Buster is cool - the rest really doesn't look all that interesting to me sadly.

Oh silly me! My desire to see mecha in Kamen Rider was overriding my sensibilities!

I guess this works too yeah ^^. Im less familiar with Sentai so Gaisorg didn't come to mind and what struck me the most about Caliber/Ouja is the visor. It's like it could legit be a "survive" ouja (the snake evolving to dragon etc).

I also wonder where Espada and Kenzan are. I guess they won't necessarily appear in the revealed order if Buster is here. But Buster being older maybe means he is a mentor to every other member of SoL so they make the daddy of the group be here first.

I'm glad the vilain trio appear in monster form quite early too. Like someone said it was one of the main problem about Time Jackers in Zi-O. They give me Roidmude trio vibes kinda.

Apparently they're considered sacred in China (specifically the Northeastern region). Where its one of the Five Great Immortals in northern chinese folklore:
狐仙/胡仙 Húxiān — Fox Immortal
黃仙 Huángxiān — Yellow Immortal, the Weasel God
蛇仙 Shéxiān — Snake Immortal
白仙 Báixiān — White Immortal, the Hedgehog God
黑仙 Hēixiān — Black Immortal, who may be the 烏鴉仙 Wūyāxiān — Crow Immortal

It could also be related to the Chagrin, which is a type of demon in SMT:
Or it could be something else entirely, but those are the best explanations I can find right now.

Thanks for the explanation! Those Chagrins sound kind of ominous.

I'm REALLY liking how simple some of the form changes seem to be. They're literally just sleeve changes. The shoulder pads and gloves don't even change. That probably means we'll see everyone use quite a bit of RideBooks. It'll be a very easy gimmick for So-Do to replicate(not that they ever had issues before) and other action figure lines, hopefully.

TBF in Ex-Aid's case he wrote the whole thing he didn't write the entirety of Zero-One and then there was the pandemic and TOEI not giving them enough time to properly flesh/resolve everything

Forgive me if I missed it but did these scans still not show what Kenzan uses to Henshin? Because I would've guessed it'd be his own sword since he has a similar buckle to Buster.

Suit designs for this season are looking pretty great! Still not a fan of Saber's asymmetrical eyes, but beyond that the magic knoghts look is pretty cool! I especially love how Calibur looks like a mix of Ouja and Ryuga!

Even before the pandemic, I felt the show was pretty weak compared to Ex-Aid, mostly plagued by inconsistent story and characters and things happening just because. I felt that first arc was when I enjoyed the show the most, and then it went downhill from there.