"Ah, who were you in Ex-Aid?"

"I was a chonky purple thing"

He was Ex-Aid level 1 too! He truly had the most important role out of anyone (at least in my heart...).

According to this source, Blades suit actor is going to be Kenji Tominaga
https://www.ladyeve.net/archives/068677

The official site for the suit actors says it’s Asai. You want to argue with the official website? https://japanactionenterprise.com/news/0362/

I mean if it's counting off who's listed as suit actors in the episode well.

It doesn't look like Blades is going to make an immediate appearance in Episode 1, so Kenji Tominaga might be Calibur given that's the only other suit we see in preview images for Episode 1.

Asai being Saber is correct. I was saying that Blades is being played by Tominaga, not Eitoku. Though as Enchilada said, it may be possible that Blades isn't appearing in episode 1, so Tominaga may be playing someone else.

Kousuke Asai being Saber is legitimately crazy exciting news. Lupin Red was one of the rare Sentai characters who consistently struck me as having a lot of personality in his body language, and guys like ToQ #6 and Akaninger aren't far behind.

I know it depends as much on the director and camera crew as the suit actors, but if he can bring as much stylishness to Saber's fighting as he did to the Lupinrangers, this is gonna be a treat to watch!

Huh, I guess JAE is not gonna have one person primarily play the titular rider like they used to with Takaiwa cause when Zero-One was starting they sounded like Yuya Nawata was gonna be the person who will play titular riders for at least the next decade. Change of plans I guess?

I figure that they want to do a revolving door of sorts, who knows we could get Nawata back in the main slot for the next Rider. Or maybe we'll have another new one.

I think they want to try and ease up on the stress the main suit role has given well, as cool that it was that Takaiwa went straight in the main rider role for as long as he did, he really started to show his age later on even if his mannerisms were still pretty great.