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Originally Posted by henshinzero

Does anyone have thoughts on how many riders there'll be in Geats?

Do you mean how many Riders will be shown upon inital the press conference reveal and whatnot, or the final count? It's much more interesting to think about the former of course, considering how it hints at the show's focus. Looking back in previous years:

Revice: Only ReVice shown (I'm not sure where'd I'd place their importance now, but yeah for the first chunk of the show the two's dynamic is the main focus. Revice has had a *slightly* slower release of Riders ngl and for a while had only 4 active Riders, which feels wild? This is me reaching into hella speculation territory but I'd wager depsite all the themes of family and whatnot we'll somehow snap back around into the two's parntership being the central focus in the last 4 episodes or smthn looool)

Saber: Immediately dumped 6 Riders on our asses, with our main trio front and center (Show ended with roughly 11 Riders, but we all know how rarely someone from the main trio actually got something meaty in that story. Calbiur's shilloutee overlooking the 5 not only solidifies him as villian of the first arc, but how the secret that lead Hayato/Daichi to take up Kurayami is a shadow over the Sword of Logos's activites)

Zero-One: The inital MJBR duo, AIMS duo, and 01 (more or less represents all factions of the story, Aruto and Horobi take up *alot* of space to highlight how clear the "endgame has these two fight because Reasons" idea they had from the start, Valkyrie is the smallest Rider on it because.......yknow.)

I could go on, but you get the point. I'd say it's a pretty easy guess to say we'll have at least a trio of Riders (not counting Rider-adjacent baddies/true Dark Riders) by the first 6 episodes, so having them all on the cover feels like a safe bet. Revice is an exception because of the demon gimmick, of course.

As for what kinds of Riders they would be.......Ngl, gimme a protagonist with a little more fire: a real hothead with a heart of gold, or an asshole who butts heads with everyone, or even a total eccentric......I've felt very lukewarm on the Reiwa protagonists, purely because they're all simple, well-meaning guys? That isn't an crime, but it sure gets dull/limiting in terms of what kind of stories they can do with these heroes?