[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Okay so I always figured this as being game related. You've got your standard ending that wraps everything up via the TV Series. But then you've got True Ending which is basically the Post-Game story mission for completing the game. At least that's how I saw it. In that it doesn't do much in terms of endings, it's just a thing at the end as a reward for getting through the game.

Yeah, I can see the name being influenced by video game culture. It definitely is "the same story, with like 3 minutes of new content". Maybe I'm being unfair, expecting it to do something they never intended. Good point!

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Originally Posted by Kurona

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)

Between rewatching this movie and what I remember of the Another Endings, I'm not rushing out to rewatch Ex-Aid. I don't want to find a ton of flaws, since it was my first ever show. Someday, but for now I'd rather keep thinking of it as great.

Oh, and, VRX is way, way better than Muteki. So much cooler in its style, and the ability to create game elements is a better "final form" than invincibility. I'll still give it up for Mighty Brothers XX as my favorite form, but VRX is pretty great.