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New “Detail of Hero” magazine scans have started making the rounds for Kamen Rider Gaim, giving us an early look at the new Energy Riders! 

These scans provide beautiful up close & personal looks at all 4 of these interesting new riders. A couple unique things to note, unlike the standard Armored Riders their Lock Seeds do not simply flip down when sliced but instead open up or blossom out in 2-4 sectioned pieces. And in keeping with the squeezed or “juiced” theme of the Energy Riders the inner part of all their visors appear to have drops of liquid. It’s the little touches that really set off this amazing costumes. Check out all the images after the jump.

The first rider of this new group, Shin Zangetsu, is set to appear in this weekends upcoming episode of Kamen Rider Gaim!

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Let’s Watch Wednesdays is back at Tokunation  for the new year! It’s time for one last Thursday edition with Kamen Rider Blade before we pick back up for your regularly scheduled programming next week!

In a failed attempt at King Form Mutsuki unsealed his Category Ace. But the kind spirit of Shima saved him allowing him to use Shima’s category King power. With Blade’s King Rouzer in hand, the Spider Ace is at last pure, the true Leangle is born! But that won’t stop Tenounji’s brainwashed Undead from seeding chaos among the riders. Leangle has his power, but does he have the determination to use it now? Can the riders draw out their real enemy? Can they end the Battle Fight?

Be sure to take a look at and post in our weekly Let’s Watch discussion thread by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums”. Every post enters you in to possibly win an S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Blade or even a secret secondary prize! We’re near the end of our time with Kamen Rider Blade, and soon enough it’ll be time to choose our new show!

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If you haven’t quite figured out by now that the staff here at TokuNation.com is absolutely in love with the current Kamen Rider Gaim series, this news will probably convince you as such. Being touted by Bandai of Japan as being on pace to be the most successful Kamen Rider series of all time in merchandise sales, and being touted by fans as possibly becoming one of the best Kamen Rider shows in the history of the franchise, we here at TokuNation.com decided to take it up on ourselves to create an ultimate resource thread for the television show!

Click here to check it out and to see episode summaries, character biographies, pictures, images, and more! Because the show is so deep and hidden with little nods and clues for future stories, we’ve done our best to bring up rumors and speculations, and even as we type this, we’re able to think of a couple more we haven’t discussed yet.

It’s a work in progress and will continue to be updated, modified, etc., based on what happens on the show. If you haven’t had a chance to catch up on the show, or you’re waiting for the right time to start it, now is the time! Check out the Ultimate Resource Thread and join the rest of us in the obsession that is Kamen Rider Gaim! Beware – the thread does contain spoilers as it recaps the first 11 episodes to date. Add some of your own information and speculation and we’ll include it in the thread!

Kamen Rider Gaim returns THIS WEEKEND with the first episode in the new story line. We’ll be watching and updating with information from Episode 12, “New Generation of Rider Appears!”. See you then!

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With the debut of the 38th Super Sentai team drawing ever closer, Nippon Columbia have revealed details about the opening and ending themes for Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger!

As is typical for many Sentai series, the opening will simply be named “Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger” and will be performed by Ise Daiki (who performed the song “Kamitsuki Brave” on the Kyoryuger: Gaburincho of Music soundtrack). The ending is named “Byun Byun! Tokkyuger!” and will be performed by Project. R, specifically members YOFFY, Takayoshi Tanimoto and Showgo Kamata.

Previews for the songs will likely surface in the coming weeks but in the meantime be sure to join in our ongoing Ressha Sentai Tokkyuger discussion thread!

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While Kamen Rider Gaim does not air this week (the programming block is on hiatus for the New Year holiday) TOEI has released an early preview of the new Energy Rider characters joining the show in 2014!

This is our first official look at the Energy Riders- before today we have only seen brief behind-the-scenes snapshots & magazine preview images. But now we can really see what kind of power the Genesis Driver can bring out!

Stay tuned next year for the introduction of Energy Riders Marika, Shin Zangetsu, Duke and Sigurd!

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Tokumei Sentai Gobusters finally steps into the lime light with the latest magazine coverage from their up coming team up movie with Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger. These new scans reveal that the two teams will be joining powers creating a new mecha combination: Tategami Raiden Kyoryuzin!

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger VS Gobusters: Dinosaur Great Battle! Farewell, Eternal Friends will be making the samba jump into theaters January 28th 2014

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For the Power Rangers fans who have looked at, dissected, analyzed, and maybe even obsessed over the era that is known as “the final episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers season 1 and the first handful from season 2″, this is, honestly, akin to finding the Holy Grail. For those of you who do not follow Power Rangers that closely, you’re probably wondering what the heck “zyu2” means. Well, let’s get in to that real quick.

When Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first hit the airwaves, no one expected it to become the huge pop-culture phenomenon – not Fox, not Saban, and not TOEI. The thing was it DID become the huge major success that has lasted 20 years now. Now for a bit of a history lesson.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was an adaption of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. The Sentai show lasted 50 some episodes, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers took just about every usable piece of footage they could from its Sentai counterpart. And that’s when the unthinkable happened – there was no more Zyuranger footage to use – and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers had become the biggest toy line and kids show of the 1990’s. Frankly, Saban couldn’t afford to let the show end. It was at that time that Saban reached out to TOEI (the creators of the Super Sentai franchise) and they struck a deal – new footage would be filmed by TOEI for use in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Saban then negotiated the rights for use of Gosei Sentai Dairanger, which result in both the Thunderzords and the White Ranger, as well as all the monsters.

That footage that TOEI created became known to the fandom as Zyu2 – short for Zyuranger 2 – and for years fans have speculated on a literal frame-by-frame analysis. See, there’s a number of monsters from the Zyu2 period that were filmed fighting the original Megazord and Dragonzord, but Saban introduced the Thunderzords early (yay toy sales!), meaning a handful of monsters at the tail-end of the Zyu2 footage had cut/paste battles (ie: you see the Thunder Megazord throw a punch, then cut to the monster who sparks and falls back). The editing was sloppy and at times you can easily make out the original Megazord in the battle when the Thunder Megazord is what the show is intending you to think is fighting the monster. Or in some cases, the monster didn’t grow to super-size to fight the Megazords, which was almost a 100% certainty in the show.

And an announcement came from GrnRngr of GrnRngr.com that he has come in to possession of never-before-seen Zyu2 footage and will release it via his website soon. To prove his point, he released a short video clip show-casing the Bloom of Doom and Invenusable Flytrap growing for a Megazord battle – something they didn’t do in the actual episodes. The footage is in forms of episode blocks, and he states that for each block, there is anywhere from 20% to 50% brand new footage that has never been seen. This could be anything from fight scenes with the Power Rangers to Megazord battles with the Dino Zords and Dragonzord that was cut out in favor of copy/pasting Thunder Megazord footage.

It’s kind of a big deal for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fans. You have to see it to believe it – click here to check out the GrnRngr.com teaser! So what do you think? Are you excited about this never before seen footage? Do you care? As GrnRngr.com updates the fandom on the Zyu2 footage, we will feature his updates. Until then, check out his site – it is an excellent resource for toys and Zyu2 and Zyu 1.5 footage.

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If you thought the delusional adventures were over then it’s time to think again! Well maybe. Ryuta Tasaki, the director behind Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger, has announced that he’s currently in negotiations for a third season of the critical and commercial hit series for 2015! It still may not happen, but it’s a definite possibility now if the negotiations with Toei go well.

The biggest surprise is that if Season 3 happens he’d like to introduce a 4th Akibaranger! It was an idea tossed around during  Season 2 that never materialized but it’s very likely to happen if Season 3 is put into production! No word yet on why they’d be skipping a 2014 production but time will tell as the negotiations move along.

Credit to the fine folks at Rangercrew for pointing us to the original J-hero post about this.

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After a short break for the Christmas holiday, Let’s Watch Wednesdays  @ Tokunation is back! On Thursday! Remember that next week we’ll also be doing a Thursday Edition due to the New Years holiday. But for now, what terrible secrets lie hidden for Kamen Rider Blade?

The terrible truth of Kenzaki’s King Form revealed! The secret of Dr. Hirose & the Trials uncovered. To discover the secret of Eternal life another Joker will be forced into existence. The longer he fights as a Kamen Rider the closer Kenzaki will be to becoming that monster. But if Hajime could evolve past the chaos of Joker surely Kenzaki can, right? And what greater power is at work in the dealings of the Trials? What power does the Stone of Sealing contain? Most important of all, will Leangle ever be free of the Spider?

 

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Thanks to a new Japanese magazine publication, we may finally know some details about the creative minds behind the 38th Super Sentai Series!

The producer for Tokkyuger is one Takaaki Utsunomiya who has previously worked on Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Kamen Rider Blade.

The head writer is Yasuko Kobayashi whose resume includes Mirai Sentai Timeranger, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters and Kamen Rider OOO.

And the director of this new series is Shojiro Nakazawa who has worked on several Sentai movies including “Gokaiger VS Gavan” and “Gekiranger: Hong Kong Decisive Battle!”

Definitely a team of accomplished veterans! So far it sounds like Tokkyuger is on the right track!