[Helios]

My guess for those two mystery characters in the Level 1 transformation for the Ex-Aid riders is that it'll be Paradox's two forms.

[TF RyuShin]

I don't think it would be like that. Why would they make two different character screens for showing the same Rider? It would be understandable if Paradox is two different Riders, but it's not the case here. Maybe, we would get a last Rider in the 3rd quarter or even in the movie. Seeing that Ex-Aid will get his Super or Final form in the next quarter, it would be understandable if another Rider appears. Remember, Toei is really picky to give upgrades to multi Rider shows nowadays. I even can't be sure if Brave will even get another final upgrade later.

[barnstenchfartface]

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Originally Posted by TF RyuShin

I don't think it would be like that. Why would they make two different character screens for showing the same Rider? It would be understandable if Paradox is two different Riders, but it's not the case here. Maybe, we would get a last Rider in the 3rd quarter or even in the movie. Seeing that Ex-Aid will get his Super or Final form in the next quarter, it would be understandable if another Rider appears. Remember, Toei is really picky to give upgrades to multi Rider shows nowadays. I even can't be sure if Brave will even get another final upgrade later.

Well...every other Rider has two screens too. So it would almost fit. I doubt it is Paradox though, since he doesn't use the Gamer Driver. I think they're just for GENM, considering. The colors kinda match too.

[Diamondmatter]

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Originally Posted by TF RyuShin

I don't think it would be like that. Why would they make two different character screens for showing the same Rider? It would be understandable if Paradox is two different Riders, but it's not the case here. Maybe, we would get a last Rider in the 3rd quarter or even in the movie. Seeing that Ex-Aid will get his Super or Final form in the next quarter, it would be understandable if another Rider appears. Remember, Toei is really picky to give upgrades to multi Rider shows nowadays. I even can't be sure if Brave will even get another final upgrade later.

Ex-Aid already kinda has an edge over Gaim in the form department - Five Riders from the start who will have a big chibi form, a normal form, upgrade armor, and four will share an upgrade after that, then two will get a full body upgrade after that (one of which requires three suits!). And then a totally different Rider with two forms.
If Ex-Aid doesn't go completely bonkers on the Rider count like Gaim did, and something's telling me the won't go quite that far, then we're more likely to get some "closure forms" for Brave and even Snipe or Lazer.



Which reminds me of something cool I noticed - When we got the Q2 scans I saw that the pic of Lazer with DKHZ looked like the bike, with the same dorky helmet as LV1/the bike form. I thought it was another unfortunate change from the concept art - but then I realized, he didn't have any of the black and gold from GiriGiri Chambara. He just lacked the armor from it to give him the other helmet!

[barnstenchfartface]

New VO short, spoilers for ep 3 I guess.

Some potentially interesting plot stuff in this one. I can't be completely sure without subs, but it sounds like the Proto Gashats may have been involved in the Incident five years ago in some way, and the fact that Dan still has them is seemingly problematic. And a secret. Interesting. We haven't seen much of Dan in the show itself, but these Virtual Operation shorts are making him out to be about as shady as we expected. Makes me wonder what exactly the PGR Gashat is gonna be doing in Heisei Generations...

[Fish Sandwich]

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New VO short, spoilers for ep 3 I guess.

Oh man, these things are so weird. It's like, 80% exposition on unimportant crap I already know (though I like the idea that Taiga feels compelled to point out the joke in how he holds the Gashat, like he's really proud he came up with it), and then 20% vital exposition given out before the actual show gives it to you. Like, wow, Taiga has that kind of dirt on GENM? That explains why he would be given a Driver way better than just the cash we saw.

[barnstenchfartface]

Oh my god.

I was just rewatching the first Virtual Operations episode to get a good look at the Proto Gashats and I just noticed the PDKHZ Gashat has a special molded dragon head on it just like the regular one does. I could have sworn it was a regular Gashat the last time I saw it.

And here I was disappointed by the fact that the Q2 catalog revealed how it looks when they actually revealed it right after the first episode. I'm friggin blind.

This is good though, gives me an idea of the size/shape/dimensions of the thing compared to regular ones. Was wondering whether it could fit inside the Gashat Case. It...may not?

Anyway.

On a different subject.

I really like how each Rider has their own little phrase for their Level 2 transformation for some reason. It's neat. Looking forward to seeing what Kiriya's is. I'm seriously like 50% hoping he just steals one of Drive's.

[Helios]

Since the monsters are actually villains from the game, my guess is that Graphite will be the villain for Drago Knight Hunter Z, so he'll probably be killed off in December. Then, Parad will take his Bugster Buckle and Bugvisor and become Genm Level X.

[The Chaos Entity]

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Since the monsters are actually villains from the game, my guess is that Graphite will be the villain for Drago Knight Hunter Z, so he'll probably be killed off in December. Then, Parad will take his Bugster Buckle and Bugvisor and become Genm Level X.

So who'd be Paradox then?

[Helios]

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So who'd be Paradox then?

Brand new character maybe? Maybe the head of Genm Corp?