When do you all think it's a good bet Rintaro gets his final form? What episode? 30? 31?

I’d say 32, since that’s the same day the book comes out.

Considering how Rampage Vulcan debuted in 29, you might be right about that.

Judging by the scans... I'mma say

29 is Rintaro's utter defeat
30 is our new Megid who is likely to be Mei and likely when Rintaro and Touma hash things out.
31 would then be our new toy for Rintaro.

Or they stretch the new Megid into two episodes for drama and it ends up being 32. But yeah 31 or 32 feel like the right numbers to bet on.

Does anyone else think that the new Megid is our lovely editor Mei?

Though, looking at the Wonder Ride Book in it's Transformation Page State
https://toy.bandai.co.jp/assets/ride...t08/img_03.png
You can see a hedgehog in the yellow panel and an Eagle in the Red One. This references Needle Hedgehog and Storm Eagle respectively. And the Lion (Lion Senki) is in the Middle. So maybe the remaining animals on those panels are the Animal Wonder Ride Books which we need for Gekido, Hayate, Suzune, and Kurayami. The Animals are, err, I can definitely see a bat in the red panel and an elephant in the yellow panel. So the pattern is that in the Blue Panel, you see the Water Creatures from Ocean Story. In the Red Panel, you can see the Air Creatures, and in the Yellow Panel, you can see the Ground Creatures. I wonder whether or not the final Animal Wonder Ride Books would be shown on the red and yellow panels.

You can see a wasp in the red one for Sabela and sea creatures in the blue one for Durandal.

The red panel includes a bee, which would represent Sabela

Based on the cover, the third animal on the yellow part is some kind of non-lion big cat. I also don't think that all of the sea creatures on the blue part are from Durendal's book. The blue side shows a whale, squid, and hammerhead shark (which can also be seen on the cover). The animals on Ocean History are a stingray, a dolphin, a nautilus, a sea turtle, some angel fish, a sea horse, a whale, and a sunfish (I think that's what it's called?) The only animal that matches is the whale. Also, Sabela's book has multiple insects, but only one shows up on the red part, which leads me to believe that the squid and hammerhead could maybe be for separate books.

Here's pictures of the book for reference:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Ben778788...722946/photo/2

Which makes the 'missing' animal books...

- Hammerhead Shark
- Squid

- Bat

- Elephant
- Big Cat