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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER BUILD MOVIE: HEISEI GENERATIONS FINAL

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~HOO BOY~

"Hoo boy" is right. I can't believe I didn't push back on that completely uncalled for potshot you took at ska!

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You tell him, Eiji!

Anyways, yeah, much like Anything Goes, Heisei Generations Final is really dang good. Not AS good as the perfection of Anything Goes, but what is? (Okay, I'll stop.) Kamihoriuchi is still great, and like I and so many other people immediately told you at the time, Ryuuga's arc in it is both very true to what Build is about, and a very nice general tribute to the whole heroic legacy of Kamen Rider. I like the idea that someone as simpleminded as Ryuuga struggles to wrap his head about the simplest idea of all, which is that someone would ever just fight for Love & Peace without expecting to even be rewarded for it. Oh, and speaking of which...

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER BUILD MOVIE: BE THE ONE

Somewhat paradoxically, my own gripes with Build mean I completely understand where you're coming from with your criticisms of this film, and yet, I also feel like you're underestimating what a perfect encapsulation of the series it is to a level where I'd kind of hoped it would get its own "Hoo boy" from you. Or, man, I don't know, I don't exactly want to say you're not giving the film enough credit, but... well, maybe I do? This isn't my favorite summer movie, but, especially having rewatched it recently, I think on a lot of levels, it nails everything a good Rider summer movie is supposed to do. Thanks to Kamihoriuchi's amazing direction (this is top-tier work even by his standards), even those most uninspired elements of the story are delivered in a way that is, and for all its faults, the narrative gets to the core of a lot of the different ideas and themes from throughout Build all at once.

I don't know. I didn't really expect to come in here trying to make an impassioned defense of this movie, so I'm probably not doing the best job of it. The only thing I really wanted to say was how much I adore Everlasting Sky. It's a beautiful ballad to end the film on, and it's especially significant to me as the only song for Build that my beloved Shouko Fujibayashi wrote the lyrics for. As much as I love how Ready Go is literally assembled from quotes from the show, Everlasting Sky is the perfect theme for Sento in my mind. Fujibayashi, as ever, just cuts right to the bone of the narrative, and puts so perfectly into words the way Sento knows more than anyone how fragile and unrealistic his idealism is, and yet still chooses to believe, more than anyone, that it's possible to make those dreams come true anyway.

So I guess what I'm basically getting at is that I'm glad the movie came as close as it does to living up to its amazing theme song.

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Zi-O

Since other people are bringing up their lists, then for the record, I totally would've done the first and last episodes, by the way. I'm pretty sure I even told Die as much when I submitted mine, but I'm basically down for whatever when it comes to Zi-O. And I still am! So, you know, obviously you'd have a harder time convincing me not to kick in my thoughts on the show when that thread starts up. So don't fret too much, Die! If anything, you probably mostly just saved yourself a lot of headaches not having to try and figure out the scheduling for 20 people.