[Kurona]

I've been juggling with some thoughts in my head about this Driver for a bit now, so basically my positives are:-

- The Driver essentially being a disguised OOO scanner is a very clever and very neat way of going about it! We haven't really seen a 'scanner' type thing in a while as the main gimmick, and I think it's pulled off pretty well here.
- The sword being included with the belt is... great! It makes it feel a LOT more like part of Saber, Blades etc.'s kit without feeling like a forced prerequisite as many Rider swords do especially recently, and as a toy you're just getting a lot more out of this as a product. I'm also not sure we've seen anything like this before? We've seen weapons as drivers to be sure, stuff like the Shotriser was awesome; but I don't think we've seen a weapon and a belt working in tandem outside of some upgrades. I really like this, stands out a lot!
- The sword itself looks pretty nice! Bit dinky? Well... yeah, but this is a DX Rider toy. I've kinda made peace with that for a good while now and for what it is it looks very nice, and I like what they seem to be doing with different books giving different blade light colours to differentiate each Rider's sword.
- The way three books line up with each other is a really nice way of creating a picture! I've mostly seen it so far with the Zero-One 'books' but it's VERY cool overall and I'm looking forward to seeing more of it.


But that's unfortunately where the positives end for me -- much as I like the sword, the driver itself is VERY bland, and is only worse when the sword is pulled out of it (so all the time after transforming). I wish they'd gone for some sort of more interesting shape or colour or design to it but as-is it just looks like a chunk of black plastic... which, admittedly, is not easy to work around with the gimmick item. Much as I like how the completed picture looks, the books themselves feel like a very awkward idea for a gimmick item and unless there's a lot of them, they just don't look great in the driver.
I'm also not a fan of the VERY long jingles; I'm into the sillier side of singing drivers, I like me some Ghost rapping and I LOVE me some Grand Zi-O; but if every jingle's gonna be a giant speech, I'm gonna get tired of it very quickly. Remember when after the first few henshins they started cutting down Grand Zi-O's jingle a lot at the end of Zi-O? Remember how awkward that was? Be prepared for that in, like, all but three episodes of this season.