I swear I've seen Zi-O's finger pose before on a few other Riders
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We're doomed.
The rumor circling around is that they are planning to end this series with Akihiko's retirement and then having a 65 episode Kamen Rider series take place after as both a kick off to the new emperor's rule and some huge celebration of the franchise as a whole. Obviously we have no idea if that is true or not, but given that similar rumors were surrounding Decade being a shorter series and they ended up being true, I'm not doubting them. Plus, the reasoning behind this being a shorter series makes sense.
I can't imagine them resisting putting that in the marketing though. "Tune in to see the final Heisei Rider!" We haven't had anything like that.
I didn't get into toku until 2010 so I wasn't around for Decade rumours, but did they give the reason straight away back then? That was a fairly solid business reason, albeit a Bandai-lead one. I guess this would be a cultural reason but money talks with these shows and they usually only make changes if they sniff an opportunity for more money.
I dunno, I'm a little skeptical atm.
I'm not sure about everyone else but I'll wait till After the eighth episode to pass judgment or spread doomsday sayings about the series
Yeah I flip-flopped on it for ages in the first day after the staff news came out.
On the one hand, it's the guy behind the ****ing terrible second season of Amazons and the writer of Ninninger.
On the other, it's one of the producers of Den-O (which I enjoyed and was time travel based) and the writer behind GoRider (which handled returning characters really well).
So I think it's definitely a case of "wait and see". And it always takes me five or six weeks to get into a new series anyway.
A lot of the Heisei Riders returned for crossover movies, at least sporadically, but I think if they can't get the actual Riders back they might at least bring in a Second Rider or someone associated with the series.
Like, they probably can't get Joe Odagiri back, but maybe Ichijo's actor?
Well this is the producer of Decade, so it may be the alternate Yuususke that returns.
Riders from more recent series would seem to be easier to get as they've progressed less in their careers. Then again, this is the producer who publicly declared that he thought Rider hadn't been interesting for years in the press conference for Amazons.
I didn't know Takeuchi had such a bad experience with Drive.
Kinda makes me surprised he came back for the first Heisei Generations film (he probably couldn't get out of the Movie War).
Yeah I hadn't heard about that either and my first thought was "well why did he come back for Heisei Gen?" As for Phillip's actor, he did a photo shoot for the Double manga and I doubt Toei would have allowed that if they really wanted him completely cut off from the product.
Sometimes these things fade over time. I vaguely recall hearing that Hibiki's actor was also on Toei's ****-list at one point, but he's recorded audio for the Rider video games more recently.