Man, this was a small gap between a sub release and a review.

To be honest, when I watched this raw, I completely missed Sachika’s cameo and assumed it’d been cut from the finished piece. Regardless, it’s funny that this is the closest we’re getting to GAVV vs Gotchard.

And I love that Cloud goes full Showa villain by picking a single word from a foreign language and running with it, in the vein of groups like Mess, Crisis, Neros, Tube, Volt, Gear…

Though one wonders who conjured that magic portal… and why they were after Sumire’s rather basic looking Rider belt… though a part 2 has been confirmed by the commentary, so I guess we’ll have to wait on that.

It's nice that, while this special is clearly setting up a sequel -- disappearing belt, Sumire's creepy smile, Nayuta as the new assistant/inevitable Rider -- it doesn't do the thing of teasing too much of the grander story at the expense of letting the singular unit of entertainment be fulfilling. (*cough* Outsiders *cough*) We get this win over an army of faceless baddies and one Legend Rider, and that's plenty for an outing.

Watched this last night, which honestly felt a little strange because it's been close to two months since I watched any tokusatsu and I felt very rusty. It was fun but it also felt very throwaway, like the entire special is the equivalent of Sachika's role in Kamen Rider Majade with Girls Remix.

• Full disclosure, as someone for whom the Sakura/Hana ship is the only part of Revice they still have any emotional attachment to, I was curious to see if/how this special would handle it (especially in light of how badly it was managed in the first Girls Remix). I am happy to say that I was completely satisfied.
• The other thing I was really looking forward to was the return of Minami Tsukui as Yoko. I don't love that we got stuck with the worst version of her, but I always love seeing that actress throw down and I was not disappointed.
• I've spent the better part of the last decade bemoaning how Kamen Rider weapons don't look like real weapons anymore but seeing Nozomi going after people with a goddamn mall dagger actually made me second guess that because oh man, was that uncomfortable at several points.
• These specials is the perfect place to reuse Akiko and I hope she continues to be a part of them for as long as they exist.
• Next time bring back Femme, L'Arc, and/or Akira, cowards.
• Holy shit, the actress who played the villain was terrible. I know it's just a web video, but what fourth string idol group did they go digging into to find... [insert quick Google check here]... Yoko from GoBusters? I... how did... Switchblade.exe has encountered a fatal error, and will now terminate.

If I somehow gained control of Toei, and the cast of Zi-O didn't murder me, the first thing I'd do is put Asumu's mom from Hibiki -- Asumum -- into the next Girls Remix.

(It also... it just really bummed me out that Poppy wasn't in this. I want to say I heard that suit got cannibalized for some other show, but you can still get the actor! She's just doing insurance commercials! I think she'd make time for this!)

Man, what? You're crazy! It's just the lady from the matchmaking two-parter in the Job Battle arc of Zero-One! She ain't no Sentai. She's just a Kamen Rider actor, like the guy who played Quiz on Zi-O!

You’re both wrong. She’s the princess who was the villain of the Ultraman Ginga S movie.