Seeing the unidentified Cloud Strife looking asshole on the left's so exciting, when was the last time they showed us a Rider without naming them or without leaks giving names?

Now,if something happened to make the lead writer need to be replaced; I would be estatic. Ghost was an abomination and a crime against kamen rider, the moron who wrote it shouldn't be allowed near kamen rider ever again.

What was the situation with Horobi and Jin last year?

I think neither Rider was addressed at the press conference even though they were in the poster, but I don’t remember if they were leaked or not.

EDIT: Horobi was leaked because of the Forceriser being in the toy catalogue, but Jin wasn’t since he didn’t have a designated toy for himself. So technically Jin?

Disliking Ghost is one thing, but this attitude is immature and uncalled for.

I hope you're right. Other than Alain's arc, I found Ghost to be a huge disappointment, and a lot of what bothered me were concept-stage flaws. (How many of those concepts came from Fukuda and how many were dictated by Bandai/Toei, I couldn't say.) The rest were execution: our hero dying in the first episode and living on as a ghost could have led to lots of terrific story beats, but the series often seemed to forget this part of its premise. The show never explored its more intriguing ideas, so I worry that Saber, too, could suffer from squandered-potential.

...ugh. Sorry. It's hard for me not to rant about Ghost because I watched the whole gosh-darned thing and felt like my time had been wasted. (I also understand that some people enjoyed Ghost a lot, and I'm happy for them.) We've been mostly very lucky since Ghost, with Ex-Aid, Build, and Zero-One featuring relatively strong writing. I wish we'd gotten someone with a track record that inspires confidence from more people.

I shouldn't feel all gloom-and-doom. Ghost was Fukuda's first crack at Kamen Rider; it's entirely possible he's learned from what didn't work in Ghost. Saber doesn't sound like it'll be loaded down with some of Ghost's concept baggage.

Alas, singing Drivers ahoy. Goodbye, Zero-One's slightly more restrained Driver noises.

See, it's nonsense like this that it's no wonder why people give the english speaking rider fanbase the rep that they do

That's a very appropriate analogy for a show with books as a motif.

I don't think that's a hole....

Zero One and Saber are totally filling in the blanks in the pattern from Heisei Phase 2!

I'm surprised that the protagonist is a little older this time. For reference, Naito (Touma) is older than Iijima (Emu) and younger than Inukai (Sento). Since Aruto is 4 years older than Takahashi, there are still no Reiwa Riders younger than me yet.

I enjoyed Ghost. However, I think the show was saved by Mouri, while Fukuda was busy making the second worst summer movie I've ever seen. Mouri saved Zi-O as well. I think Saber will be okay as long as it has a good secondary writer. It's the same for Zero One, which I think turned out a lot better than EX-Aid thanks to Kakehi. Writers like Takahashi, Fukuda and Shimoyama are capable of writing good content, but they need help.

Blades makes a lot more sense than Blaze for a water elemental Rider. They should really use the dzu kana more for plurals.

The protagonist is crazy about books and has a dragon assistant.

We've been laying a lot of blame for Ghost's mediocrity on Fukuda, but a lot of it had to do with poor overall producing. The producer makes a lot of overall conceptual decisions that the writer has to work with, so it's not all about one or the other being bad. (Personally, I didn't hate Ghost, but it didn't knock my socks off either.)

Do we know who the main producer for Saber is?

EDIT: Uh oh... the chief Toei producer appears to be Kazuhiro Takahashi, who also produced Ghost. :(

OTOH, he produced Fourze as well, and that's probably my favorite KR series of all time. So... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, we had Jin's name because of toy scans which also told us he'd take a power up from 01

Throw back to Build's announcement. Had Cross-Z on the poster but we had no fucking clue if he'd be called Cross or Claws untill an underwear leak.

Second? care to reveal what is the number one worst summer movie you ever seen?