The Legend-ary Rider? 100 Years Too Early!
Summary
Narrator: Previously on… Kamen Rider Gotchard!
Clotho of the Three Dark Sisters and Houtaro Ichinose "Gotchank-ot" attacked by Hundred, an army from a parallel world!
The unlikely duo joined forces to fight them; with their Double Rider Kick, they vanquished the commander of the Kasshine Army!
Just what are these mysterious visitors after?
And not only that, we have the appearance of the Dark King himself!
The world just might be in serious trouble...!
Clotho of the Three Dark Sisters and Houtaro Ichinose "Gotchank-ot" attacked by Hundred, an army from a parallel world!
The unlikely duo joined forces to fight them; with their Double Rider Kick, they vanquished the commander of the Kasshine Army!
Just what are these mysterious visitors after?
And not only that, we have the appearance of the Dark King himself!
The world just might be in serious trouble...!
The Hundred organization have arrived to Houtaro's dimension, and they brought three assassins that can turn into some very familiar past Kamen Riders.
As Houtaro's allies struggle against the trio, a very familiar and fabulous friend of his returns to lend a hand!
Tropes
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Using the Super-1 Zein Card allows Zein to utilize the Sincere Shaolin Fist, and Zein believes itself to be infallible in its use of its Rider powers, going so far as to mock Mimei, seeing her as too inferior to be considered an Outsider.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: After being weakened by Supana and Lachesis, Mimei has the misfortune of crossing paths with Zein and meets her end at the AI's hands.
- Beware the Superman: As a stark contrast to the heroic Kaguya, the sudden appearance of (Kamen Rider) Zein raises a cause for concern; not helped by the firsthand experiences of both Banno and the Ark, where they both end up getting beaten to within an inch of their lives. Everything that Kaguya can do, Zein can also do the same, if anything, much worse.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Majade ends up brainwashed by Glare. Clotho in her Rebis form whacks her so hard, the Hypnoray that was on Majade is dislodged from her.
- The Bus Came Back: The episode features Butler and Kaguya's debuts in the main series, with his Legendary Legend form debuting.
- Closest Thing We Got: As noted in the producer's blog for the episode, there are Chemies with names starting with every letter of the alphabet save Q. To get around this limitation, Hiikescue is used as a stand-in, given that the end of its name sounds like the letter Q.
- The Computer Is Your Friend: Zein. As Mimei learns the hard way, Hundred made a fatal mistake of invading Gotchard's world so long as Zein is around.
- Diabolus ex Machina: Zein only pretty much appears to dispose of Mimei and doesn't have any connection to the episode's plot at large.
- Do Not Go Gentle: Mimei defiantly transforms into Glare to fight back against Zein, even though it would ultimately send her to an early grave.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Zein's murder of Mimei basically gives the idea of shooting trespassers on sight. Not helped by the fact that their presence in Gotchard's world, and Zein can place the entire world under surveillance, this gives the impression of Hundred being marked as intruders entering Zein's turf.
- Dynamic Entry: Just as it seems that it's too late to prevent the massive Hundred army from marching through, Kaguya arrives in a pillar of golden light.Kaguya: The great Kaguya... has gorgeously descended.
- Evil Versus Evil: For some reason, Hundred's presence in Gotchard's dimension incurred the wrath of Zein.
- Failed a Spot Check: A girl looking for her mother is completely oblivious to Hotaro bloodied, the concerned onlookers, or the fact the sky just turned blood red for no reason.
- Heroic Second Wind: The cheering crowd allows Houtaro to get back up and defeat Tasogare/Eternal.
- History Repeats: Kamen Rider Zein's debut has the namesake Rider beating up Bronzedrive to near-death before turning him into a Human Pincushion. Here in its guest appearance in Gotchard, Zein brutalizes another Dark Rider on the spot, but this time, unlike Banno, marks the first instance of a villain death in the series.
- Hope Spot: Villainous example. After a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Valvarad duo of Supana and Lachesis, Mimei makes a quick getaway. Only for Kamen Rider Zein to suddenly appear out of nowhere, ensuring that she doesn't get out of Gotchard's world alive.
- Hypocrite Has a Point: Zein admonishes Mimei, being an elite member of the Hundred Organization, for being a copycat Dark Rider for using their Evil Knockoffs of a Dark Rider's transformation gear, when Zein itself has no problem doing the same thing by using the Zein Cards and the power of heroic Kamen Riders to stoke fear and terror on the villains and the entire human race into submission. Then again, Zein makes a valid point at mocking Mimei after killing her.
- Insult to Rocks: Zein makes it clear that Mimei is inferior compared to the Outsiders. It says a lot that a self righteous A.I. has a degree of respect to its nemeses when coming face to face with an inter-dimensional intruder.
- Internal Reveal: Kajiki becomes aware of Houtaro's true identity again when he's forced out of transformation.
- Knight of Cerebus: If the appearance of Hundred's executives wasn't enough for the show to return back to its darker tones (at least for the majority of this episode), the sudden appearance of Zein takes a turn for the worst. Mimei is quickly led to a quick, untimely demise when Zein offs her.
- Legacy Character:
- This episode sees new characters in the form of the three Hundred generals, but all three reuse the familiar identities of Kamen Riders Dark Kiva (Saigetsu), Eternal (Tasogare), and Glare (Mimei).
- Lachesis has inherited Supana's original Valvarad powers, albeit with Repli-Madwheel replacing the original Madwheel put into her new Valvarusher.
- Mook Horror Show: Much like Banno and the Ark's run-ins with Zein in Outsiders, Mimei can only react in dread and fear as soon she is confronted by Zein, not helped that Zein's leitmotif plays an Ominous Latin Chanting, further adding more dread and eerie.
- Mythology Gag:
- Tasogare!Eternal's Finishing Move involves the use of 26 Gaia Memories lettered from A to Z, which Houtaro counters with the power of Chemies whose names also start from A to Z, in a clear Homage to Kamen Rider W FOREVER: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate. Kajiki even assumes a praying pose like Akiko did in the film's climax. Note that this episode was directed by Koichi Sakamoto, like with said movie.
- Upon learning that Kaguya took care of the Hundred reinforcements, Saigetsu utters Narutaki's iconic "Onorenote , Legend!" Appropriate, given who Legend is based on.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Clotho Rebis manages to knock Majade out of transformation, which breaks Mimei/Glare's brainwashing on her.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Kaguya reveals that he was able to deal with Hundred's Kasshine army before they could cross the Aurora Curtain, rendering Saigetsu's plan moot and leaving only the ones that had crossed over to the World of Gotchard beforehand.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: All three past Rider identities are used by the three Hundred generals and have some form of red and black on them (the belts of all three, Eternal's black cape, and the general suits of Dark Kiva and Glare).
- The Reveal: Subverted. Saigetsu as Dark Kiva prepares to use Wake Up Three: King's World End, a Finishing Move alluded to yet never shown in Kamen Rider Kiva, which is said to have the power to end the world. However, the Legend Kamen Riser strikes him just before he could actually use it, only getting to gather power to use it.
- Smug Super: Zein, full stop. Then again, this is an A.I. that views itself as morally infallible and superior to humans. Yet it has the audacity to mock Mimei, a member of Hundred, as inferior to the Outsiders.
- Super Mode: Legendary Legend makes its debut in this episode.
- Tempting Fate: After Mimei escapes Lachesis and Supana's attack, she mutters that she's safe...and then Zein appears.
- Theme Song Power Up:
- The first version of "Chemy X Story" plays during Houtaro's Heroic Second Wind.
- Kaguya's insert song, "Living Legend", plays during his fight.
- Title Drop: After he routs the Kasshines, Legend remarks that they're "10 years too early".
- Title-Only Opening: No opening sequence is played and the opening theme is moved to around the second half of the episode instead.
- Villain Killer: Mimei has the honor of becoming Zein's third official casualty, or first unless if Banno and the Ark are excluded given that they are also artificial intelligence themselves and managed to store their data into the Internet.
- Wham Shot: How can this episode get any darker? You get Kamen Rider Zein involved!
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Subverted. Hundred's plan to send their Kasshine army over while holding off the Riders as the Aurora Curtain lets them through ends up failing because Kaguya dealt with them offscreen.
Titular Chemy: Kamen Rider Legend
Cards used:
Gotchard: X-Rex, Antrooper + WrestlerG + Gotcharignitor = Fire AntWrestler
Legend: Kuuga, Agito, Ryuki, Faiz, Blade, Hibiki, Kabuto, Den-O, Kiva, Decade, Legendary Legend
Lachesis/Valvarad: Repli-Madwheel
Chemies recovered: None
Released Chemies remaining: 12 (1 Artifact (Timelord), 1 Occult (Sayzombie), 4 Ancient, 1 Cosmic (Gokigenmeteon), and 5 Fantastic)
Additional information: Kaguya has arrived at Gotchard's world and reclaimed his Legend Kamen Riser.
