

Does anyone feel Gavv could have some vibes of Kiva somewhere with the "biting"?

And the fun stuff from candies.... perhaps Ex-Aid?

[Sunred]

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Originally Posted by henshinzero

Does anyone feel Gavv could have some vibes of Kiva somewhere with the "biting"?

And the fun stuff from candies.... perhaps Ex-Aid?

Just by first impression I feel like it could be close to Ex-Aid in terms of tone.

[LevisNox]

we will need to know who the writer or writers are before anything

[Paladin]

First wave rumors!

*In addition to the Poppin Gummy (presumably his main form) Gavv uses the "FuwaMallow, GuruKyan and CaKing items."

*Special form ZakuZakuChips has a weapon, the ChipSlasher.

*Secondary rider is "Kamen Rider Valen" using the "Chocodon." Supposedly chocolate-themed.

[Mesnick]

Very tasty news!

[Zolda]

Higher resolution photo of the Henshin Belt Gavv from Bandai KR Toy's Twitter account:

source: https://x.com/bandai_ridertoy/status...80019482579138

The name of the trinkets is Rider Gochizou, and Poppin Gummy is the name of the one used for the base form. Gochizous are likely sentient creatures like the Chemies, and similarly, the Rider Gochizous are trinkets that function as containers like the Ride Chemy Cards do. Although, I think the Gochizous are likely more similar to Minions than Chemies. If the Gochizous do behave like Chemies, have their own unique personalities, and play an important role in the stories as active characters, then Gavv could be Gotchard v2.0.

I think the belt uses the pin system like the Drive Shift Brace, Build Driver, Ziku Driver, Desire Driver, etc to read each RG. The reader is located at the pink tongue part, and the pins on each RG is at its bottom. The crank lever will move the top jaw (which moves on a hinge or pistons) which then presses the RG. The hands on each RG are on a pop out, spring-loaded mechanism hidden behind its mouth. I'm not sure how the upgrade path will look like. Perhaps upgrade/super/final forms will use RG's that have side attachment ports that allow the use of more than 2 RG's. The top jaw part is likely removable as well.

Enhanced photo of the KR Gavv Ride Chemy Card from Toei Hero Movie's Twitter account:

source: https://x.com/toeiHERO_movie/status/1807579888251195728

My Lord in heaven, the Rider Gochizous look like a full-color assault on my eyes, haha. The round, chubby font is obviously used for the maximum kawaiiness effect, but in this case it makes it really hard for me to read the name on each RG. The combination of the colorful faces and multi-colored letters are so painfully colorful, and the identical faces make the RG's look very generic and same-y. It's hard for me to tell which one is Poppin Gummy, which one is Kickin Gummy, which one is Punchin Gummy(?), etc. The worst part is that the RG's don't even reflect the colors on the KR Gavv's armors (purple, yellow, and cyan). There's nothing that visually connects KR Gavv's armors and the main RG being used (Poppin Gummy), be it shape-wise nor color-wise. It's kinda fine if this visual disconnection is applied to minor/accessory/complementary(?) RG's such as Kickin Gummy and Punchin Gummy(?) (which I think will be used for different type of attacks, similar to KR Drive's accessory Shift Cars), but at least the Poppin Gummy RG should have visual connection with KR Gavv's armors. The RG's don't give off any special/stand out vibes/characteristics to me. They look virtually like identical copies of each other, only palette-swapped, with slightly different names, and with different shape of hands. I think this is a bad design choice. If everything is colorful, then nothing is colorful.

Or maybe they're deliberately made to look generic because they're inspired by Minions? Who knows. Haha.

Bonus spoiler:
KR Miracle Gotchard will transform with the Hopper 101 and Gigantliner RCC's.

[GoldenXtreme]

You know, I've been thinking about Gavv for a few days now I'm just kind of shocked they were allowed to make a junk food themed Rider. Seems like the exact kind of thing parents would hate!