Thursday 27 June 2013

Kamen Rider Kuuga Novel Spoilers: New Kuuga Revealed


Some people already have a copy of the Kamen Rider Kuuga novel and below are some spoilers about it. The novel is written by Naruhisa Arakawa and was released today, June 28th.

Spoiler alert! Read at your own risk!

Taking place 13 years after the end of the series, the novel is about Ichijou and the police force investigating a mysterious white warrior and the return of the Grongi tribe. Godai is also in the movie and fight as Kuuga for one page. He did a lot more stuff out of suit.

Mika Natsume as seen in the TV series

The novel features the return of Ra-Baruba-De aka Rose-Tattooed Woman and with her are three new Grongis. Fighting them is a the white warrior, a prototype Kuuga. The man behind the mask is Mika Natsume, Jean's former assistant.

Mika uses a prototype Arcle to transform into this new Kuuga. The difference of this belt to the Arcle is that it lack the Amadam, the gem found in the center of the Arcle. Because of this, it is easier for its wearer to go berserk and the previous wearer went crazy and the belt was sealed inside the Coffin of Darkness.

The original Kuuga with the Arcle. Imagine it without the stone in the middle for the image of the prototype Arcle.

Mika's father was of the scientists who discovered the prototype Arcle and has notes about it in his research. Mika finds this 10 years after the end of the show. After sighting a few Grongi, she goes to the ruins and unearth the prototype Arcle and transform into a white Kuuga with red eyes.

She fights an unnamed Grongi in her white form, but it's killed by a different Grongi before she can finish it off. She later fights a Jellyfish Grongi and defeats it with a Rider Kick and is shocked with the explosion she caused. She later fights a Go lion and goes from white to black out of rage.

Kamen Rider Kuuga Growing Form aka a white Kuuga.

The form's eyes flashes between red and black, then completely black when she loses control to it. To put it simply, she is basically Kuuga in appearance with a few minor differences such as she has smaller horns. She uses steel frames and changes them into cannons, she shoots a huge beam out of Tokyo Tower. Godai shows up and stops her. The novel ends with the belt still in her.

Aside from the new Kuuga, there is also the new Beat Chaser 3000, which Godai sticks the Gouram on it while fighting Mika. The police also developed new weapons to fight the Grongi and with it, Ichijou kills one of them. Lastly, the Rose-Tattooed Woman escapes at the end of the novel.

Source: DecaEnd of HJU (link 2)