Skip to main content

My Reaction To Kamen Rider Zi-O's Latest Rumor

Image taken from Ukiyaseed 

So I guess it's time for another copy/paste then insert my views huh? Well, it's time to take this rumor with a grain of salt since it's still freaking July AND Kamen Rider Build is still in its second to the last month. Anyway, I'd like to give my reaction to what Ukiyaseed has to say with these words below:

Kamen Rider Zi-O will use 24 different clock faces to represent 24 hours needed to access the Rider's timeline to use their powers. The Kamen Riders and the hour they represent in Zi-O's clock are:

01am - Kuuga
02am - Agito
03am - Ryuki
04am - Faiz
05am - Blade
06am - Hibiki
07am - Kabuto
08am - Den-O
09am - Kiva
10am - Decade
11am - Rider #1
12am - V3
01pm - W
02pm - OOO
03pm - Fourze
04pm - Wizard
05pm - Gaim
06pm - Drive
07pm - Ghost
08pm - Ex-Aid
09pm - Build
10pm - Zi-O
11pm - BLACK
12pm - BLACK RX

Take note, the only concrete info we have about the new Kamen Rider is that he is the 20th Heisei Kamen Rider and that this new Kamen Rider will transcend space and time.


I was thinking about how there's that Decade Meltdown happened very much last 2009. Toei managed to learn its lesson and managed to fix things with Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger with how they dealt with the whole "let's cram all previous seasons into one show" scenario. 

Zi-O is actually the tenth entry from Decade, W, OOO, Fourze, Wizard, Gaim, Drive, Ghost and EX-AID. In the whole of the Heisei era (and yes this era is COMING to an end this 2019 due to the incumbent Japanese Emperor Hirohito's scheduled abdication) it would be the 20th Rider. In the case of counting with the whole Showa era (I just care too much about most super old school Kamen Rider) let's count all the way from Rider #1, V3, X, Amazon, Stronger, Skyrider, Super-1, Black and Black RX would equal to 29 Kamen Rider series before Zi-O is presented. Hmmmm... it'd be the 30th Kamen Rider already!

I can be both excited and nervous at the same time. Sure, it's nice to have a massive anniversary like Gokaiger while it's also possible to screw innovative thinking during the implementation phase. Decade is a brilliant idea but it just didn't make the cut. Gokaiger did the idea of Decade right. I just hope that the team will have a good producer and hopefully giving more competent second writers a chance to become a headwriter.

Until then, I'll be looking forward to the conclusion of Kamen Rider Build and waiting for the appearance of this new Kamen Rider. 

Comments