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A little while ago, Goodsmile teased that a role-play toy of the Primal Accepter from the popular SSSS.Gridman anime was coming down the pipeline, and finally, after a long silence, the prototype for this replica was recently revealed in a live stream via Goodsmile’s official Youtube page with additional info on Goodsmile’s website 

The stream in question can be viewed in the box below, you can skip to the 1:20:40 mark to view the demonstration. 

The DX Primal Acceptor will retail for around 15,000 yen to be released in December 2020. 

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An exciting new season of Studio Trigger’s popular SSSS.Gridman anime series is looming over the horizon. Following the brief teaser that we got last year, a key visual was just released revealing that this season will have a new cast of players involved.

In addition, the anime’s staff was recently announced, and that staff is as follows:

  • Director: Akira Amemiya
    Screenplay: Keiichi Hasegawa
    Character Design: Masaru Sakamoto
    Studio: TRIGGER
    Cast:
    Daiki Hamano
    Junya Enoki
    Shion Wakayama
    Yuuichirou Umehara
    Chika Anzai

Further details involving plot and air date have yet to be disclosed. Stay tuned, and we’ll be sure to update you once more info is released.

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2020 is looking to be the year of Gridman, with Studio Trigger announcing the show’s return with a second SSSS.Gridman show next year and to compliment this series, a new stage play was just announced.

According to AnimeNewsNetwork Fumiya Matsauzaki will be directing this stage play and handling the script is Yume Mizusawa. Other cast details include Ryoosuke Akashi as Samurai Calibur, Masafumi Yokoyama as Max, Nagato Okui as Borr, and finally Bishin Kawasumi as Vit.

The play will run from May 7th to the 10th in Tokyo’s Zenorosai Hall/Space Zero’s Kokumin Kyosai Coop Hall and then at Cool Japan Park Osaka TT Hall in Osaka from May 17th to the 17th.

Other details about this stage play aren’t known, but we’ll be sure to notify you once more details become available.

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The anime producers at Studio Trigger have at last announced a follow-up to their Gridman anime series!

Titled SSSS Dynazenon this new project apparently features some familiar faces- and the appearance of at least one Gridman design missing from the first series.

A brief teaser trailer was also released with this announcement:

Sadly, no other details about this upcoming series have been confirmed at time of writing. Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on this exciting new project!

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Studio Trigger’s wildly successful SSSS.Gridman anime will finally be coming to North America thanks to some pre-order links that just went live on rightstuffanime.com

Standard and Limited editions will be available, the Limited Edition will come with an art book, art cards, key chain, and stickers. Japanese and English language options will be included along with English subtitles in addition to a special feature titled Behind the Gridman Alliance. Either way, both sets will see release on January 28, 2020.

You can follow the link here to pre-order the Limited Edtion, while the regular version can be purchased here.

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Last year, Studio Trigger surprised both the Anime and Toku communities with their hit series: SSSS.Gridman show. We’ve seen no shortage of merchandise from this show, especially when it revolves around two of the show’s most popular female characters: Rikka Takarada and Akane Shinjo. Earlier in the year, Max Factory announced at Winter Wonder Fest that those two aforementioned characters will be coming to the popular Figma line of action figures and we saw the prototype of Rikka Takarada at the event. Max Factory’s finally gearing up to release this figure into the wild, and of course, we now have a plethora of new images for Figma Rikka Takada.

The Figma line is known for coming with a plethora of different accessories, facial expressions, and swappable parts and it seems like Figma Rikka Takarada will be no exception. Figma Rikka Takarada is packed to the brim with different facial expressions, hand options, and hair options for perfect for any occasion or photo gallery in addition to the signature clear display stand that all Figmas come with.

The price for Figma Rika Takarada isn’t known, but we know she’ll be released sometime in November 2019. We’ll be sure to update this article as soon as the pricing is known so stay tuned!

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Joining the  previously posted Super Mini SSSS.Gridman Max Power Set, we have a second set of SSSS.Gridman model kit goodness from Bandai’s candy toy division: with the Super Minipla GridKnight and Initial Fighter Gridman!

As the name suggests, this set will contain both GridKnight and Gridman in his Initial Fighter colors along with a set of effect parts to go with both. The set will be released as a P-Bandai exclusive item released in September and for 5,400 yen before middleman fees and shipping.

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There’s definitely been no shortage of merchandise for Studio Trigger’s hit SSSS.Gridman anime lately, Bandai’s joining the mix with the recently revealed Super Minipla SSSS.Gridman Max Power set!

As the name suggests, the Super Minipla SSSS.Gridman Max Power Set will include Gridman Primal Fighter himself in addition to the Assist Weapons. The Assist Weapons will be able to combine into any of their various combinations.

Super Minipla SSSS.Gridman Max Power Set will be hitting retail in September, priced at 10,368 yen or your region’s equivalency.

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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.

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Finally, after months of teasing our friends at Max Factory is gearing up to release Figma Grid Knight from Studio Trigger’s hit SSSS.Gridman anime with a slew of new stock images released in addition to production info. Figma GridKnight will release in September of 2019, retailing for 6,800 yen.

To keep up with the theme, Goodsmile revealed a teaser image for the next Soft Vinyl after Ghoulgilas; and it’ll be none other than Anti’s Kaiju form!

At the moment, there’s no word on when Goodsmile plans on releasing Kaiju Anti, but we’ll be sure to update you once that info becomes available.