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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And that's fine, too!

I feel... I feel like the whole Why Are They Making More Den-O aspect of this trilogy (where the third one stars Diend of all people, review coming this Thursday or Friday) is sorting people pretty quickly into the Liked or Hated piles. If you're okay with Den-O as an endless series of follow-up projects, or if you came in during the period when it was an endless series of follow-up projects? I don't know if these films are that bad. Certainly, the idea of More Yuuto worked gangbusters for me, even as other fans got their fill of his doomed romance (with Airi, to be clear) back in the TV series.

So, yeah, I think my ability to find value in these stories largely depends on them feeling vital in some way. Yuuto and Airi? Vital! That story definitely benefited from a few extra beats! But Kotaro, to me, just never feels vital to the story, especially since Young Ryotaro is now a permanent member of the cast.

It's the intent that I hated than the actual movies so fear not, I'm not dogging on the stories. It was just sad to see that this is how the show peters out and aside from the occasional cameos years later, they now got the Taros reduced to mascots for some tourist attraction in Kyoto and some random flash animation looking clips after these movies.