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Gosh there's like so much to go through with how much this movie did amazingly?

But can we just talk about the fact that one of the props for the Abaddon Rider Army is a grenade that is just a painted rubix cube with the middle tilted? That caught me off guard, lol

Everyone got their moment to shine and I really liked how they basically made use of all available forms for the Riders that did show up. One last hurrah for Lightning Hornet too before it gets repainted to Justice Serval.

My friend said it was kind of lame how we sort of get this no name character with no real build up other than he's a scumbag taking up a new variant of the Eden suit, Lucifer (did we ever get the Abaddon Riders names in film? I don't think so) but I love it on a thematic level.

Because those guys who just crave pure destruction... that's what the Ark wants. That's exactly what Ark-Zero was, a sort of boring monster of pure destruction. All of Azu's picks have been people who have been emotionally vulnerable with feelings of negativity welling up within them. And I feel like that's partially on purpose, because they do address that method in MBJR. But it works well and fits into the theme of the Ark Candidates post Ark-Zero.

One thing I will focus on in this post and I do like is how they treated Aruto's fight scenes, at first you wonder why exactly Eden can keep up with Zero-Two given our Main Rider's ability is "I break the game" when it comes to movement, predictions, etc. But then you slowly start delving more into the mystery of everything and realize yeah of course Eden could just barely edge out Zero-Two. AI controlled Nanomachine's alongside a human in the pilot seat, they'd be able to counter just about anything, not to mention the regeneration ability and Eden's finisher seems like an absolute direct counter to Zero-Two.

So we get round two, and we have Aruto playing to this knowledge by utilizing Metal Cluster Hopper's swarm ability in a fantastic way. So much so that when I first saw it via the raw I'm like "Oh Metal Cluster fans are going to be so happy with this". It's such an ingenious utilization of what I considered a fairly boring form. And I have to admit I loved it's utilization. Aruto should have won and only lost because Eden decided to immediately use Hell Rising Hopper to nuke the field instead of waiting.

Round 3 ends up being such an interesting twist on the usual movie exclusive form. Hell Rising Hopper isn't something that was meant to edge out Eden in the slightest. It was very much a "I need this key destroyed, so I'll transform and kill myself to destroy it if I have to!" situation and I honestly loved that. Also just... just that tail end of the fight, with Izu, and Aruto's just painful closed mouth yells as he tries to get something out... absolutely powerful.

And then versus Lucifer with Aruto having gotten a reality check between his prior fight and this, he's able to fight alongside his partner and after working on their opponents separately, work together to completely overwhelm Lucifer in an outstanding display of team work.

Also I know a lot of people joked about Aruto and Izu marrying when they created Zero-Two. But like... it's totally official now right? Cause I mean, Double Rider transformation. In a church of all things, flower petals dropping. They're basically married at this point! lol