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Kamen Rider Die watches Kamen Rider Den-O
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07-23-2021, 10:55 AM
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Yeah, Final Countdown is a weird one. It's transitory status is honestly what holds it back the most - had it commited to being purely "Ryotaro's final swansong", or "Den-O: The Next Generation", it could probably have made those work far better, but instead it's trying to ease you out of Ryotaro and into "The Imagin and their new friends", which, ya know, obviously worked since I've watched that Pretty Den-O film within the last few months, but it means you're hung up on the memories of what Den-O used to be, while trying to set up what it will be. In this case, waiting on Ryotaro to escape the ghost train and reunite with his friends.
It also does Yuuto dirty in a way that made that first half-hour really tough for me. A lot of Kotaro's debut is as the new Den-O, with a newly-painted Den-Liner, and he's accompanied by an Imagin who can't make him act politely, and that Imagin can become a weapon for the new Den-O, and the new Den-O won't stop trying to do everything himself, and that new Den-O also needs to tell people how strong he is... like, Kotaro's trying to replace Ryotaro
and
Yuuto in
the same scenes
, while Yuuto languishes in a hospital bed.
It feels like Kobayashi was working as hard as she could to make you hate Kotaro, and I don't know why she decided to do that? A little friction is fine; we're all going to be skeptical of our new Den-O when the old Den-O hasn't even left yet, so it's cool to play into that. But Kotaro's debut is aggressive (it's a bunch of sequences where the other characters watch Kotaro be a bad-ass) and dismissive (he constantly insults the show this movie is celebrating!), and it's such a weird hole to spend the rest of the movie digging Kotaro out of.
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