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xyzzysqrlSaraba Kamen Rider Den-O: The Final Countdown
Wow, it's been a while, huh? Good times. But now it's time to get back on the train of typing up summaries of stuff, and we begin where we left off: Kamen Rider Den-O! Let's get back on that train to watch the last plot-related movie before a storm of crossovers begins...
So, one more time, let's say hello again and goodbye to Kamen Rider Den-O.
Lots of panning over SOME city in Japan. Oh hey, Tokyo Tower. Wonder if that's gonna get destroyed.
Meanwhile, VOCAL CHORUS GOES AAA-AAA-AAA-AAAAHHHH.
Japanese man attempts to get on elevator... big gaping hole with a train in it. Yeah, I bet that happens nine times out of ten in certain areas of Japan.
Holy crap, GHOST TRAIN. It's the Phantom Train! Suplex it, Momotaros! ...wait he's not in the movie yet.
Of course the legend of the Phantom Train spreads fast around schoolkids...
...oh my god is that Ryuutaros skipping around gleefully wearing a cartoon dragon mascot outfit? I love you, Den-O.
And Momotaros dressed as a... angry badger?
And everyone drinks some REFRESHING RAMUNE SODA. Drink Ramune Soda, kids!
Oh, Ryuuta. I've MISSED you.
Oh, and the other guys. And Hana. But I've missed you most of all, dragonbounce.
SKULL TRAIN PASSIN' WOO WOO.
...wait, Imagin? Didn't they kind of wipe those out?
Oooh. A mysterious young Kamen Rider who takes up SKULL FORM. Hopefully this will not be Kamen Rider Skull. His movie doesn't show up for a few years.
Man. Our Heroes are rusty at fighting.
...What, Young Ryoutaro is the guy they're bodyjacking to use as Darkskull Evilman? That's... crass. Hrmf.
Deneb and Yuuto! Yay!
...oh. THey showed up so the boss could blow EVERYBODY up in one quick swipe. Well, that's how they all died, the end...
...and then the DENLINER shows up?
Huh. So this is "New Den-O". Cocky fellow. Likes to snap his fingers.
Nogami KOUtaro. Ryoutaro's family has no imagination for names.
Hey! It's Owner! He's actually EXPLAINING things! This -is- a new Den-O.
Koutaro's the -grandson-... in the future... er, from the future... of Ryoutaro. Right. A NEW VERSION! A NEW COSTUME! A NEW SET DESIGN!
And of course this being one of the Big Damn Movies we have to have a great big universe-crossing threat! Like the train that goes to the land of the dead! Can we suplex it now?
Woof: "What's the point of having time-traveling bad guys if you don't have time traveling GOOD guys who cheat JUST as hard?"
Meanwhile, a bad guy rants about there being a NEW Den-O and how nobody heard anything about this... he must have missed the movie commercials.
Creepy singing girl on a train!
...Why do the dead need a train that time-travels, anyway?
So why IS Kotaro's Imagin named "Teddy" anyway?
Like all grandkids, he thinks his grandad is the lamest thing imaginable. Sigh.
Awww. Yuuto in the hospital. Of course Deneb is right by his side. I ship those two SO HARD you guys you don't even KNOW.
Oh god. Even the comic relief characters are back for the Big Damn Movie.
Oh hai, Ryoutaro. Good to see you as always even if you are being held hostage by bad guys.
So the bad guy taunts him for a while about he cannot resist and will be helpless. You... didn't study up on Ryoutaro, did you, bad guy.
Hrm. Koutaro has a thing -against- his Grandad Ryou. I wonder what. I'm gonna guess feelings of inadaquacy. After all, he's only got ONE Imagin rolling with him.
Nice work, uhm... derailing the train of death, Koutaro. ... *blink* Is that a BAD idea or a good one?
...Owner decides to slap his BICYCLE down on the treadmill and MANUALLY ride the Denliner into battle. Owner, you are AWESOME.
...bad guys swordfight with New Den-O... I dunno, man. Who said "Den-O doesn't have enough characters in it. We should have MORE CHARACTERS."?
Now, ULTIMATE BAD GUY Shirou attacks and defeats New Den-O with exploding CGI tops, doubtless teaching him a lesson about humility or some damn thing.
That's right, Koutaro, REAL STRENGTH is deliberately overriding the dude who hijacked your body.
Now we teach the New Den-O duo to BE AWESOME AS A TEAM 'cause SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
Ryoutaro meanwhile is getting beaten down because he dared act against... an evil inner force. Dang villains. Being villainy.
...I think Shirou's SISTER there, Ms. Creepy Girl, is just not caring about his evil plan AT ALL.
Deneb and Yuuto attempt to catch up on the plot and fail. Enormously.
Owner thinks having a base in the 1700s would help, so... they go plant a flag in a hut. Because having a flag = having a base. And a country.
...Oh hey, it's Sieg! ... *everyone attempts to walk out on Sieg*
I love how in ANY TIME PERIOD where it's possible, Deneb will end up dressed like a housewife.
The people of the 1700s decide the Imagin crew are just weird gay Frenchmen or something.
Now even the 1700s-era housewives are calling Deneb "Fatty Boy".
Koutaro... apparently is in full-on Squall Sulk Mode. But they're gonna use him to spy on people anyway. Because the Imagin cannot exactly walk the streets unnoticed.
Thus, Urataros goes out to get chicks. *facepalm*
...Ryuutaros, stop singing the theme song.
...oh god ancestors with an identical supporting cast this plot is gonna make my head explode...
Oh wait! This IS tied to the plot! Apparently... so are Elephants. ... Man, I lost something threadwise.
The Imagin are an amazingly dysfunctional group.
Come on, Ryoutaro. Roll high on your "Talk to Girls" roll.
Koutaro has actually gone to TRAIN UNDER A WATERFALL. Okay, the kid deserves SOME credit for stickin' to roles.
...yeah, all right. He's not exactly a -bad- choice for Den-O. God knows the role attacts train-wreck characters.
And yeah, the bad guy's sis is totally not down with this whole "bring the dead back to life" policy.
Because if you kill everyone who REMEMBERS her dying, it TOTALLY never happened, right? Sigh. Amazing how far they push that in this show.
"Oh no! Everyone's going to die!" "Yeah, but what about RYOUTARO!?" "He's... captive on a train watched by all the bad guys." "Eh, he'll show up."
IMAGIN VILLAGE DEFENSE MODE GO.
"Looks like talking is futile." "LET'S SHOOT EVERYBODY! :D" Oh, Ryuuta.
And what follows is just a big ol' 1700s-era tokusatsu knockabout.
Sadly, the evil-Imagin-possessed Ryoutaro just plain stops everyone from fighting properly.
Oh, now Momotaros is just throwing HIMSELF through things for fun.
And the sand goes PSSSSSSHHHHHTTT as Momotaros puts on a big old-fashioned Samurai Death Scene. Which TOTALLY works for getting Ryoutaro back.
Awwww. They're making fun of Climax Form. ...well, I guess it does look like Rainbow Clown Gear.
Whee, "Hijack Form" Den-O vs Climax Form Den-O. Where's New Den-O and Yuuto, we'll have a proper clusterfuck battle...
Hee, Yuuto just -drives over- some enemies in arriving.
... Wow, this is CHEATING. EVERYONE GETS A DEN-O BELT. Everyone straps on to fight.
Pfft. Everyone goes through their catchphrase... except Sieg, who just points out he already SAID his.
Yuuto's agility score is HUGE now.
So... where's KOUTARO to see all this? Back at base I guess.
Daring horse chase!
Ah-ha. Kind-of character development for Koutaro. Okay! He's a real hero now I guess.
Ooooh. A real hero with a straight-up RIDER KICK finisher. Cheers!
Sadly, Shirou dies a second time, and he has to go to the land of the DOUBLE dead. But he and his sister can board the Phantom Train together and ride it and MAYBE PAY ATTENTION TO EACH OTHER THIS TIME.
Hee. And so Ryoutaro's ancestors (one of whom has an ENORMOUS Sakurai-style hat) meet, and time is FINE. Yay time.
...oh. Ryoutaro HIMSELF named Koutaro. THAT FRICKING FIGURES.
"Goodbye, Koutaro! I feel like you will have lots of adventures just off-camera!"
Teddy seems like a weirdly polite dude. He's very... Robocop somehow.
And we end with... CLIMAX JUMP. Oh, nostalgia.
Well, they say goodbye, they say farewell, they say final finale of ending endings... But there's still at least four other movies AND another one in the works. The good things never really end, do they?
Well, NEXT time I guess we start Kamen Rider W.
Wow, it's been a while, huh? Good times. But now it's time to get back on the train of typing up summaries of stuff, and we begin where we left off: Kamen Rider Den-O! Let's get back on that train to watch the last plot-related movie before a storm of crossovers begins...
So, one more time, let's say hello again and goodbye to Kamen Rider Den-O.
Lots of panning over SOME city in Japan. Oh hey, Tokyo Tower. Wonder if that's gonna get destroyed.
Meanwhile, VOCAL CHORUS GOES AAA-AAA-AAA-AAAAHHHH.
Japanese man attempts to get on elevator... big gaping hole with a train in it. Yeah, I bet that happens nine times out of ten in certain areas of Japan.
Holy crap, GHOST TRAIN. It's the Phantom Train! Suplex it, Momotaros! ...wait he's not in the movie yet.
Of course the legend of the Phantom Train spreads fast around schoolkids...
...oh my god is that Ryuutaros skipping around gleefully wearing a cartoon dragon mascot outfit? I love you, Den-O.
And Momotaros dressed as a... angry badger?
And everyone drinks some REFRESHING RAMUNE SODA. Drink Ramune Soda, kids!
Oh, Ryuuta. I've MISSED you.
Oh, and the other guys. And Hana. But I've missed you most of all, dragonbounce.
SKULL TRAIN PASSIN' WOO WOO.
...wait, Imagin? Didn't they kind of wipe those out?
Oooh. A mysterious young Kamen Rider who takes up SKULL FORM. Hopefully this will not be Kamen Rider Skull. His movie doesn't show up for a few years.
Man. Our Heroes are rusty at fighting.
...What, Young Ryoutaro is the guy they're bodyjacking to use as Darkskull Evilman? That's... crass. Hrmf.
Deneb and Yuuto! Yay!
...oh. THey showed up so the boss could blow EVERYBODY up in one quick swipe. Well, that's how they all died, the end...
...and then the DENLINER shows up?
Huh. So this is "New Den-O". Cocky fellow. Likes to snap his fingers.
Nogami KOUtaro. Ryoutaro's family has no imagination for names.
Hey! It's Owner! He's actually EXPLAINING things! This -is- a new Den-O.
Koutaro's the -grandson-... in the future... er, from the future... of Ryoutaro. Right. A NEW VERSION! A NEW COSTUME! A NEW SET DESIGN!
And of course this being one of the Big Damn Movies we have to have a great big universe-crossing threat! Like the train that goes to the land of the dead! Can we suplex it now?
Woof: "What's the point of having time-traveling bad guys if you don't have time traveling GOOD guys who cheat JUST as hard?"
Meanwhile, a bad guy rants about there being a NEW Den-O and how nobody heard anything about this... he must have missed the movie commercials.
Creepy singing girl on a train!
...Why do the dead need a train that time-travels, anyway?
So why IS Kotaro's Imagin named "Teddy" anyway?
Like all grandkids, he thinks his grandad is the lamest thing imaginable. Sigh.
Awww. Yuuto in the hospital. Of course Deneb is right by his side. I ship those two SO HARD you guys you don't even KNOW.
Oh god. Even the comic relief characters are back for the Big Damn Movie.
Oh hai, Ryoutaro. Good to see you as always even if you are being held hostage by bad guys.
So the bad guy taunts him for a while about he cannot resist and will be helpless. You... didn't study up on Ryoutaro, did you, bad guy.
Hrm. Koutaro has a thing -against- his Grandad Ryou. I wonder what. I'm gonna guess feelings of inadaquacy. After all, he's only got ONE Imagin rolling with him.
Nice work, uhm... derailing the train of death, Koutaro. ... *blink* Is that a BAD idea or a good one?
...Owner decides to slap his BICYCLE down on the treadmill and MANUALLY ride the Denliner into battle. Owner, you are AWESOME.
...bad guys swordfight with New Den-O... I dunno, man. Who said "Den-O doesn't have enough characters in it. We should have MORE CHARACTERS."?
Now, ULTIMATE BAD GUY Shirou attacks and defeats New Den-O with exploding CGI tops, doubtless teaching him a lesson about humility or some damn thing.
That's right, Koutaro, REAL STRENGTH is deliberately overriding the dude who hijacked your body.
Now we teach the New Den-O duo to BE AWESOME AS A TEAM 'cause SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
Ryoutaro meanwhile is getting beaten down because he dared act against... an evil inner force. Dang villains. Being villainy.
...I think Shirou's SISTER there, Ms. Creepy Girl, is just not caring about his evil plan AT ALL.
Deneb and Yuuto attempt to catch up on the plot and fail. Enormously.
Owner thinks having a base in the 1700s would help, so... they go plant a flag in a hut. Because having a flag = having a base. And a country.
...Oh hey, it's Sieg! ... *everyone attempts to walk out on Sieg*
I love how in ANY TIME PERIOD where it's possible, Deneb will end up dressed like a housewife.
The people of the 1700s decide the Imagin crew are just weird gay Frenchmen or something.
Now even the 1700s-era housewives are calling Deneb "Fatty Boy".
Koutaro... apparently is in full-on Squall Sulk Mode. But they're gonna use him to spy on people anyway. Because the Imagin cannot exactly walk the streets unnoticed.
Thus, Urataros goes out to get chicks. *facepalm*
...Ryuutaros, stop singing the theme song.
...oh god ancestors with an identical supporting cast this plot is gonna make my head explode...
Oh wait! This IS tied to the plot! Apparently... so are Elephants. ... Man, I lost something threadwise.
The Imagin are an amazingly dysfunctional group.
Come on, Ryoutaro. Roll high on your "Talk to Girls" roll.
Koutaro has actually gone to TRAIN UNDER A WATERFALL. Okay, the kid deserves SOME credit for stickin' to roles.
...yeah, all right. He's not exactly a -bad- choice for Den-O. God knows the role attacts train-wreck characters.
And yeah, the bad guy's sis is totally not down with this whole "bring the dead back to life" policy.
Because if you kill everyone who REMEMBERS her dying, it TOTALLY never happened, right? Sigh. Amazing how far they push that in this show.
"Oh no! Everyone's going to die!" "Yeah, but what about RYOUTARO!?" "He's... captive on a train watched by all the bad guys." "Eh, he'll show up."
IMAGIN VILLAGE DEFENSE MODE GO.
"Looks like talking is futile." "LET'S SHOOT EVERYBODY! :D" Oh, Ryuuta.
And what follows is just a big ol' 1700s-era tokusatsu knockabout.
Sadly, the evil-Imagin-possessed Ryoutaro just plain stops everyone from fighting properly.
Oh, now Momotaros is just throwing HIMSELF through things for fun.
And the sand goes PSSSSSSHHHHHTTT as Momotaros puts on a big old-fashioned Samurai Death Scene. Which TOTALLY works for getting Ryoutaro back.
Awwww. They're making fun of Climax Form. ...well, I guess it does look like Rainbow Clown Gear.
Whee, "Hijack Form" Den-O vs Climax Form Den-O. Where's New Den-O and Yuuto, we'll have a proper clusterfuck battle...
Hee, Yuuto just -drives over- some enemies in arriving.
... Wow, this is CHEATING. EVERYONE GETS A DEN-O BELT. Everyone straps on to fight.
Pfft. Everyone goes through their catchphrase... except Sieg, who just points out he already SAID his.
Yuuto's agility score is HUGE now.
So... where's KOUTARO to see all this? Back at base I guess.
Daring horse chase!
Ah-ha. Kind-of character development for Koutaro. Okay! He's a real hero now I guess.
Ooooh. A real hero with a straight-up RIDER KICK finisher. Cheers!
Sadly, Shirou dies a second time, and he has to go to the land of the DOUBLE dead. But he and his sister can board the Phantom Train together and ride it and MAYBE PAY ATTENTION TO EACH OTHER THIS TIME.
Hee. And so Ryoutaro's ancestors (one of whom has an ENORMOUS Sakurai-style hat) meet, and time is FINE. Yay time.
...oh. Ryoutaro HIMSELF named Koutaro. THAT FRICKING FIGURES.
"Goodbye, Koutaro! I feel like you will have lots of adventures just off-camera!"
Teddy seems like a weirdly polite dude. He's very... Robocop somehow.
And we end with... CLIMAX JUMP. Oh, nostalgia.
Well, they say goodbye, they say farewell, they say final finale of ending endings... But there's still at least four other movies AND another one in the works. The good things never really end, do they?
Well, NEXT time I guess we start Kamen Rider W.
