[Mesnick]

Personally, I think that after Super Sentai's transition to Project Red, as well as the increasing frequency of non-franchise tokusatsu projects like Wingman and the upcoming Forticus, we need to accept that Riders will become much more standard than they were in Heisei and early Rеiwa. Simply because back then, every hero was turned into a Rider (Hibiki) or added to a Rider movie (the Fourze summer movie, its crossover with Wizard, Kikaider Reboot in Gaim). Now, Toei has decided to explore other avenues. Of course, I doubt Riders will become insect-only again, but I imagine they won't have the same variety as before. At the very least, we definitely won't see another red main Rider anytime soon.

[Excellionus99]

I love the colors for the logo.

[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by Excellionus99

I love the colors for the logo.

Agree. It`s very nice looking.

[Annuga]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

This might be the first time I've seen someone regard Zeztz as an anniversary season.

Like, it's clearly using familiar iconography for the base aesthetic but like... that's all?

If that's all it takes to be considered an Anniversary Season then uh, I've got no words.

No no, I mean Zi-O, Revice and now supposedly My-th. All those would be 3 in a decade cause Zi-O was 2018

EDIT: To clarify, me skipping Revice and Zeztz was meant to be a seperate statement, seeing only 3 Rider shows in the past 5 years just makes 2 in that time feel like it's been less than 5 years

[Frontier]

I'm curious how the focus on myths will differentiate itself from Saber but the possible cheese/puzzle motif might help.

[Grupletruge]

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Originally Posted by alanch90

OK I?m excited about the premise because I?m into myths and such. But I?ll keep expectations low because last time there was something similar we ended up with Saber, in my opinion one of the worst Reiwa series (together with Gatchard).

Yeah I have to admit I'm divided on this one. I'm really interested in myths but modern fantasy media has kind of lost me. I was obsessed with LotR as a kid but even that has kind of grown stale. I feel like a lot of fantasy has really conservative, nostalgic, sometimes even authoritarian messaging.

I was really excited about Saber as well based on the theme, but the execution (other than the suits, which were sick) just did nothing for me, it felt like the worst written series at the time. Same with Gotchard, the Alchemy theme was really exciting, I've always been interested in alchemy and have recently been studying it quite a bit. They did finally touch on some cool stuff near the end regarding the themes, but show mostly felt like an all-bread sandwich...

I'm still hopeful, but I'll remain guarded, its a little easier because while I'm enjoying Zeztz, Geats and 01 were 2 of my favorite riders, after more than a decade watching toku. Following those shows with Saber and Gotchard respectively was tragic.