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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER - REIWA: THE FIRST GENERATION

I dislike thinking about this movie. I cannot believe they made a story that resurrected Headphones Dad, just so Aruto could heroically murder him. I can?t figure out why it was ever a story worth telling, and then telling it in this way. It made me like Kamen Rider Zero-One less as a concept, and possibly as a character.

So, uh, how would you rank this compared to Super Movie War Genesis?

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Originally Posted by cosmicrescend0

It's Reiwagen Time!

(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?)

Aging is a biological thing (except for a certain eternally 24 year-old), so to simulate the effect of aging in HumaGears, they would need to be manually transferred to an adult body. Yeah, the point of kid-type HumaGears is probably just part of their culture to simulate a real human family.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Why didn't he build a Humagear of Aruto's mother? Did he feel he was already playing God too much? Was he just razor-focused on his own son? Did he not think Aruto needed a mother?

I mean, did Aruto need a mother? He turned out pretty okay with only his father raising him, which isn't that uncommon with modern families. In Kamen Rider, it's lucky to have even one parent.

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Originally Posted by Frontier

Sougo setting up Heisei vs Reiwa early with a quick Zi-O and Zero-One fight. I like to think Aruto won though.

Same here. It's implied at the end that Aruto remembered that timeline, so Sougo apparently failed to erase his memories. I feel like Sougo winning would've just been too much of a downer on the Reiwa Era that had barely started at that point.

This is probably a good time to mention Inoue's statement for Zi-O VS Decade, that Basketball Sougo is native to the Reiwa Generations timeline. If those two Sougos are the same person, then Aruto must've seriously beat him up!

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

KAMEN RIDER ZERO-ONE EPISODE 16 - ?THIS IS THE DAWN OF ZAIA?

He?s an interesting character, Gai. I don?t feel like he?s more fully-developed than when he was last trying to give Hiden Intelligence a black eye, but there?s some fun new details. Him being the inverse of Aruto is clever. Gai manipulated a race of robots to become a powerful, rich industrialist, while Aruto became a powerful, rich industrialist to protect a race of robots. I don?t know if his scheme to takeover Hiden via a satellite trained to despise humanity and a robot death cult is particularly exciting to think about (it feels a little bland right now), but I appreciate his casual Oh I Taught A Robot To Hate People thing. That?s a fun energy for a villain speech.

One of Gai's traits is that he sees himself as innocent and perfect. He doesn't realize when something is his fault, instead blaming others. For example: Ark turning against humanity? Gai merely educated it about the evil side of humanity. Ark destroying a city and killing people? Gai didn't tell it to do that. He sees all these actions as inevitable due to the nature of humanity and AI, while ignoring the fact that they wouldn't have happened without his deliberately destructive input.

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

The stuff preceding it was entertaining but perfunctory. Neat to see Shining Assault Hopper go all out with dazzling new weaponry, but, like, Jin isn?t exactly Final Boss material. There?s pathos to his inability to even attempt to explain why humanity should go extinct, exposing both the hollowness of MetsubouJinrai?s philosophy and the failure of humanity to teach Humagears how to live, but Horobi was the bigger villain to defeat. Taking out Jin?s just mopping up. It?s a well shot fight, but nothing with any real drama behind it.

You probably guessed this already, but my favorite scene in this episode was immediately after that climactic fight, where Aruto calmly picked up Flying Falcon from the ground. The lazer bird has returned to the nest!