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Originally Posted by Mesnick

I think the sixth Reiwa's season will be quite innovative. Plus, to be fair, the Geats don't have any fox-related abilities (besides bike transformation) so it's a stretch to call him an animal rider. In this regard, by the way, it turns out that we never received a kitsune rider, so we are waiting for the Kamen Rider Yokai season to fill this gap.

Just because he hasn't exhibited animal abilities doesn't really change it from having an animal theme. It's STILL visually an animal, no cutting around it, no moving goalposts here. It shouldn't even be a factor here, considering how in other seasons they weren't always strictly animal-based abilities. Ryuki's Riders didn't, Blade's Riders didn't, Kabuto's Riders didn't... in fact, the only ones that you could argue had animal-based abilities are Build, OOO, and Zero-One, but Build's thing was mixing organic and inorganic halves together, OOO's were still pretty off the wall (I don't think in real life stag beetles can create lightning or lions radiate light), and same with Zero-One (tigers and bears do not have fire or ice powers respectively).

Like I'm excited about Geats' kitsune motif since we usually use wolves for canine-themed Riders, but I'm just kinda down that it's STILL animals and we haven't had a strictly nonanimal Rider since Zi-O (and I don't count Zi-O OOO Armor because that is first and foremost an OOO themed form, and OOO was animal-themed, and it's not Zi-O's main form). I know I'm being a little too defensive about my position on it, but like, I am still genuinely excited, just that I hope after this we won't get another animal Rider.