Still trying to imagine how will they do Kuuga. Perhaps they'll bring back Ichijou and Kuuga will appear in suit only?

That's an really good point, shame it doesn't apply to what I said:

Notice that I didn't say a poorer life would've made Sougo hate the world, I said that him wanting money and power to take care of his loved ones would've made his desire to be a king and subsequent fall from grace more believable to me.

If your curious as to why, it's because I've seen it happen before:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20120617190331

Really getting use out of the Edo set early this season, huh Toei?

Also I feel sorry for that Edo woman serving them tea, she must be very confused and slightly terrified by the glowing glass sheet dispensing mon coins that these two oddly dressed weirdos have.

That was pretty neat. I always like seeing how shows/movies display tech from the future.

no doubt that woman thought it was magic.

Makes sense. She probably would think those two were kitsune or some other shapeshifting youkai with mystical youkai artifacts.

It should be late 2017, but it's Sougo's world, not build's(which is why we saw the date again, likely concurrently to Sougo in Build's world which is why Woz used Build another Watch first to mark the first time Sougo met Build). Likely before the new year though. The poster says 11.17-2.28, so it could be anywhere between there before 2018 or right before then since that poster has to go up before that date to advertise it, like how the milk expiration dates are used. Had to be Sougo's world, because there'd be no point in doing that in Build's 2017 world. Plus it's part of the 'time changes' that she warns about on the timeline in the scene prior that sets it up.

Then the newspaper says multiple athletes missing, and one pictured is with a ping pong paddle. So there might be more than the 3 victims we saw. The first two were tennis and karate, and one of the newspaper pictures looks like a kendo sword being held besides the ping pong guy. Then zio defeats him in September 2018, so that'd suggest from somewhere after 11.17.2017 but before 2018 to near 09.10.2018(likely actually the air date since the date shown is the expiration date of the milk, and Banjo's scene prior shows us that date is a week off) the monster was roaming around. We'll probably get more on that next episode because of the timeline changes it caused to dive into that more. If that's the case, might explain why he has forms to fight the monsters of that form. He defeats some twice. First time in the present to save people, and second time in the past to save the victims.

That seems pretty intentional because of the impact athletes in particular have on timelines because of how their disappearance changes sports outcomes. And it's also interesting that Another Build was playing basketball, has basketball attacks, and is mentioned to have only attacked athletes. Which shows some kind of drive that pertains to potentially the dream he would have lost when the car hit. Which also coincides to the uncle's talk about 'chance to chase dreams' right after that. Which seems like an intentional reference to how Woz picks people.

Though kind of weird to see short sleeves and shorts when it's cold enough to snow. But the snow was also more about something else as internal symbolism. Same reason Ghost was picked too for Geiz. Those two things are internally related. (Elephant T-Rex is part of that too.)

And yup, Woz picks either people that were going to die, or were going to have their dreams die. Which will likely determine their another rider abilities.

Makes me wonder if Sougo's world might be one of the connected ones like some other series were since W. How it's blatantly said to not mess up timelines, suggests they intermingle more even across parallel timelines. Which that line also suggests the Faiz Shot made Sento and Banjo either think it was a dream too, or wiped their memories. (Turns memories to dust?)

Technique-wise, the entire episode is constructed pretty uniformly and solidly with no filler, and every piece playing a symbolic part in the whole of the episode. You change or remove any of it, and it doesn't work. It's very much a clockworks episode by techniques where each element transitions into the next, and is filled in exposition by side dialogue seamlessly in character. Every part contributing to the whole of understanding it. Very well done. Major respect to how well they pulled it off and did it. I like smart shows where it doesn't assume the audience is dumb and assumes they will pick up on the details.

It was so nice to see that again. That thing popped up in so many Den-O movies, but it feels like we haven't seen it on Rider in ages.

Also I love that ambient middle eastern music for Zi-O tense moments. I guess its a "sands of time" thing?

It was not Woz that picked or transformed him though, the character in question was not named yet either.

Woz is also listed as an ally character on the wiki, while the not named villain is under villains so.

I do agree with you though, but at the same time I am dreading the return of the 100% 2 episode storyline hell D:

You know one thing I didn't understand about he episode?

...why was a dinosaur roaring like an elephant?