[DreadBringer]

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Originally Posted by Kurona

Geats feels like that 'shot in the arm' to me. Maybe I'll feel different later but Rider's direction as a whole and dedication to its concept hasn't felt this tight in a long time

IMO Geats can feel Gaim-ish (yeah it had same director), so I wonder if people can also assume Geats is too out of place to be a Kamen Rider series or turn off people due to it (including you as you aren't a Gaim fan) despite its quality similar to Gaim.

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Originally Posted by JusticeMagnum

Funny enough that's apparently what Geats was meant to be since if I remember correctly there was an interview with Yuya Takahashi a while back where he stated that while Kamen Rider is well known in Japan, it's popularity doesn't seem to be increasing but instead is remaining stagnant. So when developing Geats he took influences from other popular media today such as (and I'm not kidding) Fortnite, Apex, and Squid Game to hopefully shake things up and make things more exciting. Also I believe there was mention that while the Riders do compete against each other, Takahashi wanted to put less emphasis on the Riders literally fighting each other since that's become sort of standard fair in Rider vs Rider shows/shows with a large amount of Riders.

I also thought it may come from how recently the Reiwa serieses all have troubled productions and ended up not being stellar, thus Takahashi wants to take the Rider series to its heights again in general. Which so far he seems to live up to it, though ofc Revice thing can still happen in Geats too of starting strong but ending up worse later (but the Desire Star stuff so far is stronger to have every characters having good arguments to be a Desire Star for debates).