Ooooh now THAT interests me! Granted it's not been that long since Build did just that but I'd love to see Rider go back to its roots.

Cool, but wouldn't a series like this have been better to start off a the Reiwa era?

50th anniversary. This would always have been the issue is the thing; and in retrospect I'm glad that beyond the main rider's design 01 went for something wildly different

If this leaks are true, then this would be THE homage to Rider-1. Considering the name is Shin Ichigo or somewhere near that.

Zero-One was a gateway to new era, his design was bug-themed but he was largely different and didn't make any Rider 1 or 2 references till Ichigata and Zero-Two. He was supposed to scream 'new', I guess.

This Synchro/Shin Ichigo will be that homage, what with the 50th anniversary. I still doubt that that screenshot is related to it, but the Shocker combatrooper is something alright.

On another topic, why is Jakkun the only WRB that changes the forehead sword?

Probably was one of the early drafts for Saber's form change and they decided to throw away the additives for the head blade to save on costs. Tho, to be fair, Elemental Dragon recolors the head blade as well.

If they did stick with it, I wonder how the various books would change it,

If this turns out to be true, then I guess this is the Reiwa equivalent of Skyrider, which is funny considering his show was recently added to Toei Tokusatsu World.

Either way, sounds interesting. There looks to be a Shocker Combatman with the Rider in question, who looks kind of like Zeronos from the image (Kinda wish he had a different color scheme if it is him). The plot sounds kind of like the premise of Kikai's world in Zi-O, which I find neat, but I'm loving how it sounds like a return to formula.

Anyone remembers the Image of all Seiken?
There were 3 Seiken whose appearance we did not know yet. One of them is Sabera's sword, the other is Falchion's. Now for the remaining sword: it looks really similar to the sword of Legeiel, and he is the only Megid to actually use a sword. So maybe he stole a Seiken and transformed it?

While I'd prefer an Ichigo reference to be green or blue like the original instead of the overused red, that all sounds very exciting!