Did Sougo confuse Decade's Hibiki form for an Another Rider? Lol

Pretty damn good episode from what I could understand. I'm interested in Tsukasa's motives but I'm fearful that anything he has to say is going to be inconsequential to the overall plot. I feel like he's more than likely only here to give Sougo the Decade ride watch and some encouraging words like all of our other returning riders.

I'm always hopeful when all the first quarter toys are released. Fingers crossed we can start diving into our A plot. Sougo learning to not be Hitler is going to start getting old.

I love that red panda boy still ended up as a monk and continues to investigate paranormal activity and help people in need even without becoming Ghost.

I did not fully understand what he said, but if he did it would not be weird. He could literally just have meant " wait he turned into another rider !? ", but I am unsure. I can only understand some of the raw overall and I do not have the skills required to fully get it.

Q from last week like 3 days after Gaim in the future Sougo still separate? Woz alliance with time jackers because of his info about Geiz? History is after and Geiz is ohma? Next week will be another ghost, decade ghost, ghost himself, zio ghost, and Geiz ghost, so any line drop about the ghost ride watch? A lot if things happening and makoto probably be in 2015, so stock footage? Oh, there's captain ghost N maybe some chance for Time Majin Ghost.

Haven't seen the ep yet to say for sure.

But on basics, I'd assume it has to do with they are both "amnesia riders", and how Agito was created from a seed from the lord of light, and all that backstory associated.

Which seems to line up to the "overlords" theme in general of Zi-O. So it makes sense Tsukasa would lean on that form the most for now.

Can I just say Geiz has no character aside from "I'll kill him"

Yeah but I like his henshin moves more than Sougo's. Maybe it's because I like how pissed off he looks while doing it and how violent his motion is compared to Sougo's henshin which is more graceful.

It's less practical since it's not like sentai henshin, which is slow down for us to see as audience. I kind of like another riders in the way like wizard possess all 4 forms powers, Gaim can use overlord powers, and a few more that just do more things without the gimmick getting in the way. I remember it was cool that decade can transform in to past riders despite retconing all the original actors and have a bad finale. He literally needs to pick the right card to henshin, summon weapon or form, and attack.

Decade did not retcon the original actors away etc, the worlds he visits are not the same as the original so they had free reign on the actors and settings used instead.

We had multiple versions of some riders in Decade that proves this.

His character is still progressing.

Negative growth is still growth. We're nearing the resolution of that though, but that's the inner nature of his character growth. Going from stopping Oma, to more emphatically fighting his changing feelings so going even more over board, to eventual resolution and acceptance of how he was wrong. People don't suddenly change their ways when they've had one single truth to cling to and pushes them forward for so long. He's hard headed like that, and gets more conflicted from his pride and ego. Eventually we should see the turnover in that, and the conflicted nature more manifest, to his eventual personality resolution and how his goals change.

Think more like Zuko in The Last Airbender. But a little bit of the inverse of Zuko as from the rebellion standpoint. That full character breakdown to transition out of that nature is his character build. He's hard headed and tunnel visioned, unlike tsukuyomi that's seeing there are other ways to change the future.

Geiz hasn't been open to change yet, but we see it in little things how he's been shown his actions are going too far and not seeing the wider factors. It's still growth though, but in a more human standpoint of how that'd go. So what we're seeing is the build towards that. That full character turnover is coming, but it's gotta build to it for impact on why and what comes out of it. Changing is a process forward when you're that arrogant/hard headed.

Zuko is the best comparative example, but things aren't as "Light and Dark" as they seem. Geiz is an early focus in this way for that reason in where he's going. But iirc, should be this arc or the next arc that brings him either closer to resolution on that, or fully resolves it. By next year we should be dealing with different story themes of his trying to understand himself better after having fought for so long to stop Oma. Though backsliding to his older ways will always be a shadow too.

Haven't seen the episode yet, but this should be the direct counter to the build the Gaim two parter showed. His restored confidence taking shape to lash out at Sougo/Zi-O one more time to change the future that way. That even more dead set on his mission with his renewed confidence in his skills, before later how we transition to his skills being used to help forge the future like Tsukuyomi is looking to do now.
Next episodes should really more bring that to fruition, and then resolution. This is moderately psych 101 text book personality stuff. Which is showing how this is a process for growth and change, and to be aware of it in others. Like I've said before, Zi-O the show isn't like other shows where it's a lot of flagrant arm waving around saying "I've changed". Life isn't always as clean and clear as that. Ego gets in the way and ego takes shape in more ways than flagrancy and flamboyance from overacting to forcefully convey eye catching strong personalities and dominance with strength.

You're confusing personality for "flamboyance" and intentional overacting. Geiz's personality isn't as flagrant as that. That's not his character type. Though it works for some things like Kuroto and others, that kind of "overacting" wouldn't work for Geiz's personal journey arc. He's not 'flashy' like that. He's a soldier. He's inner strong with ego. So it's more internalized subdued.

Decade is one of those series that have an amazing opening, but the series doesn't reflect the tone of the theme song. The plot was thin and they were cheap in hiring actors to return since aside from deno vs kiva as well as ryuki vs agito special, there wasn't any returning riders ever, so they just recast them aside from OrIginal kiva, which preceded decade. The dumb thing is that deno is the original deno because voice actors are closely tie in with Toei animated aeries, so theyre always free. The same for most of the hibiki cast as well and blade movie riders. Then they ran out heisei stories and decide to tie in Showa riders and villains and make Tsukasa the elected "leader" of a united villain organization. The remaining episodes doesn't even make sense continuing from what the movie left off such as his sister. It started the trend of recasting iconic villain leader from the Showa era as some big bad remnant of every taisen movie. Narutaki went from being a possible another decade to a lame Showa villain. Anyway, enough ranting, Jinga is where Inoue shines and his real signature work. However, I do enjoy the action more in decade than zio given the cgi and vfx didn't improve a whole lot tv wise. Also, heard Hibiki actors are doing something together, so maybe they can be reunited again in ZiO. I believe if ohma zio is kill off early, then in the present every riders will regain their memories, so we can see legendary riders again in the later quarters.