I'd say him or Saionji, except, well, I don't seriously expect them to make the older unattractive man a Rider over the pretty boy. Saionji does feel like a natural choice though, as Necrom appears to be technology-based (his Megauruoda being derived from studying the Ghost Driver...). Since Alan and Javelle appear to have power of their own, I don't even really know if they'd need to be Riders. And it could easily be a new character. We'll find out soon enough I suppose.

I think it's very likely that Necrom will be a new character entirely. I mean, think back to OOO. Everything pointed to Goto being Birth and while he did dawn the Driver eventually, it turned out to be Date whom we'd never seen before.

Then Aran must have a type of high-level Ganma form if not being Necrom. What do you think?

If his servant, Javelle, can have one then he has to have one. He can't be a human leading the Ganma. He has to be a Ganma himself.

Javelle's defeat could make Aran try to take things into his own hands. Perhaps Saionji has the resources to provide him with the Megaruoda, considering he has an actual Ghost Driver in his bag.

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Boost looks awesome here. FIRE! FIRE EVERYWHERE!

You know, it bugs me that after 3 episodes, even though they've long since taken Edison from Takeru's lineup in the opening, they still haven't added him to Makoto's? Like. Where even is the sense in that. Dude didn't even get a background with the silhouettes and now they're shafting him the Damashii he worked so hard to steal. Weak.

Also kind of annoying that even though he's had Edison for 4 episodes he's only used it once but eh.

I think that's due to the tie-in to the toy line, the Edison icon was designed for Ghost and the driver is programmed to use Ghost's sounds and not Specter's.

With that I would not be surprised if Makoto never uses it again or any of the Ghost specific eyecons on the show.

No, I don't think that's it really. For one thing, they have to market not only the Eyecons but the Ghost Change series, which is kind of all about switching hoodies. With that in mind it would probably make more sense to push them to use each other's hoodies more. And I doubt Bandai/Toei really care about the sound situation with the Driver. They gave Pythagoras to Specter and it has 100 percent Ghost sounds. (sure, hbv, but still).

Marketing may indeed still be the reason he doesn't use him, though. They have more cause to advertise Nobunaga and Tutankhamun since their Eyecons are sold by themselves (kind of). On the other hand, there's little reason to push Edison since he comes with the Ghost Driver, which every episode already is advertising.

Either way, I do hope he uses him again soon. Otherwise it just means they went and made a special Specter Edison mask for a 10 second scene. With their budget, even that feels pretty wasteful...

None of which explains why he's not in the opening lineup though. They still have Edison prominently featured in his Eyecon collection at the end, so...just throw him in.

I don't know, for some reason I feel once Benkei shows up, Takeru will be able to take back Edison. It's just a feeling though, Makoto could very well hold onto Edison for a while.

Though despite only being used once by Specter, Edison is now Ghost's version of Lemon Energy, and Max Flare. I only say this because despite not being used in another Driver, Alan still used it for experiments.

Explain what you mean by lemon energy and max flare.

Edison is a bit of a lesser version of this example but allow me to explain.

Lemon Energy was used by Gaim, Duke, and Baron.

Max Flare was used by Drive, Mashin Chaser, and Mach

That's how I've seen it anyway, Ghost used it, Specter used it, and while Alan didn't have a Driver, he still used it on experiments.

I think what Enchilada meant to say was that Edison has become widely used by more than just one rider much like how Gaim and Baron used the lemon energy lock seed when it is Duke's primary go-to lock seed.

Lately it's been the secondary rider who is the character out of left field that we haven't seen before and the tertiary rider is the character who's obvious. (Mainly with Drive with Gou and Chase.)

Heck that's even true with OOO, Birth was out of left field and then Gotou became the next rider.

That must be a hint without a doubt.

Someone who attended the pre-screening of Chou Movie War Genesis sketched Necrom, but he lifted his face up to quickly, so Necrom's face might be incorrect.
http://kamenriderghost.tumblr.com/image/134531280000

Honestly that face doesn't really look like anything, and the rest doesn't tell us a whole lot either. It does look like his head shares a lot of the same details the other Ghost Riders do, so that's interesting (if it's accurate, that is).

Well, I hope we'll be getting official pictures around the time Genesis comes out.

Good point - even with Wizard, Gaim (arguably), and Double.

So I was looking at stills from the latest Genesis trailer and in one of the shots Boost is totally using the Sunglasslasher.

Man, make up your mind, Toei.

I find it odd that bandai decided to cancel the movie war toys and delay the sunglasslasher

Could you post a link/image? I didn't catch that. I'd like to see what the prop looks like.

That happened?

Well the movie comes out next week and we've gotten no images or mention of the movie war toys so it's pretty safe to say it's canceled and if you look at Q2 toy scans the sunglasslasher was supposed to come out in December but we don't have images of that either so it probably got pushed to January.

http://akkinews.net/archives/115817

The picture's here. It's the one with the explosion. Not super clear, but still visible.

Ah. Okay.

Wait... Is that? IS CHIEF KILL?

I wouldn't call that cancelled without official word.

Glad I wasn't the only to notice that.

I know we established this is in the past, but I found another interesting idea for the Ikkyu Eyecon code on the Ghouly News. The "一" could also stand for the first kanji in Ikkyu(一休).

While we wait for Juohger confirmation, some new rumors are circulating about Ghosts' next upgrade!

*Ghosts' next form is called Grateful Damashii using a new belt known as Eyecon Driver G. In this form Ghost can channel the abilities of any one of hte 15 Heroes without changing Eyecons.

Aran's Gaiden which comes out April 13, 2016 has been renamed to Aran's Heroic Saga.

If that isn't telling of future events, I don't know what is.

Instead of a mystical belt that instantly appears wrapped around waist, will Takeru be gaining a technical belt that will instantly strap around his waist?

What episode do you think Boost will show up in?

Probably episode 12 since that's when the toys for boost come out

If Alan/Aran will be Necrom, when do you think he'll henshin?

And wonder if he'll become a rival to Takeru just like Shinnosuke to Heart?

Necrom will appear sometime in January.

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...01&oe=57153152

Necrom!

Looks pretty damn slick, I gotta say. I like what I see. Hope we get some more clear pictures soon.

I think we all know who that is going to be. Must be the horn.