Just did, I like them!

They fixed a lot of issues I had with the subs I saw before. Interestingly enough, they didn't translate "Ne-chan" as "Sis" either, they wrote her name.

I liked their work though; I think I'm down for Excite Subs this year.

I guess I'm the only one here who was not feeling this first episode at all. I dunno, maybe I've just been burned by the last few years. Knowing this will probably be the last time we will ever see Geats' bike, or the fact that we're going to be drowning in dozens of forms by episode 20.

Reiwa era Riders so far have really not impressed me that much outside of the first few episodes of Zero-One, and that show's momentum collapsed before the halfway mark. Geats, from what I can tell, doesn't look to be changing that trend. Toshihiko Sahashi's music, which is almost always a highlight of any series he's attached to, sounds rather muted from what I've heard so far. And the most interesting character of the lot was killed off before our main Rider even made his appearance.

I'll be surprised if I manage to stick with this weekly.

I'm not gonna tell you you're wrong to not be excited for this, but I feel it's worth noting that Geats already had 4 forms shown off in the first episode counting the Entry form even though it doesn't really feel that way, especially as there's multiple Riders with the alternative forms being designed to easily work with the entire cast

Well it's only one example of Sento's I mentioned, not all. Tendou is no murderer, but he'd be usually more inclined to be merciless and make cruel decisions without much thought, though regarding Worms they're mostly threats. The outcome may be the same to characters who resort into killing monsters, but how someone behaves makes the difference too (e.g. thirst for revenge targeted at bad guys vs stopping bad guys from causing harm). Him showing some hesitation like when killing Tsurugi is more of a rare occurrence by comparison.

Neon is wealthy, and not agreeing but it seems that getting wealthy by itself is seen as doing something wrong, as it's seen as perpetuating social inequality and absorbing money from those who actually need it, doesn't matter if they're aware or not. And someone with privilege seems to be prohibited to complain about anything (of which Neon wanting a normal life can count), because they are seen as not being 'grateful' to what they already have that many others work and sought for. Though regarding Keiwa, I have some relation in his disinterest to rich girl's daily activities, like why putting well-known rich public figures on pedestal, they're all humans too, should be viewed equal.

Yeah, called it too that he'd have world peace as his goal. Though it means it's sad that the perception seems to be that personal aim and selflessness to others can't co-exist in someone, but it's just how many writers depicted those (Keiwa does have it addressed though which is nice). It's not known what job was Keiwa applying too, but there are far more jobs that are more suitable for Keiwa to enter to promote world peace, like those noble professions such as cop (how Kagami ended up in Kabuto) or such.

This is probably one of the cases where the battle royale actually had the outcome being shown (and annually held with already established winners, like sport seasons). Ryuki did have multiple iterations of the battle royale, but it never truly had its end reached until the actual end of the series (due to all the different iterations being resets), so it's more like many battle royale premises. Wonder if someone, like Ace, had to continually win DGP to prevent depraved people using the wish to wreak havoc the world when they win, albeit that can make DGP ran out of participants if the world is extinct or such and Tsumuri can't hold it annually for yet unknown reasons.

The number of forms may be "inflated" (OOO kinda is too) due to the combination of the version of Entry, only equipping one-half of his body with powers or equipping 2 at once, plus switching positions (I don't know yet what's the function of that), but so far the powerset Geats have shown to use is only 2.

Oh hang on I think the storyline's obvious here. If the DGP lasts 6 months every time then I have a feeling Geats has just kept winning because it's fun, wanting to reset the game every time which maybe resets deaths of other participants. Then somewhere around the halfway point of the show, someone else wins and decides to make a killing game out of the deal. Maybe Takahashi'll surprise me but that feels the most obvious

I'm not sure he won many times. Buffa was rather dismissive of his being late for the mission, and if Ace was a multiple champion, then Buffa would certainly have suspected a trick. Though it's also possible that this was first season for purple rider and Geats simply chose not to announce his status.

I mean like, multiple games as a whole, the episode started with Ace getting the driver and knowing exactly what was up without reacting to memories flooding back in, suggesting he didn't get memory wiped from the game prior to that

Yeah, some people just let their envy turn to toxic jealousy. Neon didn't even get wealthy, rather she was born in to her family's wealth, so her financial status isn't even something she can control. Keiwa can only judge her from his own perspective, he doesn't understand her struggle to leave that world behind and might push the self-righteous belief that Neon is "wasting" her assets on bringing happiness, instead of "world peace". I think he has the potential to become an antivillain later, if he gets too zealous about it.

I think Ace's motivation is a little more heroic than that. The DGP seems to transcend the rules of the world, so if someone is unhappy with Ace's world, then Tsumuri gives them opportunity to change it. I also assume Rider deaths are exempt from reset, since Shirowe is absent from the new starting group of 7 Riders which includes Buffa from the previous game.

But yeah, someone's probably going to become the new God of Desire in 6 months. The new world could be a killing game (created by yet another monochrome bear) as you predict, or Tycoon could win and wish for "world peace", which will go badly wrong.

Haven't got a chance to watch yet, but I'm hoping tycoon and geats form a close primary and secondary rider bound. It's been a bit since we got one of those last one was Geats and Zi-O I feel like.

I could see it hapening honestly I'm JUST HOPING Takahashi doesn't turn this into Ex-Aid 2(signs are so far saying no but I'm confident whenever an evil rider debuts it's that (I don't think Buffa would be said evil rider he'll likely be an anti hero rider for now but not THE Villain (Think Taiga from Ex-Aid))