Could this then mean that the hero will already be an experienced rider in the first episode? There has never been anything like this in Reiwa, it's about time. Especially if you follow the theory that Zero-One=Kuuga+Agito, Saber - Ryuki and Revice - Faiz. Then it is obvious that Geats should be something similar to Blade, and there is just a similar situation.

God, I'm getting so old - it seems like just a few months ago we were finding out about Revice! Well, after reading this thread so far, I'm on team "Geats=Gibberish", which is exciting, because we have no clue what to expect! I'm almost as excited as I'll be watching Revice in fall when the Malay discs drop��

That seems more farfetched than Number Theory ever was, Zero One's got nothing in common with those two, I haven't watched Saber but 1 form being a Ryuki shout out isn't enough to say it's that similar and for Revice, I didn't see that either but it doesn't seem to have any similarities. Plus, writers and toylines are seperate, no?

I myself do not believe in it, I only repeat what I read on this forum. To be fair, Saber and Ruyuki also share a knightly theme, a large number of Riders, and a rewrite of the world in the finale. Although the last two points are not that unique. They wrote about Revise and Faiz that both of them have big teeth, but I don`t see much similarity either. I think it was more of a dream for 555 fans.

I still think that's a stretch, we've been getting loads of Riders per season since I want to say Ex-Aid, not to mention the knight thing in Ryuki wasn't universal to it's Riders.

Actually, if Geats doesn't refer to the Swedes, does anyone know of any alternative readings of the katakana? It could be a sign of a visual theme, otherwise we need to wait for the logo to leak

You know, you're kind of right about that. It does sound like an Ultraman name.

...Is it because there's an Ultraman literally named Geed?

To be honest, I did read his name with a hard "G" until I learned it was pronounced "Jeed" (love that Ultra and his show). So, I guess that checks.

As far as I know the kata has no particular inherent meaning. Really the best we can take away is that it likely isn't a pun on any Japanese originating words because if it was we would likely see an alternative kanji spelling in the trademark as well (like how Gaim had a kanji spelling read as "Gaimu/Gaim" but meaning "Armoured Warrior", and Saber had kanji read as "Seiba/Saber" but meaning "Holy Sword") but this isn't a guarantee per se, you'd just normally expect to see a kanji or hirigana pun, not katakana, if it was playing with Japanese words

So it's more likely a strange mashup of of some non-japanese words [So like, Ex-Aid (Extreme + Aid, sounds like ".exe") or Revice (Leviathian + Vice, sounds like "Revise") style]. Or it could just actually be meaningless... For example it could be a fictional word or term that exists in the universe of the show, rather than a specific pun or real world idea

We probably gotta hold out for the logo trademark in a month (or maybe we'll luck out and some super early leaks will appear~) to get an actual sense of theming tbh

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