[Mesnick]

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Originally Posted by weedle013ZiO

When Zeztz begins airing, it?ll have been three years since Geats, six since Zero-One, and nine since Ex-Aid

Number theory is back in the most unexpected forms!
But while Geats was a marathon swim in a pool of broken glass to me, I have no problem with Takahashi. He has his strengths and he knows how to hold the audience's attention. Plus, I think it's wrong to blame one person for the entire show.

[Switchblade]

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Originally Posted by weedle013ZiO

The most popular speculation I?ve seen is that it?ll be Takahashi.
When Zeztz begins airing, it?ll have been three years since Geats, six since Zero-One, and nine since Ex-Aid

I hope not. Dude has been consistently diminishing returns.

[Enchilada645]

While I don't mind Takahashi too much, and enjoy the show he's done to varying degrees, I wouldn't want him for Zeztz.

I feel like he's shown us all he could since Ex-Aid and his shows (specials and movies included) kind of run into similar territories when you examine them closer. Unless he's got new material then it's going to feel kind of the same, which is something I really don't want.

Let someone else from the roster of Toei's Rider series return, or hell bring in someone from Sentai who has yet to work on Rider or even someone new.

[GoldenXtreme]

Yeah, I don't dislike Takahashi but having the same guy write every third show has worn very thin for me. Hoping for someone new or someone who hasn't written for the series in a while!

[Tokumonkey]

I seem to recall seeing ZZZ used as shorthand for sleeping/snoozing in Japanese media, so yeah, sleep seems likely, particularly the way it's laid out on that hopefully-accurate sketch. (Although also re: the sketch: I am now LONGING for a Rider who doesn't have multiple alternate forms, destined to be forgotten after the first quarter, right out the gate.)

[Frontier]

I love Ex-Aid, Zero-One, and Geats, but count me in the camp that thinks we need some new blood or anyone that's not Takahashi.

Plus I feel like even he's probably feeling burnt out after writing all of Geats.

[Zolda]

Yea, like everyone said, based on the name, this series likely has a sleep/dream/day-dream/imagination theme. Perhaps the internal logic works like a combination of KR Zi-O, the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the Gridman/SSSS.Gridman/SSSS.Dynazenon series, Donnie Darko (2001), Inception (2010)/Paprika (2006)/The Cell (2000), and Dreamscape (1984). The main protagonist could be an eager guy who had a big, exciting dream (hence the name Zeztz that was likely inspired by the the word zest) and possessed a latent/hidden ability, some kind of combination of reality-altering/bending/manipulation power (like Sougo Tokiwa did in KR Zi-O and Haruhi Suzumiya did) and dream infiltration/manipulation abilities similar to what the Gridman hosts and the characters in Inception/Paprika/The Cell did. At some point in the story there could happen a connection between dream and reality in the form of a reality-altering dream like shown in Donnie Darko and Rider Time: KR Zi-O vs KR Decade.

The ability to enter a human's subconscious realm was also shown in KR Wizard when KR Wizard or KR Beast entered a Gate's Underworld to prevent the Phantoms from wreaking havoc there, although it didn't cause a change in the real world, only creating new Phantoms. In KR Den-O, Imagins were also able to enter a human's subconscious realm (i.e. their contract holder's memory), traveled to the past and wreaked havoc there, and caused drastic changes in the future world. In KR Zeztz, the villains could be actual otherworldly beings that invaded the human world (and materialized) through people's nightmares, a combination of the premises of Dreamscape and Gridman/SSSS.Gridman/SSSS.Dynazenon. Dreams/imaginations could be seen as a portal to potential worlds or even alternate worlds, and the villains (and the Riders) could likely harness the energy from humans' dreams to manifest themselves and make themselves stronger. Many surreal, bizarre dream sequence scenes and confusing (or even convoluted!) internal logic similar to Inception could likely appear in the story.

The pointy corners of the logo have that jagged, slightly cartoonish look that are often used in old cartoons to depict a hole in the wall, which could be a visual clue that the villains likely came from a "dream realm" and broke free to the human world through people's nightmares. At least it looks more neutral/ambiguous and non-descript compared to KR Gavv's logo.

Mmmmmaaaaayyyyybbbbbeeeee...

[Skyrogue19]

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Originally Posted by Zolda

Yea, like everyone said, based on the name, this series likely has a sleep/dream/day-dream/imagination theme. Perhaps the internal logic works like a combination of KR Zi-O, the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the Gridman/SSSS.Gridman/SSSS.Dynazenon series, Donnie Darko (2001), Inception (2010)/Paprika (2006)/The Cell (2000), and Dreamscape (1984). The main protagonist could be an eager guy who had a big, exciting dream (hence the name Zeztz that was likely inspired by the the word zest) and possessed a latent/hidden ability, some kind of combination of reality-altering/bending/manipulation power (like Sougo Tokiwa did in KR Zi-O and Haruhi Suzumiya did) and dream infiltration/manipulation abilities similar to what the Gridman hosts and the characters in Inception/Paprika/The Cell did. At some point in the story there could happen a connection between dream and reality in the form of a reality-altering dream like shown in Donnie Darko and Rider Time: KR Zi-O vs KR Decade.

The ability to enter a human's subconscious realm was also shown in KR Wizard when KR Wizard or KR Beast entered a Gate's Underworld to prevent the Phantoms from wreaking havoc there, although it didn't cause a change in the real world, only creating new Phantoms. In KR Den-O, Imagins were also able to enter a human's subconscious realm (i.e. their contract holder's memory), traveled to the past and wreaked havoc there, and caused drastic changes in the future world. In KR Zeztz, the villains could be actual otherworldly beings that invaded the human world (and materialized) through people's nightmares, a combination of the premises of Dreamscape and Gridman/SSSS.Gridman/SSSS.Dynazenon. Dreams/imaginations could be seen as a portal to potential worlds or even alternate worlds, and the villains (and the Riders) could likely harness the energy from humans' dreams to manifest themselves and make themselves stronger. Many surreal, bizarre dream sequence scenes and confusing (or even convoluted!) internal logic similar to Inception could likely appear in the story.

The pointy corners of the logo have that jagged, slightly cartoonish look that are often used in old cartoons to depict a hole in the wall, which could be a visual clue that the villains likely came from a "dream realm" and broke free to the human world through people's nightmares. At least it looks more neutral/ambiguous and non-descript compared to KR Gavv's logo.

Mmmmmaaaaayyyyybbbbbeeeee...

Perhaps the overall theme is chasing your dreams to an extreme where you ignore everything else.

[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Skyrogue19

Perhaps the overall theme is chasing your dreams to an extreme where you ignore everything else.

Yes, that could be the case. The MC could be an overly optimistic dreamer with a severe tunnel vision who's chasing the end of the rainbow while ignoring everything in front of him, so he's basically the opposite of Eiji Hino/KR OOO, haha.

[Mesnick]

Or the main character is a perpetually sleepy guy. Then if Den-O is added to Zeztz's extra content, for once we can focus not on Momotaros, but on Kintaros.