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While not absolutely necessary to the main story, the way its themes match with the final episodes, really helps sell this movie as a real good send-off/cap to Zero-One. Which is why it totally makes sense as to why they included it in the Blu-Ray release for us in America.

What more can I say than... it's just a fun movie through and through that allows everyone a moment to shine no matter how small it is. While it is sad that Naki and Ikazuchi didn't get much more, given that the script was already packed and they weren't sure of the status of either while writing it, them managing to just barely fit in is still good to see. There's also just a bunch of fun pairings in who works with who, the fact that we get to see a few old Humagears at least one last time, etc.

I would continue further but this post would end up just be me talking about which moments made me laugh out loud or cheer, but I think one of my favorite sequences I do have to highlight was Fuwa vs. the Fighter Jet. Just him going Punching Kong, and before the jingle finishes it just instantly fades out cause he gets rammed to all hell. Then Jin flying after him and shouting "Gorilla!" as Fuwa just comically loses his grip. Real fun stuff.

There's also lot of fun behind the scenes stuff in this due to the fact they were still deep in heavy Covid restriction filming alongside Saber. The train scene having to be done in one take, the outside of the church being entirely CG despite wanting to be filmed on location but they could only get the interior built, flower issues because of certain ones not being in bloom while filming because of the movie getting pushed back, etc.

The Zero-One Cast and Crew really put their all into this film and you can really feel it with every single part of this film. It's probably my favorite "Summer" movie for Kamen Rider as a result.

Overall a very good ending to Zero-One, it's a shame aside from Genm's the Presidents they never really continued Zero-One's story beyond RealxTime. Oddly enough Monkey Majik did two songs "SOS" and "Frontier" for Zero-One though, weird how they only released music but hey those songs are bops so, you know.