Release Date: September 2018 RRP: 7020 yen Ever since Kamen Rider Kabuto was released back in 2014, the S.H. Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou line has been providing collectors the best of the best when it comes to Kamen Rider Figuarts. However for the most part the line has been extremely Heisei era-centric, with it only expanding into the Showa era last year with the release of Kamen Rider 1 . But this year has seen a fair few expansions in the line, not only branching outside of Kamen Rider with Golden Knight Garo but also continuing to delve into the Showa era with both Rider 2 and S.H. Figuarts Shinkocchou Seihou Kamen Rider Amazon ! A character not only being beloved for being rather unique among his fellow Riders, Kamen Rider Amazon is still particularly relevant even now thanks to the recent Kamen Rider Amazons series. That makes him the perfect choice for the premium Bandai Tamashii Nations   treatment.

We're rewinding back to 1974 for this review as we look at the fourth entry in the Kamen Rider franchise - Kamen Rider Amazon ! Amazon is notable for being the shortest Kamen Rider series to date, airing for only 24 episodes (and technically a movie, but that's simply a cinematic version of episode 16). Several years before the start of the series, a plane crashes in the Amazon rainforest, leaving the young Daisuke Yamamoto without his parents. Adopted by an Incan tribe, the boy is raised in the jungle. However the Ten-faced demon Gorgos, leader of the evil Geddon, arises, massacring his village in search of the mystical Gigi Armlet, said to grant its wielder mystical powers. Operated on by the tribe leader before his death and given the Armlet, the boy (known to most as 'Amazon') is told to travel to Japan to keep the Armlet away from Geddon's clutches. Arriving in Japan, Amazon befriends a young boy before being attacked by one of Geddon's beastmen....