How would you all create a new Kamen Rider season based off of water creatures?

The main rider would probably be based off of X's motif - Giant Water Bug. And he'll take on forms of various water creatures too.

But hopefully other riders too taking on sea creatures like sharks, whales, seahorses, octopi and stuff.

Just trying to think almost like Kabuto.

I'd make the main character a cephalopod. Either an octopus or a squid. Would be a neat change of pace.

And the villains will be the immortal jellyfish. Aqua's return is also a must.

Given that Saber is currently being discussed in the viewing thread, I would like to mention one aspect of the show that has somehow gone unnoticed. Namely, that civilians turned into Megid continue to see Wonder World after being rescued. That is, they see the cause of their trauma that does not exist for others. A very elegant and poetic metaphor for PTSD, you will agree. And Yuri’s removal of memory only strengthens the similarity, because very often during trauma, memories suffer, but fear remains. This, by the way, is another proof that the Trio of Deep Sin did not arise out of nowhere and the hidden foundation for it was laid in the main show.

I started watching Gotchard and it seems to me that Rinne can safely be considered the continuator of the Tackle business. She takes part in battles more actively than any other non-rider and even has her own analogue of transformation with dressing up in the form of alchemists.

With Eiji’s tragic death, I’d imagine Ankh having to find someone to take Eiji’s place as the new OOO. And I’d imagine the new user will be someone from a rich family who ran away from that life to make his own.

Plus he’ll make friends with some of the Greeed like Uva and Gamel instead of having to take their Medals by force.

Why would they need to make friends with the Greeed? All of them but Ankh are dead.
Granted, Kogami could make more artificial ones like Goda, but that would be an arbitrary way to have more conflict.

This is quite in Kogami's style.

While true, I guess it would feel kind of old to just reuse that plot from OOO 10th.

Since Build with the three nations, what if the next later KRs they introduce riders representing their kingdoms/queendoms almost like King-Ohger? Perhaps clans instead?

I wouldn't mind samurai clans with riders. After all, we've had samurai-themed forms many times, but never samurai heroes.

We did have Gaim for dance crews.

But wonder how Samurai clans would work? I'd go for kingdoms & queendoms though.

Can Ora become two Another Riders? Change between Kiva-La & Calibur?

Don't see why not; the same guy was both Fourze and Faiz. I don't think he could change back and forth, though.

Maybe Ora can.

You have a serious problem with the Ora character. She was a terrible unnecessary character, btw. All the Time-Jackers were. What is your fixation on Ora??? I?ve seen a lot of your posts about this lame character
Actually curious as to whyTF

I get how the Time Jackers are like bad characters in Zi-O.

I just felt Ora deserves better treatment after Zi-O. Swartz became Another Decade, Heure became Another Kikai for a time and I just felt Ora could use some better treatment in becoming an Another Rider too.

And please don't shut down my beliefs or question me when I'm one fighting for women's rights.

If there was another Girls Remix, do you see Ora return becoming an Another Rider herself with either Kiva-la's power since Natsumi's hardly around or Calibur's power since Sophia's carrying it and hardly uses it or uses both in a way like the candidate became both Another Fourze & Another Faiz.

Plus Tsukuyomi became a rider herself representing all female riders.

Well, that's too unfair. Timejackers may be considered bad villains, boring or unwritten, but certainly not unnecessary. They are not producers at Geats after all. What would the show be about without Timejackers? About how Geiz tries to kill Sougo, Tsukuyomi talks him down, and Woz rants in the background? That would be really lame!

just wondering between 555/Dekaranger are we getting a 20th anniversary Blade movie

They should, it would be a missed opportunity if they didn't. Plus, the cast is still close with each other it seems.

I'd love to see a Blade anniversary someday.

Plus imagine if Chalice's system was used in Leangle's style. I picture Amane turning into that rider.

I hope not. Blade's ending is too perfect to fuck with.

Zi-O bringing up continuation for Blade's ending in its 2-parter...

That's non-canon for Blade specifically, though.
It's just a potential future.
Because Zi-O was so inconsistent with it's own rules, you can't really take what happened in that series as canon to the other shows' timelines.
Hell, they were so inconsistent they fucked up how Singularity Points worked.

Woz explained why, and just in the Blade episodes. They changed time so often that they changed the rules for changing time. It sounds crazy, but it should be clear to the target audience. It?s like a toy whose light bulb stops blinking due to frequent use or whose jingle gets shaved off halfway.

That's basically Matrix's' point though. Zi-O changed its own rules as the plot demanded. That, combined with the reset ending means that you really can't factor Zi-O into the continuity of, well, anything other than itself.

I agree with this. I just don't really like it when rule changes mid-show in Zi-O are made out to be something super stupid or incomprehensible. This is far from the worst thing that happened in the franchise and in Zi-O itself. And not even super unique.

Getting caught up on Gotchard (I will never fail to be amused by shows where a prop is supposed to be a character and it "moves" by the person holding it very obviously shaking it around) and I realized something about the show that's been bothering me.

I miss it when a show that has a lot of form changes does something to make the different forms feel like they have an identity. Obviously shows like Kuuga and Kiva had the fast form, the tanky form, and the shooty form, but even on shows like W there was a distinct difference between each of the three forms both halves took and HeatTrigger still felt distinct from CycloneTrigger or LunaTrigger. Gotchard has the same problem that Build had for me: the show is throwing out a new form every episode and I don't know what makes most of these different from each other. Like, what does ExcavatorMagician do that WrestlerAnt doesn't? I don't really get that sense of each form having a specialty in these shows, which is part of why so many of them feel completely forgettable to me.

I think it's because there are too many forms. That is, I am sure that by going to the Rider Wiki you can understand what is unique and the best use of each of them, but in the show itself this is not so easy to notice. Plus, Gotchard?s gun is also not tied to a specific form. But overall, I feel like the show wants the viewer to become more attached to the Chemies rather than their combinations.

Too be fair, Reiwa has been doing multiple redundant forms in shows for a while now.

Revice was really bad with this. I believe over 20 forms were shown in like, the first two months. Most of which had no real distinction. Kong was a brawler form, but then Brachio was also power-based. Eagle's whole gimmick was speed, but then Jackal was had more speed. Same goes for forms like Mammoth which used melee weapons, and then Kamakiri, which also used melee weapons. Megalodon was hardly used at all given that there wasn't much that the form did that wasn't done already by other forms.

At least Gotchard is better than Geats in respect to the gimmicks of the forms. Ninja in it's debut had intense speed and teleportation powers pretty much never used throughout the series, and Monster was able to one-shot a boss in one episode, but then Fever Monster couldn't even beat a single Jyamato Rider in it's debut. Not to mention extremely redundant power ups: Fever Magnum -> Cannon -> Powered Builder, which all had projectile based weaponry that immediately made the form that debuted like, two episodes before entirely useless. Not to mention that both Zombie and Monster were employed more hand-to-hand styles of fighting, and Ninja/Beat were melee-based forms (making both of those combos redundant by the standard we are applying to Gotchard).

Oddly enough I didn't see many people complaining about Revice's many forms that were forgotten after their debut episode, whereas Gotchard is being slammed for elements that have been present in Reiwa for quite some time now.

I feel Gotchard works better purely because the focus isn't the forms, but the idea of collecting the Chemies and illustrating the ways they can be used. Wild forms already feel better than the super-forced Remixes in Revice purely because they are a different way the Chemies can be used rather than showing a gimmick of the belt. Is Gotchard guilty of redundancy and a lot of forms? Sure, but not in any way that hasn't already been done over the previous Rider shows.

Honestly, my big problem with shows that debut a ton of forms is after the first quarter, even the show acknowledges that they're forgettable.
Once the main rider gets their first real "Upgrade" form, all those random combination forms from the first 15 or so episodes? Basically gone.

Concerning Revice, there was a lot more worth complaining about than just the redundant forms and their conveyor belt of shoving them out :lol

Personally, I think Revice had a bit of an edge in forms because of the anniversary element. I don't remember all of the forms off hand, but when one showed up again I always recognized which classic Heisei Rider show it was modeled after. With Gotchard I straight up can't remember any of the forms that weren't in the last episode I watched.

I loved how one had the design elements and the other had the color scheme.

After the failures of Hibiki, Kiva & Ghost, how would you all bring out a new supernatural rider series in Reiwa that's WAY better than those three? We need a new magic rider series that's better.

Better than Hibiki is impossible.

Better than Ghost and Kiva? I don't know, film paint drying on a wall? Maybe with a magic belt involved somehow?

I never understood this claim. That is, Kuuga is clearly not a technical rider. Gaim too. If you look at Reiwa, after Zero-One and Saber there were only mixed shows.

The problem is never the theme of it being supernatural or tech. Or a series being lighthearted or dark. It's all the execution. It is a recurring coincidence taht supernatural = failure in KR, but it has no relation to it being the reason those failed.

But in Sentai, the connection between the car theme and the unsuccessful/strange show most likely exists.

I see you're a man of culture.

What's so supernatural/mystical about Ghost? It's 100% science fiction. Kiva and Hibiki, yes. Agito is also a supernatural-themed series. If you want magic-themed series, you have Wizard, and probably also Gotchard, although alchemy tends to be categorized as ancient science/mythical science/occult science.

Magic is not the same as supernatural. Magic is basically fantasy science. Supernatural-themed stories rarely have strict, clearly-defined internal logic and rules like magic-themed stories do. Examples of supernatural-themed stories are Hellraiser and The Shining.

Is Gotchard more compared to Pokemon or Digimon?