Yeah I’ll admit, the movie isn’t going to crack my top 5 list, but compared to the Gekiranger movie that came out at the same time, I had a good experience watching it.

I really like how touching Ryoutarou's backstory is. Like Yuto paraphrasing Owner, even if the past is gone, the memories of that time live on in the present and the future. Ryoutarou's memories give him hope for the future and allow him to make new memories. And that's what allows him to remember Momotaros, by making new memories with him. Koutarou's drawing of his family filling the empty frame is a fitting end to the movie, showing that Ryoutarou doesn't feel like his past is empty anymore.

Oh yeah, we agree!

I like the idea of AUs in theory, but yeah, they can be hit of miss. So for Ore Tanjou to build on the show we already know and love, it's safe and it really works. I'm glad this became the status quo for future summer movies.

I guess sometimes a movie villain doesn't need to have much complexity, they just need to make an impression. Gaoh definitely left an impression on me, since he's one of my favorite Movie Riders. There's a lot of questions about him like why does he have an artificial arm and why does he want to destroy the past? I would love to watch a V-Cinema about this guy. Unfortunately, that amazing suit was scrapped to make something else.

Yeah, Momotaros seems genuinely depressed in that scene, like he's realizing how much he actually appreciated Ryoutarou now that he doesn't remember him anymore.

Does that mean you were joking when you said "They were integral to the start of at least half of Ghost's plots!"? I mean, they were a convenient way for Takeru to get alerts about the Ganma and a way for Saionji to infiltrate the temple, so they were technically useful to both sides, but they weren't really characters. Akari could have replaced them with a phone app and only two episodes would change.

I think Mizoguchi's talents as Koutarou were wasted on Useless Monk Apprentice #1, just cause a lot of people unfairly compare him to Sato.

If Watanabe was cast as Super-1, I would have a lot more incentive to watch that show!

I guess that's not too surprising, considering the last two episodes of the show only work under the assumption that every single viewer is going to see the film. Mandatory movies are my favorite types of movies!

idk, momo seemed to enjoy the end of that gekiranger film

He definitely feels like he's missing a V-Cinema to round out his backstory. As it is, he shows up, takes over, and gets beat without ever really talking about what he hopes to accomplish or where he came from. ("I'm sick of time" is not really the sort of statement that eliminates curiosity!) He looks awesome, I buy him as some sort of Infinity Criminal or whatever, but he's bookended by question marks in a way that robs him of some of his effectiveness. He's fun to look at, though! That's not nothing!

I'm sure I was serious, but I'm also sure it wasn't meant to be a compliment.

For dead parents being a staple of the Rider series, and it being a tragic moment that befell them, I guess this explains about how the better, truly successful way to cope with overcome trauma is to face those trauma head on and grow to become a better person (like being more compassionate) from it. Those that suffered from trauma in their past, and became angsty, cold, indifferent, merciless, ruthless is actually a failure against trauma, as well as a poor way to cope with trauma, but that is frequently treated by some audience as it’s perfectly okay, likely due to it being "realistic" and "relatable". They should be able to acknowledge that those characters made a mistake in using those coping mechanisms (and at the same time extend some understanding to them).

Well, gone parents that will never come back? Certainly in real life, but not necessarily for fiction world lol. Fantasy elements can let people do much more things that is impossible in real life, and a good number has involved ways to revive people.

Yeah, previously movies before Den-O are AUs and also spoil things related to the finale, like Takumi being an Orphnoch in Paradise Lost and Tendou & Hiyori being siblings in God Speed Love.

The difference of Ryutaros' dance scene here is that girls are featured now, though dunno if that is an increase in budget. Den-O being separate here feels like OOO using GataKiriBa to do so, all forms fighting the opponent at once, but for Den-O here, only the base forms here are featured, considering the time the movie was aired. Hana smacking Imagin is still only done on the main taros as a gag, but not putting a fight against IOTW, though of course she was fighting humans here. And by this, now I wonder how far is the gap between humans and Imagins physical wise, Momotaros while possessing Ryotaro can break concrete, and Hana has super strength to knock those out, and those attacks on those ninjas aren't destroying them or even incapacitate/knock out them quickly. Also don't be biased! You didn't put the "you like the sequences of the train fighting here?" on purpose huh?! Here's the fight between GaohLiner and DenLiner + ZeroLiner, also the chase scene in God's Line.

I've always wondered what will happen if a little child transforms into a Rider. as anyone can transform into a Rider, so it's shown here that the Rider form is scaled to fit the child. Probably when little, apart from parent loss, Ryotaro wasn't being cursed by inhuman bad luck? Ryotaro is someone who suffers nonstop, so him not being so energetic and excitable may come from that, likely from the chronic bad luck the last few years have been for Ryotaro.

A show of the difference between in-universe character's views to audience's views. The audiences can pick from what they watch and analyze from it like Sieg here, but the in-universe characters are so deadset on stopping Gaoh from accomplishing his goals. Of course, not getting what you want but still gaining value from it is an important thing to study, but sometimes I want the characters to just get what they want, like in Hibiki, Asumu passing to Jounan. This is also sometimes what Ryotaro does to contract holders by altering things in the past, trying to improve their situation if he's able to.

Probably not the best character, but doesn't mean zero character. He seems to sit in the middle between caring boss and threatening boss, like at DenLiner, at first it seems that he'll abuse his underlings for letting Momotaros escape, but then assures it's only 1 Imagin escaping. Him wanting to destroy time shows that he's a nihilist type of villain, seeing time as meaningless. His death is also due to him knowing too much, he does things that audience would recommend for a villain to do, which is interrupting heroes while they're charging finishing move, but as he didn't wait for Sword Form to finish charging up his Finishing Move, going in for the kill, Momo has anticipated this at close proximity, and Gaoh was left vulnerable to Extreme Slash, Special Version. His actor Hiroyuki Watanabe also was 51 during filming, making him the oldest actor to portray a Kamen Rider.

I think the amnesia comes from how that Hana interacts with Kotaro, it overwrites the memories of the present Ryotaro, though I wonder what goes betweenn the overwritten Kotaro and present Ryotaro. Ryotaro and Kotaro bonding over trauma, if that Kotaro is kept separate in another timeline, can probably help out him growing up to be Ryotaro, likely kickstarting his development to be more confident and proactive much earlier than Ryotaro now which undergoes that after he was chosen to become Den-O.

Wrong word (unless there’s a fanfiction out there I’m unaware of)

Yeah, but it's to these shows credit that events that occurred before the series, like parents dying, aren't treated as something to be corrected. That would be a totally irresponsible lesson to teach children!

hahaha I never brought up the train fights! I think I only checked my phone for emails once during the final train fight? Does that count as praise?

Huh! I hadn't considered that. Yeah, maybe!

So one other thing I forgot to mention about the movie: this is the Den-O premiere of Toei's Edo set. This set would go on to appear in so many Kamen Rider films in the early 2010s that it became maybe not a meme, but at least a running joke.

I've probably seen that set ten or twelve times by now, so it's nice to see when it got its start. If any Rider show needed to do a time travel storyline, it was more likely than not that they'd end up in the Edo period. I wonder if folks in the Edo period are completely sick of tripping over time travelers?

To this day I STILL don't know why he did that. It's perfect! It's very Deneb! I love it! Why did he do it!