We won't know until after Den-O, but the time jackers are likely connected to shocker as another splinter group. And then potentially a bigger movie presence like the OOO shocker coins.

Do have to admit that Oma Zi-O is very shocker rider general like though. But he seems more like one that'd wipe them out and take the symbol.

That might be something that comes up in the Decade episodes too. Since Decade is directly connected to Shocker. Do know that Showa riders are at a bare minimum, and won't be a thing until at least after Den-O's episodes. Heisei is the main focus. Which is really only 19 series of content to deal with.

Though it'd make sense if Rider X is tied to Fourze. But then there's also the sentai crossover to keep in mind too.

Geiz isn't evil. He's trying to stop an evil rider from rising.

First of all, my god the CG was bad, this franchise is on a ham sandwich budget but yeesh usually it's less noticeable. However, other than that, this season shows off a LOT of promise. Sougo being a complete fucking idiot tickles my funny bone "WHY DID YOU DO THIS YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED ALL THE DEATH" "ok but I wanna be kiiiiiing". Geiz is great and I like Tsukuyomi a lot too. The Build cameo barely mattered for this episode but that's for next week. Another Build though, holy shit that suit is gorgeous and terrifying in motion, what the fuck. The transformation effects are really cool but the fight itself was very lacking. Doesn't help you can kinda see Takeiwa's flab in the suit too. And Geiz Ghost goes all Grateful. Oh, and Oma Zi-O has a baller suit, though I feel he's not as intimidating as he could be. Should have taken notes from Chronus' acting

Yeah, I think Oma Zi-O should have stayed quiet the entire episide. That would make him more intimidating and mysterious

This x100
Hope they flesh this out, the "I wanna be king" part was the most jarring disconnect


LOVING the Another - Rider madness. SIC vs SHF delights me to no end

It's not even being quiet, he's wiggling his arms left and right to defend himself, when honestly a sinister, low effort looking single hand would get the point across much better, it looks like he's putting some effort into it or being flashy, but that as a result is less creepy

I know this post was from, like, a few days ago. But I wanted to point this out.

Well, Kento Shimoyama has stated that the plan for the series is 38 past Rider related episodes (two-parters; so 19 tribute arcs), with 10 extra episodes for the final battle.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...611/image0.jpg

Not to mention, Shun Nishime made a Twitter post on September 2nd, showing him with dyed hair.

https://twitter.com/shun_nishime/sta...961653248?s=19

Heck, even Hibiki's actor has made some Hibiki-related Instagram posts as of late.

http://www.pictaram.me/media/1848536...241_5401144887
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...830-132828.jpg

And Faiz and Delta's actors have even reported filming for Zi-O.

So, yeah. Safe to say, we're gonna be getting a tribute for EVERY single Heisei Rider.

It's much more "How not to summon a demon lord" in the way they did it, which carries an emphasis of Oma Zi-O might have more to him than it seems. Not crappy. More bravado and over done intentionally. How they did it was perfect. As we learn more, aspects of this episode should come more into focus for why different things had to be done certain ways. As Sougo said, he hates fighting. That aspect of hating fighting and potentially hating confrontation comes through in future Oma Zi-O too in body language.

What's also interesting is we're hearing he's an evil overlord, but not what makes him evil besides fighting back to everyone attacking him. How did he destroy the future, why. What set him on this path of bravado and ego. As she noticed early on, he's not like past Sougo. So what caused the difference, what event caused it. He seems to have intentionally left certain people around to do what they do. Very cyclical.

Which is what sets up the entire story and innate nature of the show. So they really couldn't change either of those things because they were needed as they were for the innate nature of the show. Besides how it'd ruin the psychology of the show too. That's such a false notion that people that go through hardship end up hating the world. Privileged, spoiled or selfish people do that, not actual people that endure real hardships(not counting some traumas, but this is a kid's show). Like I said before it comes down to parenting, and Sougo's uncle seems to be doing something right overall. He's got a little bit of an "Iroh" sense to him. But when you really look at tragedies that have happened, the catalyst is pretty much 99% of the time some form of privilege or toxicity being whispered in their ear, and not about actual harsh life aspects or socio-economic class. That's a western "privilege" myth that "bullied poor people are violent" and is perpetuated as such. Usually it's almost always some mix of privilege, ego, or ignorance/toxicity. Things Sougo seem without, so his 'overlord' aspect must come from something else. (Possibly 50 years of dealing with people like that. 20 years of dealing with it and I'm already pleading for a meteor to hit Earth on some days. Well, if it'd only wipe out the mean and willfully ignorant people at least.)

Same as the build cameo sets up some concepts about multiverse/time travel and acted as the foreshadow to Another Rider Build and the spill over into next week and the setup of the Faiz Shot. It was a brisk setup pace, but it kept the show nicely engaging and waiting for the next episode to keep audiences hooked.

Glad to hear it. Makes for some fun stuff to see definitely. The contrast works wonders, and when Sic does this series, it's going to be interesting to see them Sic the another rider forms. It'd be a sic of a toei sic of a sic. So three times the SIC.

So, did that Build monster wander around for a year before it was defeated by Zi-O ?

The missing kids in Sougo's uncle's newspaper seems like they're just missing recently.

Regarding that, when he gets turned into the monster the episode lists it as 2017 at least, and when we see the newspaper that the main characters uncle is reading it is 2018.

Unless the 2017 on the street there is something caused by the villain.

It should be noted that at this time the main character is back in 2017 meeting Build and best secondary rider ever Cross-Z, and it is snowing in both shots, the 2017 wiggly text is on the street there directly after he is turned as well.

So I am not fully sure, but to me it seems like he wandered like a monster for either a year or from before the new year so either way for quite some time.
MOVING ON !

The villain seems to be picking the target for turning into a monster by picking people that where supposed to die anyways (( or about to be severly injured, since this is a kid show it is likely more black and white and he was supposed to have died )). Which is quite interesting I must admit, the villain was not shown taking the kid from 2017 into 2018, though I assume something like that will be done.