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Originally Posted by Kurona

I feel a bit bad saying this right after someone else also said basically what I'm about to say, and it concerns a movie you clearly loved; but this one also didn't do much for me and I don't remember much from it. But! That's also because Zeronos himself didn't do much for me in Den-O, I was very much there for everything going on with Ryotaro and his group of Imagin. I think you put across in this thread a bunch of reasons why that would have been the experience for me and possibly others; as the Zeronos plot - no matter its quality - does contrast a little too much with Den-O's usual tone.

I think that's why I was immediately into it, though: it's so different from Den-O's usual tone. (Although, crucially, not that different from the usual tone of stories about Yuuto. Those are all fairly bleak!) The previous Den-O movies all felt, to varying degrees, like they were inessential. They were just spinning out more adventures, without really having a ton to say. With this one, it carves out a place for itself tonally, and then tells a story about how to not be dragged under by memory. It reinvented itself as a property just enough to feel vital again, fo me.

Also, gosh, I don't ever want folks to feel even a bit bad for having a different take on these shows! I'm looking for conversation, not consensus.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

But! But but but. More important but than the last. I loved reading this review because it made me come around on certain things going on with the character, and I really get why you liked this story and this movie. I think it's the sort of thing I might appreciate a lot on a rewatch these days; and rewatching Den-O definitely does not sound like a bad time

Aw, thanks. This one was tough to write about (some from being out of practice, some from having this one hit hard narratively), so I'm glad I was able to communicate some of the movie's positive attributes, even if they weren't ones you found in it.

And, yeah, Den-O rewatch! I can't imagine you'd feel it was time wasted.