I recently saw a more detailed picture of Kamen Rider W (pronounced as "Double"). Recent leaked photos shows that he will make his first appearance on Kamen Rider Decade Movie: All Riders vs DaiShocker when he helped Decade when he is in the clutches of Shadowmoon.
Tomica Hero Rescue Fire breaking news!
Additional members for the Rescue Fire Squad are finally revealed.
Fire 4: Tsubasa Aoi
Fire 5: Jun Watari
Additional members for the Rescue Fire Squad are finally revealed.
Fire 4: Tsubasa Aoi
Fire 5: Jun Watari
As expected by many, Kamen Rider W a.k.a Double, will have more forms besides his basic form. His default form will be called Cyclone-Joker Form, which have the green and black color combination. The additional forms includes Luna-Trigger, have a yellow and blue combination and seen holding a gun (that's where the trigger goes ><") and Heat-Metal, that have red and silver/grey colors and seen holding a staff.
Kamen Rider W will air on September 16, 2009. A week after the 30th and final episode of Kamen Rider Decade.
In reality, all of us who watched tokusatsu didn't knew the meaning of "Henshin" on the first time we hear it, with exceptions to Japanese people who, indeed already know about this stuff.
Henshin, literally "to transform or change", is the words tokusatsu heroes, and in some extent, sometimes present in anime, used to transform to his/her alter-ego. It sometimes shows the actor wearing some kind of armor from nothingness. This word is mostly often said or used in the Kamen Rider Series everytime they transform as a Kamen Rider.
There are also some variations in saying "Henshin" outside Kamen Rider Series. This includes "souchaku" and "chakusou" which literally means "to equip". These are being used by the Chou Seishin Series and Tomica Heroes Series respectively. Super Sentai Series uses different variations that is relevant to their plot and story. Examples includes "BakuryuChange" (Abaranger), "Emergency Dekaranger!" (Dekaranger), "Maji Maji Majiro" (Magiranger), "Beast On!" (Gekiranger) and "Ippitsu Soujo" (Shinkenger) pls many more!
You need a certain item to be able to henshin. These are called "Henshin Items" (isn't that obvious?). Different series have different henshin items. This includes belts/drivers (Kamen Rider Series), bracers and cellphones (Super Sentai) and many more!
Would you believe it? The word "Henshin" already reached American cartoons. One example is Capcom's character, Viewtiful Joe. He shouts the phrase, "Henshin a go-go, baby!" when he transforms into his comic book style alter-ego. Many have said that Viewtiful Joe is widely inspired by the Kamen Rider Series.
Gravure Idol Akina Minami will be starring the latest, and 10th Anniversary, "Ju-On" movie. This horror movie will be his first lead role as an actress, in contradiction, we mostly see her in guest and cameo appearances, in the latest Kamen Rider Chou Den-O and Decade Movie, as a very cheerful person."Ju-On" means curse grudge in English. It was a horror film created by Japanese director, Takashi Shimizu. The movies even been released in the US and spuns three remakes. Previous actresses who stars in this series are Chiaki Kuriyama, Megumi Okina and Noriko Sakai. According to some eports, it's the first Japanese directed fil in the US that remains in the #1 in box-office for two consecutive weeks.
The film will be entitled, "Ju-On: Shiroi Shoujo" and is directed by Ryota Miyake.
Excited about her role, Akina Minami said, "I was too scared after reading the script, so I told my manager I didn't think I could do it. But since it was the leading role for the 'Ju-on' series, I thought that I had to do it by any means necessary."
In the she plays a high-school girl which has a strong sense of supernatural phenomenon, in short, third-eye, whose bestfriend was murdered when they were still in elementary school.
The movie will be released, in Japan, on June 27, 2009. Watch out for it!
Anime and cartoons are sometimes difficult to distinguish between. Generally the best way to tell whether you are watching an anime movie or a traditional cartoon is to look at the quality of the video. Anime is much more hi-def and surreal than a standard cartoon. Anime often features flashy clothes, strange hair styles, intense action, and a loose morale on sexually based expressions. Another way to tell the difference between anime and cartoons is to look at how the story is told. In a traditional cartoon, the plot starts, unfolds, and finishes all within the one episode. An anime, however, spreads over several episodes and is separated into sagas. What makes an anime so ideal is that it fits today's society more than a traditional cartoon of the past. Anime features more of a space age look and feel to it than a standard cartoon does, keeping up with the rest of our fast-paced lifestyles. When you sit down to watch a cartoon, you can expect to waste half an hour, maybe fall asleep, and barely pay attention to it. A cartoon is a rainy day event. When you sit down to watch an anime, however, you feel the film. The action, the plot, the suspense - it's the perfect way to spend an afternoon.
Henshin Hottie is the term used by Henshin Justice forums members to differentiate "ladies-in-toku" to a normal gravure idol. They aren't necessarily gravure idols. For those who doesn't know, gravure idols are so-called bikini models in Japan. Some of them gets a break in acting and thus became a lead or a guest star in various Japanese shows like drama and tokusatsu. Those who makes these appearances in tokus are now called as Henshin Hotties. These includes Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman and other toku series.Here are some of them:
- Yuka Hirata - Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger (Mele)
- Yuriko Shiratori - Kamen Rider Den-O (Hana)
- Mikie Hara - Cutie Honey (Honey Kisaragi/Honey)
- Shizuka Nakamura - Tomica Here Rescue Force (Tama-chan)
- Yu Takahashi - Kamen Rider Kiva (Yuri Aso)*
- Rin Takanashi - Samurai Sentai Shinkenger (Shiraishi Mako/ShinkenPink)*
- Ayaka Komatsu - Pretty Guardian Sailormoon (Minako Aino/Sailor Venus)
- Fukui Mina - Jyuken Sentai Gekiranger (Ran Uzaki/GekiYellow)
- Rina Koike - Kamen Rider Kiva (Shizuka)
- Yuria Haga - kamen Rider Kiva (Mio/Queen)
- Wakana Matsumoto - Kamen Rider Den-O (Airi Nogami)
- Rina Akiyama - Kamen Rider Den-O(Naomi)
- Yumi Sugimoto - Engine Sentai Go-onger(Miu Satou/GoonSilver)
- Kanna Mori -Kamen Rider Decade (Natsumi)*
- ...to name a few
From now on, I will update this blog with profles, pictures and downloads of your favorite Henshin Hotties. Look forward to it.
Here are some new pictures, low quality ones, of Kamen Rider W (supposedly read as "Double"):
Here's the Double Belt:
I will post more as soon as I get the high quality scans.
Here's the Double Belt:
I will post more as soon as I get the high quality scans.
A life size, 18 meter, 1:1 scale Gundam model have already been completed last June 12, 2009 and currently standing at Odaiba, Tokyo. The Gundam model that was built is RX 78-2 Gundam from the first and original Mobile Suit Gundam series. It will stand there for two months starting in July to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam Series. The statue is free for viewing. It is built with fiber glass reinforced plasticin a steel frame for easy disassembling, and can emit lights and mists from certain locations of the body.Other official Gundam replica includes a 2/3-scale Victory Gundam (10 meters), a fan-made 1/3-scale Zeta Gundam (7 meters), a life size head of Gundam F91 and an RX-78-2 Gundam bust. Another life size replica of the RX 78-2 Gundam at Gundam Crisis, located at Fuji-Q Highland amusement park located at the foot of Mt. Fuji. The only difference of this one to the current life size replica is that this replica is built lying on the floor for interactive attraction purposes.
A life size Tetsujin 28-go is being planned to be built in Kobe although it has been delayed for a year. Proposed opening was on 2008.
To all people who have been waiting for the debut of the 11th Heisei Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider W (Weiss). Here it is! I have found this picture on Henshin Justice Forums.This logo would be more awesome after a colored version is released.
There will be an upcoming team-up episode between Kamen Rider Decade and samurai Sentai Shinkenger. This will happen in the later episodes of both series.Here will be the plot:
In Shinkenger: Kaitou Daiki comes to steal Ika Origami from ShinkenGold, Genta. An Ayakashi henshins into Diend, giving birth to a rider in a world where there has never been a rider before! Tsukasa and Takeru team up with the others to defeat the evil Diend to bring back both IkaOrigami and DiendDriver.
In Decade: Tsukasa and the others ends up into the Shinkenger World. They saw an Ayakashi steals the DiendDriver from Kaitou.
Look forward for this never before seen team-up in the tokusatsu world.
Remember? This happened before in the American series when the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers teams up with Saban's Masked Rider.
Here is the promotional poster for Kamen Rider Decade the Movie: All Riders vs DaiShocker (Gekijōban Kamen Raidā Dikeido: Ōru Raidā tai Daishokkā). It will be shown in theaters, in Japan, on August 8, 2009 back-to-back with Samurai Sentai Shinkenger the Movie: The Fatar War. Watch out for it.
Here is the promotional poster for Samurai Sentai Shinkenger The Movie: The Fateful War (Samurai Sentai Shinkenjā Ginmakuban Tenkawakeme no Sen). It will be shown in theaters, in Japan, on August 8, 2009, back-to-back with Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs Daishocker. Watch out for it.Here's the trailer of the new Kamen Rider game, Kamen Rider Climax Heroes on the Playstation 2. It is scheduled to be released on the 3rd Quarter of 2009.
Here is a quick preview on how Kamen Rider W looks like. Many says that this is a new look for Kamen Riders but many are disgusted by it's appearance(same happens on the first scans of KR Decade). No other information are known until this day.
Expect to see more in the coming days...
Kamen Rider Decade's journey to the nine worlds finally ends with a BANG!
Tsukasa Kadoya is Kamen Rider Decade. There is nothing known to his past because he himself didn't know about that. Kamen Rider Decade is known throughout the nine worlds as Akuma, the Japanese word for devil/demon. Many believed that he will soon destroy the nine worlds, as seen by Natsumi in her dream. In their world, there is something abnormal happening. Various kaijin from different Kamen Rider worlds attacks the city. That includes Orphenochs, Worms nad Makamous. He was told by Wataru that he should travel to the nine Kamen Rider worlds to save all those worlds from colliding.
After traveling to the nine Kamen Rider Worlds, Tsukasa gain more friends. and even enemies. One of his friends, Yuusuke Onodera, Kamen Rider Kuuga from Kuuga's world, decided to join him in his journey. He helped Tsukasa in each and every world they traveled to. He transforms into Kamen Rider Kuuga when needed, although fans get a little dismayed that he didn't even care, even when in pain, to henshin after Kiva's World. He again henshined on Den-O's world.
One of Decade's enemies is Narutaki, the trenchcoatman, whom people thought first as Sakurai Yuuto. He can summon any rider that he wants including Ryuga, Kickhopper & Punchhopper. He was the one who gave Yuusuke the Kuuga belt and warn him of the coming of the demon and the destroyer of the worlds, Decade. The same happens to all other nine worlds. Whenever they see Decade, they always call him Akuma.
Daiki Kaito is one, I believe to be, a neutral character. He is either an enemy or a friend of Tsukasa but he always clings along with them. He first appeared at Blade's world. He is somewhat knows the past of Tsukasa. He knows that Tsukasa didn't like sea cucumber.
Kaito henshins into Kamen Rider Diend. If Decade can transform into all nine Heisei Era Kamen Riders, Diend can summon them plus all other riders including IXA, Kabuki, Psyga and many others. He describes himself as a treasure hunter. He's looking for greatest treasures of the various worlds. That includes the Faiz Belt, G4 Chip, Denliner, the Clock-Up system and the secret of Ongekidou. But in each and every world, he fails to get mosts of them. He only got the Orga Belt, instead of the Faiz Belt.
After Hibiki's world, Decade's journey ends and with the completion on all Kamen Ride cards, they returned to Natsumi's world. What would happen next? Will they be able to save all worlds from destruction as what Wataru says?
Stay tuned with more Kamen Rider Decade action.
Get the latest subbed episodes at TV-Nihon.com.
Kamen Rider Decade(center) with Kamen Rider Ichigo(left) and Nigo(right)Japanese entertainment shows explores the world of reality and fantasy. From modern day celebrities to cartoon heroes, all have been a part and parcel of the Japanese entertainment industry since the last few decades. While several shows and real life celebrities have entertained people in the past, one amongst the entertainment shows that has made its mark in the Japanese entertainment industry is the Kamen Riders series.
It debuted in the year 1971 and entertained the Japanese audience for several years. The impact of the show was widely proven from the fact that there were many original and sequel shows made based on the popularity of this show.
Originally, started under the title”Masked Hero Project” the show was held for more than 5 years by the producer due to other commitments. After few rejections and modifications Kamen Riders made its first television appearance on April 3, 1971. The main character was shared amongst two heroes, Takeshi Hongo(Kamen Rider Ichigo) and Hayato Ichimonji(Kamen Rider Nigo). Hiroshi Fujioka(actor for Kamen Rider Ichigo) injured both his legs while performing a stunt for the show while filming the 10th episode. The producer somehow managed to drag the show until the 13th episode, after which Hayato Ichimonji played the lead character. Hiroshi Fujioka regained good health by episode 52, however, by then the show had already picked up great popularity with the acceptance of Hayato Ichimonji as the lead character. From episode 53, Hiroshi Fujioka replaced Hayato Ichimonji as Kamen Rider thus making Ichimonji, Kamen Rider 2 or Nigo. The show gathered immense fan following over the years, and went off air for the first time in the year 1976. It made its comeback again in the year 1979.
From this year onward, Kamen Rider didn't fail fans from making new Kamen Rider series each year. This includes Kamen Rider V3, X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, and Super-1. Through the years, Kamen Rider Ichigo and Nigo appears frequently on all Kamen Rider shows.
Kamen Rider Black, which went on air in the year 1987. is the first Kamen Rider that doesn't have any relationship with its predecessors. It is followed by a direct sequel, Kamen Rider Black RX. It features the first form changing ability of a rider. Black RX can transform into three forms. First is thedefault form, second is Roborider and lastly, Biorider.
This show ran successfully for few years followed with a large absence during the 1990’s. In this hiatus, they make a three movies namely, Kamen Rider J, ZO and Shin Kamen Rider. The later is called the most violent rider of all time.
In 1999, “Kamen Rider Kuuga” was announced and aired in 2000, it also features a form changing Kamen Rider with a total of 11 forms. It is followed by Agito(2001), Ryuki(2002), 555(2003), Blade(2004), Hibiki(2005), Kabuto(2006), Den-O(2007) and Kiva(2008).
The year 2007 saw the emergence of the eighth series named “Kamen Rider Den-O”. The immense popularity of this show made its way to theatres in the year 2008 and 2009, with a total of four movies in total. It is the only Kamen Rider which has four movies.
Certain remakes of the first Kamen Rider series have been done including, Kamen Rider The First in 2005, and Kamen Rider the Next in 2007.
The latest 2009 series, “Kamen Rider Decade” is the 10th Anniversary Series which features the title rider traveling into 9 worlds of the previous 9 Kamen Riders. All Kamen Riders in the Heisei era returned into their alternate worlds. To the fans demise, no previous lead actor had returned in these series.
In the upcoming movie "Kamen Rider Decade: All Riders vs Daishocker" is what fans have been waiting for for years. All Kamen Riders will return to battle it out to finish their greatest enemy, the Daishocker. It will be shown in theaters on August 2009.
The show has entertained people for decades now and continues to make its presence felt not only through television, but also through action figure, belts, videogames, statues, books etc.
Here’s an unexpected treat… first word of the next Kamen Rider series, courtesy of Henshin Justice's Forums member, Gold Samurai!
Rumor has it we might even get to see him in the Decade vs. Dai-Shocker flick. If you want to read some more, click the above picture and then see the below from the King of Toku Rumors…. Dukemon22!
dukemon22 certified rumor:The post is taken from Henshin Justice.Honestly, I am having a Kamen Rider Chalice(from KRBlade) feeling for this rider. I hope we could see some live-action pics sometime soon.
