[Librarian]

Rider G-O and the call the the toyline "rider kicks".

Toei's having way too much fun with this. Hope it translates well to the show as equally fun.

Glad to see the shoulders are a bit more toned down than previous art made it seem. Those seem much more manageable, and still cool looking.

Though, uh, that entire arm device with power up armors +the robo that can alternate how it looks, seems oddly familiar... In a good way.

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Originally Posted by Xtreme RX

Gokaiger had the releases staggered though. So we would get fillers and tribute episodes between new toy releases. If Zi-O is anything like Build, we are going to be seeing a new Rider Armor almost every week. That's too fast. Unless they gain the RideWatch first and then go back to do a tribute episode later in the season. I mean it's possible.

I honestly don't expect this show to last past April, when the abdication is supposed to happen. Toei has probably planned around the era change.

Compare it more to Decade on episode spacing then. Gokai had a longer time frame to space things out, whereas Decade had to cram minimum 9 rider series into 30+ episodes. So this looks similar with covering 19 series within that same rough episode count. Doable, but a brisk pace, and will likely setup something for later too or have some kind of massive movie thing like Decade did and extra specials.

So the Decade to W transition is a better thing to compare/analyze than the Gokai specials, though seemingly this might have some nods to Sentai in it. Seems rather perfect now that this rider has a robo. Like the enemy Robo in some of the other Rider spinoff specials/vs movies. Now it won't be only J with a giant decade driver.