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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

TOKUMEI SENTAI GO-BUSTERS VS KAIZOKU SENTAI GOKAIGER: THE MOVIE

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(Kyoryuger! No thanks!)

This reminds me a lot of how I felt watching the last episodes of Go-Busters originally. Again, this is back in the days where fansubs had no TTFC or anything like that to get clean raws from, so Over-Time's release of the later episodes of this show included ads for the next show in line, and let me tell you, those commercials did the exact opposite of getting me hyped! Here I am trying to deal with the complicated feelings of reaching the end of a 50 episode show I had been enjoying this much, and suddenly Shigeru Chiba starts screaming at me about dinosaurs at max volume, as if Toei's transparent attempt to boost Sentai's popularity by rehashing an already successful gimmick was really going to work.

Well, not only did it end up working, it ended up working on me, because when I eventually gave Kyoryuger a chance, it actually clicked with me pretty much immediately, and played a much greater role in getting me invested in Super Sentai as a whole than Go-Busters actually did. Really special show, that Kyoryuger.

Anyways, I say all this in part to point out that, despite watching all of Gokaiger before Go-Busters, I probably wasn't too far off from where Die was in my initial reaction to this movie. The other part is that I simply don't have much else to say. Even now, after a lot of experience with these crossovers, it's rare a Sentai VS film leaves any lasting impression on me, and this isn't one of those few standouts. I barely even remember the experience of watching it, honestly. So this isn't a film I can readily pull some hidden depth out of to make an argument in its favor, but I will say, I definitely learned to love all three of the shows it's pulling from, with time.