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Originally Posted by Kanon
Thank you for saving me 90 minutes. I mistakenly thought this was the movie that introduced Legend.
By the way, can someone give me the rundown on Legend? I went to the wiki of course so I know his backstory but how he became Legend is vague and I don't get what his connection to Chemies is. Was he created just for Gotchard, or will he get his own show or other piece of media down the road? It's five years too early for a new anniversary Rider.
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Lore-wise:
He's someone from one of Gotchard AU.
So Gotchard have three timeline, base (series), Daybreak and Legend.
Legend world is timeline which Decade visit Gotchard world, inspired a child alchemist to collect Rider history and become Legend. Kajiki become his butler instead of living normal life and befriending Houtarou.
Show-wise:
He's Toei and Bandai effort to reset Decade.
Driving force behind it is not only because of how Decade handled not for long-term project (Zi-O exists and do same things) and difficulties to have legacy actors on demand but also opportunity provided by Masahiro Inoue (Tsukasa) who quitted his agency in 2022, making him less likely to reprise Decade in future.
His appearance in Gotchard is part of Toei plan to have new series MC promoted and connected to past series or side-stories.
Like how, in Sentai, King-ohger (aired before Gotchard) revealed to be from same world as Kyoryuger around episode 30, also currently airing Boonboomger will have Go-onger compete with them by checking on toys catalogue.
He's here to allow Zein (the white Rider who use Super One attack) time-travels, promoting Outsider.
(Writer for this episode is Outsider writer).