Since there's no thread regarding the next rider after Zero-One, I will give my thought on the rumor.

If next rider is a pair (hopefully more like Double/Drive situation) and both of them are a guy and a girl, I wonder what would make strong narrative.

A couple or brother/sister duo?

I would be surprised if they do couple route since they forbid actors to do any kissing scenes due to COVID-19 pandemic (unless they find a way for them to show their love for each other)

I don't know cause romance can be a gamble

It could be the best use of romance or the worst use of romance.

But

If they do brother/sister duo, you can go two ways

1. If the male lead is older, he will act like overprotective brother to his sister and the female lead doesn't want to be a little girl anymore and want to help her older brother out.

2. If the male lead is younger, he want to prove his older sister that he's no longer a baby boy anymore and want to become a Kamen Rider alongside her.

I don't know! I just hope they get a head writer who know what to do with the story or else it will be another Ghost situation.

I like how 02 looks, but I'm in the "that's not the final form" camp.

I think this form is probably when the Driver directly taps into Zea or where Izu's consciousness is fused into the Progrise key, or maybe both.

Aruto and Izu fused into one? That sound like a Double, Drive and even Build situation where 2 characters who have a special relationship with each other fused into one (Yes, Sento and Banjo temporarily fused into one during the event of Build summer movie)

Looks like I'm in the "I like it because it's so simple" camp. The new driver parts and new name make it feel like a true rebirth rather than just another power-up, and that combined with the way it resembles a base form makes me almost want it to become Aruto's new default form, despite normally being annoyed when final forms do that! The whole thing reminds me of CycloneJokerXtreme and Type Tridoron in that it's an evolution of the rider's original form, and those were two of my favorite final forms, so I'm pretty hyped.

Even setting aside whether it's the true final form or not, I really like Zero-Two's design. It looks a bit more solid and armored than Rising Hopper or most of Zero-One's other forms, but still sleek and agile, not bulky like ShiningAssaultHopper (which was still a decent form but easily my least favorite). And I appreciate that it has the yellow parts in mostly the same places Rising Hopper had them, on the legs, chest and face, while the new red and silver parts are placed on the arms and side of the head where Rising Hopper just had the plain black undersuit.

Kamen Rider Zero-One Show Aims to Restart Filming on June 1 With New Guidelines:

• The film crew will maintain strict social distancing guidelines while filming.
• Gathering into large adjacent groups should be avoided.
• The film crew will maintain at least a two-meter distance from each other (except for actors while filming scenes).
• All meetings will be conducted online as much as possible.
• Action scenes involving more than 20 actors will be forbidden.
• In order to maintain social distancing during the filming of wire action scenes, the support staff members will be limited to two per actor on a wire (normally up to four or five per actor) during filming.
• The production will avoid scenes with multiple actors on wires.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...elines/.159953

well. at least they're taking measures to make the show continue while staying safe. that's good.

Now I want Aruto to make a pun between "Mask" and "Kamen" in the next episodes or I'll be disappointed.

What are the chances that they could have the premiere of the new rider be October again just to have a bit more episodes. Because if its resuming broadcast in late June, It wouldn't leave them a lot of episodes if it ends in August as usual.

Well based on past series we should have one more break and if they were to start the new rider in September then Zero-One would have 46 episodes which is one more than Ex-Aid and one less than Gaim. If Toei decided to start the next Rider series in October then Zero-One would have 50 episodes.

In that case I wouldn't be shocked if we go the Kuuga route for the final form and not have it debut until the final battle