Scattered thoughts of mine:

There's a humagear who is a cat-earred maid? They really have one for all fields, huh.

That shot of Vulcan clashing from Zero-Two from above him before breaking off his claw and throwing that punch looked so good. I'm sure Vulcan is just lying on an elevated table or something, but the effect is wonderful.

I'd say the HIDEN Intelligence side-trio are pretty alright. They ultimately amounted to only slightly more than Sougo's uncle from the previous year did, but it's nice to see them believe in Aruto.

Booooo, I wanted Horobi to remain relevant yet last the whole show without getting a new form (also Ark Scorpion is hideous but that's neither here nor there).

That last shot of the two clashing while surrounded by weapons is overwhelmingly corny but it's exactly the kind of thing I like about tokusatsu.

And one last thought concerning the preview: It looks like we're getting that classic case of the base form being the one to carry the final conflict. I'm normally all for that, but I feel like this time it really ought to still be Zero-Two, considering what that form represents in the show. Ah well, I'm sure it'll still work fine as a reminder of where Aruto started since he gets it from his father (kinda sorta i bet it will make as much sense as shotaro getting the lost driver from skull).

I'll go into the actual episode once subs hit, so for the new suits - I like Orthoros Vulcan. I didn’t expect it to get new sounds either which is neat, and the claws are cool. Plus – they gave it a wolf head on the mask like Naki has, that's awesome!

https://i.imgur.com/kNevOw8.jpg

Ark-Scorpion… huh. Colors are fantastic - I like the black with purple and red accents. The helmet is really cool with the broken eye piece too.

Good stuff for suits pulled out at the very end. I wonder who the Rider from the preview is? I have a bad feeling "the" Ark will be back and in the end it's still going to end with one single thing they can blame for all the bad things that have happened in the last few episodes.

Also, having Zero-One back… I’m so conflicted on this. It is a really good base suit so I don’t mind seeing it back, but goddammit I wanted Zero-One to be over when the show said it wouldn’t come back. Same with Zero-Two really – yes it deserves more screen time but I didn’t want any other suit on Aruto for the rest of the show other than Ark-One.

It's better if we get this arc epsiode 42-45 as in the mid 30s and the previous metsubo resurrecting ark arc as the late 20s to early 30s. More development for gai, mets 4 members, ark, new zaia CEO, and spread out pace out the forms more.

We are getting two new forms today and another villain one next week maybe two if aruto gets another upgrade. From ryugen, chasermach, build crossz/great crossz/grease blizzard, tsukiyomi, and maybe g snipe as one shot chronos. Which rider got the best last minute form addition treatment? Who is better?
The mass produce ark key is like chronos gashat. I wonder if they always planned arc1 to be aruto and not ark upgrade or they wanted to sell more units. I mean horobi got his own 02 swappable face plate with a new ark key. I'm guessing if fuwa uses the key then he'll get a fusion between ark malice eye and his base wolf suit.

If aruto back up everyone then does one key holds everyone from that profession like male/female teachers are in the teacher key. The bodyguard security like secretary Chester/siseta clearly have more than one variety versions. The same for actor actress. Also, remember the gag how mr assassin the dancer became shisesta, so weird.

I'm not a fan if jin or izu returns. I prefer chase, baron, ankh, koyomi, etc that stayed dead. no backup points. I'm guessing the finale is horobi found is heart, but die i peace like heart roidmude and accepts it since he can't survive in modern society after the crimes he committed. He wouldn't be happy as a prek teacher.

Can we now say that the new rider at the preview is Type-2?

PS. If you saw the original post where I was talking about the belt on Zero-One, that was a brainfart.

Whoever owns those airship monitors must be really sick of them getting hacked every two days

I really hope they do a set of "lost episodes" where they just take what they had planned before COVID screwed everything up and shoot it as a miniseries

sees the Reddit sumamry oh crap we're gonna get a half-assed Izu revival aren't we

I mean - we could get a good Izu revival too but... yeah I kinda wish it wouldn't happen.