[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

*hugs?*
I mostly remember it for teddy now thinking about it. He fills a character type I like, the reserved/quiet butler. I actually could not remember much about Kotoro other then he's smug but unlucky. So uh yeaaaasah.

And even--

(deep, bitter, sigh)

--even that's just all cobbled together from other, better characters? Kotaro's unlucky streak is something he inherited for Ryotaro, which means we got a funnier version of it back in the main series. (There's a gag/"gag" in this movie, where Kotaro keeps getting hit in the back of the head with soccer balls, and it's just a lesser version of a longer, better gag from the TV show. And this one ends with Kotaro getting pooped on by a bird, which is... man, is that the best Kobayashi's got at this point in the franchise?) Teddy's the quiet, reserved, deferential butler (and I like Teddy okay!), and it's all in service to a grumpy, prideful boy. But it's not funny or fresh, like that dynamic was with Yuuto and Deneb.

I just... I just find Kotaro (and Teddy, to a lesser extent) to be a sad reminder of earlier, better characters, which is richly ironic after the last movie's Airi/Yuuto storyline.