[Kamen Rider Die]

Should be working, but I can check back in on this thread for a minute.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Really sells Gaim as a cryptid of sorts, which to be fair... he kind of is by his series end tbh!

All Gaim post-series appearances are priceless because they have to note that Kouta is an actual Space God now. It's an obligatory - but very fun - beat.

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Originally Posted by TheRaizin

I watched this movie and I saw Takeru and went "Hey, this guy's not so bad. I wonder why people don't like his show?". It did, evidently, take a while to check his show out tho hahaha.

He's a sweet boy.

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Probably the part that has stuck with me the longest has to do with one of the villains. As a Sakamoto film, we obviously get an attractive badass woman as one of the bad guys, someone who he can film doing flips and kicks in slow motion. For this movie he went with an actress named Chihiro Yamamoto, who?s actually a very talented tai chi competitor. After this movie, she would also go on to star as Laiha, one of the main characters in Ultraman Geed.

Yeah, a lady lieutenant in tiny shorts... he didn't need to sign it.

There're an awful lot of non-suit fights in this movie, which I'm of two minds on. On the one hand, they all look great. Seeing Emu do a handspring backflip is a nice reminder that he's only a clutz when he's not in fight.

But, on the other hand, there were at least two point s in the movie where I was like Wait Can Emu Not Henshin Either? Like, you're fighting mad scientists with genocidal designs! And superpowers! It's okay to just Henshin into your superpowered form! You don't need to wait until your ass is 85% kicked!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

I really dig how all throughout the movie, people are telling Takeru not to push himself too much, building up to that ending, because it conveys this idea that like, Takeru was always working that hard, back in his show. That he gives more than he even has to give. It's neat. This movie goes out of its way to treat all the Riders in it like proper superstars, and it's kind of no wonder Emu feels a little insecure! Which, considering this is a movie from early in his show, makes plenty of sense as the focus for him, too! Lots of real neat things about this movie!

No, that's really nice, that Takeru finally gets to be the badass Legend Rider in this movie. Emu's a sweet boy, too, so it's fitting that his Legend Rider would be the Rider who hugged someone so well he prevented an apocalypse. Takeru's definitely going to be his icon from this batch of Legend Riders. (Sorry.)

Like, Emu wouldn't value Space God Powers or Crime-Stopping. He wants to bring people hope, true, but not as much as he wants people to get the chance to live. Someone who'll risk everything - including his own life - to ensure that other people get to stay alive; to ensure that they can make their lives happier? That's what both Emu and Takeru want!

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Originally Posted by Androzani84

I'm looking forward to this Thursday!

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Originally Posted by LeviathanBlossom

I rewatch this one periodically and always have a great time with it - it's super fun and treats all of its guest stars well and it treats its main cast well and then there's the added bonus of every time Emu angsts about being Bad At His Day Job I get to shout at the screen that he is, in fact, bad at his day job. Emu. Sweetie. Takeru is in there clearly in shock and starting to decompensate - look at his vitals! Look at them! This is literally your job! - and instead of trying to fix it you are engaged in an inner monologue about how you are bad at your job. I cannot tell if the writers did this on purpose, I really can't, but oh my god. It's either brilliant or the most hilarious coincidence I have ever seen in Kamen Rider.

...I think I need to go watch it again,

Every time I watch anything with the full roster of Ex-Aid Riders, I'm reminded of how good this cast is; both in terms of composition, and chemistry.

Emu is the most emotionally healthy doctor in this movie because he's fine saying how much he wants his patients to survive and be happy. Hiiro and Taiga spend most of the film trying to one-up each other in a Worst Bedside Manner competition, while Kiriya's just, like, excited about a new and deadly pathogen to investigate. Emu's literally the only Ex-Aid Rider who grieves at the capture of their patient (Hiiro straight-up uses him as bait), and that's pretty great? I've always enjoyed how every Rider on Kamen Rider Ex-Aid exists on a spectrum that spans from Control to Service - which are the two guiding attributes of literally every character on the show - and this movie does a great job at keeping them all differentiated.