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7/14/2025, 1:04:35 AM
>>23384369
>Yeah, there was plans for an Arashi reboot... that lasted basically down to a concept art phase before being phased out because Kamen Rider WAS making money and pulling back on that for a less-than-popular Toei IP to follow the burgeoning trend of old property reboots in one of their main timeslots was a suicidal idea. Kamen Rider Hibiki was always going to be a "Kamen Rider" from the design's inception which was months before the end of Blade
The non-Rider Toku concept actually made it further than that and some of the stuff conceived during that phase of the project made it to Hibiki proper. Hibiki's suit design was indeed conceived as a Rider from the start, though.
>Yeah, there was plans for an Arashi reboot... that lasted basically down to a concept art phase before being phased out because Kamen Rider WAS making money and pulling back on that for a less-than-popular Toei IP to follow the burgeoning trend of old property reboots in one of their main timeslots was a suicidal idea. Kamen Rider Hibiki was always going to be a "Kamen Rider" from the design's inception which was months before the end of Blade
The non-Rider Toku concept actually made it further than that and some of the stuff conceived during that phase of the project made it to Hibiki proper. Hibiki's suit design was indeed conceived as a Rider from the start, though.
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