[Kamen Rider Die]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Also on something I only thought of now to touch on. But I thought it was rather clever for them to not bring in Kotaro or Ryotaro's kid actor until the very end. Even if it's the same one who played kid Ryotaro in the first Den-O movie, if he had shown up and been a major part of these episodes that would have made what they were attempting to do a bit more confusing.

Which was basically making sure you know that this is the real Den-O, this isn't an AR World, this is the real deal, for sure.

Part of it's to make sure this plays as Real Den-O, in the run-up to the movie, but I think a bigger part is to reorient the Den-O franchise onto Momo and the Imagin gang.

Like, the last Den-O movie was this big baton pass between Ryotaro and Kotaro, for better or worse. What these episodes are doing is sort of recalibrating that transition, making it more that Kotaro is a new piece of the puzzle, rather than the star of show, and literally saying that Momo is the star of the show. Having a human Rider in these episodes would dilute what they're trying to do with Momo, how his story is that he doesn't really need a human to give his life meaning.