I was coming on here to say this after watching the episode.

Let?s say there?s a show about bankrobbers, if the show depicts the robbers going over their plan in intricate detail before the robbery, then you know it?s all gonna go wrong. That?s what?s fun! Same thing here: trick the audience into thinking they know what is going on and then surprise us!

My thought was Geats is going to lose since we know his desire, or there?s some kind of trick and his card actually says something different. I don?t know... he used invisible ink or something. Mirrrors or something. Magic. Yeah he?ll shine a black light on the card and it?ll totally say something different.

Geats becoming a DGP staffmember could be interesting too.

Crazy Theory: What if Neon's father is one of the riders who killed Michinaga's friend? In Ex-Aid and Zero-One, the characters were tied together by a complex and tragic past, so you can expect a similar drama here.

I'm still waiting for the elephant rider to make a return. So it's entirely possible

Actually gonna combine this with my theory that Keiwa gets his driver back "illegally." Keiwa wins the dgp this round by finishing the final boss, but because he wasnt using his own driver the wish goes to Keilow cause he was the original driver user. Then he returns in round 4 as a sort of Gentaro style punk.

Mind you, this could include Keilow dying too. Keiwa could pick up the driver before the staff can take or something.

So just like Takahashi's previous show too Ex-Aid, as well as Gaim (of which the Archimedel-Jamato reveal has some vibes to it), of which their true move starts at ep. 12 (Christmas Kiriya death) and ep. 14 (the plot twist of Yuya's fate that reveals something). Was relatively uninterested too in Ex-Aid before ep. 12.

Even before this I actually had hoped for Ace to win so he can continue his progress in his already millennia-long battle against the DGP, with all his wish being apparently something to help him find his mother/getting to know DGP. Just that now it's revealed that simply wishing for his mother doesn't work.

I don't know if Keiwa becoming a Rider would make him a participant via unofficial means, though it can certainly happen, but I'd like to see the device being borrowed and used by an outsider thing (e.g. Keiwa remembering DGP and now tries to protect the injured Tanba) as something how anyone can become Kamen Rider.

Hope this wouldn't be used to make a point that being upfront is better than hiding things... ; Irumi being openly abusive thus she's more "fine" vs Kousei hiding that he's even nastier piece of work thus worse.

Wonder if Ace will have Neon invite him to meet the family as her "date" in a means of infiltrating the Kurama family's dark secrets and maybe talk some sense into her mother of his cruel actions.