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Gotchard's design feels very anime. Like take Ichigo's design and really liven it up and more toyetic.

It's cool that we're going with Cards as a gimmick again since it's been so long. It seems like the forms involve combining a theme (Grasshopper, Pirate) with a vehicle (Train, Car). I wonder if that plays into the gimmick for the bike (assuming Gotchard has one).

I'm curious if going back to grasshopper implies some kind of throwback or plan for a more traditional show or some kind of anniversary theme (although I doubt they'll go as far with it as past shows).

Sanjo and Sakamoto?

Well, Sanjo hasn't done a Rider show since Drive so it'd be kind of interesting to see how he would handle writing a modern Rider show in the Reiwa era (and certainly with Inoue and Takahashi we see that sometimes you can bring out the best from old favorites when you give them another go rather than expecting them to repeat themselves). I enjoyed W and Drive, and Fuuto PI, so I'm not really concerned on that front. At the very least I'd like to think a Sanjo show will refrain from too much Rider vs Rider content.

I wonder if this is why Sakamoto isn't set to direct any Ultraman Blazar episodes because he was working on this? Or the new Ultra Galaxy Fight. I wonder if they already finished filming the latter. Either way I'm expecting some good action sequences and at least one or two rapid-form-change moments as is tradition for Sakamoto.