They definitely appear to be, and i just don't understand how or why TOEI couldn't afford to get a photo or license a painting for those shots? Seems like a weird place to cheap out when they are launching such a radically new style of rider.

I noticed some AI in the noones world in Gozyuger as well and kin of laughed it off because i figured they are trying to evoke that its a digital landscape, so its not the absolute worst, but it did look really tacky.

I think we should try and stay vocal about these things, TOEI are aiming internationally now and they will be paying more attention to the fan forums and things. If they use too much AI content a lot of people are going to be yucked out really fast, and a lot of those people are the type who could/would buy merch. I'm not even wholly against AI, but it needs to look really good and ADD something, not take a paid day of labour away from their workforce AND make the show look worse.

Iiiinteresting. The English was fluent enough that for a moment I almost thought it was for an English dub! Seems to be very much a modernized take on Ichigo in terms of aesthetics, and I do think it looks cool but I kinda wish it had more of its own visual identity.
I'm definitely seeing the Spider-Verse similarities too but I can't tell if they're intentional or just coincidence.
The last few lines in the teaser seem to hint at the rumored dream theme too, I'm curious to see what will come of that...

Okay, even after seeing the bit about the simulcast I was not prepared for that trailer to be in English. Very nice to see Toei finally following in Tsubaraya's footsteps and curious to see if they do this with whatever next year's Sentai is. Hoping it's a proper translation like Ultraman and not a shitty AI job like Garo.

No idea what the show is actually about, but I'm liking it. Much more streamlined than we're used to seeing; almost looks more like an Ultraman in that regard. Definitely gives me some Zero-One crossed with Faiz and Rider 1's color scheme vibes and that is working for me.

They were right on the money!

Well, this is certainly a surprise.

The big news being that this might be simulcast, which means we can now legally watch Kamen Rider just like Ultraman! Here's hoping we get more series released overseas.

Zeztz, as is confirmed by the rumors, is certainly an interesting design and a bit of a departure from the norm, something Reiwa Riders seemed to be doing up until Gotchard/Gavv to a degree. I like it so far, though I must agree with others to some extent that he kind of feels like an Ultraman with the streamlined design, but mainly the belt being slung over the shoulder making it kind of resemble a Color Timer, but for Gashapons.

A Dream Agent sounds intriguing, but we'll have to wait and see for more information.

I'm hoping they can keep the momentum they have with Gavv and this series is worth the simulcast. Looking forward to it!

Holy cow rare Toei W.

But I live in Australia so to the seven seas I go.

Leave it to Toei to taint the first ever simulcast mainline Kamen Rider series with generative AI bullshit. If it's used in the main show, I sincerely hope it fails. Part of the appeal of tokusatsu is that the effects are crafted by people. Using AI is against everything the genre stands for. But the studio loves cutting corners whenever possible...

This teaser alone has already yucked a lot of fans yum for this season. Some are already saying they won't watch the series at all now.

Tbf a lot of modern Rider uses CG which isn't really part of the appeal, but yeah no, generative AI is dogshit and this is legit dealbreaking unless a large batch of episodes is out and it turns out to only be in the teaser. I doubt it considering the rumours said that this show would be very Paprika inspired so trippy dream imagery is to be expected but if they just AI that shit I'm not interested

Yeah, I'm not there yet, but IDK what they were thinking, i can't imagine the season will even actually look anything like that lol, so it just caused a bunch of peoples view of the brand to drop drastically so they could get a trailer out faster and cheaper? KR and SS have been SO SOLID recently and i've been really excited about the international expansion plans and possibility of a 3rd Toei toku, but this was a bad way to start that initiative.

Theres been just a stray few AI stills in Gozyuger as well and one of the worst parts IMO is it looks really tacky, they aren't even using good AI, probably because they are using something they feel is legally sound, Japans copyright laws are intense. All in all, just very short sighted.