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I’ve watched this three times, and it’s telling that I remember a fan edit by the editors at TV-Nihon more than the actual piece (notably, they cut out most of the framing device (only retaining one scene of Mina standing against a skyscraper, which incidentally, is the only evidence in this cut that she survived in the end), and some of the extraneous “this is how this element in the summer movie came about” scenes).

And you were right, the cast for this one is a much easier job. Mainly, because they all fall under one category.

Sentai-lert!

First off, our narrator Mina is played by Rin Takahashi, who the previous year had teamed up with two other Riders in her more famous role as Shiraishi Mako/Shinken Pink (there’s also a weirdo online who for some reason thinks she’s the spitting image of Amy Jo Johnson, of Flashpoint fame, but that’s neither here or there)

And for Dr. Prospect’s two henchmen, the male of the two is Sho Tomita, better known as Yukito Sanjo/AbareBlue in Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger, and later appeared in Space Sheriff Sharivan: Next Generation as what is basically “the Arms Dopant if he was actually an undercover cop who got too into character”. Meanwhile, the female of the two is Shroud’s suit actress, Sanae Hitomi.

Finally, Dr. Prospect hismelf is Jyunichi Haruta, who previously appeared in Rider as Undad (as the watch thread for that series dubbed him) in Kamen Rider Blade. But prior to that, he was the Black Ranger in two consecutive 80s Sentai: Dai Sentai Goggle Five as Kanpei Kuroda and Kagaku Sentai Dynaman as Ryu Hoshikawa (the main difference being that the former is a chess player who talks normally, while the latter is a ninja who talks like he’s a Shakespeare character). He was also in the Metal Heroes series as two different arc villains: Mad Gallant in Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion and Bunzo Yazaki in Tokusou Exceedraft.