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Hello all! Today, I'm review my first V-Cinema! I'm not super into these because Kamen Rider makes these for 2 purposes: To make money and to make people mad with continuity errors. However Bulid only has 2. This is still more Ghost's 1 V-Cinema(I know Zi-O only has one atm, but they could plan ones for Woz and Tuskuomi), but still more compared to the 3 for Ex-Aid and Drive, and 4 of them for Gaim. Srill, I'm intrested in this to see where it goes.
Rules for Toku(man it's been a while): 1.Spoilers(and I'm talking series, not just the film this time) are abounding folks. 2.I am watching GENM CORP subs. And let us begin. This is my review of Bulid New World: Kamen Rider Cross
Ok, so before we go any further, the ending of Bulid involved everyone dying, and the world was reset, with only Sento and Banjo keeping their memories. As such, we begin with Sento and Ryuga, selling stuff in order to make a living due to them not meant to be in this world. While Ryuga is out selling his things, he meets a girl named Yui who is looking for Cross-Z in order to recover her memories. However, a new villain named Killbus shows up looking for Evolt. He came out of the white Pandora Panel, copying Sento's memories, transforming into the body of a dancer, and reactiving Pandora's Box to find Evolt residing inside Banjo. Evolt snuck himself inside Banjo during the part where everything went to s**t in the finale, which is how he's here now.
Sento gets a message saying that he should go to the govement houses, and he finds that everyone expect Utsumi, who didn't undergo any experimentation, got their memories back. Sento then explains what's going on with Killbus.
Meanwhile, Evolt explains that Killbus is his older brother, and a destroyer. He destroyed his home planet, which is what lead Evolt to take Pandora's Box and leave what is know as Planet Blood. Banjo then meets Yui, who is a girl that kept her memories due to her being test subject for the Lost Bottles that Banjo failed to save. She ends up helping him get to the basement where Evol goes to find the Dragon Evol bottle, and also revealed he killed Banjo's parents. Good to see your still a d**k, Evol. Killbus meets them and transforms into Kamen Rider KillBus, a really nice design for the spider motive. Also, the spider was something made by Sento that was meant to be sold, but after the first fight, Killbus took it, and because he copied Sento, he used Bulid for the first fight.
Killbas fights Evolt in his Blood Stalk form and Cross-Z Charge and seemly kills Evolt, as Grease and Rogue arrive to help with the escape. I wish we could more of them in these films, as they are some really good characters, and I like them a lot, but they seem to always get shafted. Sento comes up with a way to defeat Killbas, by making the Muscle Galaxy Full Bottle. This revives Evolt in his Kamen Rider Evol Cobra form
After meeting Killbas, Banjo ends up saving Yui from one of the Smash Killbas summoned, and to defeat Killbas, he fully combines the power of him and Evolt to become Kamen Rider Cross-Z Evol! The suit is really cool, a combo of Evol's black hole form, Cross-Z Dragon, and even the eyes from Cross-Z Bulid/Sliver Dragon. With their powers combined, Killbas is destroyed, Banjo and Yui end up dating(the version of Banjo in the new world is dating his girlfriend), and Evol leaves earth for a while. I don't think this will lead into anything, but I'll talk about that if Bulid New World: Kamen Rider Rogue is revealed.
The ending theme, Cross is... not very good in my opinion. It feels way too generic for me, especially since this J-Crown and Taku, the same people who gave us Burning My Soul. Now that's a good song. Still, I'd listen to this over regular pop stuff.
Overall the story is good, BUT THIS FILM IS WAY TOO FUCKING FAST. I was scared when I looked at the length and 59 mins and 58 secs. THIS FILM IS NOT EVEN AN HOUR. I was expecting this to be an hour and 15, especially with some the plot points brought up here. For example, Killbas was the King of Planet Blood, and he was also a destroyer, this could have been expanded upon in my opinion, esphally with the hatred that Evolt could have for his brother, but they just leave at that, and it's kind of annoying.
There's also the weirdness of Sento getting poison damage at the start, then getting rid of it thanks to the Genius Bottle's purification feature, but he's strangely sidelined for the entire film. Maybe Takaiwa was busy filming Zi-O stuff at the time, but seeing Sento not transform once is kinda weird. He also did get the focus film in Be The One, so that might have something to do with it.
The fight scenes in this are VERY action packed, and Killbas while a not a great villein, is very well acted and comes off a destroyer pretty well. I say he's not a great villein because he's just a destroyer who is from Planet Blood, he was the king Planet Blood, he destroyed Planet Blood... and that's it. He's serviceable, but that's all I can really say about him before his death. Still kudos to the actor in both body and voice, and to the suit actor for all the kinetic movement he put into his actions and fighting style.
Yui is there to remind Banjo that he f**ed up that one time... and that's all I can say about her really! I mean them dating at the end is cute, but that's the only thing I can really think she does in the story. Her learning to see people change is kinda forced in as she's doesn't really soften in the film in my opinion.
Banjo's final arc is more about coming to terms with the meaning of a true hero, and learning to accpect what Sento has taught him, and I feel like this was done pretty decently, while Yui was there to remind him of a darker time, he teams up with Evolt in order to stop the bigger threat at hand here, which is Killbas.
Overall, this was an OK movie. I find to be terribly rushed at some points, but it's a fun after the battle rider film with great fight scenes, and I think fans of Banjo Ryuga will enjoy this.
RIDER IS BACK ON THE BLOG! Man this has been a long time coming. I can't wait to go through some of the films I've missed, so look forward to it!
Before I go, I wanted to promo my good friend Trinny, AKA Trinnybop! She is one of the funniest and supportive people I've met. She's had to deal with both hard living conditions thanks to her family and unexpected loss of one of her family members. Now she's trying to move out and needs a lot of help. Trinny's art is amazing, so I suggest if you need emotes or banners, go commission her! And if you don't care about that, go support hergo fund me for moving out, everything is going towards that in her mind. Anyways, I will see you guys next time. Take Care and keep creating! Written By Nana Marfo Kamen Rider(C)Toei
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