[irondragon]

I thought the movie was great, ESPECIALLY the Wizard parts. I couldn't be happier with it as an epilogue to the series and I think I cried (a bit) at least once. Fo' reaaaalz.

I just loved it. The fact that Haruto experienced actual grief and attachment to Koyomi's memory that he still couldn't let go of was such an amazing story choice that I never expected to see. Then having that manifest itself in a real-life Koyomi again and having him still make the choice to love and care about her . . . . urhghgh . . . I thought it was just perfect.

Wizard is one of my favourite tokusatsu series, hands-down. The tone and pace of the show is a lot more gentle than something like Gaim, for instance, but what is there and what comes across couldn't be more powerful, for my money. All the themes of hope and despair and loss and triumph and the way the series specifically executed them really hit home with me.

But one last thing that I'm not sure of, 100% . . . was the Bujin Wizard Lord meant to be a grown-up version of the child Haruto from the Heisei/Decade finale episodes of Wizard? And that this world is sort of a progression of the weird universe we saw in those? That's how I interpreted it with him having the Infinity ring, so someone please tell me if I'm wrong. But if that was right, that was another thing that blew me away in that he's essentially another version of Haruto who was saved as a child by his alternate world counterpart, and now stands up for hope and peace too.

Urhghgh . . . . . . . Wizard was so good!!!