I don't like this gathering of every single character in the history of Air Gear, at all. It just cheapens the magnitude of it when it seems that it's Genesis against the world, and that implies that it could be, a) most of these old pals of Ikki are gonna be fodder, to be swatted down like flies, or b) Sora possibly has a small army of GC to face off against Hammer and such. I don't like either since it just reeks of filler and this arc will be loooooong.