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Kamen Rider Die rewatches Legend Rider projects (and more!)
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01-14-2022, 12:22 PM
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SUPER HERO TAISEN GP: KAMEN RIDER 3
I liked this one by the end, though. I liked the story they told about Sangou. It?s poignant, a guy who only felt like a winner by losing everything. His mentality - that winning/survival determines the morality of an action - is the same thing assholes from throughout history have leaned on to obviate their guilt. Spending a movie with him, going on that journey to reach a point where he?s able to admit culpability in something truly heinous, and then see him willingly accept the consequences to make it right? That?s a solid Hero?s Journey. I
almost immediately
wanted to buy a Sangou Figuart after watching this movie, for whatever that?s worth.
There's a line V3 says, as 3's fading away, "you're the real Kamen Rider 3", or something like that. It's clearly a reference to how they're both numbered the same, but as Showa fans might notice, it's also a reference to V3 giving Riderman the blessing of "Kamen Rider 4" in the final arc of his show.
Regarding 3 though, denial as a coping mechanism for guilt is an intriguing thing for the story to focus on for sure. It's easy to become a prisoner of your own delusions when the reality is so difficult to accept and that's reflected in all the chains on his suit, showing how his role as a Kamen Rider isn't giving him purpose but keeping him from his purpose. Part of being a sportsman is accepting when you've lost and acknowledging your opponent's merits and it was clever and visually impressive for the movie to use the Rider Grand Prix as a way to frame that conflict, with Shinnosuke, as someone who wants to atone for his part in Hayase's injury, being the one to try and knock some sense in to him and get him to own that past, even though it's ugly, so he can restart his engine and start to become a better and stronger person.
For a work by Yonemura, this movie is a lot more clever than it seems on the surface and probably the first of its series where a good guy or anithero doesn't become a bad guy or antivillain for OOC reasons (Kaito, Retsu, the Showa Riders). You could say Otta was nothing like how he was depicted in the show as a comedic character, but I think maybe that was to show how Shocker's time manipulation has affected the world.
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Oh Yuuto?s Our Guy
Who's That Guy?
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(Also,
holy shit
, please do not get me started on the Ninninger kids' out-of-nowhere arrival at the movie?s climax, and how tonally inconsistent it was amongst Gou?s ?death? and Sangou?s sacrifice.)
Isn't appearing out of nowhere like the whole point of being a ninja? Well, usually. These are specifically "the ninjas that don't hide", so it's strange that they only appear at the end, almost as if they're just here so the movie can return to the more inclusive and marketable Super Hero War naming convention. Which is absurd, cause this is totally Kamen Rider War 2 featuring Ninninjer in essence.
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They are going that hard on Drive having a car,
yes!
It's the most obvious thing Yonemura could latch onto from the show, and we all know how much Yonemura loves obviousness. (Like, the teamwork part of Drive goes right the hell out the window super early on in the story, and the mystery part is kept to sussing out Sangou's motivation
largely off-screen
) The villain gets a car, the Showa guys have cars, there's a Death Race 2000 action sequence... Yonemura just saw CAR and stopped looking.
Even Double brought their giant car Revol Garry, cause why settle for a bike when you can bring the whole arsenal!
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I almost feel like Faiz was here because of the TTFC special that's a sequel to this, which talking of which; it is
insane
to me that Gou just dies in this movie, it has zero effect on him in the show and it's only followed up in a special that a fraction of your casual viewerbase will be watching. Like, what! That's so funny!
Yeah, the Kamen Rider 4 special Justifaiz why Takumi is in this movie and it's much easier to understand his relevance to Shocker's plot after watching that. But that's a story for another Die review, which you can bet I'll have opinions about, so look forward to that!
Gou's death was a surprisingly dark way for the movie to end and provided a problem for Kamen Rider 4 to resolve. On the other hand, people watching the movie could just continue watching the show where Gou continues to not be dead, so it's mostly only heavy in the context of the movie and its sequel, but definitely has a lot of shock factor with great execution, as Gou realizes he's screwed and takes it like a real sportsman. Probably another reason why I call him my second favorite Secondary Rider after Cross-Z.
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