[TheJaz]

The whole linking hesei and reiwa series thing is honestly pretty goofy to me. Like I wouldn't be shocked if there was some effort on toei's part to create some vague similarities, but rider generally has a lot of tropes and idea recycling, and the shows are so long that I think you could pretty easily draw comparisons between any two random shows....

Like I think the most compelling one is "saber and ryuki" and that's literally just that the main character is a red dragon and a knight, and there's a lot of riders and that's like literally all the substantial similarities (and calling even those "Susbatantial" is being generous lol). It feels very likely it was totally coincidental since Saber is story book themed so it's not shocking to me in the least that the main character is themed after dragon and knight stories, that was always going to be the obvious route for that theme