News about the upcoming 20th Heisei Kamen Rider series Kamen Rider Zi-O continues to drip out on a fairly steady pace, and each bit we receive seems even more exciting than the last!
This latest batch of scans focuses first on the Jikku Driver, the henshin device used by both Kamen Riders in this series. The Driver face spins 360 degrees to transform and was apparently developed after years of research though its true origins are not yet revealed in full.
The Jikku Driver is powered by RiderWatches! These coin-shaped devices are said to contain the powers of previous Kamen Riders- and all the Heisei Riders are shown in RiderWatch form!
By inserting the RiderWatch into the JikkuDriver, a Rider gains new Rider Armor with unique abilities!
*Kamen Rider Zi-O’s first RiderArmor form uses the Kamen Rider Build RiderWatch- creating Kamen Rider Zi-O Build Armor!
*Kamen Rider Gates starts off with the Kamen Rider Ghost RiderWatch- granting the power of Kamen Rider Gates Ghost Armor!
In addition to visiting past Kamen Riders, this series will also resurrect VILLAINS from Rider history! Kamen Rider Zi-O is seen facing off against Lord Baron from Kamen Rider Gaim.
The world will get its first proper look at Kamen Rider Zi-O during the Kamen Rider Build: BE THE ONE movie- premiering in theaters on August 4 2018! Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this remarkable new Rider series!
All scans for this month.
Source: Henshin Infinity Facebook
I like what I'm seing.
In one of the shot we can see ZI-O Build fighting Overlord Baron
like a Build Rabbit/Tank-Zi-O combo in that 4th pic?
weird.
weird.
Yeah I get it, I guess it took me by surprise since I'm still watching Build and he's still 'The Current Rider'.
I like what I'm seeing, getting excited to see the new show.
Oh, the Drill Crusher-like weapon is actually part of the suit? Honestly can't say I was expecting that one. First time I saw it in a scan I thought it was just a retooled Drill Crusher.
Image 14 shows that the swappable armor gimmick works pretty well on the actual suits, although I still don't see why they needed to have the armors be swappable instead of just letting the armors be purely based on their respective legend rider.
This is so EXCITING! We're gonna see the all of the main Heisei Riders in the summer movie! Only for them to be destroyed by ZI-O himself...
Plus, we see Sento meeting ZI-O for the first time when Sento gets transported to ZI-O's dimension where all the past Riders are fighting their respective enemies and Sento questions him on how he's able to use Build's powers.
Looks sweet!
And glad to see they'll continue the trend of movie reveals too!
Though since the movie takes place in series. I kind of wonder if that appearance might carry over more. Also raises questions as to when Zi-O takes place at the start compared to Build's parallel world. Unless this is Future Zi-O that appears. Can't wait to see how it goes! Sounds promising either way.
Very cool to see the return of monsters too. This definitely feels like a 'next decade' kind of thing, and that series was really fun.
Looks like Zi-O and Gates will be mildly antagonistic too, but will end up working together. There's a shot of Gates in ghost armor attacking Zi-O, but also lots of shots of them back to back working together. So it looks like a form of love hate relationship. Which is actually pretty common for secondaries and mains.
So in case you are wondering what these are, The red bottle is the Super Sentai Full Bottle, the blue one is the Kamen Rider Full Bottle. Super Sentai Full Bottle can be obtained by buying this particular issue of Televi-kun and Kamen Rider Full Bottle can be obtained by buying the Super Televi-kun Zi-O & Build issue.
Inserting the Sentai bottle will give you the sound "Super Sentai!"
Inserting the Kamen Rider bottle right after that will give you "Kamen Rider! Best match!"
After the are you ready sound, it will say "Nichiasa saikou(Sunday morning is the best)! Super Hero Time! Yay!"
For those still not unfamiliar Nichiasa is a shortened form of Nichiyobi Asa, which means Sunday morning, the time period sentai and rider shows air in Japan.
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