[Fish Sandwich]

I'm not actually big on Geats' design yet, but that's honestly more of a relief than anything. Rising Hopper, Brave Dragon, and Rex Genome were three all-time amazing base forms for me three years in a row, so it's actually kind of nice to not have to worry about debating with myself if a new guy tops my old favorites or not for the first time in a while.

It's hard to peg down, but my immediate impression of Geats is that it's not as distinctive as I'm used to for Rider leads, and not as communicative either. But then like, we've got that plot summary now with a description of the dude's personality, and already the aggressive vibe of the suit seems to be fitting pretty well, so maybe first impressions don't count for everything. And I mean, it's not like I even thought it looked bad to begin with. It's definitely going to make more sense the more we learn about the show and its gimmicks, and I'm definitely going to get used to seeing it every week. (Honestly, even just the tail scarf being shown off on the key visual makes me love it a lot more already.)

Takebe and Takahashi is a pretty interesting staff combo! I still consider Takahashi to be a particularly brilliant writer for Rider in a lot of ways, and Takebe was the producer behind a whole lot of my favorite toku shows ever, but there's kind of no telling exactly what the two of them will bring to this particular series. It definitely sounds like they're shooting for "Ex-Aid + Gaim", broadly speaking, but you know, we'll see!

At any rate, as a dog lover, I got what I'm after. We've got Precure, Sentai, and Rider all prominently featuring canines at the same time. I'd make a joke about this being the Reiwan era now, except foxes have a different onomatopoeia. Dang!