A meaty pile of rumors have surfaced, let's take a look, shall we?
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My raw thoughts:
- This is an amalgamation of a *lot* of a previous rumors that we've heard (they've even brought the Faiz connection back around!), so I'm not entirely convinced of its validity?

-A flower/plant/biotech theme would be lovely, give it to me.

-7 Riders.....that's.....a lot of Riders.....Even Saber only revealed 6 Riders at the start.. If they were spread out throughout the show, sure, but them being all here implies that they'll all debut within Q1, right? I........don't know how to feel about that.

-The thing that makes this immediately suspicious to me is how everyone has some kind of animal motif other than the secondary Rider?

Everything else, it's either too vague for me to parse a meaning out of it or i would be fine with it. What do you all think?

I like the "555" rumor. :lol

Maybe "Akira" could be referring to the manga, as an inspiration for the biotech motif. Like they might be experimenting with the concept of a remodified human, to bring it back in a new way that works for the Reiwa Era.

The second - the ninja looks like an obvious fake. I rather believe that the first one will be a fox and a ninja. The only way this is possible is if Toei decided to give a gift to Shinobi fans and write it into someone else's story. And so, as for me, this list of riders is the same as with Beowulf, only with the removed weapons and heroes.

There must be something stable in these rumors...

I do wonder if the tertiary Rider being female will become a Reiwa trend (other than Espada).

I was kind of hoping this show would take the Revice approach and go for a slower rollout of Riders.

I think they are more inclined to develop and show at least a secondary female Rider. Plus, I'm guessing Reiwa will last at least 30 years and there won't be any hiatus like Showa does, so I'd like to see more flexibility from the show.

After Saber, it was obvious, but given that Revice ended up with two Riders per episode because of this, it's probably best to save this until the show reprioritizes.

From what I understand, the idiom is about like, pretending to know more than what you really know or taking things at face value? Seems something someone would put in a fake leak to make fun of people who can't read Japanese or understand Japanese idioms.

I find it kind of odd that the rumor opens with things like Bio Technology and "Flowers", and then immediately swerves into "555", "Vehicles", and then lists a bunch of animal themed riders.

As for the idea itself, I'd be interested to see a dedicated bio-theme rider series again.

Revice is sorta bio-tech themed with all his forms being called Genomes and the ViStamps "containing the genetic information of the animal they're based off", although half the time you'd barely notice it with all the demon stuff going on. And the Demons undersuit proves Toei can make muscled/organic looking stuff work on a protagonist rider design, they just need to apply it to the main rider.

To be fair, the rumor tried to save itself by say only 3 show up right off the bat, but even if we did assume the others are spread out as antagonists and other factions, that's still a lot.

I really shouldn't but I can't help but giggle whenever I see these rumors trying desperately to tie Shinobi into Geats somehow but can't up any sort of connection, while I came up with a loose one immediately;

"Geats is supposedly has Wolf and Axe motifs? Well Shinobi has a Shuriken on his face, and transformation involves a giant Frog robot, I dunno maybe Shinobi could the secondary after all."

Meanwhile "Leaks"/Rumors we've gotten:

"The Geats is based on a Wolf and an Axe and uh... the 2nd Rider is uh... a Ninja! and that uh... that's it, just a ninja."

Wait a second, anyone else feel like they're......forgetting something? Something really important. I swear it's on the tip of my tongue-

Oh......That. Um, it seems like the seemingly only maybe-real info we had outside of the actual logo......might also be fake? Two recent reasons come to mind:

1) The original leak stated that the DX Vail Driver will be purchase in July and ship out in December. The purchase window for the Vail Driver is in July, but ships out in January.

One could argue about schedule shifting all day for that first point, but the second is far more damning:

2) The original leak claimed that the "dark hero" item is a gun.......Well, Don Murasame literally debuted yesterday, and info about his toys dropped as well: the Ninjark Sword and his Alter. Neither of those are guns, obviously. There might be a chance that it's talking about a later item in his arsenal (they've teased that Murasame can also transform into past Sentai, but idk if the Ninjark Sword can read the gears, perhaps he needs a different weapon like Dragoku to do so) but I'm pretty doubtful. The leak was all talking about stuff that was coming fairly soon, after all.

Edit: Would love for anyone keeping up with Decker stuff to tell the thread if that info turned out true, just to see what's up.

>3 Riders to start
>7 Riders to start

Well which is it?

honestly not sure if they'd do another bio tech themed show so quickly (TBF REvice is like Blade/Gaim where it's simultaneously all 3 magic/scifi/bio and Gaim leaned into bio tech WAY LESS than Blade/Revice do)

Blade has the poker theme going and they generally speaking don't like the EXACLTY Copy paste motiffs (Saber being red and dragon themed and if not for the COVID Pandemic would've been battle royal styled pushes it as it is IMO)

Told you it was a foxes ear

Stage could be appropriate if the logo's meant to be graffiti, though in that case I'd be a tad disappointed there wasn't more style

So because of Covid, they made the Riders friends, thereby forcing them to spend more time together? In my opinion, on the contrary, by launching the royal battle, the writers could break them into small groups and thereby avoid restrictions. Plus, considering how many times Sentai has made dinosaurs, it's not like it's a good idea to criticize the Riders for returning to the knights theme after 20 years.

Scene? Anagrams? Toei decided to have fun and when the fans are waiting for Shinobi, give them a season of Quiz?

Are fans really waiting for Shinobi, though?

I'm so puzzled by any Shinobi "hype", ngl. I'm almost convinced the push for it is part people really liking the suits and/or the face actors, and half of it is pure memery? I mean, the special itself is a little less than average, and centers around the creepiest love triangle imaginable, can't really imagine anyone desiring a full-fledged continuation. (Or maybe the special being Like That is reason why certain fans want a re-do.....?)

In any case, even disregarding the fact that the Mirairiders' timeline were earsed during Zi-O's events, anyone excepting anything more than maybe re-running some merch and mayyyyyybe a cameo in a movie is just getting their hopes up.

Came across this potential "leak" on twitter, not really sure what to say about it, but at least it's not beowulf/wolf-axe themed lol

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They definitely love to talk about him.

I think another thing is that many fans really want a show about a ninja rider and the main one, not a tertiary or one of the forms. I would say that they don't want Shinobi, but shinobi. And they were teased and deprived of it twice already: when ZX instead of a season received not even a solo film and when Shinobi remained an alternative special.

It is very possible that the tint, but ready to believe. True, to be honest, these colors do not really clarify the topics.
But if he's actually going to be purple, the writers should introduce him to Zero-One.

Fake. It's fake. It's a snippet of the Chinese toku Armor Hero Lava.

People love ninjas! That's more than enough reason. Regarding the quality of Rider Time Shinobi, that's entirely subjective. As a fan of Kaneko Kaori's work in general, I personally loved it and thought it was very humorous while also filling in more of Rentarou's character and life as a ninja in a ninja society. So yeah, I actually wouldn't mind a continuation of that at all, not that I'm expecting much more than maybe a sequel miniseries though.

I see this misconception a lot. Sure, the whole premise of the two timelines arc was that only one could become canon. But on the new Day of Oma, it turned out to be neither of them. Or rather, both of them mixed together. Geiz Revive didn't kill Sougo, but Sougo didn't become Oma Zi-O either. The Nexus Future is one we know little about. The only reason stated for Shinobi's existence is simply that Oma Zi-O didn't murder everybody.

Looking at a picture of lava that's definitely the same shoulder lol

I should start watching Armor heroes again.

I've seen the fansub of the original before tbh, and it was alright though a bit awkward, if you're willing to just kind of take it at face value I think it's fun though.

I started the second show a while back but haven't finished it, it seems a lot better than the first show, much higher production quality in any case... though I wish it had a sub rather than a dub (though the dub is fun in it's own way)

I don't think anything after the second show is subbed or dubbed though, but I'm not super sure.

:thumb:

I think a couple of episodes a week would be good.

Nothing after XT is dubbed or subbed, to my knowledge.

Just about to say this. Lol!

https://twitter.com/ri7FajAFsyoKov7/...hives%2F245559

Another possible leak.

Looks just like the previously leaked suit, except the axe side was changed from orange to yellow.

That was confirmed fake a while back.

Has anyone else pointed out that the A in the Geats logo looks an awful lot like the A in the JAXA logo?

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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/ka...20220626151143

Yeah the jaxa logo similarity is why I've been assuming space themed lol

Also, looks like we have another supposed leak from twitter:
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From the back, his head looks like an alien/robot from a very old movie. It seems that the option with a space theme is still the most possible.

On TokuZilla I found also movie from 2014 with English subs. Well, there is also a lot for Indonesian fans: https://tokuzilla.net/armor-hero

Oh yeah! I actually watched this movie fairly recently it's probabaly the coolest armor hero content for the original show, I enjoyed it quite a bit

As for the new "leak", I'm a bit sceptical of leaks at this point with how many different fake ones we've had lol... So I'm not putting any strong personal investment into this one, but I do like that the shoulder pad on this one kiiiiiind of looks like the "A" in the geats logo, at least to me lol

I don't think anyone should trust a Twitter account with literally one follower and one tweet. :lol

Maybe someone from Toei's staff set up a temporary/additional channel on purpose to leak information and not get fired? But personally, I also treat this photo with disbelief.