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Tonight was the official Toei press conference for the newest Kamen Rider series, Kamen Rider Gotchard! The principle cast for this new series has finally been revealed!

*Kamen Rider Gotchard (real name Hotaro Ichinose)is played by Motojima Junsei. Hotaro is a high school student supporting his mother and their family restaurant while looking for a skill to properly call his own. One day Hotaro discovers the Alchemy Academy hidden in his school, and begins to learn about the mysterious magic of the Chemie cards. A chance encounter with the Chemy Hopper leads to Hotaro activating the powers of a Kamen Rider!

*Joining Gotchard is Kudo Rinn (played by Matsumoto Reiyo– Hotaro’s best friend, a top student in their high school AND alchemy classes. She is the daughter of a legendary alchemist named Fuga who stole the original Chemy Cards 10 years before the series began.

*Yasunari Fujibayashi portrays the stern and serious Alchemy Academy graduate Spana Kuragan, possessing the power to transform into an elite warrior known as Valvarad.

*Alchemy Academy tutors Abe Otsu & Sabimaru Tsuruhaya (played by Icho Renge and Rikiya Tomizono respectively will teach Hotaro & Rinn on the properties of the Chemy Cards.

*The main villains of this season are a group known as the Three Sisters Of Darkness– consisting of Atropos, Kroto & Lachesis played by Geno Okita, Kanon Miahara, & Arisa Sakami respectively. The Sisters are powerful alchemists who seek the Chemy Cards for their own agenda.

The main theme song for Kamen Rider Gotchard is titled CHEMY X STORY and will be performed by the group Back-On.

Kamen Rider Gotchard begins September 3 2023! Stay tuned to TokuNation for further details on this new chapter in Kamen Rider history!

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Magazine scans of Kamen Rider Gotchard have been shared.  In these scans we get a nice look at the suit, some of the gear, and of course, the Gotchardriver which brings back a beloved gimmick to Kamen Rider – cards and card-scanning!

You can pre-order the DX Gotchardriver via site sponsor Tokullectibles by clicking here!

Stay tuned for more news and information on Kamen Rider Gotchard!

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The panel for the Massive-verse series of books from Image Comics had quite an eventful time at San Diego Comic Con 2023.  The final announcement from the panel was that Massive-verse and Solis Studios had partnered to create a fighting card game powered by the Pocket Paragon system.  The game features 8 playable characters – Radiant Black, 001, Rogue Sun, Cataclysm, The Dead Lucky, Pyre, Inferno Girl Red, and The Griffin.  Each character deck features art pulled directly from the comics with famed artist Dan Mora (Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles x Power Rangers, Go Go Power Rangers) providing the character card art.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Kickstarter campaign to fund this card game!

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Following the official unveiling of the next Kamen Rider series- Kamen Rider Gotchard we have now learned a bit about the production team in charge of this new series!

*Veteran Kamen Rider director Ryuta Tasaki will helm the series, with another Rider veteran Keiichi Hasegawa listed as main writer. Hirofumi Fukuzawa will serve as action director.

The story of Kamen Rider Gotchard will feature high school alchemist Hotaro hunting down the 101 Chemy creatures- who can transform humans into monsters known as Phantom Malgams.

A brief teaser for this new Rider has also been released via Toei’s social media

Kamen Rider Gotchard is scheduled to begin on September 3 2023! The series’ official press conference (introducing the cast & characters) is scheduled for August 9 2023.

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This year’s San Diego Comic Con 2023 is in full swing and Hasbro has brought the Power Rangers Lightning Collection and the latest batch of upcoming releases to the show.  We did a quick visit yesterday and went back for some more up close and personal pictures.

Check out the remastered Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the upcoming Rita Repulsa figure, and more!

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Thanks to Latin American Hasbro leaker @EuSouRalf we have our first look at the upcoming Power Rangers Lightning Collection Omega Rangers box set!  This collection of figures contains the following:

  • Omega Red Ranger
  • Omega Black Ranger
  • Omega Yellow Ranger
  • Omega Blue Ranger

There are no civilian heads included and this set appears to be focused on the first appearance of the Omega Rangers, as Omega Blue has the female body-type and not that of a large cat.  The figures do include their brand new, original weapons as well as mostly recycled blast effects.

The Omega Power Rangers are an original created team by comic book licensee BOOM! Studios and writer Ryan Parrott, who shocked the world after the events of Power Rangers Shattered Grid by having Jason, Zack, and Trini become secret Power Rangers pretending to go to the peace conference referenced in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show.  It should be noted that this divergence in the story is the last “event” from the television show that the comic has referenced.

No release details for this set have been revealed though speculation says it is either an item available for pre-order during this year’s San Diego Comic Con or even the following Hasbro PulseCon later in the year.

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Thanks to @Leg10nofBoom on Twitter, we have our first look at the upcoming Power Rangers Cosmic Fury Megazord!  The set looks to be a box set of the following:

  • Cosmic Lion Zord
  • Cosmic Bull Zord
  • Cosmic Wolf Zord
  • Cosmic Chameleo Zord
  • Cosmic Shark Zord

No release details yet regarding this item.  The previous box set for Power Rangers Dino Fury was released on Amazon, so there’s a chance this will be there as well.

The Power Rangers Cosmic Fury Megazord is a new version of the Super Sentai counterpart Uchu Sentai Kyuranger.  While Power Rangers Cosmic Fury will be using footage from Kyuranger for the Megazord battles, Power Rangers Cosmic Fury will NOT feature the suits from Kyuranger, instead using brand new suits instead.

Power Rangers Cosmic Fury is rumored to premiere in September 2023 on Netflix.

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At last we have our first images for the next Kamen Rider!

This is Kamen Rider Gotchard– a blue insectoid warrior with untold new powers!

Gotchard appears to take abilities from cards- his Driver supposedly fuses the Hopper and SteamLiner cards for Gotchards’ base form.

The true story of Kamen Rider Gotchard remains unconfirmed at time of writing. Stay tuned to TokuNation for further details on this new chapter in Kamen Rider history!

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It wasn’t too long ago that Hot Toys announced that they would be making figures and accessories for Kamen Rider Black Sun, and now Hot Toys Japan has shared the first prototype images for Kamen Rider Black Sun and Shadowmoon.

No release information has been made available yet but the figures look fantastic!