'Unfortunately, there's a cost to all of this- the director has revealed that he plans to blow the entire budget on the first portion of the series's run. Given how some of the criticisms towards Kamen Rider Ghost was the seemingly lack of a budget (as the repeated monster suits and even recolored suits could show us) and we might have a case of history repeating itself.'Oh no... This is going to hurt a loooot

What are you even talking about? Where is this from?

Looked around. That comes from TVTropes so....obviously, unsourced. I wouldn't even take it with a grain of salt.

Yeah, if I had to guess, this was probably a joke taken way the heck out of context, if it's even anything at all. Probably just making a tongue in cheek boast like "we're making the effects so good the budget will run out in the first quarter wwww" or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7i...ature=youtu.be

Well, the fifth Virtual Operations is out!

I wonder what they're hinting at with Dan and Graphite. Pretty nifty all the same and we also get to see that Dan henshins on-screen next episode.

In fairness, Ex-Aid also has a very good reason to reuse suits, if what I understood about the promotional materials - that a Rider needs to conquer ten types of games - is true. This means it wouldn't be inappropriate for us to see, for instance, some of the suits and effects from Mighty Action X or Taddle Quest again.

Huh. That clip from episode 6 shows that GENM was in fact one of the mystery spots in the character select. But, one remains. Starting to think it may be Paradox after all. But...who knows. We still don't really know what's up with the other 4 grayed out versions of the other Riders. I thought it may have something to do with the Level 3's but that doesn't seem to be the case. Then I thought maybe it had something to do with the Prot Gashats, but GENM/PMAX gets its own spot separate from the gray Ex-Aid. Weeeeird.

Watch them just end up being filler so the character roster looks bigger.

GENM doesn't appear to have a level-up phrase, which is unfortunate, but makes sense, I guess.

Not really sure what is up with the little confrontation between Dan and Graphite. Not sure it makes sense given how they acted in episode 5, but eh. The dude is a bit of a psychopath.

The odd part to me is that the Ganbarizing character select still shows (with Genm as an option) three mystery spots. Besides Paradox, I can only imagine that those are movie characters/special characters, but I can't imagine why it would be different than the show at this point.

Perhaps the greyed out versions are placeholders for riders they don't even want the silhouettes to be seen of yet...

To be fair, I don't think we've seen all the riders forms yet, since we're getting the Lvl 3's already and all 10 of the gashat's have been unveiled already, which will likely all be used at least once in 3 or 4 episodes for Lvl 3 with Drago Knight Hunter to follow shortly thereafter.

Even Lvl XX seems to be at most a Kachidoki level upgrade, so I'm betting there's still more stuff to be unveiled, just from a marketing POV.

Speaking of upgrades and the like...I really hope they skip the mid-season upgrade this season. I don't expect them to, because ca$h, but I really want them to. Double Action looks great and interesting as is, so I would prefer if that was the last form Emu got before the final one. I'm hoping they instead give the other three Riders something, and I sort of doubt they'd be able to do both. Probably a futile hope since the main Rider is the primary merchandise driver and they're unlikely to buck the trend they've followed for the past several years, but I can hope. After all, (even if it was just in the first quarter) all the Riders actually got equal focus form and toy-wise, which I'm pretty sure has never happened before. I just really don't want them to end up like Necrom or Mach.

...Mostly Mach, though.

Also speaking of upgrades though, I'm totally expecting Paradox to get an "upgrade" at some point, which will just be using the Gear Dual with a Gamer Driver, allowing both his Gamer forms to operate independently. Wizard style. I could really see that being a thing.