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Katarou! 555, Blade, Hibiki

Katarou! 555, Blade, Hibiki Source:  語ろう! 555・剣・響鬼 【永遠の平成仮面ライダーシリーズ】 (2015) Katarou! 555, Blade, Hibiki ISBN-10: 4862552854 ISBN-13: 978-4862552853 Book of interviews with various people regarding 555, Blade and Hibiki. Second book in the series; Stuff from the first book is here . Interviewer is Tanida Shuntarou (谷田俊太郎). Urobuchi Gen (pg 127-166) -They reveal that during the interview in the previous book (Katarou! Kuuga, Agito, Ryuuki) Urobuchi had already been hired to work on Gaim, but wasn't allowed to talk about it. It was pretty much just after he'd been contacted by Toei. -The interviewer reveals that Urobuchi had told him about this off-record that the belt was "fancy" this time, but when he heard rumours that it was fruit-themed he didn't believe even with this prior knowledge. -The fruit theme came as a surprise to Urobuchi too, because when he met with producer Takebe Naomi she said she wanted him to bring Kamen Rider back to the earl...

Katarou! Kuuga, Agito, Ryuuki

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Source:  語ろう!クウガ・アギト・龍騎 (2013) ISBN-10: 4862551785 ISBN-13: 978-4862551788 Katarou! Kuuga, Agito, Ryuuki Source:  語ろう!クウガ・アギト・龍騎 (2013) Katarou! Kuuga, Agito, Ryuuki ISBN-10: 4862551785 ISBN-13: 978-4862551788 Book of interviews with various people regarding Kuuga, Agito, and Ryuuki. UROBUCHI GEN (pg 58-94) -Interview is from before he was allowed to talk about being on board for Gaim. They allude to it but end with him saying he's not allowed to talk about it yet. -He says that working on tokusatsu is "probably" (once again, not allowed to talk about Gaim yet) completely different from working on anime, because there are a lot of factors outside the writer's control, like the belts. He "thinks" the writer is given the belt first and it told to write a story around it. Up till now he'd written stuff completely freely so it would be a huge challenge to him. -Most of the Showa riders aired when he was a young chil...