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under Power Rangers

IT’S MORPHIN TIME!

Our friends at Boom! Studios released some new info regarding the current state of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics, and a new story arch that will begin with Go Go Power Rangers Forever #1!

Writer Ryan Parrot confirmed via Twitter that this isn’t the end of the comics in general, but rather the current story arch which began with Go Go Power Rangers #1.


Go Go Power Rangers Forever # 1 will hit store shelves on June 18th, 2019, we included a synopsis for the story in the discussion thread so if you aren’t up to date with the comics make the jump at your own risk. 

under Kamen Rider

COUNT THE MEDALS!

In case you missed it, Bandai announced the next S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou release last night will be none other than Kamen Rider OOO himself, a character long awaited by many collectors and fans in the community and one whose original S.H.Figuart release did not age particularly well. 

In the scan that we saw last night, we saw the TakaKiriBa combo form figure and thanks to some additional images that have come out since then we now know that this will not be an entirely separate figure, but it will be able to do combo changes by swapping parts with any future releases!

This seems to suggest that an S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider OOO GataKiriBa Combo may be coming our way in the not so distant future, but nothing’s been confirmed as of this writing.

under Kamen Rider

Bandai Japan is holding a contest to let fans decide the next entry in the Superior Imaginative Colosseum figure series!

The candidates in question are four Kamen Riders never before seen in the SIC format:


*Kamen Rider Kuuga
*Kamen Rider Ryuki
*Kamen Rider Fourze
*Kamen Rider Ghost

A concept figure has been revealed for each candidate, recreating their signature abilities in the heavily-stylized SIC format.

Voting is NOW OPEN (but will require a Bandai Namco ID to process and will run until April 16 2019.

The winner will be announced April 23, 2019! Stay tuned to TokuNation for further details!

under Kamen Rider

TAKA, TORA, BATA!

After the announcement of the long-awaited S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Kiva, fans and collectors alike wondered where the line would go from here and the next release was recently revealed by our friends at Bandai to be none other than Kamen Rider OOO himself!

S.H.Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider OOO TaToBa Combo was recently revealed in the latest round of Figureoh magazine. No option parts were shown, but we do have a price and release date: 6480 yen in August. In addition to TaToBa combo, we’ll also be getting our first Combo change form in the form of TakaKiriBa, though no release info was revealed for him at the time of this writing.

under General Tokusatsu News, Ultraman

Even though Studio Trigger’s SSSS.Gridman Anime may have come to an end, the merch for the series is showing no signs of slowing down!

As a perfect companion piece to the Nendoroid Akane Shinjo figure which we talked about earlier last year, our friends at Goodsmile just released new photos for the upcoming Nendoroid Rika Takarada along with some release info

Rika Takarada will be hitting store shelves in August 2019, retailing for 4,444 yen. Option parts include a smartphone, the pass case, the Junk computer used to communicate with Gridman himself, along with changeable pieces for the monitor itself.

under Super Sentai

Available to order now on the Premium Bandai site, though these are not exclusives, the Ryusoulger Yu-Do figures come in a case of 12 The case breakdown works out to:

1. Ryusoul Red
2. Ryusoul Blue
3. Ryusoul pink
4. Ryusoul Green
5. Ryusoul black
6. Ryusoul set A
7. Ryusoul set B

Sets A & B consists of some armored arm weapon packs for the Ryusoulgers to share. With 7 unique boxes per case, that breakdown suggests only a couple of duplicates per case. A full case retails for 5184 yen and is scheduled to ship in June 2019. Join in on our ongoing Ryuzoulger toy discussion in the thread linked below!

under Conventions, Other Conventions, Ultraman

The Tamashii Shanghai event just wrapped this weekend, but not without first giving us a couple of more brand new reveals for Ultraman collectors!

When Ultraman Zero was at the first height of his popularity several years ago, he seemed to receive new forms left and right. During the run of the Ultra Zero Fight TV series, Zero would go on to receive two new forms based on combinations of previous Ultras. Strong Corona, a fusion of Dyna’s Strong form & Cosmos’ Corona form, and Luna Miracle, a union of Cosmos Luna & Dyna Miracle. At the time Ultra-Act figure of these forms were made, and now, we finally have the official reveal of S.H. Figuarts for both Strong Coron & Luna Miracle!

Though Tamashii Nations has not yet announced release information for either of these figure’s, we can assume with Zero’s enduring popularity and the speed with which the Ultra S.H. Figuarts line is growing, that we could receive this information fairly soon. We’ll update you when that information becomes available.

under Conventions, General Tokusatsu News, Other Conventions

Over the weekend, Evolution Toy held a product exhibition showcasing many upcoming previously announced figure’s as well as new figure’s debuted at the event. Thankfully for us, AmiAmi’s Hobby New attended the event and has provided images and some information about several upcoming releases. Notably, several new HAF (Hero Action Figure) prototypes were on display.

First up is the titular hero of 1973’2 Inazuman series. Inazuman is one of the classic Ishinomori heroes who’ve yet to have a modern figure produced by Bandai. In their stead, it seems that Evolution has obtained a license to add him to the their HAF line. Inazuman is scheduled for release this year for 8800 yen. Also, the heroic duo from Space Ironmen Kyodyne, the brothers Grounzel & Skyzel, were announced for release this year in August and September respectively. Each retails for 8800 yen. The previously announced HAF Gridman was also on display, but surprisingly Evolution also announced an HAF Gridman Sigma! This will mark the first time that a modern poseable figure of Sigma (outside of the Super Minipla release) will be released. Specific release info was not announced for Sigma.

Rounding things out, the combined hero Triple Fighter was also seen on display again. Set for July release, Triple Fighter retails for, you guessed it, 8800 yen. Given their license to produce Redman figure’s as well, Evolution revealed a Kanegon in colors exclusive to the Redman comic from  Matt Frank. No price or specific release month have been announced as of now. This figure will be the inaugural release in a new linen from Evolution, KAF (Kaiju Action Figure.) A reissue of HAF Redman was also confirmed for 2019.

So that’s quite a lot on the way from Evolution. Given their past though, we should expect some degree of delay for those figures without specific release info at this point. As more information becomes available for any of these figure’s we’ll be sure to update you.

under Kamen Rider

ADVENT!

Along with the Kamen Rider Shinobi special, Toei announced a second special: Rider Time Ryuki which would see the return of the Rider Battle Royale along with a few familiar faces in addition to a very surprising one: Kamen Rider Abyss himself will be added to the main timeline. Just like with Shinobi, a series of photos were recently posted online

For those that might be unfamiliar with Kamen Rider Abyss; Abyss wasn’t part of the main series, but rather he was present in an alternate reality Tsukasa traveled too during Kamen Rider Decade’s run.

It is currently unknown what role he’ll play in the special itself, in the meantime be sure to check out the trailer by clicking the link here.

under Kamen Rider

SHINOBI, KENZAN!

Earlier at the beginning of the year, we reported that Toei will be releasing a series of Kamen Rider Zi-O spinoffs, and one of them would feature the Ninja-themed Rider of 2022: Kamen RIder Shinobi. Since the initial announcement, a slew of new photographs along with a trailer for the special were both released .

The images reveal a secondary Kamen Rider from the timeline addition to some supporting characters and villains. Although not much has been translated as of this writing, we do know that the orange fellow is called Kamen Rider Hattari and he’ll serve as a rival for Shinobi.

 

The YouTube trailer for this is, unfortunately, region locked but you can bypass this by viewing it on the official Zi-O Twitter account, make the jump here.