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Thanks to this months issue of Figure-Oh Magazine we got some great updates on upcoming Figuarts releases. Likewise we get some more updates on Kamen Rider Fourze & Wizard Movie Wars Ultimatum! Revealed today are:

-The fates of the Original Kamen Rider Club! Gentaro the teacher, Ryusei the interpol agent, Yuki the astronaut, JK the Journalist, Kengo the researcher, Miu the model, Tomoko the author, and Shun the pro footbal player!
-The only current member of the Space Kamen Rider Club Miyoko, and her enemies the Monster Alliance
-The big bad tag-team of Sannagiman (Jiro Kazeda) and Herclues Zodiarts (Kagehito Banba)
-Potrines’ new civilian identity, Yu Uemura

Astute fans will notice the links between the new Sannagiman, Banba, and the Zebar device. All reinventions of concepts from the original Innazuman series. Could Jiro actually become the new modern Innazuman? Toeis’ recent trend of taking classic heroes and updating them with new actors (ala Gavan, Shaider, and Sharivan) could have set a precedent for this. Chōriki Shōrai!

Credit: Orendsrange

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One could claim that it was the 10th member of the Kamen Rider Club, Yuki’s trusty puppet Hayabusa-Kun is being given away via a lottery system at a Bandai event, but fret not for those who can’t attend the event in person, Bandai is allowing people to purchase a chance to buy a lottery entry via their Bandai premium shop for a chance to own this hand made 1:1 Hayabusa puppet. The lottery costs 2,625 yen per entry, the deadline is Nov. 12th 2012 at 3:00 PM, and the winner will be contacted a week after the deadline. Winner needs to be a Japanese resident unfortunately.

source: Bandai premium
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The official promo trailer for Kamen Rider Movie War Ultimatum is now streaming online! This is the first bit added to The Official Ultimatum Site but it won’t be the last!

Furthermore, information on Japan’s ticket provider website EPLUS has revealed Ultimatum will feature a total of EIGHT Kamen Riders!

The list of heroes thus far:

*Fourze
*Wizard
*Meteor
*Nadeshiko
*OOOs
*W
*Birth
*Accel

Definitely an ultimate team! :)

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In the past week we’ve received a lot of new information about Kamen Rider Movie Wars Ultimatum, this seasons Kamen Rider crossover film. Now we have our first real look at the movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s3ia5RDQ-U&feature=player_embedded

Movie wars Ultimatum features Kamen Rider Fourze, Kamen Rider Wizard, Kamen Rider Meteor, Kamen Rider Nadeshiko, Bisoujou Kamen Poitrine, Sanagiman of Inazuman, and more than likely Wizards’ secondary rider! Will this film be as great and successful as last years Megamax film? Only time will tell, and for American fans it’s going to be one painfully long wait.

Credit: KamenRiderOOO of the Tokunation Forums!

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Fresh off the unveiling of Kamen Rider Fourze and Wizard Movie Wars Ultimatum yesterday we now have confirmation of it’s writing staff! Returning to write the Fourze portion of the film, set 5 years after the series end with Gentarou as a teacher at Amanogawa, is the series head writer himself Kazuki Nakashima! Of course this would be unsurprising wouldn’t it?

However the big reveal here is that Wizards’ head writer Tsuyoshi Kida will NOT be writing the Wizard portion of the film. Kida is best known for his beautiful work writing the first 29 episodes of Kamen Rider Hibiki before the series had an abrupt shift and for better or worse Kida was replaced with Toshiki Inoue. Many fans had hoped that Kidas’ attachment to Wizard would bring that same flare and originality to the series. So far it has.

However the Wizard portion of Movie Wars Ultimatum will in fact be written by Yoshio Urasawa of such sentais as Gekisou Sentai Carranger and Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger! How does this revelation make you feel about the film? Is this a smart decision on Toei’s part? What can we expect from Urasawa who has never written for Kamen Rider before? Join TokuNations discussion on the subject!

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While it was announced at the end of Kamen Rider Fourze that the space-loving rider would be reappearing at the end of the year in a crossover movie with current rider Kamen Rider Wizard, little else was announced other than the release date. However the latest issue of Televi-Kun magazine has revealed that the movie will be titled Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie Wars Ultimatum!

Further scans from the magazine also reveal that the movie will be set five years after the end of Fourze, the return of Kamen Rider Nadeshiko and the guest appearances of Sanagiman from Inazuman and the magical girl Patrine from the series Pretty Mask Poitrine!

Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider Wizard & Fourze: Movie Wars Ultimatum is set to be released in December 2012! Stay tuned to TokuNation for more information as it comes!

Picture credit: Tokumaru and Henshin Justice Unlimited

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With Kamen Rider Fourze bowing out this weekend to be succeeded by Kamen Rider Wizard, many people might already be missing the rocket-headed, friendship loving hero and the Kamen Rider Club of AGHS.

But fear not – Kamen Rider’s Movie War webpage updated today with a new logo featuring both Wizard and Fourze, announcing a new film featuring the two due in December!

We’ll bring you more news as it comes, along with weekly discussion of Kamen Rider Wizard as it airs. But it the meantime, it looks like space time isn’t over just yet!

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It is either a time to rejoice or a time to say your teary-eyed goodbyes because the contraversial Kamen Rider Fourze has officially come to an end.

We say “contraversial” only because the fandom seems to be split in half on Kamen Rider Fourze – half dislike it because of the goofiness and seemingly unimportant but always constant background cast of characters, while others absolutely love the relationships that have been built and get sucked in to the emotion when these characters influence the story or our main hero.

Curious what happens? Did Gentarou and Ryuusei manage to defeat the final two Horoscopes and save Japan from the Dark Nebula? What about Kengo … is he really gone forever? Will Ryuusei and Tomoko ever become a couple? And is there anyone out there that can take Miu away from Shun for good?

All these questions are answered in the final episode, “Youthful Galaxy”. How awesome was the episode? Check out the screen grab we took of Kamen Rider Meteor aka Ryuusei battling Leo Horoscope! We’re discussing the episode right now.

Click here to join Tokunation.com’s discussion of the final episode of Kamen Rider Fourze!

And get ready for next week as Kamen Rider Wizard premieres!

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Speaking of Kamen Rider Fourze…..The Daily Yomiuri has interviewed Sota Fukushi, who plays Gentaro Kisaragi AKA Kamen Rider Fourze himself! It turns out a talent agency discovered Fukushi through his photos in a hair magazine. If that wasn’t a surprise, it also turns out that prior to auditioning, Fukushi had never watched a Kamen Rider show before!

Nonetheless, he was still able to impress producer Hideaki Tsukuda:

Hideaki Tsukada, a producer at Toei Co., the company behind the TV show and film, was present at the audition. “Fukushi isn’t a calculating person when it comes to his appearance. His manner of expressing himself directly was very attractive. His brilliant smile fit my image of Kisaragi,” Tsukada said.

Though Fukushi had never watched Kamen Rider series before, it turns out, his parents did!

When Fukushi told his parents about passing the audition, they were even happier than he expected. His mother said, “I can strike the [original] Kamen Rider pose,” and then did so. Kamen Rider was the first installment of the series, airing in 1971. Fukushi’s father, a Kamen Rider fan, was thrilled, saying, “This is really excellent.”

His parents’ reactions reminded Fukushi that Kamen Rider is a popular series that has lasted more than 40 years.

“It was a privilege to become a character my parents have followed. I vowed to portray a Rider who can encourage all viewers,” he said.

The article also mentions that Fukushi cannot seriously get angry while performing, which admittedly troubles him a little. With Kamen Rider Fourze wrapping up soon, what do you think of Fukushi, did he live up to his 1st role as a Kamen Rider well?

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Welcome to another round of the weekly Let’s Watch Wednesdays At Tokunation.com! This week we go in a different direction, to commemorate the end of Kamen Rider Fourze, which wraps up this weekend! Specifically we will be discussing the following 5 episodes(which in the eyes of the staff here were arguably the most pivotal):

  • 26. Perfect Round Dance (Shun and Miu’s Prom)
  • 31. Pleiades King-Dom (Meteor betrays Fourze)
  • 32. Super Cosmic Sword (Fourze revives with Cosmic power)
  • 41. The Club Collapses (Virgo causes the club to collapse, identity revealed)
  • 42. Sagitarius Controls (Virgo’s true intentions revealed, Sagitarius appears)
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