[AkibaSilver]

Kamen Rider Brain was never something that needed to exist. But I'm so glad it does. It's hilariously funny, but never betrays Brain's character to be so. At least, any more than the show evolved the Roidmudes between Episodes 1 and 50 (I find them a strange group of villains, tbh). It plays on the Showa tropes, but in a playful way, laughing with them rather than mocking. And it's just really good and fun? A 20 minute spin-off based off a one-line joke on Brain's ego, several years after the show it spawned off from has been moved past, is the kind of thing you roll your eyes at, but in the hands of a good writer, even something that doesn't beg to be made, to answer a hanging question or loose plotpoint (althougb Brain also hints at that! That ending!!!) can tell a good story, some good jokes, and remind us why we fell in love with these characters several years later.