[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

I think what I liked most is that it didn't go the Faiz/Kabuto path of an AU or the Ryuki/Blade style of similar but noticeably divergent continuity. There are some small incongruities here, but if you ignore them then this feels like a proper Kiva story. I've always preferred the shows themselves to the films and the films that feel like the setting and characters don't even match the show are always the hardest for me to get into.

Yeah, this one totally felt like a Phase 2 summer movie. It's nothing that could really fit into the show's continuity (too many little changes and exclusions), but it's everyone you know in the settings that you remember acting like you'd expect. And Otoya's even treated like a goddamn Legend Rider by the cast, so it feels extra Phase 2.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

My absolute favorite part of this is that Takoto is set up as this big personal rival for Nago and then Nago just fucking disappears for the next hour of the movie.

That's how scared he was of Takato! He needed to not be in the same movie as him!

But, yeah, there's definitely some weirder pacing issues in the movie, like you said. It doesn't really cut between plotlines a lot, so when Wataru uses the Time Door to go back to 1986, you are not going to see anything with the rest of the 2008 cast for about twenty minutes. It's fine, since it never really loses track of Wataru/Otoya, which is the main thread of the film, but it's still not great for all of its cast.