Rider Love - A Kamen Rider Podcast

Destiny Amber joins Dan this week to react to all the goodies revealed at Tamashii Nations and across the net this week, as well as the most recent round of Kamen Rider Build scans and the Parad/Poppy trailer that dropped just before recording. Build 12 & 13 bring us one step closer to finally discovering the true identity of Blood Stalk, and we get two awesome new Best Matches that each have a ni...

It's Thanksgiving week here in the United States, so we're celebrating everything about Kamen Rider (and toku in general) that makes you the most thankful this year! Plus LOTS of holiday food tangents… Dan finished Kabuto this week, so we can have one of those patented, vague, spoiler-free Rider Love discussions about it for a minute. They also hit us with some Ex-Aid trilogy scans and details whi...

With Build having taken the week off for (of all things) a relay race, it's the perfect opportunity for Dan & Faiz to return to their Ghost roots and catch up with one of those movies we never saw! It's not one of our favorites (through no fault of the cast), but them Ghost feels always get us. Dan's actually watched a few eps of Kabuto this week, so Faiz can once again warn him of the craziness t...

What are the odds that TWO regular podcast guests named Amber would BOTH travel to Japan this year? Pretty good I guess, as DestinyAmber returns with HER tales. She did some shopping, went to multiple stage shows, and actually had a cameo in a *secret* thing! More on that later. Oh, and Dan went to a convention. :-P Build 8 all but confirms our theories about Stalk, while launching a whole new set...

It's the triumphant return of Faiz (the show AND the lady)! They dropped a new 'Heisei Generations Final' trailer on us right before recording, which gives us excellent excuse to have a chat about some returning gents, as well as those recent Build scans, and any other recent news. We have a couple excellent listener emails which we've scattered throughout the show, as they pertain to the two seri...

Please welcome back Alan ( Kamen Rider Glover ) to the show, as he joins Dan to talk about a PLETHORA of new Build scans , revealing new forms and characters, as well as that Heisei Generations FINAL trailer that's been the talk of the town! Mystery and plot kicks into high gear in Build 5 & 6 as we meet possibly the grossest character (Icky Teeth Man Part 2?), as well as the greatest character (n...

Here we go again, kids! Amber ( TokuSwag ) forgot about her visit to Kamen Rider Black's steakhouse when she was recently in Japan, so she's back to tell Dan all about it! There have also been Build scans, possible rumors, toy reveals, and even Sentai trademarks to briefly touch upon! Build 4 continues to ramp up the intrigue as we wonder what that hot cafe dad Souichi could possibly be plotting....

Faiz dips her toes into the Build water as she and Dan bring you a podcast that goes off the rails, even for us. No huge news stories, but lots of small stuff, so it's time for a rapid-fire news roundup! Our appreciation for our new friends deepens in Build 3 , and you can never go wrong with tiny orange bird bullets. It's Feedback where we really get loopy. I guess your Fullbottle combos just rea...

DestinyAmber helps Dan welcome the "Best Match Boys" in style as we begin the experiment that is Kamen Rider Build ! She also tells us of her recent trip to Japan World Heroes, in particular the exciting opportunity to meet one-half of Kamen Rider W himself, Renn Kiriyama ! Gel up your hair, and leave your fly unzipped, because Build episodes 1 & 2 are a crazy ride! We've already got our favorites...

Sadly, Dan & Faiz must bid farewell to Ex-Aid … for now. But before that, they also mark the passing of the Korean "tokusatsu" series, Legend Hero , as well as 1974's Kamen Rider Amazon , which Dan has been watching. It's a packed Spoiler Train this week, as have some updates on that Ex-Aid follow-up trilogy coming next year, PLUS someone's hacked the Build Driver, and we know dozens more best mat...

Fresh back from her recent trip to Japan, Amber ( TokuSwag ) is here to regale us with tales of her travels! Unfortunately, she caught a cold upon returning home, Dan's allergies inexplicably got worse and worse throughout the podcast, and Amber's landlord thought it was the PERFECT time rebuild the apartment downstairs, so PLEASE bear with us. :-P We talk about *possible* future Ex-Aid stories (t...

Dan is joined by longtime listener, Peyton , to discuss her many passions, as well as the endless references in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid to the classic Osamu Tezuka creation, Black Jack ! Gamedeus makes an all-too-brief appearance in Ex-Aid 42 ,  as Dan and Kiriya have a little slap-fest of their own. And in a Listener Feedback section inspired by the recent W manga, we ask which Kamen Rider series YOU'...

DestinyAmber joins Dan this week to talk the all-important three C's: Cosplay, Cons, and Cats! The first chapter of the Kamen Rider W manga has been translated, and we touch very briefly on that (sans spoilers). And Ex-Aid: True Ending is out in Japan! What nuggets of Build/Ex-Aid goodness can we glean from that? Ex-Aid 41 bids farewell… again… to that gorgeous Bugster of a man, Graphite, and we l...

Episode 43 - "Doodle Kick" - 08.02.17 It's basically Build Bonanza Part 2 as we spend just over an hour dissecting this week's announcement of the Kamen Rider Build cast, theorize about the contents of the trailer, and gush about this year's theme song! Rest assured, there is much ogling of the boys. Ex-Aid 40 contains yet another resurrection, plus a team-up we didn't expect. 555 episode 12 bring...

Our excitement for Build continues to uh… build… as Dan & Faiz discover the initial creative staff behind the series as well as a few follow-up toy catalog scans. Ex-Aid 39 takes a cruel turn as we say goodbye(?) to the floofiest Bugster to ever grace this Earth. And can you believe it?! We're returning to our roots with Kamen Rider 555 episode 11 ! It's been more than a full year, but it feels go...

Kamen Rider Build is revealed! This is bound to be our favorite podcast every year. There's just so much to speculate about! That's probably why we spend well more than half of the episode talking about it. Forms, suits, weapons, story details. They just dumped so much on us at once! But in ADDITION to all that, Ex-Aid continues, as we make our way through episodes 37 & 38 . There's redemption, te...

It's finally here! Our discussion of the 2016 movie, 'Kamen Rider Ichigo'! Dan & Faiz have plenty of love to share as our pals, the Ghost crew, team up with the O.G. Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo! They'll battle the forces of Shocker, and we'll discover a whole array of comical new kinks we didn't know we had. There's news too! Rider has a new time slot, and what could that possibly mean? Plus, we go...

It's Hayato Isomura Week as we celebrate his birthday and CONTINUE to rejoice in Kiriya's return to Ex-Aid! There are scans for Ex-Aid, teasers (and rumors) for Build, and a sequel to W?! Hopefully we'll know more on that next week. Ex-Aid 36 debuts a beautiful golden-boy final form as we question Kiriya's TRUE motives. And we FINALLY close out a series proper with Ghost 50 and the mysterious emo...

Dan & Faiz go through a range of emotions this week, as we finally wrap up the main arc of Ghost with episodes 47, 48, & 49 ! We do some more contemplation about crooked teeth, love up on our Monsta X dudes, and as it's been a slow news week, we go through some Kamen Rider video game mods! We'll also find out what age YOU think is ideal for a KR protagonist. All that, plus talk about soup and pizz...

Rumor Season continues! Faiz and Dan have learned a few more (POSSIBLE) tidbits about the next series, Kamen Rider Build, as well as some more glimpses of the Summer Ex-Aid movie. You knew we'd be excited about the return of our dear departed bike in Ex-Aid 35 , and we're so so very close to finishing up Ghost with 45 & 46 ! Before all that, talk a little about about Faiz's E3-obsessed week, as we...

It's our favorite time of the year here at Rider Love, next series rumor time! Dan & Faiz have probably our biggest Spoiler Section yet, as we have all the "Build" rumors to speculate about, in addition to MORE Ex-Aid scans and summer movie info. Ex-Aid 33 & 34 are full of tears and betrayal, but there's a hint of a beautiful yellow boy at the end! To round things off, we'll discuss our listeners'...

Rider Love welcomes its first international guest! Dan is joined by Alan (no, not the takoyaki prince, but rather Kamen Rider (G)Lover). It's a light news week this week, mainly toys, which means we'll get sidetracked a bit by Doctor Who and other geekery. But we're very excited to dive into the latest two episodes of Ex-Aid (31 & 32) in which we learn the means by which our buddy "Nuevo Kuroto" h...

Dan & Faiz brave thunder and an oncoming tornado (okay that might be overdramatizing it a BIT) to bring you another podcast! This week we witness the "Final Battle" between Emu and M in Ex-Aid 30 , as well as welcoming back our favorite tight-pantsed psychopath! In Ghost 43 & 44 , as we near the end, Onari begins to question his usefulness to the team, which makes for some VERY over-the-top and en...

Dan & Faiz celebrate 1 YEAR of podcasting the only way we know how… drooling over shirtless men and thinking about how hungry we are! We try to work out the logistics of the recent "M" revelation in Ex-Aid 29, and watch as our friends in Ghost 41 & 42 have a Gramps-shaped revelation of their own. Wrapping things up, it's all about music in Listener Feedback. Thank you, Rider Lovers, for an awesome...

You know the drill by now. When Faiz and I haven't talked for a while, things can get a little crazy. This week, it's all about Taiga's palm on Emu's firm tush! But no, there's lots of other stuff to talk about. There's the fall of Nyaa, the first hints of the summer Ex-Aid movie, and some sparkling, delicious new Mountain Dew flavored scans! In Ep Discussion, it's all about Ghost this week (39 &...