So it looks like the villains have a more simple belt which looks a bit like the Ryuki Riders' ones, and they simply slide the Key into it.
Aruto's voice sounds a bit like Lupin Red, which is odd.
I like the Zero-One suit, except for the shoulder pads. They just unnaturally bulge up whenever he moves his arms. I know it's a Bandai required thing (to cover the shoulder joints on the toy figures) but it does spoil the sleek look of the suit.
I do like the subtle red detail lines on the Zero-One suit though.
The tagline for the show was "Learning completed. Initiating Progrise." Does this mean that Aruto is really an android and not a biological grandson?
Between that and the whole 'wanting to be a comedian but not having a sense of humor' thing, a lot of people are coming to that conclusion. Also, some translations of the blurb that I've seen suggest that access to the Zero Driver is dependent on being the president of Hiden Intelligence, so that could be a potential story arc where he's revealed as a HumaGear and thus stripped of both the title and his Rider powers.
The trailer is out. My hopes for early Heisei-style are somewhat dashed.
What had given you the impression they were going back to that?
I think it's going to be like another Double i.e. it's coming off the back of an anniversary season so they give the main suit more of a classic look but the show continues the general direction the franchise is going in.
I'm expecting quarterly toy intros, probably an evil dad, and a strong likelihood that some plot-lines will remain unresolved for the post-season direct-to-video special.
just as the last few Metal Hero shows in the 90s became Metal Sentais.
You mean Metal Robocons lol.
Is it just too much to have a belt like the Heisei phase 1 era? Less talky and just cool sounds?
The talky belts sell better than the old ones did, so Bandai's going to keep making them that way. At least for the main, kid-orientated seasons.
That aside, I like Vulcan and the way he moves. I'm not one of those who's been "dying" for a female Rider, as far as I know, most females I know don't even watch action movies
I'm not sure if 'female characters are included just to attract female viewers' is really a thing. Even if that were the case, it's more likely that they're trying to get some of the little girls who watched PreCure (which airs right before Rider) to stop turning over and keep watching, rather than attract adult women.
Anyways, from the scans, you can see Valkyrie isn't getting an upgrade like Zero-One and Vulcan is. I bet you 100% there's gonna be people screaming that Valkyrie get some kind of super form too. And, Toei might do that if she sells well.
We know she's getting the Lightning Hornet ProgRise Key, so she has at least one alternate form. Beyond that, it's whether she ends up being popular enough that they give her an unplanned additional form, as often happens with break-out secondary Riders. Possibly in a post-season special of some kind lol.
Someone also said that there's a subbed version of the trailer somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
GenmCorp fansubs have released an English subbed version of the trailer.
Well there will be barrier appear to shield him, maybe like Build pipe fence style which protect him before he insert that key.
There's always something CGI to fill that gap, whether it be Zi-O's exploding clock face, Build's pipes, Ex-Aid jumping into a game screen, or the Parka Ghosts flying around Ghost.
And as always, I'm sure it will get cut down for time pretty quickly too.
And what the heck was that narration at the end?
That would be the best part!