Hmmmm, not gonna lie.....I'm not sure if I'm excited for this or not?

I have........mixed feelings about Takahashi's Rider works, theyre never particularly my cup of tea due to his approach on characters and certain topics. I liked High School Heroes well enough though, so maybe I'll like this?

The concept.....like Jaz said, it's real edgy. It's kinda hard to wrap around your head that it's been a good 10 years since the last proper "Rider War", considering Rider v Rider as a major plot point is so commonplace these days. I feel like my opinion of the story could be either hopeful or heistant, depending on the execution...(I adooooore Ryuki, but Gaim is my least favorite series by a considerable margin) So I'll personally hold off on any sweeping claims until the press conference gives us a proper look.

The top half was rumored to be a magatama, but maybe that was just a guess, cause that sure does look like the chamber of a six-shooter, and the bolts around his collar look like the bottoms of bullets. It appears that the bottom half is for sure a motorcycle. So trigger = gun, and motorcycle = thrust makes a lot of sense. The Trigger Thrust form name rumor seems to be panning out.

As for the design, I really dig it. Not sure I'll get the Figuart, but... that's literally what I thought about Revice, and now I have a Revi on my shelf, so...

I'm pretty excited for Yuuya Takahashi to helm the show again. Not only do I totally dig Ex-Aid and Zero-One -- I adored High School Heroes, which he wrote all of as well.

(Seriously, if you haven't watched High School Heroes yet, you need to do yourself a favor and seek it out. I think it's my favorite Toku series of the last several years (up until DonBrothers, that is).)

I'm going to be honest if anything in Geats is similar to the Workplace Competition in Zero-One I'm automatically dropping the show and I'm going to wait till the show done to binge watch the rest of it.

Heads up, TV-Asahi's got an interesting description of our protag:
Sounds like a cocky bastard, that'll be fun to witness?

Also of note on that page:

-Fortnite and Apex Legends are directly name-dropped when talking about the surivial game aspect (How the genre is popular with children and how they'll infuse it with Rider for a thrilling experience.)

Ahahaha....guess the 8 Riders thing is true? I'd imagine that we're getting a Ryuki/Hibiki handling of Riders, weaving in and out of the story.

I really love the city aethetic in the poster... The tower in the background makes me wonder if this will be another "fictional city" setting similar to W or Gaim, I'd enjoy that personally, especially if it has this like light cyber-punk aesthetic in the poster

The hologram signs make me wonder if there could be an AR component to the "Desire Grand Prix" could be fun to have like heads-up-displays and visual flair added by the helmets (Though I feel like what I'm describing is a bit similar to the glasses in DonBrothers...)

This is very fair lol, I didn't hate the Workplace Competition arc in concept, but it was gruelling to watch weekly since it made the whole show feel like it had just screeched to a halt. If it had been condensed into 2 or 3 episodes it would have been fine, but god, that thing just kept going....

Edit: Someone has noted that the spelling for our protag's family name is most likely to be read as Eisu, to sound like the english word "Ace", will be changing that on the other posts until we actually hear someone say it. (the reason for that pun being pretty obvious when looking at what it means in terms of shooters and guns)

There were rumors, that now seem pretty credible given all of these reveals, that there is a "digital world" element to Geats.

Given how well the CGI worlds have worked on DonBrothers, I'm pretty interested to see how the concept will evolve for Toei going forward. Maybe the "gameplay" takes place in a digital cyberpunk setting, which would be pretty rad.

Currently from examining the pictures I'm quite confident the item on the right (our left) of the belt can click into the gun to serve as a revolver cylinder, while the handle is likely also removable. And those two items together are what are creating this form (everyone else likely already assumed this but I haven't seen it stated bluntly so thought I would lol)

Especially since the form we're seeing does seem to confirm the upper-body lower-body half and half form split rumours we were seeing

I really love the idea of one shared belt that can look radically different based one what you click into it, I've pitched that concept to people as my ideal rider belt before even... While idk if this has gone as far as I would have liked it's pretty close and I am excited. I really want to see how different they can make it look for different riders, and having more "unique" less uniform feeling gimmick items would make me feel a lot more inclined to buy them tbh

One thing I'd LOVE to see from the revolver gimmick item is if it can do a simple practical animation effect. I feel like if they used mirrors like the ex-aid belt did, and have the revolver piece spin, they could create a very simple 6 frame animation on the belt screen just by having 6 or so different frames around the edge of the revolver piece, that get lit up as it spins

Similar to classic "Zeotrope" toys

Ooooooooh, so his scarf is the kitsune tail! That makes sense, yea. I'm digging the look! And the fact that he'll most likely be a gunslinger Kamen Rider is cool, we don't really have a lot of those as the main

The writer for one of my favorite seasons and the head producer for two others? Nice, a dream team combination in my eyes! Ex-Aid was a lot of fun and Gaim and OOO were great, so I'm excited for this!

Yea, my thoughts exactly. I know that Takahashi's stuff is a bit divisive, but I think with a different producer who helped make two of my favorite seasons ever, I think we'll get a very interesting season!

I'm not actually big on Geats' design yet, but that's honestly more of a relief than anything. Rising Hopper, Brave Dragon, and Rex Genome were three all-time amazing base forms for me three years in a row, so it's actually kind of nice to not have to worry about debating with myself if a new guy tops my old favorites or not for the first time in a while.

It's hard to peg down, but my immediate impression of Geats is that it's not as distinctive as I'm used to for Rider leads, and not as communicative either. But then like, we've got that plot summary now with a description of the dude's personality, and already the aggressive vibe of the suit seems to be fitting pretty well, so maybe first impressions don't count for everything. And I mean, it's not like I even thought it looked bad to begin with. It's definitely going to make more sense the more we learn about the show and its gimmicks, and I'm definitely going to get used to seeing it every week. (Honestly, even just the tail scarf being shown off on the key visual makes me love it a lot more already.)

Takebe and Takahashi is a pretty interesting staff combo! I still consider Takahashi to be a particularly brilliant writer for Rider in a lot of ways, and Takebe was the producer behind a whole lot of my favorite toku shows ever, but there's kind of no telling exactly what the two of them will bring to this particular series. It definitely sounds like they're shooting for "Ex-Aid + Gaim", broadly speaking, but you know, we'll see!

At any rate, as a dog lover, I got what I'm after. We've got Precure, Sentai, and Rider all prominently featuring canines at the same time. I'd make a joke about this being the Reiwan era now, except foxes have a different onomatopoeia. Dang! :lol