[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by FairyKing

I wonder if we'll get a season soon that's more mystical or supernatural themed instead of being scifi. We haven't had one of those since Ghost.

Yeah, I get your point. Even Ghost was hi-tech/sci-fi heavy themed, with the only actual supernatural element being the souls stored in Eyecons. As far as I know, the last mystical/supernatural Rider was Kiva. OOO was more like ancient technology.

I also wish we'll get another organic/biological themed Rider show. It was (kinda) used on Amazons, although the second season was more hi-tech/robotic themed. The last Heisei Rider with this theme was Hibiki, which also had mystical/supernatural theme.

Or perhaps season like Agito which had 3 main types of Rider: mystical/supranatural (Agito & Another Agito), hi-tech/robotic (the G Systems), and organic/biological (Gills).

We can clearly see why Ishinomori/Toei/Bandai/TV Asahi wants (or probably NEEDS) another hi-tech themed Rider show: It's WAAAAY more toyetic. The G Systems riders, Ryuki riders with all their weapons and specialties, Faiz riders with their gears disguised as electronic devices, Birth with his all his weapons, etc, they all use plenty of items, not only as weapons, but also the source of their power. More items used (or, heck, even only displayed) on TV = more toys & merchs possibilities. It's harder to create toys and merchs to sell when your Riders transform their own body (ex: Gills), uses small transformation devices (ex: Hibiki riders), has very small number of power/form variations (ex: again, the Hibiki riders), uses only one device to access all his powers (ex: Kuuga, Agito, Den-O), etc. Basically anything that hinders your Rider characters from using shitload of items is not good for toy & merch sales. The worst case was Hibiki. Despite its stellar story and approach (for the Takatera produced/first 30 episodes only), the toy sales was abysmal. This and several other issues were responsible for the worst debacle in Kamen Rider history that derailed the whole series from episodes 31, but that's another rant.

Back to topic, I see this trend of multiple transformation device was started in Kiva era. They were still doing it right up to Drive (and Amazons as an exception), until Ghost proved this trend to be detrimental to story and character development. It got worse in Ex-Aid, Build, and Zi-O. They gave too much power upgrades, weapons, and other items I can barely remember to the main Riders, but sacrificed depth and impact in story and character development so much we people in trading world would call those items "free lunch".

Dang, I better stop my rant here.