[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Sunred

I hated these three movies as a whole for being a horrible attempt at trying to milk the show dry when it was already a mummified corpse. Horrible, just horrible. That said New Den-O's Double Action is one of my favorite renditions.

And that's fine, too!

I feel... I feel like the whole Why Are They Making More Den-O aspect of this trilogy (where the third one stars Diend of all people, review coming this Thursday or Friday) is sorting people pretty quickly into the Liked or Hated piles. If you're okay with Den-O as an endless series of follow-up projects, or if you came in during the period when it was an endless series of follow-up projects? I don't know if these films are that bad. Certainly, the idea of More Yuuto worked gangbusters for me, even as other fans got their fill of his doomed romance (with Airi, to be clear) back in the TV series.

So, yeah, I think my ability to find value in these stories largely depends on them feeling vital in some way. Yuuto and Airi? Vital! That story definitely benefited from a few extra beats! But Kotaro, to me, just never feels vital to the story, especially since Young Ryotaro is now a permanent member of the cast.