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It's funny because yeah this is basically a variation of True Ending.

But also, for me it's definitely a better version of True Ending for me tbh. Es just works a lot better than uh... I forget his name so let's call him Ninja Dude. But given the circumstances, it makes sense why this got shifted from mid-series to post-series.

Also for anyone curious I've seen a tumblr post floating around, this user usually translates a lot of production notes and interviews for Rider. It's a good tumblr blog to just follow cause you get more of an idea of what goes on I feel.

A lot of it being stuff I saw from two particular posts about RealXTime is how this movie shifted entirely, stuff like Horobi needing certain nuances due to this being post series, Naki and Raiden being non factors due to their character arcs not being decided at the time but placed in afterwards due to it being post series.

Twitter Production Bits

Audio Commentary Bits

Given a lot of elements of this movie, I think ZAIA and two certain individuals were meant to be a lot more involved in the endgame than it just being Ark itself. This sort of lends to stuff like how Ark-One's key has the Zaia Spec on it. Plus the idea that Ark-One would be active during this movie too...