[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Deepsea

I remember one thing even though I havent seen this. When Takatora goes "it's space," pauses and goes "and that's enough of that"

Not sure what that says.

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

I always thought of it as a gag where everyone's channeling the Legend Rider's personality and the stoic guy brushes off the genki energy of his powerup.

Yeah, it's a fun gag! Takatora always being sort of vaguely resentful of the toyetic elements of the narrative is a solid recurring bit in non-TV Gaim projects.

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Originally Posted by Kurona

The big thing I remember about this movie is that at the time I was watching Gaim (and a little later Wizard), the only subs I could find available for this movie were like, really really bad ones; Gridman-level quality, and it made it both awful and hilarious. Aside from that... yeah, pretty average movie! Not the worst or anything, Wizard portion has some nice ideas and Gaim has some hilarious cameos, but all in all there's not a lot here. It's A Movie!

I can't believe that I forgot that Todoroki's actor was in this, as one of the Mage Trio, and then they didn't use him in the Gaim section as Hibiki's lord. WHAT A WASTE! I take back everything good I said about this movie, and no one can say anything that'll change my mind.

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

The Wizard portion, though, I adore that, the same way I adore Wizard in general ? way more than most people probably do. (And definitely more than Die does!) Made for a fantastic addendum to the series, and a rather touching story that plays perfectly off of one of Wizard's central themes, which was the importance of not letting yourself get stuck in the past. Having Haruto ultimately decide to literally leave that ring in his memories at the end was... I mean, can I even say particularly brilliant, when there's so much like that in here? Definitely my favorite Movie War epilogue of any series that got one, but then, this is also my favorite series that got a Movie War epilogue, too, so there's that.

This was very nice to read. I don't connect with the Wizard section in nearly the same way you did -- I think I wanted more of a Haruto/Koyomi story, instead of a story about how Haruto feels about Koyomi -- but I liked reading how it worked for you. I don't disagree that there are a ton of sweet moments that thoughtfully conclude Wizard's narrative, but Koyomi just never felt like enough of a character for this conclusion to hit hard emotionally. She always just felt like a plot point to me.

(I really think a lot of it is the actor? She never found much variation in her performance, even in this one as a villain. If this movie had been about Rinko dying in the TV finale, I'd've probably claimed it as my favorite Movie War. Rinko was the best! Koyomi was... not my favorite!)

But, yeah, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the movie! This was a good part of my day.