If I remember correctly in an episode of Drive that followed the movie a prisoner that Shinnosuke interrogates praises him for "Bringing Lupin in", so it sounds like he's currently imprisoned.

Which doesn’t really make sense considering he has no physical form at the end of the movie that could be locked away.

Maybe the subbing-people took a liberty here and the question was just if Shinnosuke really defeated Lupin, not that he is imprisoned.

I don't think we will see him in the show again, maybe in a future Taisen movie as one of the bad guys.

Oh man, that movie brought the feels in full force.

And from here on out, Kouta Kazuraba should be referred to strictly as Mr. Space God.

I love love LOVE the nods to Gaim's continuity that they kept in place.

For starters - even though Takatora takes a generic Sengoku Driver and the faceplate of Zangetsu appears when he grabs the Helheim Fruit, he never gets the yellow belt, symbolizing (in a way) that the belt is still a "mass production" aka "non-binding" belt.

Or the fact that Micchy still had the Melon Energy Lock Seed (only the Genesis Driver was disabled) and that's how Takatora is able to go back to Zangetsu Shin.

Those little nods made the Gaim portion that much more enjoyable for me. And of course, Zangetsu Shin with the Melon Defender.

That was the most fun I've had watching anything in a while. :D

A storytelling masterpiece? The utmost quality of cinema? Not at all.

It was just good, crazy fun. Shin and Kouta are total bros and NEED to meet up again in a future crossover. They're so good together. XD

Probably my favorite part of this entire thing besides the Kureshima Bros walking across the bridge. They just look so natural together, like they've always been best friends. Probably my favorite pairing of Riders since Philip/Shotaro, Eiji and Gentaro.

damn this was epic. Best KR movie ever. So much energy, and the characters we love just going . . . "bananas"

and oh my god when SHF Trideron comes out, Drive and Gaim are definitely cruising the streets together
so much awesome

That's a thing I don't understand. Only prototype Sengoku Drivers have a faceplate, mass-produced ones are always blank, as seen with Knuckle. The mass-produced drivers lack the ability to identify the Ride Wear and can't display an image of it on the faceplate.

You could argue that it was because the drivers were made by the Megahex so it can do that, but since the belt was scanned of memories they could just have yellow belts.

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Tamashii agrees ;)

The feels!!! :(
I loved this movie. Sure, there were problems (Like where in the heck did Lupin get Break Gunner Data?), but the badassery in the Gaim portion, especially from both Kureshima brothers and Robo-Kaito shines through, plus the 'teamwork' from Kouta and Shinnosuke. Such teamwork of shouting at eachother.

And it was nice to see Mitchy did still have the Kiwi and Melon Energy Lockseeds, Budou being 'the last one'. Now if only there had been enough drivers for Hase, Oren and Zack... And that last Gaim scene teared me up. God damn this show...

Well wasn't it shown in one episode that Oren and Joinouchi got upgraded Sengoku Drivers? Those drivers did have silver straps right? If yes to both of those questions, then that could explain it to me. Of how Megahex had just made superior drivers, but put them on robots so they came out as blanks. Then when Takatora put one on, it registered his DNA (because the power of memories!) and that's how he became Zangetsu again.

Huh... you're right Oren and Jonouchi had those, and they did have the faceplates, just checked. Weird. Oh well that's that then, good enough for me :)