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It is a 13 episode series comissioned by Amazon Japan exclusively for their Prime video streaming service (and to answer the obvious follow-up question, there's been no sign yet that Amazon are considering making this available for Prime subscribers in other countries). Each episode is around 45 minutes long and they are releasing one per week. Kobayashi is back as the head writer for this series. It is being produced by Shinichiro Shirakura, who previously worked on nine of the first ten Heisei Rider series (the one he skipped was Kiva). It seems to be aimed more at an older audience (ala Garo) instead of at the kids watching Ghost every Sunday morning.So what is this? Is this a sequel to the original series? Why Amazon? Is this a movie?
The setup of the first episode is completely different to the scenario of the original Amazon and there wasn't anything in the pre-release materials or the first episode that indicates there's a connection with the original show (or any other Rider) besides a few homages.