Bravo looks really freaky. Its just ironic that the lamest fruit to date has one of the most menacing suit designs.

Lame!? The durian is king of the fruits! It's banned in some places due to its smell. It's way cooler than something like a pinecone!

Um, a pinecone isn't a fruit botanically speaking.

That being said, that Rider does look pretty cool.

Wow... Those new riders look wicked!

Raia wasn't used that well (in my opinon) because he became Fodder for the coming of Genocider . I like Raia as a suit and a chracter, its juat that he really didn't do a whole lot except find Gai.

Just because Evildiver became a part of Genocider doesn't really make him fodder. He did a lot more than that, he had better character development than most the Riders, interacted with a good amount of them, he was also Shinji's first true ally in the Rider war, and more than anything his sacrifice was a big turning point for the show, and triggered a growth in character for Shinji.

What you're describing is way closer to Imperer and both the Alternatives, who's only real point in the show was to add character growth to Taiga, who, unlike Shinji, had a fairly self contained character arc that ends with him dying without having made any significant impact on the rest of the show.

Hey the Powerdizer wasn't useless...for the first...ten or so episodes...

On topic, I'm disappointed that Bravo is this seasons Scissors, as both Kurokage and Zangetsu look boring as hell while Bravo has one of the coolest suits out of the bunch. But then, I really hated Baron's design but seeing how cool a character he is shaping up to be, the suit is actually growing on me a lot, so I'll see.

So how many riders are their going to be any way?

So far, 10 in the show, and 1 movie Rider, so 11 in total. However, out of those 11, 3 aren't members of any teams, and then 1 is a second Rider for one of the teams, and I imagine all 10 of the teams will have at least 1 Rider, so at the least that will put us at 13(+ 1 movie Rider) by the end of the show.

Also, it's worth mentioning, Team Souten's leader is supposedly going to show up in ep 9, so I guess he might be our next Rider after these 3, possibly the lemon energy guy?

So the known main fruits are:

Orange
Banana
Grape
Melon
Acorn
Pine Cone
Durian

Then the the future fruits:
Peach
Cherry
Lemon


I'm assuming the Gaim upgrade with be a Blood Orange but what will the movie be? A fig?

P.S. - Sorry if I'm being a slowpoke here. Been so freaking busy as of late I haven't been around to read all the news bits.