[MarsHottentot]

Ok so... shuuuuuu...
About halfway through Kiva. Not terrible, but definitely not good. But, being Kamen Rider, I can roll with this.

But then I hit an episode where Kivat tells me in the prelude that I should probably watch the movie Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World.

There goes an hour of my life into the ol' wastehole.

The wiki claims that it's an 'alternate universe' but, it's not really - it's just written with absolutely no shits given to continuity. Yuki and Otoya are brought through time by Kivat from '86 to '08 and this brings all kinds of paternity issues between Otoya / Wataru / Yuki / Megumi - at least you'd think there'd be but, no, no time for that shit because we have a stupid non-Fangire, Kiva-centric menace to face. You'd think this would be important since, in the series thus far, we've got fuck-all as to what the hell Kiva even is but, no. Nothing gets elaborated on because this is just a huge toy commercial for some lame non-Fangire monsters and two Kinda-Kivas. Plus, we have a really important subplot about a girl who hates violin because her mom is a pro violinist who's always playing violin (sound familiar, Ex-Aiders?).

Seriously, there are so, so many problems with this movie, I'm actually getting light headed stacking them up in my mind!

Why doesn't Nago, a character who normally needs no prompting to lose his friggin' mind not go berserk when it's casually mentioned that Wataru is Kiva?

Why the hell does Otoya know anything about Kiva in the first place?

Why doesn't Yuki at least ASK whether or not she's also Wataru's mother? Her lack of curiosity is absolutely preposterous.

Why are the captives of Castle Doran suddenly able to run around on Earth?

Yay! The ladies get to utilize the IXA system! Why now and never before?

So we get a Yeti version whatever Kiva is (he's not a Rider - that would be IXA!). He's evil because... because... POWER.

There's more, certainly, I'm just forgetting the shit out of them.

Wataru in drag is the most in continuity thing about this movie.