So now I guess we've got Reiwa Rogue and Blood Stalk!:lolol

I actually saw Jeanne's design yesterday, but getting a better look at it, it looks amazing! I do like the cobra motif here, which I can recognize more so than Evil and Live, and get a bit of Evol from the design (funny considering they're both cobras).

Also, a little theory that's been nagging at me with the disappearing people in the photos. Since no one in the Igarashi family has taken notice of it, it's clear that only Vice can tell something's up, probably foreshadowing the inevitable takeover hinted in the opening (the scene Ikki and Vice are standing in two different backdrops before switching)? Perhaps Vice is "granting" Ikki's wish by "saving" his siblings so he can take over, since we're all bracing ourselves for this.

I'm pretty sure someone cam up with this before me, so I'm not going to take full credit for this, but what the heck? Also thinking that if Hiromi gets offed (which I kind of hope not), will Demons end up getting the Kurokage treatment from Gaim and become FENIX's new foot soldiers. I don't know, they could go anywhere after the new year.

Demon's suit is way too cool to end up as a grunt suit

Highly doubt Demons gets the Kurokage treatment. It doesn't look like a grunt suit and/or would be expensive to have multiples of it.

If Hiromi isn't lasting the first quarter, someone else is taking that belt. I already see Demons as the Calibur of the season, having multiple users.

Either Demons is getting mass produced, or we're just going to have it play hot potato between grunt or important characters.

I feel like the latter would help solidify the whole plural nature of 'Demons'. and also given the whole Planerian Stamp that was introduced I do feel like some kind of mass produced system is coming. Whether that be mass producing Demons or just simply making the Demons Driver mass produced due to it's more... out of place nature among all three belts.

I only say this since it seems that, despite not debuting this week, Sakura seems to be getting priority in merch over Hiromi. So it ain't looking good for him in particular.

Do you mean the keychains? I chalked that up to Hiromi being last minute that they had no time to make him a keychain or plushie. But still, very worrying for him, which sucks that I feel this way since he's so far my favorite character so far aside from Ikki himself, despite him having yet to do something of note.

You might be on to something there. I think it's possible that Ikki was never in those photos at all and what we see from Vice's perspective is just how Ikki attributes his siblings' successes to his help and how that's fading away the more he realizes they don't need his help and can stand on their own. We also see how Vice becomes more mature and helpful, like maybe he's starting to supplant Ikki as a result.

I see Demons more as a potential Kamen Rider Woz. If Hiromi gets killed, he'll be the White Woz and "someone else" as the Black Woz will replace him. Maybe George needs to sacrifice a willing test pilot to the Demons Driver for experimental reasons and decided Hiromi's heroic self-sacrificing nature made him the perfect expendable person.

I do agree that Demons doesn't deserve the Goon Treatment. But I do think the belt may be mass produced and FENIX might make some new Grunt Rider, like Mage or the Shocker Riders, or that Demons will be taken over by someone else, and/or modified like how Storius preceded Solomon.

I do like Hiromi and Demons so I do have hope that they won't do any of them too dirty.

I'm not certain it'd have anything to do with Demons (especially if they're thinking of selling it on Preban, that thing has got so many complex expensive functions built in), but I'll be pretty surprised if the FENIX troops don't get some kind of Riotrooper/Kurokage/Abaddon thing later on. It feels inevitable somehow

I thought the same of the Sword Of Logos soldiers, but here we are :lol

True! Though like... those guys just, didn't exist? I was pretty surprised after seeing them in scans but then it was like, maybe one or two of them cameo'd before they got put on ice. I assume it was a covid thing though; and so far the FENIX troops have been an active presence even if they're (understandably) in the background