New Year, New Chapter!? SODO Gotchard 5 Revealed along with a detailed look at this months SHODO release. Good day, toku fans! Happy New Year and welcome to another iteration of ‘SODO Sundays’. Today, the people at Bandai’s Candy Toy team have revealed a look at the SODO Gotchard 5 Premium set, along with a […]
Category Archives: Kamen Rider
Kamen Rider The Ride Review
The Ride Review with Ethan: Kamen Rider Gavv Episodes 33-40
Snacks are served up, Riders. Ethan returns to bring you some overdue Gavv goodness. This [...]
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Sep
Sep
Power Rangers
RUMOUR: Power Rangers Reboot in the works at Disney, Toei Not Involved (+3 Things I Want From the Reboot)
Let’s address those Power Rangers Reboot rumours and, while we’re at it, take a look [...]
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May
May
Super Sentai
No.1 Sentai Gozyuger: S.H. Figuarts Gozyu Wolf Revealed
With No.1 Sentai Gozyuger in full swing, it’s time for Bandai to reveal their yearly [...]
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May
May
Message From Planet C Super Sentai
The Final Message from Planet C: A Nogizaka46 Primer ft. Boonboomger’s Sakurai Reika
By the time you read this, Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger will have drawn to a close, [...]
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20
May
May
Super Sentai
Super Sentai 50th Anniversary Exhibition Announced
An ‘All Super Sentai Exhibition’ will tour nationwide across Japan, starting in August 2025! We’ve [...]
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May
May
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Dec
Dec
With the year coming to a close, join Ethan as they take a look back on some of 2023s best and worst offerings in the world of tokusatsu. 2023 was a great year for tokusatsu, seeing many new instalments of all four of the major series covered here on The Toku Source. Join me as […]
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Dec
Dec
Rider Jump! Rider Kick! The Converge Motion line has revealed its newest set in the form of the 2023 film, Shin Kamen Rider. The latest release in the Converge Motion line of minature figures has been announced and it’s going back to pay homage to the popular reboot of the original Kamen Rider series, Shin […]
Kamen Rider, The Ride Review
The Weekly Ride Review with Ethan: Kamen Rider Gotchard Episodes 15 and 16
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Dec
Dec
Welcome Riders to the final Weekly Ride Review of the year, featuring way more people spying on people then you would think, Holiday wishes, the start of a new arc and X-Wizard?! Episode 15 Summary Picking up where we last left off, Hotaro in Super Gotchard Cross X-Rex form starts doing battle against Clotho, who’s […]
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Dec
Dec
In recent days, new information has come out about the Gotchard X Geats Winter Movie and the Geats post series V-Cinema. Let’s jump in to all the latest! Kicking off the updates, the upcoming Geats V-Cinema has revealed it’s title – Kamen Rider Geats: Jyamato Awakening. Posted a couple days ago on the official social […]
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Dec
Dec
Kamen Rider Kiva joins the Figure-Rise line! Break the chain and complete your Heisei Rider collection with the final Rider of the generation! Christmas has come early this year with the imminent reveal of Kamen Rider Kiva’s Kiva Form joining the Bandai Figure-Rise Standard model kit line! For those (including myself) actively collecting the Figure-Rise […]
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Dec
Dec
Debuting in the crossover movie with Kamen Rider Geats, released in Japan on Friday, the groundbreaking secondary Rider for Kamen Rider Gotchard was revealed. Ahead of their likely debut in the series in episode sixteen, Toei posted the following on social media: The reveal was also made in time to also promote the AlchemisDriver unit, […]
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Dec
Dec
SODO Sundays are back under new management! Go beyond space-time with the latest SHODO reveals! Hello toku toy collectors, my name is Scott and I’ll be doing SODO Sundays from here on out! Bandai’s candy toys are some of my favourite lines and we have a lot to talk about. We have the roster reveal […]
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Dec
Dec
Welcome, Riders, to another Weekly Ride Review. Join Ethan as they review Kamen Rider Gotchard episode 14, featuring Christmas, father/daughter relationships and Ethan trying very hard not to make a Jurassic Park joke… Summary Episode 14 opens with a flashforward to Hotaro getting eaten by a dinosaur before flashing back to Hotaro helping his mum […]
Kamen Rider, The Ride Review, TV and Movie Reviews
The Weekly Ride Review (At The Movies) with Ethan: Kamen Rider Geats – 4 Aces and the Black Fox Review
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Dec
Dec
Greeting moviegoers! Grab your popcorn and buckle up because The Weekly Ride Review is going to the movies, screening the Kamen Rider Geats summer movie, 4 Aces and the Black Fox! Spoiler Warning: Due to how Ace appears in the movie it’s very clear it takes place post series. Readers may want to make sure […]