[Kurona]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

And, up front, I get that Ex-Aid had a shorter season, and that the producers might've felt like they had more story to tell. I'm just not sure that's the case if this was the story they really wanted to end Ex-Aid with. It's a decent enough movie, but it just fundamentally doesn't work as an ending for Ex-Aid.

So, fun little fact about that: the writer intended for Ex-Aid to be shorter than 45 episodes. But, of course, Kamen Rider series have to fill out almost an entire year; so 45 episodes was the best compromise he can get. It's likely the cause of a lot of flaws in Ex-Aid's second half -- just how many flaws is debatable; but you can argue anywhere from last-minute resurrections to Cronus suddenly taking over as the main villain. Ex-Aid's still in my top 10, but it's hard to ignore that there's probably some issues this caused. So it doesn't surprise me that all the post-series media is more or less just retreading stuff.

One little positive I will give True Ending, though? I love that the villain for a Video Game-based series is an incredibly arrogant Video Game CEO who fetishises Japanese culture yet gets even the smallest things about it wrong and whose website proudly proclaims "I AM GOD". Doesn't immediately make it a good movie or anything, but that particular part always tickles me.



(Also, Ex-Aid VRX is his best-looking form aside from possibly Gekitotsu Robots, and I will fight on this. Cool as hell form too in what it's able to do; I'm not overly fond of when Movie forms go for the "this is the REAL final form" angle, but this is one of the few times I wish they did)