Here's a thread revival for you.
https://twitter.com/Gotcha_toei/status/1682148571368525824
The new season, Kamen Rider Gotchard, has been formally announced. Here's the synopsis:
Alchemy is the art of creating gold by combining different elements. One of its mysterious researches included an attempt to create "living things" artificially. In this series, the story unfolds in the present day, where these experiments have succeeded in secret.
The key to the story of "Kamen Rider Gochard" is the "artificial life form Chemmy" created with the best alchemy technology available. Chemmy is a life form made in the image of grasshoppers, SLs, and all other things that exist in this world, and there are 101 of them. They were stored on cards called "Ride Chemmy Cards".
However, they were supposed to have been carefully stored, but they all jumped out of the cards and were released all at once. Ichinose Houtarou, a high school student who accidentally gets caught up in the incident, is entrusted with Kamen Rider Gotchard's transformation belt, the Gotchard Driver, and given the mission of retrieving the unleashed Chemmy.
Chemmy can be a reassuring presence that becomes companions to humans if they resonate with a good heart. As proof of this, Houtarou loads the Ride Chemmy card into the Gatchard Driver, which fuses him with the Chemmy and transforms into Kamen Rider Gotchard.
On the other hand, when Kemmy combines with human malice, it risks giving birth to the "Monsters Malgam". It is the very essence of good and evil, two sides of the same coin.
Houtarou's habit is to say "Gotcha! which means "I got it!". But can Houtarou "gotcha" all 101 chemmy? In September, the curtain rises on a Kamen Rider legend unlike anything you've seen yet!
His schtick is he combines two cards of varying power levels to make a form. The two cards' power levels always add up to 10 - Steamhopper's form is Hopper1 (Power 1) and Steamlinder (Power 9), for example.
In addition, the chinks over at Baidu who leaked the final forms of Geats, Tycoon, Buffa, and Na-go right down to the belt designs confirmed Kamen Rider Decade is returning with a new belt and form as basically the tertiary Rider of the season. Invoice leaks from various digital merchants confirm that Q1 features a "Legend Rider" with a new belt and figure for his new form.
Here's the staff:
Script:
Keichi Hasegawa (Most of Heisei Ultraman, second fiddle writer for W, Fourze, Drive, Ghost, Saber, head writer of SSSS.Gridman and Dynazenon), Hiroki Uchida (Newblood twink crossdresser who's written some alright episodes for a lot of recent tokusatsu shows), "and others"
Pilot director:
Ryuta Tasaki (Director who has worked on every Kamen Rider since Kuuga)
Action Director:
Hirofumi Fukuzawa (Former suit actor who played all the Sentai Reds from Gaoranger to Gokaiger sans MagiRed, became Sentai's primary action director all the way up to Donbrothers)
Special Effects Director:
Hiroshi Butsuda (Not a new or special name, he's been Toei's SFX guy since 1990)
Music
Hiroshi Takagi (Composer for Shinkenger and Lupinranger VS Patrenger plus a bunch of other shit)
Toei Producer (i.e. the important one)
Yousuke Minato (Was an AP for Donbrothers, worked on pre-production for King-Ohger, seems to basically be an Ohmori protege so expect more in the style of Drive, Ex-Aid, Build, or Zero-One)
Show starts on September 3rd, we'll probably see the press-con in early August, there's rumors saying August 8th but I'm not sure.
