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Pre-premiere guesses
The 101st Chemy will unlock Gotchard's final form.
- Confirmed.
The secondary rider will be an independent Ride Chemy.
The Chemy will also appear in human form. Partners with another human who is unsuitable for fighting.Future guesses of possible Rider Chemy Cards
Note: confirmed entries are in bold- Confirmed Categories
- Animal
- A loyal dog
- A cat that acts as a magical familiar
- Lion (Rank 10)
- Badger
- Cheetah
- Eagle (Hawk is confirmed as Rank 6)
- Hedgehog
- Tiger
- Hyena
- Crocodile
- Shark
- Bull
- King Cobra (Snake is confirmed as Rank 7)
- Artifact
- Vacuum Cleaner
- A guitar that plays Magic Music
- Computer/Laptop (Rank 10)
- Analog Clock (Confirmed as Rank 7)
- A Watch
- Treadmill
- Soap
- Pen
- TV; one half of Telibi-kun's special theme (Confirmed as Rank 6)
- Sewing Thread
- Jackhammer
- Piledriver
- A digital device resembling an iPhone or iPad (Aside from the already-revealed Smartphone, no items counts)
- Insect
- Cockroach
- Spider (Not exactly an insect, but it might apply as a bug.) (Confirmed, but as a Rank 2 Animal)
- Dragonfly (Confirmed as Rank 6)
- Snail or slug (Again not an insect, but it applies as a bug.)
- Mosquito
- Wasp (Bee is confirmed as Rank 8)
- Plant
- Garlic
- Potato
- Lime
- Jack-O-Lantern Pumpkin
- Oak Tree (Rank 10) (A tree is Rank 10 but it's more based on Yggdrasil)
- Rose (Confirmed as Rank 7)
- Tomato
- Cotton
- Popcorn (Rank 9 for compatibility below)
- Mustard Tree (An alternative Rank 10)
- Sunflower
- Lily
- Animal
- Speculated Categories
- Mythological Creatures (Confirmed as Fantastic)
- Manticore
- Unicorn (Confirmed as Rank 3)
- Dragon (Confirmed as Rank 10. Also Bahaumat, a specific dragon, takes another slot as Rank 1)
- Phoenix (Confirmed as Rank 5)
- Pegasus
- Kraken (Confirmed, but as Occult Rank 7)
- Minotaur
- Cerberus (Confirmed as Rank 6)
- Hydra
- Elementals
- The Fiery Salamander; compatible with the above-mentioned Popcorn (Rank 1)
- An Air-elemental bird, more specifically, the middle-eastern mythological creature, Roc (Rank 6 for number pun in its name)
- Water-elemental half-fish Siren; compatible with the above-mentioned guitar
- A Pikachu Expy for Lightning (Rank 2)
- An Earth-elemental Gnome
- A Prism-themed biblically-accurate angel with Light powers (Rank 10) (A conventional Angel is confirmed, but as Occult Rank 4 with the motif of direction-giving)
- A Baku who uses shadow-powers to inflict sleep.
- Snowman, for the Ice element; also one half of a Christmas-theme
- A gas-mask Cephalothorax holding a flask, to represent Poison
- Sweets, represented by a wrapped candy dressed like Willy Wonka.
- Cloud
- Projectiles, especially to be used with Gotcharge Gun
- Throwing Knives (which can be picked up and used as a weapon)
- Homing Missiles
- Bazooka
- (Long-distance) Sniping
- Rain of Arrows
- Dynamite
- Rocket-propelled Grenade
- Dinosaurs and other ancient animals (Confirmed as Ancient)
- T-rex (Rank 10)
- Mammoth (mid-high rank) (Confirmed as Rank 9)
- Velociraptor (Confirmed as Rank 3)
- Triceratops (Rank 3) (Confirmed, but as Rank 8)
- Brachiosaurus (Rank 8)
- Saber-Tooth Tiger (Confirmed as Rank 5)
- Pterosaur (Confirmed as Rank 6)
- Stegosaurus
- Mineral
- Table salt (low rank)
- Iron (mid rank)
- Platinum (Rank 10)
- Gold, represented by a trophy (Rank 9)
- Silver, represented by a coin (Rank 8)
- Diamond (lower rank as a Joke Item; being overhyped as super-tough, but shatters like glass)
- Steel, represented by a sword
- Ruby, which has the power to shoot out a big, red laser.
- Sapphire, with a big emphasis on its mystical theme.
- Alexandrite (as a Lethal Joke Item which fires a laser that burns targets to death in seconds despite its meager damage level)
- Amethyst (enhances night vision)
- Large Boulder
- Stalactites
- Sports
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Baseball
- Rugby
- Javelin Throwing; compatible with the above Rain of Arrows
- Martial Arts in general (Rank 10)
- Swimming
- 400m relay
- Kayaking
- Hammer Throw
- Skiing
- Snowboarding
- Ice Hockey
- Rock Climbing
- Bungee Jumping
- Long Jump
- Cycle Sports
- Costumes
- Ballgown of a Fairy Tale Princess
- Knight's Armor
- Oni Mask
- Rainbow Pimp Gear (Rank 10)
- Power Glove
- Superhero Cape
- Thinking Cap
- Invisibility Cloak
- Pajamas
- Rain Boots
- High Priest Garment, especially with the 12 stones on the breastplate of judgement
- Food
- Hot Dog
- Burger
- Salad
- Ice Cream
- Protein Bar (Rank 1)
- Milkshake
- Popcorn
- Sandwich
- Buffet (Rank 10)
- Broccoli
- Mochi
- Maple Syrup
- Soba
- Katsudon
- Music
- DJ set (Rank 10)
- Trombone
- Grand Piano
- Violin
- A single, big Drum
- Didgeridoo
- Castanets
- Harp
- Singer, represented by the Siren
- Harmonica
- Kazoo (Rank 1)
- Tools
- Hammer
- Screwdriver
- Ax
- Shovel
- Saw
- Drill
- Jackhammer
- Multi-Purpose Drill (Rank 10)
- Sticky Tape
- Measuring Tape
- Glue
- Mythological Creatures (Confirmed as Fantastic)
Cards for past Riders
It's been revealed that past riders like OOO have cards with Chemys on them, OOOs being a chimera. What would the others be?- Main Riders
- Ichigo - Hopper1 in Ichigo(u)'s colors.
- Jossed - It's a scooter.
- Nigou - Locust with Boxing Gloves
- Jossed, it's a grasshopper cosplaying as Nigou
- V3 - Dragonfly
- Riderman - Himself, but chibi-fied
- X - Water bug
- Amazon - Monitor Lizard
- Stronger - Kabuto but in Stronger's color scheme
- Skyrider - Muscular locust in Skyrider's colors
- Super-1 - Cyborg-Grasshopper hybrid
- ZX - Cyborg Ninja
- Black - Lubber Grasshopper with Black's color scheme
- Black RX - Dark Army green lubber grasshopper with a black spot at the center
- Shin - Same as Ichigo but with Shin's color scheme
- ZO - Same as Ichigo but with ZO's color scheme and a red core at the center of its body
- J - Same as Ichigo but with J and Berry's color scheme
- Kuuga - All of the symbols on Kuuga's belt
- Preemptively jossed - It's a stag beetle
- Agito - Seeds of Agito
- Preemptively jossed - It's an eastern dragon
- Ryuki
- All thirteen card decks set on fire by a dragon
- Eastern serpentine dragon in a western knight armor - Confirmed, but it has Ryuki's visor
- A Dragon Knight
- Faiz - Cell phone
- Confirmed!
- Blade - Lightning-elemental swordsman
- Jossed, Blade is a buckle themed bug
- Hibiki - Oni-themed Drum
- Close enough...the Chemy looks like a drummer Cartoon Creature with drums on its back.
- Kabuto
- A rhinoceros beetle trapped in a jar
- Kabuto Zector- Confirmed
- Den-O
- Momotaros
- Den-Liner - Confirmed!
- Kiva
- Kivat, with its head stylized to resemble Kiva.
- Chained Coffin
- Jossed, Kiva is a stylized bat
- Decade - Tsukasa Kadoya's camera
- Preemptively jossed - it's a Cephalothorax of cards arranged horizontally
- Double
- The Gaia Library's interior
- Miniature Twins
- Close, it's twin Gaia Memories, one with Phillip's hair clip and the other with Shotaro's hat
- Fourze
- Rocket- Confirmed
- Astronaut
- Wizard - Dragon
- Confirmed!
- Gaim - Samurai-themed orange
- Confirmed!
- Drive - Tridoron
- Jossed, Drive is a tire
- Ghost - Ore Parka Ghost
- Confirmed!
- Ex-Aid - Mighty Action X Mascot
- Confirmed!
- Build - A red bunny riding in a blue tank
- Confirmed!
- Zi-O - Its Riderwatch Cephalothorax with a crown
- Close, it's a clock with Zi-O's face on the display donning a crown and a king's robe
- Zero-One - Two grasshoppers in which one is red and the other is lime green
- Preemptively jossed - It's a single lime green grasshopper
- Saber - A sword stabbing a book
- Preemptively jossed - It's a wingless dragon with Saber's visor and head sword tip.
- Revice - A tyrannosaurus trampling on some origami
- Preemptively close enough - Revi is a tyrannosaurus, but there's also Vice being an imp.
- Geats - Fox
- Confirmed!
- Amazon Omega - Angry monitor lizard
- Black Sun - Locust with solar eclipse colors
- Ichigo - Hopper1 in Ichigo(u)'s colors.
- Secondary Riders
- Knight
- Same as Ryuki but with a knight riding the dragon
- Bat in Knight's Armor - Confirmed!
- Next Kaixa - Kaixa Phone XX
- Confirmed!
- Ibuki
- Oni themed after a wind instrument
- Trumpet player - Confirmed, but the trumpet player's a ghost-like Oni
- Gattack - Gattack Zector
- Confirmed!
- Birth - Cartoonish versions of the Cell Medals forming an elephant with a back-mounted artillery cannon as a reference to his Birth Day form
- Jossed - it's a gachapon machine with a pair of claw arms
- Beast - a gold lion
- Confirmed!
- Baron - Knight-themed banana
- Confirmed!
- Specter - Specter Parka Ghost
- Confirmed!
- Geiz
- Same as Zi-O but with Geiz's Ridewatch wearing a cape reminiscent of Geiz Majesty instead of a crown
- A Cephalothorax clock with Geiz's face on its display donning a cape in a similar manner to Zi-O
- Time Mazine (Geiz Unit, Battle Mode)
- Close, it's a Cephalothorax digital watch with armor reminiscent of Geiz's Rider form
- Blades - Lion Senki with Blades' visor
- Confirmed!
- Evil/Live - Black bat for Evil, White Bat for Live
- Both Confirmed!
- Amazon Alfa - Piranha
- Shadow Moon - Locust based on Lunar eclipse
- Knight
- Tertiary Riders and Beyond
- Gills - Mutated dragon-stag beetle chimera
- Ryuki series in general - their respective contract monsters, but with the riders' visor
- Confirmed, as Ouja is based on his snake
- Faiz series in general - the respective transformation phones.
- For the case of Delta, it'll be in a form of a Voice Recorder, wielding a Video Camera like a BFG.
- Blade series in general - their respective animal-themed buckles with playing card motifs
- Pretty much there, as Leangle is based on a spider and the club card
- Hibiki series in general - Oni playing their Riders' respective instruments
- Kabuto series in general - their respective Zectors
- Den-O series in general - their respective trains
- Kiva series in general - bats with their respective Riders' color schemes and designs
- Skull - Skull Memory with Sokichi's hat
- OOO series
- Aqua - A water sphere
- Core - fire being
- Nadeshiko
- Her human form chibi-fied with space energy surrounding her
- Flying Saucer
- Both earlier options combined
- Mage - Witch Dragon with Medusa hair
- Gaim series in general - Each Fruit (based on their Riders' primary Lockseed) with the traits of their respective Riders' base forms as armor.
- Drive series in general - Tires with their Riders' faces
- Ghost series in general - their respective Parka Ghosts
- Ex-Aid series
- Lazer - Bakusou Bike
- Snipe - Same as Ex-Aid but with Snipe's Chibi-fied face armed with a gun
- Poppy - Toki Meki Crisis mascot
- Para-DX - Same as Ex-Aid but with Perfect Knock Out Gamer's face.
- Nico - Her human form chibi-fied, especially wearing her cap
- Build series in general - All of the Riders' animals and/or objects based on the Fullbottles or other trinkets they use for transformation.
- Zi-O series in general - Cartoon Cephalothoraxes of their respective watches or clock faces, just like Zi-O and Geiz
- Woz in particular will also be holding the Ohma Advent Calendar
- Zero-One series in general - The animals or cartoon representations featured on their Progrise Keys clad in their Riders' color schemes
- Saber series in general - Each Rider's respective Mythical Beast, Animal, or fictional character(s) featured in their primary Wonder Ride Book.
- For Saikou's case, it will be his sword form but with gold and silver on each side of the blade
- For Desast, it will be a wolf-themed ninja.
- Revice series in general - Cartoonish representations of each animal featured on every rider's primary Vistamp
- Juuga - Same as Kuuga, but with a double-helix symbol on its back and an aura of the 10 main animals
- Geats series
- Every other Player Rider serving as minor characters - Cartoonish animals based on their Rider Core ID
- Jyamato Riders - Carnivorous plants
- Premium Support Riders - Same objects as their regular ones but with gold armor
- Amazons series in general - their respective animals
- Villainous Riders
- G4 - Same object as G3 but with G4's color scheme
- Psyga - Cell phone in a Jetpack
- Kabuto villains in general - their respective Zectors
- Dark Kabuto already has his own Zector so it's pretty much on the money
- Den-O villains in general - their respective trains
- Kiva series
- Dark Kiva - Same as Kiva but with Dark Kiva's colors - Confirmed
- Arc - bat in Arc Kivat's colors
- Eternal - Eternal Memory with a black cape
- Confirmed!
- OOO series
- Poseidon - Shark, Whale, Wolf Fish Chimera
- King OOO - Same as OOO but with a crown
- Goda - Centipede, Bee, Ant chimera
- Sorcerer - Evil wizard dragon
- Gold Drive - Same as Drive but with Gold Drive's color scheme
- Ghost series
- Necrom - Necrom Parka Ghost - Confirmed!
- Dark Ghost - Dark Parka Ghost
- Ex-Aid series
- Genm - Same as Ex-Aid but with Genm's color scheme - Confirmed!
- Cronus - Chibi-fied version of Cronus' face with elements of Gamedeus
- Fuma - Same as Ex-aid but with Hurricane Ninja's theming
- Another Para-DX - Same as Para-DX but black
- Build series
- Evol - Evolt's monster form chibi-fied - Jossed, it's a Cobra
- Blood - Cross-Z Dragon but black, red and gold
- Killbus - A red spider with Killbus Spider's design
- Metal Build - Zebra riding a metallic silver tank
- Bikaiser - Red and Blue gears
- Zi-O series
- Quartzer Riders - Same as Zi-O and Geiz
- Another Riders - Same object as their regular counterpart Chemies, but more monstrous and armed, such as Another Kiva carrying a manhole. If the Another Rider has a Time Jacker as a host, they will be an Evil Overlooker.
- Zero-One series
- Ark-Zero - A humanoid being based on the remains of the Ark Satellite - Jossed, it's a robot grasshopper with Ark-Zero's face
- Ark-One - Same thing as Zero-One but with Ark-One's color scheme
- Eden - Nanomachine swarm forming a grasshopper
- Lucifer - Skeleton-like being with Lucifer's visor
- MetsubouJinrai - Humanoid chimera of Jin, Ikazuchi, Horobi, and Naki's animals featured on their Progrise Keys
- Saber series
- Solomon - cartoon impression of King Solomon wielding Caladbog
- Storious - Chibi-fied version of Storious' rider face with design cues from his Megid form
- Tassel - His Rider form, but chibi-fied
- Revice series
- Vail - A red and silver Kabuto
- Dark Aguilera - Monochrome Queen Bee
- Daimon - Chimeraic being based on an Octopus, a Black Centipede, and a Black Rhinoceros
- Orteca - Kraken
- Geats series
- Seeker - Deer with construction armor
- Regad - Same object as Gazer and Glare but with Regad's color scheme and more laser gun pointers
- Regad Omega - Same as Regad but with Regad Omega's color scheme
- Jyamato Gazer - Same as Gazer but with Jyamato Gazer's color scheme along with the four-leaf clover
- Gazer Zero - Same as Gazer, but with Gazer Zero's color scheme
- Cross Geats - Black and teal blue Kitsune - Confirmed!
- Dooms Geats - Gold and black Kitsune - Confirmed!
- Outsiders series
- Zein - Chibified version of Zein's Rider form - Jossed, it's a Paper shredder with Zein's face
- Shin Kamen Rider
- Zero-go - Mutated robot Grasshopper with Zero-go's color scheme
Gotchard's Transformations
- Gotchard's base undersuit is black, over the season he'll upgrade to a white, then yellow, then red form to parallel the creation of the alchemaical magnum opus.
This series will see the release of a Kamen Rider Reiwa Generations movie
Because that is 100% something Toei would do now that there’re five Reiwa Riders.Gorillasensei will have a human form.
Posing as a teacher in the hero's school. Gotchard's final form will be called Alchemy Form
It will be accessed after acquiring every Chemy Card, because "Alchemy" sounds like "All-Chemy". The main rider will be turned into a Malgam at some point
Likely as a consequence of being infused with an incompatible Chemy, but will become the catalyst for a power up. There will be a berserk form
While Geats had no Berserk Form (with Boost MK III being close but still not enough), Gotchard will have one, and it is going to be due to a Chemy that goes rogue until persuaded into cooperation. Post Premiere guesses
Spanner will have a change of heart due to a Chemy saving him
- Alternatively, all of Spanner’s Chemies will eventually get tired of being treated, and watching him treat their brethren, as tools and abandon him for Hotaro, de-powering Spanner completely until he sees the error of his ways. He may even become a full-fledged Rider by doing so.
- His Rider form will be made from the Ma(ch/ha)Wheel Chemy.
- Jossed and Confirmed. Supana's Chemies are taken from him by the villains, he witnesses Houtaro and Rinne get stronger, and, while angrily wondering why it was so, ends up getting put through the wringer from reliving his Dark and Troubled Past. Nevertheless, he manages to find a new resolve and his Rider form uses the newly evolved Machwheel Chemy.
Spanner will come to understand Chemies and befriend the level number 10 Chemy Exceedfighter, which will serve as his final form.
Gotchard will go Darker and Edgier later on
The 2009 version of Fullmetal Alchemist started out as fairly lighthearted but later gets progressively darker with the introduction of more dangerous villains like Kimblee, Bradley, Selim, and Father.- More or less confirmed. Kamen Rider Dread bumped up the stakes in Episode 12 and Geryon makes it even darker in Episode 16.
The Final Form or Extra Final Form will be
- SteamHopper X and will be a gold colored SteamHopper with a red or purple bodysuit. Red/purple is the final color of the Magnum Opus, the Philosopher's Stone, a material that converts any metal into the purest gold. With that in mind, the metallic armor attaching to the 'Magnum Opus' would logically become solid gold, and would be the perfect way to show that Hotaro Ichinose has become a proper, if not the world's best, alchemist.
Gotchard's final form will be called Gotchard All-Chemy or All-Chemy Gotchard
This has been on my mind since the series main theme is alchemy, and the final form being called All-Chemy is make senses if the final form would use all the Chemy's powers beside that Xross Saber and Geats IX name is also based on puns. There will be Five Riders in total
Each with ten of the fifty possible forms with Gotchard himself having the last one. This series will follow Fourze and Drive's example and will have a limited number of Riders
- Possibly taking a leaf out of Drive's book, there will be a secondary rider introduced by the second arc, and Valvarad will transition to a full Rider by the third or fourth arc.
The upcoming Movie War featuring Kamen Rider Geats will serve as the conclusion to the Zein saga.
If Kamen Rider Outsiders were to conclude with five episodes and Zein prevailed against Ark; Foundation X and the Outsiders team are going to be rendered powerless to oppose Zein, ending the anthology in a cliffhanger and would set in motion the plot of the upcoming Movie War with Geats and Gotchard, where the cast of the respective series must join forces against Zein.- Jossed. The movie is shown to revolve around the remaining Level Number 10 Chemies, with X Wizard taking a leading role.
The show will get at least one female Rider. Rinne and Renge might become Riders at some point.
One of them might become a tertiary Rider or show up in the finale similar to Tsukuyomi.- Confirmed for the first part - Both Lachesis and Clotho take turn being Kamen Rider Dread.
- Rinne is confirmed to be the secondary Rider for the series, as the first user of Kamen Rider Majade using the AlchemisDriver.
Zein will also appear in the series at any point or another.
Related to the aforementioned section regarding Zein, the AI will make an appearance in Gotchard on episodes that may tie-in to concurrent episodes of Kamen Rider Outsiders should the anthology continue on. There is an even greater evil than the Sisters
And either the Sisters will be:- Killed at some point to be replaced by the greater evil.
- Bow down to this greater evil.
- Defecting to The Alchemists' Academy after being the bigger bad considers them expendable.
- It's confirmed that the Sisters serve someone by the name of Master Geryon by Episode 5.
- In turn, Geryon's merely small fry compared to the entity behind the Door of Darkness — which is revealed to be named 'Dark King Gigist in #32.
The Sisters post-Heel–Face Turn jobs
Rather than straight up gaining Alchemist uniforms, Clotho gets a completely mundane job like factory worker, Lachesis becomes a frilly idol, and Atropos has to take the long way to joining the Alchemists' Academy by going to school. Cue Atropos in a Surrounded by Idiots personal hell as she sits in class with actual kids. Bonus points if Sabimaru is in the audience watching Lachesis, and gets mistaken for zome crazed stalker just because he looks like Sabimaru. Apparently that's a thing now. Hotaro is connected to the Chemys in some way
- The first thing Hotaro says to Hopper1 is that he has a "warm fuzzy feeling" inside his heart. Who's to say that he resonates with the Chemys due to him being part Chemy or having some alchemist bloodline?
- Perhaps he is a finalized form of the Philosopher's Stone, like Kengo was created from the Core Switch in Fourze.
- Another possibility is that he is descended from the Alchemist of the Dawn mentioned in Rinne's bedtime story, or that his disappeared father IS the Alchemist of the Dawn who attained immortality through Alchemy (Philosopher's stone or some other way.)
- Or maybe he's met the Chemies before and had his memories erased because he wasn't supposed to know their existence.
- Episode 14 confirms that Hotaro met Hopper1 when he was a kid before his memories were erased with #18 revealing that Fuga had to rewrite his memories to save him from Geryon
The Alchemist of The Dawn was the original Gotchard
- It's said that the first transmutation between Chemies and Humans occurred 121 years ago, which lines up with when the AOTD was rumored to be alive. Given their legendary status as a supreme Alchemist, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to assume that they were the one who pulled it off.
- It's incredibly likely that Gotchard Daybreak is the Alchemist of the Dawn, as the names and stats of his armor parts imply he has been fighting as a Rider for at least a hundred years. Even his Rider name is similar to the ancient Alchemist's moniker.
- Jossed. Gotchard Daybreak is an older Hotaro from a Bad Future.
The Alchemists' Academy will turn out to be antagonists later on
- So far the Reiwa era is batting four for four when it comes to ostensibly heroic organizations turning out to be evil or to be controlled by an evil leader (AIMS, Sword of Logos, Fenix, and the DGP). Given their dim view of Fuga who entrusted the Gotchardriver to Houtarou, it's possible they may have had their ulterior motives in keeping the Chemies sealed.
- The general attitude of the Academy and Alchemical society is that Chemies aren't worth understanding or empathizing with, and at worst unholy abominations that never should have existed. We see shades of this in how Renge is nonplussed by Houtarou questioning the morality of selling a Chemy. This is in direct contrast with Houtarou, who treats Chemies as friends and equals.
- Eventually, Houtarou will be asked to do something that harms a Chemy in some way, or be ordered to lock them up in their cards forever. Houtarou will refuse and be branded a traitor.
- The general attitude of the Academy and Alchemical society is that Chemies aren't worth understanding or empathizing with, and at worst unholy abominations that never should have existed. We see shades of this in how Renge is nonplussed by Houtarou questioning the morality of selling a Chemy. This is in direct contrast with Houtarou, who treats Chemies as friends and equals.
Geryon is Houtarou's father
- Episode 16 hints that Geryon's reveal will come with a startling revelation. The picture of Houtarou's family that Tamami always looks at has Houtarou's father hidden by a light glare. When we see Geryon's face in series, we will finally see the picture in its entirety, and Geryon will be standing with the family.
- Jossed. Geryon makes an appearance in the flesh in Houtaro's presence, and Houtaro doesn't recognize him at all.
The true identity of Houtaro’s dad.
- With the fact that the show is going to great lengths to avoid showing his face, it’s very likely that the writers are setting up his face to be a Big Reveal. With that in mind, it’s possible that Houtaro’s dad is someone we have already met in the show, and him being played by the same actor would spoil his identity. It’s also known that the franchise loves playing with the Archnemesis Dad trope, having played it straight, subverted, exaggerated and even invoked it. Who’s to say this isn’t the franchise enforcing the trope yet again, this time with the main antagonist mentioned in #5 and debuting in #16? In this case it would be Geryon, the mastermind behind the Malgam and the one the Three Dark Sisters answer to.
On the other hand, the Alchemists' Academy will indeed turn out as advertised
- Gotchard is a show that's set up as a throwback to early Heisei Phase 2, in contrast to the first few Reiwa shows that in general carried on the trends of late Heisei Phase 2. The Academy may turn out to be closer to the Kamen Rider Club or the Special Investigation Unit.
At some point a Malgam will show up that will be an Alchemist with malice, a person who thinks the best way to protect the Chemies is to Kill All Humans, a person with malice with a really tragic backstory.
- With the tone still in flux from being early and in development I predict that at some point a tragic person will become a Malgam and there will be conflict on whether or not they should be stopped on whatever they're doing.
- It's also possible that a human Alchemist will accidentally break Chemy law by infecting a Chemy with their terrible day causing conflict.
- There may even be an extremist who believes the best way to protect Chemmies from making Malgams is to Kill All Humans making them a Malgam.
- Given Alchemic society's barely tolerant view of Chemies to begin with, it's possible they may come to the reverse decision; the best way to protect the world from Malgams is to destroy all Chemies.
Rinne will become the Secondary Rider.
This will be the culmination of being Houtarou's counterpart in many levels.- According to certain rumors, Supana will become Kamen Rider Valvarad using the Gotcha Ignitor.
- Confirmed. Rinne becomes Kamen Rider Majade, with Toei themselves
proclaiming her to be the first female secondary rider in the history of the franchise.
Fudo will be revealed to be, indeed, a traitor.
...but with the twist that he was right to turn against the Alchemists' Academy, or at least the higher-up who wants to use the Chemies for their utilitarian purposes. The reason there's an odd number of Chemies
Is because Houtarou will create the 102nd Chemy.Gotchard's penultimate form will involve fusing with Rinne.
Houtarou is the "level one" contrasting her "level nine".- Potential proof of this is the ichi (一ノ瀬), meaning One, in his family name, and Rinne's surname containing the word for Nine, ku (九堂).
- Alternatively, she will "die" and turn into a Chemy, with Houtarou being able to manifest his own Chemy in a card form that can be used in the driver. Yes, giving a nod to OOO and Wizard there.
There will be a Kamen Warrior for every category.
Rinne will form a special bond with a chemy, the same way Houtarou did with Hopper1.
For her case, it will be Ninetail, a ranked 9 Occult-Category card with "Nine" in its name.- Sorta confirmed, but in her case she's bonding with Unicon, one of the Chemies she uses to transform into Kamen Rider Majade.
Chemies have a purpose.
We're told that Chemies are a byproduct of alchemy, but that doesn't seem to be the case. They visibly react with human intent and can fuse with them. I believe they're attempts at creating a sort of rebis, a form of magnum opus that results in a divine hermaphrodite that consolidates spirit and matter, with Houtarou and the Gotchardriver being catalysts for the fusion.There will be a Love Triangle between Houtarou, Rinne and Spanner
There's a hint of Ship Tease between Houtarou and Rinne already and Spanner acts like he has a big crush on Rinne.- Somewhat Jossed. Supana's interest in Rinne isn't romantic, though Houtaro and Rinne definitely are being teased together by the show.
Spanner has an ulterior motive behind his behavior towards Rinne
Rinne is the heir to a powerful alchemist, and it's possible that his nice behavior towards her is a hint towards a secret mission given to him by the higher-ups of the Alchemists' Academy.Houtarou's chapter of the Academy will end up turning against the higher-ups once the latter are revealed to be evil
Mirroring the split between Northern Base and Southern Base in Kamen Rider Saber. An upgrade form will allow Gotchard to combine rank 10 Chemy
- Potentially confirmed. There was a recent reveal of the Gotchardriver upgrade, the X-Gotchardriver.
A Chemy will be leveraged against Renge.
Renge is studying alchemy to help her family's finance, so she could be tempted with the power of Kinkiravenus, a Cosmic card that might have the power of gold.Rank 10 cards X Blank combinations will be all PaletteSwaps of one another.
Kajiki will be recruited into the Alchemists' Academy.
This will be the conclusion to his paranormal hunting.Kajiki will turn into a Malgam to target Hotaro
- Kajiki is always around whenever there's a Chemy incident. It's not hard to put two and two together that Geryon or the sisters will eventually use him to make Gotchard surrender.
At some point either late in the series or in a movie all the people who had their memories erased by the Alchemists will regain those memories
- With some supporting the heroes and others seeking to regain their Malgam power.
Spanner's Kamen Senshi/Masked Warrior form comes at the cost of his memories
- He wasn't joking about not remembering Bolt from episode 6, he genuinely did not remember him.
- The reason for this could be because he's forcing the Chemies to work with him creating an incomplete form akin to a Malgam, or the 'loss of memories' is simply because he naturally has memory problems.
- Another possibility is that thinking back on Boruto (perhaps out of guilt for having robbed his future as an alchemist) affected his performance, making him weaker, so he chose to erase his memories of Boruto in order to not be held back.
- Maybe he opened the door to the Alchemy Truth via the Gotchardrive at some point and paid the price with his memory, but that is tapping a bit too much in that another alchemy themed series.
- Jossed. The reason Supana's memories are messed up is because his mentor/adoptive mother Kyoka modified them to prevent him from reliving the deaths of his parents at Geryon's hands.
At some point the Chemies will be allowed to join with people and they'll end up with the people from their intro episodes
- Skebows playing with the kids at the park again, Wrestler G with Koichiro and so on
The Alchemist's Academy has been wiping the memories of Alchemists to try and prevent any more "traitors" like Rinne's father
- Semi-confirmed in #18. Geryon manipulated the memories of the alchemists to make them believe Fuga was the traitor.
Valvard is a role the best Alchemist at the Academy inherits from the one before them
- Meaning Spanner isn't the first Valvard
- Jossed. The wiki states Spanner created the Valvarad system himself.
Homunculi will be present in this series.
Since alchemy is the major theme in this show, either the Three Dark Sisters themselves or a character introduced later into the series are homunculi.- Maybe Hotaro HIMSELF is one. Why is he able to understand Chemies so easily is because they share one thing in common: being created by alchemy?
- Rinne is also a possible candidate for a homunculus herself, given her inability to express emotions in a healthy manner.
- Counterpoint: The Chemies seem to already be a stand-in for homunculi, especially when some of them (particularly in the Job category) resembles miniature humans.
Pertaining to the WMG above, The Gotchardriver might work by creating Homunculi body for the user to use
Normal human body in an armor wouldn't be able to swap between Gotchard's rider mode and wild mode. The only way it could is if the gotchardriver create a homunculus body and transfer the user's consciousness into it. The user's human body maybe stored in the driver, an empty space that can only be accessed with the driver, or the user's human body maybe transform into that of a homunculus. Spanner cannot spit it out how he truly feels about Houtarou.
He probably sees talent in Houtarou but wants to keep looking down on him to see if he can improve beyond his 100% or to prevent him from feeling like he accomplished everything, which could cause him to stall. Houtarou's mother Tamami will be revealed to have an interesting youth herself
She did play the lead role in the second Sukeban Deka series, after all. Bonus points if Houtarou finds her practicing using a yo-yo. The Parallel Rare versions of the Ride Chemy Cards are Foreshadowing the realization of Houtarou's ideal future
Several of them portray the Chemies featured as out and about in public where humans are likely to interact with them as Houtarou dreams of, but the most damning piece of evidence is Energyl's PR artwork — where it sits in a store wrapped in plastic next to dozens of copies of itself to be sold.Not all of the 101 Chemies will be ranked by numbers.
For chemies under the Cosmic and Fantastic categories, they will have alchemic symbols in place of numbers, to show which cards are compatible.- Jossed. They have regular numbers, as indicated by Repli-Unicon's card.
The Jungle Malgam was intended to be the Tree/Orchard Malgam made from Xeggdrasil
- However this was changed because the writers thought having a Level 10 Malgam this early in the show wouldn't be a good idea, so it was changed into the Jungle Malgam. The evidence is that it's obviously modeled after an apple tree rather than anything found in a jungle.
Certain Chemies will be Killed Off for Real or otherwise put into an unusuable state before Gotchard can use them
- Kuroana and Gigabaham are most likely to go in this regard, because nothing good can come from control of both nothing and everything all at once.
Gotchard's final form will give him the power of the Level 10 cards by default and allow him to use them to channel the power of the other nine cards
- For example BeetlX will allow him to call on a swarm of all the other insect card Chemies.
Dread is a Brainwashed and Crazy Fuga Kudo.
This seems kind of obvious given the sisters having made their own rider as well as claiming Fuga is still alive so he'd definitely be the top suspect.- Jossed. It's Sabimaru who was forcibly turned into Dread.
Zukyunpire will be played by a face actor when it appears in the show.
After all, Kamen Rider doesn't waste any opportunity at adding another pretty boy to its Cast Full of Pretty Boys...- With Zukyunpire having debuted in Episode 22, confirmed.
Each of the Chemy Categories represent the different application of Alchemy.
At some point, alchemy will be shown to be practiced for different purposes.- The List
- Insect: Insectomancy
- Job: Personal enhancement
- Vehicle: Creating alternative fuel (specifically with less pollutant)
- Artifact: Crafting mystical items
- Animal: Zoology
- Plant: Botanomancy
- Occult: Rituals for accessing the unknown
- Ancient: Modern Archeology
- Cosmic: Astrology
- Fantastic: Summoning such creatures
Daybreak Gotchard is Houtaro from the future
Similar forms, check. Uses special forms of the regular Chemies, check. Acts like a stronger, more confident version of our hero, check.- As of episode 18, Confirmed. However, his actions in the past alter the flow of events, causing his native future to become an alternate timeline.
Alternatively, Gotchard Daybreak is the Daybreak Alchemist
The Daybreak Chemies he has are the Originals with the normal Chemies being weaker copies, and Repli-Chemies are copies of copies which would explain a lot about the designs for the Repli-Chemies. Alternate to both theories above, Gotchard Daybreak is both Houtaro from the future AND the Daybreak Alchemist AT THE SAME TIME.
Let’s say Hotaro becomes strong enough to evolve the Gotchardriver at some point, transforming it into its Daybreak Version. At some point too, he gains the ability to travel to the past, or gets transported by accident. He notices he’s in the same time period where Rinne’s childhood hero was supposed to live and decides to meet him in person. When attempting to do saw, he realizes the Daybreak Alchemist NEVER EXISTED. He decides he must BECOME said Daybreak Alchemist in order to create the history Rinne knows and avoid her own past from changing.Bonus points if Rinne never finds out about the Daybreak Alchemist’s true identity as Houtaro.
Supporting this theory are the fact that Gotchard Daybreak is stated to have the Daybreak versions of the 100 Chemies we know of and is more experienced and stronger than Houtaro. The Daybreak Alchemist also is said to have been accompanied by Hopper1.
Another candidate for Gotchard Daybreak.
Fuga Kudo, Rinne’s dad. The moment Gotchard Daybreak appeared in the show for the first time was when both Houtaro and Rinne were in great peril. In the first episode, Rinne’s father was shown to have taken a certain liking to Houtaro and considering him worthy to become the Kamen Rider. In flashbacks, he is also shown to have had a close relationship with his daughter before his disappearance, reading her bedtime stories and being supportive of her in general. He would’ve made his first move to save their lives because he couldn’t bare to lose them. It’s also a long-standing theory that Fuga will be revealed to be Not Quite Dead and become a Rider later on in the show, so, who’s to say that moment isn’t now?- As of episode 18, Jossed.
Gotchard Daybreak is Houtaro and Rinne's Kid from the Future
Just to cover all the possible bases.- As of episode 18, jossed.
Geryon is a pawn of an evil entity.
There is a greater evil force out there which may be the source of Geryon and the Sisters' dark alchemy powers. This would explain why they want to open the Door of Darkness to release that entity in order to plunge the world into darkness. This force will be the Big Bad of the whole series.- Confirmed!
Super Chemies will be capable of full human speech.
The enhanced versions of the standard Chemies will be capable of human-level speech instead of tending to repeat their names. Hotarou will form his own Alchemists Academy.
At some point Hotarou will confront and call out the Union and that he will form his own Alchemists Academy, one that will focus on Chemy and Human co-existence with Rinne, Renge, Sabimaru, and Supana being co-founders. This Academy will have enemies in the Union, The Dark Sisters and Geryon as a result.- Semi-confirmed at the end of #18. Houtaro, Rinne, Renge, and Sabimaru co-found the "Kitchen Ichinose Alliance", carrying on their duties from when they were students at the Academy with the added objectives of rescuing Minato and defeating Geryon.
Houtarou and Rinne are half siblings, or Separated at Birth.
The long-awaited Houtarou dad identity reveal will be that he is Fuga Kudou. (It wouldn't be the first or second time Kamen Rider has pulled a sibling reveal like this, either.)- Counterpoint: In episode 18, there’s a scene in which three different Houtaros see or interact with Fuga and see his face. If he were their father, at least one of them would recognize him.
- Different approach counterpoint: Now, what if they were MATERNAL half-siblings? That is also unlikely given that Rinne has visited Tamami’s house multiple times and seen her face. If she were her daughter, she would recognize her.
Houtaro's father is the Daybreak Alchemist
This would explain both why young Houtaro was somehow playing with the Chemies in the Ouroboros Realm and why his father's identity is a big secret. Not to mention it would be a nice parallel to Hohenheim being the father of the Elric brothers in Fullmetal Alchemist.Minato had part of his memories erased by Greyon.
Specifically, the few moments where Wrestler G and Saboneedle interact well with humanity. Remembering only the times Chemy and Humanity do not interact well together is what cause him to side with Greyon.- Otherwise, Minato had some of his memories altered/erased, but he secretly set countermeasures for that and regained them back, and is only pretending to side with Geryon to find his weakness.
- Jossed. The opposite in fact happens; Geryon deliberately chooses to keep Minato's memories intact to make him remember his worst nightmare of seeing his friend Taiki dying and other alchemists brainwashed to kill each other at Geryon's hands.
Atropos is a homunculus doll based on Geryon's daughter
Which might explain his affinity to her. In addition to that, Geryon might have gone evil from trying to revive or heal his daughter and caving in to great malice from forbidden alchemy.- Lachesis and Clotho might have been made later, either after an incident where Atropos got hurt or because he thought she might need company.
Spicle will become a Rider Machine in the future.
It will mainly be riden by Majade. Kurogane Supana is a Malice Doll
Supana becomes the Wheel Malgam, which has a gold body, and the only things we've seen have a golden Malgam body are Malice Dolls. Not even the Sisters or Geryon himself had a golden Malgam form.- It's potentially due to the "Black Flame" alchemy he's able to use...though it's still not likely a good thing.
- But it seems Supana became a golden Malgam by Geryon sprinkling him with gold enchantment, just like the previous Malgams he made.
- Jossed. Supana is a regular human (well, as far as one being an alchemist with special powers can be), and he gets turned into a Golden Malgam through Geryon's power.
Dragonalos X Gaiard will be Majade's Super Mode
Similarly, Exceedfighter X UFO-X will be (Kamen Rider) Valvarad's Super Mode
Hopper1 will be used with all other level 9 Chemies.
Gotchard might need to access another power-up for this. Lachesis became Rinne successor including upgrade of Rider form
Possibly due to affection with Spanner.- Rumors hint at Lachesis taking on a variant of the original Valvarad suit as her combat form after she completes her Heel–Face Turn.
Minato's endgoal is to pull a Final Solution on the Chemies
There's more to Minato's reason for siding with Geryon. He's going have all the Chemies destroyed before they all fall into Geryon's horrific experiments. The prospect of a human attempting to commit genocide on the Chemies is another special kind of evil will even horrify Geryon himself, even if it's saving the Chemies from Geryon's unethical experiments.- Jossed. Minato simply sided with Geryon because of his despair that his students would suffer the same fate as his junior Taiki Suzuya and thus attempts to dissuade them from fighting Geryon. He eventually comes back to the light after the Riders prove their resolve to him as well as a pep talk from Kyoka.
How Tenliner and X-Hopper would appear respectively
When Hopper-1 temporarily dies at the hands of Geryon and the sisters, Houtaro will descend into despair, and as a result, Steamliner will evolve into Tenliner. Using the newly evolved Chemy, Houtaro will transform into Iron Gotchard and goes rampant against everybody to avenge Hopper-1's death, until Hopper-1 comes back as X-Hopper. When the two evolved Chemies reunite, Houtaro will transform into Platinum Gotchard to fight against Dread Type One, which will be used by Geryon as his personal rider form using Repli-Hopper card.- Jossed. Houtaro loses all but Steamliner to a sneak attack by Minato and the Pteranodon Malgam, forcing him to use a forbidden alchemy technique to turn Steamliner into Tenliner and become Iron Gotchard. After Geryon gathers the Chemies to open the Door of Darkness, he manages to reach out to them, and in the process the Level 10 Chemies grant Hopper1 a portion of their power, turning it into Crosshopper and allowing Houtaro to become Platinum Gotchard. For that matter, Dread Type-One uses the Repli-Unicon card, and was used by Minato and Atropos, while Geryon himself used Dread Type-Two with the Repli-Daiohni card and Dread Type-Three using both cards.
The Alchemys Union's three executives are the descendants of the three alchemists, who with Gara, created the Greeed.
Zukyumpire's actor will become a regular to the series.
Given he is a Chemy who looks like a human being and can talk, it is very likely his actor will make several appearances and play a support role most of the time.If Geryon succeeded in opening the Door, he'll transform into Platinum Gotchard and attempt to kill a defenseless Hotaro first before an outside force would steal it back from him.
There will be a The Bad Guy Wins moment, where Geryon used the Gotchardriver against Hotaro by transforming to Platinum Gotchard before attempting to kill him, only for Fuga, Legend, or Gotchard Daybreak to show up and steal back the Gotchardriver from him.- Jossed, somewhat. Geryon does take the Gotchardriver, but only uses it to open the Door of Darkness — and Houtaro himself becomes Platinum Gotchard after he rescues the Chemies from their fate.
Fuga Kudo's actual fate
Given the recent one is a Simulacrum, and how Atropos told Riine Kudo that Fuga is still alive when the sisters supposedly killed him way back in the first episode, a few thoughts about what was his actual fate ocurred me:- Fuga used forbidden alchemy to alter himself so much that he became closer to a Chemy, which puts him in a very vulnerable position if he actually met Geryon or the Dark Sister, as they would be able to imprison him in a card or make a Malgam out of him.
- Fuga transcended both Humans and Chemy, no longer a physical being, but not dead either, and remained in the world of the Chemies somewhere. Will appear at a later point to provide a greater power to Riine or Houtarou.
- Fuga merged with the Ouroboros to watch over the Chemies in their world, and uses Simulacrums to interact with people he needs to.
- Fuga is, in fact, long, long dead, but left Simulacrums in advance to protect the Chemies and support the Kamen Riders.
How Geryon will return
After he's taken into the Door of Darkness by the dark entity, Geryon's fate remains unknown. However, there are some theories that will make up for his return:- Geryon will be possessed by the entity as a physical vessel to break free from the Door by itself.
- Geryon will be given a greater power by the entity to summon the Door of Darkness from Ouroboros Realm to Earth, leading to the series' penultimate and final arcs.
- The cube left by Geryon, which is currently in possession of Atropos, will bring the Door of Darkness to the Earth as well.
