[AkibaSilver]

Best character alert, coming up.


But yeah. As a fan of Den-O, this was everything I could have wanted, with the tiny caveat that we've already had Takeru Satoh back that one time that apprently didn't count, maybe. Generations Forever was a weird film, everyone's memory's got wiped by Time Travel logic, easy. Yuuto and Deneb are as great as ever, and credit where credit's due, the Imagin voice actors continue a streak of great performances. You'd think they'd be sick of cameos after 12 years of this, but I'm glad they aren't.

The villain definitely shows how Den-O's formula still works all this time later, in a show where MOTW is prevalent and two weeks is the perfect arc length for these self-contained chunks. Another Den-O himself is alright, definitely our most pitiful AnotherRider in a while - the Time Jackers made a great choice, and Hora continues to be the Useless Queen. Even Heure's figured out something is up with all of this, and he's, like, 9.

Grand Zi-O looks pretty good, and his gimmick is a nice twist on stuff we've seen before. Cloning time as an attack is pretty nifty. I'm pretty sure we'll get an answer as to how we "cheated the rules" with the future Drive watch, considering Woz mentioned how he still needs it (which is more foresight than I ever thought Zi-O would have when Geiz showed up with them back in episode 1), so I'm not letting it bother me. It makes more sense than wherever Trinity came from, put it that way.

The worst part of this arc? Having to wait two weeks for it to be finishes. Thanks, golf-gom / whatever sport it is this time/