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Originally Posted by Daikaijuman54

Yeah, there are parts of the story I'm not a fan of, like the time-travel nonsense (At least as far as Yuuto was concerned), I don't know, those "I met you in the past, to give you this (insert something here), so you can give it back to me in the future, so I can give it to you in the past, or else, everything get's thrown off" plots are some of the time-travel tropes I'm not particularly in to.

Of all the complaints I have about this movie, Time Nonsense ain't one of them. Which... I am as surprised as you are! I do not have a high tolerance for Time Nonsense, and this is the worst type of Time Nonsense you could have: Sakurai Time Nonsense.

The thing is, this sort of convoluted secret origin is 1000% the way Den-O tells a story; all the time, every time. Complaining about Yuuto's new-and-improved-? backstory would be like complaining about how the Imagin can even drink Naomi's coffee. There's a certain amount of conceptual buy-in that you need to do to watch Den-O, and Everyone Has A Convoluted Backstory is one of them. Thankfully, this movie keeps it mostly to the background, where it's a nice little capper that Yuu is really Yuuto Sakurai. You could cut that part out and, while it would keep the movie from its more heartwarming scenes, it wouldn't really tank the story.

So, yeah, I am completely okay with this new wrinkle to Yuuto and Deneb's friendship.