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Happy New Year! Next stop...The Future... or the Past?



Happy Birthday Shotaro Ishinomori!



Happy Valentines Day! We hope you find your Love Combo!

Happy Birthday Kamen Rider!

This week is

Golden Week

It's San Diego Comic Con Week! Superheroes Galore!



Happy Halloween!



Happy Thanksgiving!



Happy Holidays!

Possible: Easter? 4th of July? Golden Week? White Day? Earth Day? Tokyo Toy Show? 009 Day? Tanbata? New York Comic Con?

Prototype Style Guide Page
I have conceptualized a possible addition to the Style Guide to help editors find credible sources of info to improve productivity. Revisions may need to be done, but I hope to get approval from the others for this concept. This page could benefit us in the long term, as new editors could obtain accurate information at a more expeditious pace.

Style Guide: Info sources (working title)

While the Internet is full of information, its accuracy can vary from sources. These are sites we use to collect the data on news involving the Kamen Rider Series. We do not list sites for fansubs here, as that has its own listing on the Style Guide and is not always a credible source of information due to possible translation errors. We also do not list Twitter accounts here, as like the fansubs that has its own section.

In certain cases, some of these sites can obtain info from other websites and they link to the source at the bottom of their posts. If so, then that site that originally contained the info should be cited as the source instead if it is in English. If they have translated the info from a Japanese or other non-English source or they are actually reporting it as breaking news for a site-exclusive story, then the website in question can be cited for pages.

List of Official Sources

 * TV Asahi- The official broadcast channel of the Kamen Rider Series.
 * Toei Co. LTD. The company that produces the Kamen Rider Series.
 * Toei Hero- A site for Toei's Kamen Rider and Super Sentai properties.
 * Ishimori Pro- The production company of the Ishinomori family. It is under the management of the sons of the late Shotaro Ishinomori, the creator of Kamen Rider.
 * Terebi Magazine- The official magazine on children's TV shows such as Kamen Rider.
 * Hyper Hobby Magazine- Hyper Hobby Magazine is a promotional magazine made by King Record's publishing firm Star Child. The magazine posts information on toys and characters for TV shows including Kamen Rider for collectors and enthusiasts.
 * Bandai Japan (Japanese)- The toy company responsible for some of the designs and development of the Kamen Rider Series and the toylines that spawn from them.
 * Tamashii Nations- Official site of the Bandai collector's toy brands, including S.H. Figuarts, S.I.C. and Tamashii Web Exclusives.
 * Wikipedia Japan Not the most accurate of sources all the time, but it does give us some useful data that is credible.
 * Tokusatsu Network- An English, Japan based news blog run by Paula Gaetos and Tom Constantine, this site does interviews with actors and reports on the latest in toku news.
 * Orends Range- An otaku culture-based news site founded by Ian Titular aka UkiyaSeed.
 * Crunchyroll- A California based online streaming site, this company usually delves into the anime aspect of culture, but it does do news reports on okatu related material such as Tokusatsu.
 * Japanator- The self proclaimed "Otaku's Companion", Japanator is a website that does news and reviews on anime, tokusatsu, and video games.
 * Jefusion- A Malaysian news site founded by the late GekiDan.
 * Herotaku- A news site centered around the theme of superheroes and video games, also a supporter of the reviewer webseries Des Shinta's Tokusatsu in Review.
 * Sci-Fi Japan A Japanese film and Anime news and review site, formerly known as Monster Zero News.
 * Igadevil's Kamen Rider Page- Igadevil aka Paul Sullivan, an American living in Japan, is possibly the most knowledgeable person on the subject of Kamen Rider and Ishinomori heroes. Despite a few setbacks and real life obligations, he continues his podcast and offers insight and info about the franchise that we in the west could not obtain outside of Japan. Also works with the Tokusatsu Network on occasion.
 * Anime News Network- While this is an anime news site, it is one of the top three websites we use for data on voice actors due to its seiyuu database.

What is NOT an official source

 * YouTube: Aside from maybe the Tokusatsu Network's channel and Toei Co Ltd.'s Youtube accounts, we do not use this a a credible source. Rumors spread like wildfire here so misinformation is a recurring problem. Another one is its instability with web video, as the site's flawed copyright Content ID system makes videos die very quickly due to faulty software and the lack of a human element to monitor it to tell a pirated video from a official news or review post.
 * Certain Web Forums: Some internet forums are simply just gossip filled, thus trusting information is not often found. Web discussions often contain fan bias and the magazine scans they have are often watermarked by sites such as ModXToy, rendering the image useless to our wiki.