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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)!

For the first official day of celebration we are taking a look at the movie riders of Kamen Rider Gaim! These are the Riders that appeared only in movies (and maybe showed up in an episode to tie in to the movies). Over the course of three movies there have been some exclusive riders (most notably the Kamen Rider Gaim Summer Movie). And while a majority of us wait for a release of the summer movie on DVD, the other two movies are available and we’ve experienced them.

Please click “Read More” to take a look at the movie riders – namely Bujin Gaim, Kamen Rider Fifteen, Kamen Rider Kurokage Shin, Kamen Rider Kamuro, and Kamen Rider Mars (with a brief extension to Kamen Rider Jam). Join us because for nine days the stage is ours! Henshin!

Note – if you haven’t seen these movies, there are spoilers in our “Read More” section! If you haven’t seen the movies, or read up on the movies, then you probably don’t want to click “Read More”. But you know you want to. It’s a celebration after all!

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under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

Before it was known as Power Rangers Zeo it was Cho-Riki Sentai OhRanger, a series designed to pay homage to old military shows and featured every series head writer for the previous Super Sentai seasons as contributors to the scripts of OhRanger. Sadly, the Aum Shinrikyo terrorist cult attacked the Japanese subway system, releasing tear gas that killed 15 individuals and injured another 30. Their leader’s thoughts closely aligned to what OhRanger‘s story line was intended to be (an ancient civilization giving super powers to people of today) and the show’s direction was scrapped and the series re-written, becoming one of the least successful and least popular Super Sentai shows of its time.

But thanks to Millionfold Curiosity FanSubs, and the ever popular translator MegaAnon, the series Cho-Riki Sentai OhRanger is now being subtitled and released to fans around the world. This is an incredibly excellent chance to catch a series that, as far as I know, was either never subtitled in its entirety or was long ago and has since been lost (or it was just a bad sub/bad quality video).

Click here to go to MillionFold Curiosity FanSub’s release of Cho-Riki Sentai OhRanger! And be sure to discuss your thoughts on this show (which changed themes due to the terrorist attack somewhere around Episode 8 or Episode 9) on our discussion thread linked to this post!

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The latest issue of Telvi-Kun Magazine includes several new scans for Kamen Rider Drive! These magazine images give us our first look at Drive’s rival character, Machin Chaser – a mysterious purple warrior who transforms for combat using a weapon called the Break Gunner. Machin Chaser is presumably connected to the Roimyudo monsters that fight Kamen Rider Drive but the full story of this new character is not yet known.

The scans do provide some more close looks at the Roimyudo creatures, including the monster forms of the main villains Brain & Heart. Apparently the Roimyudo will have a type of evolutionary chain- beginning in human form, then changing to a basic monster form & potentially evolving further as they develop new powers.

In addition these magazine scans have revealed Kamen Rider Drive’s headquarters- the Drive Pit! Located beneath a driving school, the Pit will be Trideron’s storage location & presumably a testing ground for Drive’s abilities.

Last but certainly not least we also get some more Shift Car combat details! Kamen Rider Drive is seen using the Shift Dimension Cab to create portals and attack from a distance, while the Spin Mixer Shift Car lets Drive fire concrete bullets at enemies.

Kamen Rider Drive premieres October 5th! Stay tuned to TokuNation until then as we keep you up to date on this new hero!

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With magazine scans out of the way for the month official images have begun to circulate for all the recently revealed figures. The Tamashii Web Shop has updated with official images and pricing for the Ultra-Act Ultraman Ace Robot & Golgotha Set!

This elaborate set will be released in March 2015 for 9720 yen. It features a newly molded Ultraman Ace figure as Ace Robot. This imitation of Ace is seen in the 14th episode of his series. Created by Yapool to test the might of Ace Killer’s power this creature was quickly defeated. The set also includes 5 crosses to string up your various Ultramen on, as well as a pair of new beam effect to use with Ace Robot (or the real Ace if you so choose).

under Metal Heroes

With magazine scans out of the way for the month official images have begun to circulate for all the recently revealed figures. Today the Tamashii Web Shop has updated with official images and pricing for S.H. Figuarts Black Beet from Juuko B-Fighter!

Black Beet, or as western fans would  know him Shadowborg/General Venjix, will be released as Tamashii Web Exclusive in March 2015 for 5184 yen. It appears as though there will be no western market distribution for the B-Fighter figuarts. So if you have some sentimental love for these designs because of Big Bad Beetleborgs, you may want to get with a Tamashii Web Middleman to secure orders for Black Beet and the previously revealed Blue Beet.

under Kamen Rider, Ultraman

With less than a month to go before Super Hero Generations launches, Bandai Namco games just released a new PV trailer showcasing more of the game’s gorgeous looking battle animation, and what better way to do it than pitting villains against the heroes!

Super Hero Generations will be launching October 23rd for both PS3 and PSVita consoles. The video features Ultraman Taro, Kamen Rider OOO among others and also confirms Doctor Shinigami made the cut as a rival character to Kamen Rider 1.

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The parent company that is responsible for your favorite Power Rangers series, Saban Brands, has announced a special campaign entitled “Show Us Your Shorts”, where you can submit a short animated video to be judged by a panel of executives. The top 10 will then compete in a public competition against each other. The overall winner of that poll will receive $5,000 as a reward as well as a development deal with Saban Brands.

This is a great deal for those of you who always thought “I could do so much better” than what you’re seeing on television. Now is your chance! For more details, please visit SabanShorts.com. You have until October 24th to enter. Best of luck to all you animators out there!

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This weekend one of the most popular toku series of all time will come to an end – Kamen Rider Gaim is coming to an end with the airing of its final episode, “Transform! And to the Future!”, the 47th and final installment of this beloved series. It’s popularity has spawned one of the most successful merchandise toy lines (in both the Arms Change figures as well as the DX Lock Seeds and Sengoku & Genesis Drivers) in Kamen Rider history, and helped gain a slew of fans to the franchise that are either new or had stopped watching Kamen Rider thanks to the love it/hate it series of Kamen Rider W and Kamen Rider Fourze.

Kamen Rider Gaim has been an incredibly popular series here at TokuNation.com, as our discussion threads of each episode have grown larger and larger each week as fans have registered to share their thoughts on each episode. And this weekend they will do it one last time (until the summer movie is released!). While our wallets cry as we continue to buy up all the Kamen Rider Gaim merchandise (who has got their S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Kachidoki Arms yet?!?) we figured it was only fitting to give this series a proper send off here with Nine Days of Juicy, the Kamen Rider Gaim Celebration!

Over the course of the next nine days, starting on Thursday, September 25th, we will be posting an in-depth retrospective of all the Beat Riders, Armored Riders, and Energy Riders. Our celebration will end on Friday, October 3rd, right before the premiere of Kamen Rider Drive, the next installment of the Kamen Rider franchise. But what good is a celebration if the party has no party favors?

As we get close to the end of the celebration, followers of the TokuNation twitter account (@TokuNation on Twitter) will have a chance to win two S.H. Figuarts of characters from Kamen Rider Gaim! If you haven’t followed us on Twitter then you’d better hurry – our give away requires you to be a follower of our twitter account and to also re-tweet the give away tweet! Watch for it!

We hope you’ve enjoyed Kamen Rider Gaim as much as we have. So let’s give it one heck of a send-off by celebrating everything about the show – the good, the bad, and the simply confusing stuff! HENSHIN!!!!!

under Kamen Rider

Despite having gone up from preorder a while ago, official images have finally arrived of the forthcoming fourth wave of 66 Action Kamen Rider candy toy figures. This wave will be made up of Kamen Rider Gaim Kachidoki Arms, Kamen Rider Wizard Flame Style, Kamen Rider Faiz and the latest Rider to join the franchise – Kamen Rider Drive!

This matches up to the initial leak of Kachidoki, Wizard and Faiz that happened around the release of wave 3, with Drive making up the fourth member. If the previous two waves are anything to go by, it will also include a chase variant of some sort.

66 Action Kamen Riders wave 4 will be released in December, costing 380 yen per figure.