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Originally Posted by Kurona

W. Was it? Huh? Is that what Saber's about???

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Originally Posted by FreshToku

I believe that statement as much as I believe all the marketing calling 01 an ushering of a new era. Which is to say not at all.

I think the literal words there might be making that statement sound more direct then it's meant to be? Like, imagine if someone said Fourze was created based on the concept of earthquakes. Not exactly inaccurate; but obviously not the whole picture.

It's pretty natural all that would be on the minds of the people making Saber, and they have been mentioning stuff along those lines since the show began. For instance, the page for the first episode on Kamen Rider Web where the producer outright says that "I decide how the story ends!" is as much a summation of their determination to make the show as it is Touma's determination to save people. There's definitely plenty of things about the production that were naturally influenced by all this, too, like the heavy use of green-screen backgrounds, and I vaguely recall seeing news articles around the announcement saying stuff along the lines of the initial concept of Kamen Riders saving people who have been literally boxed off from their everyday lives is ~maybe~ taking a page from recent events.

So, Kamen Rider Saber isn't about the pandemic, but it also isn't not about it.