I don't think those are really golden arms, just the appearance of the normal Zangetsu arms- (not my pic. I think it may belong to Zeo, I could be wrong if that's not his blog XD)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PP9G_dBL7M...angetsu+04.JPG

Of course the AC misses the shoulder details, but you get what I'm saying. Could just be the light reflecting off the golden parts.

I'd rather see Takatora wearing an apple anyway. :lol

Well, that could be Duke Yomotsuheguri, Dragon Fruit, Lychee, Rambutan, or... Overlord/Inves Energy Arms? But it looks so badass.

Kureshima brothers teaming up pretty much tells us that what they're filming is either another AU, or a reset done by Mai or someone else.

Yeah, that's mine :lol

Yeah, there's some more pictures up here that show a few more angles of that scene. It's definitly Sengoku Driver-using Zangetsu, not any new kind of Zangetsu. Which means either the Gaim part of the movie war will be AU, or Takatora will come back to life/ be revealed to have survived his clash with Mituzane.

Ugh. I don't think I can handle another AU... But unless Takatora's driver somehow gets repaired, I don't see any other way he'd be able to use it again.

And I REALLY wish Ryoma would stop being lazy and design a new weapon to go with the new arms. The Sonic Arrow is completely played out.

Well, given that Duke is there, it seems that Ryouma is still around in some form. I wouldn't put it past him to fix up the broken Sengoku drivers for some reason.

He never thinks these things all the way through, does he?

So I found this on Tumblr it's part of the plot points from this Story of Kaito's background from the Real Riders magazine:

Kaito’s father was the only source of income his family had

After his company and land was brought out by Yggdrasill, his family put him in an orphanage cause they can’t afford to raise him.

Orphanage is near the shrine Mai’s family works/owns

Mai keeps asking Kaito to play with her but he was too shy

Kaito always watched her dance and believed that was the reason he had the strength to go on

Mai was the reason Kaito decided to form a dance team in rebellion to Yggdrasil

In high school, Kaito bumped into Kouta once and thought he was weak for apologizing instead of fighting him

Kaito kept declining adoption because he was waiting for his parents to come back to him

They never did so he lived in the orphanage until he was 16.

That was when he dropped out of school and formed a dance team.

He made a dance team because he heard that Mai’s family shrine was taken down and decided dancing would be the best way to pay tribute.

The Dance Teams used to dance in the Outer City Areas before being bribed by Yggdrasil to take place in the Inner Area with the Lockseeds.

Baron was one of the first to receive them.

Their first victory came from beating a team called Severe Beat.

Zack came from that team.

Peco used to be a classmate of Mai and was invited to Team Gaim but declined because he wanted to be top ranked.

Sounds like a awesome splice of life anime to me.