I admit I should elaborate on at least some of them. Which of them seem the most like stretches?

all of them

all of them are giant stretches

Well, Agito and Build at the short content stage are very similar. An amnesiac Rider enters a family of suspicious father and daughter with superpowers. The difference is in the details.

Sure, but they completely diverge from that short content stage pretty quickly. The difference in details are immediately apparent.

Hmmm........doesn't look like the toy listing is coming today either, how pelicular.

In other news, George's and Hiromi's actors recently tweeted about watching a preview screening of both Battle Famiiia and Shin Hatsukoi Hero in advance of the movie's premiere next Friday. If Geats is in it, and we get really lucky, we might start getting pre-movie leaks,,

Oh and, forgot if anyone mentioned this prior, this month's TV-Kun (that has already teased it'll feature Geats) has been confirmed to be on the 29th (28th i believe for folks living on the other side of the planet). If I had to guess, I'd say then the conference will be in the middle of that week (26th-27th). I'd also say that pretty much confirms Geats' appearance in BF(being a week after its premiere sounds about right), but they could always pull a Drive/Saber on us and not showing them for whatever reason.

I'll start with how Blade and Gaim both turn into monsters by the end of their respective shows.

Just because Kouta and Kenzaki both turn into godlike beings doesn't mean that the two shows have ANY sort of connection. Again, that's just a giant stretch. Kamen Rider and Super Sentai recycle tropes, yea, but there isn't a pointed meaning or connection between them.

Gaim and Madoka have WAY more similarities and connections with each other than Gaim and Blade do, even taking into consideration the fact that Urobuchi wrote both of them.

This seems like good deductive reasoning, personally I'm still really hoping to see geats this week that's about to start (just bc i wanna seeeeee geats already), but the following week probabaly is more likely

I feel like I'm past my "excited" phase from the trademarks, and firmly into my "grumpy it hasn't been announced yet" phase :lol

A big piece of (official!!) news dropped! (And two small rumors alongside it!)

1) As some of you might know, Kamen Rider Battle: Ganbarizing (the arcade game with the cards that you see commercials for if you watch Rider live) will be celebrating its 10th anniversary soon! As part of the festivites.........

And there you have it folks! Our first (public) look at Geats will seemingly be after Revice's 45th episode airs! (To be fair, that could mean the press conference is actually sometime next week (17th-23th) instead of the last week of the month, because idk why one would save the big reveal for the arcade game instead of something that'd reach more people....)

2) More rumors about Geats! Tbh there have been lots of recent rumors swirling around Geats that I haven't brought to this thread bc they weren't really interesting/regigurating older rumors/sounded fake, but I think one sounds really cool:

3) A potential suit leak....? Even more so than the rumors, take it with a huge grain of salt since there's literally no way to tell if this is just someone's personal hero design/local hero cropped and being used for clout or not. I'm of the opinion that it's fake (It doesn't quite look like a Rider suit to me?) personally.