Psychic Revelations with Tezuka Miyuki!

As often as it may seem otherwise, I am always working on something IKRP-related every day, even if I don't get much free time to actually get much done. It's actually finishing any of it that's the hardest part, and then making it look nice as well. For example, the Shin, ZO & J pages have been in progress for most of last month, and will just finally be good to go in a few days. As slow as it goes at times, it always feels good to finally get new some new stuff out, and considering what sort of things I have in the pipe right now, I thought it would be a cool idea to do a sort of "preview-type thingy" to build anticipation, or at the very least, give people some reassurance that some of the old pages and things that were once a staple of the site didn't die, they just took a coffee break. You know, like Kaijin Of The Month. What ever happened to that? Well, you're about to find out, thanks to the resident Kamen Rider psychic expert, fan-favorite Ryuki character, and guest Igadevil's Kamen Rider Blog columnist, Tezuka Miyuki, aka Kamen Rider Raia!

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What indeed happened to it, dear readers? Or how about pages on Gelshocker & Destron, or the early Shocker Kaijin that Rider 2 fought, or that page on all the evil & imitation Riders from like, 2001 or so? Not to mention-

Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Kaijin Of the Month was one of the most popular parts of IKRP as far back as anyone can remember (which isn't that far, but you know what I mean) despite the fact that it never really lasted very long. There was something like, 4 or 5 of them that spotlighted one Kaijin, then a couple that covered every Kaijin of a particular type (i.e., Spiders, Buffalo, Chameleons, um...Plants were in there too I think.) And then- poof! It vanished like, a couple years ago. Lasted about as long as I did on Ryuki, in fact! Except KOTM never predicted Ren was gonna die and all that stuff, but I digress.

Now sure, you'll be seeing nearly every Rider Kaijin ever get a spot on the site eventually- being a psychic and all, I can already see well into next year, when you'll finally be able to read about that "Kamen Rider TheBee" and such. But what about bigger, more in-depth profiles?

Well my friends, you'll see them too:

The all-new Kaijin Of The Month, starting in January 2007, will be a sort of combination of the past versions, focusing primarily on one Kaijin (first up, Kamen Rider's Shiomaneking) but also giving a little look at related Rider villains, a sort of "Recommended Viewing" list if you will. It serves as a great way to draw parallels throughout the many Rider monsters, and give a little more attention to the bad guys. And maybe even the not-so-bad-guys, because I'm personally vouching for Evildiver to be included. Although ya know, it never really made much sense why I, Kamen Rider Raia, one of the few good Riders on the show, had the monster named "Evildiver". Or why I was pink, despite being one of the more manly ones. I mean, I had a chopper! Compare that to Asakura, who had to be driven around by other people all the time like the punk that he was. But I'm getting off track again here.

So, barring any unforseen accidents (as the mists of the future, like Shinji, are sometimes pretty dense) you can expect the new KOTM to ring in the new year...or maybe even come a few days earlier...)

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Thanks Ichimo-er, I mean, Tezuka-san. So there you go folks. And as an added bonus, I'll even be taking KOTM requests in the future. Anyone from the original Kumo-Otoko up to whoever's stomping around Tokyo this week will be game, but ideally selections should be monsters as opposed to human villains like Doctor Shinigami or Marshal Armor (although their mutant counterparts will be fair game.) The blog will be seeing more psychic previews in the future (irony!), and maybe even a couple other "Guest" columns. Peace out.