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Originally Posted by Waka

So how does Sougo not remember Another Den-O, or the Den-O crew from the movie, but still have the ride watches from said movie?

He technically never meets the Denliner crew in the movie (and although he briefly sees the Denliner he is never told what it is or what it's called). As for Another Den-O, his reaction in the episode could be due to a different number.

He doesn't recognize that the Mole Imagin is an Imagin, but he had already seen the Taros by that point of the episode, and still couldn't figure out that they were the same type of creature, so it's not really a contradiction (there were also no Mole Imagins among the past grunts in the movie).

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Originally Posted by SengalBoy

Shirakura said that Heisei Generations FOREVER ain't canon (which is supported by the fact that the characters in the movie are fictional versions of themselves), and thus it creates a new confusion of how Sougo gains W and Kuuga Ridewatch.

His explanation just doesn't make sense. The characters are shown in the standard Zi-O World at a certain point of the movie and also were around by the end.

It does feel like Bandai wanted the Watches in the show but Shirakura forbid the Zi-O writers from referencing the movie, which is probably why they handled things the way they did (Sogo only interacting with a possessed Ryotaro in the movie, and not seeing the 4 Imagins in their real appearance, also being oddly left out of the scene where Shingo goes back to the past in the Denliner).