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After a whirlwind year of fruit warriors, plant aliens, dance battles, and evil corporations a new rider show is upon us. With Kamen Rider Gaim out the door it’s time today for Kamen Rider Drive!

Kamen Rider Drive premieres today October 4th (5th in Japan) at 7PM EST. TokuNation and some of it’s staff will be tuning in to today’s live stream of the 1st episode of Drive titled “Why Has My Time Stopped?” Todays episode will introduce us to our hero Shinnosuke Tomari/Drive, a rookie officer in the Tokyo Metro Police who fights against the evil Roymudo.

If you have the chance and are ready to see how this new rider shapes up before subs are available we invite you to join us in our live viewing by following this link to Taima.Tv. They play miscellaneous programs up until the Super Hero Time shows begin, but check back at 7PM Eastern Standard Time for Kamen Rider Drive.

To join in on our community discussion of this inaugural episode click “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums at the bottom of this post. Get ready to drive the Kamen Rider!

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The upcoming crossover movie between recently-completed Kamen Rider Gaim and airing-soon Kamen Rider Drive now has an official title!

Movie Taisen 2015: FULL THROTTLE will be co-written by Riku Sanjou (head writer for Kamen Rider Drive) and Jin Hageneya (writer of Kamen Rider Gaim’s final episode and summer movie). The film will be directed by  Takayuki Shibisaki, a long-time tokusatsu veteran whose resume includes the Hesei VS Showa Movie Taisen released earlier this year.

The principal cast of Kamen Rider Drive is confirmed to appear in Full Throttle. To date, returning cast members from Kamen Rider Gaim include Sano Gaku (Kouta/Gaim), Yutaka Kobayashi (Kaito/Baron), Mahiro Takasugi (Micchy/Ryugen/Shin Zangetsu II), Yuki Kubota (Takatora/Zangetsu), and Yumi Shida (Mai).

Movie Taisen FULL THROTTLE will arrive in theaters on December 13 2014! Stay tuned to TokuNation as we keep you up to date on all cinematic details!

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The end of Kamen Rider Gaim has come – and at TokuNation.com we’ve chosen to celebrate this very popular series with a send off spanning nine total days looking at every single Rider from the show and movie! Stay tuned because at any time we can announce a contest on our twitter account (@TokuNation)!

He goes by many names. Kureshima. Takatora. White Armored Rider. Magnificent Melon. Nissan. TakaTrolla. But he will always be known as Kamen Rider Zangetsu and later as Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin. And today, with our sixth day of celebrating our favorite Kamen Rider Gaim characters, we now dive deep in to the final group who many often referred to as the main cast of the show. So won’t you sit with us a spell as we discuss the Mighty Melon warrior?

Click “Read More” and take a moment to remember Kamen Rider Zangetsu and Kamen Rider Zangetsu Shin. But as always be warned that this article contains MAJOR SPOILERS. If you haven’t watched Kamen Rider Gaim but you plan to then we advise you to NOT read further. We hope you enjoy!

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Our 9 day celebration of Kamen Rider Gaim continues with the release of Talkin Toku Podcast Episode 017 – Gaim Finale Part 1!

Kamen Rider Gaim has come to an end but there’s still plenty to talk about! Join your hosts Kickback/Chris, Den-O/Jordan, Sentai Tamashii/Tom and our special guest host for this episode, Shukuen Shinobi/Brian from ShukuenShinobi.com as they dive in to the world of Kamen Rider Gaim for an epic discussion of the finale and everything about the series!

How did your hosts react to the finale of the series? Do they think the series should have ended an episode prior? Is there any possible way for Kamen Rider Drive to succeed with the enormous success that was Kamen Rider Gaim? Who was everyone’s favorite Rider? Villain? Moment from the series? And the most important question – how does Kamen Rider Gaim rank in terms of best Kamen Rider series of all time?

All this and more will be answered! Check out this part 1 send off to one of our favorite Kamen Rider series!

Click here to download the .MP3 of the episode!
(94.0MB in size, .MP3 format, 01:43:00 in length)

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Please take a moment to follow @ShukuenShinobi on Twitter, visit his blog at ShukuenShinobi.com, check out his video reviews on on YouTube, and check out his news articles at our friends at The Tokusatsu Network. Also give a listen to his podcast, Riders, Rangers, and Rambles (RRR)!

Be sure to follow all of the Talkin Toku social media outlets so you can keep up with the hosts and our upcoming contests and give-aways!
Follow the show @TalkinToku on Twitter, and the hosts: Kickback at @rankal on Twitter, Den-O at @DenO_Tokunation on Twitter, and Sentai Tamashii at @SoulInkChu on Twitter! There’s also a Talkin Toku Facebook page! Give us a ”Like” at Facebook.com/TalkinToku

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Let’s Watch Wednesdays returns from a couple weeks on hiatus back to Kamen Rider Den-O! Zeronos has returned, but that may be all the good news our heroes will have for now.

Yuuto Sakurai, the older one, disappeared some time ago. That fateful day by the lake, the circumstances of it are known only to Ryutaro. If Yuuto Sakurai no longer exists in the memories of others, how can we be sure Ryutaro actually knows what happened? Kai counted on erasing Yuuto from time to connect his future to the present, but he didn’t count on Ryutaro’s memories. And if the two times don’t connect, Momotaros & the others will disappear along with their time, forever. Now that contested moment in time will be revisited by all parties involved. But who actually knows the truth?

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Back to actors! If you didn’t pick up on it yet, you may have seen Kamen Rider Zeronos’ actor before. Yuichi Nakamura, is the man we’ve come to know and love as the younger Yuuto. However don’t confuse him with the actor of the same name who voiced Beet J Stag from Go-Busters.  This is the Zeronos Yuichi Nakamura.

In any case Nakamura once had another role on an older rider series, Kamen Rider Hibiki! 2 years before he became Yuuto/Zeronos he played Kyosuke Kiriya, who would briefly transform into the at the time unnamed Kamen Rider Kyoki! His role as Kyoki may not have been as long as Zeronos but it’s always fun to see which characters toku actors have played previously.

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The end of Kamen Rider Gaim has come – and at TokuNation.com we’ve chosen to celebrate this very popular series with a send off spanning nine total days looking at every single Rider from the show and movie! Stay tuned because at any time we can announce a contest on our twitter account (@TokuNation)!

Today we’re going to take a special look back at one of the single-best characters (in our opinion) to be in a Kamen Rider series – everyone’s favorite French pâtissier, Oren Pierre Alfonzo aka Mister Dangerous aka Kamen Rider Bravo!

Be sure to check out all the previous day celebration threads! A lot of love went in to these!:
– Day One – Movie Riders
– Day Two – The Nut Bros.
– Day Three – Kamen Rider Duke
– Day Four – Kamen Rider Sigurd & Kamen Rider Marika

Come get your pastry on and join us as we take a detailed look back at Kamen Rider Bravo and everything that he brought to the Kamen Rider Gaim series, including the extreme popularity when he first appeared that helped push his original Arms Change figure to be created and released through Premium Bandai! Click “Read More” and beware of SPOILERS!

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The end of Kamen Rider Gaim has come – and at TokuNation.com we’ve chosen to celebrate this very popular series with a send off spanning nine total days looking at every single Rider from the show and movie! Stay tuned because at any time we can announce a contest on our twitter account (@TokuNation)!

And the journey of new episodes for Kamen Rider Gaim has come to an end. The finale aired yesterday afternoon for residents in the Western Hemisphere, as it was airing early Sunday morning in the Eastern Hemisphere. And now that subtitles for the episodes are available, we Kamen Rider Gaim fans will have to settle for waiting until the summer movie is released, encoded, subtitled, and subsequently released. We have some awesome S.H. Figuarts and Arms Change figures coming out to tide us over till then, so expect those in the near future!

Today we’re going to look at cherries and peaches as we dive in to the history of Kamen Rider Sigurd and Kamen Rider Marika (or Malika depending on the translation you want to go with). One started as a shady wanna-be drug dealer, the other as an overzealous assistant to Professor Ryouma, and both shared the same fate in the end (but you’ll have to keep reading for that!).

So go ahead and click “Read More” to get your energy cherry and energy peach on! And don’t forget our previous celebration articles – Day One – Movie Riders, Day Two – The Nut Bros., and Day Three – Kamen Rider Duke! Enjoy the celebration! As always … SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

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While fans across the world mourn the ending of Kamen Rider Gaim, Toei gears up for the future!

The official preview of Kamen Rider Drive’s first episode, Why Did My Time Stop? is now online! This new trailer gives us an up-close look at Drive’s Shift combat & the Roimyudo enemies.

Kamen Rider Drive premieres October 5th– one week from today! Stay tuned to Tokunation until then as we keep you up to date on all Kamen Rider news!

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The end of Kamen Rider Gaim is fast approaching – and at TokuNation.com we’ve chosen to celebrate this very popular series with a send off spanning nine total days looking at every single Rider from the show and movie! Stay tuned because at any time we can announce a contest on our twitter account (@TokuNation)!

Today marks two special occasions – for starters the final episode of Kamen Rider Gaim will air in Japan on Sunday morning or Saturday afternoon for those in the United States and Canada. Please make sure to join us as we watch the live stream of the final episode! Click here for live episode discussion as well as a link to the live stream. What an incredible ride it has been with this show – we’re sad to see it go!

The second bit of today? It’s Day Three of our Kamen Rider Gaim celebration! And today we’re going to celebrate everyone’s favorite short-wearing long-haired professor – Sengoku Ryouma aka Kamen Rider Duke! Everyone’s favorite Lemon Energy badass is getting his own special inclusion in our nine day celebration of all things Kamen Rider Gaim! So go ahead and click “Read More” to take a look back at the guy who, really, started it all. There are, of course, spoilers in our special review. Enjoy!

And if you somehow missed it, be sure to check out our Arms Change Kamen Rider Duke Gallery by our own Den-O! And stay tuned in December for our S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Duke gallery!

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With the end of Gaim near, time for us to take a shift into Drive territory! From this scan, we can see the abilities of two more of Drive’s Shift Cars, Dream Vegas and Massive Monster!

Dream Vegas (originally believed to be Dream Pegasus), gives Drive a Slot Machine themed Tire, arming him with two giant poker chips that he can use as cymbal-like weapons. Massive Monster gives Drive a Monster Truck themed Tire, arming him with a large monster-like clamp weapon akin to the Kyoryuger’s Deinosgrander or ToQ4’s Alligator Safari Ressha.

After a year of the odd yet awesome fruit motif of Gaim, it seems that Drive is taking a turn into some interesting territory! Are you ready to join the ride? What could other powers could the Shift Cars give Drive?! Stay tuned and find out!