Now add a sling bag to ol' Reptile and we're good to go :lolol

I understood that reference

I know…

It's possible Zeztz is gonna go Digimon Frontier?

Okay, so a lot of Zeztz news that the leaker just dropped:

Main color scheme is actually green, red, and black, in homage to Ichigo.

One big change: Apparently internally Zeztz was referred to as a "Metal Rider" but the overall look has a very biological appearance.


Main plot seems to be set in a dream? It's unclear if dreams are part of the setting or perhaps the story itself takes place in a dream. (Leaker mentioned Paprika and Inception as examples)

Form changes are "simple" and the look of Zeztz is really simple, with muscular detailing instead of armor. Zeztz legs look Grasshopper-like and his boots look like sneakers. Mentioned that Zeztz has a very "Sports" oriented look (not that sports is a part of the theme). The face looks a little like Kamen Rider Century.

The Belt (really just the shoulder strap) makes Zeztz look like he has an Ultraman color timer. It may have pure English phrases like Zero-One

The Rider Machine can turn into a robot like AutoVajin and has the Cyclone's colors.


Now for the kicker: The leaker dropped hints that the writer might be Yuya Takeshi (and the producer is possibly Yousuke Minato)

That's all for now. Still nothing on the gimmick or theme for Zeztz.

I really hope Takeshi isn't the writer. While I have enjoyed some aspects of his stories, he has been writing Toku for about five years non-stop (he wrote the Presidents special, Zero-One V-Cinema's, and has been the main writer for Outsiders).

Would be nice to either see a new writer or someone who we haven't had write a Toku show for a while, but I guess we will have to wait and see.

Not sure how I feel about the changes. I was really on-board for a Cyber-Tiger Rider that got leaked at first, yet another Grasshopper rider with a minimal silhouette/simple form changes doesn't sound even remotely as interesting imo.

EDIT: The leaker also has stated that helmet design looks like a fusion of Revice and Century's helmets. Almost like the Vision Driver Riders. Not sure if this is actually provided by the leaker, but the below is a supposed sketch of the head design:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GtlZFYSWIAAe2pt.png

It sounds very "back to basics", but I don't think it's necessarily bad or boring. W followed the same approach with a redesigned Showa style design, and the result was one of the best shows in the franchise. So we'll see what happens with Zeztz.
P.S. I was ready for an insect, but I didn't want a grasshopper either. As a last resort, they could have used a praying mantis or a cricket.

This new season better have a new female rider!!!!

It's by no means, bad, but just a little tiring after Gotchard was very "back-to-basics" being primarily grasshopper theme for the base form, and Legend obviously caused the show to steer towards an anniversary theme a fair bit, which was only a bit frustrating due to the fact that Revice was entirely anniversary themed, which only felt a bit strange as Zero-One was very "back-to-basics" and so on.

I might be nitpicky, but I genuinely miss the wildly varying themes over years for hesei. Especially Wizard->Gaim->Drive->Ghost->Ex-Aid->Build were all so starkly different that getting three Grasshopper Riders in the same timespan just feels a little overcrowded in the "return-to-form" department.

I actually wouldn't mind too much if the theme was something like, Film Genre's with a brand new writer, but it's looking like we are getting a combo of Takeshi and the director from KingOhger, so it's not looking like we are going to get any exciting new ideas any time soon.

Granted, I could be eating my words in the future, and I genuinely hope to be proven wrong. Gavv was a lot more exciting as a concept and even the execution, so we will have to see what Zeztz has in store.

The fact that the Reiwa era was so close to the 50th anniversary of Kamen Rider, whose celebration was also delayed by 3 years due to Covid, simply played a role here. Plus, I have a theory that Gotchard with Legend and the theme of the three was a 50th anniversary concept rejected in favor of Revice. In any case, I'm sure that the strange riders will return. It just looks like someone in Toei really wants to increase the percentage of grasshoppers among the main riders.