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KAMEN RIDER OOO ALL-STARS - “THE 21 STARS AND CORE MEDALS”, PART 2



Back to the Net Movie mines!

PRESIDENT KOUGAMI’S VIRTUAL NEW EMPLOYEE CEREMONY
I frequently can’t decide if it would be awesome to work at the Kougami Foundation, where Do As Thou Wilt is the whole of the employee handbook, or if I’d feel like I’m only one random Kougami impulse away from being destroyed by a monster… or worse, forced to work alongside Gotou. Hard to say!

WHY IS TATOBA A COMBO
I was honestly thinking about this a couple nights ago, when Eiji was forced to use the Lion Medal after Ankh stole the rest of the Red Medals. Why does TaToBa get a Henshin song when, like, LaToBa doesn’t? While this video doesn’t really answer that question (YOU CAN STILL SING IT!!!), it does point out that the reason TaToBa is not only a sing-along combo but OOO’s base form, is to sell toys. The gimmick only works if you can tell he’s made up of multiple things!

GATAKIRIBA’S SUMMER GLOOMS
But those two appearances are so cool! Quality over quantity!

QUIZ LATORAATAH’S BEAUTIFUL LEGS
Every joke answer about OOO in this sketch – where the abbreviated names come from, what the parts of the suit do – sounds about as credible as the actual answers, which is precisely the right vibe for both Net Movies and this ridiculous franchise as a whole. Jet propulsion from the cheetah spots! Okay, sure!

QUIZ SAGOUZO’S CUNNING
Y’know, it’s a shame that the series never really gave Ankh and Date a story or two together. Ankh’s pretty much just with Eiji for the duration of the show, and his only memorable Birth rivalry is treating Gotou like garbage for laughs. The two characters have exceptional chemistry in these quiz sketches, and I think a two-parter where they need to team up would’ve been an all-time great. Or they’d’ve both died from their overlapping nonsense. One of those!

TAJADOR WAITER AGONY
It’s just a weird sketch that seems overwritten? It’s the four villain Greeed as a family that can’t stop shit-talking Ankh, and then Eiji is Tajador, and then Ankh wants the Greeed thrown out, and then there’s a brawl? Comedy-wise, the only thing I laughed at was this, and I couldn’t stop giggling at it:



QUIZ SLEEP AS SHAUTA
Okay, Bells ignoring the fact that Date’s asleep and just running the game show anyway is the hardest I laughed at this whole series of Net Movies, most of which are very funny. Just Ankh saying his line 80% out of character, then the beat of Bells turning to look at Date, acknowledging it with her body language, and then jumping right into her hosting gig is so goddamn funny to me. More GIFs!



(The rest of it was fine. But that first gag! Brilliant.)

QUIZ WHICH SUBTYPE IS PUTOTYRA?
Sort of nothing to this one. Having PuToTyra rampage to end the sketch is another way of saying they didn’t have a lot of ideas to start with.

MOVIE-ONLY COMBO BURAKAWA PII!
I’m not sure I ever mentioned it, but one of my favorite gags from the Date/Gotou apprenticeship era of the show was how Date would energetically misidentify the animal in the Yummy, and Gotou would give him an immediate deadpan correction. Absolute best use of Gotou in the series, Non-Satonaka Division.

FOURZE SWITCH TEMPTATION
Cute introduction of Fourze! With no dialogue!

119 OOO MARATHON
Good lord! I’m not sure if Eiji’s deserves hazard pay more for the speed at which he had to recite 119 subforms on camera, or for having to wear those tiny shorts. Toei is a villain! Zi-O was right, we need to blow them up!

These were pretty fun! Probably a higher hit-to-miss ratio than the Den-OOO ones?