This is assuming that Buster, Kenzan and Slash even have any further books. The fact that Kenzan and Slash have two stories each certainly suggests that their books don’t work the same way as Saber, Blades and Espada’s do.
Furthermore, there might not be a new type of collectible at all - we might just get a Rider who uses an Alter-Ride Book, as with Thouser.

As we saw with Zero-One, a lot of belts are introduced... but only one or two of them will actually get anything new after the 10-episode mark. After Ja-Oh Dragon I fully expect the Swordriver exclusively to get more books.

How would a Wonder Ride Book & an Alter Ride Book collaborate themselves in a new rider system since Thouser?

Be nice to have four new riders with that system like with Zangetsu, Duke, Sigurd & Marika.

Well from what I’ve seen (translated from the promo pics) the Altar books (or at least, Dezast’s) have individual finishers activated when pushed (Dezast’s is Calamity Strike). Not sure if it’ll come up.

Japanese Netizens Are Expressing Unhappiness With Kamen Rider Saber After Only 8 Eps.
 

https://daisukitoku.com/2020/11/03/j...ly-8-episodes/

Thoughts?

Some fans are too pessimistic about Saber series are being written by Ghost writer.

I think Ghost is not the worst Kamen Rider series. In my opinion, Decade is still the worst Kamen Rider series. I love Tsukasa but sadly the Decade strory from Shinkenger Arc (unnecessary crossover episodes in my opinion) until Final Episode are so boring.....

So far, Saber series is really enjoyable to me.

Clickbait article that I've seen a billion times about every TV show. "Find a handful of twitter users who don't like show to say there's bad fan reception in order to get clicks" is practically its own genre by now.

Isn't Excite JP a tabloid website?

I can't even find the exact comments that the JP article sourced.

Maybe go for a new system like the Energy Lockseeds, Sclashjellies & Miridewatches.

People complaining about Ghost's writer meaning it must be bad is incredibly silly. Like, writer's have good days and bad days, and that's probably ampified by the hectic schedule I can imagine Kamen Rider works on. Go look at any show - you'll find great episodes and awful episodes written by the exact same writer (Doctor Who is a fun one for that). Also... Ghost aired 5 years ago. Let it go, Indiana. It wasn't that bad.

While I can understand the sudden large number of riders could feel overwhelming within a span of 9 episodes, I agree some folks need to chill. It's now his second rider show so maybe one more chance.

Yeah, he deserves redemption after what happened with Ghost!

To be honest, most of the similarities I'm noticing are interesting ideas that didn't live up to their full potential in Ghost and that Saber is already executing better. Does Saber have its flaws? Yes, of course, every season does. And it's still too early to know how it will turn out. But so far, the impression I get is that Saber is learning from Ghost's mistakes, not repeating them.

Geeez, everyone really talks like Ghost's the worst thing ever the moment it's brought up, huh...

It's got a lot of flaws but it's hardly one of the worst, and what positives there were show that this writer knows what he's doing with Rider. For what it's worth though, I haven't really been drawn into Saber as much as I was with Ghost -- I actually do agree with some of the criticisms shown (too many riders, too little development or interesting points, toy-pocalypse once again reaching a new stupid apex), but not to the same catastrophic degree and I'm still finding it fairly enjoyable each week. Just nothing mind-blowing really.

Just gonna share this particular image since I like it so much. The main three are upgraded, and Calibur finally looks like he fits in with SOL.

...Where's Buster?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EmG8CzVU...jpg&name=small

I'm starting to believe the rumors about Buster...

I was watching the ad for the Rekka + SD card thing and noticed that the sword had a green light.

Is it possible we're getting a 4th Swordriver rider?

Not sure if that necessarily means anything, since the DX SworDriver does have light colors that aren't for the main three (Purple, green, etc.) but I definitely hope there will be more - probably a movie Rider at the very least - to use the SworDriver, since it is so easy to customize with the emblems.

So, if an emblem can make it light up in (one of) those colors, we could get another SworDriver user.

We could, but the Genesis Driver could light up green and we never got an Energy Lockseed that caused it to do so, so it could also mean nothing.

Has anyone noticed there is a glitch somewhere in the Onjuuken Suzune?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMALJtUz28

Do you mean with the "scan" part with the Ride Books? Yeah, its kind of non-functional. I think it would've worked if the panel for that was closer to the opening.

It looks like it always gives the right number of "yay!"s for how many times the book was scanned, there's just a delay before the announcement. Maybe the book is supposed to be inserted and then left in, like the magazine for a gun? Except it doesn't look like there's any mechanism to hold the book in.

No, it's supposed to work like Buster and Kenzan's swords where you insert the Ride Book so that it announces its name and then remove it. It's just that for whatever reason, the port on this one doesn't really activate the WRB like its supposed to.

As someone who own the Hayate, I can tell you it sometimes goes through the same issues. The book name announcing is a 50-50 chance, while whether the name is announced with a finisher depends on how hard you push on the book.

Anyone here thinks Daishinji (and the actor himself) would become extremely popular? He has, in my opinion, a great suit and the best characterization in the series. Which feels weird considering he had the most off-hand introduction.

I'm rooting for him from the start (actors announcement).
I won't go into "asians all look the same" territory, but after presentation I got huge Woz vibes from him appearance-wise. And Woz was the reason I continued to watch Zi-O and was an entertaining character to follow.

In the end Daishinji is very different, but it's probably the character I like the most so far because they made him both mysterious and funny to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD8M7jJSFMU

New trailer promoting the Saber x Zero-One movies. Tho, it's primarily Zero-One.
We have Abaddons attacking people and is that a non-japanese person, I see? Aruto defeated and on the ground mirroring the final parts of the opening, Esu and Eden turning to Aruto transformed as Metal Cluster Hopper charging at him. Very cool to see him and the bike behind him again. Final part is Zero-Two saying his catchphrase.

Oh hey, Zero-Two actually gets to exist! Nice!

The transformation belt website has updated with Slash's Wonder books, Sarukani book, and the Tortoise & hare Wonder books.

edit: I forgot they added Saiyu Journey as well so Saber has his full set now.

Could anyone post a link to the site?

Still no Buster, Kenzan, Calibur & Slash in there...

Seeing this just makes me realize how lopsided the books are in regards to how many are stories and how many are animals and mythical animals

It seems like aside from Buster and Calibur using mythical beasts as their base forms, the non-story books are only there to fill out Saber, Blades and Espada's combos.

I think it's because from a suit design and toy marketing perspective, the stories are the ones that work best as new forms for Touma to try out. You'll notice he's the only one who ever uses books outside his own set.

Almost like this show has too many toys to sell or something...

Eh more like it wouldn't be fun to do all the concept art matching with Riders who can only have their arms changed. Or in Calibur's case, not at all.

That's why we've only gotten Saber, Blades and Espada, because the whole point of that site is to mix and match.

Well yeah, but the Raccoon and Quail techniques lend themselves to Animal Books for Kenzan, and it's not like the roars of beasts mythical and otherwise wouldn't help a sword that wields sound.

I'm thinking. Since Calibur knows something larger is at work, what if Kento's dad and Ex-Saber are actually working together? Ex-Saber asked Hayato why he defected, and Hayato explains it to him which makes him defect as well and take over as Calibur.

Wait if Calibur was a good guy originally why is his sword/henshin device all about eeeevil versions of the books