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The Sword of Logos was founded by Sophia (played by Rina Chinen), a mystic who seeks to restore the balance of the worlds. The organization has four Riders.
The first is (obviously) Saber. His real name is Touma Kamiyama, who is a novelist and owns the Fantastic Kamiyama Bookstore. He is played by Shuichiro Naito, who at 24 is one of the older actors to play a main Rider for quite a while.
The second is Blaze…or is it Blades? There still seems a bit of confusion about the exact pronunciation. I’m waiting for it to turn out to be something wacky like “Blade-Z.” The character’s real name is Rintaro Shindo and he is played by Takaya Yamaguchi.
Next up is Kamen Rider Espada (hey, “espada” is Spanish for “sword” – what a surprise!”). His real name is Kento Fukamiya and he is an old childhood friend of Touma/Saber. Continuing the element theme established by the fire and water powers of the first two, he has lightning powers. He is played by Ryo Aoki.
The last good Rider (for now) is Kamen Rider Kenzan, who uses wind-based powers. His real name is Ren Akamichi and he sees Saber as a rival. He is played by Eiji Togashi. The picture below seems to show Kenzan (he’s the green one) with a different belt to his three comrades.
Rounding out the official group membership is the team’s mechanic, Tetsuo Daishinji, who is played by Hiroasa Naka. In addition, there is Touma's friend and editor, Mei Sudo, who is played by Asuka Kawazu.
Four members of Megiddo have been shown so far. They have three generals: Lejeeru, Zuos, and Sutorius (the last of which's actor has tweeted hello to foreign fans in English!). It's possible that these names are slightly scrambled versions of the three categories of Wonder Ride Book (Legendary creatures, beasts [or "zyu" in Japanese], and stories).
The final member is Kamen Rider Calibur; a traitor who used to be a part of the Sword of Logos before joining Megiddo. Neither his real identity or his actor have been revealed yet. He appears to use the same belt as Kenzan. It's been pointed out that in the trailer there is a Wonder Ride Book called "Jakku Dragon" (evil/wicked dragon), which would seem to be set up as a dark version of the "Battle Dragon" used by Saber. Calibur would be the obvious candidate to use it.
The Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra have been described as working with "a big artist" for the opening AND performing a closing theme themselves. I've heard of certain songs being described as a closing theme before but not used as such, but given that it's in the promo maybe we will get one for the first time in 15 years?! The rest of the music is being handled by the composer for Gokaiger and Kyuranger.
Of course, yes, even though we're starting with five they've promised at least 10 Riders. My money's on most of them being in Megiddo (possibly the three generals already shown?) to stop it being super one-sided.
Weirdly the side shots that made him look all-red reminded me of Drive Type Tridoron. Technically they're not half changes but thirds. As for recycling ideas, tokusatsu has always been all for finding something that works and milking it until it turns to cheese lol.Saber's default form Brave Dragon reminds me of Wizard Flame Style...The half-changes are meh. Build wasn't too long ago. I never would of thought the day that Kamen Rider would start recycling ideas would come this quickly.
If it makes any difference, with toku the main creative control comes from the producer. And hey, Japan has once again been rocked by a major event, so they're bringing out Fourze producer Kazuhiro Takahashi for this.Well Saber's fucked. It's apparently being written by the guy who did Ghost and directed by the guy who did Kyuuranger.
You mean you missed the return of The Inoue lol?No idea what Rider Time Ryuki is
A three-part, direct-to-streaming special that brought back seven of the Rider actors from Ryuki. The basic idea was that Zi-O's time travel f**kery created a timeline where Ryuki's Rider War never ended and so they're still fighting it out all these years later. They made quite a big deal out of it, seeing as Ryuki was basically the last time Rider really made a big, lasting impact on Japanese pop culture.