[Zolda]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

That tracks. Is anyone really dead if Mari doesn't see it happen?

Who knows? Takumi (and Mihara and Kaido) didn't see Kusaka die as well. The only ones who saw Kusaka's death were the culprit himself, Kiba, and the viewers. And now they say that Kusaka didn't die? Not only Kusaka returns to life in this film, but also Kitazaki/Dragon Orphenoch. Perhaps he's also a clone reconstructed from Orphenoch King's DNA. So, I guess Inoue and his team worked twice as hard to include those aspects in the "calculations", as Shirakura stated.

Extra stories are notorious for having retcons, asspulls, and other forms of funky logic. I think the safest form of post-series extra stories is side story, like Gaim's V-Cinemas.