[Suzu]

^What Convoy said.

The Ikemen casting isn't even a recent thing anyway. The Showa Kamen Riders mostly were the Ikemen of their time. Most of them were super-attractive when they were cast in their own shows (X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, to name a handful I found really good-looking in their younger years) and they were around the same age and had the same built as most Riders today.

Also all of this:

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Also I don't ever see anyone complain about the fact that all the heroines in KR are pretty. Where my average looking women advocates at, yo.

[Dr Kain]

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Wait I don't get it, you want an average joe but you want him to look like an american super hero ala Captain America who was a genetically engineered SUPER SOLDIER??

I said average joe OR give me someone that looks like a super hero.

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I also don't get this bishounen thing, Kouta and Shinnouske both look like normal people. Also Kouta doesn't look like a weakling as he showed several times that he is in particularly good physical shape. Both didn't even dress flamboyantly, Shinnosuke has been just been wearing suits because of his job.

You are right about Kouta, but everyone else, especially the other three main riders to Gaim.

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Except most of the actors they get for these shows are actually in fairly good shape. They're just lean, which isn't particularly uncommon for athletic Japanese men and considering how agile some of these Riders are suppose to be, it makes sense. Also, the audience that this show primarily targets prefers younger superheroes.

And Peter Parker IS a superhero, so I don't see where you're getting this whole "looks like a superhero" thing from. Peter Parker just has more speed, agility and flexibility than raw strength (even though he is strong). That doesn't make him less of a superhero.

You also have to keep in mind that all of these Riders have the same suit actors so the body types have to match up at least somewhat.

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The fact that you want someone to look like Steve Rogers, who literally, was made to be the AMERICAN ideal hero of his time, to play the main for a TV show whose central demographic is a JAPANESE child/pre-teen audience, is completely ridiculous. Your ideas of them casting an average person is also ludicrous considering what would be an average look to some people is different to others. Having lived in Japan for 6 years during my childhood, I can assure you that the physical builds of the Japanese people that lived outside of the military base I lived on differed from the non-military citizens on the base.

Also looks also aren't everything when casting is being made. The actor must be able to convey the necessary emotions and have some likability to even be considered.

You guys have completely missed my point.

[MaskedRiderAsakura]

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I said average joe OR give me someone that looks like a super hero.



You are right about Kouta, but everyone else, especially the other three main riders to Gaim.






You guys have completely missed my point.

I get your point; it just doesn't make any sense to me. You say you want your character to look like the average joe and what you see in Riders pretty much IS the average joe in Japan and it makes sense given most of them have the background of just being a normal teenager or young adult, not a soldier like Bravo. You present Steve Rogers as an alternative to that, but Captain America is strictly an Americanized ideal for a superhero that doesn't apply to a Japanese audience. You're not considering cultural context here, you're just looking at things strictly from the standpoint of an American.

I mean on the flip side of that, have you noticed that basically every American superhero has roughly the same build?

[KamenRiderOOO]

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You guys have completely missed my point.

And you completely glazed over mine.

[Guyver Spawn]

I don't mind what the main heroes look like too much. They go with younger looking actors since it's a series for kids 4-12 and they want someone who looks young for them to relate too. It's no different here in the US with live action shows for kids with actors who are 16-25 looking.

[xSkullheartx]

Ok, If this is true then I love the design of Ghost even more. The horn is a horn but isn't a horn. Sounds weird, but here is a quote from the person behind the Ghostly News site, the site I've gotten most of the new shots of Ghost from. The owner of the site was asked if there was a reason behind the horn, and this is the answer.

"There’s speculation that its supposed to be the tail of a hitodama rather than a horn. Basically Ghost’s head is a giant hitodama."

Which kind of makes sense...



Now this is all speculation, but it fits the look and motif.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by xSkullheartx

Ok, If this is true then I love the design of Ghost even more. The horn is a horn but isn't a horn. Sounds weird, but here is a quote from the person behind the Ghostly News site, the site I've gotten most of the new shots of Ghost from. The owner of the site was asked if there was a reason behind the horn, and this is the answer.

"There’s speculation that its supposed to be the tail of a hitodama rather than a horn. Basically Ghost’s head is a giant hitodama."

Which kind of makes sense...



Now this is all speculation, but it fits the look and motif.

Japanese ghosts look like glowing spermatozoa? Huh.

But yeah, it fits with the "I'm a ghost Kamen Rider!" theme.

[Ragnarok]

So does anyone know when the shift NEXT drive toy set with Eyecon is going to be shipping out?

[Kiwami]

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So does anyone know when the shift NEXT drive toy set with Eyecon is going to be shipping out?

August 29th.

[Thundarcat2000ca]

Here's something cool by way of JeFusion: http://www.jefusion.com/2015/08/kame...ime-video.html

Video of our soon to be young hero: Shun Nishime who will play Takeru Tenkuuji/Kamen Rider Ghost. Have to say I like him and at 17 he has to one of the youngest actors to lead a rider series.