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It's a similar process to the other Den-Os, although with different armor on the body of course and it's a police car-looking thing that drives down his head and forms his mask. It's... weird. There's also a tune before he swipes the pass over his belt, but it's just like someone mucking around with a synthesizer, and not as elaborate as some of the others. Eve's face also takes a place on his chest, sort of like the Vega Forms.

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Daiki is under arrest for wanting to erase his own existence, causing a time paradox; such actions are illegal. Kurosaki throws in an odd comment about feeling the same way, and brings up his mom (!) This will come into play later. Anyway, the other Imagin are impressed with the new guy, who proceeds to transform into Kamen Rider G Den-O! He tells Daiki that if he wants to be erased from history so badly, he'll be more than happy to oblige.

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As if things couldn't get more ridiculous, a man teleports in, Terminator-style, though thankfully wearing more clothes. This is Kurosaki Reiji, and almost every time he shows up in a scene, this guitar riff comes on to remind us that this is some serious @#$% we're dealing with here. Kurosaki is a Time Cop... there's really no other way to describe it, that's what he says. He's armed with a golden revolver and a badge that talks. This badge holds the face of Eve, an artificial Imagin who is basically Deneb and Teddy combined, but without either's charm or morality. His eyes light up whenever he talks, and he talks a lot of trash. Kurosaki's also wearing a Den-O belt, but with a big chunky golden circle on the front (the time police's logo.)

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Owner explains how, despite the Imagin being destroyed, the date on the stolen Rider Pass remains, so the Den-Liner will return there because, after all, that's where whatever Daiki wants is. You gotta wonder why he bothered stealing the Den-Liner then; my guess is that Daiki doesn't really know how it works, despite coveting it back in Decade, which fits in with his "ho ho ho, this must be precious" personality. Ryôtarô & the guys see the Den-Liner returning and hoof it. On the way Ryôtarô spots Daiki and decides to follow him. Guy sure gets around fast! So what is Daiki after, anyway?

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Daiki takes off in the Den-Liner, leaving Ryôtarô & company behind. Cue the same opening credits as the last two movies. It's kind of funny how some stuff featured so prominently in it was on screen for a few minutes, tops (like Mantis Imagin's masked dude persona.) In any case this is the last time we'll be seeing this credits variation anyway, since it's part 3 of the trilogy and any further movies/trilogies will likely have something new. And yes I'm just trying to fill space in this paragraph while I remember what the hell happened next.

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After Daiki shoots at them a bit, Momotaros remembers him as "that robber guy". We never get any flashbacks to prior movies/episodes like in Episode Blue, but we can just assume he's talking about Decade #14 & 15, and any subsequent meeting they've had. At this point, don't even try to bring in the concept of alternate universe Den-O's any more. The Chô Den-O Trilogy has basically taken any hope of that, doused it in kerosene, and lit a match. Not that I mind though! It's all one big happy thing and it pulls in Decade, Kiva, Ryuki and whatever the hell else it feels like. You could probably go as far as to say that Dragon Knight and the stage shows are all viable ground too.

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In one of the best jokes in the movie, Momotaros forces the others into helping him look for the Rider Pass. Yes, every time he just tosses it aside like that, he actually still has to go and find it after the battle. This time though, Daiki has found it first, and he's already on board the Den-Liner. As it turns out, he tricked everyone, allowing himself to get possessed by the Spider Imagin so that the Den-Liner would go back and he'd be able to take it over. If you think Daiki's plan is pretty crazy now, just you wait. Before the movie is over, you're going to find that Daiki is either a total genius, or the luckiest man in fiction.

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He outwits and outfights the four, who end up punching each other silly. Daiki is sporting pinkish-purple strands in his hair, suggesting possession by an Imagin. It turns out to be a Spider Imagin (straight out of the TV series) who emerges once Ryôtarô arrives, as confirming his identity was apparently all the Spider Imagin needed to complete his contract. He opens up Daiki and goes into the past. Our heroes soon follow, with Ryôtarô noting the blank expression on Daiki's face as he puts a ticket to him and learns the date the Imagin fled back to: November 22nd, 2008.

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The movie opens with a pan of nighttime Tokyo. High atop it all, a mysterious man casts out sparkly sand out as he leaps from building to building. This has naturally attracted the attention of Momotaros, who is following his non-existent nose on the trail of an Imagin. He's dragged Urataros, Kintaros and Ryuutaros along with him, although all 3 of them would clearly rather be doing something else (sleeping, taking a bath, etc.) The crew confront the man, who Momotaros finds suspiciously familiar. As well he should: it's Kaitô Daiki, Kamen Rider Diend! Although it takes Momotaros longer to realize this than it does the audience.

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Actually, one of the other regulars fares pretty well in this one too, coming to have a special kind of role in the story since given what he gets to see. If you think he's been sidelined in the past few films, you might like this.

There isn't a whole lot else to say beyond the characters (as the Trilogy has been pretty character-centric.) The plot's crazy and goes all over the place, but like I said, it somehow all works. Good action, good music and all that. The song as the end's a funny mishmash; I'd have liked a new version of Treasure Sniper or something, but it's cool. If I had any complaints, and it's a smaller complaint: I would have liked a small cameo from a particular series, but I'll live. We do get a nice little shout-out to it in the form of something that's in almost all the episodes, and always seems to be changing.

How does it stack up to the others? It might be my favorite, though Episode Blue was pretty good too. At some point soon I'll do a final Trilogy wrap-up with my thoughts on the whole shebang and all that. Although I might need to watch this one again. Also, that'll be loaded with spoilers most likely so you might want to pass on it for now.

So that's it for the Chô Den-O Trilogy. Given the box office success of each installment, I'd say we're due for more Den-O in the future, though I'll speculate on that another time.

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For a Diend fan, this is really a pretty solid outing, giving him a chance to exhibit all his trademarks. He uses some of his usual tricks, although probably better than ever before. He of course gets one particular new one that you probably already know about. Needless to say I liked it. Its introduction is a bit odd, but if you're used to how some past Heisei Riders got their new toys, it's pretty much in-line with what we've come to expect. You'll like that final attack, no doubt.

The movie's other main star is an interesting character, or maybe I should say characters? There's a pretty good storyline going on with him and you might be surprised at who the actual villain turns out to be. It's signposted, but the way the movie went about it was interesting and not what I expected.

The new Rider, G Den-O, is okay. As a costume it's pretty much what we've come to expect from movie Riders in Den-O, that being they took the basic Den-O Plat Form look and changed around the armor here and there, new helmet there, etc.

As for the rest of the cast: at this point I've just run out of things to say about the regulars. We had them in the last two movies, we've had them before that, etc. Mizoguchi is still amazing, Momotaros is still hilarious, with one scene that's become one of my favorites ever involving the character. And everybody else is about what you'd expect.

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As for characterization... well, it's Daiki. Written by Yonemura, the man who probably handles him the best. Although I brought up his wacky turns earlier, if you just sit down and examine the Yonemura-written episodes with Diend, there's at least some consistency among them. Under the other writers, I always felt he seemed just a bit too antagonistic, as if they all expected he'd wind up a villain by the end, and it's up to the actor to keep you liking him. But Yonemura seemed to get it. He writes Daiki as a magnificent bastard who always seems to have a plan, or at least is good at making it up while he goes, and beneath the bluster there is a good guy in there.

If it at first looks like he's doing something really stupid (going after treasures that happen to be attached to Daishocker leaders, etc.) then usually there's some twist or trick to it, a method to the madness. Hibiki World Daiki is one of my favorite depictions of the character, who up until then had seemed a lot more sinister than he really is. It's also the best-ever use of him as a rival to Tsukasa I think, with each backed up by an opposing school in that killer confrontation which quickly descends into unabashed lunacy. If When I get to write for Kamen Rider, I'd like to create a secondary Rider who never actually voluntarily gets into fights with the main one when they're transformed, but only when they're in human form. And even then, it's less fisticuffs and more about then pitting their wits. I like that stuff, like Tendô and Tsurugi trying to one-up each other.

Such is the case here. Daiki's at the center of a great crazy plan. You'll have to see the movie for yourself to get it, but there's a lot of time-trickery involved. The plot's bonkers, but I liked it and it all works out in a weird sorta way.

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But at the end of the day, he's a cool concept both as a character and as a Rider: A world-hopping guy who wants valuable bits of fan service and fights by bringing in anybody from the past 10 years, and even beyond. It's another case of Decade's high concepts rising above how effective/ineffective they might have actually been realized.

And really? It's just so good to see him back. Decade's barely over a year old and for all the ups and downs it has, I love that show, and bringing elements of it back gets the nostalgia gears grinding. That there's still so much untapped potential in it is only a bonus.

So that brings us to the main man. It's a good outing for him. I'm not sure if you'll have a lot of your questions answered about him, but you'll still get a good handle on who he is and where he might be going. The movie does some brave things with its lead.

It's got bold ideas, and kind of makes me feel like the Chô Den-O Trilogy stars really should have been all non-Den-O Riders. I enjoyed Episode Red and Episode Blue (the latter particularly so) but they've inarguable got a Den-O-centric appeal to them. If you didn't like the series and movies before, those probably won't make you like it now. With Episode Yellow, it's a bit more tricky. If you liked Decade and mainly Diend, you'll probably like this, because even with the Den-O cast appearing, he's still front in center.

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To be honest, I don't remember Double & Decade Daiki much, other than a lot of standing around and being as confused as everyone else by Wataru's gibbering nonsense, and then joining in for the kick-ass fight at the end. But All Riders is where the character finally sort of hit his apex for me, despite a shaky start (he gets to be the top 3rd Heisei Rider in the tournament because he showed up late?)

That movie has Diend facing down some serious bad guys and joining with the rest of the Rider family at last; probably the two defining moments are his classic Shocker soldier reveal, and then escaping with Natsumi while having to fight off pretty much everybody after the Rider pow-wow goes bad (what'd he expect, hooking up with two nutbars though?) At last, Diend really felt like a proper hero here, as opposed to simply a thief with a heart of gold.

The other big thing about Diend, apart from his characterization, is the fact that he's kind of indirectly responsible for making Narutaki into such a worthless character, given how he took his one cool ability (summon in old Riders to fight Decade) and put a more marketable spin on it. Thus we go from feeling like the real Hoppers and Kaixa have come into he show, to just a bunch of grunting digital copies. To be fair, Diend does it far more over the course of the series than Narutaki, who could conceivably still do it later if he wanted to (re: Hibiki World) so it's more the writing's fault than it is Daiki's.

And yet... I honestly can't say I dislike him. Yes, his character has qualities I don't (and still don't) understand. Yes, he looks like the super heroic equivalent of a PS2. Yes, we still know so little about how he travels between worlds that the "he journeys through the plot holes" theory actually makes complete sense (that said, Episode Yellow does offer up a pretty good explanation of how he gets around Den-O's world, anyway.)

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In #28 & 29, he's even more bonkers, but I say that as an Amazon fan knowing that on their own, the Gigi and Gaga are basically just cool-looking jewelry; combined is where the real power lies. Not to mention that as long as you have one, pretty much anybody who knows the back story will be after you 'til the end of time. This arc also saw him getting his power-up card from Narutaki, a plot development that's still pretty hard to explain (and after this movie, nothing's changed there. I'm pretty sure Daiki's still using the old Kamen Ride Diend card anyway. My fan theory is that the card just gave him some new tricks, Illusion & Barrier, etc., but I dunno)

The last two are confusing enough as it is, and (along with the trip to his own world) another look into how emotionally unstable he can be at times; see his almost-teary-eye "only I can destroy you!" bit with Tsukasa. And then of course there's that ending, though with the re-aired episodes chopping out the face-shooting bit, it's hard to know what actually has happened anymore. On this one, I'll vote with my wallet, and say I still consider the original ending to be the real one until Toei's marketing department says otherwise. Given that books published post-re-airing still refer to it (Yuusuke turned bad; Diend's headshot, etc.) you gotta wonder.

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I'm mainly thinking of the one-two punches in #22-23 & 24-26, where we got some of Daiki's back story, learned about his inner demons and then saw him get taken down a few pegs when a Sentai villain swipes his weapon and goes hog-wild. It seemed like at that point the character might go from his earlier, more reckless and somewhat morally dubious self where he's not a bad guy (but he'll still shoot at Tsukasa and Yuusuke and heaven help them if they don't dodge) into something a little more conventionally heroic, and maybe even give us some of the answers we've been waiting to hear.

Instead we have Daiki at probably his all-time most head-scratching. In #26 & 27, he intentionally opposes Tsukasa to get his hands on Apollo Geist's Perfecter, which is already not a very smart idea as it is ("Yes, I'll just walk up to one of the most dangerous Rider villains in existence and take it! Treasure Hunting wooooooooo!") You gotta love how quickly he runs once he realizes he's up against an enemy who actually uses his shield like a shield. To be fair, he still proves in the end that he's a good guy by bringing in another Kurata Tetsuo for that moment every fan still gushes over. Also, Daiki drops some serious X-Rider continuity in these episodes, so he's all right by me.

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From this point on, it'd be interesting to see if Toei will up the ante with the next inevitable Den-O movie/series of movies. How about Episode Green featuring V3? Episode Black featuring BLACK? Episode Bluey-Purplish featurning Hibiki? The sky's the limit. Of course Diend, like Decade, is a unique case, given how steeped in Rider mythology the character is. It's practically his whole reason to exist.

Diend is a strange character; in many ways his inclusion made Decade's narrative infinitely more complex, as it added in another mystery man who knew about the hero's back story but refused to tell, and who had his own world-hopping abilities and motivation. We did find out a little about him along the way, but he's still largely an enigma by the end of the series and subsequent movies. What's more, he has some of the oddest characterization in Kamen Rider, appearing to regress with each appearance back to the core concept of "world-hopping treasure hunter" despite whatever he'd just been through in the previous episodes.

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In a lot of ways, this is the Den-O movie that finally really delivers on a facet of the series that up until now has mostly gone unexplored: presumably, they can meet anybody in history, or at least Rider history. It's a trait shared with Decade, though while that show is built around the concept, Den-O's only briefly toyed with it in the past.

In the previous team-ups with Kiva and Decade, the guest Riders were basically doing cameo appearances. Here however, Diend is definitely integral to the plot and entrenched into the Den-O mythos. The movie simply wouldn't be the same without him. It's still a Den-O movie featuring Diend, but he's the first name in the credits and it's not hard to see why.

After all, the main selling point of the Trilogy, beyond the idea of 3 Rider movies spread out across 6 weeks, is that each one focuses on a Rider other than Den-O. Although so far, they've still been Riders to come out of the Den-O series/movies, whereas finally we have a character from a different series, albeit one that has crossed over with Den-O in the past and has the potential to cross over with it easily.

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Tsukasa, have you eaten any Spoiler Warnings?: This is the Spoiler-Free Version of the review for the third part of the Chô Den-O Trilogy. That means there's no spoilers. If you want to know about the plot details for the movie, there's a Spoiler Version just below this one. Well okay, there's loads of spoilers for the Decade series, but you've probably seen that by now if you're reading this.

Still the same trailer for Kamen Rider Double Forever: A to Z/ The Gaia Memories of Fate. Futo must die!

Alright, it's time for the final part of the Chô Den-O Trilogy, this time starring a character not from Den-O, but from Decade: Kamen Rider Diend, alias Daiki! Is that enough "D"'s for you? This was probably the most anticipated part of the Trilogy for me, given my unabashed love of Decade and even more so, my love of Rider crossover team-ups. Not to mention Diend is a character with loads of storytelling potential still in him, but I'll get back to that. How does it stack up?

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Kamen Rider OOO, or 仮面ライダーオーズ. Like Faiz, I expect he'll have some other version of his name we'll all be using eventually. Oz or something. In which case I already know what I'm calling the episode 1 review.

Anyway, by now it seems like everyone else has weighed in on how they feel about this, so it's my turn. And...?

I like it! I basically feel the same way I did about Double. Pretty cool suit, weird belt, but it's going to make for a cool toy and you just know it'll have its share of fans in a few months' time. It does scream "Look! We're going to have form-changing" in the way Double does. Whether the other forms will look any good, that I've got to wait on. They're apparently going to have weird names I'll probably be mixing up. TakaSakaMakaLamaDingDong and such. The medals are okay, though even I'll be surprised if they achieve Rider Card/Gaia Memory-level coolness.

A couple more things: the surprisingly-accurate artwork that turned up some time ago wasn't very reassuring, but I like the actual suit. There's a crispness to the colors on the black. It looks simple, but in the kind of way I like.

The claws are cool, and an unconventional weapon for what I'm assuming will be the "main guy" costume (i.e. the one that lands on the most merchandise.)

The crooked belt will take some getting used to (straighten it dude! Then it almost looks Typhoon-ish.)

And I love the green eyes. There just aren't enough green-eyed Riders, honestly.

Overall I'm psyched, though the big leering question is that if this is the 40th Anniversary series... is it going to live up to that at all? Or is this just buying time before the real deal in 2011? We'll see.

Starting September 5th, though he'll be turning up somewhere else a little earlier...

a new RF server

it would be great to set one up Rf online is one of my favorite video games of all time it's so great because their is no game like it it is one of a kind although it can get boring at times this is one game i would rather play

OLD SKOOL CARTOONS

well today most would say old school as in like loony tunes but to me old school would be road runner, speed racer and transformers the thing about them is i'm a 90's kids and that's what i grew up with even though i barely had cable.

Orange...

yes i know i've talked about oranges a couple times but the thing is my parents have this thing where the only thing good is apple juice or orange juice so it's either some kind of acid problem or vitamin C poisoning. i swear

Lipton Tea bags

I'm having an apiffony here or w/e how you spell it but i used to remember some kind of prototype or something like that was packed with lipton tea bags i used it twice til it was bad because that's what some people do to save a little more on money and it has a taste of orange.

pepto bismol or w/e the fuck it's called

the sukka works! i honestly been using it for the past month since I've been getting more sick often for some reason it used to be where in high school i was sick only ONCE and it's usually during the beginning of the year when i get only one fever which is strangely odd to me.

upgrading my phone from 3.1.2 to 4.0.1

I upgraded to 3.1.2 because i wanted new applications that were awesome and i wanted to use with my iPhone 3g which is jailbroken then the new iPhone 4 came out and my dad had like a pissing contest where hey son my friend upgraded my phone to 4.0 and well since the person that i am can't let that be i upgrade to 4.0.1 successfully and rubbed it in his face. fun^^

Me and My current addiction to orange cream soda...

so on my way to class i usually stop by tobaco junction which is just one of those shops that sell cigars and loto cards and etc. i usualy buy my metro cards there but one day i decided to try something new since i had the money for it it was these soda's that were in glass bottles almost like the coco cola classic ones and since i havent herd of these flavors i stuck onto one that sounded familiar orange cream since then i've been addicted

Old Anime's 2

This anime is awesome Looong looong time ago i remember watching it in the Philippines with my best gal friend Mina. It was in tagalog i think the anime was dubbed in (I could not find a Sorcerer Hunter dubbed example though if you look around there are proofs that the anime was tagalog dubbed) and it was awesome though jap version is of course. Tagalog dubbed anime = interesting and good to watch, unlike english dubbed anime = fail.

Old Anime's

Yep as the title says Old Animes are WIN! Sure new animes today such as Durarara, Fairy Tail, and etc are also good but you have to miss the old time animes such as Rurouni Kenshin, Fushigi Yuugi, Yuyu Hakusho, Flame of Recca and etc...including the anime i'm watching right now...Sorcerer Hunters (AKA: Bakuretsu Hunters)!!!

RF Online

Now since Codemasters dropped the game because of contract issues which is dumb on the koreans side since they had a lot of players for just that one game. Play RF has picked it up but between the gap private servers have been created and having a greater following. My question is will the game stay down and be in the hands of the explayers and fans of the game or will Play RF get all of codemasters players back.