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Watching Kamen Rider Specter. I've heard some pretty batshit things about this movie, so I'm pretty curious to see what in the hell is going on here.


-Frankly, completely unsurprised that Igor has fully embraced his masochism.

-Oh goodness, Javert has fully embraced the KATSU

-In the meantime, Onari just...ditched the temple. lmao

-So Ganmaworld is literally another planet. It wasn't really clear before, so...huh.

-So Igor isn't the only Superior Perfect there is, huh. (why didnt he just go ultima?)

-Also rip takaiwa, rip in pir.

-So the Ganma now survive entirely on takoyaki and Shiki patches. Makes sense.

-tfw when Makoto is Kamen Rider Kuuga's son.

-I agree with the peanut gallery, the Eyecon system was fine.

-Saionji kitta!

-Oh hell, is Fakoto still alive inside Makoto? I guess this explains what the first synopsis we got meant about the connection between the Makotos.

-What the fuck is Makoto being all aggressive about with Saionji? Didn't they almost make peace with him in the HBV? He's acting like this is the first time they've met since episode 11.

-tfw when Makoto is not Kamen Rider Kuuga's son

-Well, at least one of the batshit things I heard (Makoto and Kanon being one in a long line of clones of the originals) ended up being untrue, but this alternative is close enough to count I guess. Them being test tube...um...capsule thing?...babies...is not quite as batshit imo, but it sure is something?

-Oh fucking hell. The doppelganger Makotos weren't fakes made by the Ganmaizers, but samples stolen from Danton's lab...I...I don't even think that makes any sense, but cool I guess.

-tfw your best friend isn't Kamen Rider Kuuga's son....actually yes, exactly this face

-tfw your waifu isnt even a real

-I wonder if Kanon's name is Mele.

-tfw your bro takes a shit alllllll over your plate

-The Yuujou Burst Eyecon has the Ghost Driver voice and says "Kaigan" instead of "Tengan." Absolutely disgusting.

-Makoto, murdering your friends is very rude. I know physical violence is how you usually express friendship, but surprise-shanking Alain with your sunglasses is going a little overboard.

-Kanon really screwed the pooch by dying that one time.

-Holy shit, Saionji to the fucking rescue. Between the HBV and this, the post-series stuff regarding Saionji may just be one of my favorite things about Ghost. What a redemption.

-Holy fuck, I thought the Fakotos being experiments was contradicted by the way the last one just turned into healy energy to save Makoto (also, could be considered kind of an unexplained asspull at the time) but they just explained it. Truly unbelievable. Of course, there's still a bunch of other stuff that doesn't really make sense, but it's something.

-tfw you kinda brutalized your best friend because you believed in your dad and literally not one minute later he tries to murder your imouto, vampirizes a bunch of innocents (including a grandpa and a little kid!) and turns out to be sort of a big ol' dickhole in general.

-I've been thinking this since their first meeting but if Kuroe hooks up with Takeru I'm gonna laugh so hard. Then both of Makoto's imoutos would end up married to the other two Riders.

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-honestly, no comment

-Also not a comment on the movie, but Edith's absence is pretty conspicuous. I guess they just couldn't get his actor back.

-Sin Specter doesn't look as good in motion as I had hoped. Too blue. Makes the white coat look hella out of place.

-makoto has three daddies

-tfw your son bores a hole through you with his Lust Bullet

-Some of these Sin Daikaigans are pretty dope. I especially liked Gluttony Bite and Pride Fist

-Wow, this "ORE NO IKIZAMA MISETE YARU" actually felt totally appropriate! This movie is making miracles happen.

-Hahaaaaa Kuroe and Takeru are totally gonna hook up.

-Well obviously Alain didn't actually die, so that's the second batshit thing I heard that was untrue. I mean, I guess I already knew that, not like they were actually going to kill him off, but eh.

-I kind of love how this movie pulled everything together from the show, the movie, the HBV, even the Alain mini-series. Great stuff.


So....final verdict...I think I actually really enjoyed this movie? And not just for Saionji, though he helped. I may even go as far as to say that it could be my favorite of all the Rider movies I've seen. (yeah, I don't even know, technically it's not even particularly high praise either). As a rule, I dislike most Rider movies, or feel like they just completely fall apart towards the end. This one though, I felt was a pretty solid story from start to finish.

There are some really major revelations here, and I don't necessarily think they were completely necessary or made complete sense (one or two or many inconsistencies here and there, though that's par for the course) but it still fit within the story of the show much better than I could have anticipated, enhanced it in some ways, the comic relief characters and Takeru were very sparingly used, but effectively when they were, and like, they actually did something with Makoto, and probably the best compliment I can give it is that I now don't think of him with complete apathy. Alain was also pretty good in this, and who doesn't like Alain?

Also Saionji. Definitely did help.

All in all, a pretty solid epilogue, a pretty solid movie, at least imo. Definitely not as batshit as it had been described to me (never trust 4chan rumors, my yuujou bursts) but that's probably for the best. I really did enjoy it.