Personally, I'm all for merging three into one rider. In general, with the theme of alchemy, they may well create an artificial homunculus rider, like Yongo, only with cards.

I guess it's a possibility. They seem like Homunculi after all. Rather the final boss be a monster or a rider.

Please let at least one show end without a Rider for a final boss...

Revice was just recently.

Kamen Rider Juuga: "Am I a joke to you?"

Yes.

Gotchard is coming! Valvarad has the potential to be a secondary rider.

Wonder if any of these guys have potential to be riders in the future? Some may end up starting off "Kamen Warrior" first.

• Rinne Kudo
• Renge Icho
• Sabimaru Tsuruhara
• Minato

And in the near future perhaps a new rider who's a homunculus. Or even like Alphonse Elric who's soul is now encased in a suit of armor.... otherwise a belt like Krim Steinbelt.

In a recent magazine covering Gotchard there was some interesting info given:

- So far there have been 50 masks (forms) designed for Gotchard and that the team behind the show will try to show off as many as possible, however due to budget reasons some forms will only appear as wild forms (big CGI ones, see Mad Pilets + Steam Liners CGI grasshoper form).

- In contrast to the last few Rider shows, Gotchard will have a very small amount of Riders in it. The name "Kamen Rider" will be much rarer.

-Lastly the Dark Sisters are able to fuse with Chemys in order to obtain monster forms. The Sisters apparently do not have their own unique monster forms but instead change constantly depending on what Chemy they fuse with.

Makes sense. I hope that they'll make all of them as Souchaku Henshin armors to show off what they should look like outside of the Wild Forms, though. Like it sounds like it should be possible, I think.

Fair enough, even if I enjoy seasons with a ton of Riders. Figures we'd go back to a smaller cast of Riders after having a season that's the undefeated contender for most Riders in a season.

Wonder if this means we'll get more "Kamen Warriors" or even the idea that each of the other Rider-esque characters will be called something else, like a "Kamen Knight" or a "Kamen Defender", like different class distinctions, while only Gotchard is the only "Kamen Rider".

That's definitely an interesting idea. I like that, it's like they have different forms like Riders, but the forms are different Monsters of the Week instead.

Well, I think that if only one rider was planned for the show, then this would be directly stated. Although, perhaps, the words "very little" were used in case of a forced change in the script. Personally, I would be very surprised if there are less than three riders in the main show.

This is a very cool idea. It?s strange, by the way, that they didn?t think of it before, you can save a lot on the voice acting of monsters and for once show that the hero can convince the villain of two episodes to reject the dark force without beating him up. Also, hopefully, they will be given individuality. That is, when different sisters use the same card, monsters of different colors and / or abilities will be obtained.