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It's Reiwagen Time!

-I actually missed out on this movie bc I hadn't watched Zi-O when I first watched 01, and like, forgot the movie existed after finishing it up Zi-O. Let's give it a proper first watch!

-I think this is the first and only time we see where Aruto lives? It's a cozy apartment, its kinda cute?

As soon as we got to the Hikarigomi segment, I got the biggest grin on my face. -You really don't know what you have until you go a long while without it, and man! I missed the Zi-O kids and Woz? It's kinda weird seeing Sougo as the "senior"(Aruto is still older than him, so it feels a bit weird calling him that, huh) Rider when his show was more or less about him being the new kid on the Rider block,, Since this is largely a 01 story, they're just here for the ride/extra hands to fight, but its nice to see them! (Also hey! I really like Sougo moving through all of his major upgrades in the movie, saving Grand Zi-O for last.)

-As with any Zi-O-related plot, we've got a bunch of timeline-messing shenagians! It's a strange AU where Humagears have nearly completely taken over the planet? Ik we only have so much time, but I do wonder about all the changes to Humagears made to themselves in order to maintain an all Humagear soicety. (Like, the mere concept of child/teenage Humagears brings up a lot of questions imo! Do they purely exist to fufill regular Humagears's desire to have families? Can they "age", or are they permamently adolscent? Do they partly exist to continue to provide roles for Humagears bulit for childcare/educational purposes?)

-Hey, it's 001! The 01 suit, now MJBR flavored! Don't really have any strong feelings about it, but cool that it exists! I amittedly haven't watched alot of the Rider movies, but surely this suit is notable for being the primary suit in the movie in comparsion to the "save it for the big moment" usages of movie-exculsive suits ive seen.

-Ichigata's a real neat suit, direct inspiration from Ichigou rather than lightly referencing it like 01! Enjoyed all the cute refrences.

Finis definitely has the best wardrobe out of all the Time Jackers, right? Straight up goregous. What isn't goregous, is that Another Ichigou. Sufficenly freaky, I love the whole centaur look, honestly?

-Depsite this being a Hiden family story, it kinda.....throws Koronosuke under the damn bus? Going "well *Soreo* was the one who created the KR system and was cruical in making sure Ark's plans were thwarted", and all Koronsosuke gets to do is realize Will's plans before it's too late, it's a little......At the very least, I wanted to know why the guy thought giving his orphaned grandson a Humagear dad was better than raising Aruto himself?

If you asked me my thoughts on this movie: It sure does exist? I honestly feel very little about this movie's narrative? Like, Finis's whole deal in this movie is to essentially just give Sougo something to do while Aruto is Going Through It, their motives personally made less sense than whatver Tid was up to in Heigen Forever? The Soreo and Aruto part.....no. Really disappointing on all fronts. I fail to see how re-traumatizing your own son will help him take his own path, or whatever this movie is trying to say. If you *really* wanted to dig into Soreo's deeds in the past, make a TTFC special or something. The other part of the special, in that Heigen way of exnaming Kamen Riders, is trying to re-affirm Aruto's core ideals and how his actions as a Kamen Rider will shape the new era....the problem is, I feel like the show already does a fine job of doing that? Granted, there's only so much you can with a movie's runtime, but by the time this movie came out, the show has done a good job, establishing, pushing back, and reinforcing his ideals? The movie largely feels a mishmash of undercooked ideas slathered up in 01-standard action on steroids, it kinda left an odd taste in my mouth.


(........Since Die occasionally like to mention those wacky train kids on occasion, I will mention the Humagear teacher is played by Shin Nagahama, who played Nijino Akira/ToQ 6 in Toqger!)