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Hello everyone. This is Funasen.

Pre-orders for the "CSM Garren Buckle & Rouse Absorber & Garren Rouser" will begin today at 11am!


As we mentioned in last week's blog, there are three different sales formats, and these variations allow those who purchase BLAYBACKLE to purchase the Rouse Absorber without having to purchase duplicates.
The "Rouse Absorber" has the same specifications as the one included with the previously released "CSM BLAYBACKLE," so you can play with it by attaching the "Garren Jack Foam Plate" that comes with all three sets this time.


In today's blog, I would like to provide an overview of the two new items!
First up is "Garren Buckle"!!!



The appearance is the same as the one exhibited at the "THE HENSHIN" event at the end of last year, but the color is a little more silver-ish.
I had a look at the actual prop, and the Galen buckle was actually a slightly champagne gold color, which was different in color from BLAYBACKLE.
The sample at the event was colored to resemble the prop, but the actual product will be painted a color between silver and champagne gold (with more weight on the silver) to get closer to the image seen in videos and books.
Please see the pictures below for the color difference.



The basic gimmick is the same as the basic behavior of the "CSM BLAYBACKLE," so this product allows you to enjoy the same transformation sequence as in the movie, and once again, it is possible to use the projector to project the Orichalcum element, also known as the tatami mat.

And of course, cast voices have been implemented this time as well.
The game includes over 170 voiceovers recorded by Hironari Amano, who plays Sakuya Tachibana!
Tachibana's lines were multiplied by the charm of Amano's performance, resulting in many memorable lines.
I think we've probably recorded almost all of the lines that fans were looking forward to!
Amano-san was truly an extremely, extremely nice person (lack of vocabulary)!
We were able to record some excellent audio thanks to your kind cooperation with our repeated detailed requests.
Today, we plan to release the recorded audio little by little on the official KAMEN RIDER TOY WEB Twitter account.

We photographed and interviewed Amano while he was wearing a product sample, so please see the article below.



More about the PV later.

With 170 types of sounds, this is by far the largest volume of sounds ever recorded in a CSM, in which one character's lines are played in sequence without changing modes.
For example, Kivat has more lines, but because there are different modes such as "Normal Mode," "Trivia Mode," and "Cold Mode," the number of times you have to press the dialogue button is less than Garren.

However, listening to 170 different lines in order can make it difficult to find the one you're looking for.
That's why we've introduced a dialogue skip feature to this product!
(I hear someone say to put it in sooner, but I'm sorry, I never thought of that until now.)
Up until now, we hadn't added buttons unnecessarily, so we had used up all the button assignments (short press/long press) for necessary gimmicks, but this time, the action of pulling the lever before transforming didn't make any sense, so we assigned a skip function to this action.
We would like to include this type of functionality in future products as well, in cases where there are too many lines and there is free space on the + button, etc.

With this product, "every time you pull the lever before transformation, 20 lines of dialogue will be skipped."​
If there were around 10, it would be easy to repeatedly press the button, but if there were too many, it would actually be harder to find the line you were looking for, so we set it at this number.



The included BGM will be the largest number of BGM tracks in the CSM series, with a total of 9 songs!
(Kuuga was eventually split up and included more songs, but the number of songs that made it into the soundtrack was eight.)
The song "Subete ni Ukete" is often heard in battle scenes, as well as "Inori" (Prayer) to recreate the famous scene from the 15th episode of the fight against Isaka, and "Michibata no Hana" (this is the first time we've included non-battle BGM like this!).
And there's "Climax VII" to recreate Garren's final battle with Giraffe in "Episode 47", the "BOARD siren sound" and "Distrust" to recreate that scene from Episode 1, and even the theme song "Round ZERO ~ BLADE BRAVE"!!! (With all sorts of meanings)
It's extremely fulfilling.


And there is a gimmick that only the Garen Buckle has that BLAYBACKLE doesn't have.
A gimmick that recreates "Kiryu's failed transformation scene"!!
If you don't include this, it's no good!
When you "turn up" after performing the special button operation, the "Orichalcum element ejection sound" will continue for a long period of time and the projection from the projector will continue indefinitely.
So when you press the dialogue button, the sound of something hitting the Orichalcum element and bouncing back will be played.
Of course, if you set the "BOARD siren sound" in the BGM standby function, the siren will start sounding the moment the ball is bounced off, just like in the movie, so it's perfectly recreated!!

And, although I don't recommend this at all, you can actually recreate this scene by projecting the Orichalcum element onto a wall, then running into the wall and pressing the dialogue button!! Because you can't actually transform!!!
It's sad, but it's a perfect recreation of the scene!!
But we don't want you to get hurt so we don't recommend it!!!


In addition to that, there are various other gimmicks that are unique to the Garen Buckle.

I will explain this in the next blog,
Just to mention the keywords,
・Image of XX
・Mask
- Dynamic visual acuity. This is one of the basic trainings for becoming a Garren.
・BGM variations
・Missing Ace

There are plenty of exciting features to look forward to, so please stay tuned for more information.


Next up is "Garren Rouser"!!!



This is a high quality product that reproduces the prop's shape as closely as possible!
Fully painted, fully painted!
The Diamante Edge is also different from the one that came with the CSM Blayrouzer, and is a new design made specifically for the Garren Rouzer based on the prop.

This is the biggest evolution point.
In the DX version, you could only scan ♦ suits, but this time it has evolved to be able to scan all rouze cards!
In other words, it can also scan the cards that came with the already released "CSM BLAYBACKLE", and each card has its own individual voice!
Conversely, you can also load the included cards into the "CSM Bray Rouser"!

The Rouse cards include 13 Diamond♦ cards, 13 Diamond♦ proper blanks, and 5 common blanks.
The intention behind this is that when you put J, Q, and K into "Rouze Absorber," you will need three cards to put into the J, Q, and K trays of "Garren Rouser," so we are including duplicates of the same pattern.
Since the sealed J, Q, and K exist, it would be strange to insert the proper blank J, Q, and K.
This was not noticed during the development of Blade, so only one was included. Sorry about that.
To make up for that, we have included two extra sheets out of the five that can be used for Blade. Thank you for your support.


I will explain the depth of Garren Rauzer's voice specifications in detail in the next blog post,

Here too, just to mention the keywords,
・VS Isaka (Sayoko)
・"Not the Isaka Fight" Birding Burning Divide
・Reenactment of the fight against Kiryu
・Jack Form attack variations
・What is the true purpose of Round ZERO?

There will be plenty of exciting things to look forward to, such as the above.



Finally, we have also created a promotional video featuring Amano-san!
It's definitely in category 8 (meaning interesting), so please check it out!

I asked for a free talk for the product description, but the talk was too category 8, and the video ended up being 9 and a half minutes long, far exceeding the usual ideal length of 3 to 4 minutes. But I won't apologize (to the company).

Garren has been much talked about recently, but as for the original scenes that were parodied in this PV, I don't see them as material to be ridiculed in a negative way, but rather as scenes that are the reason why Tachibana is loved even more.
We created the product with the aim of making it cool and promoting it fun.
I hope you enjoy it.

By the way, the set of product samples used in the PV are the same samples that were exhibited in "THE HENSHIN" due to the recording period, so the colors are slightly different.
The nylon on the back of the belt is also black, but the final color will likely be somewhere between gray and cream, similar to the color of the belt.
note that.

That's all for today's blog.
We look forward to your reservation!

The next update will be on Monday, March 9th.

See you next time.