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Kamen Rider Gaim Gaiden: Zangetsu and Baron

I guess the theme of this V-cinema was essentially trying to kill rich people lol.

Zangetsu's portion I found to be okay. We learn a little more about how messed up Yggdrasil is and we get to see his dad (hey, it's also the dad of the Sonozaki family from W!). The prototype Suika lockseed looks sort of cool, I guess? Kinda makes him look more like Blood Zangetsu. I kinda wish though that it was just the machine gun shield and not have the musou saber since it would kind of make vanilla Zangetsu pointless.

The villain in this special was very eh. I like the idea of getting revenge for her being in that awful institute, and having a personal connection to Takatora, but it Idunn doesn't look that good IMO. I do like the idea of the Ringo arms in canon Gaim being made as sort of a shadow of the Golden Fruit, and they do a cool little thing with it in the Baron portion. Ryoma figuring out the Golden Fruit exists from Idunn is an interesting idea but I feel this reveal gets kind of ruined by the next Gaiden.

Baron's portion felt like a mix of something that would have been better off as a net movie, unnecessary conflict and some genuine deepening of his character.

Don't get me wrong I like seeing a silly Kaito look alike doing all of the Kaito stuff. I was surprised they didn't have him use Kaito's driver to transform into a wacky Baron. And him getting attacked by the Invess and he's so wacky!

I felt like the butler guy trying to kill Shupa was unnesscessary and really dragged down the plot, if there was any. I mean, the bike action between them was great, and it's cool to see Dragon Energy arms again, and Baron using the Ringo arms, but the plot just sucked. The only two good things we got out of this was Kaito's backstory for why he's power obsessed and his desire for the golden fruit from using Ringo.