Kamen Rider Kiva - The Movie: King of the Infernal Castle [Director's Cut]
Oh, right, Kamen Rider Kiva has a movie! Right. This was... a weird one? All Kamen Rider movies in general tend to be either standalone one-off movies, bizarre so-bad-it's-good crossovers or just odd AU timelines. For Kiva, it's sort of... it's sort of a standalone adventure that you could squeeze into the main series' timeline if you ignore a couple of huge plot holes? It's kind of an odd little romp with a bunch of brand-new villains (read: TOYS BUY OUR MERCHANDISE) and a rather generic character-of-the-week that our heroes spend time helping.
We'll be a bit more thorough this time around, mostly because for some reason I took more notes while watching this movie than I usually do. There's an exhibition in a museum and as these things go, a random person (a foreigner!) transforms into a Fangire and starts killing people. Megumi and Nago show up to fight it, and just as usual, Megumi gets beaten up by the Fangire because Kiva's writers hate her. While Nago insults Megumi and goes into Ixa mode, one of the exhibits in the museum breaks apart, unleashing the Mummy Legendorga. We don't get any real explanation about who or what the Legendorga are beyond "ancient Fangire enemies", and their role in the movie is essentially just glorified goons, but the Mummy Legendorga has a pretty badass entrance, unleashing copies of its bronze mask, slapping them onto random people's faces and stitching their eyes and mouths shut in a pretty terrifying imagery. The Mummy Legendorga then proceeds to annihilate Ixa in battle and takes over the Antlion Fangire as well, turning it into a masked minion.
It's a pretty neat opening as far as these 'summer movies' go, showing immediately how the monsters of the movie are a different breed and totally so much more badass than a known badass like Ixa, and how they're even more dangerous than the regular Fangires we're used to. All of this is also observed in a needlessly fancy sequence of the Monster Trio playing with a bunch of cards that also allow them to scry on the Ixa-vs-Mummy fight. Which is not something we've ever seen in the show, I don't think, but it's the sort of random fancy effects that you get out of a movie budget. Jiro and company proclaim that it's mankind's extinction, and we get the title card.
Neat, so we're getting, like, a fight between Kiva's cast and a resurrected ancient tribe of warriors, right? Not quite. We have to shoehorn some weird plotline about how Kurenai Wataru is apparently sort of forced to enter school because of some welfare officer or whatever, which is pretty dang random, and mostly just an excuse to get a school setting going on. In addition to a bunch of shoehorned but admittedly fun Den-O cameos, Wataru befriends a girl called Tsukue and gets tossed around a bunch of wacky co-curricular club trials. It's... it's neat, but I also don't care all that much? It's all just a lead-in to Wataru getting the idea to form a violin appreciation club with Tsukue, but she hates hates hates violins and that's going to be our civilian-character-of-the-week plot.
Meanwhile we get the continuation of the 'monster race resurrection' plotline, because in Kanto West Prison, some dude called Sugimura Takashi attempts to escape only to get his ass shot by policemen... but of course, he's actually a monster in disguise, unleashing a blast of dark power that knocks out the policemen. Nago and Commissioner Shima (who's doing rock climbing instead of gym equipment because the movie budget allows them to rent more expensive sets) discuss Sugimura, and they figure out that Sugimura's likely a Fangire or some sort of supernatural race because he hasn't aged within 22 years. We cut immediately to Nago finding Sugimura hanging out on a garbage dump, and Nago rips Sugimura's button off and tries to arrest him... but then Sugimura somehow gets the drop on Nago and escapes on a bike. Completely forgetting that he has the Ixa Fist that can shoot out force blasts and he's dealing with a suspected Fangire, Nago runs after Sugimura on a bike on foot. Gee, y'know what would be great, Nago? If you were some sort of superhero whose gimmick is riding on motorbikes.
Anyway, Sugimura escapes to Wataru's school and holds Tsukue hostage, threatening to stab her throat with an umbrella (!). Nago... does an actually cool sequence where he feigns defeat, but then lobs his button necklace onto Sugimura's face and then tackles Sugimura. Wataru helps, too, with the aid of a fire extinguisher -- should've whacked it on Sugimura's head, but spraying him a lot helped out, I guess.
Anyway, Sugimura is arrested, but the police convoy is attacked by the Mummy Legendorga, who shows up with a buddy -- the Medusa Legendorga, who murders the policemen escorting Sugimura with her CGI snake hair. Sugimura is so scared he starts to piss, even when the other Legendorga bow down to Sugimura. Nago turns into Ixa and gets beaten up, and then Wataru joins in the fight as Kiva. Wataru runs over the Mummy with his bike, which is hilarious. The mind-controlled Antlion Fangire bursts out of the ground, but immediately gets annihilated by a particularly fancy rendition of the basic Kiva unchained-leg rider kick. The Mummy then uses his bandage whips to knock Ixa and Kiva together and force them to de-henshin...
And in come out first new marketable toy of the movie, becuase these Kamen Rider movies really love introducing random one-off Kamen Riders. This one is particularly odd, though, because our guest star, Kamen Rider Rey, is played by a regular actor in the TV show -- none other than Yamamoto Shouma, the dude that plays Taiga in the TV series. Did they like Yamamoto's performance so much in this movie that they gave him the role of Wataru's brother in the TV series? Or is this meant to be some sort of bizarre sneaky tie-in or easter egg or whatever? Whatevre the case, Kamen Rider Rey transforms with a white version of Kivat-bat, and turns into this pretty cool furry white Kamen Rider with big-ass Wolverine claws. Rey transforms with a huge CGI snowflake and beats up the two Legendorgas, forcing to escape... but they manage to kidnap Sugimura in the process. The Legendorgas meet up with two of their buddies (the Mandrake and the Gargoyle) in the titular demon infernal castle, and apparently at this point Sugimura fully awakens, throws away his glasses, gets a deep new voice and a stylish hairstyle, and has a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Stand power as the aura of a massive, creepy Kiva-esque Rider appears around him. We never hear them say his Rider name in the movie I don't think, but Sugimura's now essentially taken over by the leader of the Legendorgas, Kamen Rider Arc.
Among the humans, Nago, surprisingly, knows Rey, addressing him as Shiramine-san, and he's part of the 3WA, the World Wide Wing Association, a monster-hunting group that will never be mentioned anywhere. They hunt Fangires and Legendorgas, apparently. While he's completely dismissive about the very mollified Nago (who is apparently a 3WA washout) Rey is apparently super happy and honoured to meet Wataru, because he knows all about Kiva and how apparently the previous Kiva had sealed the Legendorgas away. We get the little exposition about the Legendorgas and how they're basically zombies, able to turn humans into more Legendorgas -- this is punctuated by one of the random poliemen killed by the Medusa turning into a Legendorga in the ambulance escorting him when a weird eyeball opens in the moon.
We also get a little backstory about how Sugimura is tied to all this 22 years ago (of course it's 1986, everything interesting in the Kiva universe happens in 1986) when he attempted a breakout and accidentally stumbled into some ancient ruins beneath the prison and unleashed the spirit of Arc... which... we never get any explanation why Arc took 22 years to break out. But hey, who cares about logic, because Wataru and Kivat decide to change the past, and the Monster Trio offer Wataru a chance to use Kiva's best deus ex machina, the Door of Time.
Anyway, this is probably a neat little surprise for people watching the movie when it came out (around the late episode 20's), although me watching the movie after finishing the series means that this is not that exciting as it could've been. We get a hilarious bit that we don't see in the show proper of Wataru trying to use the convenience of cell phones to call someone, only to realize that cell phones aren't invented yet in 1986. He tracks down Sakakibara Towa, the singer that sang in the prison when Sugimura broke out, only to get manhandled by -- who else? -- violin coach extraordinaire Kurenai Otoya.
It's fun to see this alternate take on a time-traveling Wataru meeting Otoya, admittedly, especially since Wataru had no idea he was talking to Otoya at first. They scuffle for a bit and get slammed onto the hood of a car while a long-suffering, unimpressed Yuri just watches from aside. There's a bit of a sequence where Wataru sort of drags Towa away from the prison to stop the performance from happening, Otoya and Yuri assume Wataru's a Fangire (they're not exactly wrong), Towa is angry because music exists to heal, and the police arrive and in all the chaos both Otoya and Wataru... end up in a car? For some reason? Otoya realizes that Wataru isn't a Fangire because he doesn't eat Towa immeditealy and senses that there's a different 'vibe' coming off from him, Wataru realizes Otoya is his dad and hugs him and fanboys all over him, and tries to prove that he is from the future by showing him a cell phone and a 2000-yen bill, something Otoya dismisses as being 'flimsy'. Then a female cop (Den-O's Naomi!) pulls Otoya over, and Otoya starts flirting with her with some skeevy 'prisoner of love' line and Wataru is immediately confused if this truly is his dad.
The Kurenais get arrest to Kanto West Prison because all that hasty, rapid-fire comedy bit took a bit of screentime and we need to get the plot going on, and of course that is the very day that Sugimura would take Towa hostage and find the mysterious
Except since this is a movie, the Door of Time apparently doesn't work the same way as the TV series (the only explanation I can think of is the "there's a time limit" line that Jiro says early in the movie), because when Wataru returns back to 2008, apparently the Legendorga zombie infection has spread all the way to Wataru's teacher, Not-Kintaros, who unleashes snake tentacles and attacks his students. In 1986... the big plot twist is that Officer Ore Sanjou is actually a Fangire, and begins attacking the other guards for no real reason right after Wataru jumps through time. We get a typical action scene with Yuri's chain-gun and Otoya turning into Proto-Ixa, and the resulting fight causes Sugimura to discover the ruins and become Arc anyway. That's... that's really random.
Back to 2008, where the time travel stuff ended up being kind of a waste of time beyond introducing Wataru and Otoya, since nothing has changed. Random people in the street are dropping their kids (no, literally) and whatever they are doing and are just sitting in a fetal position rocking back and forth as the Legendorga mask appear on their face and the Moon grows an eyeball and stuff. This is also happening to poor Kengo, whose only movie contribution is getting trapped in the cult of rocking-back-and-forth as Nago and Megumi watch. The boss Legendorgas are also scrying on the populace from... their tubas? Or something? It's weird, but Arc just rants about how he wants vengeance on their mortal enemy, Kiva, and they unleash their rocking back-and-forth minions to attack Kiva.
There's a bizarre bit of old-school-movie-reel bit of Otoya dramatizing his release from the prison, which was kinda m'eh, and then Otoya tells Yuri about how he totally believes the time-travel story since he's investigated the phone and 2000-yen bill, and we sort of really rush the story forwards as Kivat (who's still in 1986?) brings Otoya and Yuri to the sleeping Castle Doran and then pushes them through the door of time.
Because of some dramatic tension, Wataru and Megumi fight the Legendorga zombie horde on top of a skyscraper, and then the Gargoyle knocks them back and they nearly fall until Otoya and Yuri arrive just in time to pull them up. No mention as to where the Gargoyle Legendorga disappears to. We then get the two Kurenais and the two Asos meeting each other in Cafe Mal d'Amour, where Otoya lampshades how the boss of the cafe hasn't changed in 22 years. Otoya is all happy and flamboyant about the fact that he has a kid, while Megumi hugs a very confused Yuri... and Yuri gets so flustered about this that she pours a glass of water on Megumi's face before storming out.
Oh yeah, the Tsukue plotline exists, and turns out that Tsukue is working part-time in the cafe. Also, Otoya figures out that Tsukue is the daughter of Towa, and Tsukue hates violins because her mom keeps playing violins and doesn't care about her. This plot exists!
Otoya then visits Wataru's room and he sort of fanboys a bit about Bloody Rose. And the movie's been all over the place and Otoya's been hamming things up throughout the movie, but there's a neat sequence of genuine emotion and acting as Otoya first looks at the Bloody Rose, clearly impressed by how awesome it is and is genuinely and quietly shocked that this is his creation. We get the obligatory Kiva bath scene, including a bit where Otoya stands up and Kivat has to swoop in and yell defense defense defense to stop an entire generation of Japanese children from being traumatized by the sight of Kurenai Otoya's bumhole. Also a good moment is the short scene of Yuri apologizing to Megumi later on, telling her that she simply doesn't like to obsess or think about the future too much, but acknowledges that Megumi is her daughter.
We then have a completely bizarre sequence where Otoya tells Wataru to accompany him to walk through town... while cross-dressing for some reason? There is literally no reason for this other than a handwave from Otoya about how this is 'a lesson to understand women'. I did love the over-acting of Otoya going "a butt that is a butt" at the sight of a thong/low-rise jeans combo. They meet up with Rey (remember Rey?) at a cafe and Rey starts to fanboy over the great legend Kurenai Otoya, not being remotely surprised by the time travel at all... before then starting to mock Otoya for being such a lecher. Wataru defends Otoya from Rey, who then starts to be angry and tells Wataru to "not be too cocky" because it's a matter of time before Kiva is destroyed. What a shocker, the asshole character we know nothing about and has never seen prior to this movie is actually not a good guy!
And then since it's been a hot while since we've got an action scene, Otoya is attacked by the Medusa Legendorga, who is just macking out on food in a nearby restaurant. The scene teleports immediately to the Tokusatsu parking lot, where Kiva transforms to face the four Legendorga minions. We get the second and final appearance of the Buroon Booster as Kiva summons his bike, which knocks down all four Legendorgas before we get an actually neat sequence as the Mandrake Legendorga creates this massive tunnel of vines and starts Tarzanning it around the tunnel while Kiva and the Buroon Booster Bike zips through it and murders the shit of this Legendorga.
Then the Monster Trio show up to help out Wataru and Otoya. Absolutely no mention of Jiro and Otoya's old friendship is made, or the fact that we really don't see the Monster Trio out and about in 2008-era Kiva until the finale. It's just kind of a fighto-fighto and an excuse to have the Monster Trio immediately combine with Kiva to acc three rarely-seen Arms Forms. The three remaining Legendorga escape, only for Reykivat to show up and knock Kiva around while Rey sharpens his nails, transforming and reveals that he's actually a bad guy, what a surprise! Rey beats up Kiva, and then when the two Aso women show up, Rey just punches both of them in the gut and kidnaps them. Because that's what happens when you're a supposedly-badass woman in Kiva, you get kidnapped.
We get a brief handwave of Rey's behaviour, where apparently Shima found out that 3WA had been developing the Rider System, but humans can't use it, so Shiramine had sold his soul to the Legendorgas to be able to transform into a Kamen Rider. At what point did he do that? Did some of the other Legendorgas break free before the Mummy and Arc, giving enough time to do a Faustine bargain? And also was there really any point to Rey pretending to be a good guy during his first appearance? You'd think that it'd be more ideal for Rey to just straight-up go on the offensive and help attack Kiva and Ixa. Also we get a continuation of the Tsukue plotline. Basically Otoya plays Towa's song on his violin and this touches her so much by realizing that her mom's music touches everyone who heard it but okay though what about her being a distant parent? It's the sort of over-simplified moral that these standalone tie-in movies are so fond of.
Anyway with the bare minimum of effort given to tying up Tsukue's story, which bears no real connection to the rest of the movie, Reykivat shows up to bring our heroes to the titular Infernal Castle. Otoya and Wataru have a bit of an argument on who is the hero who needs to go and sacrifice themselves, and in a hilarious bit, Wataru punches Otoya in the gut with the fun line of "let me show you some filial piety". While all of this is going on, Yuri and Megumi are tied back-to-back in a chair and they have a discussion on, and I kid you not, how weak they are and how Yuri isn't strong, she's good at fighting weakness. They bond over their shared insecurities about how they're not cut out to be soldiers, and how Yuri tells Megumi that if she keeps up a strong front, she'll be strong. But what if she wants to cry though? Just eat some omu-rice. That's not me being sarcastic, that quite literally is the conversation that happens in this movie... and, y'know, it's a product of its time and all but still, it's kind of eye-rolling that the huge moment between mother and daughter is bonding over trying to overcome their weakness and crying. Oh also they make jokes about hiding their body weight because that's what women do all the time, right? -sigh-
Wataru meets Sugimura, who's projecting the aura of Kamen Rider Arc, who's a big boy that towers over Kiva. Between Arc and the Mummy's attacks, Kiva gets stabbd and apparently his Fangire blood goes wild and stuff, transforming him into the Emperor: Flight Mode monster form. I completely forgot this form exists, by the way. Wataru rampages and attacks Otoya. Nago also sort of arrives, and turns into Ixa to fight the Legendorga goons but gets outnumbered.
It's at this point that, hey, Megumi and Yuri arrive and finally do something badass where they do a mother/daughter Ixa transformation and fists on, and then they fight the Legendorga trio. Otoya jumps in the way of the berserk Wataru's attacks, and there's a pretty weird, awkward bit of effect where Otoya's wounds amounts to some ripped up shirt, but there's blood all over Wataru's face without an obvious open wound. Otoya yells at Wataru that if he has to kill him, he better do it as himself, and this turns Wataru back from his rampaging Bat Fangire self back into regular Wataru. The Ixa Ladies blow up the Medusa Legendorga with a combined Rise Up attack, which sort of happens in the background while Otoya and Wataru have a moment.
Yet another Kivat clone (Arc-Kivat?) shows up and latches onto Sugimura, transforming him properly into Kamen Rider Arc, who is a big boy that towers over Kiva. He's not a Stand anymore! There's a neat bit of attention to detail as Arc has to duck a bit to avoid the hanging chandelier and we get a three-way fight. Yuri-Ixa and Otoya fights the Mummy Legendorga in the throne room; Megumi-Ixa and Nago fight the Gargoyle in the forest; while Kiva fights Arc in some random cave grotto that Kiva viewers will recognize as Maya's cave o' exile. Also, Kamen Rider Rey shows up out of nowhere (remember him?), attacks both Megumi and the Gargoyle Legendorga, and straight-up murders the latter. Oh no, he's a wild card and has betrayed yet another set of allies, how surprising. If only he's an actual character we care about.
Also, for no good reason (they were doing perfectly fine with it!) Megumi and Yuri de-henshins and gives their respective Ixa Knuckles to their partners. Y'know, I won't bitch about it. I know that actually giving Megumi and Yuri an actual dual henshin scene and an actual victory over one of the enemies in the movie is something that I genuinely didn't expect out of the Kiva team. I suppose it is hoping too much to have them stay Ixa the entire movie. The movie sort of cuts back and forth between the Ixa fights and the big Kiva/Arc fight, but essentially we get a pretty cool sequence as Otoya and Yuri do a little combo trick with the Mummy Legendorga, there's some chandelier jumping before Otoya does a point-blank "haha gotcha I let you get close" bit and murders the Mummy with a finisher. Nago's fight with Rey is... a bit less impressive? There's a bit of shooting, a bit of wire-fighting, and then Nago does the sun Burst form finisher and murders Rey with a little reminder that they're supposed to be rivals and Nago talks about how he's no longer the man he used to be.
The Kiva/Arc fight is a bit CGI-heavy but it's still pretty neat. We get a nice sequence where Kiva unleashes the cool 'unchained' kick, interrupted by a simple punch by Arc, and there's a neat bit where Arc is about to smash Kiva with a giant rock, and then the rock explodes to reveal that Kiva's transformed into Emperor Kiva. It's simple, but it is pretty entertaining. There's a neat bit where Wataru runs on walls, and later hangs upside-down from the cave ceiling to do some upside-down Kiva punches which we don't see a lot after the series' first dozen episodes. Otoya, sans helmet, shows up and we get a bit of a combined punch between Wataru and Otoya to take down Arc.
Oh, while all of this is going on Tsukue is like playing a violin in a condemned classroom or whatever and we keep cutting back and forth between the Arc fight and this character I don't care about, and it's distracting as all hell. Just have the scene with her playing the music start, and have the music play at the background of the fight.
Anyway, as Arc seems to have fallen, he pulls a Zelda boss and summons the weird glyph-like eye that opens up on the moon, which we never get an explanation for. The skies turn dark, the castle disintegrates, there's some weird water spouts and Arc rises up into the sky as the giant moon-eye turns into a weird tangle of spirals that enter his chest and it's actually kinda cool. This spreads in an actually well-done CGI form of a mosaic skeletal wing-and-giant-muscular-arms form, which gets filled up with stained glass colours, and... and it's pretty decent and different, I suppose, from most Kamen Rider movie enemies. We even get some English with it when Arc Kivat's faceplate falls off as he proclaims "go to hell!"
Sadly, despite the actually passable CGI of Arc's monster form transformation, the actual fight is kind of a disappointment. There's a bunch of explosions, Emperor Kiva turns into his Flight Mode giant bat form, and we get a bland CGI giant-on-giant monster before Castle Doran shows up, and then we get a combined Emperor Kiva/Castle Doran kick that throws Kamen Rider Arc all the way to the moon, exploding into a gigantic Kiva emblem that spreads over the moon's surface. Okay, that last bit is awesome. Pity it gets turned back into normal immediately afterwards.
Anyway the movie ends with Wataru and Tsukue forming the violin club in the school and performing in some fetival, and also Otoya joins in the violin performance. Otoya and Yuri return to the past as the curtain of the school stage is lowered, and Wataru and Yuri give a bit of a final inspirational line or two to their children, before the movie closes with Wataru and Tsukue playing the violin song.
And... that's the movie. Like Kiva as a whole there were a lot of decent ideas that feel half-baked in execution, or otherwise pretty poorly paced which leads to a poor conclusion. The ones that suffer the most, I feel, is Kamen Rider Rey and his supposed connection as Nago's rival... but Rey himself is such a non-entity that flits in and out of the movie as the plot demands that I don't really care much about him. He could've been just one of Arc's multiple minions and he'd have the exact same effect. Tsukue is also a nice idea that's handled pretty poorly and is pretty obviously shoehorned into a plot that has little to do with the themes of her story just to have a "child of the movie". There's also the sense that it feels like they were building something up with Sugimura as a criminal that's possessed by Arc, but Sugimura is quite literally forgotten by the time he gets turned into Arc. Plus there's really no real reason for the whole school plotline, which is cute but felt like it probably should've been its own Hyper Battle DVD thing or whatever instead of being crudely shoehorned into a movie that has nothing to do with it. Ultimately... it's kind of a huge mess. Kind of entertaining in its own way, and the action scenes are at least decent as is the novelty of seeing Yuri and Megumi interact with each other, but the movie's kinda m'eh as a whole.
Random Notes:
- The movie is impossible to fit into the regular Kiva timeline -- most Heisei Phase 1 movies are basically 'alternate universe' side stories other than Den-O, and that's perhaps one of the bigger differences between Heisei Phase 1 and Heisei Phase 2 -- Phase 2 at least tries to incorporate their movies and allow them to be slotted in a specific part of the TV series timeline.
- The most difficult part of the movie's timeline problems is that Wataru, Otoya and Yuri all go through the time door, but none of them ever mention this when Wataru actually ended up meeting Otoya via time-door in the final arc of the Kiva series.
- Also, Megumi and Nago know about Wataru's secret identity -- while the gap between Wataru gaining Emperor form and Nago knowing about Wataru's identity isn't that far off; Megumi knowing this is something that doesn't happen until much later.
- Rising Ixa is also conspicuously absent throughout the movie, although that might just be because Nago left the Rising phone at home or something.
- Know Your Cameos: The voice actor for the four main Imagin from Kamen Rider Den-O make cameos in this movie, mostly just to show up to say their characters' catchphrases. It's not subtle at all.
- Seki Toshihiko (Momotaros) is the officer who says "ore sanjou" (I have arrived) in 1986's prison scene. He also turns out to be the Zebra Fangire.
- Suzumura Kenichi (Ryutaros) is the soccer goalie, who does the pose and the "can't hear you" catchphrase.
- Yusa Koji (Urataros) is the shogi player, who says a variant of the "may I reel you in" catchphrase when he beats Wataru.
- Terasoma Masaki (Kintaros) is the teacher of Wataru's class, although he doesn't say his catchphrase -- it's instead written in huge yellow chalk on the blackboard behind him. He's also one of the more prominent Legendorga-possessed civilians, unleashing black tentacles to attack his students.
- Akiyama Rina (Naomi) shows up a the police officer that arrests Otoya and Wataru in 1986. Of course Otoya tries to hit on her. Her partner is Takaiwa Seiji, a.k.a. the suit actor of almost all of the main Heisei Kamen Riders.
- The school festival features four people in mascot costumes, which are the mascot costumes that the 'Taros use in the TV series and became popular among the Japanese Kamen Rider fandom. Also in that scene is a sign that reads "Yakisoba sanjou", another corruption of Momotaros's catchphrase.
- Know Your Legendorgas: We've got the amazing Mummy Legendorga to start off this movie, but also the Medusa, Mandrake and Gargoyle Legendorgas. All of which are relatively easy to tell apart.
- Know Your Fangires: The Antlion Fangire is the creature that attacked our heroes in the beginning and became the Mummy's thrall. Officer Ore Sanjou turns into the Zebra Fangire, a repaint of one of the first Fangires we saw in the show, the Horse Fangire.
- The Zebra/Horse Fangire's mouth is freaky, isn't it?
- A five-part tie-in web series is released during the lead-up to this movie. It's, uh... it's kinda neat, I always do enjoy the actors doing OOC stuff in skits like these.
- So the previous Kiva sealed the Legendorgas... is there a bearer of the actual Kiva armour in the past, or is it just King in his guise of Dark Kiva?
- I did like the bit where Otoya asks Wataru who his mom is, and then immediately refuses to let Wataru answer because he 'looks forward to finding out'.
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